First route: > Menus: - Cut bush: same (Repel to slot 1) - Cerulean: same (Bicycle to slot 2) - Fly: > Swap X Accs to slot 4 > Teach Fly > Move cursor to IB > Fly to Celadon > Teach IB on bike menu - Hideout: > Swap Super Repels to slot 2 > Teach Rock Slide > Use a Super Repel > Swap X Speed/Spec to slot 5/6 > Teach Horn Drill - Poke Flute: > Swap X Spec/Speed to slot 5/6 > Use Poke Flute - Silph: > Teach Surf > Teach EQ - Pallet Town: > Teach Strength > Use remaining candies on Nidoking > Bike to the water > Viridian Mart: Buy 8 Poke Balls > Toss Antidote if you have it > Pewter Mart: Buy 10 Potions > Try to get L23 for Mankey > Get Route 25 Elixer (or, if on Hiker strats, drop an item and get Ether) > Skip Full Restore > Vermilion Mart: Sell Nugget and TM34; buy 3 Repels > Celadon Mart: - 2F: Buy 10 Super Repels and 4 Super Potions (to do: find a place where 11th Super Repel saves time) - 6F: Buy Soda Pop, Fresh Water, (trade), Fresh Water - 5F: Buy 11 X Accs, 5 X Spec, 5 X Speeds (basically you have infinite money for X Specials) > Get IB and RS > Use IB and Drill in hideout > Lavender Rival: IB x3, RS, IB (Rock Slide Growlithe with <12 Special or so) > No Thrash for tower > Consider heal pad skip if didn't get Moon exp. (a bit safer than before, and you skip Marowak death jingle) - Raticate is guaranteed with 10+ DV Special (51% with 0 DV) > Get EQ early > With exp., 4 of 5 red bar level-ups from 38-42 are good (41 is bad). Without exp., 3 of 5 are good (40 and 42 are bad) > Consider candying from 41-->44 for Hypno, then killing Weezing or just wasting the exp. since L45-->46 doesn't do much > If no Hypno candies, you barely get 42 off second Koffing, and then you can die to Weezing > Candy from 42-->46 > Skip mansion candies unless you need the Speed for Sabrina > If you do Erika last, all red bar level-ups from 46-57 are good; if you do Erika first or second, 48 is bad > 48 for Blackbelt > 49/50 for Viridian Rival (must X Speed or double X Spec) > 53 for Agatha (doesn't really matter; would probably just skip X Speed with 14-15 DV and give second Gengar a turn) > X Speed on second Dragonair > Must X Speed on Champion NOTES: - Remember to route for all good Nidos, not just FFEF! > Don't run 0 Speed, as you're slower than Sabrina at L49 > Bad Special is a little bit worse -- Rock Tunnel red bar is more valuable, Tower relies on it more, and it's harder to get red bar from full off Lance. Silph Rival is better though > Attack: 9 DV needed to guarantee hideout Raticate; Machokes/Jynx are always guaranteed with 2 candies > Defense: Might matter slightly for hideout > HP: Matters slightly more because of hideout red bar management > Essentially, bad Speed is more runnable, but requirements are otherwise very similar - Almost certainly worse for Squirtorino because of lost hideout exp. - Must get rid of 2 extra items (sell Poke Balls + don't get FR or Super Potions?) because of Lift Key and Silph Scope - Getting TM07 in hideout is faster than buying it - Hideout can be done immediately (only if took Celadon Center), after mart (same) or after Fly > The former saves ~17 seconds in movement, but no red bar loses up to ~40s and fights might be slower, especially it forces Blizzard. So after Fly is probably best - Rocket Hideout: > Rocket: Thrash x2 > Rocket: IB (range), IB > Rocket: IB x3 > Rocket: IB x2, IB+IB (X Acc with bad Special?) > Giovanni: BB x2, IB+IB > Technically don't need Ice Beam here, but it saves a bit of time > Drill adds safety on 4th Rocket and Giovanni, especially with bad Special - Lavender Tower: > Probably IB Lavender Rival > Still need Rock Slide > Ghost Marowak dies to BB > Koffing can die to TB at L37 with great Special - Probably take Celadon Center at normal time - Always Thrash Arbok (always 2HKO) - Effects of hideout exp. + candy > Extensive routing must be done to test Ice Beam vs. Blizzard > Consider getting L43 for Hypno (Erika before Koga? Guaranteed Vileplume OHKO with most Attack DVs) > Consider getting mansion candies (L48 Machokes? L50 Rhydon? L50 Pidgeot? L54 Agatha (red bar)? L55 Lance?) > If you skip Cycling Road candy (-5s) and do old exp. route, you get: - Lower levels for triple gyms (irrelevant with good Nido) - L47 Blackbelt (bad) - L49 level-up (bad) - L49 Viridian Rival (good) - L52 Gengar (depends) - L53 Gyarados (depends) - L55 level-up (bad) - Can X Spec on Champion with good stats - One level-up on Champion (good) - Probably never worth skipping > If you get one mansion candy, you get: - L48 Alakazam - L49 level-up (bad) - L49 Blackbelt (good) - L50 Pidgeot - L52 level-up (bad) - L54 level-up (bad) - L54 Gengar - L55 Gyarados - Can X Spec on Champion with good stats - L56 Pidgeot - L58 level-up (bad) - Probably the superior option unless you need the Speed for Alakazam or Attack for Jynx > If you get 2 mansion candies, you get: - L49 Alakazam - L50 level-up (bad) - L50 Blackbelt (good) - L51 Rhydon (only with good Special) - L51 Pidgeot - L52 Alakazam (only with 15 DV Speed) - L53 Jynx (only with bad Attack) - L54 level-up (bad) - L54 Gengar - L55 Golbat - L56 level-up (bad) - L56 Gyarados - L57 level-up (bad) - Can X Spec on Champion with good stats - L57 Pidgeot - One level-up on Champion (good) - One fewer level-up overall