The first thing you should do is go to the
Pokemon Fan Club. Talk to the main leading man, and he'll give you a Bike
Voucher. You can now get a bike for free at Cerulean City. Next, go heal your
Pokemon. Then, go south of the city to where the dock is. You'll arrive at the
SS Anne dock. Flash your ticket to the guard, and he'll let you in. You'll
fight your rival on your ship, and I recommend you fight everyone.
After doing that, find the captain
of the ship and talk to him. He'll give you HM01 Cut. Leave the ship, and use
Cut on the bush blocking Vermillion Gym. You can now fight Lt. Surge!
Lt. Surge only has a Raichu at
Level 30. He is quite difficult, but you can just catch a Diglett at the cave
east of Vermillion. You need to press the trash cans in the right order to
open his door. Beat him to get the Thunderbadge, and Thunderbolt.
Next, now that you have the
Thunderbadge, talk with Officer Jenny outside. She will give you Squirtle.
Now, if you want to get Bulbasaur, you need to fight often with your Pikachu
and don't let it get hurt. It also must jump up and down when you talk to it.
If that happens, then go to Melanie in Cerulean City to get Bulbasaur.
You can now get Flash. If you
have 10 types of pokemon, then go to Diglett's Cave and travel through it. Emerge, and
go downwards. Go into one of houses, and talk with Professor Oak's Aide. He will
hand you HM05 Flash. Now you can use it!
Next, you should go back to
Cerulean City and cut that bush you saw before. Follow the east path, and beat
all the trainers. When you get to the end, travel south, and you'll arrive at
a Pokemon Center and a Cave. Heal your pokemon, and get into the cave.
This cave is Rock Tunnel, so
you better have Flash. When I first played Blue Version, I didn't have Flash
so I just beat the tunnel by walking blindly. Anyway, the same goes here like
Mt. Moon. Go to every path to gain valuable experience. Once you emerge, go
down to get to Lavender Town.
There isn't much you can do in
this town, but you should be able to heal your pokemon and start buying some
Great Balls. Travel west, and you'll arrive in Celadon City, another one of my
favorite cities.
There's a whole lot of things
you can do in Celadon City. You should probably go see the huge Pokemon Mart
first to buy some cool supplies. You can also get Eevee by traveling in the
back of town and going into the company building. You can buy evolution stones
from the Poke Mart to evolve your Eevee into your choice. But probably the
first thing you should do is go to the Gaming Center. Talk to Team Rocket at
the poster, fight him, and follow him down the stairs. This turns out to be a
Team Rocket base entrance!
The main thing to do here is
just fight all the rockets. You'll need to get the cardkey from a rocket.
After beating the rockets, make sure you talk to all of them because one of
them gives you a cardkey. After that happens, go to the elevator and go to the
highest floor. Fight the rockets, and you'll come face to face with Giovanni,
leader of Team Rocket. He trains normal pokemon, and should be quite easy to
beat but his Persian can do some serious damage.
After you beat him, he'll give
you a Silph Scope that you can use in Lavender Town! By this time, you should
have a Pikachu, Wartortle, Charmeleon, Ivysaur, and two other Pokemon. I chose
Kadabra and Gyarados for the other two. Gyarados is very strong, and Kadabra
is a very cool psychic. I replaced Butterfree with Kadabra, but you can keep
him.
The next thing to do now is go
to Celadon Gym. To do this, cut the bush south of town and follow the path to
the gym. You'll fight several trainers before confronting Erika.
Erika will be quite difficult
if you don't know what to use against her. Amazingly, Charmeleon is not a good
choice against her. Ember is a weak fire attack and you cannot afford to let
Erika attack you. When she does, she'll most likely poison, paralyze, or
confuse you. Instead, use a psychic pokemon or plant pokemon. Plant pokemon
can't get poisoned and psychic pokemon can really pound plant pokemon. Erika
has a Tangela, Gloom, Vileplume, and Weepinbell.
Beat her to get the
Rainbowbadge, and Mega Drain. Too bad Giga Drain isn't in Yellow Version, but
Mega Drain is powerful enough. Now that you have the Silph Scope, return to
Lavender town and climb up the Pokemon tower. You'll fight your rival along
the way. When you get to the top, beat all the rockets, and rescue Mr. Fuji.
Mr. Fuji will give you a Poke Flute, and now you can proceed! Go south of
Lavender town, and when you get to the Snorlax, play the poke flute. It will
wake up and fight you. Try to catch it, because there are only two in the
entire game. After beating it, just keep fighting trainers and follow the path
to Fuchsia City.
In this city, you can catch a
lot of weird pokemon in the Safari Zone and fight a gym leader. First go to
the Safari Zone. You can catch many pokemon here, but the main thing you need
to do here is find the Gold Teeth and get to the end. Once you get the Gold
Teeth, get to the end as fast as you can. Once you get to the end, you'll
receive HM03 Surf. Now exit the Safari Zone. Go near the gym, and give the
Gold Teeth to the man. He'll give you HM04 Strength. Now you can fight the gym
leader.
Koga has invisible walls all
around him gym. There is a way to see the walls. As the floor is striped, the
gaps on the stripes are the walls. Its that easy! Follow the walls and you
will get to Koga. When you fight him, he will use poison pokemon. The antidote
for poison pokemon is psychic pokemon, so use a psychic. Koga has three
Venonats and one Venomoth at very high levels so beware. Beat him to get the
Soulbadge, and you'll also get the TM Toxic.
You can now get to Saffron
City. Go back to Celadon City, and get to the top floor of the Pokemon Mart.
Buy a drink, and give the guard who doesn't let you go to Saffron the drink.
He'll let you pass, and you can now go to Saffron City!
You can't do much here right now, but you can go
buy a Poke Doll from Celadon and give it to the Mimic Girl for Mimic, and you
can also get Psychic from Mr. Psychic. The first thing you should do here is
go to Silph Company. This building is very big, and you will need to venture
through a maze to beat it. I can't give a lot of tips, but the Card Key is on
the 5th floor. You're going to need to get on a teleport block with a Rocket
next to it. You'll teleport to another room, so step back onto the teleport
block. You can now run past the rocket. Walk right, and you'll get the Card
Key. You'll also fight Gary and Giovanni again, get the Masterball, and get
Lapras. Once you beat Giovanni, the gym will now be open. There are actually 2
gyms. Go to the first one, and beat all the trainers. The man at the end will
give you either a Hitmonchan or a Hitmonlee. Choose either one. The real gym
is the right one, where Sabrina is. You're going to have to teleport all
around the gym to find Sabrina.
Sabrina will be a tough
opponent, but she only has an Abra, Kadabra, and an Alakazam all at Level 40
and up. You can use a Bug pokemon against her, but basically just keep
fighting. Beat her to get the Marshbadge and Psywave. After that, you should
now go to Cinnabar Island. The easiest way to get there is to go back to
Pallet Town and surf down, but you can go to Fuchsia City and surf down and
attempt to brave the Seafoam Islands. Once you get to Cinnabar Island, you
should go to the Pokemon Mansion and explore it. Press the switches to open
new doors, and get to the end of it. You'll get the secret key, and now you
can fight Blaine!
Blaine's gym is weird, because you don't have to
fight the trainers. You can just answer the questions right and you're on.
Anyway, Blaine will have a Ninetales, Rapidash, and an Arcanine all at Level
40-54. Use a water type. After you beat him, you only have one gym match left!
Go back to Viridian City, and you'll see that the gym is now open. You'll need
to travel around the gym on those spinning blocks. The gym leader here is
Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket.
Giovanni will have a Dugtrio,
Persian, Nidoqueen, Nidoking, and a Rhydon all at Level 50-55. He will be
pretty hard, but I recommend you use a combination of a fire pokemon, psychic
pokemon, and leaf pokemon. Beat Giovanni and you'll receive the Earth Badge
and Fissure.
Now you can participate in the
Pokemon League! Travel west of Viridian, and you'll end up in the main
inspection building. Along your way, you'll get attacked by Gary, and he will
test you to see if you are ready for the Pokemon League. He will be pretty
hard, considering that his pokemon are at high levels. Anyway, get past the
inspection building, and you'll end up on Victory Road. This cave is quite
hard to solve, but you will need to use Strength a lot to push down boulders.
To help you on your battles on the Pokemon
League, you can catch Legendary birds. Legendary birds are very powerful and
are at high levels. Zapdos, the thunder bird, can be found at the end of the
power plant. Moltres, the fire bird, can be found at Victory Road. And
Articuno, the ice bird, can be found on Seafoam Island. Catching them is quite
difficult, so you'll probably need to lower their HP a lot and then put them to
sleep before catching them. You need to use an Ultra Ball to catch them, and
putting them to sleep is an absolute requirement. Otherwise, your throw will
always miss. For me, I'd say I would recommend Articuno.
The recommended team of
Pokemon you can use is Pikachu, Gyarados
(or Dragonite, any of them
is fine), Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, and Jynx. Jynx can do most of the
work here since it can kill dragons, put pokemon to sleep, or use Psychic
powers.
Now you're in the Pokemon
League. Heal all your pokemon, and make sure you buy plenty of Full Restores,
Hyper Potions, Revives, and Full Heals. Now you can fight the Elite Four!
The first person to fight is
Lorelei, which is a trainer of Ice Pokemon. She has a Dewgong, Cloyster,
Slowbro, Jynx, and Lapras. Beware, she may be the first trainer, but she can
be pretty hard. Use a Thunder, Fire, or a Plant pokemon against her.
The second person to fight is
Bruno, which is a trainer of Fighting and Rock Pokemon. He will have an Onix,
Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, another Onix, and Machamp. Use a plant, psychic, and
flying pokemon against him.
The third to fight is Agatha,
who trains ghost type pokemon. She has a Haunter, a Gengar, a Arbok, a
Golbat, and another Gengar. She is the most annoying trainer of all, because
fighting ghost pokemon is no fun.
The last to fight is Lance. He
will be the hardest of all, and he trains powerful dragon pokemon. He has a
Gyarados, Aerodactyl, Dragonite, Dragonair, and another Dragonair. Use an Ice
or and an Electric pokemon against him. Beware, though, his dragons can take
anything. They all have certain moves that can kill any pokemon in one hit.
Like his Dragonite has Hyper Beam, Blizzard, Thunder, and Fire Blast.
However, Lance is not the last person. The last
person to fight is Gary, and he will be a lot harder than the rest of the
group. I'm not even sure what he has, but I know that he has a wide variety of
Pokemon. He will have an evolved Eevee, depending on how many times you beat
him, and some other Pokemon. Beating him makes you the Pokemon master.
Now that you are a master, go back to Cerulean
City and go into the Unknown Dungeon that was blocked before. Get to the end
of it, and fight Mewtwo, one of the most powerful and legendary pokemon. He will be at Level 70,
and will be nearly impossible to catch with an Ultra Ball. If you saved your
Master Ball, use it! The rest of the things you can do now is catch and train
as many pokemon as you can and try to complete your Pokedex like I have done
so.