Player's Guide

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The Start
First, you spawn in a lab to get a Starter. To get an advantage on the first gym, pick a water type. Some people just pick one since it looks better or it's their favorite Pokemon. The Gen 1 and Gen 3 Starters are the best (in base stat total).

Journey Start
Now that you have a starter, you will have to battle some trainers and encounter wild Pokemon. Get a Pidgey, since it might be important. Some trainers are skippable. Get Oak's parcel from Viridian City's Pokemart, and receive the Pokeballs as a gift. You can catch any Pokemon you'd like. But if you ran into a Mewtwo, just don't try to throw your Pokeball at it.

Viridian City/Forest
At Viridian City, heal your pokemon if they are injured. Also go to the PokeMart and buy helpful items like Potions and Pokeballs. Then, go to Route 22. Keep walking in the grass until you find a Heracross, a great Bug type. After you catch one, go to Route 2. Defeat the trainer, and get to the next city. All you need for now is your Heracross, your starter, and anything else you caught. Also, if you have the gamepasses, get the Mew and the Entei, Suicune, or Raikou (if you want this to be easier).

Pewter Gym/City
At Pewter City, you'll find your first Gym. If you chose a water type, good. Fire types are weak to Rock, but it could do it (my litten did it). Use those potions you gathered in the Gym battle, and you might win. After you do win, you can trade your Pokemon. If you want to be a cheater, trade some of your Pokemon for a legend and then just win the game. Also, you get access to Mystery Gift. Get any code that's out if you think it's a good Pokemon. After the gym, just do whatever you want. Level up, or try to find some pokemon. Then try to get to Cerulean City. Be sure to turn on the Exp. Share Brock gives you. Also, if any of your pokemon can learn Rock Tomb TM, teach it to them if you want. Go through Route 2, and go to Mt. Moon. You can find Larvitar, Trapinch, and Aron if you have the gamepass. Tyranitar (larvitar's fully evolved form) is really good for fighting the Champion. Also, you can find Aerodactyl and Registeel.

Cerulean City
Heal up your Pokemon for the gym. You can use a grass type to easily win. If you don't have one, find a grass type (like bellsprout or oddish) at Route 5, right behind the gym. This gym took me many tries. It's kind of like Wishiwashi in Pokemon Sun/Moon, you don't have really good Pokemon, then this thing with stats like Kyogre pops up. After you beat her, Misty offers you a Togepi. Accept it by talking to her. Togekiss is really good for the Elite Four, so have it on your team. Buy some potions and Pokeballs, because you might run into something you want to catch.

Vermillion City
To get to Vermillion, you need to enter the house at the bottom of Route 5, and it teleports you (somehow) to a place. A lot of trainers are here, so those potions might help. After you beat them, there's Vermillion City. You can nickname Pokemon at the Pokemon Center, such a good thing! (you can't nickname anything with the OT of "MysteryGift". After you nicknamed (if you did), heal up. There is an electric type gym at the corner. You most likely won't have a ground type, but if you do, good. Use any pokemon you have (if you have Mew, the legendary dogs, or a ground type, obviously use them). After you beat it, go to Route 11. This route has some good pokemon in it, like Snorlax, Seviper, and Zangoose.

Route 12 + Lavender Town
After you went to Route 11 and got the stuff like Seviper, go to the bridge (route 12). There is 2 bridges, but the bridge is straight forward against Route 11. Here you can find Magikarps, Goldeens, Staryus, and if you are Champion, Keldeo. There are 3 trainers to battle. After you beat them all, you can go to Lavender Town. There is no actual gym, but in the tower, you can beat Team Rocket. I don't know if you have to beat Giovanni to unlock the 8th gym, but whatever. In the tower you can find- well, ghost types. Also, if you want your first legendary, keep walking in Route 10 (right behind the tower) and you have a chance to find Zapdos. Then you can go to Route 7 (idek how it's route 10 to 7 but i won't even question it)

Route 8
Your starter should be at it's final form here. At Route 8, there is a lot of trainers. You can skip them, but they give a lot of money. Also, there's a guy that talks about the Elite Four's "signature level 100 Pokemon", but only a few of them have one. You can also find some pokemon like Growlithe. After that, go to Celadon City. Also, at the end, there is an entity that will fight you if you have 8 gym badges. Click here for more information about the Entity.

Celadon City
Here, there's just a bunch of normal stuff. All there really is that's important is a gym. It's a grass type, so fire types are useful. There's really not anything in here. Then there's Route 16. Also, go to Mysterious Grotto, and catch a Houndour. This will be really important.

Route 16
At route 16, it's basically just Celadon City, but patches of grass. There is a black entity, for everyone. If you beat "it", you get a bag of PokeDollars ($23000).

Route 17
At Route 17, there is a TON of trainers. Battle them all if you need money. Basically nothing else.

Fuschia City
Basically Celadon City, but with a Poison Type Gym. Also, there's a cave called Seafoam Cave, where you can find Articuno, and if you have the Champion Badge, Kyurem. You can also find stuff that won't help sometimes like Spheal.

Also, you can get a Ho-Oh by the guy wearing a Dominus in the Pokemon Center. He says: "Mr. Weirdo. Opera. Tongue. Supercomputer", which means: "Mr. Mime, Jynx. Lickitung. Metagross." If you have those Pokemon, you will get to keep those, and you receive a Ho-Oh!

Saffron City
The best city. It's the only city where you can get the FASTEST Exp and the FASTEST Ev Training with Iso The Robot. There's clearly a gym, duh. It's a psychic type, so bug and ghost types are the best for this. It's also the last city before the 7th gym. There used to be a Christmas Event where you have to fight Santa in Saffron City on top of one of the houses. The one with the truss is the one where Santa was. Then you go to Route 21, and battle Gary if you want. Then, just keep going along the path.

Cinnabar Volcano!
At the entrance to the volcano, there's an NPC that will offer you a Skarmory if you have 5 or less pokemon in your party. Then, go up the volcano. In some of the patches of grass (the orange ones), you can find Moltres. Also, you can find Regice in the volcano, too. Heal up at the Pokemon Center, and go to the gym. It's at the top of the Volcano, and it's obviously a fire type gym. Use a water type for the best. After you beat them, you are ready for the end of your journey. Also, at the Pokemon Center, a guy wearing an Astral Guardia helmet will talk to you and say: "Lazy bear. Dragonfly. Doctor. Fire bird. Magnets..." which means: Snorlax. Vibrava. Chansey. Moltres. Magneton. You will keep them, and get a Lugia!

Giovanni and the 8th Badge
After you beat Blaine (the gym leader), you need to go to Viridian City. Go to the gym that's blocked by a guy with purple hair. Talk to him, and he will teleport you inside the gym. This is owned by Team Rocket. The first trainer you battle has a Kabutops and Omastar. Also, everyone after him is named after characters from Mario, which is pretty funny. You can mostly skip every trainer. In one of the paths, there is a Purple Entity behind a Generator thing. He has all level 100+ pokemon, including a level 250 Magikarp. The other path is the actual Gym Leader, Giovanni. If you don't wanna fight the trainer next to him, you can talk to him through the wall. He mostly has ground types, so bring water types. But, remember that Houndour you got? It should be a Houndoom, and that's extremely good for his last Pokemon, Mewtwo. After you beat it, you are granted access to Victory Road, which is right behind Gary in Route 22.

Victory Road!
The last place you can go to. There's lots of Pokemon. Catch a Solrock and a Lunatone, and get out of Victory Road. You then enter Indigo Plateau. Go to the Taxi Service and go to Mysterious Grotto. Go in a patch of grass where you ONLY find Pichus. Wait 30+ (for me it took OVER 200) turns, and you can eventually find a Deoxys. This is really good. Then, after you catch it, there are meteors that will change it's form. Find the speed meteor, since it has good defense, and good stats. Don't use Normal Deoxys or Attack Deoxys, since those have 50 DEFENSE. After you got Deoxys-S, go back to Indigo Plateau. Once you organize your team, (you should have at least 2 legendaries) talk to one of the police officers to enter the Elite Four.

The Elite Four
There is four Elite Four members. Bruno, Lorelei, Agatha, Lance. Also Gary, but he's the champion. Mewtwo won't be on any of the "recommended pokemon list" since it can sweep the WHOLE Elite Four.

Lorelei: After you beat her, Bruno is next. Yea. You get it. One, then two, then 3.

Agatha: Lance. That's it. You won.. or did you? You have to battle the Champion to officially beat the game. Gary: Now, you beat the Champion. You can now find some of the pokemon in the Recommended section such as Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, and Keldeo. Check out the page "How to beat E4" if you need a WAY easier strategy.

The "Champion Exclusives"
Some Pokemon require the Champion badge to be found. The "Champion Exclusives' are: All of those Pokemon are good for E4, but can only be found after it.

What to do after Champion
There isn't really much to do. Your only options are hunting legendaries, hunting shinies/auras, and trading/battling others. The game doesn't really get fun until they release more legends (next legends will be Xerneas and Yveltal). Also, you can waste your life begging to Wish_z to add White/Black Kyurem.