Pokemon Emerald!

My first Pokemon game was Pokemon Sapphire but I just adore Pokemon Emerald so much because how many good changes it introduced from animation when you bring out your Pokemon to just have these double fights with trainers which are far more entertaining than just single fights again and again!

Another reason this game is such a favourite of mine is because this is the game in which I embraced the monster catcher nature of Pokemon franchise, it is just amazing how much fun you can have if you capture random pokemon that appear in your journey.

Another thing that made me fall in love with Emerald version of the three pokemon games was the fact that you can actually have a double battle with Steven, who was champion of Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby, against Team Magma.

Pokemon Emerald introduced the feature of Battle Frontier, which is just such a good deature. The other two games feature Battle Tower, which is good but iot is not as good as Battle Frontier, it just scratches an itch which is left after you beat the champion and win the Pokemon League.

While I love gen III and IV both a lot, Emerald means this much because this was the game in which I won the Pokemon League for the first time and became the champion. I love this game to bits due to how much fun I just had playing it and how I learned to overcome challenges in a Pokemon game, you have to use the type advantages in your strategy when you're struggling with any part of the game, that just changed the way I looked at my team. When playing Sapphire, I just chose the team on a whim without much thought, but now I put my thoughts into my team.

Emerald also has this amazing moment where you get to fight beside Steven Stone, the champion of Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby, against Team Magma which I have already talked about but there is another thing that I want to mention, which is the fact that Steven still doesn't have have a fully evolved Metagross, which means that most likely Steven's Metang only evolves into Metagross just a bit before we challenge him in Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby, I don't know if this was intentional but this is my head cannon now.

Finally I just want to say thank you to all the pokemon who helped me become the chapion of Hoenn in Emerald, you have seen their sprites and these were my beloved companions during majority of the game and espeically from Elite Four and the Pokemon Champion and thank you for reading my ramblings!