Pokemon Heart Gold All Gold Prints FAQ V1

Pokemon Heart Gold All Gold Prints FAQ

Q: What is this category? What is a gold print?

A: The goal is to get all the gold prints from the Battle Frontier; these are icons that are added to your VS Recorder after you beat one of the Frontier Brains twice. There are 5 symbols in total to collect, from 5 different areas.

Q: What Pokemon will you use on your team to do this?

A: I will use Typhlosion to clear most of the game first, also for the levels towards certain moves, and then catch a Zapdos and a Suicune to use in the Battle Frontier. These Pokemon are not the best Pokemon to use, however, they are the easiest to find and catch at a decent level without grinding. There are other options I might try in the future if I do more runs but for now I'm sticking with this.

Q: Wont the legendary + starter stats suck though?

A: This wont be the case, because I am using something called RNG manipulation in order to get the correct stats on each pokemon. I can save and reset in this run so I can also change the DS clock for RNG manipulation.
I am looking for these particular spreads:

Typhlosion has a Rash nature with HP 30 / ATK 30 / DEF 27 / SP ATK 31 / SP DEF 27 / SPEED 31
Zapdos is also Rash with HP 31 / ATK 25 / DEF 26 / SP ATK 30 / SP DEF 23 / SPEED 31 and IVs for Hidden Power Grass 68
Suicune is Modest with HP 31 / ATK 17 / DEF 30 / SP ATK 31 / SP DEF 21 / SPEED 31

Q: Wont this take a long time?

A: Depends on what kind of luck the game gives me, especially for things such as Battle Factory. There is no 100% consistent way of dealing with all the facilities, even with perfect pokemon, so I have to prepare as best I can and do them in a somewhat specific order to get certain items/tms first.

Q: What is the world record for this run?

A: There isn't one, I am doing it for fun :)

Q: Are there certain pokemon you just wont be able to beat?

A: In later sets in Castle, Hall and Tower there are very specific Pokemon that can decimate my entire team. In Hall I aim to do the stronger types first so their levels are lower; for Castle I aim to skip most of the fights by hording Castle Points.

For Tower I rely on KevinTurtle but a lot of things can wreck me in any of these places. It is not an easy thing to complete.