>>55701538>DP was complete shit and an objective downgrade from Emerald in virtually every wayYeah just ignore the better items, better moves, better abilities, better metagame, better battle facility mechanics, better level curve, more powerful options before the league which reward actually using your brain, more content, infinite bag etc
The only thing Emerald ranks higher than DP for is the battle frontier and honestly even that would have been better if it had the gen 4 mechanics, like lorb, sash and more choice items existing, or pokemon over level 50 all scaling to level 50 for battle facilities. Emerald's battle facilities are full of RNG bulllshit and stallshit that are harder to counter in gen 3; items have been introduced in gen 2 yet there was NO efficient item for a fast special sweeper like Alakazam until gen 4, same goes for abilities, gen 4 introduced a shitton of them, and arguably a lot of the best ones, like no guard Machamp finally offering a reliable answer to double team spam in battle facilities which is an absolute fucking pain to deal with in emerald
