>>52600256>First gym using Geodude again despite various new Rock Types to useRealistically, what new Rock-type they could put in there? Aron is also Steel-type, which would make it pretty hard to deal with early on.
Your other options are Solrock and Lunatone, and the Fossils. The former two are a pair (And left for Tate&Liza) and the latter are a pair + supposed to be a mid-game "reward" and arguably used for Steven as part of his theming.
>Second Gym using Machop again despite various new Fighting types to useEmerald actually fixes this by adding Meditite. The only other addition is Breloom, which would be too much at this point of the game.
>Third gym using NO NEW POKEMONEmerald again fixes this by adding both Electrike and Manectric, and the only other option would be Plusle and Minun, which probably should not be in a Gym Leader's team. (Singles, at least)
>Fourth Gym using two slugma rather than a NumelEmerald nails it again, replacing a Slugma with Numel and adding a Camerupt. You already beat a Camerupt previously in Ruby vs. Maxie, so it's not like that's unreasonable by this point.
>Fifth Gym using all new Pokemon but repeating one despite all the new Flying TypesEmerald, unsurprisingly, adds a Pokemon and still keeps it all new. Vigoroth does repeat the evolutionary line with Slaking, but given how differently they function, I think that's fair.
>Sixth Gym is perfectEmerald slightly drops the ball here, replacing Swellow with Swablu. They do add Tropius though. Combine them and it's a goddamn diverse looking team.
>SEVENTH GYM ONLY TWO POKEMONYou know the drill. Two extra Pokemon. Xatu is not new, but it's immune to EQ from Claydol, something no other option can do, so it's perfectly acceptable.
>Eight Gym is fine as wellReplacing Seaking with Ludicolo or something would add diversity and complete the Gen 3 usage.
But really, where these games really drop the ball is the E4. It's like they deliberately picked the worst fucking types to use.
