- 8/5 in pewter - catch only L6 caterpie (33 wild exp; solo metapod for these) - use pidgeotto AND pikachu in forest (no need to center for pp or keep healing pika) - options to set + potion before brock - 8/3 in pewter (no para heals) - moon hiker is good - might as well get Thunder Wave TM since it's on the way - center before misty to restore pp and hp (and save potions) - sleep powder goldeen - para starmie before switching to bulba - need many potions for misty (to stall bubblebeam) - take cerulean mart if <4 potions - center after misty - dig over leer - sell nugget, 14/3/2/2 in vermilion (awakenings and para heals) - split exp on raticate (sleep powder) - options to set on heal menu before boat - do NOT candy early - fight gentleman with 2 growlithes, body slam guy and candy gentleman - split exp with cubone and 2 slowpokes - celadon: > sell 2 nuggets > 10 super repels > 1 poke doll > 1 fresh water > 7 x acc (gio 2, viridian rival, all of e4) > 2 guard spec (lavender rival, sabrina) > 5 x attacks (lavender rival x4, tower JJ) > 7 x speeds (rival, JJ, silph rival, gio 1, sabrina x2, agatha) > 11 x spec (erika x3, silph rival, lance x6, champ) - guard spec and +4 and +1 on lavender rival - slash over growl (maybe mega kick instead?) - always +3 on erika - butterfree lead silph rival (locked into PS + flamethrower x2 very rarely kills at L40) - +2 attack on silph rival - +4 on sabrina to body slam alakzam (can't dig because reflect) exp idea - save butterfree candy for charmander - ~170 exp from wilds/optionals - tower --> mid 30 - skip center - safari zone - erika --> high 31 - fuchsia center - warden candy - arbok --> 32 - get swords dance (7F), teach over slash - 6 candies to 38 - sleep strats on rival (x spec x1, SD) - SD on jesse&james - SD x2, x speed on giovanni - get master ball + candy on the way out - fuchsia center + release butterfree - SD once on juggler 1 - SD once on juggler 2 - x spec, flamethrower x5 on koga (x speed unnecessary) - guard spec, SD x2, x speed x2 on sabrina - mom heal - surf to cinnabar - buy ultra balls + hyper potions - catch L27+ krabby - fly to viridian - master ball primeape (no repel strats) - release primeape - catch muk + get 2 candies and secret key - catch 18 tauros - change boxes - catch 11 tauros - candy charmander to 44 (charmeleon), then 45 (charizard) - SD once on blaine - flamethrower x2 cooltrainer - flamethrower x3 blackbelt - SD x3, BS, BS, dig x3 gio - fissure over swords dance - x acc, fissure, flamethrower, fissure x4 rival - get v-road candy - fissure lorelei - pp heal - fissure bruno - pp heal - x acc, fissure, x speed, flamethrower x2, fissure x3 agatha - candy to 55 for lance (fire spin over body slam), then switch krabby to front - sacrifice pidgeotto (sand-attack), fire spin, x acc, fire spin, x spec, etc., flamethrower lance - hp and pp heal - switch to charizard, x acc, x spec, fissure x2, flamethrower x2, fissure x4