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Released Project Vanguard (4.0 UPDATE RELEASE 8/27/2025)

This project has a release available. The full version is still a work in progress.
Project Status
Released
Project Version
4.0
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Logo is a WIP
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Welcome to Ayrei​

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The Ayrei Region, a landmass split into four different quadrants.
Each with their own people and Pokemon every moment of your adventure has something new in store.
This is not the full planned region, only what's currently available in 4.0


No Gyms, No Elite Four
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In Project Vanguard, the role of the Pokemon Trainer is no longer to collect gym badges and become the champion. Instead, Trainers protect the region from criminal organizations, aggressive wild Pokemon, and whatever other conflicts come their way. As a brand new Trainer, you'll enroll in the Vanguard Academy, a school dedicated to teaching the next generations of Pokemon wielders. As you rise through the ranks, you'll face new challenges, meet new friends, and of course, uncover your mysteries past.
Oh, that's right, you.
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An individual who's awoken in this region with no memory of who they were before.
With no where else to go, you join your newfound friend, and become a Pokemon Trainer.


New Regional Forms
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In the region of Ayrei, you'll encounter a total of over 300 new regional forms, evolutions to existing Pokemon, and even completely new ones. With thousands of hours of work from both our artists and balancers, each one will be fun to play with and offer a useful role in your team.


A Brand New World To Explore
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The region of Ayrei is built with exploration in mind.
On your journey across it, you'll not just find trainers to battle, but also den's home to rare Pokemon, treasures guarded by powerful opponents,
and a lot of optional areas you'll miss if you don't look hard enough.


Defined Difficulty Modes
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Vanguard has three difficulty modes for your choose from. Each one with hand crafted teams for every important boss trainer. No matter what type of player you are, one of these modes should offer an engaging experience.

Quality of Life
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While we still want Vanguard to feel like an proper adventure, we of course cut down on a lot of the tedious tasks you'd find yourself stuck with in other games. This includes the removal of EV training, as points can now be allocated at any time from the summary screen, and other Pokemon customization items now being easily purchasable.


Additional Features
Old Gym Leaders return as cosplayers ("super fans") for you to battle with new teams!
Most route Trainers are optional (progress at your own pace!)
Non-Binary protagonist option
28 Starters (22 of whom are Regional Variants!)
Advanced Pokedex that displays the stats and learnsets of every seen Pokemon
EXP all (right after picking your starter)
Infinite Repel (right after picking your starter)
Canon Pokemon up to generation 9
Fast travel between towns


Download
Goes up to chapter 35, around 36-38 hours of playtime

Development team
Ayrei - Lead developer, Story, Eventing, Mapping
Ironic Omens - Concept Art, Cutscene Art, Spriting, Story writing assistance
Moonpaw - Spriting, Concept Art
Jaguarkia - Spriting, Concept Art
Simonz - Spriting
CherubiNym - Concept Art
Chrysanthemum - Spriting
NnekArt - Concept Art, Spriting
Verity - Custom Music
Draco - Balancing every regional, fakemon, and main story boss fight
Fictional - Also balancing every regional, fakemon, and main story boss fight
Just_a_Gameaddict - Balancing Super fans and Route Bosses
WeOathKeeper - Programming custom moves and abilities
Dred - Bugfixing and Mapping help
katsuki - Spriting


Previous development team members/contributors
Spriting - PrismShrimp, Celestial Fearow, Chobbis3, Chobbis4, Pixeldust64, Givemeloop, Kana, Darkside Official, Alcreed, HyperTox
Mapping - Kristalwolf, IceGummi, Chobbis3
Advanced Battle AI - Moto & Demice



If you find your work in game that is uncredited, or work of yours that should not be in Vanguard, please contact me and I will work towards fixing the issue ASAP.

Credits
Pokemon Essentials v19.1 by Maruno
Graphics and ScriptsMagiscarf
WesleyFG
SailorVicious (Formerly known as Heavy-Metal-Lover)
Shawn Frost
NSora-96
PeekyChew
MewTheMega
Kyle-Dove
Pablus94
Princess Phoenix
Zeo254
Claisprojects.com
Minorthreat0987
The-Red-Ex
UltimoSpriter
TyranitarDark
DarkDragonn
rafa-cac
Phyromatical
Alucus
Newtiteuf
ChaoticCherryCake
moca
Akizakura16
Kyle-Dove
Clara-WaH
ThatWelshOne_
raZ
Marin
Maruno
Nuri Yuri
PurpleZaffre
Savordez
Vendily
Mr. Gela
Voltseon
Neo-Spriteman
VanillaSunshine
PurpleZaffre & Maicerochico
AtomicReactor
Zerokid
Amethyst
Jan
Zumi
Bazaro
Koyo
Smeargletail
Alex
Noscium
Leparagon
N-kin
fishbowlsoul90
princess-phoenix
DatLopunnyTho
Conyjams
kaji atsu
The cynical poet
LuigiPlayer
Falgaia
Pikafan2000
Mashirosakura (Magearna recolours)
Lord-Myre
MillaLya
AveonTrainer
JorgeBurgos
KajiAtsui
cubeR
DiegoWT
rhaidor
KnoblePersona
Amras Anárion
IndianAnimator

Demice

eriedaberrie#1569
NoProbro
Biggusweeabus

Music
GlitchxCity
VanniluxePavilion
Kamex
Bliitzit
Sheddy
Mewmore
BitSymphony

Battle backgrounds
Aeveontrainer
Advanced Pokedex
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Gen 9 Project
Script Gen 9 and Adapting PLA for v20:
-Caruban

PBS for Gen 9:
-Caruban
-PorousMist (Updated the short abilities, items, and moves description)
-DJChaos (TM Items)

Pokemon Gen 9 Battler Sprites:
The-King-Of-Roads-X, Mak, leParagon, Caruban, Azria, Mashirosakura, Katten, Jinxed

Pokemon Gen 9 icons:
-ezerart

Pokemon Gen 9 Followers:
-Azria, DarkusShadow

Gen 9 Item sprites:
-Caruban, lichenprincess

Pokemon Gen 9 Cries:
Edited from Lightblade Absol's Gen 9 Cries compilation video

Original Pokémon: Legends Arceus Expansion Script :
-StCooler (Original script for Gen 8 Project in v18 and Status sprites)
-PorousMist and curryofthepast (Adapting the script for v19.1 use)

Some item PLA icons :
-AztecCroc, 3DJackArt, Caruban, lichenprincess

PLA Pokemon cries ripped:
-Morningdew

Pokeballs battle animation and summary icon:
-Caruban
-WolfPP (Beast ball battle animation)

PLA Pokemon icons:
-LuigiTKO

PLA Follower sprites:
Boonzeet, DarkusShadow, princess-phoenix, ezeart, Wolfang62

PLA Sprites from Smogon Gen8 Sprite Project :
-Blaquaza, KingOfThe-X-Roads, KattenK, Travis, G.E.Z., SpheX, and Hematite

Gen 4 Style Version
Gen 9 sprites:
KingOfThe-X-Roads, Mak, Red7246, Vent, Caruban, leParagon, Sopita_Yorita, Z-nogyroP,
Alxndre~◇, Mashirosakura, NanaelJustice, KRLW890

PLA sprites:
Travis, KingOfThe-X-Roads, Blaquaza, leParagon, Red7246, G.E.Z., Katten, Vent, Cesare_CBass, AlexandreV2.0, PKMNTrainerRick., CarmaNeko, JWNutz, Erkey830

Gen 9 Icons:
Vent, Katten, leParagon, Cesare_CBass

PLA Icons:
LuigiTKO, Pikafan2000, Cesare_CBass, Vent, Cesare_Cbass, MultiDiegoDani, leParagon, JWNutz
and thanks for Pokémon Icons Act 2.9 - Teracristalizando

PLEASE TELL ME IF I MISSED ANYONE!

The discord
https://discord.gg/sr24E8keRs
Why join the discord?
I'm not always online this site or others that I have this game posted on.
Joining the discord allows easy access to bug reporting, game patches, progress updates, beta testing, and more.
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Is there a place where i can find the game music like on youtube or spotify ot something else as the music is dope
 
I can't play the game neither in Game.exe or Game.exe original. This error pops up. I downloaded the patch by the way
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I can't play the game neither in Game.exe or Game.exe original. This error pops up. I downloaded the patch by the way
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If you're getting an error that has to do with "save file" on your first loadup then please delete the "Pokemon vanguard" folder in either %appdata% or saved games. (From the FAQ page on the games website, please refer to there if you have any other questions)
 
hi, good game, but can i just say something? what's with the difficulty? basically every route trainer has 5-6 Pokémon which is way too much for a Pokémon game especially really early in the game, and they are evolved like what? even tho i'm playing on easy mode it's till terribly hard cuz it's pretty unfair, it sucks, cuz they are still so high leveled and evolved and every trainer has like 5- 6 Pokémon which makes the game way too hard and not fun. cuz no route trainer in normal Pokémon games has 5-6 Pokémon their team cuz that makes the game way too over difficult
 
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hi, good game, but can i just say something? what's with the difficulty? basically every route trainer has 5-6 Pokémon which is way too much for a Pokémon game especially really early in the game, and they are evolved like what? even tho i'm playing on easy mode it's till terribly hard cuz it's pretty unfair, it sucks, cuz they are still so high leveled and evolved and every trainer has like 5- 6 Pokémon which makes the game way too hard and not fun. cuz no route trainer in normal Pokémon games has 5-6 Pokémon their team cuz that makes the game way too over difficult
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tbh I'm not sure what you mean by this. I've been going through an redoing a bunch of the trainer teams for next update, but the currents ones don't have 5-6 Pokemon. Yes some important trainer fights will have 6 but I'm pretty sure thats exclusive to normal mode (which you should be sticking to casual mode if you're struggling with difficulty) but most of the route trainers have like 2-4 Pokemon and even then they don't even have EV spreads or predefined learnsets.
 
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tbh I'm not sure what you mean by this. I've been going through an redoing a bunch of the trainer teams for next update, but the currents ones don't have 5-6 Pokemon. Yes some important trainer fights will have 6 but I'm pretty sure thats exclusive to normal mode (which you should be sticking to casual mode if you're struggling with difficulty) but most of the route trainers have like 2-4 Pokemon and even then they don't even have EV spreads or predefined learnsets.
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cuz i was going through route 5 after the first gym badge, and most of the trainers had evolved high level pokemon and like most of them had like 5 team members which is terribly hard at that early in the game. i am playing on easy mode at least i think so Cuz Tbh i haven't played this for a while and decided to play it again recently cuz of the updates so I'm continuing where i left off, i don't understand how it could be so hard. Ps; is there a level cap in this game? my bayleef stopped gaining exp at 33
 
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cuz i was going through route 5 after the first gym badge, and most of the trainers had evolved high level pokemon and like most of them had like 5 team members which is terribly hard at that early in the game. i am playing on easy mode at least i think so Cuz Tbh i haven't played this for a while and decided to play it again recently cuz of the updates so I'm continuing where i left off, i don't understand how it could be so hard. Ps; is there a level cap in this game? my bayleef stopped gaining exp at 33
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you are playing an incredibly old version of the game, download the new version from the thread
 
does swablu evolve differently in this game? cuz like it was electric and dragon type and then it became a normal altaria at level 35

i tried opening the new version of the game but i keep getting a error message

when i started the new version, it somehow deleted my old savefile, which sucks but at least i can play it over again with the new features
 

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when i started the new version, it somehow deleted my old savefile, which sucks but at least i can play it over again with the new features
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It's a completely different experience, your save file wouldn't work with it anyways. I would suggest joining the discord if you have consistent questions about the game since I am much more active there than here
 
Help! My game froze after first being talked to the Battle Dojo manager. It wouldn’t advance from a white screen, and I could still access GUI.
I have the patch, is it supposed to be in the game folder?
 
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