Which strategy guide

The Nintendo Power and Japanese Guidebooks. Prima guidebooks don't even try

The guidebooks also don't even give you like *a* sample team. They just suggest picking one and then picking the other two to cover for type weaknesses. They don't say "try Latios, Swampert and Metagross with this moveset!" Even the people who wrote the guides didn't actually earn the symbols.

It just became another thing on the long list of things in Gen 3 you couldn't do. Can't complete the National Dex, can't use the abundant multiplayer features, can't earn the symbols in the Frontier. Gen 3 is like the "here's all this content you can't complete" generation.

Having only experience in Gen 2 and 3 to go off of and no additional info, not even having it explained that the stats were totally overhauled in every way since Gen 2, and all official guides only suggesting relying on type advantage, it seems like people would get nowhere. I certainly got nowhere.

I can't accept that they didn't want us to optimize at all in the Frontier Gen 3 and just go in with a good moveset and high base stats and hope for the best. I understand that it is doable, but I've only seen it done by people who already understand how to optimize and with considerable experience.

I try really hard to pick up on what games are putting down and learn from resources within the games themselves but I did not intuit it even looking for that information 😭

I think they wanted us to be GameFreaks like them and start our own fan zines and teach eachother. Which is what happened. But I assumed they planted the info in a guidebook or something. NO. They thought we would figure it out without data mining somehow.

So really, I am back to square one. I have no idea how GameFreak expected anyone to earn the Gold Symbols in Gen 3.

This means that EV training was not explained in any official guidebooks until Gen 4, in English or Japanese.

I admit that my Japanese is not amazing, but as far as I can tell the Japanese Pokemon Emerald Guidebook (Media Factory Complete Clear) also did not explain EV training nor IV breeding, nor do they provide information like speed tiers or threats in the Emerald Frontier.

I did mix records with somebody :)

HGSS Review :)

That's actually insane

If you are going to be at PRGE this weekend and track me down, I am bringing my Gen 2 & 3 games for mixing records and mystery gifting. If you are coming and you wanna do that bring your games :) I have a link cable

I think when I was 13, what I did on YouTube was the side of me I desperately needed people to see. The creative, passionate nerdy me that my family either ignored or told me I shouldn't be whenever they noticed. I wanted to be seen for who I am and accepted. And I found that in my audience.

woah

This is a good question for PRGE! I am only privy to my own panel organization. I plan to bring my own games for mixing records and mystery gifting with people :)

Thank you!!

Thank you!!