Pokémon Elite Redux

Gohan's Tips
Oct 25
4 min read

Author: darkyy92.

PROGRESS: Current Version: 2.5 2nd hotfix: 3/29/2025

It is a hardcore difficulty hack that transforms Pokémon Emerald into the ultimate strategic experience, designed for players who love battling and teambuilding with zero grinding. Its most revolutionary feature is the ability to equip up to four abilities on a single Pokémon at once, creating endless new strategies and unprecedented replayability. This game is a true test of skill where every trainer has a full custom, competitive moveset and smarter AI. To ensure the focus is purely on battling, all grinding has been eliminated; you have access to unlimited Rare Candies, an instant EV/IV editor, and auto-healing before every battle. With a roster of over 1200 Pokémon from Gens 1-8, new custom abilities, and unique mechanics like "Frostbite," this is a fresh and deeply strategic adventure for any competitive Pokémon fan.

🛑Features:

➡️Up to 4 Abilities on One Pokémon: The game's core mechanic. Every Pokémon can have up to 3 switchable abilities and additional "innate" (fixed) abilities, allowing for never-before-seen strategic combinations.

➡️Zero Grinding System: The game is designed to eliminate all grinding with several key features: an EV/IV editor on the summary screen, a Candy Box with unlimited Rare Candies for instant leveling to the cap, and default 31 IVs for all Pokémon (with an item to set Speed to 0).

➡️Extreme & Unique Difficulty: This is a hardcore difficulty hack where every single trainer has a custom-built, competitive team with full custom movesets, held items, and the smartest AI. Battle style is permanently set to "Set."

➡️Three Difficulty Modes: Choose between Easy (Trainers have no EVs), Ace (Trainers have EVs), and Elite (Trainers have even harder teams for major battles). The difficulty can only be lowered, not raised.

➡️Auto-Heal Before Battles: Your party is automatically fully healed before every single battle, removing the need for potions or Pokémon Centers.

➡️1200+ Pokémon (Gen 1-8): The game includes all Pokémon from Generations 1 to 7, plus many from Generation 8. All are obtainable.

➡️200+ New & Reworked Custom Abilities: The game features a massive library of over 370 total abilities, with 200+ being brand new or completely reworked for new strategies.

➡️Teach Moves Instantly: You can teach any Pokémon any of its Level-Up moves, Egg moves, TM/HM moves, and Tutor moves at any time directly from the party screen.

➡️Reworked Pokémon, Moves & Items: Every Pokémon has been individually rebalanced with potential stat, typing (e.g., Water/Dragon Gyarados), or ability changes. Many moves and items have also been buffed or reworked for better balance and more fun.

➡️Upgraded Battle Engine & UI: The game features an enhanced battle UI that shows type effectiveness (factoring in abilities like Levitate) and STAB. You can also press 'L' in battle to see detailed move info.

➡️Custom Mega Evolutions: The game includes Mega Evolution, with some custom Megas for Pokémon like Flygon and Milotic, as well as some Gigantamax forms repurposed as Megas.

➡️Frostbite Replaces Freeze: The annoying Freeze status has been replaced by Frostbite, which deals damage each turn and halves the victim's Special Attack.

➡️Diverse Postgame with Endless Rematches: The post-game features many powerful trainers with up to four unique rematch teams each. You can rematch Gym Leaders at any time without waiting.

➡️Portable PC: Access your Pokémon storage boxes from anywhere in the world.

➡️Enhanced DexNav & 100% Catch Rate: The DexNav is improved for easier catching, Pokémon no longer run away, and all Poké Balls are infinite with a 100% catch rate.

➡️Choose Any Regional Starter (Gen 1-8): You can choose which region's starter trio you want to begin your adventure with.

➡️Full Customization of Game Rules: The game features various fun randomizer modes (Encounters, Abilities, Moves) and tons of custom options like toggling EVs on/off, boosting the shiny rate, enabling AI-controlled battles, and more.

➡️New Forfeit Feature: You can now instantly forfeit a trainer battle to save time if you know you're going to lose.

➡️New Locations: The world has been expanded with some new and enlarged areas to explore, which also serve as homes for legendary Pokémon.

➡️Day, Dusk & Night System: The game features a full day, dusk, and night cycle, which can affect encounters and other events.

➡️Weather Rework: Weather-inducing abilities create permanent weather, and Ice-type Pokémon receive a 50% defense boost in Hail.

➡️Wins & Losses Counter: The game keeps track of your unique wins and total losses for the entire playthrough.

➡️Tons of Quality of Life (QoL): Includes a combined Acro/Mach bike, an in-game tutorial NPC, an updated Pokédex with full learnsets, instant berries, no more low HP beep, and much more.

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