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>>57945321
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>muh split
You pathetic faggots. The majority of Hoennmons are mixed attacks, basically the only ones that wish the split was in gen 3 are the physical dark attackers. You'd have a point if you were complaining about Johtomons.
The real issues with Emerald (most of them carried from RS)
>no visual day/night cycle or time of week based events (can be excused by base GBA screens being near on unusable with a dark night palette)
>no gen 2 -> 3 transfer (can be excused by giant leap in architecture making it impossible for any dev, let alone GF to do such a thing without a third party device that would cost like $50 to interface)
>surfing encounters being literally the same three fucking mons for half the region
>villainous teams not using more of the Hoenn dex roster despite their theming and having like 5-6 Pokemon common enough to choose for each faction exclusively (but not surprising considering Rocket was all Raticate + Crobat + Weezing + Muk lines for both gens)
>relegating contests to a single late game town instead of keeping them as a separate path for players to progress in
>replacing Steven who is a character that actually has buildup and relevance to your player character as the champion with 'that flamboyant guy who does contests if you watch the anime' (also not making him rematchable postgame)
>locking Deoxys formes to individual games
not being able to optimise your EV'd perfect IV OUmon to max damage isn't a real issue