History YMMV / Pokemonrubyandsapphire

** The final Elite Four guy with the dragons is super easy as long as you have ANY pokemon with an ice move - all 5 of his pokemon are *4x* weak to it!

** [[CuteMonsterGirl Gardevoir.]] [[RuleThirtyFour Just...Gardevoir.]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Archie's and Maxie's battle theme.
** ''Every battle theme in the whole game''. And even the title screen and overworld music could qualify.

* ThatOneBoss: Tate and Liza in ''Emerald'', Drake and Norman in general.
** Norman is ''slightly'' less of a ThatOneBoss in Emerald, though, since he only has one Slaking, possibly to make up for Tate and Liza. He's still got that other Slaking, though...
** The last leg of Victory Road, merely inches from the exit, has a surprise (they're [[BehindTheBlack hiding under a bridge]]) encounter with a couple of Ace Trainers. They both have Slaking, and the female also has Gardevoir, which has ''Skill Swap'' (one of the skills that can remove Slaking's "moves only every other turn" limiter, Truant, by exchanging abilities; and worse, can pass it to ''you''). Fortunately, you can bypass them, but if it's your first time through, you wouldn't know they were even there until they see you. Good luck.
*** You can just barely see the tops of their heads if you're paying close attention, so you can talk to them individually to avoid the Skill Swap...but since they both have Slaking, even separately they could still count for this.
* ThatOneLevel:
** The Sky Pillar. Anyone who doesn't have good finger-reflexes and control over the Mach Bike is going to pull their hair out ''trying to get to'' Rayquaza, let alone catching the bastard. The good news is if you do catch him, the trip down is trivial since falling down is probably what you've been doing in the pillar.
*** Or just Fly away, since you are [[FridgeBrilliance at the roof of the SKY Pillar]].
** Traversing the ocean is also considered one of the worst parts in all of the main games. On the other hand, the UnderTheSea segments are considered some of the most memorable parts, very likely because one can only encounter wild Pokémon if one travels in seaweed. As a result, some people use Dive [[MundaneUtility in order to avoid encounters when surfing]].

* BraggingRightsReward: This generation started the trend of marking what ball you caught a pokemon in. So yes, if you catch a Legendary in a Poke Ball, everyone will know.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** The Dewford trendy sayings. You can make them whatever you want, and the hilarious combinations are endless.
** ''Oh, hey, you got that BIKE from RYDEL! Oh, it's glaringly obvious. It says right on your bike... RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, [[OverlyLongGag RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL...]] That name's everywhere.''[[hottip:* : RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL, RYDEL]]
** "You're supposed to shout "yodelayhihoo" since it doesn't echo here!"
** A certain person in Pacifidlog Town asks you which town you come from, and your options are, like always, Yes or No. Both are hilarious.[[hottip:*:"Yes Town? Never heard of it." Or, "You have to have come from somewhere!"]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Archie's and Maxie's battle theme.
** ''Every battle theme in the whole game''. And even the title screen and overworld music could qualify.

** [[CuteMonsterGirl Gardevoir.]] [[RuleThirtyFour Just... Gardevoir.]]

* GuideDangIt: So you want to catch the Regis do you? Good luck with that one unless you have a guide. That snazzy Milotic you saw Wallace using? Don't even think about trying to get it unless you have a guide. It's just not worth it.

*** You can just barely see the tops of their heads if you're paying close attention, so you can talk to them individually to avoid the Skill Swap... But since they both have Slaking, even separately they could still count for this.

** Mossdeep Gym Leader Tate has been mistaken for being a girl by many fans. It doesn't help that he looks [[HalfIdenticalTwins almost exactly like his sister]], Liza.

** Some prefer Steven to Wallace because Steven uses the Steel type but doesn't ''exclusively'' use Steel-type Pokémon due to the lack of Steel-types in the Pokédex, so he's a bit more of a WorthyOpponent than Wallace; who uses Water-types and is quite easy to beat. YourMileageMayVary; but some also prefer Wallace just because he helps Sceptile catch up...and the Water-type actually is rather powerful due to the "One type uses one stat".

** Mossdeep Gym Leader Tate has been mistaken for being a girl by many fans.

* FridgeHorror: In this generation, no message is given when you lose a Pokémon battle. You are simply told that you whited out- and then wake up in a Pokémon Center...
** Team Aqua wants to flood the earth. Team Magma wants to cause droughts and dry up the land. Both of them unleash a creature that can do that and proceeds to begin to do so in a wildly out of control manner. Now imagine if you weren't there to stop said creature.

** [[CuteMonsterGirl Gardevoir.]] [[RuleThirtyFour Just... Gardevoir

** Gardevoir. Just... Gardevoir.

** The weather trio has been popular enough that their dynamics have been duplicated in all of the subsequent generations.

*** The fishing mechanic as a whole was much more needlessly complicated than in the other generations. Previously and after, you would cast your line and wait a few seconds and either get a bite or don't. In this generation, there's a needlessly long series of button pushes that literally amounts to "Oh a bite! Oh a bite! Oh a bite! Oh a bite! Oh a bite! Oh a bite! Oh a bite! Oh a bite!"

* XenSyndrome: The last quarter of the game requires an immense amount of surfing. Hope you like [[GoddamnedBats Tentacool and Wingull]].

* AbortedArc: Throughout the game, your rival has been Brendan or May, Prof. Birch's kid. S/he has fought you four times (five in Emerald) in varying locations across Hoenn. Now, you've flattened the Elite Four, have taken on— and defeated— the Champion, and your rival suddenly busts in the room!... only to tell you that s/he has some tips on defeating the Champion. S/he is not the FinalBoss. Nuts.

*** And Tabitha's name is probably ''even more'' confusing than Maxie's is.