>>12996842My original copy of Ruby seen here
>>12995271is what I use as a sort of platform for all of my other Gen III games.
If there are any Pokemon I don't want to 'delete' when I start a new game on my other copies, I trade them to my original copy of Ruby for a bunch of derps for a guilt-free new game. The hours have just built up over the years, breeding adds a hell of a lot of time.
Not to mention while first playing through the story, I had no fucking clue where to get the HM for Surf, and all of my friends had stopped playing Pokemon by that point so I couldn't ask them for help, and I didn't have access to the internet.
I ended up grinding my starter re-battling the trainers on that big route between Verdanturf-Mauville and Route 118.
Blaziken was Level 73 by the time I got Surf... 
