Gold/Silver Guide
Pokémon Gold Guide: Chapter 1

When you first turn on your game, you should be greeted by the beautiful color intro. Much nicer than the previous incarnations. After that, if it is a new game, a small box will appear at the top. Click the first option to start a new game.

Then, set the clock. First, select the hour. Then, select the minute. This sets the internal clock which effects the type of Pokémon you catch and other timed events.

Now, the intro will play much like the previous versions. When Oak asks for your name, you can select the preprogrammed names or make your own (the first option in the name screen). If you don't speak Japanese, it might be wise to choose a name that you can recognize. Such as "!!!!!!"or I like to make words in English from Japanese characters that look like English letters. This way, you'll know when someone is talking about you.

After you select your name, you are transported to your room. Walk downstairs, talk to your mother, and make your way to the big building next door. This is where professor Utsugii resides. Once you talk to him, he will allow you to choose which Pokémon to get. You can choose between Waninoko, a water alligator Pokémon, Hinoarashi, a fire anteater type Pokémon, and Chikolita, a grass type Pokémon. I chose Chikolita because of its grass type attacks and because it's pretty itty cutey...*ahem* Moving on...

Professor Utsugii will tell you to go and find another professor in a cottage to the west. Leave the building and got to the west and out of town. You might want to skip on the battles with wild Pokémon for now since the nearest Poké Center is in the next town. Keep going west until you find the next town. There you can heal any Poké wounds and buy some healing potions for burn and poison. You can also buy some potions.

Next, you can either take a tour of the town by talking to the old man standing at the front gate, who'll give you a map for your Pokéwatch (very useful), or you can skip the exploration and get to the main mission, to find Prof. Oak. From the center of town, go north until you find the second cottage. Inside, talk to the man to the east of the room, he's prof. Oak. He will talk and run out of the cottage in a hurry. Leave the cottage and return to the first town, the one where you first started. On your way from the second town, you will be forced to fight the mysterious red haired person that was standing outside the first professor's building. Apparently he has the opposite starting Pokémon as you. It should be a fairly easy battle, just keep up with the tackle attacks until his Pokémon is down. Once you whoop him, he'll run away, much like Gary. Continue out of the town and go to the Professor Utsugii's building in the first town and there will be a scene where officer Jenny (I presume) is talking to professor Utsugii. Something has happened and the other Pokéball of Utsugii's is missing, strangely, it's the ball that the red haired guy had.

After you talk to Utsugii, exit the office. On your way out. the professor's assistant should stop you and aid you with 5 Pokéballs. Now, you are ready to catch Pokémon and your journey begins! Exit the town and on the path just outside the town, a boy will stop you and teach you how to catch Pokémon much like the old man did in the Red/Blue versions.

Make your way to the next town to the west and go north. Now, you can go on the route that was previously blocked by two dueling trainers. Here, you'll find one of the best and underrated Pokémon around, Caterpie. Though it may not seem very tough, once you train it and evolve it into butterfree it will be an invaluable asset to a new trainer.

As you make your way past a number of bug trainers, all wanting to challenge you upon sight, you should break way and find a cave. It's too dark to go in and you won't be able to go far in it unless you have both flash and strength. Instead, go west and enter the town. There, you should heal your wounds and start training up your Pokémon if they are below Lv. 10. If you caught a caterpie, it should have evolved into a metapod by now and with a little more training, it should evolve at level 12 and learn Psychic. If you have Chikolita, it should have learned a powerful attack much like razor leaf and by level 12 it will learn barrier.

Once your Pokémon are well prepared, you might want to invest in some potions which you can get at the store.

Finally, you can challenge the Kikyou city Gym leader Hayato residing near the Pokémon center. You will have to beat the two trainers before you can challenge Hayato. The first trainer uses a level 9 spearow and the second trainer uses 2 level 7 pidgeys. He's fairly easy to beat if your Pokémon are trained enough, in fact, he's about as hard as the two trainers. He only uses a level 7 Pidgey and a level 9 Pigeotto. Mainly, use your strongest attacks like razor leaf and if you have Butterfree, use psychic for an easy victory. Once you defeat him, you will gain your first badge, TM 31 and .

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You can go to the Poké center and talk to the guy at the counter who looks like the professor's assistant. He'll give you an egg that for now will not be able to fight or do anything. Now that you have defeated Hayato and collected the egg, you can go up north of the town to the temple. Inside, you will find 6 trainers and wild ratattas. The trainers all use level 3 bellsprouts and are easy victories. Make your way to the top floor of the temple. You will find many items along your way to the top including awakens, potions, and escape ropes. Once you arrive to the top and final floor, make your way past the final trainers. Once there, you will see the red haired kid talking to the temple leader and the red haired kid will escape. After that, the temple leader will fight you. He mainly uses bellsprouts and is fairly easy. After you beat him, he will give you HM5, flash. You can go ahead and equip flash to a Pokémon now if you want. I used it on the new owl Pokémon Hoo Hoo, so that I wouldn't take up a valuable space on one of my good Pokémon's attack list.

:Side quest: This side quest offers a little amount of challenge and the rewards are good. If you go west, past the gym, and go past the check-in station, you should reach a mini town with some caves. Go to the cave furthest north. Enter the cave and you will find a small alter like contraption. Step in it and press A. You should be playing some sort of ancient puzzle. Basically, just make the puzzle look like a Kabuto.

Once completed, the floor should open up and you should be dropped below. If you're having trouble making the puzzle complete, make sure the two bottom middle pieces are in the right position. After dropping to the cave floor below, you will encounter a strange and mysterious Pokémon called Enon. It takes many forms, but it is the same Pokémon. You can catch one of them or just escape the cave to come back later. Exit the mini town and continue on your quest. :End Side quest:

Now, go west, past the gym and right before the shop. Take the path below and take the right hand shoulder path. You will have to fight off some trainers and some wild Pokémon hiding in the brush, but continue down south. After a while, you should reach the Poké center. Enter the Poké center and talk to the man standing near the counter, in the hat . He will give you his old pole. Above the Poké center, you will find a lake where you can use your newly acquired fishing pole to capture a magikarp and other Pokémon. Once you are done, continue south until you reach a dead end.

Enter the cave to the left. Inside you will find numerous trainers and some wild sandshrews, onixs and zubats. You can also find defensive up and TM39. Continue south and fight the last trainer at the exit. You will now be at another town called Hiwada. Go west, passed the open well blocked by a Team Rocket agent and enter town to rest. Your egg that you have been carrying around in your Pokémon line-up should hatch and Togepi is born. Though a bit weak, he has a wicked metronome spell that can K.O. any opponent in one blow. It might be wise to start training him.

After you are refreshed, go to the house to the right of the Pokémon center and talk to the guy sitting on a pillow . He will talk briefly then run from the room. Now, make your way east from the house and enter the well that was previously blocked off. Follow the path in the underground caverns until you find two slowpokes and two Team Rocket members. Fight off each of them and the man from the house will come and talk to you. You will then fade off and fade in at his house. For your reward, he will give you a Pokéball that helps capture water Pokémon.

You might want to heal your Pokémon because the upcoming gym leader is fairly hard. Once you are ready, go to the gym in the center of town. There, after fighting some trainers, you will encounter the leader Tsukushi . Her first two Pokémon are a breeze. She uses a level 14 Metapod and Kakuna and a level 16 scyther. The scyther is the toughest in her arsenal. His slash moves are particularly harmful. Just keep up the attacks and you should be able to defeat her. Once defeated, she will hand over her badge and TM49 (slash) and the ability to use cut, which you'll get soon enough. You can also control Pokémon up to level 30! Time to go back and rest up.

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You will encounter the red haired kid again. He uses a level 12 Gastly, a level 14 zubat and a level 16 Pokémon that is the opposite of your starting Pokémon. For example, in my case, it was Hinoarashi. He is fairly difficult, but if you have well developed Pokémon, you should be able to defeat him.

Go west of the Pokémon center and enter the check-in station. Once passed, you should now have entered a dark forest. Make your way around until you find a bird . Talk to it and it will fly away. Keep following and talking to it until it brings you to two people. Talk to the guy on the left and he will give you HM1 (cut). Now you can cut down bushes like the one blocking the path. Once you have taught cut to one of your Pokémon, you can cut the bush blocking the path and access the rest of the trail. Follow it up where you can talk to a kid to get TM 2 or just continue past until you get to to the building. There, you can get TM 12 from the girl sitting with the butterfree. Continue north into town.

It is a maze shaped city called Kogame city. You can get a bicycle from the bike shop to the left of the Pokémon shop or go to an underground tunnel to the left of the Pokémon center. In that underground passageway, you can acquire a coin purse so you can gamble at the slot machines in the town. You will find a tower to the upper right of the town. If you enter and talk to the lady with the green hair at the counter of the first floor . She asks you questions and you have to answer them correctly. After some trial and error, I think the pattern is, 1st option, 1st option, 1st option, 2nd option, 1st option, 2nd option. After that, you can access radio stations on you watch!

There is also a breeding center in town.

To breed, you need to capture a male and female of one specie with the same sign in their pokedex entry (dittos are wild cards). Give one to the old man and one to the old woman. Then, start walking. After about 800 steps, go back to the building. The old man should be gone. Go out back and talk to him. He will give you an egg. After about 5,000 steps, it should hatch! You can get new pokémon this way. If you breed two pikachus, you can get a Pichu!

You should also buy a soda from the top floor of the Pokéshop for further use. This is a great place to raise your Pokémon's levels and earn some cash by challenging the trainers hanging around. Once you are rested and stocked up, you can head north to the gym to challenge the gym leader.She is called Akane . Once you enter the gym, you will find it sort of maze like. Follow the trail around and fight off the trainers until you come upon a red haired girl . She will not provoke you for an attack, instead, you have to talk to her first. She has a level 18 Jigglypuff and the pink cow aptly named milktank. Jigglypuff is fairly easy and should be defeated in only a few moves, but don't be fooled by milktank's appearance. It has some nasty attacks and it will replenish its HP with a bottle of milk when low. It might take a while, but keep up a strong offence and it should be defeated. After you win, she will talk to you, when you check your badge index, you will notice that she has not given you her badge. Talk to the blue haired girl below Akane and then talk to Akane again. This time, she will hand you the badge and TM45!

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Now that you've gotten your badge, it's time to move on, but not before one thing. Make sure that you get the item from the woman who lives to the right of the gym. She will be standing by a chair. Talk to her and she will give you an item. Once you have obtained it, go north in the city. Keep going north, past the two check-in stations until you reach a park. You can either fight the roaming trainers for money or go to the mid right section where, you'll find another check-in station. Pass through the check-in station and make your way to the right, past the two trainers and find a small pathway leading north. You'll see that the path is blocked by a strange bush that you can't cut. You might want to save your game now.

Inspect the bush with the A button. It will bring up a dialogue box and then an option. Choose the first option, which uses the potion the woman gave you. The bush will awaken and will reveal itself to be a level 20 Utsokii, a grass Pokémon. It is easy to beat with brute force using your starting Pokémon's best attack. Catching it however, is another story. If you have a butterfree, use psychic attack to knock away around 18% of it's life bar. If you don't have butterfree, try different attacks, but no poisons or confusions, you'll end up accidentally knocking it out it. Once you have its life bar whittled down to a thin slice, try to put it to sleep. Then, use a Pokéball. If you don't put it to sleep, it has a better chance of breaking out and thus you lose more Pokéballs. If you stick with it, you should be able to capture it and it's a very good and strong Pokémon. Its rockslide attack is very powerful. Much like snorlax, it is rare.

After you are done, you should go to the right and find a man in a blue shirt . He will give you TM8. While it doesn't seem like much, this is like an HM except that you can use it once, this will allow you to break the cracked rocks once you have equipped it to a Pokémon in your line-up. After that, head back left and then continue up the way until you reach town after a couple trainers. There, you will find the fourth gym.

You don't have to fight him right now, there are plenty of places to raise your Pokémon's level and some tasks that you must do to progress in the game. Right behind the Pokémon center, you will find a house, enter it. Once inside, you will find a stage with around five kabuki actors. They are all eevee trainers, some even have the two new evolutions of it! You must fight and win every one of them. Then, when you have beaten them all, you should see a man in the center aisle with blue hair and a black hat . Talk to him and he will give you HM 3, Surf. This is why it is crucial that you talk to everyone multiple times. They often give you important items. On that note, go to the house to the right of the gym. Once there, talk to the man inside and he will give you an Item Finder . This is useful to find because it will help you find helpful items like ethers. After that, head north in the city, until you find a multistoried temple. Once inside, you will encounter your red haired arch nemesis. He's been raising his Pokémon and offers some new surprises. A level 20 Haunter, a level 18 magemite, a level 20 zubat, and a level 21 Hinoarashi. Though tough, you should be victorious, if not, refine your battle plan, raise your Pokémon and try again. Once you have defeated him, you can smash the cracked rocks blocking two pathways. Take the right one first, cahallenge the trainer, collect the Pokéball, and go to the right path. Fight the trainer there, collect the Pokéball, then fall down the small square hole in the floor, near the center of the room. You should find yourself standing in front of what look like Pokémon statues. As you draw closer, they will turn from gray to different colors and scamper away. You cannot catch them. Simply head south and take the ladder back to the first floor and exit the temple. When you feel you are trained enough, you should challenge the leader. Just make sure you have a Pokémon that is good against ghosts before even trying.

Make sure you rest your Pokémon up before challenging him. Once you enter the gym, you will most likely fall through the gray floor once or twice. There is a hidden pathway. You can look at the pic below for the path or follow these instructions. First walk up through the two Pokéball columns. You will be challenged by a trainer. Defeat him and line up with the right Pokéball column. Continue up until you reach the old woman who will challenge you. Then, go left until you are just before where the old man is standing. Go north and face him. Then go east until you are just before where the old woman is standing. Go north to face her then keep going north until you reach the gym leader.

The gym leader Matsuba is pretty hard if you don't have the right Pokémon. Once again, having butterfrees psychic attack will make things a LOT easier. If you have been depending on your starting Pokémon, then I hope you like getting yer arse whooped. Mainly, the trainers use mid-teen gastlys and haunters. Matsuba follows their lead and uses a level 21 gastly and haunter, a level 23 haunter and a level 25 gengar. The first three are pretty much a breeze. If you knock about half of their life with an attack, they'll finish themselves off by preparing for an attack which takes of around 1/2 of their HP. Gengar is a tough one though. You might want to use one Pokémon for all attacks and when it gets knocked out, switch to a high leveled Pokémon that doesn't do much against a gengar to use revives and high potions, then switch between them as needed. Watch out though, gengar has a life sucking attack that will do mucho damage against you while refilling his life bar. If you're lucky, you'll get a couple free shots as gengar waits for his move. In time, you should beat him though and acquire the 4th badge, the ability to control Pokémon up to level 50, and TM30, a ghost attack.

Rare Pokémon Side Quest:

Now that you have another badge under your belt and your Pokémon are well raised, you can fight a very rare Pokémon. You don't have to do this now, but the rare Pokémon is invaluable if you are in needs of a water Pokémon with some fire attacks. Go to the right of the city and enter the eastern check-in point. Once through, you should see a cave and a lake. Use swim and swim east. You should hit ground shortly thereafter, but you should use swim again on the land's east side. Keep going until you see a guy in a green shirt standing by the western shore. Go on land and head east until you find a small town. It is too soon to enter the gym, but rest up your Pokémon and head north, past the next check-in station and past two trainers. Finally, you should break through the forest and see a big lake. Swim north until you see something red in the lake . Save your game now. Once you have saved your game, you should talk to the red creature. It will challenge you and turns out to be a level 30 red gyarados! It is a very rare colored Pokémon nicknamed a "shiny" Pokémon. What makes this gyarados different is that is uses a fire attack and is more powerful than a standard gyarados. Now, it's time to capture it!

It is extremely powerful and its dragon rage attack is killer. Just center on trying to take it down with your most effective attack. Nothing really will wipe it out in one shot so you have to keep on hitting it with attack after attack. If your Pokémon faints and you have no other well developed Pokémon, use one as your dummy Pokémon. Don't attempt to attack, just use a Pokémon for giving items. Have it give your main Pokémon a revival potion, preferably one that gives back 1/2 the Pokémon's HP bar. If it lives past another attack, have it give a potion to your main Pokémon to assure it won't be KO'd in a short while. Then, switch back to your main Pokémon and if needed, do it again. Soon enough, it should only have a sliver of life left. Throw out a Pokéball, which it should break out of at the last second. Throw another one and it should stay still. Keep throwing Pokéballs until he is captured. If you KO him or run out of Pokéballs, restart your game. You only get one chance at this. Once completed, you can teach it swim, because if you're like me, you taught swim to a low level water Pokémon. Gyarados is very powerful and you didn't even need to train him! Talk to the guy standing by the sign on shore in a cape , he will talk to you and fly away. Now, head back to the town where you fought the ghost gym and got surf, back west.

Gyarados:

lv 20 Bite

lv 25 Dragon Rage

lv 32 Leer

lv 41 Hydro Pump

lv 52 Hyper Beam

: End Rare Pokémon Side Quest:

Well, if you caught the gyarados, your travels will be muuuuuch easier. Just try to raise it as often as possible when against trainers. Once your restocked and restored, head west in the city until you find a check-in station. Pass through it and head west until you can't go any further, then head north, then west again. There's a tauros ranch, skip it and then head south into town. You'll notice the gym there and you might want to try it out, but the gym leader is not there. Instead, go to heal your Pokémon at the Poké Center then go to the left of the Poké Center, talk to the two guys inside and one of them will give you HM 4, Strength. Now, head south until you see a check-in station, head east and you'll see a large tall building. Enter it. Make your way up the tower, past the lurking trainers. Continue upwards until you reach some stairs with a woman with a blue belt to the right and some stairs blocked by a hole in the ground. After fighting her, go to the left hand side of the hole and fall in. You'll fall into a room with a trainer and a set of stairs. Go up the stairs. Then, once you've taken the stairs and are back on the floor where you jumped in the hole, take the next set of stairs to the south and you should be at the next floor. Make your way south until you find the next set of stairs and you should be at the final floor. Go north and you will find a girl standing next to a Pokémon , talk to her. Nothing big happens and she will not leave, but now you have to complete another task before fighting her. Make a hasty exit by falling through the hole in the northeast side of the room. Keep falling until you're at floor one, then exit.

Make your way west in the town until you reach three rocks. You can smash them to fight some turtle Pokémon called Tsubotsubo. You can teach them surf or teach your Gyarados surf, it'll make for an excellent attack. You should also teach it the newly acquired HM strength, another fine attack that gives an advantage when fighting other water Pokémon. Surf down southwest until you find a shoreline and another city. You are going to need strength equipped to an active Pokémon. Then, enter the gym. Continue north in the gym, past the gym trainers until you reach three stones blocking the path. You have to use strength to use them. Simply go up to one and press A then choose the first option to begin strength. Next, move the left boulder north, then the right one north and finally move the middle boulder west.After a few more trainers, you should see the gym leader Shijima , talk to him. He is fairly simple, using only a level 30 Polywrath and a level 28 Primeape. Not much advice to give, just pummel him with your strongest Pokémon. Butterfree is good to use. After you win, exit the gym and talk to the lady just outside . She'll give you HM 2, fly. Next, talk to a guy with sunglasses on, who lives in the house furthest south, below the gym. He should give you something imperative to fight the next gym boss (in the tower in the other city). If you have a flying Pokémon, you can teach it fly and fly back to the city you just swam from. It beats swimming back. If not, then just swim back to the city.

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Now that you are back in the town where you went up the tower, you should go to the tower again. Once again, climb all the way to the top floor until you find that girl with a Pokémon next to her . If you picked up the item she needs (back at the town you just left) she should ask you a question, pick the first option. She with then talk some more and leave. Now you can fight her in the gym in town. Exit the tower and head towards the gym in town that was previously vacant. Make sure you rest your Pokémon up before challenging her. There are no trainers here, simply walk up to her and challenge her.

This battle is a gruesome one. Mikan is unexpectedly strong and since I have no electric Pokémon, she was very tough for me. She uses two level 30 magemites and a level 32

This had to be my toughest battle so far. She first brought out a level 30 magemite. Fortunately, I already had my level 27 Chikolita out. Magemite managed to bring it down in a few rounds. I switched to my level 32 Butterfree counting on it to KO the magemite with 14 hp to spare. Unfortunately, it managed to get in the pre-emptive strike and KO'd butterfree before it could release the final blow to magemite. I couldn't bring out my gyarados yet because the magemites can get a 1 hit KO, besides, I was saving him for later. Instead, I switched to my Level 11 Hoo Hoo. It managed to give my Chikolita a revive and a potion before being KO'd. I switched back to Chikolita and finished the magemite off. Then, to my surprise, she sent out onix's evolution, Haganeru. Not knowing what its weaknesses were, I used strength...wrong move. It took out about 1/3 of my hp with an earthquake. I then tried dragon breath which served nicely. After two more rounds, I thought that I'd have enough to KO onix and then take a dent out of the next magemite before being KO'd...wrong. Okay, three down and Chikolita doesn't bode well against steel. I switched to my level 13 togepi. Gave Gyarados a revive, togepi's KO'd, brought back out my level 4 Otachi, gave potion, Otachi's KO'd. Switched to gyarados, Haganeru uses high potion, all hp restored...crapple...back to square 1. Gyarados uses fire breath repeatedly, Gyarados hit twice, one flame later, onix is down. Level 30 Magemite sent out, gyarados uses fire, knocks off 75% of his HP, magemite finishes of gyarados. One Pokémon left, no more tricks up my sleeve, one thunderbolt and it was Poké heaven for me. Fortunately, I got the first attack and used razor leaf finishing off magemite. I won. I won? Yes? YES! ...dang, I need to get to raising my Pokémon.

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If you were victorious, good job. Now, heal up and head back to the town with the fourth gym, the one with the trick floor and the ghost Pokémon. Once back, head east in the city until you find a check-in station. Continue east, which you have to surf through. Keep going until you reach a town with a gym. The gym is closed right now. Heal up and go north until you find a big lake. Surf in the lake until you find a red Pokémon floating near the center of the lake. Save your game now. Once you have saved your game, you should talk to the red creature. It will challenge you and turns out to be a level 30 red gyarados! It is a very rare colored Pokémon nicknamed a "shiny" Pokémon. What makes this gyarados different is that is uses a fire attack and is more powerful than a regular gyarados. You can either defeat it or catch it. If you are going to catch it, read the next paragraph. If you already have it or have beaten it already, skip the next paragraph.

It is extremely powerful and its dragon rage attack is killer. Just center on trying to take it down with your most effective attack. Nothing really will wipe it out in one shot so you have to keep on hitting it with attack after attack. If your Pokémon faints and you have no other well developed Pokémon, use one as your dummy Pokémon. Don't attempt to attack, just use a Pokémon for giving items. Have it give your main Pokémon a revival potion, preferably one that gives back 1/2 the Pokémon's HP bar. If it lives past another attack, have it give a potion to your main Pokémon to assure it won't be KO'd in a short while. Then, switch back to your main Pokémon and if needed, do it again. Soon enough, it should only have a sliver of life left. Throw out a Pokéball, which it should break out of at the last second. Throw another one and it should stay still. Keep throwing Pokéballs until he is captured. If you KO him or run out of Pokéballs, restart your game. You only get one chance at this. Once completed, you can teach it swim, because if you're like me, you taught swim to a low level water Pokémon. Gyarados is very powerful and you didn't even need to train him!

Gyarados:

lv 20 Bite

lv 25 Dragon Rage

lv 32 Leer

lv 41 Hydro Pump

lv 52 Hyper Beam

After you have either captured it or defeated it, exit the lake and talk to the guy near the fence in a cape . After talking to him, he will fly away. Now, return to the city to the south. Go into the house just above the Pokémon center and the Gym (it's in between the two). The moment you walk in, you'll see Lance (the guy in the cape that you talked to at the lake above) duking it out with one of the people inside. He will then talk to you and reveal a hidden passageway. Enter it if you are ready and equipped. When you do enter it, you will find yourself in a basement. Every time you pass through one of the golden lion statues, you will have to fight two trainers. You can then go either way you want, there are equal challenges ahead. If you are going to stay left, watch out for the gray lines on the floor. If you step on them, you will have to fight a Pokémon (most likely Koffing). Don't hit the transport square or you will go back to the start. Instead, take the stairs next to it. Now, you are on the 2nd floor where you will meet up with Lance and he will heal your Pokémon. Talk to everyone, battle everyone, then talk to them again and be sure to check every object. After the floor is cleared and you have talked to everyone, go north of the stairs where you came in. Go north of those stairs and you should find another set of stairs, these stairs lead to another part of the 2nd floor . Search the floor and fight anyone there. Be sure to talk to them after the fight too and make sure to once again, search everything. Take the set of stairs at the northwest corner of the room and you will be on the 3rd floor. Once again, battle everyone, talk to everyone before and after battles and search everything. Then go south of the stairs and take the set of stairs to the next floor and grab the Pokéball if you like. Then go back down and take a right at the stairs and down the hallway. You should see a steel divider blocking the next room. If you talked to everyone and searched everywhere, you should be able to open the door by pressing A. If not, then go back and do more searching and talking until the door opens.

Fight the guy inside and he will leave. Inspect his office once for good measure and talk to the bird there, then head back down to the 2nd floor where you saw the other steel door. Open it and go inside to meet Lance again. He will talk and got to the right, you go to the left. Your job is to talk to all three voltorbs and defeat them. After that, Lance will talk to you again. He'll give you HM 6 which allows you to break up whirlpools in the lakes and oceans while swimming. Bingo, you're done. Exit the building, recharge and go to the gym in town that was locked before.

The gym floor is a puzzle. You must slide in the correct order to reach the gym leader. Below is the correct patch, just follow the red line and you should make it.

The boss Yanagi isn't hard as long as you have trained some Pokémon strong against ice. I just used Gyarados. He uses a level 27 Seel, a level 29 Dewgong and a level 31 Inomu. Nothing too tough, just keep your main Pokémon healed with potions.

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Alright, so, you've earned your seventh badge and you're anxious to get started on the eighth then zip to the showdown with the elite four. Make sure you get some repellants from the shop where you found the underground lair. They are 500 bucks and begin with a symbol that looks like this " :) ". Trust me, if you hate random battles, you should get a lot of these lil lifesavers, just make sure you have your best pokémon in front. If a wild pokémon matches or exceeds the first pokémon in your line-up, you have to battle it. Now, quit yer lollygagging and go to the east of the city, keep going east until you find around three trainers and a cave on a couple of ledges. Fight your way up and enter the cave.

Make your way through the winding cave until you find a big patch of ice (pictured below). You have to find a way to slide to get to the entrance to your right. Follow the red line in the diagram below.

You should be able to make it with a little practice. Being used to Zelda like puzzles, I loved this cave. Once through, continue east and pick up the Pokéball on the ice, it contains HM 7 which allows watersteps, so you can go up a waterfall blocking your path. Then take the high road on the cliff and continue east until you find a ladder; take it.

Tired of puzzles? Too bad hehe, you have more to come. In this room, you should see stones that you can push using strength. Push each of the four stones into the four different holes. Once done, just jump in one of the holes. If you're having trouble, just center on getting one stone in a hole at a time. There are more than four stones, but they are not needed to put down the holes, they are there to obstruct you.

Once down, slide around, using the newly dropped stones, until you get to the small island in the middle with a ladder and a Pokéball on it. Take the ladder up. If you are having trouble, here's what to do. Go to the strip of land at the upper right hand side with the ladder on it. Stand at the bottom corner of the land and slide left into a rock, then down, then left, then up, then right. You should land at the middle island. Now, take the ladder up.

No puzzles in the next room, just go right until you find another ladder and use it. You'll find another mini puzzle of ice. Go to the right of the room and slide down until you hit the strip of land. Go to the right side of the wall, then take one step left, then jump down off the cliff where you should slide into a rock, then slide left until you hit another small patch of land where a ladder is located at. Use the ladder and go to the next level.

Yet another mini puzzle awaits you on this level. Go right until you find some stairs. Take the stairs and slide down, then right, then up, then left, then up, then left, then down, then left. Continue left until you find a ladder, use it.

Go to the left of the wall, then make one step right, slide down, then right, then down, then left, then down again. You should find the exit, take it.

Go south until you find another town. You can't go to the gym yet, so heal up and refresh your item index. Apparently, Team Rocket is starting up trouble again and you have to battle them. Fly back to the town called Kogame, where you got your bike and found the casino and the third gym leader. Go to the upper left hand corner of the city where you'll find a black tower, where you previously got your radio from. Enter it. Fight your way until you reach the top floor. Beat the man in the black hat and he will give you a key. Exit the building.

Go to the house behind the black tower and you'll find a blue floor and a staircase. Use the stairs. Once below, go south until you find the first passageway leading east. Go down it. You'll find a blue door. Press A and click the first option if there is one. The door should now be unlocked, so go ahead and walk in. Inside, you'll find some stairs, use them to go downstairs.

Keep going left once downstairs and fight the three trainers. There are three blue switches on the wall next to each TR trainer. Each switch opens a certain door or moves a certain wall. You have to switch each one in a specific order to open the iron doors and go to the bottom right corner of the room where a female Team Rocket member awaits you. There is no true combination, the doors are random and you will have to mix and match for a while before the doors and walls move so you can go to the bottom right corner of the room. It took me about 15 minutes to get the correct order. Once you get to the corner and find the female TR agent, fight her and go through the double blue doors. Once through, make your way east until you find some stairs, don't take them yet. Instead, go to the left of them and fight a trainer, then talk to the man in a black hat. He'll give you an item. Now, take the stairs up and you'll find yourself on the bottom floor of the Pokémon shop. Take the elevator to the 1st floor and exit the building.

Go back to the black tower in town. Go to the third floor and keep going right until you reach a thin wall blocking some stairs. Inspect the gray box next to the door with the A button, then choose the first option. The door should now open. Fight the trainer inside and take the stairs. You can fight the two trainers in the floor if you want, otherwise, go to the left and take the stairs there. You should now be on the final floor. Fight the two trainer guards and talk to the guy in the black hat . He'll talk to you for a bit. Now, exit the building with ease now that the trainers are gone. Head back to the city where the 8th gym was, but was locked (the town you found after going through the ice cavern). The gym is now open! Heal up and prepare to fight.

The gym is located in the back of town. Once inside, take the stairs to the next floor, push the rocks in their proper holes. Once done, take the stairs to the right. Follow the path and walk over the rocks. Now you can fight the gym leader, Ibuki . She uses a Kingudora in the mid 30's, a level 37 dragonair (uses fire), a level 37 dragonair (uses electricity) and a level 37 dragonair. Not too bad, just make sure you are well trained. Once you win, you will not receive a badge, you will have to get it yourself.

In order to get the badge, you must go through the cave directly behind the gym, past the small lake. Once in, take the first ladder to the next level and take the door below. You should now be in a large cavern. Go to the left hand side and surf down until you see a wall of stones in the lake. Make sure you are on the left side of them. Keep going south until you see a small whirlpool . If you got HM 6 and taught it to a Pokémon, simply go up to it, press the A button and choose the first option. The whirlpool should disperse and you should be able to proceed south. Go south until you can't go anymore, then go east until you find a small strip of land, do not go there. Instead, go to the strip of land to the northeast of it and pick up the Pokéball there. Apparently, it is the badge. The 8th gym leader will approach you and talk for a bit, then leave. Exit the cave the way you came and go into town.

9

Fly back to the first town you started at (where your house is at). Talk to the professor at his house, where you received your starting Pokémon. He will give you the ultimate Pokéball, the master ball. It will catch any wild Pokémon, no matter how powerful. Now, you have two options. You can go to the elite four and test your luck, or you can go in search of a rare and highly powerful Pokémon. If you have the Gold version, you will be searching for houou. If you have the Silver version, you will be searching for Lugia. Both are very useful and very hard to find and catch. If you want to go on to the elite four, skip the next section. If you want to catch the rare Pokémon, read on.

To find Houou, go to Enju city. It is the city where you fought the 4th gym leader (the one with all the ghost Pokémon). Go north while in the city and you should find a small pond. Go to the left of it and enter the house there. Find the ladders to the next level until you find one with a checker board floor mad to the right. Go through it, it is a door. Follow the pathway until you reach another temple. Enter it. Go to the back and you should find a staircase in between some Pokémon statues. Take it up to the next floor, go south where you find another staircase.

This is a trick floor with ramps that allow you to jump to the next platform, but never back. Make your way to the northeast corner of the room where you will find a statue. On the next floor, go to the northwest corner and take the stairs there. Go right to a ramp. Jump over to the second platform and take the ramp down to the next platform below. Go take the two ramps to the left, one south, one right, and keep taking the ramp south until you can't go anymore. Then, take the two ramps to your right, then the one south. There, you should find a platform with stairs, take them to the next floor.

Follow the wooden walkway around the room until you find another staircase, take it. Go up, then take a right where you should find a red square, don't take it. Instead, continue east and keep going around the room until you find another red square. Step on it to be transported to the next level. On the next floor, take the transport pad to the south. Then, on the next floor, the one to your left. Next floor, take the one to your left. Finally, you should be on a center platform with a staircase. Take it to the next floor. You should now be on the roof. Make sure your Pokémon are healed, ready to battle, and you have enough Pokéballs. Then, go north where you'll find a bird. Talk to it and you will fight it.

This thing is tough. A water Pokémon and water attacks would work best. try the red gyarados. Houou has a fire attack that will take away a good chunk of your Pokémon's HP. As an added bonus/nightmare, he can heal himself nearly all the way. I used the masterball, since I was in a hurry. If you don't want to use it yet, keep up the attacks until it is nearly passed out, then try to put it to sleep and throw a couple Pokéballs until you've caught it.

For Lugia, fly to the fifth gym leader's city, next to the ocean, where you got HM Fly. Surf to the right and you will find four mini islands blocked by whirlpools. Surf to the upper right island blocked by a whirlpool to the bottom right. Enter the cave on the island. Use flash to brighten things up. Go up until you meet the wall, then go right until you jump off of two ledges and run into the wall. Then, go up to find a staircase, use it. Then, follow the white pathway to another staircase, use it. You should be on a small strip of land nearly surrounded by water. Surf down to the right and down the waterfall. As soon as you land off the waterfall, don't move. Surf on over to the left where you should see a strip of land and a cave entrance on it. Enter the cave. Inside, surf north until you see a bird floating in the water. It is Lugia. Lugia, like Houou, is hard to catch. Just use the same method as with Houou (above).

If you win, good job! Trust me, either will come in handy.

10

Now, fly back to your starting town, where you got your masterball and starting Pokémon. Once there, go to the ocean to the east of the city and swim. Keep going east until you find an island. There is a cave to the north of the island, enter it. Swim to the left, once inside the cave. You will find a waterfall. If you got HM 7 back at the ice cavern and you taught it to a water Pokémon, go up to the waterfall and press the A button, then choose the first option. You should shoot up to the top, then, head east where you'll find another waterfall, go down it. You will see a cave exit near the bottom right, before leaving, your rival will challenge you. Make sure you are fit to fight and try to go through the door where he will stop you. The red haired rival uses a level 34 Nyuura, a level 36 magneton, a level 36 golbat, a level 35 haunter, a level 35 Kadabra, and a level 38 Bakufun. He's not too tough, but he will probably knock you around some. Just keep it up until you win. Then, exit the cave.

Once outside of the cafe, swim east, find another mainland, and continue east. You will find a white walkway, follow it east, then north. Once it ends, keep going north until you find another white walkway. Follow it north for a while until it leads to a building, at the furthest north of the trail. A man behind a desk will talk to you and ask to see your 8 badges. After that, go north and you will find a door. You should now be in a large cavern. Keep heading northwest until you find a ladder, take it. Then, on the next floor, head northeast where you will find another ladder to the left of a ladder sitting on the ledge. Take the left ladder up to the next level. Now, go north until you find a cave exit at the north end of the cave. You will find another building, it is the house of the elite four.

Inside, there is an item shop, a Pokémon Center, and a PC where you can exchange you Pokémon line-up. There are a few things you should do before going to battle the elite four. Make sure you have your best Pokémon in your line-up, then make sure to heal them. Even though they appear fine, they might have low PP on a certain move. Then, make sure you stock up on super potions that cure 200 HP on a Pokémon. they sell for 1200 and are the third on the list at the item shop in the building. You might also want to get a lot of Super revives that revive a KO'd Pokémon and raise it's HP bar by half. They go for 1500 bucks and are second to last on the item list (they have an "S" symbol at the end of their name). Make sure to take out some ethers and elixirs that you might have stored in the PC. They will replenish PP to a certain move or all the Pokémon's attack PPs. This is useful after about the third battle when your attack's PP is depleted. They start with what looks like " t - t- ". Once you are ready, go to the east, inside the building, then north where you'll find a staircase. Prepare to battle the Elite four!

Itsuki

Lv 40 Neiteio

Lv 41 Jynx

Lv 41 Slowbro

Lv 42 Neiteio

Lv 41 Exeggutor

Itsuki isn't that bad. She uses mainly ice Pokémon with the exception of slowbro and Exeggutor. Stick to your fire or fighting Pokémon, they should take out the other Pokémon in one or two hits.



Koga

Lv 41 Araidosu

Lv 42 Muk

Lv 44 Kuroba

Lv 43 Uoretosu

Lv 41 Venemoth

Koga has a good line-up and you might find yourself changing your Pokémon mid battle to gain the advantage. Water attacks seem to work fine though. After some lumps, you should come out victorious.



Bruno

Lv 41 Pokémon with spike on head

Lv 42 Hitmonchan

Lv 43 Onix

Lv 46 Machamp

Lv 42 Hitmonlee

Manly, Bruno sticks to fighting Pokémon. Psychic and flying attacks have the advantage. Strength works fine and water attacks work great on Onix. Watch out for machamp's rock slide.



Karin

Lv 42 Blacky

Lv 45 Gengar

Lv 44 Yamikarasu

Lv 42 Vileplume

Lv 47 Heruga

Use mainly fly, water and strength attacks. Vileplume is strong against fire, so use fly.



Lance

Lv 44 Gyarados

Lv 47 Dragonite

Lv 47 Dragonite

Lv 50 Dragonite

Lv 46 Aerodactyl

Lv 46 Charizard

Lance is by far, the best trainer of the elite four...err, now five. He is a dragon trainer so stick to strength and hyper beams. For Aereodactyl, use strength, for Charizard use surf and for the Dragonites, hyper beam works fine.

If you win, congrats, you earned it. After the ending cinema ends, be sure to start up your saved game as normal, but save the game as soon as your saved game loads. If not, your data from the elite four will have not been saved and you will have to beat them again. Now that you think you've beaten the game, guess again. A whole new adventure awaits you! (enter maniacal laugh) ...*ahem* click on the hypertext below to continue.

Now that you've beaten the first half of the game, it's time to explore the second half of it. After beating the elite five, you should be back in your starting city where the professor lives. Make sure that you save your game after the ending credits end. Then, go to the professor's office in town and talk to him. He will give you the SS Anne ticket. Now, exit the building and fly to the town where the sixth gym leader (whom you had to give an item to) lives. Go to the south of the city and you'll find a check-in station. Upon entry, you'll find a staircase in the middle of the room, use it. On the next level, continue south where you'll find another staircase, use it. You should now be on a dock. Follow it south, where you'll find a guy in a blue bandana . Talk to him and choose the first option when one is presented. He will take you down the dock and take you on the SS Anne!

Once on board, you must battle each competitor and talk to everyone. There is a PC in one of the first rooms so you can pick up some potions or another Pokémon once aboard. Once you beat everyone, go to the right side of the boat and take the stairs down. There is a man there, if he does not let you past him, it means that you have not talked to or battled everyone. If he does let you past him, continue west and battle everyone. You might notice that your Pokémon have been healed. Then, you'll find a staircase to the southeast of the walkway. Use it and you should see the captain. Be sure to talk to him, after the girl leaves. Then, return to the first deck and find and talk to the girl, standing next to her father, in one of the cabins. After that, go to the north end of the boat and talk to the guy at the door where you came in. He should allow you to leave. If not, be sure to talk to everyone and try again. Once off, you should now be in the old world, at Vermillion city!

Don't worry, you can always go back to the other side of the map if you want to. Just go back to the place where the elite five are at (at the upper left hand side of the map). You then have to go through the cave and back the way you came. It's kind of long, but you shouldn't need to do it often.

An easier way of getting back is to use the metro. Since you are still in Vermillion city, you can do this, beat surge, head on up and do the second part. Go to the house past below the Poké center, below the lake. Inside you will find a group of people sitting around at a table. You should find a clefairy. Talk to it, then talk to the person in the blue shirt sitting directly above the clefairy. After a lengthily conversation, you will receive a doll. Now, head on up to Saffron city. Head north and in the northwest corner of the city you will find a building to the left of the northern check-in station. The building houses the train station. Do not enter it yet. Instead, head south from it until you see a row of houses. Enter the house second to the end. Inside, you will find two people and a clefairy and a staircase leading to the second floor, use it. On the second floor, you will see a girl with a bird Pokémon. Talk to her. She will give you an item. Exit the house. Now, head directly north of the house to the building that housed the train station. Go north, inside the station, and you will find a guy in a blue hat, talk to him. He will allow you to pass. You will then be taken back to the city where the third gym leader lives, Kogame city. If you wish to go back, just talk to the guy in the blue hat again. It's much easier.

Once in Vermillion city, you can look around, heal your Pokémon and pick up some supplies. Then, you can challenge the gym leader there, Lt. Surge, the electric Pokémon trainer.

Once inside his gym, you'll find three trainers and a large grouping of trash cans. You'll also notice that the door leading to Surge is closed. You must inspect each trash can until the dialogue changes. This means that you have found one of the electronic switches. You now have a one in four chance of finding the next one. It will be within one of the four surrounding trash cans. If the message is the same statement that you usually get when inspecting an empty wastebasket, then you have to start all over again to find the first switch. They will change after every failure. If the message is the same as when you found the first switch, Lt. Surge's door should now be open. Go up to him and challenge him.



Lt. Surge

Lv 44 Raichu

Lv 46 Electabuzz

Lv 40 Electrode

Lv 40 Magneton

Lv 40 Electrode

Don't think you are going to waltz in and wipe the floor with him, he is tough. His magneton is a major annoyance. He will paralyze your Pokémon and bring your actual attack percent to 10%! Bring out rock Pokémon or something strong against thunder attacks. Houou works fine too with his fire attacks.

Next, go north of the city where you'll find a white pathway. Follow it up to the check-in station to the north. Once past, you'll be in Saffron city. There, you can recharge, then continue up to the northeast part of the city where you'll find two gyms. Enter the one to the right. Once inside, you'll find numerous teleportation pads. Step on the first one. There should now be four pads per room. But, a helpful way to get to where you want to go is, if you appear in a room with a telepad above you, take that one. If you appear in a room with one below you, take that one. Eventually, you will find Sabrina.



Sabrina

Lv 46 Efi

Lv 46 Mr. Mime

Lv 48 Alakazam

Sabrina should be pretty easy. Just use plain ol attacks with your strongest Pokémon and you should win.

Now that you have beaten her, go to the mid western part of town where you will find a check-in station. It leads to a small path, then to a city called Celadon City. There is a casino here where you can use the same tokens and get some new items and Pokémon including Eevee for 6,666 tokens! Once done, head south there you'll find a bush blocking a small pathway. Cut the bush and follow the path to the gym.

Inside, you will find Erika, the grass Pokémon trainer.



She isn't bad, just use fire Pokémon.

Once you defeat her, return to Saffron City.

Now, go to the check-in station in the northern center part of town. Keep going up until you find a town. It is called Cerulean city. You should go to the gym there, but you'll find Misty is gone. Instead, go to the 2 step by 2 step square in the room, filled up with water. Go to the bottom left hand side of it and face north. Now, use swim, but don't move. Once you are in the water, press the A button. You will find an item. If not, keep searching there until you find it. Now, exit the gym and go around the gym and another building to get to the right side of the town. There should be a pathway bordered by rocks heading east. Keep heading east until you can't go anymore. You should see a river, go around the rocks and swim in it. Follow it down and around until you see a large building. Enter it. Go to the room to the right with the blue floor and the electrical generators. Talk to the fat man there and he will ask you for the item you found in the gym. Choose the first option. He will thank you. Leave and fly back to Misty's gym. Enter it. Inside, a Team Rocket member will talk to you then run out. Leave the gym and follow the white path above the gym, leading north, until you find a brick walk way. You should see the Team Rocket member again and he will talk and run once more. Continue north on the path until you can start going east. Keep going east, battling the trainers until you find a house. There, you should see a girl and a boy talking. They will have a fight and run off. Now, go back to Misty's gym. Inside, you will find Misty awaiting your challenge. Challenge her to a battle.



Misty

Lv 42 Golduck

Lv 42 Upa

Lv 44Lapras

Lv 47 Starmie

Misty isn't tough. Just use electric and fighting Pokémon. No fire or rock Pokémon. I used the red gyarados, due to its water type and used strength on my opponents making for an easy win. You should be able to overpower and defeat her.

Now, go to the east of town, along the same path as before, leading east. Only, this time, don't swim down the river like last time. Instead head south from that point where you'll find a Poké Canter and a cave. Enter the cave and use flash. Head east and you should find a ladder, use them. Now, go to the north eastern corner of the cavern where you'll find another ladder, use it. Head east and you'll find another ladder, use it. Head to the north western part of the cave where you'll find yet another ladder, use it. Then, head south until you should see a cave exit, enter it. Head south once outside and you should find another town, this one called Lavender town.

Head to the large building in the east of town. Inside, you should find a man in a black hat facing the wall. talk to him and he will give you an upgrade for your Poké radio. You must have a radio, which you got at the black tower, where the third gym leader was (in the old world, not in the current world). This upgrade allows you to listen to the Pokéflute. It is the station farthest right on your list of stations.



Now, go to the south of the city and follow the path down. It should be a ways, but finally, you should turn east when you can't go south anymore. Follow the picket fence maze until you can go south. Go south for a bit until the path turns west, then head west. Keep going until you find a check-in station, pass through it. Once past, you should be in Fuchsia city.

The Safari zone is closed and there isn't much else to do here but challenge the gym leader. Head to the southern left-hand side of the city. The gym is next to a Poké center on a ledge. Inside, there are invisible walls forming a maze. If you have a Gameboy Color, you can see the small dividers separating the walls making it easier to navigate past the trainers. You will notice that all the trainers look alike and the gym leader Anzu isn't where Koga was in the Red and Blue versions of the game. Go to the very right-hand side of the room and you will see a person in black pants and a blue headband, she sort of looks like the other girl trainers. Challenge him.

Anzu isn't bad as long as you have some poison cures. Use ground and psychic Pokémon. Houou seems to be effective, but you might want to try your strongest Pokémon. Don't underestimate him though, he can be a pain.

Once you've defeated her, fly back to Vermilion city, where Lt. Surge lives. Go to the lower right-hand corner of town where you'll find a sleeping Snorlax blocking a cave. Go to the menu and choose the fourth option, the Poké watch. Select the radio icon and you will see a radio station selector. Go to the very last station, station 20. You should hear music, it is the Pokéflute station. If you hear nothing, it means that you didn't get the upgrade back in Lavender town. Read the walkthrough on it at Misty's chapter. If you do hear music, press the B button twice. The music should still be playing. You might want to save your game here. Now, walk up to the snorlax and talk to him, he will awaken to challenge you. Snorlax is very rare as only one exists, so catching him is a one time deal.

The hardest part about catching him is trying to lower his HP while not K.O.ing him, you have to watch out for his powerful attacks and life refilling sleep move also. Once you get it within a sliver, throw out as many Pokéballs as you have. You can't put him to sleep, so concentrate on capturing him and playing your chances of containing him. Don't use fire or poison attacks, he might get burned or poisoned. It took me a couple times to capture it.

Once you have either caught it or passed and just KO'd snorlax, enter the cave. Known as Diglett's Cave, it houses many digletts and dugtrios. You can try to catch one if you wish. Their dig attack is particularly effective.

Simply follow the path, nothing hard at all. Once outside, you'll find a bush to the left, cut it and proceed north. Welcome to Pewter city, home of Brock. Heal up and jet on over to the gym above the Poké Center. There, you'll find Brock.



Brock

Lv 41 Graveler

Lv 42 Omastar

Lv 44 Onix

Lv 42 Kabutops

Lv 41 Rhydon

Time to break out those water Pokémon like the red gyarados. Use mainly water attacks like surf or hydro pump. Hyper beam is effective also. Plant Pokémon also work fine. If you have mainly fire or electric Pokémon, you might have some trouble.

Now, on to the next challenger. To the right of town, you'll find a pathway leading east. Follow it to a cave. Upon entry, that red haired guy will challenge you.



Rival

Lv 41 Nyuura

Lv 42 Golbat

Lv 41 Magneton

Lv 43 Gengar

Lv 43 Alakazam

Lv 45 Bakufun

This guy never gives up. He uses the same strategy and has his bases covered in terms of Pokémon types. You might have to switch Pokémon mid-battle. You should be able to blow through his line-up with only minor problems.

Now, leave the cave the way you came and return to Pewter city, the cave you are in right now only leads to Cerulean city. Once in Pewter city, go south, down the trail, past the winding trees and continue south until you find a city called Viridian city. Giovanni is long gone and his gym is empty. You can go to the building at the upper left of the Poké Shop and go downstairs to fight yourself. Your duplicate uses three Level 50 Pokémon, Bakufun, Meganimu, and Odairu. Not a hard challenge, just make sure you are strong enough and you should win easily. No real treat for winning, just training and you can only do it a few times.

When you're ready, head south to Pallet Town, home of the Red/Blue/Yellow/Green star Ash! No flash photography please. Anyhoo, Ash isn't there, he's off on a Pokémon journey at the moment. Instead, head south until you reach an ocean outlet. Use swim and swim down until you reach an island. There, talk to the guy standing to the upper left-hand side of the Poké Center. Talk to him and he will disappear, it was Gary. After you've talked to him, swim east and swim until you find another island, only smaller. You will find a cave, enter it. Inside awaits Blaine. Challenge him.



Blaine

Lv 45 Magukaruga

Lv 45 Magmar

Lv 50 Rapidash

Nothing too bad, once again, time to break out the water Pokémon. Red gyarados, again, works dandy and so does Houou if you taught it fly. You should beat him easily after your bout with Lance.

Now, fly back to Viridian City and go to where Giovanni's gym used to be. It is a gym in the northeastern side of town. Inside, it looks like Lego supplied the decorations. Go north and find Gary. If you don't see him, it means that you didn't talk to him back at the island. If you do see him, challenge him to a fight.

Gary

Lv 56 Pidgeotto

Lv 54 Alakazam

Lv 56 Rhydon

Lv 58 Gyarados

Lv 58 Exeggutor

Lv 59 Arcanine

Gary is tough. 'Nuff said. You are going to have to change around your line-up many times during battle. I used mainly Houou and the red gyarados and beat him after a bit. Make sure you have a well rounded line-up to match his just in case you're having trouble. If you keep having trouble, it's time to train your Pokémon more. My strongest Pokémon was at level 58 or so, my Houou was at level 51 and the rest were waaaaaay behind, but I was in a hurry and my strategy doesn't include a strong offense.

Once you beat him, go back to Pallet town and go to the building at the south end of town. Inside, you'll find Professor Oak in the back. Talk to him and he will rate your Pokédex. make sure that you talk to him, it is necessary. Now, return to Viridian city.

Once in Viridian city, go to the left of town and you'll find a walkway leading west, follow it to a check-in station. Once inside, go west where you'll find a passageway leading west. The pathway was previously blocked by a guard. Once you go down the path and enter through the door, you will find yourself on another trail. Head west until you see a Poké center. This is a good place to heal up your Pokémon before the ultimate battle. Make sure you have lots of repellants, because you don't want to be weakened by wild Pokémon before the battle. There are numerous highly trained wild Pokémon lurking about.

To the left of the Poké center, you will find a cave, enter it. Use flash to see better. Go to the northeastern corner of the room where you will find another cave entrance, enter it. Follow the trail north, where you'll find another cave entrance, enter it. Keep going up until you find a boy with his back turned to you. It is Ash. Get your items and Pokémon in check for the battle of your life!

Ash

Lv 81 Pikachu

Lv 77 Blastoise

Lv 73 Eefi

Lv 77 Snorlax

Lv 77 Venusaur

Lv 77 Charizard

Most of you should be able to make it through Pikachu, Blastoise and Eefi easily, but Snorlax was totally unexpected. He is very powerful, has an amazingly high HP and can sleep to refill his HP bar. No use putting him to sleep. I couldn't get by him, my strongest attacks didn't do as much as it did to the others. My Pokémon line-up was: a lv 60 red gyarados, a lv 53 Houou, a lv 7 Uupa, a lv 4 Otachi, a lv Hoo Hoo and a level 33 Butterfree. I clearly needed a new battle plan. While walking around, I battled a wild Lv 45 Muuma. Something hit me, Snorlax uses physical attacks and what doesn't effect a ghost Pokémon? Physical attacks! I went back to challenge Ash again, this time with a new battle plan. I used Houou to knock out Pikachu without a scratch, Ash kept using potions on Pikachu, the red gyarados on Blastoise, hyper beam was effective. I used the red gyarados again on the Eefi and up came snorlax. I quickly switched to Muuma and let Snorlax try his physical attacks, proving worthless as planned. Now, I had a moment to regroup. I used his inability to hit Muuma to refresh any downed or injured Pokémon. I then used confusion, hp drain, and switched to Gyarados. Snorlax would only be confused for two more rounds, so I moved fast. I used a hyper beam before he lost confusion, then landed one more hyper beam before Gyarados was taken out. I switched back to Muuma and hit him with another confusion. He hit himself, knocking his HP down to 1 pixel width and I finished him off with a psychic blast.

Ah, it's all downhill from here. I switched to my Houou and fire blasted Venusaur back to the cold age and when Charizard stepped out, I used fly. Fire attacks would be worthless, but wind is another story. Three hits later and he was KO'd. I beat Ash.

After another ending, make sure to save your game. Now, nothing much to do except fill up that Pokédex.

You can catch the second mystical bird. If you have gold, you can catch Lugia and if you have Silver you can catch Houou! Simply go to Pewter city and talk to the old man, somewhere in Pewter city. He will give you a feather, depending on which version you have, either gold or silver feathers. Now, go back to the walkthrough on catching the mystical bird and have fun! However, if you saved up your masterball, you will be better off. These birds are at Lv 70 now and are tough to beat. You might want to cast your most powerful attack first, put it to sleep and gradually knock off chunks of its HP, then throw some ultraballs. You should have a tough battle, but it's well rewarded!

Red/Blue Guide
Pokémon Red/Blue Guide

Pallet Town
(You’re in your bedroom) Go to the computer and access your PC, get the potion and get downstairs. Go outside, now go to the very north, you should see some grass looking areas, go onto it, before you get far, Prof. Oak will stop you and lead you to his lab. He’ll let you choose a pokemon, choose a pokeball. I recommend squirtle or bulbasaur, but anyone is fine. Before you get out of the lab, Gary will challenge you to your first match, just keep on using the first move. If you win, you get some money, if you lose, Gary gets the bragging rights. One more thing, your pokemon will grow to level 6 if you win.

Route 1
Now that you have a pokemon, go on to the bush in the north and find fights, get your pokemon to level 10. If your pokemon faint (make sure that it doesn’t, run from battles if you need to), you’ll be back in your house, talk to your mom and go back onto route 1. Make your way through the route, talk to anybody you see, one guy will give you a free potion, another will tell you a "faster" way to get home.

Viridian City
Go directly up and right to that first building (with a "poke" sign on it) and go inside, go up and talk to the nurse behind the counter (yes, it’s a nurse, whistle!) she’ll offer to heal your pokemon, select heal. Now go northeast to the pokemart (with a "mart" sign), you’ll receive Prof. Oak’s Parcel. Go back to Pallet town, picking fights as you go (get your pokemon to level 11).

Pallet Town
Go back into Oak’s lab and talk to him, he’ll give you and Gary each a pokedex. Now go into Gary’s house and get a town’s map, despite what Gary said, his sister will still give you map.

Route 1
Now get your pokemon to level 12. Go into Viridian City.

Viridian City
Now heal your pokemon. Get a potion and 6 pokeballs at the pokemart, you’ll need them later. Go back to route 1.

Route 1
Capture a pidgey and raise it to level 10, capture a rattata and raise it to level 7 (it should have learned quick attack). Your pokemon should be around level 12 or above, above would be great. Go back to Viridian City.

Route 2
Switch your pidgey as your leading pokemon (or if you have a charmander put that into the lead). Now go north into Viridian Forest. (Don’t forget to heal your pokemon at the Viridian poke center first)

Viridian City
Go to the poke center and heal your pokemon, go up and stop when you see an old man. Go left and you’ll see a broccoli like bush. Press A and you’ll find a secret potion. Now go north to the Viridian Forest.

Viridian Forest (Pokemon catching spree)
Now with a level 10 pidgey leading, the pokemon you started with at level 13, and a level 8 rattata (you won’t be using this much, only to catch some pokemon) you’re ready for the forest. Note: if you got a charmander, put that in front. Immediately go up and turn right into that bush of grass. Now you can find a the 2 caterpillar pokemon (caterpie and weedle), and most importantly, a pikachu! Pika, Pika (sorry, I just had to do it). There're only a few pikachus in either version, you’ll just have to have patience. Use this chance to build up your other pokemon, oh, one other thing, use pidgey against bug type pokemon, but not against pikachu, NEVER use a flying pokemon on an electric one. You can use a charmander against both bug and pikachu. Try to get your pidgey to level 12 (if you have a charmander, get that to level 15 and keep your pidgey at level 10). Fight with a caterpie until level 12 (it’ll evolve twice), fight with a weedle until level 10 (it’ll also evolve twice). Remember to go back to Viridian City if you need medical help. When you’ve found a pikachu (took me a while) capture it and go back to Viridian City to heal all your pokemon, plus build your pikachu up to a reasonable level 10, just fight pidgeys, it’ll be a synch. Note: your beedrill should be on level 10.

Viridian Forest (getting through the forest)
At the entrance, head northwest to find a pokeball. Go back to the entrance and go right again, follow the path to find a bug catcher trainer, it should be no problem if you have a level 12 butterfree and a 12 pidgey (charmander). Use the butterfree against weedle and the pidgey (charmander) against caterpie. Go up the grass bush, you’ll be challenged by another bug trainer. Go up and get the antidote, remember if your monster have fainted or has really bad/low health (what I mean by bad is situations like poisend, etc.), go back to the Viridian City poke center. Use potions and antidotes only if you really must. Keep on going, follow the road as it zigzags through the forest. Keep on going until you reach another fork in the road, you should be facing south when you encounter it. Go right and down to find another potion. From there make your way to the northwest. There’s another bug trainer in your way but it’s nothing you can’t handle. Go north and exit. Note: you should have 5 pokemons, a level 13 starting pokemon (15 if you got charmander), a level 12 pidgey (10 if you got a charmander), a level 10 pikachu, a level 12 butterfree, and a level 10 beedrill (store the beedrill in the PC).

Pewter City
Instead of going to Brock, go heal your pokemon and go back to Viridian City instead, and from there, make your way west of town.

Route 22
Try and find both nidorans and a spearow, don’t waste your efforts finding a nidorn female if you can’t find one, now go north west, and then, huh? Why did we stop???

Gary
I missed Gary here my first trip, use your pikachu against his pidgey, use the butterfree if he chose bulbasaur, pikachu if he chose squirtle, or any pokemon against charmander (it has not learned ember). Note: if you use a bulbasaur against charmander, use leech seed and tackle, not vine whip.

Route 23
The guard at the gate won’t let you through, so let’s get the badges shall we? Go back through the forest to Pewter City.

Pewter City
Heal your pokemons. Now put an bulbasaur or squirtle (level 12 or 13) in front and head into the pewter city gym. You’ll win very quickly with bubbles and water gun if you have squirtle, or vine whip if you have bulbasaur. Brock will give you the boulder badge and TM 34, which teaches bide (I wouldn’t use this, I’d just sell it it). Note: if you don’t have a squirtle or bulbasaur, a level 15 charmander is your best bet, keep a butterfree with confusion with you though, because you might need it to back up charmander. After you finish Brock, go and buy 4 or 5 pokeballs at the pokemart. Heal your pokemons and head northwest to the museum. Talk to everyone, you’ll be able to fix the clues together later. Go right from the entrance to the museum and you’ll find another bush looking thing, cut it later when you get HM 01 and go inside, you’ll find a scientist who will give you Old Amber. Oh, 1 more thing, get an escape rope, you’ll need it pretty soon.

Brock
Brock has a level 12 Geodude and a level 14 Onix, a squirtle (wartortle) or bulbasaur (ivysaur) would fare best against these guys, if you picked a charmander at the beginning, build it up to level 13 or above, be sure to have a lot of potions. You’ll need a level 12 butterfree to back charmander up, I found out my self, the hard way.

Route 3
Ah, nothing like a scent of fresh air as we step outside, its time to set out on foot again. Note: before you go on route 3, get your pikachu to level 13. There are several trainers on route 3, nothing you can’t handle. Just follow this formula: use pidgey (or charmander) against caterpies and grass pokemons, you can also use them against weedles and kakunas but I’d let my butterfree fight against the poisen pokemon instead, pikachu against flying pokemons or water, butterfree against poisen pokemon and the pokemon you chose at the beginning against the rest. Capture a jigglypuff on the way. Build your pikachu up to level 16, practice experience on spearows and pidgeys. After a long walk, we come to the entrance of Mt. Moon. Heal your pokemons at the pokecenter right next to the entrance and enter Mt. Moon. (Store jigglypuff into someone’s PC)

Mt. Moon
Put a pikachu in the lead for zubats, if a trainer sends out a rock type pokemon, send out wartortle or ivysaur, if they send out a plant or bug pokemon, use pidgey (or charmander, I wouldn’t evolve charmander until level 38). Note: if you have a charmander instead, then capture a clefairy and teach it water gun (TM 12). Be sure you also capture a geodude (get it to level 16 if you chose bulbasaur at the beginning) and a paras before you are out of there. Oh and by the way, use the escape rope you bought to get out of Mt. Moon if you’re in trouble.

Walk through for items
(entrance) go up and left, you’ll face your first trainer (hopefully, no wild pokemon bothers you). After defeating him, go and get the potion to the left, then go down, you should see another item, it’s TM 12 (water gun, you won’t be needing this for quite a long time, unless you have squirtle or charmander, if you have a squirtle, sell it, if you have a charmander, either keep it for later or use it now on clefairy). Now go east, you’ll be challenged again. Follow the trail up and right, go through the ladder on the right, follow the road to another ladder, as soon as you walk out of that ladder, you’ll find your first team rocket member and a HP UP on the stairs. Go back up to the main floor when you finish the rocket. Go south and you’ll be challenged yet again, getting fun isn’t it? Go southwest from there to find yet another potion. Go east and you’ll find some rare candy (raises one of your pokemon’s level by one) go up north to get an escape rope. Be sure to challenge that trainer you passed. Go up north and face yet another trainer, switch your pidgey/butterfree/charmander into the leading pokemon before you challenge her (I’d go with butterfree, you’ll need a level 17 butterfree as soon as you exit Cerulean City). Then go left and then down into another ladder, follow the road to another and challenge the team rocket member, remember to swap your pokemons back before the challenge. Get TM 01 (mega punch) and go back to the main floor. Face another trainer to the south of you. To the left is another one guarding a ladder. Be sure to get the moon stone on the top left corner before going down the ladder. When you’ve entered the ladder, follow the trail to another rocket, beware of this one, I had a pretty hard time with him. After you beat the rocket, go back up the OTHER side and follow the road, you’ll find some clefairies here, challenge another rocket member and then a greedy little man. Choose a fossil, doesn’t matter which fossil you get, they are both good. From there, head west. Go down through the ladder and another one and you’re home free, thank goodness!

Route 4
After that long, (cough, cough) long walk, we’re heading towards Cerulean City. Be sure to pick up TM 04 (whirlwind) and do something with it, I think it’s useless, so I sold it. Capture a sandshrew or an ekans, depending on your version. Your pikachu should be at level 22 (don’t fight ground type pokemon like sandshrews with pikachu). Jump over the hedge on the east and head towards Cerulean City.

Cerulean City
Heal your pokemon and buy some more pokeballs, deposit all the TMs and escape ropes you didn’t use and use your rare candy and HP UP on a pokemon. Deposit your rattata too, if you haven’t already. Also store the moonstone into your PC too. Head for the Gym, right next to the pokecenter. If you have a level 22 pikachu, it’ll be a very short fight, just use thunder shock.

Cerulean City Gym
You can tell that these guys love water, they’ve transferred the gym into a pool!!! You’ll face 2 lieutenants before you meet Misty.

Misty
Misty has a level 18 staryu and a level 21 starmie, bulbsaur or pikachu, or any other plant or electric type pokemon would do. Do not use fire, what ever you do. The cascade badge and TM 11 are your rewards for defeating her.

Bike Shop
After defeating Misty, the road to the north will open up, but first visit the bike shop on the southwest corner. They sell bikes for the cheap price of $1,000,000 dollars? 5,000 times the price of my bike, but of course, nothing is cheap here, a pokeball, a ball costs .

The Nugget Bridge
Team Rocket has 6 members guarding route 24, but before you can do much, you’ll have to face Gary.

Vs. Gary
His arsenal includes a pidgeotto (use pikachu), an abra (any pokemon would do, abra doesn’t have any moves right now), a rattata (use the highest level pokemon you’ve got) and the pokemon he had at the beginning (if he chose a bulbasaur, pigeotto/butterfree would do, if he chose charmander, a level 18 geodude or any water pokemon would do, if he chose a squirtle, a pikachu would do)

The Nugget Bridge
Defeat all 6 members of the team rocket to receive a nugget, sell it off to get ,000, sweet!

Route 24 & 25


Now go left, you’ll be challenged by a trainer. Go north and find TM 45 (thunderwave, your pikachu should already have learned this, sell it). Then go south, whatever you do, don’t go through the trainers to the east, instead, try to catch a(n) bellsprout/oddish and an abra to your south. Try to get 2 abras if you can (one for trading and one for yourself). Put a butterfree in front, and use sleep powder against abra, use it again everytime he wakes up. Now put the abra in front, go challenge the first trainer, then immediately switch out another pokemon. Don’t use abra. That way, both abra and the pokemon that fought can gain points, and besides, abra can’t kill any pokemon, keep on doing this until you abra reaches level 16. After you pass the trainers, you’ll see a house nearby, go in it. Note: your starting pokemon should be approaching level 23 or 24, your pigeotto should be approaching level 22 (keep it at 18 if you have a charmander, deposit the bird too), your butterfree should be at level 17 or above, and your pikachu should be approaching level 24.

Sea Cottage
When you go into the house, you’ll see "Bill". Talk to him and help him transform back to a human. Now after he’s normal, go and talk to him again, he’ll give you the S.S. Anne ticket. Quickly go back to Cerulean City.

Cerulean City
Go to the pokecenter and heal your pokemon. Make sure you have at least 2 awakenings and 2 pokeballs. Exit the pokecenter and go to the house on the northeast corner, go out to the backyard and defeat the team rocket. Go heal your pokemon and come back here again. This time, go right, all the way right, then south, you’ll eventually find a road that looks like it’s for luxury people, this is route 5.

Route 5
Be sure to drop off a weak pokemon at the daycare. To do this, don’t enter route 5, instead, go to those hedges to the left and go down, you’ll jump over the hedges and finally reach a house. Jump down over the hedge when you’ve put a pokemon with the daycare, if you chose a charmander at the beginning, you have 2 choices, wait and get a Lapras at Saffron City, or put a magikarp (you’ll get it at Vermillion City, put it here before you go on S.S. Anne) there right now and wait for it to get to level 19, then train it into a Gyrados. Now go right into the underground path.

Route 6
Come out the other side of the underground path and capture a meowth/mankey, fight the six trainers and walk into the Vermilion City.

Vermilion City
Buy some super potions and some pokeballs, you should also have 2 or 3 awakenings. Go heal your pokemons and explore the whole town, going into each house. One guy will give you an old fishing rod, another will trade you a Farfetch’d for a spearow (don’t worry about catching another spearow), and another will give you a bike voucher, which you can take to the bike shop in Cerulean City to trade for a bike. Return to Vermilion City after you get the bike, make your way east of town and down the tiled bridge.

S.S. Anne
Too bad they don’t allow any cycling around here. Explore every room, go the east way first (go down the stairs on the southeast side of the ship when you first enter). I missed the kitchen, which is on the very southwest side of the ship when you first come in, visit that second. Go back to Vermilion City and heal your pokemon every time your pokemon are almost dead, fight every fight you can, and go to the captain last. You should also visit the deck to gain experience for your pokemon. To do this, go left at the entrance, (visit the stairs on the right first and the kitchen second) then go down the stairs you found. Go south to the next stairs, DON’T go right yet. When you have reached these stairs, keep on going west. To visit the captain, go left when you first come in, then down but DON’T go into the stairs, go right and then go up, but before you can go into the captain’s lounge, you’ll hear an annoying voice.

Vs. Gary
He leads off with a pidgeotto (pikachu), kadabra (butterfree), gyrados (pikachu), raticate (highest level pokemon), and the evolved version of the pokemon he started with (follow the formula on the first Vs. Gary section, pidgeotto/butterfree vs. ivysaur, etc.)

Captain’s lounge
Go up to the captain and press A, you’ll rub his back and he’ll give you HM 01, teach it to ivysaur or bellsprout/oddish.

Bye, Bye S.S. Anne
Get out of the ship and watch the cruise ship leave. Then head for diglett’s cave to the right of the entrance of S.S. Anne.

Diglett’s Cave
Capture a level 22 diglett, if you can’t find a level 22 one, find a level 20 diglett. Go out on the other side of Diglett’s Cave, you’ll find yourself on the right side of route 2, which you couldn’t get to before, go south and go into that house, trade an abra if you have one. Get out of the house and keep on heading south, go into the next house and talk to a scientist like person and get HM 05, keep it for a voltorb you’ll get later on. Don’t forget to get Old Amber at Pewter City. Go back to Vermilion City, use the cave.

Vermillion City
Head east of town.

Route 11
Defeat the trainers and head east, get the item finder and go back to Vermillion City.

Vermillion City
Now that you have cut, cut the bush on the south and go into the gym, placing your diglett at the very front.

Vermilion City Gym
First talk to the guy on the right when you enter, he’ll tell you that you need to solve a code to reach the lieutenant, defeat the 3 trainers in the gym and talk to them, they’ll tell you how to solve the code, I’m not even going to spoil this for you.

Lt. Surge
When you’ve solved the code, challenge the lieutenant. He has a level 18 pikachu, a level 21 voltorb, and a level 24 raichu. Put a diglett (which should be approaching level 26) in front and keep on using dig, you’ll win in no time, teach TM 24 to pikachu (Level 31) and your duglett will have almost evolved into dugtrio, use it against poisen, electric, fire, and rock typed pokemon. Return to Cerulean City. Surge will give you the thunderbadge and TM 24 (thunderbolt).

Route 25
There’s a bush on route 25, cut it and get TM 19 inside it, go to the sea cottage now and talk to Bill, do what he says, go on the PC.

Route 9
Go back to Cerulean City, cut that bush to the very south of the city, go northeast and you’ll see a short path leading to a bush, cut that and seek out 10 trainers on the way, the 10th is at the very end, by the rock tunnel entrance. Be sure to capture a voltorb on the way, teach it Flash, and store the HMs into the PC.

Rock Tunnel
This one is not as confusing as Mt. Moon, but the thing is, there is a ton of trainers and no items :( If you have the flash ability, you’ll get through very easily (since you can see). Put a grass or water type pokemon in front, again, use bellsprout/oddish/gyrados if you chose charmander, be sure to capture a machop and an onix.

Route 10
After exiting the rock tunnel, you’ll need to defeat a few more trainers before you can reach lavender town. There’s a bush on the very north east of the route, go to it and press A to find a secret ether, which replenishes your pokemon’s abilities PP.

Lavender Town
Go to the pokecenter and pokemart and go west (don’t visit any other place except for the name rater just yet).

Route 8
There are several trainers here, capture a vupix/growlithe and store it in the PC. Go into the little house at the end and go through the underground path.

Route 7
Go northwest to reach Celadon City, you might also consider gaining some experience in the field of grass nearby.

Celadon City
Before you go to the poke center, go up and then left. When you see an opening go up and left and down, keep on going on to the stairs and go into that little lab house thingie to get a very rare pokemon called eevee, evolve it into a Flareon if you have not chosen a charmander. Now visit the pokecenter, do not visit the gym until you have a level 31 Flareon/29 butterfree.

Celadon City Gym
There’s a peeping tom outside of it, it’s a wonder why, the gym is full of girls, after you get through 10 or so, you face Erika.

Vs. Erika


Erikas got 3 grass type pokemon, a level 29 Victreebell, a level 24 Tangela, and a level 29 Vileplum (unless you take out vileplum with the first it, you’ll be in for quite a while). Flareon or Charizard will wipe them out faster than you can say, good bye. Defeat her and to get the rainbow badge and TM 21 (Mega Drain).

Celadon City Department Store
Go into the elevator and go to the top floor, then go up the stairs to reach the roof, there’s a vending machine nearby, get 2 waters, a lemonade, and a soda pop, give 1 of each type of drink to the little girl, she’ll give you TM 13, TM 48, and TM 49. Now buy some great balls, some revives and some paralyze heal. Also buy a pokedoll, a thunder stone, a firestone (if you have a vulpix – blue version or eevee – red version, if you have charmander don’t worry about it), and a leafstone (if you have weepinbell or gloom, don’t worry about this if you have a venusaur instead). Note: get 2 thunderstones if you are crazy about a Jolteon, like my friend Robert is.

Game Corner
Talk to the guy at the very top. After you defeat him, go to the poster and press A. A secret door to the right of you will open up. Go in.

Surviving Team Rocket’s Secret basement
As soon as you get in, seek out the 2 trainers around you, be sure to get the escape rope to the southwest of where you started from, then return to where you were at the beginning and go down the stairs on the right side. Go west and you’ll be challenged. Now go upwards and down the stairs, go south to get the TM 10. Make your way through the maze of the "arrows". Go down the ladder at the very end. Now, that you’re at the 4th basement, it’s time for the lift key, go northwest and defeat the rocket, talk to him after, you’ll get the lift key, make your way back to the second basement, get the 4 items while breaking through the second maze, go up the ladder and get the hyper potion at the northwest corner, go back down the stairs and then go into the elevator, go to floor B4, after the elevator stops, go th the soutwest and get the iron, now defeat the 2 trainers that you passed and talk to the black suited man holding the silph scope.

Vs. Giovanni
Giovanni has 2 ground type pokemon, including a ryhornand an onix, he also has a kangaskhan, a team of water/grass and fighting pokemon will fit perfectly, use the water/grass pokemon against the ground pokemon, and the fighting pokemon against the kangaskhan.

Celadon City
Go east to 7, be sure you have the bottle of water with you, go into the guard house leading to Saffron City, After you get into Saffron City, go north to the Fighting Dojo Gym, (the one to the left), put a Kadabra in front, choose a fighting pokemon after you beat everyone, I chose Hitmonchan after experimenting with both. Head east to Lavender Town.

Lavender Town
Go into that big tower.

Pokemon Tower
Before you can do much, the annoying voice strikes again.

Vs. Gary
He includes a Kadabra, the pokemon he started with, Pidgeotto, a water/fire/grass pokemon, and another water/grass/fire pokemon, depending on what he chose at the beginning. The only pokemon you should have problems with is the Kadabra.

Pokemon Tower
Make you way to the vert top of the tower, put a Kadabra at the top to fight the ghosts, it’ll be very effective because not only is it fighting a ghost, it’s also fighting a poisen pokemon. Get the 7 items along the way. At the sixth floor, you’ll meet a Marowak, you can’t capture this ground type pokemon, so you’ll have to make it faint, use a water or grass pokemon to fight against it, use the same types to fight against cubones, you’ll face 3 rockets at the seventh floor, defeat them and rescure old mr. Fuji, he’ll give you a pokeflute.

Saffron City
Go to the center of the city and into the big building

Silph. Co
Use the elevator to get to the 5th floor, go to the very south and get the card key, if your pokemon need experience, seek every rocket/scientist/juggler there are in the building, but if you want to end this quickly, then go to the 3rd floor and go southwest, open the gate with the card key, go in and step on to the tile, and hey! Haven’t you learned to leave me alone Gary????

Vs. Gary
He’s got a pidgeot, alakazam, and some other pokemon in between levels 35-39, backed up by a level 40 starting pokemon.

Saving the Day
Talk to the guy nearby to receive a Lapras, step on the tile at the bottom, defeat the rocket in your way, if you need mediacal help, go to the southwest corner on the 9th floor. Anyway, as soon as you open the door with the card key, out comes Giovanni.

Vs. Giovanni
He’s got 4 pokemon this time, including a Nidorino, Rhyhorn, Kangaskhan, Nidoqueen, use your Kadabra against the poisen pokemon, a water or grass pokemon against Rhyhorn, and a fighting pokemon against the Kangaskhan.

The Master Ball
Talk to the president, he’ll give you the master ball, there’s only 1 like it in the game, like they say, save it for a very special pokemon.

Mr.Psychic’s House
At the southeast corner of the city, he’ll give you TM 29, which teaches psychic.

Copycat’s House
To the very northwest of the city, at the second story, be sure you have a pokedoll with you, if you do, copycat will give you TM 31, which teaches mimic.

Saffron City Gym
Step on the first warp tile and keep on stepping on the tile that ‘s above or below you to get to the next room, sooner or later you’ll get to a large room with a girl in it, this is Sabrina.

Vs. Sabrina
Sabrina has a level 38 Kadabra, a level 37 Mr. Mime, a level 38 Venomoth, and a level 43 Alakazam. I had a hard time with Sabrina using Blastoise, so I switched to Dugtrio and kept on using earthquake, be sure to have a lot of potions, if you have a Charizard, get it to level 45 and keep on using slash, it’ll finish them with 2 or 3 strikes each (might be more with Kadabra or Alakazam because of their move recover), if you have Venasaur, keep on using razor leaf, except on Venomoth, on which you should use Flareon instead. When you’ve beaten Sabrina, you’ll get the soul badge and TM 46, which teaches Psywave.

Routes 12-15
After getting your 5th badge, head back to Lavender Town, then head south, be sure to pick up the super rod on route 12, you’ll see some grass fields, you can capture pidgeottos, oddishs (red version), glooms (red version), bellsprouts (blue), weepinbells (blue), venonats, and dittos. Don’t forget to get TM 20 and iron, also a little gift from Oak’s aid. There are lots of bikers (poisen pokemon), and bird catchers (the name say it) around here too, easy if you have a well trained pikachu and a well trained kadabra/dugtrio. Oh, and by the way, if you try to capture the Snorlax, save before you do it.

Fushia City
The city is really a maze itself, to reach the pokecenter and the gym, you’ll have to head to the west of the city, not out of it, and follow the little path leading south, visit the gym right after the pokecenter.

Fushia City Gym
If you look closely at the screen, you’ll see tiny dotted lines. This is the invisible wall, go around it and finally reach koga. There will be a few trainers, I had problems with Hypno, took about 60 HP from me with 2 headbutts. Funny that this gym calls themselves ninja trainers, they train psychic and poisen Pokémon, maybe they should try out for Sabrina’s gym instead.

Vs. Koga
Koga is at the very middle of the gym, he will send out two level 37 Coffing, a level 39 Muk, and a level 43 Weezing. A Kadabra/Alakazam or a Dugtrio will make this a pretty short fight. Beat him, the soul badge and TM 06 (toxic) is yours.

Safari Zone
It’s at the very north of the city, there will be at least 15 spieces of different pokemon including both Nidorins, Nidorino, Nidorina, Kangaskan, Chansey, Rhyhorn, Exeggcute, Venonat, Venomoth, Paras, Parasect, Scyther (red), Pinsir (Blue), Tauros, and Doduo. You’ll also find the warden’s gold teeth and HM 03, which teaches surf. Give warden his gold teeth and he’ll award you with HM 04 which teaches strenghth, so you you can move, say, that boulder in the warden’s house? Get some ultra balls at the pokemart too.

Routes 16-18
Capture a Raticate and a Fearow on the way, before you go to Cycing Road, head west of Fushia City, now step south, you’ll find a Lickitung. If you need a "break" with your fingers and your bike, press B to stop. If you have already gotten rid of or have captured the snorlax in the way, then cut the bush blocking the way north. Now keep on going west, you’ll see a little house with a girl inside, talk to her and he’ll give you HM 02, which teaches fly (go back to any city you’ve visited already). Head towards Cerulean City now.

Cerulean City
Be sure to have a pokemon with surf and a pokemon who has fly with you, head east towards Rock Tunnel. Before Rock Tunnel, head towards the edge of the river to the north and dive into the water using surf, keep on paddling towards the south until you reach a big building, this is the power plant.

The Power Plant
Put a dugtrio in front. Be sure to get a magnemite and a magneton if you can, also, try to get an electabuzz if you have the red version. Make your way through, getting the rare candy, carbos, HP UP, and TM 33/TM 25, be careful, lots of the items on the floor are actually level 40 voltorbs. At the near end of the power plant you’ll come across a bird looking Pokemon…..

Vs. Zapdos
Save before you meet this guy, you should not have any problems with Zapdos, just get his energy down and throw ultra balls at it, it took me 2 tries to get him, I think he is the easiest out of the 3 legendary birds. Exit and fly back to Fushia City.

Sea Route 19
Head south of Fushia City. There are lots of trainers here, but no problems for you. Keep on heading south west until you reach an island with 2 cave entrances, go into the one that you can.

Seafoam Islands
As you are descending through the levels, push the boulders into the pit, the idea is to block the river below so that you don’t get washed away. At the 3rd level, push 2 boulders down to the 4th level, jump in after them. You’ll land in the water, head north until you see Articuno, another bird.

Vs. Articuno
I had problems with this guy, I got it’s health all the way down, but I always miss with my ultra ball, took me about 10 ultra balls before I caught him.

Sea Route 20
After you get out of the islands, head west and you’ll reach Cinnibar Island. The gym is locked, wonder if there’s a key..

Cinnibar Island
Go to the pokecenter (located in the south) and the pokemart (right beside the pokecenter). Withdraw the fossil and Old Amber, give it to the Scientist in the 3rd door at the Pokemon Lab (southwest corner of the island). Now head to Pokemon Mansion (northwest corner).

Pokemon Mansion
Flip on switches inside statues as you make your way up. At he 3rd floor, flip on the switch at the statue and head south, jump off the ledge in the middle. Defeat a nearby trainer and head northeast, the secret key, however, is at the western section, so you’ll have to make your west, when you’ve gotten the secret key, dig out of there. Go to the pokemon gym.

Cinnibar City Gym
You’ll have to challenge trainers to open doors, after a while, you’ll see old man Blaine.

Vs. Blaine
Blaine’s pokemon are pretty hot stuff, but you can take care of them with a water or rock pokemon. He has a level 42 Growlithe, a level 47 Arcaine, a level 40 Ponyta, and a level 42 Rapidash. After you defeat him, you’ll be awarded with the volcano badge and TM 38, which teaches fire blast.

Sea Route 21
Head north of Cinnibar Island and use surf, go all the way back to Viridian City, put a water or grass pokemon in front and head into the gym, you know, the one that you couldn’t go into before.

Viridian City Gym
This is just like the game corner, with all the arrow pointing things, go on the one to the north, and make your way to the 8th trainer, and it’s...

Vs. ????????
Giovanni!!! Giovanni??? The leader of Team Rocket? Who’d thought, a team of grass and water pokemon, will make this a short fight. Talk to Giovanni after you beat he and receive the earth badge and TM 27 (Fissure), he’ll disband Team Rocket and dedicate his studies to the world of pokemon

Route 22
We’ve been on this route before, and um, oh no, not again

Vs. Gary
You think he’d learned his lesson already, but noooooo, he starts off with a Pidgeot, then an Alakazam, and a Rhydon after that, he finishes it off with the pokemon he started out with.

Route 23
If you have all 8 badges, you’ll get to an entrance at the end, this is victory road.

Victory Road
You’ll find Moltres, among machokes and marowaks, in the range of Lv40-Lv50. Push boulders onto the little round things to open up passages. To reach moltres, you’ll have to get to the third floor first, then you will have to go down through the ladder at the northwestern corner of the 3rd floor. To get out, you’ll first have to move a boulder onto the switch at the southern part of the second floor, then go up the stairs on the right and keep on going right.

Vs. Moltres
This guy is as easy as Zapdos, get his energy down to a minimum and throw ultra balls at it.

Indigo Plateau
This is the last place to heal your pokemon and to stock up on items. Save before you enter the door to the elite 4. There is no going back after you enter.

The Elite 4


Vs. Lorelei
With the exception of Jynx, use thunderbolt with Raichu, if your Raichu is just at level 50, use thunder. Use a fire pokemon against Jynx.

Vs. Bruno
Arguably the easiest of the elite 4, he has 2 onixes and 3 other fighting pokemon. Use a flying or psychic pokemon against the fighting pokemon and water or grass against the onixes.

Vs. Agatha
They say that she wields ghost pokemon, I say she wields poisen pokemon, 1 or 2 psychic attacks will send them to the afterlife.

Vs. Lance
If you had raised Articuno a few levels, it’s ice beam will make losers of Lance’s Dragons, use a Raichu against Gyrados and Aerodactyl.

Well we find out that someone has reached the elite 4 before us, and it is none other than……

Vs. ????
Gary!!! He starts off with a pidgeot (raichu), then alakazam (use fissure with dugtrio), then rhydon (water or grass pokemon). Now, the last 3 pokemon veries, if he chose a bulbasaur at the beginning, he’ll have gyrados (raichu), arcanine (water pokemon), and venusaur (fire pokemon). If he started off with a squirtle, he’ll have an arcanine (water pokemon), exeggutor (fire pokemon), and blastoise (raichu). If he started off with charmander, he’ll have an exeggutor (fire pokemon), gyrados (raichu), and charizard (water pokemon)

Congratulations, you’ve beaten Gary!!! You are now the undisputed Pokemon Master!!! Professor Oak inducts you and your pokemon into the hall of fame!!!

The Unknown Dungeon


Head towards route 24 (north of Cerulean City), jump into the water to the south and start swimming until you reach the entrance, be sure to have the master ball with you, there are many Pokemon in here. At the basement, you will meet Mewtwo, throw the master ball at it. Good luck!!!