Rules & what counts
Gen 3 Pokémon Quiz (Hoenn) — Rules & What Counts
Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald added 135 Pokémon — at the time the biggest expansion the series had seen. This quiz covers all of them, from #0252 Treecko to #0386 Deoxys.
Hoenn is famously self-contained: almost nothing here evolves from or into older Pokémon, so it's a pure test of one era. If you played Gen 3, the starters and the weather trio come back fast — the grind is the deep bench of sea-route fish, twin bug cocoons, and the two-headed psychic fossils.
How to play
- Type a Pokémon's name and its card reveals instantly; keep typing to chain answers without pausing.
- Hoenn names are punctuation-free, so spelling is the whole game — case and accents are ignored as always.
- The count-up timer starts on your first keystroke, and the run autosaves so you can't lose progress to a refresh.
- Hidden-sprite mode (Who's That Pokémon?) turns this into a pure recall run of all 135.
- Give Up ends the run and lists every Hoenn Pokémon you missed.
What counts in this quiz
- All 135 species numbered #0252–#0386, the full Hoenn Pokédex slice.
- Both of Wurmple's evolution branches count — Silcoon and Cascoon lead to two separate final forms, all four of them answers.
- The Regi trio, the weather trio, the Lati duo, and Mythicals Jirachi and Deoxys all count.
What's not included — and why
- Deoxys is one answer at #0386 — its Normal, Attack, Defense, and Speed formes never count separately.
- Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre are transformations, not species — the base names cover them.
- Mega Blaziken, Mega Gardevoir, and Hoenn's many other Megas (added later in Gen 6) fold into their base species.
Good to know
- Wurmple's evolution into Silcoon or Cascoon is decided by a hidden personality value — you can't influence it.
- Shedinja appears in your party with an empty Poké Ball when Nincada evolves, and it lives its whole life with exactly 1 HP.
- Slaking's base stats matched the legendary Groudon's — the catch is its ability makes it loaf every other turn.
- Wailord is 47 feet of Pokémon that somehow weighs less than water — it would float like a balloon.