Houou
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.
Lugia
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).
Buruki
Go to the town where the fourth gym leader (the one with the trick floor and ghost pokemon) is located at. Go to the east of town until you find a check-in station. Go through the check-in station and go to the waters edge, then surf east. You will come upon a land mass with a cave in the mountain, enter it. Upon entry of the cave, surf right then use TM 7 to surf up the waterfall. Go to the very back of the cave where you'll find a cave entrance, enter it. Inside the cavern, you have to surf around to get past the ledges. Make your way to the upper left-hand corner of the cavern until you find a ladder, use it. In the next room, follow the ridge until it splits left and right. Go left and continue east, then south when you can't go east anymore. You will find a ladder there, use it. Go right and you will find a man who looks like a karate trainer. Talk to him and he will challenge you to a duel. He uses a level 34 hitmonlee and a level 34 hitmonchan. Once you beat him, he will give you a level 10 pokemon called Buruki.
The Hunt for the red gyarados:
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!
Gyarados:
lv 20 Bite
lv 25 Dragon Rage
lv 32 Leer
lv 41 Hydro Pump
lv 52 Hyper Beam |