I1) New Bark Town and Choosing a Starter
I2) Route 29 to Cherrygrove
I3) Cherrygrove to Mr. Pokemon's House
I4) Your first Rival fight
I5) Mystery Egg Delivery
I6) To Violet City
I7) Violet City
I8) Sprout Tower
I9) Violet Gym
I10) Falkner
I11) Mystery Egg

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I: The Beginnings
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I1) New Bark Town and choosing a starter
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Items : Potion x 2

Pokemon : Cyndaquil, Chikorita and Totodile

Before you start the game, you will be given a commentary on controls, then
professor oak comes in and starts teaching you about pokemon. You can choose
your name, then your rival's name. After you choose the names, your journey
automatically begins. Unlike the original, you do not need to set the time.

You start in your room, the only room in the second floor (Where does your
mom sleep? =o)

You can boot up the PC and get a free potion. I recommend you do so. Aside
from the PC, there is nothing else of interest (your room has two TVs
broadcasting the same program). The town map does not work in towns.

Once you go down, your mom will hand you your Pokebeeper and Phone Card (The
alternative to the phone in Pokegear in SG B5). She will not ask you to set
the day of the week or DST. She also mentions Professor Elm is looking for
you (Why didnt they give him a nice name like driftwood?).

You can go sightseeing in New Bark Town, but there is not much useful to hear. When you are ready, proceed to the lab. Talk to the red-haired kid by the lab. G/S players should know who he is.

When you enter the lab, you are forced to run an errand for Professor Elm
(lazy mudkip). He gives you 3 of his rarest pokemon (Why would he do that?
Video game logic!) to help you run your errand. Here are the three starters:

Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile


Grass Fire Water


Final Evolved Forms:

Meganium

Grass

Base Stats:

HP: 80
Attack: 82
Def: 100
SpA: 83
SpD: 100
Speed: 80

Typhlosion

Fire

Base Stats:

HP: 78
Attack: 84
Def: 78
SpA: 109
SpD: 85
Speed: 100

Feraligatr

Water

Base Stats:

HP: 85
Attack: 105
Def: 100
SpA: 79
SpD: 83
Speed: 78

What Starter should you choose?

In my opinion, Cyndaquil is the best starter. It pwns the earlygame, due to
fast evo and type advantage (over Bugsy, IMO one of the hardest leaders)
Most trainers other than Hikers do not carry pokemon resistant to fire, so
it can make use of its nice SpA stat and STAB to tear through them. It makes
the best use of STAB with 109 SpA and 100 Speed, and it can learn two of the
elemental punches (Fire & Thunder punch) in its final form.

Totodile is the second best starter. Its earlygame is quite hard, as the
rival fight is harder and it has a late evo. It can't make use of STAB as
effectively as Typhlosion as its SpA stat is only 83, meaning it can't surf
and use ice punch effectively. With the addition of buyable Earthquake and
easily obtainable Return, it can make use of its Attack Stat and carry
Surf/Ice Punch too.

Chikorita is, in my opinion, the worst starter. Its earlygame is very hard,
as Falkner and Bugsy will tear through it with STAB SE attacks (Aerial Ace,
Fury Cutter). It doesn't help that grass is resisted by a lot of types,
leaving it to use its normal move, Tackle. It also has a limited movepool.

The reason that I emphasise earlygame so much is that around Goldenrod, your
Pokemon choices start getting better(Heracross, Eevee, Dratini to name a few). I tend to ditch my starter once i find a better pokemon. Keeping your starters is fine, though.

The machine on the top left side of the lab can heal pokemon.

Once you pick a pokemon, you should go down (cause, like, thats the only way
to get out?). One of Professor Elm's aides will give you a Potion to start
with. Now you should have two potions. Go out of the lab, then


SAVE!


because the HARDEST battle in Shiny Gold X is about to begin.

Once you go out, you get ambushed by some random trainer named Carlos who
looks like Noland (Battle Factory) wearing a trenchcoat. Which brings me to
my next point - The origin of Carlos.

My theory:

Factory Head Noland was enjoying a fine day experiencing his 128492342th loss
against the player, .

Player: You just got pwnt.
Noland: Its not FAIR! Ur pkmn r BROKEN!1!@!2 U HACKER !!1!@

After the battle:

Noland: Nxt time, gv that dude lv 1 pkmn, k?
Aide: But thats against the game rules!
Noland: STFU nub I make the rules GTFO lolz
Aide: Can you not talk in l33tsp34k?
Noland: I SAID STFU!!1!!@!1!!11!

*Bludgeons aide with spanner*

Noland: (lapses into normalspeak after the shock) What have I done? I'm a murderer!! I
better change my identity and start over as a trainer!

*runs from factory, COMPLETELY forgetting the lv 100 pokemon in the factory*

(Reaches Lavaridge Town)

Old Woman: I got this egg from the..
Noland: Cut the crap and gimme the egg!

[NOLAND obtained EGG!]

*Buys trenchcoat and changes name*
*Finds his way to Johto somehow*
*sees trainer*

Noland (now CARLOS): Easy money!

/end theory

This is the single hardest battle in B5.

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CARLOS's Pokemon

Slowpoke lv 5

Curse
Yawn
Growl
Tackle

You cannot train your starter, you have to battle him using your level 5
pokemon.

Chikorita Cyndaquil Totodile
Tackle Tackle Scratch
Growl Leer Growl

Slowpoke will spam curse and raise its def and attack, powering up headbutt.
It will also try to yawn, putting your pokemon to sleep while it Curses up.
After a lot of Curses, headbutt will do serious damage to your pokemon.

You only have 1 oran berry and 2 potions for recovery. This battle depends on
your luck. Just keep attacking, and don't use any of the non-damaging moves
because Slowpoke can just curse away the stat reductions. It took me 5 tries
to do this without any potions/berries.

If you're lucky, it'll spam yawn while you're sleeping and forget to use tackle. If you're unlucky it'll curse up while you're sleeping and when you awake your attacks will do piddly damage on it.

Prize: 500G

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After that hellish battle, rejoice, as you have just completed the hardest
battle in Shiny Gold X! And a psychotic murderer is after you! REJOICE =D!!

I2) Route 29 to Cherrygrove

Note: All Hoenn pokemon are rare

Pokemon that can be found | Rating (usefulness in-game at this point)
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Sentret | ** Furret has low stats
Hoothoot | ** Crappy
Pidgey | *** Limited movepool
Zigzagoon | ** Crappy
Wurmple | *** Dustox/Beautifly is quite good earlygame
Rattata | *** Raticate is quite good earlygame
Aipom (Headbutt) | You can't get it at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | You can't get it at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | You can't get it at this point

You don't have pokeballs, so you can't catch anything.

Move down, go up the slope, and go up and right to get a Potion in the upper
right corner. Go back down and you should see a tollbooth ahead. Go through
it.

Route 46

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Zigzagoon | **
Tailow | ** Fragile, Guts doesn't help it
Pidgey | ***
Rattata | ***
Jigglypuff | ** No attacking moves
Spearow | *** Limited movepool
Geodude | **** Can sweep first two gyms, good earlygame

The only pokemon of note here is Geodude. Once it learns Rock Throw, it can
handle the first two gwms without much trouble. It isn't good endgame though
due to its plethora of weaknesses.

Go back to Route 29.


Route 29

Go right and get the ORAN BERRY from the tree. These events are time-based,
and happen only after a few minutes, for example the tbe berry will regrow
after some time.

Go right into Cherrygrove Town

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Cherrygrove
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Items: TOWN MAP, Mystic Water

Talk to the old man at the entrance of the town. After giving you a tour, he
gives you the TOWN MAP. You can talk to him for some useless advice. There is
a phone booth here. You can call MOM and ELM, and trainers who you've
recorded on your phone card. They might challenge you to a rematch.

Go into the pokemon center to heal your pokemon.

Pokemart:

Potion | 300 G
Antidote | 100 G
Parlyz Heal | 200 G
Awakening | 250 G
Poke ball* | 200 G

* Unlocked later

Basically there is nothing of interest in Cherrygrove, Mystic Water cannot be
accessed without SURF.

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I3) Cherrygrove to Mr. Pokemon's House
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Go up, out of Cherrygrove.

Items: Pokedex, ORAN BERRY, MYSTERY EGG

Route 30

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Wurmple | ***
Caterpie | *** Butterfree is pretty good earlygame
Metapod | * Only knows HARDEN
Weedle | ** Butterfree>Beedrill, Confusion>Fury attack
Kakuna | * See Metapod
Pidgey | ***
Rattata | ***
Hoothoot | **
Spinarak | ** Ariados has low stats, only has Poison Sting
| to start out with
Ledyba | * Complete fail
Poochyena | ** Crappy
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwag (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwhirl (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Azurill (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point

Fishing | Rod used
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Poliwag | Good, Super
Azurill | Super
Magikarp | Old

You still can't catch anything.

Go up and you will see a house with a berry tree beside it. Enter the house
and the man inside will give you an ORAN BERRY. The tree beside it has the
same berry.

Go up, and you'll find that the way to Route 31 is blocked. Continue on the
other way, and you'll reach Mr. Pokemon's house. There is a tree near it
that has a CHERI BERRY.

Once you enter the house, Mr. Pokemon gives you the MYSTERY EGG, and
introduces you to Professor Oak. He gives you a Pokedex, and runs off. Mr.
Pokemon will heal your Pokemon for you.

When you come out, you will recieve a call about a theft in the lab from ELM.
(We don't know someone by the name of ELM, we only know PROFESSOR ELM, so
we'll ignore it =x)

ELM, if you didn't know is the short form of PROFESSOR ELM. I have achieved
this result after years of complex analysis of the script.

Anyways, head back to Cherrygrove.

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Cherrygrove Town
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Buy some Potions from the store, and train your pokemon up. You should train
them to about level 10 if you have Cyndaquil or Chikorita, and you should
train Totodile to about lvl 13. An important battle is coming up soon.

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I4) Your first Rival Battle
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Go to the right exit of the town, and there's that red-haired kid we saw
just now, with a stolen pokemon! He battles you immediately.

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Rival Battle #1

From now on, i will be referring to your rival as 'Rival'.

Pokemon:

If you chose Cyndaquil:

Totodile lv 8

Scratch
Leer
Rage
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If you chose Chikorita

Cyndaquil lv 8

Tackle
Leer
Smokescreen
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If you chose Totodile

Chikorita lv 8

Tackle
Growl
Razor Leaf
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Not much strategy needed, just attack. Use healing items if needed, and if
your levels are high enough, you win.

The reason Totodile needs to be so overleveled is that Rival's pokemon packs
a super-effective move (Razor Leaf). If its not at lv 13 or more, don't
expect it to survive more than 2 razor leafs.

Prize: 800G

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When you beat him, you get some of his money and a lot of exp. He will say that he is going to be the best pokemon trainer in the world. Fat hope =P.

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I5) Mystery Egg Delivery
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Route 29

Go exactly the same way, except you can jump down ledges now.

New Bark Town

Items: AMULET COIN, Pokeball x 5

Go straight to Professor Elm's lab. Enter, and talk to him. He will jump backwards when you talk to him. He will ramble about a lot of stuff, the superiority of Professor Oak, etc. When he's done, you will go on your quest. Exit the lab, and an Aide will pass you 5 pokeballs.

Exit Elm's lab, and go to your house and speak to your mom. Instead of offering to save money for you, she will give you the Running Shoes and the AMULET COIN. (Why did Zel take the saving feature out? =( We could exploit it in the Elite 4!)

Now, you have the ability to catch pokemon. If you're one of those who care about the Pokedex, and complete it as you go, you're gonna have a REALLY hard time catching the elusive Hoenn pokemon and Raikou and Entei (Both have Roar XD).

When you go out, an old man will show you how to catch pokemon. (Same tutorial as FR)

I'm going to repost the pokemon lists here, basically you go to Cherrygrove and go up to where the two trainers were battling and continue from there.

Route 29

Pokemon that can be found | Rating (usefulness in-game at this point)
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Sentret | ** Furret has low stats
Hoothoot | ** Crappy
Pidgey | *** Limited movepool
Zigzagoon | ** Crappy
Wurmple | *** Dustox/Beautifly is quite good earlygame
Rattata | *** Raticate is quite good earlygame
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unbotainable at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable it at this point

Route 46 (Tollbooth in Route 29)

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Zigzagoon | **
Tailow | ** Fragile, Guts doesn't help it
Pidgey | ***
Rattata | ***
Jigglypuff | ** No attacking moves
Spearow | *** Limited movepool
Geodude | **** Can sweep first two gyms, good earlygame

Route 30

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Wurmple | ***
Caterpie | *** Butterfree is pretty good earlygame
Metapod | * Only knows HARDEN
Weedle | ** Butterfree>Beedrill, Confusion>Fury attack
Kakuna | * See Metapod
Pidgey | ***
Rattata | ***
Hoothoot | **
Spinarak | ** Ariados has low stats, only has Poison Sting
| to start out with
Ledyba | * Complete fail
Poochyena | ** Crappy
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwag (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwhirl (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Azurill (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point

Fishing | Rod used
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Poliwag | Good, Super
Azurill | Super
Magikarp | Old

Route 30

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Wurmple | ***
Caterpie | *** Butterfree is pretty good earlygame
Metapod | * Only knows HARDEN
Weedle | ** Butterfree>Beedrill, Confusion>Fury attack
Kakuna | * See Metapod
Pidgey | ***
Rattata | ***
Hoothoot | **
Spinarak | ** Ariados has low stats, only has Poison Sting
| to start out with
Ledyba | * Complete fail
Poochyena | ** Crappy
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwag (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwhirl (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Azurill (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point

Fishing | Rod used
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Poliwag | Good, Super
Azurill | Super
Magikarp | Old

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I6) To Violet City
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Before you journey on, CATCH A POKEMON, ANY POKEMON. There are double battles in Azalea, and not having two pokemon with you can screw things up. There is also the egg glitch, if you participate in a double battle with only 1 pokemon and an egg, you will send out both of them. This screws up the game.

Route 30

Trainers: Youngster 1Trainer/1, Youngster Mikey!, Bug Catcher Don!

Thats their names.

The first one is in the grass.

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Youngster 1Trainer/1

Rattata lv 9

144G
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The next one is up ahead.

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Youngster Mikey!

Pidgey lv 6

Rattata lv 8

128G
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Ahead lies a Bug Catcher.

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Bug Catcher Don!

Caterpie lv 8

Caterpie lv 8

96G
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Route 31

Items: Antidote, Pokeball

Trainers: Bug Catcher 2Trainer/1

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Wurmple | ***
Caterpie | ***
Metapod | *
Weedle | **
Kakuna | *
Pidgey | ***
Rattata | ***
Hoothoot | **
Spinarak | **
Bellsprout | *** Nice HM Slave, most gyms combat grass types
Ledyba | *
Poochyena | **
Seedot | ** You're going to stay as Nuzleaf for a loooong time
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwag (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwhirl (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Azurill (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point

Fishing | Rod used
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Poliwag | Good, Super
Azurill | Super
Magikarp | Old

Cross the patch of grass and up to find an Antidote. Dark Cave is to your left.

Dark Cave 1st Section

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Rattata | ***
Zubat | *** Only starts of w/ leech life, Crobat lacks good STAB moves
Geodude | ****
Dunsparce | *** Parahax is fun, but unreliable
Nincada ) | *** GOGO JASKWAK =D
Nosepass | ** sucks
Barboach (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Whishcash (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Goldeen (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Seaking (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | *************** SPLASH POWER INFINITE NOT AFFECTED BY FLINCH,
| PARALYSIS, PHYSICAL MOVE NO, KING'S ROCK NO, RAPE YES

We can't see anything, we're here just for the pokemon.

Go back to Route 31 once you're done.

Route 31

Items: Antidote, Pokeball

There is a tree with PERSIM BERRY to your left. There is a pokeball to the bottom. There is also a Bug Catcher.

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Bug Catcher 2Trainer/1

Caterpie lv 8

Caterpie lv 8

Weedle lv 9

Caterpie lv 9

Prize: 144G
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Go left, up and through the tollbooth and you're in Violet City.

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I7) Violet City
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Shop

Pokeball | 200G
Potion | 300G
Escape Rope | 550G
Antidote | 100G
Parlyz Heal | 200G
Awakening | 250G
X Defend | 550G
X Attack | 500G
X Speed | 350G
Wood Mail | 50G

There's quite a lot of things in Violet City. The gym, Sprout Tower, and the PokemonSchool.

Firstly, there's a boy in the bottom left house who wants a Bellsprout for an Onix. This may seem good, as Onix can take on Falkner with its high def and STAB Rock Throw, but it will not listen to you after level 10. =(

Secondly, there's the Pokemon School. The teacher's not in, so all you can do is look at notes. There are 2 students playing gameboys at the back of the class. Wish i could do that too =(. You can look at the notes, but there's nothing interesting or new.

The gym is to the left of the School. Beside the gym is a fat guy. He will spin around and talk to you in mixed up English (kinda like Yoda =x). Say no to his question and he reveals himself to be the teacher of the school. His name is Earl, and he'll talk about useless stuff like EXP. They should get someone to teach about IVs and EVs and whether a Smeargle STAB Tackle will be able to OHKO bold, 252 hp/def Shuckle or something =p

Our next destination is the tower up ahead, called Sprout Tower.

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Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Gastly | ***** Good movepool, immunities and SA
Rattata | ***
Poochyena | **
Sableye | *** OMG SABLEYE HAS NO WEAK LETS GIVE IT WONDER | GUARD nothing special except for NO WEAK (except | Foresight + Fighting moves)

Items: HM05 (Flash), Parlyz Heal, X Defend, Potion, Escape Rope

Trainers: Sage Nico, Sage Chow!, Sage Edmond!, Sage Jin!, Sage Neal!

The design is almost the same as the original GSC games =D. All the trainers here use Bellsprout and some use Hoothoot. And theyre all Sages.

Go up the staircase and battle the first sage.

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Sage Nico

Bellsprout lv 7
Bellsprout lv 7
Bellsprout lv 9

Prize: 216G
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Go down the stairs and collect the Parlyz Heal.

Go up and battle the Sage there.

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Sage Chow!

Bellsprout lv 7
Bellsprout lv 7
Bellsprout lv 9

Prize: 216G
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They're exactly the same. Sprout Wars: Attack of the Clone Sages lol

Go up the stairs and collect the X Defend there.

Go down and battle the third sage (If its identical i'll eat my hat)

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Sage Edmond!

Bellsprout lv 7
Bellsprout lv 7
Bellsprout lv 9

Prize: 216G
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Crap, now i have to eat it.....

Go right and up the stairs, and straight left to find a Potion.

Go right and battle the Sage there.

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Sage Jin!

Bellsprout lv 10

Prize: 240G
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Go up and battle the next trainer.

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Sage Neal!

Bellsprout lv 11

Prize: 264G
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Go up and battle the next trainer by the tower.

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Sage Troy!

Bellsprout lv 10
Hoothoot lv 10

Prize: 240G
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Go up and you'll see your rival beating up the elder, until the elder says: "I... AM..
YOUR MOTHER!!!"

Not the actual scene BTW, the original was too boring.

Go right to find an Escape Rope.

Go left and talk to the Elder to challenge him. Guess what his class is:

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Sage Li!

Bellsprout lv 10
Hoothoot lv 12
Bellsprout lv 14

Prize: HM05 (Flash), 336G
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You get HM05 after beating him, but you'll have to wait until you get the badge then you can use it.

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I9) Violet Gym
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Preparation
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The Violet Gym is home to many Flying types. The normal trainers do not pose much threat, its Falkner, the gym leader, that you should be worried about. All his pokemon (2 of them) have flying attacks - Aerial Ace on Hoothoot, and Fly on Pidgeotto.

You can't get electric or ice pokemon and moves, so your best bet is to train a Geodude to at least level 11 so that it learns Rock Throw. Or you could just take the gym on with the evolved starter (Quilava or Croconaw). Bayleef doesn't stand a chance =(.

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The Actual Gym
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Trainers: Bird Keeper Abe, Bird Keeper Rod, Falkner (Gym Leader)

When you enter the Gym, the first thing you notice should be Carlos, the psycho whom you battled last time in New Bark Town (He certainly acts like one later in the game...).

When you take a step forward, he challenges you.

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Carlos Battle II (Violet Gym)

Carlos' Pokemon

Eevee lv 13

Headbutt
Tail Whip
Double Team
?

Slowpoke lv 13

Growl
Headbutt
Curse
Yawn

This battle should be easier than the previous one, as you've come prepared. I'm not sure what Eevee's last move is, i think it is a non-normal attack.

Eevee has a 70 power STAB move, which works out to be 105 power factoring in STAB. It is going to hit very hard. You should employ a fast, powerful pokemon to take it down.

Slowpoke can be owned by Gastly if you caught 1 in Sprout Tower. If you don't have one, use a special attacker, Bellsprout is probably the best to combat it. You shouldn't have a hard time with slowpoke, just switch out when it yawns to prevent sleep.

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Look at the two statues near the entrance. They say that Carlos beat the gym. He has the advantage of better movesets. Your name is going to be on that Plaque. There is a man standing near the statues. He will dispense advice about type alignments, but you probably don't need his advice.

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Bird Keeper Abe

Spearow lv 12

Prize: 369G
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Bird Keeper Rod!

Pidgey lv 12
Tailow lv 12

Prize: 268G
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I10) Falkner
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Once you've disposed of the trainers, you're ready to face Falkner. I recommend you heal, as Carlos probably drained your pokemon. When you're ready, talk to Falkner (which has the same sprite as Koga =X).

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Gym Battle 1

Falkner - Flying Gym Leader

Hoothoot lv 16

Hypnosis
Double Team
Aerial Ace
Mud-Slap

Pidgeotto lv 18

Quick Attack
Fly
Double Team
Mud-Slap

He begins with a speech on how you can clip bird pokemon's wings with a jolt of
electricity, and he says its an insult to bird pokemon. You can, as the only burd pokemon
who don't have a weakness to electricity are Zapdos and Altaria =.=.

Anyway, you probably don't have electricity unless you got an Unown with HP Electric or
something. Geodude pwns here, as it resists all their attacks (BTW, Mud-Slap is Ground
with 20 power. With a chance of lowering acc =(. )

Hoothoot will start with Hypnosis and will probably start Double Teaming. Gym battles like
these is only dependent on luck, as all your moves can miss due to Double Team (cheap crap)
. Hypnosis's accuracy is only 55, so you could hax a miss or something.

Pidgeotto is the real deal. Putting Fly on Pidgeotto is kinda stupid, IMO. Aerial Ace is
stronger, and you essentially get a free turn. But hey, i'm not complaining.

When you win, he'll reveal that you just pwned his dad's cherished bird pokemon. His dad
must be pretty crappy then =X.

YOU GOT THE ZEPHYRBADGE!!


Good work, only 15 more badges -_-. And BTW, Mud-Slap is crappy. You can buy Earthquake from the game corner in Goldenrod. Falkner says its "both offensive and defensive". It kinda lacks in the offensive part (20 pwr wut?)

Prize: 1800G, TM31 (Mud-Slap)
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Sidequests that can be done with Zephyrbadge: Sidequests - Part I to X


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I11) Mystery Egg
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Once you go out, you will recieve a PokeBeeper message from Prof. Elm, telling that his aide is in town, and you should speak to him.

The aide will give you the egg and scoot. So now you have to make an important decision, how would you like your egg? Fried, Scrambled, Poached or Steamed? Or you could just eat it raw with the developing embryo!

The egg contains Togepi, and is the source of many glitches in Shiny Gold. When you enter a double battle with only one pokemon and/without an egg, the game will glitch up. So you could just deposit the egg in the box and leave it to collect dust, since Togetic is not a good pokemon.

II1) Ruins of Alph
II2) Route 32
II3) Union Cave
II4) Route 33
II5) Azalea Town
II6) Save the Slowpokes! (Slowpoke well)
II7) Azalea Gym
II8) Bugsy
II9) Rival Fight II

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Part II) Attack of the Kurt Clones! (Violet to Azalea)
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II1) Ruins of Alph
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* Technically you can go here before you complete the Violet Gym, just to let you know.

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Unown (Inside) | -***** DONT USE IT
Igglybuff (Inside) | * Igglybuff stays as its original form for a | loooong time. Go catch a Jigglypuff.
Ralts (Inside) | *** Limited movepool (limited to mostly psychic attacks and Thunder)
Wynaut (Inside) | *** WOBB IS FREAKING CHEAP ENCORE + | COUNTER/MIRROR COAT! can't do direct damage | though
Natu | Unobtainable at this point
Smeargle | Unobtainable at this point
Baltoy | Unobtainable at this point
Duskull | Unobtainable at this point
Wooper (Surf) | Unobatinable at this point
Quagsire (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Barboach (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Missingno (Fish) | Don't try it.
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point

The Ruins of Alph can be found by going left from Violet City and heading down into the tollbooth.

A lot of the pokemon in the Ruins of Alph are unobtainable at this point, but you can grab a few Unowns and Wynaut.

First, go into the ruins first and talk to the tourists. Then go to the first cave (the one with a sign beside it) and
move the stone panels (press A while facing it, there is no Kabuto Puzzle =( )

This will release the wild pokemon, and the tourists will disappear. (Note: don't use Unown. Its stats are bad and its only
move, Hidden Power, is really random. So you could be stuck with a 20 power move for eternity. Not Fun.)

You don't get the Unowndex like the original Gold. ( =( ).

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II2) Route 32
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Trainers: Youngster Albert!, Picnicker 4Trainer/1, Camper Roland, Fisherman 3Trainer/1, Fisherman Justin!, Fisherman Henry!,
Youngster Gordon, Bird Keeper Peter!

Items: Potion, Great Ball, MIRACLE SEED, Old Rod

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Mareep | **** Excellent early electric type, can elemental punch, has nice defenses
Wooper | **** Quagsire is Swampert with Water Absorb. STAB | Earthquake is nice, and Haze + Water immunity
| is great.
Wingull | ** Pelipper sucks
Hoppip | *** Jumpluff can sleep & leech seed. But as it | has a poor attacking movepool and low attacking
| stats, it is hard to train
Roselia | ** 100 SA and 80 SD is good, but other stats are | subpar
Rattata | ***
Ekans | *** Iron Tail + Earthquake + Sludge Bomb
Zubat | ***
Bellsprout | ***
Tentacool (Surf, Fish) | *** No ice beam =(
Tentacruel (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Quagsire (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Wailmer (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Qwilfish (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | **** Gyarados has monstrous stats but has a | limited physical movepool
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point

Pokemon that can be fished | Rod used
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Tentacool | Old, Good, Super
Wailmer | Super
Qwilfish | Good, Super
Magikarp | Old, Good, Super

This route has two entrances, one from the Ruins of Alph and one from Violet City. There is a Cheri Berry tree in the path
from Violet City, so don't miss it.

Talk to the trainer at the entrance of the route, and he'll give you a MIRACLE SEED.

Go down, and battle the youngster.

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Youngster Albert!

Rattata lv 10
Zubat lv 11

Prize: 176G
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Go down the non-grassy route and battle the picnicker.

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Picnicker 4Trainer/1

Nidoran F lv 14

Prize: 280G
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Go left and you should see an item in the grass. It is a Potion.

Go down, and you can either go left or right. This is assuming you took the left route.

Go down and battle the Camper.

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Camper Roland

Nidoran M lv 14

Prize: 224G
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Go down and right into the grass. You should see an item partially hidden by the trees. It is a Great Ball.

Head down and battle the Youngster.

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Youngster Gordon

Wooper lv 16

Prize: 256G
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Head down and you'll see a man. Walk past him or talk to him, and he'll sell you a SLOWPOKETAIL for 1 million. You are forced to decline.

Further down is a pokemon center.

Enter it and talk to the fisherman. He'll give you an Old Rod.

Now you can fish and obtain 2 new pokemon - Magikarp and Tentacool.

Go up the left path and battle the fisherman facing upwards.

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Fisherman 3Trainer/1

Goldeen lv 14

Prize: 504G
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Battle the fisherman facing downwards.

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Fisherman Justin!

Magikarp lv 15
Magikarp lv 15
Magikarp lv 19
Magikarp lv 15

Prize: 540G
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Battle the other fisherman.

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Fisherman Henry!

Poliwag lv 12
Qwilfish lv 12

Prize: 432G
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Go back down to the pokemon center.

Challenge the Bird Keeper below.

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Bird Keeper Peter!

Pidgey lv 12
Tailow lv 12
Spearow lv 14

Prize: 336G
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Enter Union Cave.

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II3) Union Cave, First Floor
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Items: Potion, Great Ball, X Attack, Awakening, X Defend, TM39 (Swift)

Trainers: Hiker Daniel, Hiker Rusell!, Firebreather Bill!, Pokemaniac Larry, Pokemaniac Souda

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Mudkip | ***** Swampert kicks ass.
Mawile | ** Crappy
Rattata | *** This thing is EVERYWHERE
Sandshrew | *** Nice attack and def, but lacking special | stats and speed
Zubat | ***
Geodude | ****
Onix | **** Steelix is a great pokemon, HUGE def
Krabby (Fish) | *** Kingler is slow and has low special stats
Kingler (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Goldeen (Fish) | *** Seaking has subpar def & speed. But it learns | MEGAHORN.
Seaking (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | too lazy to write a description. This thing is | more widespread than Rattata =.=
Barboach (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Whishcash (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Wooper (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Quagsire (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Corsola (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point

Fishing | Rod needed
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Magikarp | Any
Krabby | Any
Kingler | Super
Goldeen | Any
Seaking | Good, Super
Whishcash | Super
Corsola | Good, Super

Try to catch a Mudkip here, because Swampert is one of the best pokemon in the game.

Go left, and battle the Hiker.

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Hiker Daniel

Onix lv 16

Prize: 640G
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Go left and pick up the Potion.

Go down, left and pick up the Great Ball.

Go back to the fork and battle the Hiker there.

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Hiker Rusell!

Geodude lv 12
Geodude lv 14
Geodude lv 16

Prize: 576G
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Go right and pick up the X Attack.

Go back to where the Hiker was, go down and battle the Firebreather.

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Firebreather Bill!

Koffing lv 14
Magby lv 12

Prize: 384G
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Go right, pick up the Awakening in the corner.

Go up and challenge the Pokemaniac.

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Pokemaniac Larry

Slowpoke lv 18

Prize: 1080G
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Go down the ladder.

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Union Cave Second Floor
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Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Mudkip | *****
Mawile | **
Rattata | ***
Sandshrew | ***
Zubat | ***
Geodude | ****
Onix | ****
Krabby (Fish) | ***
Kingler (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Goldeen (Fish) | ***
Seaking (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | too lazy to write a description. This thing is more widespread than Rattata =.=
Barboach (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Whishcash (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Wooper (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Quagsire (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Corsola (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point

Fishing | Rod needed
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Magikarp | Any
Krabby | Any
Kingler | Super
Goldeen | Any
Seaking | Good, Super
Whishcash | Super
Corsola | Good, Super

Go left to find an X Defend.

Go right and up and battle the Pokemaniac.

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Pokemaniac Souda

Lotad lv 16

Prize: 960G
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Lotad can be found in Ilex Forest after Azalea.

Go up and take the TM39 (Swift).

Go back up the ladder.

Go down and battle the Firebreather.

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Firebreather Ray

Vulpix lv 18

Prize: 576G
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Go right to exit Union Cave.

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II4) Route 33
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Trainers: Hiker 5Trainer/1

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Seedot | ***
Roselia | ***
Rattata | ***
Ekans | ***
Zubat | ***
Hoppip | ***
Aipom (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Heracross (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Spearow (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point


Go down and battle the Hiker.

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Hiker 5Trainer/1

Geodude lv 16
Machop lv 17

Prize: 622G

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There is a Pecha Berry tree here. Go left into Azalea Town.

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II5) Azalea Town
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Azalea Town is famous for Kurt's custom pokeballs. Basically, Kurt uses Apricorns (gained from trees) to forge special pokeballs, Fast Ball, Dive Ball, etc. I find getting the balls to be very frsutrating, as he takes a VERY long time to make a ball while i can get 99 at one shot from a Pokemart. Still, its free (please don't make the balls for this reason
unless you are incredibly cheap XD ).

Shop

CHARCOAL | 9800G
Poke Ball | 200G
Potion | 300G
Super Potion | 700G
Escape Rope | 550G
Repel | 350G
Antidote | 100G
Parlyz Heal | 200G
Tropic Mail | 50G

Don't buy CHARCOAL. Its incredibly expensive and you get one free later in the game.

Team Rocket Grunts are blocking the entrances to the Slowpoke Well and the Gym. There's nothing else to do but visit Kurt. (You can go to Ilex Forest to catch some pokemon, but you won't go far as it requires the HM Cut.

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II6) Save the Slowpokes! (Slowpoke Well)
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Go into Kurt's house and talk to Kurt (the old man not the little girl incase you didn't know). He asks you whether you want some balls (Dude, i already have balls =o), and he tells you about Team Rocket, which are the evilest people in Pokemon games (team magma, aqua and Galactic aren't as cruel), and tells you that he is going to kick their asses. (Why did he wait for you to come then?) He will rush out. You ought to follow him.

There is no rocket grunt blocking the well now. Enter.

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Slowpoke Well Floor 1
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Trainers: Team Rocket Grunt! (1, M), Team Rocket Grunt! (2, F), Team Rocket Grunt! (3, M), Team Rocket Grunt ()

Items: Super Potion

Pokemon that can be obtained | Rating
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Zubat | ***
Slowpoke (Surf & on land) | **** Slowbro > Slowking BTW, and it can learn Ice Punch + Surf. Don't we all hate Carlos'
| slowpoke?
Goldeen (Fish) | ***
Seaking (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp (Fish) | SPLASHKARP NO WEAK
Spinarak | **
Azurill (Surf, Fish, on land)| *** It will remain an Azurill for an eternity since it requires happiness to evolve =(
Shuppet | *** Good attack stat, but not much of a physical movepool

Fishing | Rod needed
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Goldeen | Any
Seaking | Super
Magikarp | Guess.
Azurill | Super

Kurt has broken his back by falling down the well, and thus cannot punish Team Rocket for their evil deeds (Why doesn't he loan you his pokemon?). So you have to show your 'gutsiness' in his place.

Go up and challenge the Grunt.

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Team Rocket Grunt! (1, M)

Rattata lv 16
Poochyena lv 16

Prize: 512G
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Go up and turn left, and don't go up the steps and keep going left to recieve a Super Potion.

Go up and challenge the second Grunt.

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Team Rocket Grunt! (2, F)

Zubat lv 16
Ekans lv 17

Prize: 544G
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Go left, then down and challenge the Grunt.

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Team Rocket Grunt! (3, M)

Rattata lv 17
Poochyena lv 17
Zubat lv 17

Prize: 544G
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Go down and talk to the first Slowpoke you meet. Its Kurt's Slowpoke, and read the mail.

Go right and fight the boss.

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(Neo) Team Rocket Grunt (4, M)

Koffing lv 20

Prize: 640G
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Kurt will rescue the Slowpokes, and send you back to his house.

Talk to Kurt to recieve a Net Ball. Kurt will also be honoured to make balls for you (I don't need any more).

The forging system works like this - Get an Apricorn from trees scattered around Johto. There is a White Apricorn tree next to Kurt's home. Next, give it to Kurt, and he will make a ball for you. After a VERY long time, you get a ball.

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II7) Azalea Gym
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Trainers: Carlos, Twins Amy & May!, Bug Catcher Josh, Bug Catcher Al!,

When you approach the gym, you'll see someone that you know, Carlos. He just owned the gym (don't be decieved by him, this gym is actually pretty hard). He wants a Double Battle this time.

(IMPORTANT: BEFORE YOU START THE BATTLE, MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE AT LEAST TWO POKEMON AND YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE AN EGG
IN YOUR LIST.)

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Carlos Fight III: Azalea Gym

Double Battle

Eevee lv 20

Headbutt
Tail Whip
Bite
?

and

Slowpoke lv 20

Curse
Yawn
Confusion
Headbutt

This battle is easier than the other Carlos battles, because you can focus on one pokemon at a time, using two attacks to
KO it. Carlos' movesets aren't suited to Double Battles, he dosen't have Protect, Explosion, Earthquake etc.

If you only trained one, you should be able to beat Carlos if you are high-levelled enough.

Prize: 4000G
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He knows that he must catch more pokemon. So hope that he has a team full of Dittos or crap like that =x.

Go up and battle the Twins (double battle again).

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Twins Amy & May!

Spinarak lv 16

and

Ledyba lv 16

Prize: 384G
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Go left and battle the Bug Catcher.

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Bug Catcher Josh

Paras lv 20

Prize: 320G
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Go back right and battle the Bug Catcher there.

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Bug Catcher Al!

Butterfree lv 16
Beedrill lv 16

Prize: 192G
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Go up and battle the Bug Catcher.

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Bug Catcher Benny!

Kakuna lv 15
Beedrill lv 15
Dustox lv 15

Prize: 180G
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Finally, THE EPIC GYM LEADER FIGHT!!!

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II8) Bugsy
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(Bugsy is actually male, but i thought he was female for a few years =x)

Bugsy is the Bug Gym Leader, and is very hard to begin with. Don't use Bayleef here, as it'll get pwned in a few hits. Bugsy has superior movesets and stats, so you have to pin his weakness. BTW, all his pokemon are 4x weak to Rock, and Geodude resists a lot of Bugsy's attacks.

Butterfree (F) lv 20

Sleep Powder
Attract
Confusion
Supersonic

This thing will annoy the crap out of you, if nothing else. Down it fast.

Beautifly lv 20

Double Team
Aerial Ace
?
Attract

DOUBLE TEAM HAX =.=

Scyther lv 24

Swords Dance
Double Team
Quick Attack
Fury Cutter

Geodude completely pwns Scyther. Gastly resists both his attacks. If Scyther gets a Swords Dance up, you are going to be
pwned T.T

Prizes : HIVEBADGE, 4800G, TM49 (Fury Cutter)

Fury Cutter is crappy, don't use it.
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II9) Rival Fight II
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Exit the gym, heal your pokemon and head left to Ilex Forest. Your rival will appear and challenge you.

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Rival Fight II

(Note: From now on, i will only give the pokemon the rival uses if you started with Cyndaquil.)

Sableye lv 20

Night Shade
Thunderpunch
Ice Punch
Foresight

You can't hit super-effective on it, so you should try to down it fast.

Croconaw lv 22

Water Gun
Double Team
Bite
Roar

Cheap phazer =(

Nidorino lv 20

Peck
Leer
Double Kick
Focus Energy

The crappiest of the lot.

Prize: 2200G

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End of Part II
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Contents:

III1) Ilex Forest
III2) Headbutt fun
III3) Route 34
III4) Goldenrod City
III5) Goldenrod Dept. Store
III6) Underground Path
III7) Game Corner
III8) Radio Tower
III9) Goldenrod Gym
III10) Whitney
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III1) Ilex Forest
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Now your rival is out of the way, you can continue on to Ilex Forest.

Items: Revive, HM01 (Cut)

Pokemon that can be found | Rating
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Caterpie (Headbutt and on land)| ** Its no longer the earlygame, it sucks
Metapod (Headbutt and on land) | -* HARDEN does a lot of damage
Butterfree (Headbutt) | Unobtainable at this point
Weedle | ** See Caterpie
Kakuna | -* See Metapod
Zubat | ***
Oddish | *** No good moves
Paras | *** You're too slow to use SPORE
Psyduck (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Golduck (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Poliwag (Fish) | *** Not too good
Exeggcute (Headbutt) | *** Bad movepool and Leaf Stone comes late
Magikarp | SPLASHKARP NO WEAK
Pineco | *** Not worth the effort
Lotad | **** Triple elemental punch FTW
Surskit (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Shroomish | **** To get Breloom's ultimate move, Spore, you have to keep it a Shroomish until lvl 54

Fishing | Rod needed
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Poliwag | Any
Surskit | Super

Ilex Forest is watched over by its protector, Celebi. And the charcoal man's Farfetch'd has gone missing.

Walk until you see the Farfetch'd, then talk to it. it will run away to another spot. Go get the Revive and follow these steps to get it back to its master:

(Note: The directions are stating the direction to talk to Farfetch'd to. For example, when i say 'Up', you should talk to Farfetch'd from the top side.)

Down
Up
Up
Down
Down
Right
Right

If you still cannot get it out, there are a few good videos on Youtube that can help.

Once you get Farfetch'd out, you can talk to the Charcoal man and you'll get HM01, Cut. This move allows you to cut down small trees. You can now do the sidequests part 2.

(Note: If you go back to Azalea and talk to the Charcoal man's apprentice, he will give you Charcoal)

Go uo to the bush and Cut it. Head upwards. Follow the path until you come to a fork. Go left and follow the path until you see a trainer facing a tree. Talk to him and he'll give you Headbutt.

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III2) Headbutt Fun
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Now you have a new means of obtaining pokemon - Headbutt. Here's how it works.

Have a pokemon with Headbutt in your party. Go to a tree (some trees cannot be headbutted) and press A. The game will ask you whether you want to Headbutt it. Select 'Yes' and you have a chance of getting wild pokemon to fall out. You cannot Headbutt the same tree two times in a row, so you have to move at least 1 step then you can Headbutt again.

Here is a list of the pokemon that can be obtained via Headbutt"

Pokemon that can be obtained | Location
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Caterpie | Azalea, Routes 34-39, 27, Ilex Forest, Lake of Rage
Metapod | Same as Caterpie
Butterfree | Azalea, Routes 34-38, Ilex Forest, Lake of Rage
Beedrill | Victory Road - grass floor
Spearow | Routes 29-33, 42-44, 9, Ruins of Alph
Exeggcute | Azalea Town, Routes 34-39, 27, 9, Ilex Forest, Lake
| of Rage, Victory Road - grass floor
Ariados | Victory Road - grass floor
Aipom | Routes 29-33, 42-44, 9, Ruins of Alph
Pineco | Azalea, Routes 35-39, 27, 9, Ilex Forest, Lake of
| Rage
Heracross | Routes 29-33, 42-44, 9, Ruins of Alph
Wurmple | Route 31
Shiftry | Victory Road - grass floor
Ninjask | Routes 44, 27
Shedinja | Route 37
Volbeat | Route 34
Illumise | Route 39

The pokemon worth mentioning is Heracross. It is hands-down, the best bug type ever. It learns Megahorn, 130 power, and has STAB on it, and it has a huge attack. The downside is that it is rare, with the addition of headbutt's unreliability it is VERY rare. You could probably get a Heracross now if you backtrack.

Follow the path to the toll booth. Don't email me about how to get through Ilex Forest, its a straight path =.=

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III3) Route 34
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Items: TM12 (Sweet Scent)

Trainers: Youngster Samuel!, Pokefan Brandon, Youngster Ian!, Picnicker 7Trainer/1

Special : Daycare

Pokemon that can be obtained | Rating
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Pidgey | ***
Rattata | ***
Abra | ***** if trained, **** if not, cause 'Zam is about OHKOing.
| if you don't OHKO, you dai
Drowzee | **** Solid Psychic type
Ditto | -** Only useful for BREEDING
Hoothoot | **
Taillow | ***
Gulpin | *** Not very good
Tentacool (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Tentacruel (Surf) | Unobtainable at this point
Wailmer (Surf, Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Krabby (Fish) | ***
Kingler (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Corsola (Fish) | Unobtainable at this point
Magikarp | SPLASH ONE-HIT-KO NOT AFFECTED BY STURDY -- ACC
Volbeat (Headbutt) | *** TAIL GLOW
Caterpie (Headbutt) | **
Metapod (Headbutt) | -*
Butterfree (Headbutt) | **
Exeggcute (Headbutt) | ***

Fishing | Rod needed
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Wailmer | Super
Krabby | Any
Kingler | Super
Corsola | Good, Super
Magikarp | Uber

Talk to the woman at the toll booth to get TM12, Sweet Scent. Its mostly useless unless
you want OHKO moves to connect.

Go through the booth, and challenge the youngster.

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Youngster Samuel!

Rattata lv 16
Sandshrew lv 15
Spearow lv 16
Beautifly lv 16

Prize:
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Go up and challenge the Pokefan.

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Pokefan Brandon

Snubbull lv 20

Prize:
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Go up and challenge the other youngster.

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Youngster Ian!

Mankey lv 18
Diglett lv 20

Prize:
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Go left and through the grass and battle the Picnicker.

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Picnicker 7Trainer/1

Hoppip lv 17
Bulbasaur lv 18
Hoppip lv 19

Prize:
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Up ahead, there is a daycare where you can breed pokemon. It is mostly pointless in-game unless you want a team for competitive battling, and pokemon in a day-care gain no EVs, and therefore are weaker. Use it if you want baby pokemon (Wynaut, Azurill, Phione etc.)

Go next to the day-care and you'll be ambushed by an Officer.

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Officer Keith

Growlithe lv 28

Prize:
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Go up and battle the other trainer.

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Camper 6Trainer/1

Psyduck lv 21

Prize: 420G
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Go up and enter Goldenrod City.

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III4) Goldenrod City
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Items: Bike

Goldenrod City is the most urban city in the Pokemon Games (well, Celadon was pretty cool w/ the secret base, but w/e). It has a LEGAL gambling den w/ no age restrictions and rare pokemon that have been smuggled in. It has an underground path with nerds (its the nerds that are scary) and a Department Store with 7 floors. And Bill lives here.

First, go up until you see something that looks like train tracks. They are the tracks for the Magnet Train, which goes to Saffron City in Kanto. It isn't going to be working for a LOOOOOOOOONG time, though.

The Bike Shop from Cerulean City in Kanto has moved here. From where you are, turn left, then down and enter the bottom-most building. You automatically get a Bike to help them advertise.

Go back to the train tracks. Just right of the Station, there is the Name Rater's house, he changes nicknames. The Name Rater would always say that the new nickname is better than the old one. Go name your pokemon four-letter words or something.

Go back to the Pokemon Center, and head to the huge building on the right. It is the Department Store.

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III5) Goldenrod Dept. Store
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Its so huge it gets a section to itself.

The 1st floor doesn't sell anything.

The 2nd floor sells stuff you use.

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Right Counter

Potion | 300G
Super Potion | 700G
Antidote | 100G
Parlyz Heal | 200G
Awakening | 250G
Burn Heal | 250G
Ice Heal | 250G
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Left Counter

Poke Ball | 200G
Great Ball | 600G
Escape Rope | 550G
Repel | 350G
Revive | 1500G
Full Heal | 600G
Poke Doll | 1000G
Fab Mail | 50G
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The 3rd floor sells in-battle boosters (aka STEROIDS).

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X Speed | 300G
X Special | 350G
X Defend | 550G
X Attack | 500G
X Accuracy | 950G
Guard Spec. | 700G
Dire Hit | 650G
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The 4th floor sells stat enhancement items (aka STEROIDS squared)

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Protein | 9800G
Iron | 9800G
Carbos | 9800G
Calcium | 9800G
HP Up | 9800G
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The 5th floor sells TMs, and has 2 special events.

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TM40, Ice Punch | 3000G
TM41, Thunderpunch | 3000G
TM42, Fire Punch | 3000G
TM02, Headbutt | 3000G
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The Blackbelt standing near the counter will trade his Machop for your Drowzee. Machop can help a lot at the Goldenrod Gym, as all the pokemon are of Normal type.

The Lady at the Counter will give out TMs depending on the happiness of Pokemon. If your pokemon is happy, you will recieve TM27, Return. If it is unhappy, you will recieve TM21, Frustration. Once you get a TM, you have to wait for a while to get another one.

The Top floor has vending machines. The healing items here are the most cost-efficient.

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Fresh Water | 200G
Soda Pop | 300G
Lemonade | 350G
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Basement 1 can be accessed via the lift, but you can't do anything there yet.

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III6) Underground Path
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Head to the path above the Pokemon Center, and at the end of it you'll find the south entrance of the Underground Path.

I'll be starting from the south entrance.

Items: Coin Case

Trainers: Super Nerd Eric!, Pokemaniac Issac, Super Nerd , Pokemaniac

Head up and battle the first trainer.

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Super Nerd Eric!

Grimer lv 20
Grimer lv 20

Prize: 480G
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Head up and battle the next trainer.

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Pokemaniac Issac

Lickitung lv 22

PrizeL 1320G
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Head up and collect the Coin Case. Now you can play in the Game Corner.

The old lady ahead sells bitter medicine. I advise not buying them as the TM, Return is readily available and you definitely don't want to decrease your Pokemon's happiness if you want to use it.

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Energypowder | 500G
Energy Root | 800G
Heal Powder | 450G
Revival Herb | 2800G
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The guy up ahead gives haircuts for 300G which increases your Pokemon's happiness. Use it if you have Pokemon that evolve by happiness (Togepi, Azurill, etc)

The old man up ahead sells a Nugget for 4500G. You can resell it for 5000G =D.

Go up and battle the Super Nerd next to the old man.

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Super Nerd Teru!

Magnemite lv 17
Magnemite lv 17
Voltorb lv 20
Magnemite lv 19

Prize: 456G
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Head up and if you take the path right, you'll come across a locked door. You can't enter it.

Battle the last trainer.

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Pokemaniac Donald!

Slowpoke lv 18
Slowking lv 20

Prize: 960G
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Head up the steps and out to find yourself back in Goldenrod.

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III7) Game Corner
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Now that you have the Coin Case, you can now store Coins, the currency of the Game Corner. Which means that you can use its Facilities.

Talk to the attendant at the left counter to get Coins.

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50 Coins = 1000G
500 Coins = 10000G
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You can figure out the slot machine by yourself, right?

The attendants at the left counter exchange your coins for Prizes.

The left counter has TMs.

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TM25, Thunder 5500 coins, 110,000 G
TM14, Blizzard 5500 coins, 110,000 G
TM38, Fire Blast 5500 coins, 110,000 G
TM23, Iron Tail 4500 coins, 90,000 G
TM26, Earthquake 6500 coins, 130,000 G
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We lost Thunderbolt, Flamethrower and Ice Beam =(.

On the other hand, SG has unlimited EARTHQUAKE TMs!!

The right counter sells Pokemon.

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Abra | 200 Coins 4,000G
Ekans | 700 Coins 14,000G
Dratini | 2100 Coins 42,000G
Charmander | 2100 Coins 42,000G
Larvitar | 5000 Coins 100,000G
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Ratings:

Abra | ****
Ekans | ***
Dratini | ***** Versatile, can learn EQ & Surf
Charmander | **** Me wants BELLYZARD =( Try to get a +SpA nature
Larvitar | ***** 134 base attack. Rock & Dark STAB. Learns almost every move.

Once you had your fun (you probably can't afford any of the TMs), leave the Game Corner.

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III8) Radio Tower
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The Radio Tower is the tallest building in Goldenrod.

Enter it, and you only have 2 things to do in it. You will be coming back another time though.

The Gentleman will hold a game for 300G. Its purely luck, and i haven't got anything from there =(.

The rightmost attendant will give you a Radio if you answer all the questions correctly. The answers are:

No
Yes
No
No (duh)
Yes

You get a Radio-Visio, which is a Teachy TV with a different name. =(

(Note: The background is glitched up, and the Poke Dude, oddly has Carlos' sprite)

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III9) Goldenrod Gym
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Before you even get into the gym, you have to battle Carlos.

Uh.. looks like he just got owned by the gym leader, so he can't battle you =(.

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Pre-gym preparation

All the pokemon here are pure normal type. Up till now, there are only five pokemon which can learn Fighting Type-moves, which are super-effective against normal types.

Heracross (Headbutt Routes 29-33, 42-44, 9, Ruins of Alph) (Rare)

Muscle (Machop) (Trade Drowzee for Blackbelt's Machop at Goldenrod Dept. Store. Drowzee can be found at Routes 34, 35, 11.)

Breloom (Evolve Shroomish, which can be found at Ilex Forest, Rare)

Nidoran M & F (Routes 35 & 36)

Out of these, the first three are the best because they get STAB.

With Heracross, Muscle or Breloom, you can sweep the whole gym easily with Fighting moves. Muscle will stop obeying you when it gets to lv 31.

If you use anything else, they'd have to be higher leveled. And Carlos just got pwned by Whitney =X
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Trainers: Beauty Victoria!, Beauty Samantha!, Lass Carrie, Lass Bridget!

Enter the gym, and go up the front path. Battle the trainer there.

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Beauty Victoria!

Sentret lv 15
Furret lv 20
Furret lv 22

Prize: 1584G
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Head up, right then down and battle the Beauty.

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Beauty Samantha!

Meowth lv 20
Meowth lv 20

Prize: 1440G
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Head down the left path and challenge the Lass.

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Lass Carrie

Snubbull lv 22

Prize: 352G
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Head up and challenge the Lass.

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Lass Bridget!

Jigglypuff lv 20
Jigglypuff lv 20
Wigglytuff lv 21

Prize: 336G
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III10) Whitney

Whitney is the third gym leader, and the hardest in GSC. Just to let you know, the GSC leaders ranked from hard to easy:

1) Whitney
2) Clair
3) Bugsy
4) Chuck
5) Jasmine
6) Falkner
7) Morty
8) Pryce

The reason being Whitney's Miltank had very high stats and had a great move in GSC, Rollout, which tore through many teams.
(Hence the name: F!@#ing cow)

In SG, Whitney is easier. But Attract is annoying, and Miltank still has sky-high stats.

Clefairy lv 25 (F)

Doubleslap
Reflect
Minimize
Attract

This thing is just annoying. A ghost type pwns it.

Miltank lv 26 (F)

Attract
Body Slam
Rollout
Milk Drink

Sorry Miltank, Blissey wins Fat Pink Whore of the year award =(

Miltank will immobilise you w/ attract and proceed to pwn with Body Slam. Rollout at full power is scary. Milk Drink also heals Miltank when Whitney runs out of Potions. Did i mention Thick Fat negating Fire attacks? And Miltank is scarily fast & strong?

Use a fast sweeper.

Prize: 2600G

Oh, you just hurt her feelings by thrashing her =D (I'm sadistic)

When you try to get out, the Lass will tell you that Whitney will stop soon.

Talk to her to collect your Badge and your TM.

The PLAINBADGE allows pokemon to use Strength out of battle, whilst TM45, Attract, would immobilise pokemon of the opposite gender 50% of the time. You don't have Strength yet.

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