>>48493589>I don't know why people hate Emerald so much but I didn't especially enjoy it eitherEmerald was pretty middle of the road for me. I actually don't think Emerald himself was terrible, and especially don't see why he gets shit on so hard while Yellow is usually given a free pass if not outright adored by some. Designwise, he kind of looks like a retard manlet version of a main character from the very next arc, which probably didn't help his case much since even if Pearl didn't exist when Emerald arc was kicking off, Barry very much did and any fans of the manga could guess that he was going to get an appropriate manga counterpart. My main problems with the Emerald arc were that it
>has continued plot threads from the FR/LG arc, which was pretty much the worst Pokemon Special arc up until that point and would continue to be until X/Y happened >had a weirdo OC villain with a stupid name, and then it just turned out to be Archie, who got magic armor from one of FR/LG's villains after killing Maxie
>outside of his strategies he doesn't really bring much to the table as a character 