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: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. Or, you can follow the diagram below.
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 por moi. 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 |