Hello! This is a romhack and pet project by surskitty, based heavily on Pokemon Emerald but with a focus on double battles. It does have increased difficulty compared to the main games, but is not meant as a hard mode hack. If you are losing in not-fun ways, that is a bug to report.
This hack includes all the typical battle system upgrades from RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.10.1, including Mega Evolution. In general -- assume things work as in gen 9, except with megas and without Tera.
- Most Pokémon have multiple abilities active at once! If a Pokémon seems boring, that is a bug worth reporting.
- As long as you have the HM, the appropriate badge, and a Pokémon that can learn the move in your party, you can use most HMs without devoting a moveslot to it. Surf is the big exception.
- Pokemon can be nicknamed from the summary screen and have their moves relearned from the moves tab.
- TMs and move tutors are reusable. Move tutors are massively expanded; TMs are mildly edited. Most move tutors are in the same places there was a tutor in Emerald; the exceptions are the Slateport name rater's house and the Mauville Pokémon Center.
- Garbodor, Drednaw, and Orbeetle have mega evolutions.
- Castform has been made interesting.
- Wiglett and Wugtrio are now Water/Ground. Ledian has been given Huge Power. This fulfills the contract that every hack must give something Huge Power. Ledian has also had its base attack raised by a whopping 10 points.
- The Roggenrola line has been reworked to not be a Golem knockoff. Free Gigalith and let it be the special attacker it always dreamed.
- Many Pokémon can be found on the overworld! They are usually selections of the local wild Pokémon, but a few are vagrants.
- The limit on how many Pokéblocks a Pokémon can be fed has been removed. There is now no downside to feeding your Pokémon bad Pokéblocks.
- Trade evolutions all work like Legends Arceus, which is to say: you use the item. Most evolution items can be bought in the Lilycove Department Store.
- Eevee evolves into Espeon with a Sun Stone, Umbreon with a Moon Stone, Sylveon with friendship and a Fairy move, Leafeon with a Leaf Stone, and Glaceon with either an Ice Stone or by bringing it into the Shoal Cave ice room. Leafeon does not have a location evolution and Espeon and Umbreon do not have friendship evolutions for balance reasons.
- Pikachu only evolves into Alolan Raichu.
- Koffing evolves into Galarian Weezing by raising its Beauty. Again, Pokéblocks are not capped, so don't feel bad if your Pokéblocks are below par.
- Charcadet evolves into Armarouge with a Dawn Stone and Ceruledge with a Dusk Stone.
- Ursaring evolves into Ursaluna with the Moon Stone. This may be changed to a map location eventually.
Credits to bassforte123's system for having Pokémon have multiple abilities.
While the Ability slot has multiple possibilities within a species, all Pokémon of a species have up to three Innates.
Entrainment, Skill Swap, Trace, and other Ability-changing effects only work with Abilities, not Innates. For that reason, some Pokémon like Plusle have Plus as both a Trait and an Ability. It does not stack; there is no advantage to having an Ability identical to the Innates unless you intend on altering Abilities in some manner.
My intention is for each Pokémon species to have at least one thing it's good at, without being unintuitive what's within a Pokémon's capabilities. If a Pokémon's innates seem particularly underpowered, overpowered, or unintuitive, please inform me.
- bassforte123's Trait System, seriously, that is a good half of the joy of this hack
- RHH's pokeemerald-expansion 1.10.1
- pret's pokeemerald
- the whole crew of unique surfing overworld peeps
- tustin's nameboxes
- Bivurnum's map previews
- Archie and mudskip's main menu. I made my own mugshots, though.
Shout out to all of the contributors at RHH for their long and often thankless work of making rom hacking resources for fancy fanmade Pokemon games ♥