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3rd Gen Times to beat E4?

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    Just wondering, what's your fastest times beating the game up to the Elite 4 in 3rd Generation games?

    For me, it's like this:

    Emerald:16 hours.When all I had was a GBA and Emerald (Actually, i've only ever had one other GBA game that's not pokemon, and that was a Simpsons one), I used to play it over and over again.I once tried to get all my pokemon to lv.100, I had a Lv.100 Wailord,Swampert and Lanturn, and then i got beat by Sidney's Shiftry.

    LeafGreen:100+ hours, because LeafGreen is a harder game.
     
    Ruby: 12:32
    Emerald: 20hours and something
    Leaf Green: Cant remember
     
    Well, currently playing through Emerald. I'm transcribing it as a fanfiction at the same time, though, so I expect it to take me about 200 hours to get to the E4, if I don't get bored halfway through.
     
    Lol, I'm trying to play through aswell, but boredom normally gets me too.
     
    Emerald- 23:59, only ever got to Hall of Fame once
    Leaf Green- 12 hours and something, got to Hall of Fame a lot and I know the game quite well.
     
    Sapphire took me about 36 hours
     
    Emerald: 18 hours
    Ruby: 23 hours
    FireRed: 30 hours

    FireRed was a much harder game. I started off with charmander and since I couldn't find any grass of water pokemon it was really hard to beat Brock at first.
     
    leaf green took me 10 hours i think. i know that game inside out.
    emerald took around 20 hours, or something like that, before the whole game crashed and i got so annoyed that i couldn't be bothered to start over again. sigh.
     
    Leaf Green: 99:99
    Fire Red: 99:99
    Sapphire: 99:99
    Ruby: 99:99
    Emerald: 99:99
    Diamond: 99:99
    Pearl: 99:99
    Platinum: 99:99
    HeartGold: 99:99
    SoulSilver: 99:99

    I gotta stop falling asleep with the games on...yeah
     
    LOLder @ Calder

    FR: 5:08 (Blastoise, Nidoqueen, Zynx, Esphere)
    LG: 6:22 (Blastoise, Nidoking, Zynx, Esphere)
    Sapphire: 9:28 (yesterday; Seviper Lv66 + Sceptile Lv63)
    Ruby: 12:12 (Swellow, Swampert, and HP Ice Manectric)
    Emerald: 22:04 (the Abilities and breeding)
     
    Emerald: 31:08, would have been done much faster but i stopped to be a pokemon trainer XD
     
    Pretty much for my Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald runs I beat them all around 8-9hours, its really easy compaired to the newest generations lol.
     
    Ruby: 7:18
    Sapphire: 5:34
    Emerald 13:10
    FireRed: 17:13
    LeafGreen: 14:21

    Meh...not bad since I tend to speed through them with my starter and some HM slaves. Especially if it's like my 3rd or 4th time running through the game usually to reset for the Legends =)
     
    I can't remember the exact times and I can't my games but I'm sure my Sapphire and Fire Red times were around 30-40 hours. I trained up my teams quite a bit before I challanged them.
     
    Oh yeah , I once tried speedruns , they were total fails . Sooo , here they are :

    Sapphire : 32:12
    FireRed : 82:25

    In FR all I did was overleveling and talking to people . That's why it took longer . ^^
     
    it arounds 50:00 for all games coz i can't stop from talking to people(like what 560cool. wrote before), and training my Pokémons
     
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