You start out in Pallet Town, There you will get your first Pokémon from Prof. Oak. You get him to bring you to his laboratory, you must first go North into the tall grass, you will hear someone say, "Don't go in there!" It's Prof. Oak, He'll take you to his lab and you'll have the choice of three Pokémon, Charmander the fire Pokémon, Squirtle the water pokémon, or Bulbasaur the grass Pokémon. If you pick any one of these Pokémon, Gary will pick the Elementally superior. Water beats Fire, Grass beat Water, Fire beats Grass. Pick Bulbasaur, he seems to win the most battles and beat the most trainers, but if you want you can take one of the others. Gary will challenge you right after that, hes not too hard to beat, just keep attacking and he'll go down (Your Pokémon will grow a level).After that you will have to go North to Viridian City. Road to Viridian City Along the road the first guy you see will give you a potion. Also you cannot catch Pokémon right now so just defeat the Pidgeys and Rattatas for exp. points. If your Pokémon get hurt you can take them to your house and your mom will heal them. Viridian City Once you reach Viridian City you should go to the Pokécenter and heal your Pokémon. Go to the Mart and the clerk will hand a parcel to you to deliver to Prof. Oak, You can jump over the little barriers, you will save time and also you'll encounter less battles. Upon delivery, Prof. Oak will hand you the PokéDex Gary will note to get a map from his sister (you can too).You won't have to battle Gary this time so get the map and head back to Viridian. There you should buy Pokéballs, Potions are not needed really because you are close to a pokécenter. In the area, Pidgeys and Rattatas are the only Pokemon found.(For exp. points, you can head West and battle Gary, but your Pokemon should be level 12 or above).Now Head North to Viridian Forest. If you go west of viridian (where you battle gary again) you can catch Nidoran male and female. There are a few Mr.Mine in this area. Viridian Forest You cannot pick up the items to the right just yet, but you will go back later in the game. In the forest there are 3 trainers, they use bugs so if you chose Charmander this should be REALLY easy, if you picked Squirtle or Bulbasaur then it will still be easy but not as easy as Charmander. Go West from the beginning and you can pick up a Pokéball, but you do have to walk through the grass. Go Northeast of the beginning to fight a trainer(You have to fight this one), His Pokemon are: Weedle level 6 (Bulbasaur is immune to the poison in poison sting),and Caterpie level 6. From there go North along the road (The next trainer is optional) Keep going North and you'll find a Antidote. Go along the road and you'll find a split towards the end, go South and you'll find another item. A certain Pokemon you should look for is Pikachu, Although Pikachu is here, he is weak and doesn't have many moves. But he is effective against Misty. Once out of the forest, You'll have to go to Pewter City. You can catch Weedle, Kakuna, Metapod, Caterpie, and Pikachu. Pewter City In Pewter city you must fight Brock. If you don't you cannot proceed to Mt. Moon. Brock's Pokémon are Geodude level 12, and Onix level. 14. Brock's Pokémon are easily beaten by Squirtle or Bulbasaur, Charmander's just out of luck and will have to make it with what he has (Evolving a Caterpie and/or a Weedle is a good choice if you're using Charmander).The BOULDER BADGE increases you Pokémon's power a bit, also flash can now be used(Badge moves such as FLASH, CUT, FLY, STRENGTH, and SURF can only be used when a HM is equipped to a pokémon.)Get some supplies and head to Mt. Moon. You'll want to get some potions, an Escape Rope or two, and some more Pokéballs if you need them. Now whould be a good time to level up your begining Pokémon, you can gain them to as high of a level as you want and they will still obey you (my friend had a level 38 Blastoise before he beat misty!!) Get it to about level 20 or so. You can catch a Pidgey, Spearow, and Jiggypuff. Mt. Moon Before entering Mt. Moon you should catch a Jigglypuff in the grass outside Mt. Moon. Mt. Moon is long. Once inside you can find various items, and many people to battle. Team Rockets first appearance comes in here, They're easy so don't worry. At the end you'll fight a Super Nerd, After you beat him you'llget the choice of two fossils, The Helix fossil or the Dome fossil. Which oneyou pick matters on what Pokemon you'll get later, Helix: Omanyte, Dome: Kabuto. You can't get these Pokemon until later in the game so store it in your PC as soon as you get to Cerulean City. You should get a Clefairy, Zubat, Geodude, and Paras here. Cerulean City Did you get a Pikachu in Viridian Forest? If you did and you own a Squirtle or a Charmander gain them to high levels before the fight, If you have Bulbasaur it'll still be easy so don't worry. If you need to you can catch Oddish\Bellsprout to help you You only HAVE to fight one other trainer, the one near the beginning of the gym is optional. Misty is difficult if you chose Charmander. Her Pokémon are Staryu at level 18 and Starmie at level 21. If you win you'll receive the CASCADE BADGE, it allows ALL Pokemon up to level 30 to obey, also lets you use CUT. If you go to the 1st house on the Northwest side of the city, you can go into the backyard and find a Rare Candy, You'll have to search a bit but its in the middle of the two rows going horizontally (Rows meaning spaces North to South in space).Bikes are too expensive rightnow (But you'll get one soon enough). Road to Bill's house/Bill's house From Cerulean City, head North and fight Gary, go across the bridge and fight all the trainers there. Go into the grass to the West and get a grass Pokémon (Bellsprout in Blue and Oddish in Red) and get an Abra also. To catch an Abra, just throw a Pokéball at it (its not a guaranteed catch but its the best way right now).Go East to get to Bill's house, there are lots of trainers in the way so you mayhave to go to the Pokécenter in Cerulean. Once you get to Bill's house you'll see a Pokémon but no Bill. Talk to the Pokémon and do as he asks. After that Bill gives you a ticket to the S. S. Anne. Go back to Cerulean and you'll see that the Police man \ woman?? has moved so you can get into the house. You'll find a ROCKET in the back, beat him and get TM #28 (DIG) go back in the house and the guy doesn't care anymore so just keep it! Head South and you'll find a tunnel, go through it and you'll end up in Vermilion City (In the tunnel there is a Full Restore but You'll have to search for it because its invisible, like the Rare Candy). Catch a Mankey or a Meowth on your way to the tunnel. Vermilion City In Vermilion you have a few things to do: 1.Get the Old Rod from the fishing guru (Next to the Pokécenter), 2.Beat Lt. Surge and get the Thunder Badge, 3.Get the Bike Voucher from the Pokémon Fan club president, 4.And also get on the S .S. Anne. First thing first though, Lt. Surge is an electric type Pokémon gym leader so use a Diglett from the cave to the East or a Geodude from Mt. Moon. The They should be almost totally immune to the attacks of the electric Pokémon. To fight Lt. Surge you have to search the trash cans for a switch (It's random), and the a neighboring can for the second switch. Lt. Surge's Pokémon are Voltorb at level 21, Pikachu at level 18, and Raichu at level 24, the THUNDER BADGE speeds up your pokémon a bit and lets you use FLY. Get the Bicycle with the Bike Voucher and use that, The Bike speeds your journey up A LOT.

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