Why Swampert Reigns Supreme Among Starter Pokemon | Pokemon Emerald Solo Challenge

There's no question Swampert is good, but I'm not sure everyone understands just how good it is. With only a single weakness to worry about, it has all the tools in its box to handle all situations.

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🍤 Solo Run Rules: 🍤
►I can only use the title Pokemon in battle. No switching at all, HM Pokemon are required.
►Gen 3 has a caveat. There are 3 forced double battles and I'm still figuring out the best way to handle it.
►No use of items in battle. Potions, TMs, etc. are allowed outside of battle.
►No use of skips/exploits.
►The TMs for Double Team, Attract, and Toxic are banned. Pokemon that learn similar moves naturally are allowed to use it but not the TM. To elaborate more, stall/luck based strategies feel cheap and are not the way I want to play the game and I don't want to funnel a 'meta' into double team or attract.
►DMA requires me to use PK Hex to edit natures/IVs so each run starts in front of the professor at exactly 2 minutes of in game time for each run.
►DMA also makes my overlay flicker since memory is jumping around. There is a complex fix that I simply do not care to do. Modding out DMA out of the game is too much work for a hobby.
►I play on x3 speed and use the in-game time for the run along with resets to rank these runs.

🍕 Base ROM/QoL changes: 🍕
►I have a toggle for early encounters. Random encounters skew rankings and add nothing to the playthrough.
►HM users and honorary HM user Abra are guaranteed spawns. Catch rate is also almost guaranteed. I had to manually tweak the catch formula and sometimes they can break out.
►I changed spinner logic. The bag trick to freeze them is very consistent but also tedious so I cut the middle man out to where I don't have to waste a lot of time on them.
►I have instant text in the game. This is simply time saving but instant text in gen 3 is weird and I had to do a lot of custom code to get it to work.

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