What Pokémon Overcomplicated changes

27 types, and up to three on a Pokémon

The 18 official types are joined by nine new ones: Gym1, Shouleil, Light, Furry, On, Money, Fake, King and Lance. A species can carry one, two or three at once — of the 1,025 pages here, 232 carry three, 481 carry two and 312 carry one.

The site's colour coding knows the 18 official types; the nine new ones show as plain grey chips.

Nine species (the Togepi and Ralts lines, Wormadam, Oricorio, Urshifu and Ogerpon) have one type slot the sheet leaves as an unfilled placeholder rather than a type name; that page says so and counts only the types the sheet actually gives.

The type chart, type by type

The creator's full chart, one row per type: what its attacks hit for double damage or worse, what resists them and what they do nothing to; then the other way round — what that type is weak to, resists and is immune to.

Mystery match-ups aside, this chart is complete: every one of the 27 x 27 cells the sheet defines has a real multiplier, not a blank.

14 new stats, described but not numbered

Alongside the original HP, Attack, Defense, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def and Speed, this game adds 14 more. The sheet explains what each one does in the abstract; it does not give a value for any of them on any species, so none of this shows on a species page as a number — the stat bars a reader sees are still only the original six.

The creator's own FAQ says plainly that the original six were not touched: "not a single stat was changed at all except for the added 14 new cool ones." That is the one place this guide fills a gap from the official games rather than the hack's own numbers, and it is done because the creator's documentation says the gap is safe to fill that way.

20 new abilities

Twenty brand-new abilities, each with a one-line effect. Most species' innate list is built from existing official abilities instead, reused as always-on traits rather than the one ability you'd normally pick; these 20 are the minority that are new inventions, and a species page glosses any of its innates that match one.

Up to three abilities, all active at once

The official games let you pick one ability from a species' short list. This game keeps that list but turns every slot on at the same time — a Pokémon with three innate abilities has all three running, not one of three. That is a different mechanic from a simple ability swap, so this guide does not try to say a species "gained" or "lost" an ability compared with the official games; it only lists what is innate here.

The multi-ability engine itself is credited by the creator to another developer, bassforte123, whose trait-system branch of pokeemerald-expansion this game builds on.

The creator's FAQ also says a species keeps its innate abilities on evolution, except in Generation 1, where a custom ability was hand-picked for almost every species in that generation on its own.

29 moves that carry two types at once

These moves are dual-typed in this game, something the in-game menus can't show, so the creator wrote out a separate list. The site's own move table only colours a move by one type, so each one's colour chip shows the first of the two; both are named in the table and on the move's own line.

Other changes the creator's FAQ confirms

Facts pulled from the creator's own FAQ tab, not the walkthrough or story text, which are mostly unchanged from the original Emerald.

14 story fights, and one the creator never finished

Full teams — species, level, held item and all four moves — are published for the eight gym leaders, three of the four Elite Four members (Phoebe, Glacia and Drake) and the champion fight, which this game gives to Lance in place of Steven and Wallace. Tate and Liza fight together in Mossdeep as one double battle and are listed as a single six-Pokémon team.

Sidney, the first Elite Four member, is the exception. The sheet lists six species for his team, but every one is written as a guess ("Prolly a Cinderace," "maybe a Kilowattrel," and so on) with no level and no moves given for any of them, unlike the other 13 fights. That is not a documented roster, so it is left off the trainers list here rather than shown with invented numbers.

No trainer outside these 14 fights has a published team.