Today I started working toward catching all the rest of the Legendary Pokemon in Sapphire. My efforts started with getting to the Secret Chamber and unlocking the path to all three golems. To get to the Secret Chamber to begin with, you have to have Relicanth, Wailord, AND Pokemon that know Surf, Dive, and Dig. After you have all that, you've gotta travel through strong currents, going through a specific way to find a small spot you can dive down to, and then climb back up at the end of a tunnel to the Chamber.
When you get there, there's a lot of Braille on these huge rock walls, I think the alphabet, so you can translate the text on the walls in the next room. When you've read through the text (just pressed A on each one) there will suddenly be a small earthquake, and doors open to three oddly shaped stone structures. When that's all done, it's just a matter of entering each chamber, performing the necessary task to open the door to the Golem's chamber, then going up to it and starting the battle.
The first of the Legendary Golems I fought was Regirock, the Rock Golem, in the desert area along Route 111. My Pokemon are all leveled above the Golems, so I made sure to save before the fight in case I knocked it out. I made sure to have a bunch of Ultra Balls and some Timer Balls too, knowing that Ultras aren't going to be enough.
I went in there, started the battle, and sent out Abel (Gardevoir, Psychic, Lv. 51) to fight it. Regirock was pretty tough, but a Psychic attack and a Confusion attack got it down low on health. I then had him use Hypnosis to put it to sleep, and then I started on the Ultra Balls. Of course, even with low health and asleep, those Ultra Balls didn't do much; a few times, it'd shake a couple times before popping open, other times it'd break open after one, and once it shook three times before failing.
Regirock woke up, and attacked with Ancient Power, and built itself up with Curse. I put it to sleep with Hypnosis again, then went through and used a few more Ultra Balls before I started on Timer Balls. It woke up again and then attacked, and Abel got knocked out. I switched over to Spike (Roselia, Grass/Poison, Lv. 46), and had him use Grasswhistle to put Regirock to sleep again. I used a few more Timer Balls, and finally got the capture.
Second one I went for was Registeel. I sent out Crimson (Blaziken, Fire/Fighting, Lv. 52) to use a Blaze Kick and get Registeel right down into the red in one blow, then I sent out Abel to use Hypnosis and put it to sleep. I went ahead and threw a few Ultra Balls, unsuccessfully, had to use Hypnosis again, then used a few more Ultra Balls, then Hypnosis, then more Ultra Balls, then some Timer Balls... I used up a lot of Poke' Balls, and decided to do a reset because it's far too expensive to buy so many more for the last one. I started out as before, sent out Crimson with Blaze Kick and then Able with Hypnosis, and just a few Ultra Balls were able to get me the capture.
Third and last was Regice, and it was pretty easy to capture as well, but I started out worried I wouldn't be able to capture it at all. The way to open the door to the inner chamber is to read the Braille, and then wait two minutes without touching the game; my internal clock battery on the cartridge died a while ago, so I was worried I might not be able to open the door. Fortunately, the game knows how long I play, so the door opened as expected.
I went in there, brought Regice down to the red, had Abel use Hypnosis to put it to sleep, and then just six or seven Ultra Balls and I got it done.
Now it's just time to find Latias and Rayquaza.
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