Pokémon Emerald tips?

[Kagamine]

Myself. Current party is pidgey level 15, marshtomp level 18 and ralts level 17. Heard it becomes kirlia at level 20.

Ah, then you're doing great so far.

...Wait, where'd you get a Pidgey?

[BoostPowah]

Scratch that. It was something else that looked like pidgey... a tailow.

[Kagamine]

Now that makes a lot more sense.

[Slithas]

Hey there, I'm here to throw some tips at you:


Remember to STAB; Same Type Attack Bonus. This means that a Pokémon using a move that is the same type as the Pokémon itself is, the damage is x1.5. For example a water type like your Mashtomp using the water move Surf is more powerful than a non-water type using the same move with the exact same stats.

Know the difference between Physical and Special moves. Physical moves (Normal, Fighting, Flying, Ground, Rock, Bug, Ghost, Poison, and Steel type moves) are powered by the Pokémon's Attack value and hit the opponent's Defence value, while special moves (Water, Grass, Fire, Ice, Electric, Psychic, Dragon, and Dark moves) use the Pokémon's Special Attack vaule and hit hte opponent's Special Defence. Remember this when choosing moves of a certain type to add to a Pokémon and when using moves that reduce Defence or Special Defence.

It should be a given, but learn about the different Pokémon types strengths and weaknesses. Don't forget that they stack for a Pokémon with two types; for example a Geodude (Rock and Ground types) takes only a quarter the damage from poison attacks because both types are resistant to it and is immune to Electric attacks because of it's Ground type, but takes four times the normal damage from both Water and Grass type moves because both types are weak to it. The two types may balance out strengths and weaknesses; A Pokémon like Numel (Fire and Ground types) has one type resistant to Grass attacks (Fire types take half damage) and one type that is weak (Ground takes double damage), so the two cancel one another out and Numel takes normal damage from a grass attack.

Just some helpful tips I think may make your adventure more fruitful