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Alternate Petalburg Gym path (Emerald)

Feb 4th, 2017
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  1. This strat saves an X Attack and up to 3 turns in Norman's gym, but it's riskier.
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  3. THE STRAT:
  4. - Rare Candy to 30 for Brawly
  5. - Take the leftmost path in Norman's gym
  6. - Swellow: Strength+Strength (guaranteed)
  7. > 100% Wing Attack (20-24 dmg)
  8. - Use an Energypowder
  9. - Spinda: Strength+MS (88% 2HKO)
  10. > 33% Teeter Dance, 33% Dizzy Punch (16-19), 33% Focus Punch (22-27)
  11. > Have to YOLO Teeter Dance because it has the same AI as Norman
  12. - Zangoose: MS(+WG)+MS (65% 2HKO)
  13. > 85% Swords Dance, 15% Slash turn 1; 40/60 turn 2
  14. > Slash does ~31/63/95
  15. - Get L32 for Slaking
  16. > Rock Smash: Same damage
  17. > MS at +3/-1: 87-103 (up from 85-100)
  18. > Facade: 49-58 (down from 51-60; can sometimes take 2 hits from Spinda/Vigoroth and be safe from this)
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  20. TIMINGS:
  21. - The path to Norman is the same number of steps
  22. - Gym door/trainer text is ~10 frames faster
  23. - Menus: Generally lose 1-2 seconds
  24. - Trainer 1: Always save 5 seconds
  25. - Trainer 2: Varies a lot, but break even
  26. - Trainer 3: Usually save 4 seconds or lose 2 seconds, but can lose 5+ to missing range
  27. - Total: Save ~3.5s
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  29. RISKS:
  30. - Trainer 1: ~1/500 to die (impossible normally)
  31. - Trainer 2: ~3% to die (~2% normally)
  32. - Trainer 3: ~6% to die (~2% normally)
  33. - Norman: ~1% less likely to die to Slaking
  34. - Total: ~9% to die (~4% normally)
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  36. MISCELLANEOUS:
  37. - All 3 trainers have 1 Hyper Potion
  38. - Turn 1 crits save a lot of time (normally they lose time)
  39. - If Swellow crits once, you might land in Focus Punch kill range, but out of Dizzy Punch range. This will cause Spinda to always use Focus Punch (which is safer but slower because of extra text)
  40. - You might want to lead with MS on Spinda, since Strength crit is a range, and MS+MS is a guaranteed 2HKO
  41. - If you delay the candy, you save a menu and improve the Zangoose range to 82%, but Swellow becomes a 40% range and Spinda becomes an 80% range with MS+MS
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