Pokemon Johto Legends
Pokémon Johto Legends refreshes Crystal with a larger Pokédex, modern battle systems, expanded moves, and practical quality-of-life upgrades.
- Modern mechanics
- Quality of life
- Plays on
- PC · Android · iPhone (emulator)
- Base game
- Pokémon Crystal
- Version
- Beta v0.3.5
- Made by
- Ferropexola
About Pokemon Johto Legends
A broader Pokédex, the Fairy type, and the physical/special split give Pokémon Johto Legends a more modern Crystal-style battle experience. Ferropexola's English GBC beta v0.3.5 hack of Crystal adds newer moves, revised movepools, updated evolutions, reusable TMs, Key Item HMs, and optional Generation 6-style Exp. Share. It also improves daily rematches, swarms, berry storage, rock-smashing rewards, and battle AI. Pokémon can be checked for DVs, EVs, caught location, level, and friendship from expanded stat pages.
What's in it
- Includes 311 Pokémon from Generations 1–4, plus Sylveon, Cursola, and Skarmini, a Skarmory pre-evolution.
- Adds 395 moves from across the generations, including the original Steel Slice.
- Removes Beat Up, Bide, Conversion2, Frustration, and Nightmare to make room for more moves.
- Uses the physical/special split.
- Adds the Fairy type.
- Steel no longer resists Dark or Ghost.
- Ice resists Water and Electric as well as Ice.
- Raises the stats of many fully evolved Pokémon below 500 BST and gives some new type combinations.
- Replaces Stat Experience with EVs, capped at 510.
- Stat pages show DVs and EVs, plus caught time, location, level, and friendship on a fourth page.
- Updates most moves to match their current-generation counterparts.
- Uses movepools similar to their Generation 7 versions.
- Adds items such as Choice Band and Life Orb to the Battle Tower for Battle Points.
- Adds new evolution methods, including a Link Cable item for trade evolutions; items such as Metal Coat work like evolution stones.
- Gives every Poké Ball a unique sprite.
- Includes 70 TMs and 17 Move Tutor moves, with reusable TMs.
- Replaces HMs with Key Items.
- Makes Running Shoes available from the start.
- Removes the password requirement for resetting the time.
- Fixes multiple glitches, lets Apricorn Balls be bought in Ecruteak City, and makes every status affect catch rate.
- Raises Fast Ball's catch rate against faster Pokémon.
- Stops wild Pokémon from fleeing.
- Upgrades swarms, raises shiny odds for swarming Pokémon, and includes 10 swarms.
- Allows up to five berries from each tree.
- Adds a separate berry pouch and modern berry names.
- Lets rock smashing yield items, including revivable fossils.
- Allows daily Gym Leader rematches and unlimited rematches with trainers on some routes.
- Prevents AI status moves from failing 25% of the time and includes other minor AI fixes.
- The Hidden Power TM giver reveals a Pokémon's Hidden Power type.
- Makes experience and Exp. Share work like Generation 6, with Exp. Share toggleable at any time.
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