EARLY GAME: - Manip good Squirtle like normal - Pewter Mart: Buy ~4 Potions, 5 Antidotes, 4 Paralyz Heals, 3 Awakenings and 4 Repels - Get Mt. Moon Escape Rope and Revive - Fight Mt. Moon optional (which one depends on HP) - Get Mega Kick - Get Mega Punch ONLY WITH GOOD ATTACK - SAVE for Rival 2 - Rival 2: WG+WG+WG, MK+MK/MP, Bite, WG+WG (can TW to stall for Torrent) - Delay Misty (required because of rules) - Get Pecha Berry, Elixer and TM43 (fight extra trainer as Wartortle) - Vermilion Mart: Buy Poke Balls if low, 7 Super Potions, status healing items if low, and 3 Repels - Catch L15 or L17 Spearow > If L15, fight Rattata/Pikachu optional (Route 6) + Goldeen/Goldeen/Tentacool optional on boat > If L17, fight Butterfree optional - Trade for Ch'ding - Menu after Ch'ding: > Switch Ch'ding to slot 1 > Super Potion Wartortle > Teach Secret Power > Change options to SHIFT - Get Bike Voucher - Fight Misty (split exp.) to get Ch'ding to obey to L30 - Get Bicycle - Change options to SET - Fight 1-2 optionals (see above) - Fight boat rival (full exp.) - Delay Surge MIDGAME: - Get Aerial Ace - Take Rock Tunnel center - Rock Tunnel: Split exp. with all 7 rocks (change to SHIFT on second Repel menu, then SET on spinner bag manip) - Get Return - Celadon Gym: Right side (all Aerial Ace) - Erika: X Attack x2 (1 if Stun Spore) - Giovanni 1: SD x2-3 - Celadon Mart: Buy 2 X Attacks, 6 X Speeds and 3 Guard Spec. (skip 2F) - Saffron Mart: Buy 5 Hyper Potions, (Full Heals if low), 3 Escape Ropes and 7 Max Repels - Surge: No setup - Take heal pad - Safari Zone: Get Full Restore, TM47 and Protein - Koga: SD x3 (Pecha Berry; Full Restore if necessary) - 5 candies to L46 for Silph Rival - Silph Rival: SD x2 (Alakazam outspeeds) - Teach Steel Wing over Secret Power - Giovanni 2: SD, Return, Steel Wing, X Attack, Return x2 - Get Silph Carbos and candy - Sabrina: No setup (Alakazam outspeeds) - Get mansion Carbos - 4 candies to L54 for Blaine - Blaine: SD x2 - Viridian Cooltrainer: SD - Giovanni 3: Guard Spec., SD LATE GAME: - Viridian Rival: SD x2 (X Speed on Growlithe at <78 HP; Alakazam outspeeds) - 1 candy to L60 for E4 - Box heal + deposit 1 slave (keep Wartortle and other slave) - Buy max Full Restores - Need L60 + 2 Carbos for E4 (barely outspeeds Jynx and Hitmonlee) > Silph Carbos + candy > Mansion Carbos > Victory Road candy > Delay other candies until late/before E4 > Make sure you get enough Speed EVs - E4: > SAVE > Lorelei: SD x2 (reset turn 1 Ice Beam) > Bruno: SD x2, Steel Wing, X Speed on Hitmonchan (a little risky) > Agatha: X Speed, SD x2 (favorable range on second Gengar) > SAVE > Lance: Lead Wartortle and die, X Speed, SD x2 > SAVE > Champion: Lead slave, Guard Spec., X Speed, SD x3 ----- Can X Attack on Giovanni 2 (if early Return), Giovanni 2 (if late Return) and Champion; all other boosts must be SD ----- VERY LATE RETURN (if taught before Sabrina) BAD - tighter pp + elixer/boat heal (2s) - 94% silph gyarados range (1s) - SD instead of X Attack on Giovanni 2 (4s) TOTAL: +7s GOOD - faster return movement (3s) - no poison point chance (5s) TOTAL: -8s ---- (if taught before Viridian Rival) BAD - max elixer (6s) - alakazam range (4s; 71%) - machop range (1s; 94%) - 2 SDs on giovanni 3 (3s) TOTAL: +13s (plus blaine?) GOOD - no poison point cooltrainer (5s) - no poison point giovanni (5s) TOTAL: -10s ----- CANDY ROUTE NOTES: bad: - right side 14s - koffing 59-->6% 4s - drowzee 100-->36% 4s - drowzee 100-->88% 1s - speedtie kadabra 2s - drowzee 100-->94% 1s - koffing defensively 2s - weezing 82-->53% 5s TOTAL 33s good: - L33 onix 1s - L35 gyarados 1s - candies at 1 time 1s - L46 silph rival 21s - L48 giovanni 2s - L49 sabrina 8s TOTAL 34s ----- ROUTE (OUTDATED): - UPDATE: Can't obey past L30; need to kill rocks in Rock Tunnel with Wartortle - Squirtle/Wartortle through Route 6 (including Misty for Water Pulse) - Get Secret Power (fight extra trainer as Wartortle) - Catch L17 Spearow (maybe lower + optionals) - Fight boat rival + boat optionals - Delay Surge - Get Aerial Ace - Fight Beedrill x2 optional - Candy 4x to L31 (Swords Dance) for Rock Tunnel rocks - Get Steel Wing (Safari Zone) before Silph Co. - Get Return (delay teaching?) - Midgame order: > Erika (AA) > Safari > Koga > Silph > Sabrina > Blaine Final moveset: Swords Dance, Steel Wing, Aerial Ace, Return