1. Super Potion skip (saves 10s as a base) - Buy 7+ Potions - Sell Nugget in Vermilion - Don't buy Super Potions - Don't toss or sell Bide - Don't get underground Nugget - Always get Safari Full Restore - - Consider getting Victory Road Full Restore (faster than buying; slightly slower than SP x2) - Healing options (need to get through these fights with 2-3 FRs and ~3 Potions): > SURGE: Late Cerulean Center, Potion, or YOLO for red bar > GIOVANNI 1: Potion or YOLO > KOGA: Late Celadon Center or Full Restore > BLAINE: Mom heal, Full Restore, or YOLO > GIOVANNI 1: Mom heal, Full Restore, or YOLO > VIRIDIAN RIVAL: Use faster/riskier strat (see below), Potion, or Full Restore (center skip only) > LANCE: Full Restore > CHAMPION: Full Restore, Potion after Hydro miss, or freeze 2. Faster/riskier Viridian Rival - Kill the Sandslash right away (59% range with 15 DV; 69% to take no damage) - Go for Cloyster range (23%; 56% no damage) OR set up on Exeggcute (75% for a fast turn of no damage; 25% for Stun Spore hit) - Assuming you hit the Sandslash range, setting up on Exeggcute is 0.5s slower on average if damage taken is irrelevant - Cloyster has Withdraw/Aurora Beam/Clamp (Aurora Beam 61 dmg; Clamp 35 dmg each) - No reason to X Special on Vaporeon strats unless terrible Special (in which case Exeggcute is a range) 3. Blizzard strats (work in progress) - Eliminate VR Sandslash range on normal strats - Maybe couple with warden candy to get these levels: > 47 for Rapidash > 48 for Blackbelt > 48 for Dugtrio > 50 for Sandslash > 50 for Cloyster > 53 for first Gengar > 53 for Golbat (can die to Blizzard after X Speed) > 54 for Gyarados > 55 for second Dragonair 4. YOLO Blizzard strats (work in progress) - MAJOR TIME SAVES: Faster Ice TM pickup (9.4s), skip X Speed on Silph Rival (6s), Thrash animations instead of EQ (2s), skip X Special on Erika (7s), skip an Elixer/Mom heal/E4 center (6s) - MAJOR TIME LOSSES: L43 Mansion encounters (7s), 2 extra menus (4s), missing Blizzard (avg. 1 miss = 5.5s), Blizzard animation (1.9s), EQ animations (2.9s), selling TM34 (2s) - NET: 7.5s saved - Use with 14-15 DV Speed - Kill a Geodude in Mt. Moon - Skip Ice Beam and Rock Slide (get Rock Slide if in red bar) - Keep Thrash if good Attack, Bubblebeam if not - Celadon Center --> Silph --> Safari --> Sabrina --> Koga --> Erika --> Blaine - Candy twice to L36 for Silph Rival (outspeed Kadabra and skip X Speed) - Silph Jesse&James: Thrash Meowth if you kept it - Silph Giovanni: Normal strats, but can OHKO Persian and Nidoqueen through Growl. BB Rhyhorn if you kept it - Juggler 1: EQ, Thrash x3 with good Attack - Candy to L43 in Pallet (risk L43 mansion encounters; DSum to evade multiple) - Get Blizzard, teach it and candy to L45 in mansion - Beauty: Blizzard or Thrash - Erika: Blizzard, EQ x2 - Cooltrainer: EQ - Blackbelt: X Special, EQ, TB, Blizzard (level mid-fight) - Giovanni: X Attack, EQ, X Special, EQ x3, Blizzard (using no Drills saves a PP item) - Viridian Rival: Blizzard x2, TB, EQ x3 - Bruno: X Acc on Onix or go for the 90% Blizzard - Champ: Freeze or X Speed and go for Sandslash range at L54 (94% with 15 DV)