No manip! THE ROUTE: - Fight Hiker - Skip Moon candy (OR get it and use 2 candies early. Also consider Gentlemandy) - Do early Erika - Candy from 34-->36 for Erika - Do Koga after Erika - Get warden candy - Candy from 39-->41 for mansion (repels L40 Muks) - Do Blaine, then Silph - Candy from 42-->44 for Silph Arbok PROS (compared to Werster route) skip mega kick -21.6 (3.6 seconds of money) skip blizzard -14.3 skip lapras -7.0 silph arbok -2.0 silph rival -18.5 silph rocket -1.0 silph giovanni -5.4 sabrina -2.2 blackbelt -2.3 giovanni dugtrio -3.8 (depends on speed DV) lorelei jynx -2.1 (depends on speed DV) bruno hitmons -1.2 lance -0.1 champion -1.0 red bar -10.7 one fewer level-up -1.6 TOTAL -94.8 CONS inventory +6.0 early erika + heals +16.0 warden candy +13.3 mansion candy +8.8 mansion candy +9.2 candy menus +3.5 lavender rival no mk +0.5 32 for golbat +6.2 tower drowzee +2.2 tower raticate +2.6 juggler 1 +6.5 juggler 2 +7.3 koga +1.2 viridian rival +1.5 (includes ice beam pp management) agatha +1.6 TOTAL +86.4 ---- ALTERNATE ROUTE to check: pp vs. mk route skip warden candy -13.3 26 for pidgeotto -0.1 26 for raticate -1.0 27 for pikachu -0.1 28 for oddish -3.1 28 for bellsprout -0.1 33 for golbat -4.1 29 for slowpoke -0.4 31 for gyarados -1.0 bite kadabra -1.8 juggler 1 -4.9 juggler 2 -0.8 koga -0.7 erika -16.0 bubblebeam blaine -2.6 43/44 for blaine -2.6 45 for gyarados -0.4 46 for drowzee -0.3 47 for sabrina -2.3 48 for machop -0.2 52 for bruno -0.2 53/54 for agatha -0.9 54 for lance -0.3 red bar consistency -10.3 inventory -1.0 gentleman $$ -0.3 get moon candy +27.4 get gentlemandy +40.3 (some time loss to bb pp) bad red bar level-ups +1.2 TOTAL +0.1 ---- ALTERNATE ROUTE 2 (DOESN'T WORK?) skip warden candy -13.3 28 for oddish -3.2 33 for golbat -4.2 juggler 1 -5.1 juggler 2 -0.4 koga -3.5 erika -11.5 bubblebeam blaine -2.8 red bar erika get gentlemandy +39.3 mansion encounters +7.8 TOTAL +3.1 ---- BODY SLAM (ON HIGH EXP ROUTE) kadabra -2.0 ivysaur -2.2 pikachu -2.4 bellsprout -2.5 bellsprout -2.5 slowpoke 1 -4.0 slowpoke 2 -5.0 oddish -2.0 bulbasaur -0.1 lavender kadabra -2.5 lavender drowzee -0.6 juggler 1 -5.1 juggler 2 -2.7 silph drowzee -0.9 sabrina -5.2 strength menu -2.2 body slam get +35.0 body slam teach +14.2 no bb for blaine +2.6 TOTAL +9.9