As a lifelong Pokemon fan, I’ve always been frustrated that some Pokemon were completely unusable despite the effort and creativity of their designs. For example, has anyone ever even thought about using Ledian in any serious capacity? The goal of this ROM is to rebalance the game up to Gen 5 to make many lackluster Pokemon more viable. Along with base stat changes, I’ve also updated abilities, types, learn sets of many Pokemon, power/effects of many moves, and TM/HM compatibility. All these changes can be found in the folder for the ROM. These changes will serve to make many Pokemon significantly more viable.

I have also updated wild encounters so that every Pokemon/family of Pokemon is available, including legendaries. Legendaries are extremely rare random encounters in places of thematic relevancy, however, in the future, and with help from the community, I intend to make events for specific legendaries.

In addition, the difficulty is significantly increased compared to the base game, so all trainers have been changed as well. Documentation for major battles is also in the ROM folder. These changes were not solely based on the intent of someone nuzlocking this ROM, however, I did keep that possibility in mind and have included features to minimize grinding and monotony for those players such as early access to Lucky Eggs, purchasable Rare Candies, and EV training items as the game progresses. If you choose to attempt a nuzlocke, I very much would like to hear your feedback.

Note: This is the first version so it should’ve assumed that the balance of the game needs fixing. Im looking for any and all types of feedback to make this ROM as good as it can be continually. I eventually plan to change NPC dialog, item locations, further QoL changes to EV/level grinding, rebalancing the type chart, Mega Evolutions/forms for those who never got them (Flygon and Regigias are the first to come to mind), etc.