Multi Battle: Difference between revisions

* When battling alongside Steven in Emerald, his Pokémon are shown to gain experience after the defeat of an opponent Pokémon. This does not happen to a partner's Pokémon in the Multi Battles of Generation IV.

** If the player brings a team of three Pokémon that all use {{m|Self-Destruct}} or {{m|Explosion}}, then all experience will be granted to Steven's Metang. If this is performed on all opposing Pokémon in this battle, then Steven's Metang can earn enough experience to level up once. If a cheating device is used to level up Metang enough so it will evolve after the battle, it will trigger the evolution screen where the player can watch it evolve into a {{p|Metagross}}. Doing so will register Metagross as “caught” by the player whenever or not the player already had one.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC61os9NKUI "I Tested UNCONFIRMED Pokemon Facts 2" - BlueBoyPhin - YouTube]</ref>.

** Having the player's party be defeated in the Multi Battle with Steven will cause the player to [[black out|white out]] whenever or not Steven still has Pokémon left. This was also changed in Generation IV, where a white out will not occur until both the player's and the partner's Pokémon are all knocked out.

** The player and Steven are both limited to 3 Pokémon each, unlike later generations where the player and all allies can combine their teams to use more than 6 Pokémon in total. Defeating Steven’s Pokémon also rewards exp points for the player and they can use items on his Pokémon. This is not possible in later generations.

* The Multi Battle against [[Mars]] and [[Jupiter]] in {{3v2|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum}} as well as the battle against [[Flint]] and [[Volkner]] in {{game|Platinum}} have the potential to be twelve-on-six fights, due to {{ga|Barry}}'s full [[party]].