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Generation III, also known as the Advance Generation, is the third set of Pokémon games released. It consists of Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald Versions on the Game Boy Advance and Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness on the Nintendo GameCube. It appears to take place contemporaneously with Generation I.

Advances in gameplay

The third generation, while incompatible with Generation I and II, boasts the most changes in the world of Pokémon. Many new Pokémon are added with brand-new type combinations such as Fighting/Psychic. The advances include:

• An increase in the graphics display and general appearance.
• A new, streamlined Pokémon storage system with a graphical user interface.
• Pokémon Contests are introduced.
• Pokéblocks are introduced.
• 135 Pokémon added to the Pokémon world, bringing the total to 386.
• 103 new moves, bringing the total to 354.
• New villainous teams involving one specific legendary Pokémon — Groudon in Pokémon Ruby and Kyogre in Pokémon Sapphire.
• Individual values (IVs) are increased from 0 through 15 to 0 through 31.
• Natures, which determine a Pokémon's stat growth, and can be affected by an item held by a Pokémon while breeding (Pokémon Emerald only).
• New environments can be explored: underwater, deserts, volcanoes, and tropical jungles.
• Wireless communication (only available in FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald).
• Nintendo e-Reader communication.
• Abilities, which can affect Pokémon inside and outside of battle.
• Berries have greater use; can be used for Pokémon Contests, regular battle, or in stat training (Pokémon Emerald, specifically).
• Double battles are available, along with a single Multi Battle (Pokémon Emerald only).
• Areas where weather is set before the Pokémon battle starts.
• Code preventing certain event legendaries from being hacked, since, if they are hacked, they always disobey the trainer.

Hoenn starters

Players of Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald begin their journey in Littleroot Town with a choice of Treecko, Torchic, or Mudkip. The Grass-Fire-Water type triangle from previous generations remains, and the difficulty setting follows Generation I where Template:Type2 or Template:Type2 Pokémon will serve to make the beginning gyms easier, whereas choosing the Template:Type2 provides an extra challenge.

Kanto starters

As the Generation III games taking place in Kanto are remakes of Generation I games, the starters are the same as in that generation; they are the Grass-type Bulbasaur, the Fire-type Charmander, and the Water-type Squirtle.

Gym Leaders

Being that there are only 17 types, and Kanto and Johto, during Generation I and II, had Gyms specializing in 16 of them, all of the types of the Gym Leaders of Hoenn are the same as that of a Gym Leader in one of the previous regions.

Hoenn

Hoenn League
Generation III			Region: Hoenn
Gym Leader Japanese		Location Japanese	Type	Badge
{{{size}}} Roxanne ツツジ Tsutsuji		Rustboro City カナズミシティ Kanazumi City	Rock	Stone Badge
{{{size}}} Brawly トウキ Tōki		Dewford Town ムロタウン Muro Town	Fighting	Knuckle Badge
{{{size}}} Wattson テッセン Tessen		Mauville City キンセツシティ Kinsetsu City	Electric	Dynamo Badge
{{{size}}} Flannery アスナ Asuna		Lavaridge Town フエンタウン Fuen Town	Fire	Heat Badge
{{{size}}} Norman センリ Senri		Petalburg City トウカシティ Tōka City	Normal	Balance Badge
{{{size}}} Winona ナギ Nagi		Fortree City ヒワマキシティ Hiwamaki City	Flying	Feather Badge
{{{size}}} Tate and Liza フウとラン Fū and Lan		Mossdeep City トクサネシティ Tokusane City	Psychic	Mind Badge
File:SpriteWallace.png Wallace ミクリ Mikuri RS	File:SpriteJuan.png Juan アダン Adan E	Sootopolis City ルネシティ Rune City	Water	Rain Badge

Kanto

Indigo League
Generations I and III		Region: Kanto
Gym Leader Japanese	Location Japanese	Type	Badge
{{{size}}} Brock タケシ Takeshi	Pewter City ニビシティ Nibi City	Rock	Boulder Badge
{{{size}}} Misty カスミ Kasumi	Cerulean City ハナダシティ Hanada City	Water	Cascade Badge
{{{size}}} Lt. Surge マチス Matis	Vermilion City クチバシティ Kuchiba City	Electric	Thunder Badge
{{{size}}} Erika エリカ Erika	Celadon City タマムシシティ Tamamushi City	Grass	Rainbow Badge
{{{size}}} Koga キョウ Kyō	Fuchsia City セキチクシティ Sekichiku City	Poison	Soul Badge
{{{size}}} Sabrina ナツメ Natsume	Saffron City ヤマブキシティ Yamabuki City	Psychic	Marsh Badge
{{{size}}} Blaine カツラ Katsura	Cinnabar Island グレンじま Guren Island	Fire	Volcano Badge
{{{size}}} Giovanni サカキ Sakaki	Viridian City トキワシティ Tokiwa City	Ground	Earth Badge

Other Generation III games

Pokémon Colosseum, for the Nintendo GameCube, features a new land called Orre where several Generation II and Generation III Pokémon are altered by two teams called Cipher and Team Snagem. Players must "snag" the "Shadow Pokémon" and cure them of their darkness. Once this is completed, the Pokémon may be transferred to the other Generation III games. Pokémon Colosseum is the first 3D Pokémon RPG. This game also features an advanced Stadium Mode similar to those of the Pokémon Stadium games.

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are remakes of the original Red and Green Versions, and return to the world of Generation I for an updated telling of its story.

Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire is another Generation III game for the Nintendo GameCube. It allows:

• Storage of up to 1500 Pokémon from Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, LeafGreen and Emerald Versions.
• Playing Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire on the television through emulation.

Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, also for the Nintendo GameCube, follows a storyline that takes place a few years after the story of Colosseum. It allows for snagging of rare Generation I, II and III Pokémon as well, and includes a difficult-to-purify final Shadow Pokémon, a Shadow Lugia.

Generation III is the biggest generation yet, with five handheld games and three console games.

Trivia

• It is the only generation not to have a playable character in the Super Smash Bros. series.
• In the soundtrack for Hoenn's games, there are around five unused themes, one of these is a remixed Route 38 and Route 39 theme from GSC. This may have been a music test, though it could have been an alternate theme for such routes as Route 116, but was left out during development.
• Generation III is the only Generation so far not to introduce any Eeveelutions.
• Generation III is the first Generation to contain main series games where Kanto is not accessible.
• Currently, this generation has the highest number of main series games named after precious jewels, namely, the ruby, sapphire, and emerald.
• Generation III introduced the most Pokémon that didn't evolve.
• While popular belief dictates that it takes place at the same time as Generation I, due to it being compatable trading wise with FireRed and LeafGreen, which are remakes of Generation I, the trading/battling link between them doesn't really prove that it takes place in Generation I, as it's also linked with Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD at the same time despite the latter two games clearly being set five years apart from each other, canonically speaking.

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