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Last I played was emerald beta 2.2

I got past the fifth gym at least but then stopped indefinitely. Kotohime which I caught early proved to be ridiculously useful as a meatshield just for the high hp, yawn and headbutt, which helped me survive the more ridiculous fights.
Patchouli I also got early on, but didn't end up that great. Despite the elemental variety, shit like earthquake and flamethrower, she was hindered for emerald not having the atk/sp.atk split for moves.
Parsee was great though. Although dark ghost isn't lacking in weaknesses in this (since steel is super effective against dark type), her stats were just superb all around. I wound up flooring the entirety of Yukari's touhous with her despite being five levels under most of them.

Although, Parsee's also the reason I stopped. When she hit EX, every level after she wanted to evolve into her xmas form, and I was up in the air about whether I wanted that or not, since, she lost some of her physical defense for sp.def.

Ah well, what're the changes in 1.8 for emerald?