Rank every Pokémon in your Gamma Emerald run from S to D, drag them into place, and export a clean image to share. Built for the HD-2D remake's modern Physical/Special split — plan the team before you catch it.
Because Gamma Emerald uses the modern Physical/Special split, a Pokémon's best moves now follow its higher attacking stat — which quietly reshuffles who's worth a team slot versus the 2005 original. Here's the Hoenn roster grouped by the job each one does best. Tap any name to copy it into your notes.
Roles are based on each Pokémon's real stats and typing, not a ranking — where they land on YOUR board is the whole point of the tool above.
Gamma Emerald is a faithful HD-2D remake of Pokémon Emerald by fan developer UndreamedPanic, built in Unreal Engine and released as free Early Access. The facts that actually change your tier list:
In the original 2005 Emerald, a move's damage class came from its type, so physical attackers stuck with special Fire/Water/Grass moves were held back. Gamma Emerald uses the modern split, so Sharpedo, Crawdaunt, Salamence and Absol hit far harder than veterans remember. Rank them up.
The Early Access build runs Littleroot to Mauville, so the Pokémon you can actually catch early — Ralts, Shroomish, Zigzagoon, the Wingull line — matter more right now than a late-route legendary you can't reach yet.
As a faithful Emerald remake the type threats are familiar: Rock, Fighting, Electric, Fire, Normal, Flying, Psychic and Water gyms. A Pokémon that covers several of those climbs a tier; a one-trick type drops.
Lots of players run Gamma Emerald as a Nuzlocke. For those runs, bulk and reliability beat glass-cannon speed — Slaking's downside, Shedinja's single-HP gimmick and status-prone sweepers all shift down a tier.
Metagross and Salamence are monsters, but they arrive late and evolve slowly. If your list is a run-planner, keep power and availability as two mental axes so a pseudo-legendary doesn't crowd out an early workhorse.
Hit Export PNG to save your board, then re-tier after a few gyms and compare. Seeing what over- and under-performed is the fastest way to sharpen your next team.
Most “Gamma Emerald tier list” pages hand you a frozen ranking made by one stranger and call it a day. That's backwards. The team that carries your run depends on your starter, your play style and whether you're Nuzlocking — so this page gives you the board and the reasoning to rank it yourself, then export the result. Here's the thinking that separates an S-tier pick from a bench-warmer in this specific remake.
The single biggest change from 2005 Emerald is the Physical/Special split — and it rewrites half the tier list.
In the original Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald, whether a move did physical or special damage was decided by its type, not the move. That quietly ruined a lot of Pokémon: a hard-hitting physical attacker like Sharpedo or Crawdaunt was stuck firing off Water-type moves from its weaker Special Attack. Gamma Emerald uses the modern split, where each move carries its own damage class. Suddenly Crunch, Waterfall, Aqua Jet, Dragon Claw and Poison Jab all run off Attack — and the physical bruisers of Hoenn become genuinely scary. If you're porting a ranking in your head from the GBA days, promote the physical attackers before you do anything else.
The current Early Access build takes you from Littleroot Town to Mauville City, roughly three to six hours of play. That means the practical question isn't “is Metagross good?” (it is) but “what can I catch and evolve before the run stops?” Early Hoenn staples do the heavy lifting: Ralts on Route 102 becomes a Gardevoir that walls and sweeps special attackers; Shroomish in Petalburg Woods turns into Breloom, one of the best physical attackers in the game with the split; the humble Zigzagoon line gives you early utility. Rank the Pokémon you can actually field now near the top of a run-planning board, and keep the late pseudo-legendaries in a separate mental bucket.
Because Gamma Emerald is a faithful remake, the type challenges ahead are the familiar Hoenn run: a Rock gym, a Fighting gym, an Electric gym, a Fire gym, the Normal-type family battle, a Flying gym, the Psychic double battle, and a Water finale before the Elite Four. The Pokémon that earn an S on a practical board are the ones that answer several of those at once. A Swampert (Water/Ground) shrugs off Electric entirely and pressures Rock, Fire and the Normal gym; a Gardevoir handles Fighting and Psychic threats; an Altaria or Salamence blankets several mid-game routes. Coverage across the gauntlet is worth more than a single spectacular matchup.
A big share of Gamma Emerald's audience — just look at the Nuzlocke playthroughs filling YouTube — plays with permadeath. If that's you, the tier list bends toward reliability. Glass cannons that need to outspeed to survive drop; bulky Pokémon that can eat a surprise crit climb. Slaking's Truant ability, which forces it to loaf every other turn, becomes a real liability when one bad turn ends a life. Shedinja's Wonder Guard is either an S-tier trivializer or a dead slot depending on what the next trainer carries. Status-prone sweepers slide down. Rank for the run you're actually playing.
Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip are the three classic Hoenn starters, and Gamma Emerald keeps them. On a pure power board, Mudkip → Swampert tends to top starter rankings for its brilliant defensive typing and the way it neutralizes the early Electric threat, while Torchic → Blaziken is the aggressive Fire/Fighting sweeper that loves the physical split, and Treecko → Sceptile is the fast special attacker that rewards careful play. None is a wrong pick — which is exactly why a personal tier list beats a one-size ranking. Slot your starter where it earned its place in your game.
Everything above is reasoning, not a verdict — the verdict is yours to drag into place on the board at the top of this page. Rank the roster, export the PNG, and post it in a Gamma Emerald thread or your Nuzlocke channel to see who agrees. Because the export is a plain image and the picks are just Pokémon names, your tier list travels anywhere the community gathers, from Reddit to Discord to a YouTube community tab.
Gamma Emerald is actively developed by UndreamedPanic — new Early Access builds, encounter changes and fixes land regularly, and any of them can shift your rankings. A quick sanity-check before you finalize a board.
Live feed from Gamma Emerald developer @UndreamedPanic on X.
It's a free drag-and-drop tool for ranking the Pokémon in Gamma Emerald from S (best) down to D. You place each Pokémon into a tier, the board saves in your browser, and you can export it as an image to share — perfect for planning a team or comparing picks with the community.
Tap a Pokémon in the pool, then tap a tier row (S–D) to drop it there. On desktop you can also drag and drop. Tap any ranked Pokémon to send it back to the pool. When you're happy, hit Export PNG.
Yes — your board is stored locally in your own browser, so it's still there when you come back on the same device. It isn't uploaded anywhere and nobody else can see it unless you export and share the image.
It's a fan-made HD-2D remake of Pokémon Emerald by developer UndreamedPanic, built in Unreal Engine and released as free Early Access on Windows. The current build covers roughly Littleroot Town to Mauville City.
The biggest change is the modern Physical/Special split: a move's damage class now comes from the move itself, not its type. That makes physical attackers like Sharpedo, Crawdaunt, Salamence and Absol much stronger than they were in 2005, so they deserve higher tiers.
No. The developer has said Mega Evolution is intentionally excluded because it wasn't part of the original Pokémon Emerald, so you don't need to factor Megas into your rankings.
All three classic Hoenn starters are available. Swampert is prized for its defensive typing and Electric immunity, Blaziken is a physical Fire/Fighting sweeper that loves the split, and Sceptile is a fast special attacker. There's no wrong choice — rank your own on the board.
Absolutely. Many players Nuzlocke Gamma Emerald. For those runs, rank bulk and reliability higher and drop fragile, status-prone sweepers — then export the board as your run guide.
The board ships with the Hoenn roster and S–D tiers. You rank from that pool; the pool covers the Pokémon you'll realistically use across a Gamma Emerald run, including the starter final forms and the legendaries.
Completely free, with no sign-up and no download. Everything runs in your browser, nothing you do is uploaded, and you can export and re-rank as many boards as you like.