surge down. putting a cave full of pokemon surge's ace can't hit right next to his city is a nice design for kids, but very abusable for nuzlockers. ss anne wasn't rough but i ended up having to swap around a lot to minimize exp gains, especially since i got abra encounters on both routes above cerulean, jfc, and lost poor poe to a stray hyper fang (don't depend on gen 1 wrap, kids)
for erika i think it's fair to just do rock tunnel and the routes near lavender town for trainers, then rocket hideout/tower/fuchsia routes for koga.
>>46423841ah, that really sucks. regardless glad to know you're fine with the restart and now you know the game well
>>46424556pickup seems to be a super underrated ability in nuzlockes. don't let your boy die
>>46425051would say maybe walrein or gorebyss/huntail? both are later game mons which won't really affect emerald or any other playthrough and they both seem decent for the league (walrein moreso than gorebyss/huntail ofc). alternatively ninetales for steven's metagross
>>46425347game knowledge is pretty much everything in nuzlockes as far as i've heard, so yeah, maybe do a casual run now and a challenge run later, especially given it's a romhack based around vastly increasing difficulty.
alternatively you could use a trainer editor or something to inspect boss team sets and the like so you're more prepared
