What Pokémon: Wild Indigo changes

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

How the game plays

Pokémon: Wild Indigo was built for TARC 3, a themed ROM hacking competition, on the puzzle theme. You play a space-trucker stranded on a strange planet after your ship goes down, watching your air supply and exploring outward from the landing site to work out what happened and what lives here. The planet holds its own fakemon, Dulroc, a rock-and-psychic Pokémon found in its canyons that can be evolved into Solrock with a Sun Stone, alongside a run of Pokémon the creator gave new types and stats of their own — Steelix as a Dragon-type, Metagross as Water and Fighting, Lunatone as Ice and Fairy among them. Four wild Pokémon act as the planet's own boss fights, met and battled directly out in the open rather than behind a trainer, and the story ends in a lab holding the planet's real secret and a four-on-four battle against its source. This guide reads all of that straight out of the game's own published source files, the only documentation that exists for it — there is no separate guide or wiki from the team.

The main changes

• One new Pokémon, Dulroc, discovered in the planet's canyons and able to evolve into Solrock
• A run of existing Pokémon with their own new types and stats for this game — Steelix, Metagross, Lunatone, Regiclypse and others among them
• Four wild Pokémon fought and caught directly out in the open as the planet's own boss fights, plus a four-on-four battle at the story's end
• An Oxygen and Air Canister system: watch your air on the planet's surface and refill it before it runs out
• A fully overworld-placed set of wild Pokémon on most of the planet's surface, each one an individually placed encounter rather than a random pool
• Built on the pokeemerald-expansion engine, with the full modern movepool and type chart

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 Emerald, so a difference here can belong to the series rather than to this hack.

Evolution methods for all 12 species →

Base stat changes (20)

	Pokémon	What changed	Total
	Venusaur	Attack 82→80, Defense 83→85, Sp. Atk 100→80	525→505
	Charizard	HP 78→85, Speed 100→110	534→551
	Clefairy	Speed 35→75	323→363
	Clefable	HP 95→105, Defense 73→90, Sp. Atk 95→100, Sp. Def 90→100, Speed 60→75	483→540
	Dragonite	Sp. Atk 100→134, Sp. Def 100→110, Speed 80→90	600→654
	Quagsire	HP 95→105, Attack 85→90, Defense 85→90, Sp. Atk 65→90, Sp. Def 65→110, Speed 35→25	430→510
	Steelix	HP 75→65, Attack 85→110, Defense 200→180, Sp. Atk 55→45, Sp. Def 65→80, Speed 30→70	510→550
	Shuckle	Attack 10→70, Sp. Atk 10→70	505→625
	Teddiursa	HP 60→70, Defense 50→65, Sp. Atk 50→40, Sp. Def 50→65, Speed 40→65	330→385
	Ursaring	Defense 75→85, Sp. Def 75→85, Speed 55→75	500→540
	Kingdra	Attack 95→105, Sp. Atk 95→105, Speed 85→95	540→570
	Sableye	Sp. Def 65→75, Speed 50→60	380→400
	Lunatone	HP 90→70, Defense 65→75, Sp. Atk 95→115, Speed 70→75	460→475
	Solrock	Attack 95→110, Sp. Def 65→85	460→495
	Metagross	Attack 135→110, Sp. Atk 95→100, Sp. Def 90→100, Speed 70→60	600→580
	Deoxys	HP 50→60, Attack 150→120, Defense 50→80, Sp. Atk 150→120, Sp. Def 50→80, Speed 150→90	600→550
	Dusknoir	HP 45→70, Attack 100→65, Defense 135→100, Sp. Atk 65→95, Sp. Def 135→100, Speed 45→55	525→485
	Excadrill	Defense 60→70, Sp. Def 65→75, Speed 88→90	508→530
	Haxorus	Attack 147→135, Defense 90→80, Speed 97→85	540→506
	Ursaluna	HP 130→110, Attack 140→100, Defense 105→90, Sp. Def 80→85, Speed 50→40	550→470

Type changes (4)

	Pokémon	Was	Now
	Steelix	Steel / Ground	Dragon
	Shuckle	Bug / Rock	BugPsychic
	Lunatone	Rock / Psychic	IceFairy
	Metagross	Steel / Psychic	WaterFighting

Ability changes (18)

	Pokémon	Gains	Loses
	Venusaur	Poison Point	Overgrow
	Charizard	Drought	Blaze, Solar Power
	Clefable	Serene Grace	Cute Charm, Magic Guard
	Staryu	—	Illuminate, Analytic
	Ditto	—	Limber
	Quagsire	—	Damp, Water Absorb
	Steelix	Multiscale	Rock Head, Sturdy, Sheer Force
	Shuckle	Regenerator	Sturdy, Gluttony
	Teddiursa	—	Quick Feet, Honey Gather
	Ursaring	—	Quick Feet
	Sableye	—	Keen Eye, Stall
	Lunatone	Snow Warning	Levitate
	Solrock	Drought	Levitate
	Metagross	Battle Armor	Clear Body
	Deoxys	Telepathy	Pressure
	Dusknoir	Moody	Pressure, Frisk
	Excadrill	—	Sand Rush, Sand Force
	Ursaluna	Early Bird	Guts, Bulletproof, Unnerve