Emerald Imperium 1.3.1 (Fire Monotype) - All Major Trainer Battles

Playlist of my Emerald Imperium runs:    • Emerald Imperium   This run was a little different in that Brawly wasn't the big early game hurdle, but Roxanne. Holy crap, that was ridiculously hard. Another case of early manual EV grinding. On top of that, I DexNav hunted for favorable egg moves on certain Fire-types, namely Growlithe with Close Combat and Vulpix with Heat Wave. I also needed perfect confusion luck. The opponent had to hit themselves twice in a row for me to get a KO. A very miserable experience. Thankfully no other battle got that bad. Normally, the E4 would be done a day or two after clearing Victory Road. This time, I did it on the same day, and finished on that day even! I originally had Volcarona in that team. It did very well with Quiver Dance setup, but I felt weird for using a mon for the E4 that wasn't used previously in the run. As it turned out, Cinderace was able to sweep Sidney, and Ceruledge could sweep Cynthia. Those were the battles Volcarona was brought in for. So I replaced Volcarona with H-Arcanine, mainly because of Stealth rock support to nullify the use of Focus Sashes. One mon I didn't use was Incineroar, despite hatching a shiny Litten. I was trying to get a female Scorbunny from the starter egg NPC, as I wanted to breed High Jump Kick into another Scorbunny. I got a shiny Litten in the process. The mon I was very deliberate in not using was G-Darmanitan-Zen. I proved to myself that I didn't need it. I wish Charcadet was available earlier, I would've swept more trainers with Ceruledge. I didn't think about using Mega Infernape until very late in the run. By that point, I didn't feel the need to use it. I wanted to use Mega Blaziken more, but not getting Speed Boost was tough. Also, Triple Arrows' Gen 8 effect was far better for setup purposes. Giving the user a heightened Crit rate for a few turns is cool. I didn't know of the Gen 9 change until I recognized that I wasn't getting Crits all the time after using Triple Arrows. Custom shinies would've been great. Cinderace and Ceruledge's shiny forms are very lame. The music is from the SNES game Breath of Fire. Time stamps 0:00 - Dawn (Route 104) 0:23 - Candice 0:51 - Roxanne 1:32 - Aqua Grunt (Rusturf Tunnel) 1:52 - May (Rustboro) 2:10 - Gardenia 2:43 - Brawly 3:12 - Hot House 1 3:52 - Aqua Grunts (Slateport Museum) 4:26 - Pokefans Isabel & Kaleb 4:55 - May (Route 110) 5:21 - Collector Edwin 5:38 - Guitarist Joseph 5:57 - Psychic Edward 6:21 - Triathlete Alyssa 6:49 - Wally (Mauville) 7:11 - Breeder Ezekiel 7:32 - Breeder Lydia 7:56 - Fantina 8:23 - Wattson 8:44 - Hot House 2 9:54 - Dancer Ursula 10:20 - Dawn (Route 111) 10:45 - Hiker Trent 11:09 - Black Belt Daisuke 11:36 - Parsol Lady Madeline 11:54 - Twins Tori & Tia 12:16 - Fisher Kai 12:38 - Fisher Claude 12:58 - Hiker Lucas 13:21 - Picnicker Charlotte 13:47 - Courtney & Magma Grunt (Mt. Chimney) 14:33 - Tabitha (Mt. Chimney) 15:02 - Maxie (Mt. Chimney) 15:40 - Maylene 16:03 - Flannery 16:35 - Hot House 3 17:47 - The Winstrates 18:31 - Picnicker Celia 18:46 - Ruin Maniac Dusty 19:05 - Campers Drew & Brenden 19:38 - Wally (Route 110) 20:06 - Trick House 24:02 - Norman 24:30 - Hot House 4 25:54 - Crasher Wake 26:37 - Matt & Aqua Grunt (Weather Institute) 27:25 - Shelly (Weather Institute) 27:55 - May (Route 119) 28:33 - Iriv24 29:00 - X 29:33 - Cap 30:03 - Winona 30:34 - Hot House 5 32:10 - Byron 32:41 - Bug Maniac Cale 33:01 - Hex Maniac Tammy 33:17 - Beauty Jessica 33:36 - Gentleman Walter & Pokefan Vanessa 34:08 - Dawn (Lilycove City) 34:37 - Archie (Aqua Hideout) 35:09 - Battle Girl Jenny 35:40 - Kindler Spencer 35:58 - Triathletes Grace & Declan 36:33 - Roark 37:13 - Sunbird 37:34 - Suneal 37:58 - DollaMike 38:31 - Tate & Liza 39:01 - Hot House 6 40:52 - Courtney & Tabitha (Magma Hideout) 41:26 - Maxie (Magma Hideout) 42:02 - Shelly & Matt (Seafloor Cavern) 42:54 - Archie (Seafloor Cavern) 43:32 - Drake 44:01 - Danni 44:28 - MastaJanes 45:02 - Befools 45:35 - Burak 46:12 - Natn 46:43 - Oblivion Wing 47:07 - Poucine 47:32 - Juan 48:10 - Volkner 48:44 - Dawn (Ever Grande City) 49:12 - May (Ever Grande City) 49:34 - Wally (Victory Road) 49:56 - Cooltrainer Albert 50:14 - Cooltrainer Hope 50:30 - Cooltrainer Samuel 50:47 - Cooltrainer Caroline 51:06 - Cooltrainer Felix 51:28 - Cooltrainer Michelle 51:50 - Elite 4 Enjoy the video