Pokémon Emerald Blitz

Gohan's Tips
May 7
3 min read

Author: FranklyNathan.

PROGRESS: Project Version 8.8 Completed (05/05/2026) - A decomp hack of Pokémon Emerald streamlined for competitive, fast-paced draft racing and Nuzlocke challenges.

It is a decomp hack of Pokémon Emerald streamlined for competitive, fast-paced draft racing. Despite playing through the entire Hoenn region with a team of nine Pokemon, from first gym to Elite Four Champion, a single playthrough takes just two hours to complete. Emerald Blitz is customized with new features and quality-of-life improvements geared toward making the game as fast as possible; it's all of the good with none of the tedium.

🛑Features:

➡️Randomized Gyms: Upon entering a gym, you'll be warped to any of Hoenn's eight gyms at random with leader teams adjusted to your current strength.

➡️Elite... Eight!?: Battle Frontier Brains join the Elite Four for a more diverse lineup of final bosses.

➡️Pokemon Catalog: A notebook on the player's desk stocked with every Pokémon in the draft for quick selection and racing.

➡️Permanent Repel: The Cleanse Tag functions as a toggleable permanent repel.

➡️Portable PC: A PC in your bag that is accessible from anywhere besides the Elite Four chambers.

➡️Med Kit: A key item Pokecenter in your bag, automatically registered when you enter the Elite Four.

➡️Visible IVs: When paused to view your Pokémon's stats, you can press A to display their IVs.

➡️Level Cap Candy: Instantly jumps your Pokémon to the level it next learns a move, evolves, or hits the current cap with shortened animations.

➡️Flygon Bike: Replaces the bike and is able to hop up ledges, move over shallow water, leap over obstacles, and Fly with the press of a button.

➡️Just the Good Stuff: All plot, including all events involving Team Aqua/Magma, Steven, Wally, and Scott has been removed for speed.

➡️Polite Trainers: Ordinary trainers no longer challenge any player they see; they can still be fought if you interact with them.

➡️Nuzlocke Mechanics: Pokémon can't overlevel the next boss and items cannot be used in battle.

➡️Stat Boosting Cap: A Pokémon's stat stage can never be raised beyond +1, requiring more creative strategies than simple setup sweeps.

➡️Updated Teams: Gym leaders use well-rounded teams bolstered with Alolan, Hisuian, and Galarian members.

➡️New Boss Fights: Features new encounters including a Mega Metagross Champion, double battles with Juan and Wallace, and a vacationing Viola.

➡️Buffed Battles: All enemy trainers use perfect 31-IV Pokémon.

➡️Fixed Money Supply: Players cannot sell items or earn money from battles; you must manage a fixed budget of 62,000.

➡️Slateport Outdoor Market: A one-stop shop for evolution stones, mega stones, power TMs, and ability-changing items.

➡️Mega Evolution: Mega stones are available with a three-turn limit, activated by pressing Start before selecting a move.

➡️Fairy Types: The Fairy type has been added and Pokémon typings/learnsets have been updated to Gen VII.

➡️Generation IX Pokémon: The pool includes Pokémon and items all the way up to additions from Legends ZA.

➡️Physical/Special Split: Moves calculate damage based on the category split introduced in Generation IV.

➡️Milk Drink: Skiddo and Mareep's Milk Drink can be used in the overworld to increase a level by one once per game, ignoring the cap.

➡️Forecast: Castform's ability sets rain, sun, or hail depending on the type of the first move in its list.

➡️Last Respects: Power is determined by total deaths over the course of the run, gaining 15 Base Power each time a Pokémon faints.

➡️Seed Sower: Arboliva's signature ability sets Leech Seed when another Pokémon's attack makes contact with it.

➡️Undead Corsola: Upon fainting, Corsola revives at the end of the battle as Galarian Corsola.

➡️Applin Evolution: Evolution path is determined by the gym you reach first: Fortree for Flapple, Lavaridge for Appletun, and Rustboro for Dipplin.

➡️Sketch: Smeargle's signature move can be used from the party menu to learn one of four powerful, randomly selected moves.

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