Pokemon Elaf Gold
Pokémon Elaf Gold is a survival-focused FireRed challenge with permanent fainting, random starters, level caps, and Johto exploration.
- Harder difficulty
- Modern mechanics
- Nuzlocke mode
- Status
- Completed
- Plays on
- PC · Android · iPhone (emulator)
- Base game
- Pokémon FireRed
- Version
- v1.0.1
- Made by
- Elaf
About Pokemon Elaf Gold
Permanent Pokémon deaths, paid healing, and level caps make Pokémon Elaf Gold a survival-oriented challenge. Elaf's completed v1.0.1 FireRed hack for GBA is designed for Nuzlocke-style play, with a random starter drawn from obtainable Pokémon and a four-tier level system. It includes 386 Pokémon across several generations, reworked trainers and stats, harder capture rules, and minimum 10% move-miss chances. Johto and Kanto are joined by new connecting routes, while Fairy type and the physical/special split are among its standard modern additions.
What's in it
- Uses survival rules suited to Nuzlocke challenges.
- Defeated Pokémon die permanently.
- Item prices support a money-focused survival experience.
- Healing at a PokéCenter, Elm Lab, or with Mom costs 500.
- Pokémon are grouped into four level tiers.
- Your starter is randomly chosen from obtainable Pokémon, including legendaries.
- Includes 386 Pokémon from Generations I–VII.
- Adds Fairy type and the physical/special split.
- Includes Revive, Max Revive, and Herbal Revive.
- Capture difficulty is determined by the four-tier system.
- Badge-based level caps limit overlevelling.
- Every move has at least a 10% chance to miss.
- Reworks many Pokémon, items, trainers, and move statistics.
- Includes Johto, Kanto, and new routes linking existing locations.
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