Okay, so I decided to play Emerald over again because I finally got Pal Park in Platinum and wanted a Latios. Great excuse, huh? So I started up the game and, in honor of the Swampert who had once belonged to the previous owner of my Platinum cartridge and was now on my E4-beating team, got a Mudkip. I plan to name him Juan.
So Birch rambles about things I should know already with his creepy grin and face shape, and then asks me if I'm a boy or a girl. I choose GIRL. And now... my name. So at first I thought of using 'Giratina', but 'Giratin' sounded really lame. And no way I was using Vision or something like I did last playthrough. So I was pondering some cool names, and came up with nothing. I resorted to my last defense... and also my most hated defense... my
real name.
Save Birch's sorry tail from a vicious man-eating Zigzagoon? Check. Retrieve memetastic Pokémon whose Emerald sprite I hate but evolves into the awesome Earthquake-spamming Swampert? Check. Thinking about catching a Ralts for a few minutes but deciding it would be too hard? Also check. Here we go...
So now there's a May lookalike named Julia running around with a Mudkip, appropriately named Juan (once again in honor of Swampert and his old Trainer). Great fun when we get to the eighth Gym Leader.
EDIT:
I have discovered something incredible!
Ralts, contrary to popular belief, are attracted to
negative emotions, not positive ones! C-mon. Wally was quivering in his boots when he found one, and I must have spent all of an hour looking for this thing. When I found one, a critical hit from my Level 13 Mudkip Juan wiped it out pretty well. I wasn't pleased. I moved to a different patch of grass and who do I find but an adorable little
female Ralts waiting for me? Tackle this time knocked her nicely into the Red Zone, and she went in the Pokéball on the first toss.
So here's info on Cloud, the new Ralts on my team after some levelling to give her something more than Growl:
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Cloud | female Ralts
Lv 6 | Timid nature | Synchorize (passes on status problems)