Includes a complete walkthrough of the vast new Pokémon world as well as tips and strategies to help you win the contests.

BradyGames' Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire Official Strategy Guide provides expert tactics to win all badges for both games! A step-by-step walkthrough taking gamers from start to finish. Solutions to the new puzzles, rosters for every new trainer, and more! Plus, tips to defeat every trainer and gym leader, coverage of the new Pokemon in each version, and how to catch, breed, and raise them!

On an accidental seafaring adventure in a submarine, Ruby discovers something mysterious deep beneath the waves. Then fishing nets him another Pokémon. But is his growing team bringing him closer to—or farther from—his dream? Next, Ruby must face his scariest opponent yet...his father! Meanwhile, Sapphire is having trouble getting in her quota of Gym battles. One Gym Leader wants to just hand her a badge without a proper fight! And another has been...kidnapped?! And how are Team Magma and Team Aqua responsible for Ruby and Sapphire’s difficulties? -- VIZ Media

Ruby is losing friends by the minute...! Why does Sapphire never want to see his face again? And why has one of Ruby’s Pokémon run away? Meanwhile, the Hoenn region is on the verge of destruction as two Legendary Pokémon clash in the depths of the ocean—and only Ruby knows how to reach them to intervene! Then, what will happen when evil Team Aqua and equally evil Team Magma team up?! -- VIZ Media

"Data on more than 700 Pok?mon!"--Amazon.com.

Awesome adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire video games! All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga! Ruby’s father Norman is the new Gym Leader of Petalburg City. But Ruby doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps—he wants to win Pokémon Contests! Sapphire’s father Professor Birch is the local Pokémon researcher. But Sapphire is tired of gathering scientific data—she wants to win Pokémon battles! When Ruby and Sapphire meet, they’re more likely to hit each other than hit it off. But then Sapphire challenges Ruby to a competition... Which of them will achieve their dreams in just eighty days?! Meanwhile, what dastardly plan is Team Aqua up to...and how does it involve Sapphire?!