Is my Battle Frontier predicament salvageable or should I restart Emerald?
Hello! Sorry if this post is more on the elaborate side:
I have never bothered with the Battle Frontier before, and I've always opted out of going there whenever I'd do a casual playthrough of Pokémon Emerald. My current playthrough, though, is for RetroAchievements, and I'm required to get all of Scott's rewards and also get all the Gold Symbols in order to complete my playthrough.
The problem is that I prematurely used up the best TMs in the game without realizing they'd come in handy for the Battle Frontier, and so a lot of the recommended teams and Pokémon I've seen in several guides aren't available to me (e.g. Earthquake, Toxic, Shadow Ball). I have every Pokémon attainable in Emerald itself, but I don't have the capability to trade let alone have FR/LG to work with, and the ones I have been messing with just aren't working out so far (Breloom, Walrein, Magneton, Heracross, to name a few)
So I guess what I'm asking is, can you make good Battle Frontier teams even without TMs or trading, or would it be more valuable to restart and just be more cautious with my inventory?