THE STRAT - Buy 5 Poke Balls, then 7 Potions (4/7 if you might do Bug Catcher) - Buy 2 Super Potions and 12/5/5 in Celadon (so one fewer Super Potion, two more X Specials) - Skip hidden Tower Elixer - Do Silph before Safari: https://pastebin.com/CtH12XZA - Silph Co.: > Take the stairs to 5F > Get the Elixer hidden in the plant (no extra steps) > Arbok: X Acc, Drill (X Speed if paralyzed) > Silph Rival: Normal strats, but RS Growlithe and Drill Zam (also note that Pidgeot is a speedtie) > Rocket: X Acc, IB, Drill, IB (Cubone does 25-30) > Use Elixer > Giovanni 1: Normal strats > Go to 10F and get TM26 + Rare Candy > Dig out - Erika: IB x3 - Blaine: EQ Growlithe even if you get Super Potion - Elixer on way to Saffron Gym - Blackbelt: X Spec, EQ, TB, IB (91.4% EQ range; 76.4% IB range) TIME EFFECTS AVG BEST Faster Elixer pickup -1.1 -1.1 X Acc Arbok +5.4 +2.4 L34 Pidgeot +0.5 0.0 Less damage pre-rival -0.5 0.0 Drill Growlithe -1.1 -1.1 Drill Alakazam -0.6 -0.5 Must X Speed on rival +0.1 0.0 X Acc Cubone +2.3 +1.8 Late EQ -18.9 -18.9 Faster EQ teach -1.3 -1.3 Can't Super Repel early +0.1 +0.1 Get Toxic +3.9 +3.9 Strength menu +0.1 +0.1 Always IB Victreebel -0.2 0 Always EQ Growlithe +0.3 +1.1 Faster Elixer use -1.0 0 X Spec Blackbelt +2.7 +0.6 Money/items +0.5 0.0 Silph before Safari -3.2 -2.8 TOTAL TIME SAVE -12.0 -15.7 ADDED RISKS Cubone Bone Club 21.25% Victreebel 4.00% Blackbelt 5.00% TOTAL ADDED RISK 28.18% NOTES - You level one Pokemon later throughout the Koga split, so you'll often keep red bar for an additional cry + death jingle: > L35: Alakazam > L36: Drowzee > L37: Rhyhorn (which can hit you into red bar for L38 jingle) > L38: Kadabra > L39: Muk - Heal pad skip doesn't cost you a level-up jingle (also get L35 for Pidgeot if got Moon exp.) - The turn on Cubone can be useful (Bone Club into red bar after Gyara low roll) - You can Elixer on Nidorino if you need to take damage - If you want to candy before Hypno, you can't combine that with an Elixer