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The Emerald Battle Frontier is a poorly designed mess. The only way I can see someone enjoying it is if they are at the very most going for silver seals. Getting gold seals was the most obnoxious thing I've ever done in any game. I feel like I've fallen for the greatest gaslighting campaign in video game history, because I see people online endlessly jerk of the Emerald BF, and some fucking lunatics even say it's underrated???
I hear all my life about how Pokemon Emerald has the best postgame of any Pokemon game ever because the battle frontier was so amazing, when in reality you have to play like the biggest fag if you want to taste those gold seals. The problem comes from the fact that you have to win 50+ matches in a row, but the AI just needs to slip one dick in your ass to tear it all down. They come out with the most retarded teams sometimes, like ones where the whole team knows mirror coat, or the multiple times I got fucked by quick claw into an OHKO move.
And that's not even mentioning the retarded rules that almost half the facilities have. Battle Palace, Battle Pike, and Battle Factory are some of the stupidest things I've ever experienced (bonus to the battle factory having a programming error making swapping pokemon always a losing move).
I'd be praying the battle facilities until the end of time if they just removed the streak requirement. Instead of making me complete a streak of 10 rounds at 4-6 battles in a row, let me keep working at the highest round I've made it to, but bring the difficulty up more each round. Or hell even require more rounds since we don't have to do a streak. Because with the streak nonsense all it takes is one instance of the AI getting lucky, or rolling their quick claw Guillotine, and it all goes down the drain.