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Ruby / Sapphire
Gen 3 · Hoenn · Game Boy Advance · 2002 · 8 badges
- Generation
- Gen 3
- Goal
- 8 badges
- Available dex
- 386 species
- Bosses
- 13 in order
What it does to a run
- Abilities, natures and EVs/IVs as we know them start here.
- Double battles debut — a wipe can happen two Pokémon at a time.
- No day/night cycle, so encounter tables are fixed per route.
Where runs die
- Brawly's Makuhita
- Norman's Slaking
- Wallace / Steven
Starters
The pick that decides your first gym.
The gauntlet
Open as splits →The ace is the highest-level Pokémon on that team, and the cap is its level in the standard release — the number a Hardcore run caps at for that segment.
| Stage | Trainer | Type | Ace | Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gym 1 | Roxanne | rock | Nosepass | Lv15 |
| Gym 2 | Brawly | fighting | Makuhita | Lv16 |
| Gym 3 | Wattson | electric | Magneton | Lv23 |
| Gym 4 | Flannery | fire | Torkoal | Lv26 |
| Gym 5 | Norman | normal | Slaking | Lv28 |
| Gym 6 | Winona | flying | Altaria | Lv33 |
| Gym 7 | Tate & Liza | psychic | Solrock & Lunatone | Lv42 |
| Gym 8 | Wallace | water | Milotic | Lv42 |
| Elite Four | Sidney | dark | Absol | — |
| Elite Four | Phoebe | ghost | Dusclops | — |
| Elite Four | Glacia | ice | Walrein | — |
| Elite Four | Drake | dragon | Salamence | — |
| Champion | Steven | steel | Metagross | — |
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