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Pokemon Emerald Rustboro City Walkthrough

Stone Badge

Rustboro City section for the Pokemon Emerald walkthrough with wild Pokemon, trainers, items, coordinates, requirements, and strategy notes.

By Damodar Sharma Updated June 18, 2026 Walkthrough

Rustboro City is a dedicated section page for Phase 1: Stone Badge. Pick up HM01 Cut, check Trainer School items, prepare a Rock answer, and enter the first Gym.

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Phase 1 asset set

Stone Badge: Starter choice, early catches, Petalburg Woods, Rustboro City, and Roxanne.

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Route Plan

Primary source maps covered here: Rustboro City, Rustboro City Pokemon School, Rustboro City Cutters House, Rustboro City Devon Corp 1F, Rustboro City Devon Corp 2F, Rustboro City Devon Corp 3F, Rustboro City Mart. Follow this page as its own checklist, then return to the phase index when the wild Pokemon, trainers, items, and boss notes are complete.

Wild Pokemon

No wild Pokemon encounter table is sourced for this section.

Trainers

Order Area Trainer Team Reward Notes
1 Rustboro City Pokemon Trainer May 900 Story/route battle.
2 Rustboro City Pokemon Trainer May 900 Story/route battle.
3 Rustboro City Pokemon Trainer May 900 Story/route battle.
4 Rustboro City Pokemon Trainer Brendan 900 Story/route battle.
5 Rustboro City Pokemon Trainer Brendan 900 Story/route battle.
6 Rustboro City Pokemon Trainer Brendan 900 Story/route battle.

Items

Item Type Location Requirement / flag context
X Defend Visible Rustboro City, on the southeast side at map coordinates (36,51) RUSTBORO CITY X DEFEND
Great Ball Gift / reward Rustboro City, Return Goods NPC gift or story reward
Quick Claw Gift / reward Rustboro City Pokemon School, Teacher NPC gift or story reward
HM01 Cut Gift / reward Rustboro City Cutters House, Cutter NPC gift or story reward
Letter Gift / reward Rustboro City Devon Corp 3F, Meet President NPC gift or story reward
EXP Share Gift / reward Rustboro City Devon Corp 3F, Give Exp Share NPC gift or story reward

Completion Checklist

  • Clear the main objective: Pick up HM01 Cut, check Trainer School items, prepare a Rock answer, and enter the first Gym.
  • Review every wild Pokemon method listed for the section.
  • Fight or deliberately skip every trainer listed in route order.
  • Collect visible items, hidden items, and scripted rewards you care about before moving on.

Source Notes

  • Source of truth: pret/pokeemerald wild_encounters.json, map map.json object/background events, map scripts.inc, trainers.h, and trainer_parties.h.
  • Encounter odds are aggregated by species and method from Emerald slot rates. Most rows are marked Any time because Emerald has no normal day/night wild encounter split.
  • Pokemon table sprites use locally cached Emerald front sprites from /guides/pokemon-emerald-pokemon-sprites.json.