just started playing and enjoying it so far! I went thru the pokemon encounter list, compared that to all evolution lines and had some notes for anyone wondering and a few questions.
-If I didn't list it below, the first pokemon in an evolution line is listed on the spreadsheet and should be found in the wild
-Torchic, rowlet, and finnekin are the only starter mons not found naturally in the wild, per the spreadsheet. Their 2nd stages are all available to find however, so you can breed to get them
-Same goes for slakoth, hoothoot and pawniard, seems you'll need eggs to acquire these from their 2nd/3rd forms
-Fossil mons weren't listed but with the addition of the fossil machine you should be able to acquire all given you find them all
-Normal meowth/persian weren't listed, just their alolan forms, but I think you could trade a skitty for a meowth in vanilla emerald at the battle frontier.
-Espurr/Meowstic and kecleon were not listed. You use the scope to locate kecleon throughout vanilla emerald, but what about espurr?
-Can you get the different non-alolan forms of mons like oricorio, lycanrock? I know some mons have different forms with the same stats, just different colorways, but I mentioned these because they have different stats while still sharing pokedex numbers.
-I'm assuming the trade machine works for any evolution that requires a trade to get, has anyone had trouble acquiring any mons that require a trade to evolve?