Catching more Legendary Pokemon

Learn how to catch Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza in Pokemon Emerald. Includes locations and strategies for these powerful legendaries.

Groudon

To catch Groudon, you need to go to the Weather Institute. On the second floor, talk to the scientist near the computer who tracks strange weather. He'll tell you a drought was recorded on a specific route. This means the Terra Cave has been formed in that route and Groudon is in it. You have to get there as fast as you can, otherwise the cave will move to a different spot. Possible cave locations include:

• Route 114, at the top of the waterfall in the NW corner
• Route 114, near the Meteor Falls entrance
• Route 115, at the top of the steps where all of the trainers are in the far north part
• Route 115, at the top of a slope next to the above location (requires Mach Bike)
• Route 116, to the top of the steps and to the right of the Rusturf Tunnel
• Route 116, at the top of the steps near the guy looking for his glasses
• Route 118, to the west of the body of water
• Route 118, to the east of the body of water (near Route 119 entrance)

Once you find it, go inside and save your game. Walk up to Groudon and fight him. With Groudon, sunny day will be in effect all battle, but his one turn Solarbeam shouldn't be a problem since he's ground type. Get his health down as low as you can and paralyze/put him to sleep. After, keep tossing Ultra/Timer Balls until you finally capture him.

Kyogre

The process of catching Kyogre is the same as Groudon. Talk to the same scientist in the Weather Institute and he'll tell you where heavy rainfall is being recorded. When this happens in a specific route, a new patch of dark water forms in the route for a short period of time, which allows you to Dive (use the HM to swim underwater) under and go inside the Marine Cave. If not, it will switch to somewhere else. Possible locations include:

• Route 105, to the south of the cave where Regice is found
• Route 105, to the east of the biggest island that has trainers on them
• Route 125, to the north and west of the Shoal Cave
• Route 125, to the east of the patches of islands to the right of the Shoal Cave
• Route 127, to the north of the island with 3 fishermen on it.
• Route 127, to the south of the island with 3 fishermen on it (must go around the rocks to get to it).
• Route 129, in the extreme southeast corner.
• Route 129, in the central of the route next to a swimmer.

Once you find the dark patch, dive down it and save your game. Underwater, enter the cave and then swim across the water to get to another cave entrance. Save your game and then get to Kyogre, and then battle it.

Kyogre has an ability called Drizzle, which puts rain dance in effect all battle. If you have Thunder, use it to severely weaken him. Also, grass attacks will be effective. One move it has is called Shear Cold, which if it hits, one hit knocks out your Pokemon. It also has rest, which will put it to sleep for two turns and recover all of its health. It's got Hydro Pump as well as Double Edge, so you're in for a beating if you make a mistake.

Try to put it to sleep yourself and whittle down its HP. Heal your Pokemon if needed and bring plenty of Ultra and Timer Balls, and after a long, tiresome fight, you'll eventually catch it.

Rayquaza

Rayquaza can be captured after you free him and settle down the Sootopolis City crisis between Groudon and Kyogre. He is located in the Sky Pillar and the Mach Bike is required. But this time, getting to him will be much more difficult. Because of the earthquake he caused when you woke him up, the floor tiles have crippled, so one step on them will make you fall down to the previous floor. Also, even with the Mach Bike, it is pretty tough to climb up, as you'll need a fast reaction time to get past some of the nasty corners.

Once you enter the Sky Pillar, go up to the northeast corner of the room. On the second floor, equip your Mach Bike and speed past the first two sets of the crippled floors. Now head left and once you get to the southwest corner of the room, immediately head up north and get up the staircase to the third floor, or else you may fall through.

On the third floor, all you need to do is walk around the room to get to the next staircase onto the third floor. The fourth floor is really a pain and it can take several tries. Without stopping, use your Mach Bike to get clockwise around the room, being sure to avoid the rocks in your way. The staircase to the next floor is blocked off. On the north central part of the room, you'll see 4 crippled floors. Get past the first one and fall through either the second of the third tile. Down here, head up the staircase in front of you. Up here, go up the staircase to your left. Now go counter clockwise around the room to another staircase, and you'll be at the floor where Rayquaza is waiting for you.

Save your game and let the battle begin.

Rayquaza is at level 70 and is Dragon/Flying, so bring either a Dragon, Ice, or Rock Pokemon. Its four attacks are Rest, Outrage, Extremespeed, and Fly. The first thing you want to do is put it to sleep and bring down its health. If it wakes up and uses rest, use a powerful attack to bring it down to at least orange/red health. If it uses Outrage, it will use the attack for 2-3 turns, but will become confused afterward. When it uses fly, your best bet is to heal yourself while it's in the air.

Once you have it to sleep and low health, keep tossing Ultra or Timer balls and eventually you'll succeed. Best part is, you can get this Pokemon with the Elite Four and use it for your lineup or backup purposes.

Regirock/Regice/Registeel

Before you can even capture these three Pokemon, you must solve a puzzle to unlock the chambers they are resting in. First off, you'll need a Pokemon that knows Dig (use the HM to tunnel underground), as well as Wailord and Relicanth. Also, be sure you have someone that's got Dive (use the HM to swim underwater).