[quote name='A Happy Panda']Ahhhhhhhh.
Sorry for more questions but I swear this is the last one......maybe.
So my plan was to get three games: Leaf Green, Emerald, and Pearl.
But from reading this thread, and some other sites, I'm getting the impression that you can get most, if not all the Pokemon in Leaf Green through breeding OR trading. Is this correct?
But I'm pretty sure that the ability to transfer Pokemon from Emerald to Pearl is essential, and a good purchase if I wanted to catch all #493? Please tell me if I'm correct here, I'm try to spend the least amount of money to get the most amount of Pokemans.[/quote]
my opinion - you can most likely get the ones you'd like off of us fellow CAGs with some requests. breeding would help get them across to you in this way. however, playing through leaf green would be a nice introduction to the "first game", even though it is remade.
emerald is the best of the ruby/sapphire set with the ability to catch both legendaries on one cart (i believe), and you can breed better with the abilities such as slugma's "magma armor" and use everstones to get natures passed on.