Guides & Resourcesin Pokémon Emerald Legacy
Source-backed guides and reference tables for Pokémon Emerald Legacy, from route planning and encounters to moves, items, trainers, and game mechanics.
Use these guides to plan a run, check what the game actually does, and find the details that are easy to miss while playing. Each guide links back to the relevant Pokédex, locations, trainer data, and tools where that helps.
Start Here
Setup, version differences, and orientation for new or returning players.
Features
Postgame
Emerald Legacy's postgame encounter tables and Pokémon that become available after beating the Elite Four.
Fishing
Complete guide to fishing in Emerald Legacy, including rod types, Pokémon availability, and optimal locations.
Altering Cave
What Altering Cave actually spawns in Emerald Legacy -- each of its nine single-species groups, with levels and rates -- and where the Smeargle and Dunsparce come from.
Battle Frontier
Getting to Emerald Legacy's Battle Frontier, the five Frontier Brains, the Eevee EV-training trainers around each facility, and what the silver symbols unlock.
Egg Groups
Every Pokemon's egg group and gender ratio in Emerald Legacy, plus which pairs can actually breed. Ditto and Undiscovered are where most breeding plans go wrong.
EV Yields
EV yields for every Pokemon in Emerald Legacy, and the fastest place to farm each stat. Real route numbers, weighted by what actually spawns there.
Evolution Items
Every evolution stone and item in Emerald Legacy with the Pokemon it evolves and the exact place you get it -- shops, BP exchange, gifts and item balls.
Evolution Levels
Every level-up evolution in Emerald Legacy in one table, plus the ten species that now evolve earlier than in vanilla Emerald -- Slugma at 27 instead of 38, and the rest.
Gift Pokémon
All 23 gift Pokemon, both Eggs and the four static encounters in Emerald Legacy, with levels and locations. Includes the five free fossils and three separate Beldum.
Hard Mode Caps
The level caps Emerald Legacy's Hard Mode runs use, badge by badge -- 15 to 58 before the Elite Four -- and the evolutions each cap blocks.
Trades
Every in-game trade in Emerald Legacy with the exact give and take. All 19 traded Pokemon arrive with perfect IVs, which makes some of them seriously worth doing.
Key Items
Emerald Legacy's key items and the order the HMs arrive, from the Rustboro Cut reward to the Mossdeep Dive HM. What unlocks what, and where each item sits.
Legendaries
All six legendaries in Emerald Legacy -- Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza -- with locations, levels and the actual per-throw catch odds.
Rematches
Every rematch trainer in Emerald Legacy -- 78 of them, including all eight gym leaders, the Elite Four, Wally and Wallace -- with the ace level at each of their five stages.
Special Trainers
Where each special trainer battle lives in Emerald Legacy -- gym leaders, the Elite Four, Wally, the rival and the Battle Frontier -- plus Steven's full team straight from the ROM data.
TM/HM Locations
Where to find every TM and HM in Emerald Legacy. All 50 TMs and 8 HMs with their locations and how you get them -- shops, gifts and item balls.
Type Chart
The full Emerald Legacy type chart -- all 17 types, super-effective and resisted matchups, plus the Gen 3 quirks that trip up players coming from newer games.
Feebas & Milotic
Where Feebas is in Emerald Legacy, how the six-tile mechanic works, and what it takes to evolve one into Milotic -- Beauty 170, or the free Milotic in the Contest Lobby.
Move Tutors
Find the ten Move Tutor events in Pokémon Emerald Legacy, including the move each tutor teaches and the town or facility where the event is defined.
Pickup Table
The full Pickup table for Emerald Legacy: which items you find at which levels, the 10% step roll, and the 2% rare table that hands out Rare Candies and TMs.
Held Items
Which wild Pokemon hold which items in Emerald Legacy -- the common and rare slots, plus the species where the item is guaranteed. The shortlist for Thief and Covet farming.
Walkthrough
Boss Order & Levels
Emerald Legacy's badge order with verified leader levels, aces and per-gym prep, the Elite Four ladder through to Steven, and why there's no level cap to plan around.
Early Game
Choose Treecko, Torchic, or Mudkip, prepare for the Route 103 rival battle, and see the verified Roxanne, Brawly, Wattson, and Flannery teams in Pokémon Emerald Legacy.
Elite Four
The Elite Four and Champion of Pokémon Emerald Legacy, with full teams.
Gym Leaders
Beat every Pokémon Emerald Legacy Gym Leader with the verified order, locations, teams, levels, moves, rematches, and practical counters.
Rivals
Pokémon Emerald Legacy rival battles, grouped by encounter location and the Hoenn starter you chose.
Training
Breeding
Breed Pokémon in Emerald Legacy with source-backed compatibility, Egg production, inheritance, Egg Moves, and faster hatching mechanics.
Experience Farming
Where to grind in Emerald Legacy, ranked by actual EXP per wild KO from the ROM's own encounter data -- from Route 116 at level 10 to Victory Road at 1,070 a fight.
Intro
Mechanics
Evolutions
No Pokémon in Emerald Legacy evolves by trading. What replaced it for Machoke, Haunter, Kadabra and Graveler, plus the held-item, friendship and odd-case evolutions.
Shiny Hunting
Emerald Legacy’s source-backed shiny rate, shiny check, hatch support, and the verified guaranteed Shiny Beldum reward.
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