Battle Frontier? What did you think?

[Ewan]

Hey Everyone! I was just wondering; what did you all think of the Battle Frontier in Emerald? Did you enjoy it? Did you not? Too Hard? Should have been in Ruby and Sapphire too? What do you think?

Personally, I think it's rather too hard, and at a rather in-appropriate stage of the game, with very little reward for your efforts. Although a good feature and everything, I think they should have tried to incorporate it into the story line a little bit, in order to progress with the game, so people feel motivated to continue through the Battle Frontier, instead of giving up (like me =P).

Also, how many people have actually gained all 7 gold frontier symbols? Just out of interest. ^_^

[Nem]

I've got 3 symbols! One from the Arena, One from the factory and one from the Pyramid.

One more thing before I end my post. Basically, the moves required in the story of the game are moves with more PP coz there are so many trainers to beat! Also our pokemon generally have a higher level than those of our opponents that's why these High PP/low damage moves work nicely.
But when it comes to taking something of our own size(lvl) it becomes tough beating those pokes. Here I recommend you using moves doing nice damage with quite a decent amount of PP and an accuracy atleast above 85. Anything below that is pass.

What you really need at the Battle frontier is STRATEGY. Without that, even the save/load can't help you!

Try this for instance, (caution - these strategies ought to be only used for the battle frontier)

Get yourself a Ninjask by evolving a Nincada. Teach it the moveset,

Ninjask

Baton Pass
Protect
Sword Dance
Substitute

keep him in the 1st place. When the battle starts, Ninjask goes in 1st. Use Protect for the 1st turn, Speed bost will add up to your speed, next use Substitute. then when your sub survives, use Sword Dance. When you use sword dance for 2-3 turns, your attack will be 6-9 times your normal attack! Added with an unbeatable speed boost! Now give a baton pass to a physical sweeper, like say, Metagross who knows Meteor Mash, Earthquake and other physical moves. Now this metagross has an unbeatable speed and a devastating attack.

That's something us can use anywhere in the battle frontier! Massively devastating!

[Ewan]

Wow Thanks for all that strategy =) Maybe i'll try it out at some point if i can be motivated to give the battle frontier anoher hot! XD

[slaking]

I got 2 symbols:FACTORY and PIKE

I just used

I think BF is gr8!!!! It really adds more of a challenge to the game than just those stupid gym leaders & E4.

[Maxedge]

WICKED!!
I got none.....and I must have won in each area say about 10 times!!!!