Would soft resetting for a fainted Latias in Sapphire let me try to catch it again?

Question

If I encountered Latias, but accidentally fainted it, but then soft reset, would I not have to re-fight the E4?

Comments

It would but I don't wanna just say yes

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Also, once encountered, can they be tracked?

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They can, you just have to find them

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Dang it, I should've just ran away, now I'll have to be lucky enough to find it again...

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Does the repel trick work on them?

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How do you track them?

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This should be super obvious, but ok. You find them, and you can look at where it could possibly be. Then you just have to get lucky enough to find it.

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I know, I meant how do you find where they are, and I already figured it out. It looks like it moves with each route you go to, so, that'll be hard.

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Soft resetting Sapphire should always load your save file, and whether you can find Latias depends on whether you saved after it fainted. You can see where Latias is by using your Pokedex. The repel trick works on it.

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Awesome, I've encountered it again, but it ran away, so at least I know it's alive out there.

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I'm gonna test this hopefully. Someone will probably snipe me though.

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Why wouldnt this work? If you're resetting to before you knocked out Latias, then of course Latias would be back.

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Yeah, it worked already.

Answer 1

Yes of course it would just take you exactly to the point where you were before, and you would not have encountered Latias, therefore would not have killed it, therefore you wouldn't have to fight the Elite Four again to make him reappear.

Come on, that was an easy question

Comments

Yeah, it works, I've almost got it now.