What Pokémon Crystal Legacy changes

How the game plays differently from Pokémon Crystal, then every stat, type and ability it alters next to what the official games do.

How the game plays

Pokémon Crystal Legacy is TheSmithPlays' rebalance of Pokémon Crystal, built from the game's own disassembled source code with Craig Livingstone (cRz Shadows) as programmer. The creator's own stated goal is a more polished, better-balanced Crystal that keeps Generation 2's feel, changing things only where the original design already sets a precedent — moves, learnsets, wild Pokémon locations, the Team Rocket storyline, the rival's team and every trainer from ordinary battles up through the Gym Leaders, Elite Four and other bosses. Chuck, Jasmine and Pryce, Johto's non-linear middle badges, now scale their own teams and levels depending on whether you have 5, 6 or 7 badges when you get there, whichever order you fight them in. Several Kanto-only Generation 2 Pokémon are now catchable in Johto, Generation 1's trade evolutions (Machoke, Kadabra, Haunter, Graveler and the rest) now happen by levelling up, and Generation 2's trade-item evolutions (King's Rock and the like) now work by simply using the item, the way an evolution stone always has. Ghost moves are special here and Dark moves are physical, the reverse of the original Crystal. An optional Hard Mode (and a stricter Hardcore Mode) forces Set battle style, bans non-held items in battle, and puts a rising level cap on your own team, gym by gym; Normal play has no cap. This guide is generated from the creator's own source tree at tag V1.3.1.

The main changes

• Every ordinary trainer, Gym Leader, Elite Four member and Champion rebalanced with fuller teams, held items and more varied movepools
• Chuck, Jasmine and Pryce — Johto's non-linear 5th/6th/7th badges — scale their team and levels to whichever order you fight them in
• Several Kanto-only Generation 2 Pokémon (Houndour and others) added to Johto's own routes
• Generation 1's trade evolutions (Machoke, Kadabra, Haunter, Graveler, Poliwhirl's line and the rest) now happen by levelling up instead of trading
• Generation 2's trade-item evolutions (King's Rock and the like) now work by using the item, like any other evolution stone
• Ghost moves are special and Dark moves are physical, the reverse of the original Crystal's category split
• A rebuilt Team Rocket storyline and rival team
• Fossils and the GS Ball made obtainable, and evolution items easier to find
• An optional Hard Mode and stricter Hardcore Mode, each with a rising level cap on your own team tied to badge count, chosen once at New Game

How the Pokémon change

Measured from the guide's own data, so it can't drift from the pages it links to.

Compared against present-day official data. The Fairy type and hidden abilities arrived after Pokémon Crystal, so a difference here can belong to the series rather than to this hack.

Evolution methods for all 113 species →

Base stat changes (63)

	Pokémon	What changed	Total
	Butterfree	Sp. Atk 90→80	395→385
	Beedrill	Attack 90→80	395→385
	Pidgeot	Speed 101→91	479→469
	Ekans	HP 35→40, Attack 60→65, Speed 55→60	288→303
	Arbok	HP 60→62, Speed 80→90	448→460
	Raichu	Speed 110→100	485→475
	Nidoqueen	Attack 92→82	505→495
	Nidoking	Attack 102→92	505→495
	Vulpix	HP 38→45, Defense 40→45, Sp. Atk 50→60, Sp. Def 65→70, Speed 65→75	299→336
	Ninetales	HP 73→78, Attack 76→71, Defense 75→80, Sp. Atk 81→86	505→515
	Wigglytuff	Defense 45→55, Sp. Def 50→55	435→450
	Oddish	HP 45→50	320→325
	Gloom	HP 60→70	395→405
	Vileplume	HP 75→90, Defense 85→95, Sp. Atk 110→100	490→505
	Venomoth	Attack 65→75, Sp. Atk 90→95, Speed 90→100	450→475
	Dugtrio	Attack 100→90	425→415
	Poliwrath	Attack 95→85	510→500
	Alakazam	Sp. Def 95→85	500→490
	Victreebel	Sp. Def 70→60	490→480
	Golem	Attack 120→110	495→485
	Ponyta	Speed 90→100	410→420
	Rapidash	Speed 105→115	500→510
	Farfetch'd	Attack 90→65	377→352
	Dodrio	Speed 110→100	470→460
	Dewgong	Attack 70→60, Sp. Atk 70→80	475→475
	Shellder	HP 30→35	305→310
	Electrode	Speed 150→140	490→480
	Exeggutor	Sp. Def 75→65	530→520
	Marowak	HP 60→65	425→430
	Hitmonlee	Defense 53→58	455→460
	Hitmonchan	Speed 76→81	455→460
	Lickitung	HP 90→95, Attack 55→70, Defense 75→85, Sp. Atk 60→75, Sp. Def 75→85	385→440
	Weezing	HP 65→75	490→500
	Magmar	HP 65→75, Attack 95→85	495→495
	Flareon	Sp. Atk 95→110, Sp. Def 110→95	525→525
	Furret	Sp. Atk 45→55	415→425
	Noctowl	Sp. Atk 86→76	452→442
	Ledian	HP 55→75	390→410
	Ariados	Sp. Atk 60→70, Speed 40→80	400→450
	Togetic	HP 55→85, Attack 40→50	405→445
	Ampharos	Defense 85→75	510→500
	Bellossom	HP 75→90	490→505
	Azumarill	Sp. Atk 60→70	420→430
	Sudowoodo	HP 70→80, Sp. Def 65→85	410→440
	Jumpluff	Sp. Def 95→85	460→450
	Aipom	HP 55→70, Attack 70→90, Defense 55→65, Sp. Def 55→65, Speed 85→90	360→420
	Sunflora	Sp. Atk 105→125	425→445
	Yanma	HP 65→75, Attack 65→105, Defense 45→65, Sp. Atk 75→65	390→450
	Quagsire	Sp. Atk 65→75, Sp. Def 65→75	430→450
	Murkrow	HP 60→70, Attack 85→105, Defense 42→52, Sp. Atk 85→76, Sp. Def 42→52, Speed 91→95	405→450
	Misdreavus	Sp. Atk 85→95, Sp. Def 85→95, Speed 85→90	435→460
	Gligar	HP 65→70, Attack 75→85, Speed 85→90	430→450
	Qwilfish	HP 65→75, Sp. Atk 55→65, Sp. Def 55→75	440→480
	Sneasel	Sp. Atk 35→70	430→465
	Slugma	HP 40→50, Attack 40→70, Defense 40→60, Sp. Def 40→60	250→330
	Magcargo	Attack 50→80, Defense 120→130	430→470
	Swinub	HP 50→80, Attack 50→65, Sp. Atk 30→65, Sp. Def 30→40	250→340
	Piloswine	Sp. Atk 60→80, Sp. Def 60→70	450→480
	Corsola	HP 65→85	410→430
	Delibird	HP 45→60, Attack 55→75, Defense 45→55, Sp. Atk 65→85, Speed 75→80	330→400
	Mantine	HP 85→65, Attack 40→50	485→475
	Hitmontop	Speed 70→75	455→460
	Entei	Attack 115→90, Sp. Atk 90→115	580→580

Type changes (13)

	Pokémon	Was	Now
	Clefairy	Fairy	Normal
	Clefable	Fairy	Normal
	Jigglypuff	Normal / Fairy	Normal
	Wigglytuff	Normal / Fairy	Normal
	Mr. Mime	Psychic / Fairy	Psychic
	Cleffa	Fairy	Normal
	Igglybuff	Normal / Fairy	Normal
	Togepi	Fairy	Normal
	Togetic	Fairy / Flying	NormalFlying
	Marill	Water / Fairy	Water
	Azumarill	Water / Fairy	Water
	Snubbull	Fairy	Normal
	Granbull	Fairy	Normal