Pokemon Modern Emerald Static Encounters, Item Locations and Other Changes
Author: resetes12
Source: pokecommunity
Static Encounters:
Pichu with Surf hatches from an egg at level 1 after beating the game. You'll find it in Sootopolis, in a house near hidden stairs.
Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres are available after defeating Ho-Oh. Each is level 70 and can be found in different locations: Articuno in Meteor Falls, Zapdos in Scorched Slab, and Moltres in Victory Road.
Mewtwo can be found in the Altering Cave after defeating Mew, at level 70.
Mew appears at level 50 on Faraway Island, accessible by purchasing the "OLD SEA MAP" in the Battle Frontier.
Entei, Raikou, and Suicune are level 70 and available after defeating Lugia. Entei is in the Magma Hideout, Raikou is at New Mauville, and Suicune is in the Ice Cave at Shoal Cave.
Ho-oh and Lugia are available at level 70 after purchasing the "MYSTIC TICKET" in Battle Frontier. They can be found at Navel Rock, both top and bottom.
Celebi is found at level 50 in Petalburg Woods Shrine, after having all three Johto Legendary dogs in your party and defeating Lugia.
Regirock, Registeel, and Regice are available at level 40 in their usual locations, and Regidrago and Regieleki can be found on Route 132 North and Route 110 East, respectively, also at level 40.
Regigigas appears at level 70 in Granite Cave, but only if all other Regis are in your party.
Rayquaza can be found in Sky Pillar at level 50 on hard mode, or level 70 on easy and normal modes.
Groudon and Kyogre are both at level 70, with Groudon located in Terra Cave and Kyogre in Marine Cave, both after the main game.
Jirachi is located at level 50 on the white rock in Mossdeep City.
Lati@s roam at level 40 and can appear randomly in the postgame. Alternatively, you can buy the "EON TICKET" in Battle Frontier to catch a Lati@s at level 60 on Southern Island.
Deoxys can be found on Birth Island at level 70 after purchasing the "AURORA TICKET" in Battle Frontier.
Finally, ?????? is an egg hatch at level 1 found in Meteor Falls after defeating Steven for the second time.
Item Locations
Healing Heart:
- One-time location: Oldale Town (Given by the "Cheating Girl" near the PokéMart)
- One-time location: Oldale Town (Given by the "Cheating Girl" near the PokéMart)
- One-time location: Oldale Town (Given by the "Cheating Girl" near the PokéMart)
- Repeatable location: Trainer Hill (Prize)
- Repeatable location: Battle Frontier’s PokeMart
- Repeatable location: Battle Frontier’s PokeMart
- Repeatable location: Made by Shuckle (Berry turns into Berry Juice after battle)
Shards (Certain Pokémon hold):
Yellow Shard: Chinchou, Lanturn (Rare)
Red Shard: Corsola, Carvanha, Sharpedo
Blue Shard: Tentacool, Tentacruel (Rare)
PokeDoll:
- Repeatable location: Verdanturf PokeMart
Moon Stone & Sun Stone:
- One-time location: Altering Cave
- Repeatable location: Slateport Market (instead of hidden power and secret power)
Berries (XD / Colosseum Berries):
- Repeatable location: Trainer Hill
- Salac, Ganlon, Petaya, Apicot Berries
Tickets & Items (Reward Shop):
- Eon Ticket, Mystic Ticket, Aurora Ticket, Old Sea Map: Battle Frontier Reward Shop
Fossils:
- Helix, Dome, Old Amber: Altering Cave
Lucky Egg:
- One-time location: Altering Cave
- Repeatable location: Certain Pokémon hold it (Pelipper, Happiny, Chansey)
Mints:
- Location: Flower Shop (After 4th Gym or Pokémon League)
- Modest Mint: Lilycove City
- Timid Mint: Mauville City
- Rash Mint: Meteor Falls
- Calm Mint: Route 111 Sandtower (Available only during Sandtower's presence)
Gem & Hold Items:
- Fairy Gem: Marill
- Black Glasses: Mightyena
- Miracle Seed: Shroomish
- Lucky Punch: Chansey
- Magnet: Elekid, Electabuzz
- Charcoal: Torkoal
- Nevermelt Ice: Snorunt
- Silk Scarf: Happiny (Rare)
- Repeatable location: Magikarp, Togepi, Feebas (always)
- Repeatable location: Chimecho
Growth Mulch:
- Repeatable location: Berry Master, Route 102
- Certain Pokémon hold it: Gloom, Tropius, Ivysaur
- Certain Pokémon hold it: Clamperl (Rare, no longer drops Blue Shards)
- Repeatable location: Battle Frontier Reward Shop
Deep Sea Items:
- Deep Sea Tooth: Clamperl (Common)
- Deep Sea Scale: Chinchou, Lanturn (Common)
Type Effectiveness
Info: Note: Only applies to 3.3+
Gen VI+ Changes:
- Dark does x1 to Steel (Note: In 3.2, the "GEN VI+" is called "Original", and doesn't include these changes.)
- Ghost does x1 to Steel
Improved:
- Ground does x1 to Rock
- Rock does x1 to Ground
- Rock does x0.5 to Rock
- Steel does x1 to Ice
- Bug does x1 to Fairy
- Bug does x1 to Ghost
- Ice does x1 to Water
- Water does x0.5 to Ice
- Ghost does 1x to Steel
- Dark does 1x to Steel
HARD MODE only changes
Higher Level Scaling:
Hard mode will scale levels according to badges (that's where the main difficulty comes from). Includes trainers and wild Pokémon.
Higher Damage Scaling:
Your opponents’ hits are stronger. Damage scales with badges.
Badge boost are disabled
Exp. gain is reduced (optional):
Reduced by 40%. You can disable it via the challenges menu at the start, HOWEVER it is not recommended as it has been carefully curated. Not having this option on will make HARD mode pretty easy.
EXP. Share changes:
Makes exp. share work like its name says, it HALVES current exp. and shares only HALF of it. When in normal mode, exp. share gets full exp. to the battling Pokémon, then shares half exp.
Trainer changes:
Ace Pokémon have new strategies: Norman's Slaking doesn't have Truant, rain is set when fighting Juan and Wallace, and more. Note that some changes are not "legal" per se, like Slaking's not having Truant. Good luck!
Frontier bans (optional):
In HARD MODE, all legendaries (including "small ones" like Latios or Regis) are banned. It's optional, only if you enabled "Frontier Bans" at the start of the game.
Rayquaza is now level 50:
Instead of being level 70, like in Easy and Normal mode.
Legendaries pose a larger threat:
The stats of all Legendary Pokémon are temporarily boosted while battling them.
Strong Legendary Pokémon Catch rate lowered:
Some legendaries have their catch rate adjusted from 3/255 to 2/255 (Only Mewtwo, Mew, Ho-Oh, Lugia, Celebi, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Deoxys, Regigigas).
4 item limit:
Only four items can be used while battling trainers (not wild Pokémon) (upcoming, not in 3.3.1).
