Hints and Tips

Tips and Hints

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I make it my policy to allways carry my starting Pokémon. It just seems like the right thing to do.

Kadabra- Quite possibly the best possible Pokémon you can get. especially if you dump all of you proteins, Irons and Carbos into it. The Abra is somewhat weak but once it evolves into Kadabra it's power is great. It's psychic attacks work great on almost any Pokémon except other psychics but the psychic Pokémon will usually wipe the floor with regular Pokémon. I have gone through entire caves and gyms using only my Kadabra and come out with very little damage. It evolves into Alakazam but it won't evolve unless traded to another gamepak. The only hard part about this Pokémon is finding one.

Abra- The devolved form of Kadabra. This Pokémon is hard to find and hard to catch. It will teleport away the first round of fighting. If you can't catch one I would recommend an alternative mode of acquiring one. Buying it. How do you buy a Pokémon? In the game center of Celadon City of course. Even if you're no good at the slots it's well worth the several thousand gold to just buy enough gold coins to exchange for one (3,000 in blue for 120 coins and 4,000 in Red for 180 coins). If you want you're new Abra to stand a chance at evolving you had also use a TM to teach it some offensive attacks because all it knows otherwise is Teleport.

Despite what the NPC characters say about keeping you're Pokémon at even level and letting each grow at the same rate, one or two really powerful Pokémon can wup all over anything easily. I use Raticate and Kadabra 90% of the time. these two Pokémon are about twenty to thirty levels ahead of my next best Pokémon as a result. Anything Raticate can't handle with it's brutal fangs Kadabra can defeat with it's psychic power. I used almost used Kadabra for the entire final battle with Gary but I changed near the last round to give some of my other Pokémon a chance to fight. For back up I usually carry Hitmonlee and Charizard. Both are relatively powerful and can usually stand up against an enemy if Raticate and Kadabra are disabled. Most of my Pokémon just sit around in Bill's PC doing nothing more than adding to my Pokédex. I used a Moon stone on Clefairy and Jigglypuff just to get them to evolve to add to my Pokédex.

Magikarp- This is a great buy because it later evolves into the extremely powerful Gyardos. After pumping all the Rare candy I found into Magicrap, sorry I mean Magikarp, and using the technique for getting weak Pokémon experience described below I finnaly got mine to evolve. It evolves at level 20.

There are four Pokémon that have to be traded to another gamepak before they will evolve.
          1. Kadabra -> Alakazam
          2. Graveler -> Golem
          3. Haunter -> Gengar
          4. Machoke -> Machamp
Thanks to Andrew Cousineau

There are over 150 Pokémon altogether. There are atleast 151. I have a theory that 151 is the evolved form of #150. It probaly is one of the four that you need to trade to get it to evelve as well.

Wait till just after a Pokémon gains a level through experience before using Rare candy. Otherwise some experience is wasted.

Techniques like leer that raise or lower attack and defense are worthless. You'll do better just wupping all over you're opponent. The only one of these I found useful was Hitmonlee's meditate.

Be sure to pick up a Hitmonlee or a Hitmonchan.

Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are probably named for Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Both Lees use kicks and both Chans use punches.

Trading is a cool idea but it's dumb because it makes it almost impossible to actually collect all 150 Pokémon. Who in their right mind would give up a rare Pokémon in a trade.

Here's a trick to get started strong and no one looses out. This requires two gamepaks and two Game Boys. Start a new game on one pak. Play through until you can buy Poké Balls. Catch 4 Pokémon (Rattatas Pidgeys whatever). Start a new game on the second pak. Choose a different starting Pokémon than the first pak. Go to the Viridian Pokémon Center and trade the Pokémon you chose for your starting Pokémon for one of the weak Pokémon from pak one. Start a new game on pak two and repeat this process until pak one has two of two of the starting Pokémon and one of the third (ex. 2 Bulbasaurs, 2 Charmanders, and 1 Squirtle). Start a new game on pak two and pick the Pokémon pak one only has one of (ex. Squirtle above). Play till you can buy Poké Balls then catch two extra Pokémon. trade these two extra for the double Pokémon on pak one. If done correctly, both players should have a Squirtle, Bulbasaur, and Charmander. Pak one doesn't have to be a new game either. Pak two does however have to be new. This is especially helpful because you can't catch Charmander, Bulbasaur, or Squirtle, at least not anywhere I have found.

If you can catch an evolved Pokémon or trade for one, do it. It's a pain to make Pokémon evolve. Don't take this too seriously though. You may enjoy raising Pokémon more than battling and getting money and experience. I prefer to spend more time making my strong Pokémon stronger than thinking about my weak Pokémon. I have Pokémon I haven't used since I caught them.

The elemental advantage (fire over grass, grass over water, water over fire) is not always the best strategy. A powerful Pokémon can take out anything weaker easily. Generally if your Pokémon is ten levels or more over your opponent's you'll defeat their Pokémon in one hit.

Raticate- If you can get it up above level fifty it''s an excellent Pokémon. The Hyper Fang attack does tons of damage to most enemies, and the Quick attack is good for when you need to get in a quick hit. Plus the Super fang is good for when you're trying to catch Pokémon or when you're fighting strong opponents. The Super fang always takes off half the remaining life. A level one Raticate with Super fang would take off half the life of a Pokémon with ten million HP. This is good for catching Pokémon because you can weaken it enough to use a Poké Ball without killing the enemy.

Snorlax- This Pokémon appears only twice so be sure to catch it one of the two times. It is very difficult to catch. When you manage to carefully plan your attacks so you lower it's HP without defeating it, and get it low enough to use a Poké Ball it'll use Rest and regain all its life. Plus it has to be extremely low on life for the Poké Ball to work. I used five Great Balls on one with next to no life left and it still got away. It is easier to catch using an Ultra ball.

Master Ball- you only get one of these and that sucks because you have to be careful when you use it. :( It works 100% of the time no mater what the opponent's life is.

You can only hold so many items on you're PC. This is frustrating when you have all the TMs.

Professor Oak is a fool, he should give you the third Pokémon to help you out.

Gary shows up at the most inconvenient and unexpected times.

Why does you're character black out if his Pokémon are the ones getting hurt? Loosing half your money bites.

Names of Pokémon play hell on spell check.

You can catch good, hard to find Pokémon with the super rod from a small discolored patch by a pond in the Safari Zone.

Fishing in the Safari Zone doesn't cost any of your time. You can do it as long as you want.

Snorlax is easier to catch when he's asleep. There are only two in the whole game so be sure to catch at least one of them! It is possible to catch without using the master ball.

Be sure to go in through the back door of the museum in Pewter City to get the Old Amber.

A good way to get weak Pokémon experience fast is to start with that Pokémon as your first Pokémon in a battle with a Gym leader or trainer. Then switch to your better Pokémon and finish the battle. When given the option to change Pokémon, send out your weak Pokémon again. These battles are worth loads of experience and weak Pokémon easily gain levels in these battles. I did this with a level 9 Metapod, and after fighting two trainers I had a level 15 Butterfree!

Use Moon stones on Clefairy and Jigglypuff.

Be sure to get the bike voucher from the leader of the Pokémon fan club in Vermilion City.

Also in Vermilion, be sure to trade a Spearow for a Farfetche'd.

You can catch as many of one type of Pokémon you want but they don't count towards your total unless they are a new type you haven't captured yet.

Traded Pokémon still count toward the number of Pokémon you own even though you don't actually own them anymore..

Some Pokémon have to be combined with a stone to be able to evolve such as Pikachu., Eevee, Clefairy, and Jigglypuff.

Eevee can evolve into one of three types of Pokémon. Be sure to choose wisely which one you want! It can only evolve once. Eevee cannot evolve with a Leaf Stone or a Moon Stone

Rock Pokémon can resist most attacks easily and are the hardest to beat using physical attacks.

Anyone else notice this? "Ekans" spelled backwards is "Snake" and "Arbok" spelled backwards is "Kobra" or "Cobra". Cool huh?

This is a list of Pokémon you can only catch in the Red Version of the Gameboy
game. Ekans, Arbok, Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Mankey, Primeape, Scyther, Electabuzz. Thanks to Alex Fielding.

I have heard that there is a hidden patch of tall grass where you can catch Charmanders but I'm no sure. - Andrew Cousineau

Snorlax can be caught with a normal Poké ball with the code (Hold Up + B the second the poké ball leaves your hand.) - Andrew Cousineau
Note: This code works with any Pokemon

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The next 2 bloacks were submited by heidi

First of all, if you want to know that myu (mew) is impossible to get
without game genie/shark. There it is. Also I have soime interesting
cheats.
1)Talk to guy in top of viridian to learn to catch pokemon. Place
rare/favorite/good item at sixth on list. Fly to cinnabar. Surf right
side of island, find, fight, and defeat rectangle on square guy. Deposit
item at sixth.( should have weird symbol then a number.) Withdraw as
many as 149.
2)Go to unknown dungeon, safari zone, any route, forest, or cave, and
then either by fly, dig, escape rope, or teleport, go straight to
cinnabar island and surf along right side and fight pokemon from that
area. May find L140 plus pokemon.
I like My level 195 mewtwo. I got him like this, I can't use him though.

X-TRA TIDBIT
IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH PINSIR/SCYTHER (depends on your version)
TAUROS, KANGASHKAN, and other safari zone onlies, find an area in safari
zone they occupy, then when teleported back to front office, go surf to
beside the seafoam on right side shoreline, the will apear and you can
actually fight and weaken them now.
Also BEST TEAM COMBOS
Mewtwo-Venasaur-Kabutops-Articuno-Zapdos- and any other two.
I personally defeated the whole elite four and my rival (idiot then
symbol for female.) With solely my zapdos- against first and third,
kabutops- against second and fourth, and my mewtwo against rival. They
each took all the elites whole team 1-5 odds.
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Give the three different drinks to the girl in the Celadon Dept. Store where
you get them, and she will give you three TMs for them! ~Jennifer

Another article relating to the Ekans and Arbok thing. Take Articuno,
Zapdos and Moltres. Remove the Artic, Zap, and Mol. What is left is uno,
dos tres! (Spanish for one, two, three!) -Scytherlover