I am doing these strats due to the necessity of fly split red bar when going for WR. This will cause riskier Misty and Surge, but should increase my chance of getting red bar. This also allows for a faster Viridian Forest and the potential of Mt. Moon red bar. I don't know if this is worth it, but I am trying it out. UPDATE: With the strats under Day 2 this strat is now way better and is very worth doing. - Swap HA to slot 1 on BC2 - Spam HA on BC2 and BC3 - Deposit Pikachu + Take Pewter Center - Normal Brock Gym - Try to save 3 HA on Route 3 but never Tackle x2 BC2 Caterpie - Skip Route 3 Center - Save HA in Mt. Moon in this order: HA + Tackle Ekans, DK Voltorb, Leer + Tackle + HA 2nd Koffing - Take Cerulean Center before Bridge Rival DAY 2 - Fight Metapod, Caterpie, Metapod BC instead of Caterpie Metapod BC (Spam HA) > Never have to heal before fight, you can only take 2-4 damage from Caterpie barring gen 1 miss and you will always have 5+ - Manip all the grass until BC3 > https://pastebin.com/RnTm8DB9 Accurate comparison - Slower movement + 7.2 - Fight 2nd BC instead of 3rd +10.5 - Save 2 steps - 0.6 - Manip all grass -15.2 - L10 for BC3 - 4.7 - Heal less -???? - BC2 Red Bar -???? - Mt. Moon Red Bar -???? NET - 2.8 Rough comparison - Slower movement + 7.2 - Fight 2nd BC instead of 3rd +10.5 - Save 2 steps - 0.6 - Manip all grass -15.2 - L10 for BC3 - 4.7 - Heal less in forest - 2.5 - Never heal before Brock Gym - 4.0 - BC2 Red Bar - 1.5 - Mt. Moon Red Bar - 2.0 NET -12.8