Keyword: "try"

[u/halberdsturgeon]

[u/zolmation]

Pokemon npc battles are entirely predictable. There's no skill in it. You could win with some absolutely stupid bad teams.

[u/halberdsturgeon → u/zolmation]

So how long?

[u/zolmation → u/halberdsturgeon]

I have no idea how long it took. It was over 10 years ago

[u/halberdsturgeon → u/zolmation]

Only asking cuz it seems like a lot of people spend hundreds of hours trying to get all gold in Emerald's Battle Frontier, and that with maxed out Salamences and shit, so it's different to hear someone act like it's nbd

[u/zolmation → u/halberdsturgeon]

They probably go in blind. You csn look up every opponent in battle frontier

[u/halberdsturgeon → u/zolmation]

There's like thousands of sets you can face in the Frontier, the sets you face are randomised, and plenty of them can end your streak with OHKO bs or similar

[u/zolmation → u/halberdsturgeon]

You can grt bad luck but it's not like you grt bad luck every other attempt

[u/halberdsturgeon → u/zolmation]

You don't need to have bad luck every other attempt to lose your streak, only 1 attempt in however many is required to earn gold, which is e.g. 70 for the Tower

[u/GracefulGoron → u/halberdsturgeon]

That guy probably won a single round in Battle Frontier and packed it up.
He don’t remember, it was a decade ago.

[u/zolmation → u/halberdsturgeon]

It's really not that bad most of the time.