general route theory: - +4 strength lance and strength red charizard are good enough to separately teach strength since it allows sharp beak skip - can't afford 5 x attacks in early violet without major time loss (and if you could you would skip late mart), thus must hydro pump will's xatus, thus must eq slowbro, thus eq is good enough on e4 that it isn't worth considering dropping it for psychic (especially since eq top end >>> psychic) $3000 2 poke balls $400 1 escape rope $550 3 x attacks $1500 LEFT: $550 pokefan $1360 $1910 3 super repels $1500 LEFT: $410 cooltrainer/rival $4008 $4418 1 full restore $3000 2 max repels $1400 LEFT: $18 OR $4418 3 full heals $1800 3 max repels $2100 +VR max potion LEFT: $518 OR sell hp up $9318 2 full restores $6000 3 max repels $2100 fly waterfall hydro pump earthquake rapidash: waterfall 15/14/5/10 rival (typh): eq x2, hydro pump, waterfall x3 15/11/4/8 will: hydro pump, eq, hydro pump, eq+eq, fly(+wf) 14/10/2/5 koga: hydro pump/eq/fly, hydro pump/wf+wf, eq x2, wf+wf 13/5/0/3 bruno: wf+wf, wf, fly x2, eq 11/2/0/2 karen: fly+fly, fly, eq x2, fly 7/2/0/0 lance: x attack x2-3, fly x3, wf x2, fly best lance: x attack x4, strength x4, wf, strength gust fly hydro pump earthquake rapidash: hydro pump 35/15/4/10 rival (meganium): eq x2, fly, gust x2, fly 33/13/4/8 will: hydro pump, eq, hydro pump, eq+eq, fly(+gust) 32/12/2/5 koga: gust, hydro pump, gust, eq, gust+hydro 29/12/0/4 TEACH STRENGTH OVER HYDRO PUMP bruno: gust(+str), eq, gust, fly, gust/str 26/11/14/3 karen: fly+fly/eq, str(+str), eq x2, fly 26/7/12/0 lance: x attack x4, gust, strength x2, fly, gust, str 24/6/9/0 --- red: eq, x attack x3, eq+eq, eq, eq+eq, str+str, eq+eq +3.7 sell potion or buy 1 poke ball for 4th x attack +0.5 golbat fly range +0.1 haunter gust range +0.1 crobat range +15.5 teach strength +2.5 hitmontop range +3.2 umbreon range +6.9 one extra turn of lance setup +1.1 red ranges +1.0 red flexibility (slow lugias) TOTAL: +34.6 -15.7 skip sharp beak -5.2 dragonite 1 -4.1 dragonite 2 -4.1 dragonite 3 -1.5 usually strength aero -3.6 red charizard -0.5 strength murkrow -0.6 no gyara or charizard ranges -0.5 no fly pp problems TOTAL: -35.8 chikorita vs. totodile +0.6 lab movement + text +6.2 surf overwrite +1.0 victory road cry -1.8 3 encounters cry -0.6 poli encounter cry -6.1 faster rival ace