Pallet Town
(Youre 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. Here you will receive your first Pokemon, Pikachu! Before you get out of the lab, Gary will challenge you to your first match. If you win, you get some money, if you lose, Gary gets the bragging rights. One more thing, Pikachu 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 Pikachu up to level 10. If Pikachu faints (make sure that it doesnt, run from battles if you need to), youll 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, its a nurse, whistle!) shell offer to heal your Pokemon, select heal. Now go northeast to the pokemart (with a "mart" sign), youll receive Prof. Oaks Parcel. Go back to Pallet town, picking fights as you go (get Pikachu up to level 11).
Pallet Town
Go back into Oaks lab and talk to him, hell give you and Gary each a pokedex. Now go into Garys house and get a towns map, despite what Gary said, his sister will still give you map.
Route 1
Now get Pikachu up to level 12. Go into Viridian City.
Viridian City
Now heal your Pokemon. Get a potion and 6 pokeballs at the pokemart, youll 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. Now go north into Viridian Forest. (Dont forget to heal your Pokemon at the Viridian pokecenter 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 youll see a broccoli like bush. Press A and youll find a secret potion. Now go north to the Viridian Forest.
Viridian Forest (Pokemon catching spree)
Now with a level 10 Pidgey leading, Pikachu at level 13, and a level 8 Rattata (you wont be using this much, only to catch some Pokemon) youre ready for the forest. Immediately go up and turn right into that bush of grass. Now you can find the caterpillar Pokemon Caterpie. Use this chance to build up your other Pokemon. Fight with a Caterpie until level 12 (itll evolve twice). The final evolution of Caterpie is Butterfree, his psychic attack Confusion will be a big help soon! Remember to go back to Viridian City if you need medical help.
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. Go up the grass bush, youll be challenged by another bug trainer. Go up and get the potion, remember if your monster have fainted or has really bad/low health (what I mean by bad is situations like poisoned, 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. Theres another bug trainer in your way but its nothing you cant handle. Go north and exit.
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
This is a great place to capture new Pokemon. Don't miss both Nidorans, Spearow, and especially Mankey. If you go to far you will run into...
Gary
I missed Gary here my first trip, he has added a Spearow to his lineup since your last battle. Note: the outcome of these first two battles determines how Gary will later on Evolve his Eevee. If you beat him both times he will have a Jolteon, If you win the first battle but lose this one he will have a Flareon, and if you lose both he will evolve Eevee into a Vaporeon.
Route 23
The guard at the gate wont let you through, so lets get the badges shall we? Go back through the forest to Pewter City.
Pewter City
Heal your Pokemon. Now put Butterfree in front and head into the pewter city gym. Brock will give you the Boulder Badge and TM 34, which teaches bide (I wouldnt use this, Id just sell it ). After you finish Brock, go and buy 4 or 5 pokeballs at the pokemart. Heal your Pokemon and head northwest to the museum. Talk to everyone, youll be able to fix the clues together later. Go right from the entrance to the museum and youll find another bush looking thing, cut it later when you get HM 01 and go inside, youll find a scientist who will give you Old Amber. Oh, 1 more thing, get an escape rope, youll need it pretty soon.
Brock
Brock has a level 10 Geodude and a level 12 Onix, Butterfree should go all the way with Harden and the Confusion attack, but have a Nidoran or Mankey backing him up just incase. Don't even think about using Pikachu...trust me.
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 cant handle. Just follow this formula: use Pidgey against Caterpie and grass Pokemon, and Pikachu against flying Pokemon. Capture a Sandshrew 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 Pokemon at the pokecenter right next to the entrance and enter Mt. Moon.
Mt. Moon
Put a Pikachu in the lead for Zubats, if a trainer sends out a rock type Pokemon send out Butterfree, if they send out a plant or bug Pokemon use Pidgey . Then capture 2 Clefairies (1 for trade) and teach yours Water Gun (TM 12). Be sure you also capture a Geodude 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 youre in trouble.
Walk through for items: (entrance) go up and left, youll 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, its TM 12. Now go east, youll 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, youll 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 youll be challenged yet again, getting fun isnt it? Go southwest from there to find yet another potion. Go east and youll find some rare candy (raises one of your Piketon'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 or Butterfree into the leading Pokemon before you challenge her (Id go with Butterfree, youll 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 Pokemon 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 youve 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, youll find some Clefairies here, challenge another rocket member and then a greedy little man. Choose a fossil, doesnt matter which fossil you get, they are both good. From there, head west. Go down through the ladder and another one and youre home free, thank goodness!
Route 4
After that long, (cough, cough) long walk, were heading towards Cerulean City. Be sure to pick up TM 04 (whirlwind) and do something with it, I think its useless, so I sold it. Capture a Mankey or a Sandshrew if you missed them before. Your Pikachu should be at level 22 (dont 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 didnt use and use your rare candy and HP UP on a Pokemon. Deposit your Rattata too, if you havent 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, itll be a very short fight, just use thunder shock.
Cerulean City Gym
You can tell that these guys love water, theyve transferred the gym into a pool!!! Youll face 2 lieutenants before you meet Misty.
Misty
Misty has a level 18 Staryu and a level 21 Starmie, Pikachu or any other plant type Pokemon would do. Do not use fire, what ever you do. The Cascade Badge and TM 11 are your rewards for defeating her. With the Cascade Badge in hand you can also get Bulbasaur from the trainer next to the pokecenter!
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 costs $200.
The Nugget Bridge
Team Rocket has 6 members guarding route 24, but before you can do much, youll have to face Gary.
Vs. Gary
Ash versus Gary III is interesting because he now has four Pokemon from levels 15-18.
The Nugget Bridge
Defeat all 6 members of the team rocket to receive a nugget, sell it off to get $5,000, sweet!
Route 24 & 25
Go north and find TM 45 (Thunderwave, your Pikachu should already have learned this, sell it). The trainer here will give you Charmander for FREE! Then go south, whatever you do, dont go through the trainers to the east, instead, try to catch Venonant, Bellsprout, and Oddish. After you pass the trainers to the east, youll see a house nearby, go in it. Note: Pikachu should be approaching level 23 or 24, and by now the rest of your team should try to be up to level 20.
Sea Cottage
When you go into the house, youll see "Bill". Talk to him and help him transform back to a human. Now after hes normal, go and talk to him again, hell give you the S.S. 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 team rocket. As a reward you will receive the TM Dig. Dig is an excellent ground attack and can also be used to escape dungeons! Go heal your Pokemon and come back here again. This time, go right, all the way right, then south, youll eventually find a road that looks like its for luxury people, this is route 5.
Route 5
Be sure to drop off a weak Pokemon at the daycare. To do this, jump down the middle path to reach the Daycare Center. For a small fee you can leave a Pokemon with him and he will train him for you. Also in the tall grass above the daycare center is your first chance to capture Jigglypuff and the elusive Abra. Here is a secret to capture Abra; use Butterfree and the Sleep Powder attack to keep Abra from teleporting out of battle. Now it is easy to weaken and capture him! From there go right into the underground path.
Route 6
Come out the other side of the underground path and capture more Pokemon you may have missed, then 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 Pokemon and explore the whole town, going into each house. One guy will give you an Old Fishing Rod, 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 dont 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, DONT 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 DONT go into the stairs, go right and then go up, but before you can go into the captains lounge, youll hear an annoying voice.
Vs. Gary
Gary has trained his Pokemon since your last encounter, now they are at levels 17-20. This is a good gauge for how well you are doing, if this battle is tough you may need to get more experience for your Pokemon.
Captains lounge
Go up to the captain and press A, youll rub his back and hell give you HM Cut! Like Dig this can be taught to a Pokemon as an attack, and also serves as a way to cut down small trees that will get in your way! Note: Do not look into the captain's garbage can. =)
Bye, Bye S.S. Anne
Get out of the ship and watch the cruise ship leave. Then head for Digletts cave to the right of the entrance of S.S. Anne.
Digletts Cave
Capture a level 22 Diglett, or if you are lucky a high level Dugtrio! Mine was level 40 and was a tough battle, but he was worth it when I battled Lt. Surge. Go out on the other side of Digletts Cave, youll find yourself on the right side of route 2, which you couldnt get to before, go south and go into that house, trade a Clefairy for a Mr. Mime. Mr. Mime was is a great early addition to my team because of his boosted experience. Get out of the house and keep on heading south, go into the next house and talk to a scientist like person and get the HM Flash. Dont 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, hell tell you that you need to solve a code to reach the lieutenant, defeat the 3 trainers in the gym and talk to them, theyll tell you how to solve the code, Im not even going to spoil this for you.
Lt. Surge
When youve solved the code, challenge the lieutenant. He has a level 28 Raichu. Put a Diglett (which should be approaching level 26) in front and keep on using dig, youll win in no time, teach TM 24 to Pikachu or Clefairy and your Diglett will have almost evolved into Dugtrio, use it against poison, electric, fire, and rock typed Pokemon. Return to Cerulean City. Surge will give you the Thunder Badge and TM 24 (thunderbolt). Don't forget to visit Officer Jenny in the middle of town after this battle to receive Squirtle!
Route 25
Theres 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 youll 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. You will be able to catch Magnemite and Machamp along this route for the first time. Heal up in the pokecenter and make sure one of your team knows the skill Flash.
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, youll get through very easily since you can see). Put a grass Pokemon in front, and be sure to capture an Onix.
Route 10
After exiting the rock tunnel, youll need to defeat a few more trainers before you can reach Lavender town. Theres 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 (dont visit any other place except for the name rater just yet).
Route 8
There are several trainers here, ranging from levels 22-26. 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, Jolteon, or Vaporeon with the appropriate stones found in this city. Now visit the pokecenter and get ready for the Celadon City Gym.
Celadon City Gym
Theres a peeping tom outside of it, its 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 30 Tangela, a level 32 Weepinbell, and a level 32 Gloom. 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, theres a vending machine nearby, get 2 waters, a lemonade, and a soda pop, give 1 of each type of drink to the little girl, shell give you TM 13, TM 48, and TM 49. Now buy some great balls, some revives and some paralyze heal. Also buy a Pokedoll and any Fire, Leaf, Thunder, or Water Stones you may need!
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 Rockets 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 youll 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 youre at the 4th basement, its time for the Lift Key, go northwest and defeat the rocket, talk to him after, youll 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 to the southwest 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, |