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1 Pokemon Emerald Version: FAQ/Walkthrough by peach freak Version 1.25, Last Updated View/Download Original File Hosted by GameFAQs Return to Pokemon Emerald Version (GBA) FAQs & Guides Liked this FAQ? Click here to recommend this item to other users. Pokemon Emerald FAQ/Walkthrough For the GameBoy Advance system Written by peach freak or Copyright Tim Brastow. All Rights Reserved. Version 1.25 Welcome! This FAQ is a walkthrough for Pokemon Emerald, an excellent remake of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire versions. If you have any questions, comments, or if I make a mistake, me at peachfreak90@hotmail.com. Once (good) questions are asked, I will put them in an Asked Questions section. Also, this FAQ is protected by copyright. You cannot sell this, put this on your site without my permission, or any other violation of copyright law. You can, however, save this onto your computer or print it out for LEGAL use. Table of Contents 1. Version History 2. Controls 3. Emerald Changes 4. Game Basics 5. Walkthrough 6. Abilities/Natures 7. Items 8. Special Events 9. Strengths/Weaknesses 10. Credits =================== 1. Version History =================== Version.62, September 3, 2006: Well, here's the first version of this guide. I have 5 badges completed and all other sections of this FAQ are completed as well. If there's anything missing or if there's something you'd like to have added into this guide, let me know. There are things I probably don't know I'm forgetting. Version.75, September 7, 2006: I got up to the 6th badge at Fortree City in the walkthrough. Version.87, September 18, 2006: Finally, after all that progress, I got up to the 7th badge at Mossdeep City and I finished the Space Center as well. Version.95, October 10, 2006: Wow, it's been nearly a month since I've updated this guide. I now have all 8 badges covered, but before we get to the Elite Four, we're going to do a side quest first. Next update will cover the Elite Four, and all the neat things you can do after defeating the Elite Four, so it may take a while. Version.97, December 11, 2006: Long time no see. I finished the Elite Four, but I'm not done with the walkthrough. I've still got to finish all of the side quests and stuff that you'll be able to do after the Elite Four.

2 Version.99, January 31, 2007: Having no motivation to write FAQs sucks. I did pretty much all available side quests after finishing the Elite Four. Only major thing left is the Battle Frontier (and anything else I've left in between). Version.99a, February 1, 2007: Added the Battle Frontier area and the general rules about it, but I did not cover the seven battle sites yet. Version 1.00, February 4, 2007: Just in time for the Super Bowl, I finish the Walkthrough, after taking me about 8 months. Yay! Version 1.25, July 11, 2007: Finally got that legendaries section done in my walkthrough and added in the TM/HM list in my item section. The legendaries section can be found in the side quests after defeating the Elite Four. ============ 2. Controls ============ D-Pad: Move Character/Select Cursor A: Confirm/Select Attack B: Cancel/Go back to previous screen Start: Pauses game and brings up menu Select: No use in game R/L: Use to scroll back and forth between Pokemon boxes if enabled =================== 3. Emerald Changes =================== Several changes have happened in Pokemon Emerald. Many are for the good, little are for the bad. But almost all of the changes have eliminated everything that was wrong about the Ruby and Sapphire versions -Both main characters now have different clothing (both have green) -You can catch both Groudon and Kyogre -After beating the Elite Four, you can choose which Lati you want to catch. The other one will appear in southern island, which can only be accessed by getting the Eon Ticket -If you complete your Hoenn Pokedex, Professor Birch will reward you by letting you pick a Gold/Silver/Crystal starter of your choice -Some Pokemon from Ruby and Sapphire cannot be found in Emerald. Here they are: Meditite/Medicham Surskit/Masquerain (you can get these in Emerald by mixing records with a R/S player. If you watch TV, you may here a report of Surskit swarming) Roselia Zangoose Lunatone -There is a new champion. Wallace, the 8th gym leader in R/S, is now the champion. You can battle the old champion, Steve, in Meteor Falls. The new gym leader for Sootopolis City is Juan. -Some gym leaders have altered, changed, or added Pokemon in their roster -After beating the Elite Four, you can go to the Battle Frontier. This is a lot better and bigger than the Battle Tower. You can earn symbols, battle points, and use them to buy dolls or even tutor moves for your Pokemon -You fight both Team Aqua and Team Magma -You can now get to Navel Rock and Birth Island using a Mystic Ticket and an

3 Aurora Ticket. These can only be accessed at Nintendo Events, otherwise you'd need to use a Gameshark -Faraway Island has been added. To get here, you must obtain the Old Sea Chart from Nintendo events. You can go here to trap a wild Mew and battle and capture it. -With the match call feature, you can have rematches with certain trainers and all gym leaders! Each time you battle them, they will have stronger or new Pokemon (for example, your father Norman will get a Blissey and another Slaking overtime) -There is a new Deoxys, the speed form. It has incredible speed and can outrun anything in the game. All other stats are evenly balanced out -There are now double team battles. If two trainers out in the field spot you at once, one will walk up to you, and then the other trainer will as well. This will cause a double team battle. You will send out your top two Pokemon while each of them send out 1 Pokemon at a time. -Some of the natures have added effects to them in Emerald. For example, if a Pokemon has the "Hustle" ability, not only will their Attack rise and Accuracy drop, but it will increase the chance of meeting higher level Pokemon if the Pokemon with "hustle" is in the top spot of your roster. =============== 4. Game Basics =============== This section will describe all of the basics of this game, how to encounter/catch Pokemon, and how everything works Capturing Pokemon and Forming a Team You can hold up to 6 Pokemon at a time. If you capture a wild Pokemon, it'll be sent to Lanette's PC. Pokemon can be caught in wild grass, by fishing, surfing, walking in caves, or using Rock Smash. Also, there are Pokemon that can only be caught once, and if you knock them out, you cannot capture them again and you can only get them by loading up your previous saved game. Tips on capturing Pokemon 1. The higher their level, the more difficult they will be to capture. Battle the wild Pokemon with your own, but don't hurt them enough to knock them out. Once you get their health bar (or Hit Points) in the low orange or red, you have a higher chance of catching it than you would if it had full health 2. Inflicting them with status conditions such as putting them to sleep, paralyzing them, or freezing them will increase your chances of capturing greatly. Poisoning and burning them will reduce their health each turn, so remember to capture it before they faint from poisoning/burning. 3. As you progress through the game, you'll have the chance to buy better balls rather than Poke Balls. Great Balls and Ultra Balls have a much better chance at capturing Pokemon and at any time, you'll always want to be loaded with at least 15 or 20 Great/Ultra Balls. There are special balls like Timer and Nest Balls, and knowing how to use them correctly will help you capture Pokemon easier than before. Now, the other part you need to know is learning how to form a team. No Pokemon is the best. Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses to other types of Pokemon (for more on this, look at the strengths/weaknesses chart at the end of the guide). You'll need to know which types have an advantage on others and

4 when to send them out for battle. Having 6 Pokemon is great, but 6 bad Pokemon is even worse. Here is an example: Rayquaza (Dragon/Flying) Dragonite (Dragon/Flying) Flygon (Dragon/Ground) Altaria (Dragon/Flying) Salamance (Dragon/Flying) Kingdra (Water/Dragon) While you may have a team of kick-ass dragons, there is a huge downfall to this. Any strong ice Pokemon can dispose of them very quickly, even if any of these Pokemon have moves that are effective against Ice. A team like this would be an effective team: Sceptile (Grass) Magneton (Eletric/Steel) Gardevoir (Psychic) Kingdra (Dragon/Water) Swellow (Normal/Flying) Hariyama (Fighting) With this type of team, you'll have a strong advantage over many trainers because of having an advantage over nearly every type in the game. Plus, knowing which moves to put on your Pokemon can also be another benefit. For example, Water Gun/Surf/Rain Dance/Hydro Pump is not a good moveset for Kingdra. All 4 are water types, so you'd only have advantages on Fire, Rock, and Ground types. A moveset like Surf/Ice Beam/Rain Dance/Toxic is a lot better, because Ice Beam gives Kingdra an advantage on Grass, Dragon, and Flying types. Toxic also poisons a Pokemon while having it increase poison damage every turn. Also, at some point in time, you'll need to ditch Pokemon in your team because their usefulness decreases as you progress through the game. Most Pokemon you will find become useful HM slaves (which are Pokemon which have nothing but HM moves on their moveset), mostly because you don't want useless moves like Cut, Rock Smash, and Flash on your Pokemon's moves. Note that when forming a team, you can get some Pokemon early, but you'll have to get pretty late in the game to get Pokemon you'll really want Stats and Status Conditions Here are the stats found on every Pokemon. The higher a Pokemon's level is, the higher their stats will increase. Level-ups will never decrease stats. Sometimes stats may decrease when a Pokemon evolves. For example, Trapinch, a Pokemon with an extremely high Attack stat (but poor stats everywhere else), will evolve into Vibrava. When this happens, Vibrava's Attack drops significantly, but all of the other stats improve greatly. Hit Points: This is the amount of damage you've taken. The more attacks your Pokemon takes, the lower HP it will have, displayed at the bottom of the screen during a battle. Of course, a Pokemon could have a high amount of HP but a low amount of damage, so any attack that it is weak against could hurt it greatly or even faint it. As your HP sinks low, you'll want to heal your Pokemon before it ends up fainting. To indicate how much HP your opponent has (you can't see their exact HP count), look at their health bar. If it's green, they have over half health left. Yellow means under half, and red means under 1/3 of their normal health. When your HP falls to the red zone, you'll hear a beeping sound.

5 Attack: Your attack determines how much damage you'll deal out with a PHYSICAL attack. All of these types below are physical. Normal, Bug, Ghost, Rock, Ground, Flying, Fighting, Steel, Poison If your Pokemon is one of the types above, it is essential to have a high attack stat. If you have a Pokemon that's a physical type but a low Attack, teaching them physical type moves are worthless, because they would do little damage. The damage dealt also relies on the attack's power and the opponent's defense. If a physical Pokemon has a high Attack stat, such as Slaking, by all means take advantage of it, and if used correctly, it could be known as a "Physical Sweeper" Defense: Your defense determines how much damage you take from a physical attack. Remember, having a high defense has no effect on a special type attack. The higher defense you have, the more damage you can take from a physical attack. Pokemon high in defense, such as Golem, can take almost any physical attack without fainting in one turn, and can be great for fighting non-special type Pokemon. Special Attack: This determines the amount of damage you'll deal from a SPECIAL attack. All of these types below are special. Grass, Fire, Water, Electric, Ice, Dragon, Dark, Psychic If your Pokemon is one of the types above, it is essential to have a high special attack. If you have a Pokemon that is a special type but with a low Special Attack, teaching it special moves would be worthless, because they would do little damage. Alakazam, a Pokemon with a very high Special Attack stat, can dish out the beatings if you teach it the right moves. If super effective, they will very likely result in one-hit knock outs. Also, a Pokemon with all special attacks would be known as a "Special Sweeper" Special Defense: Your Special Defense determines how much damage you take from a special attack. Remember, having a high special defense has no effect on a physical attack. Pokemon high in Special Defense, such as Gardevoir, can take several hits from special type moves before being knocked out, and can be great for fighting other Special type Pokemon. Speed: The most important stat in the game in my opinion. Speed determines who goes first, so it's important to have a fast Pokemon or two in your roster to have a better chance at winning the fight. If your Pokemon has a higher speed than the opponent's Pokemon, your Pokemon will strike first in the battle. If you have a lower speed stat than the opponent, they will strike first. Crobat is one of the fastest Pokemon in the game, and is ensured a first strike in battles. The only exceptions would be Pokemon with a higher Speed stat, moves such as Quick Attack and Extremespeed (which attack first regardless of speed), and an item called the Quick Claw, which gives any Pokemon a slight chance of attacking first in battle, no matter what their Speed is. STATUS CONDITIONS: Many moves can inflict a status condition on Pokemon. Status conditions can affect the battle greatly and gives the non-infected Pokemon a better advantage over the effective one. Here are all the possible status conditions in the game. Poison: If a Pokemon is poisoned, they will lose 1/16 of their health every turn unless they are switched out in battle. Outside of battle, they will lose

6 1 HP for every 4 steps that you take unless they are cured. Cures: Antidote, Full Heal, Full Restore, Pecha Berry, Lum Berry, Lava Cookie Abilities that resist poison: Immunity Burn: If a Pokemon is burned, they will lose 1/16 of their health every turn unless they are switched out in battle. Unlike poison, they will not lose HP regardless of how many steps you take. The thing is, a burned Pokemon will have their Attack stat reduced greatly as long as they are burned. You can use this to your advantage and inflict a burn condition on Pokemon with high attack. Cures: Burn Heal, Full Restore, Full Heal, Rawst Berry, Lum Berry, Lava Cookie Abilites that resist burn: Water Veil Paralyze: Paralyzing a Pokemon is one of the best things to do in battle. When a Pokemon is paralyzed, they have a 25% chance of not attacking completely for a turn. Also, their speed will be reduced greatly, so if you paralyzed a fast Pokemon while you have a slow Pokemon, you will be almost guaranteed to attack first. Being paralyzed also decreases your chance of running away from a wild Pokemon in battle. Cures: Paralyze Heal, Full Restore, Full Heal, Lum Berry, Cheri Berry, Lava Cookie Abilities that resist paralyze: Limber Sleep: If a Pokemon is infected with sleep condition, they will be unable to attack while they are asleep for each turn. They can wake up, but the amount of turns is random and you'll need to get lucky. But once they wake up, they'll perform the attack you selected. Putting a Pokemon asleep is effective for catching them and for battling them if you think you're going to lose. Cures: Awakening, Full Restore, Full Heal, Chesto Berry, Lum Berry, Lava Cookie Abilities that resist sleep: Insomnia, Vital Spirit Freeze: If a Pokemon is frozen solid, they will be unable to attack. Each turn, they will remain frozen solid and not be able to attack. Freezing a Pokemon is also essential for capturing wild Pokemon. Just like sleeping Pokemon and waking up, a Pokemon that is frozen can defrost at anytime and attack. Back in the days of Red/Blue/Yellow, a frozen Pokemon would never be able to defrost no matter how long they remained frozen. But if you attack a frozen Pokemon with a fire attack, they will be immediately defrosted (and just when you thought fire wouldn't melt ice in the game). Cures: Ice Heal, Full Restore, Full Heal, Lum Berry, Aspear Berry, Lava Cookie Abilities that resist freeze: Magma Armor Confuse: If a Pokemon is confused, there is a 50/50 chance they will hurt themselves in confusion or will attack during the turn. Being confused is very risky since you can be knocked out very quickly if you keep getting hit in confusion. Like sleep and freeze, the Pokemon will randomly snap out of confusion at times and then attack. Being confused it probably the most annoying status condition in my opinion. A sure way to cure confusion is to switch out your Pokemon during battle. Cures: Full Restore, Full Heal, Lum Berry, Persim Berry, Lava Cookie, Yellow Flute Abilities that resist confusion: Own Tempo Trading Pokemon In order to get Pokemon you do not have or do not appear in the game, you trade for them with other friends or people in game. Traded Pokemon get an experience boost for every battle (150% boost), but there is a flaw: to control traded Pokemon, you must have the appropriate badge. For example, if you've been given

7 a level 100 Mewtwo to beat the game with ease, you're in for a nasty surprise when the Pokemon falls asleep on you in the middle of battle. For example, the 2nd badge (the Knuckle Badge) allows traded Pokemon level 30 and under to obey you. If you had only two badges with a traded Pokemon at level 35, its chances of obeying you will be pretty low. It could do things such as not attack completely, fall asleep, or use a different move instead. This is how the obeying system goes: Stone Badge (1st badge): Pokemon up to level 10 will obey you Knuckle Badge (2nd badge): Pokemon up to level 30 will obey you Heat Badge (4th badge): Pokemon up to level 50 will obey you Feather Badge (6th badge): Pokemon up to level 70 will obey you Rain Badge (8th badge): Any Pokemon will obey you, regardless of level Remember: Pokemon obeying you only applies for TRADED Pokemon, not Pokemon that have the same trainer ID as yours (meaning it is your Pokemon and you caught it in the wild, etc). Pokemon that are yours will listen to you no matter what level they are at and how far you are into the game. So you could raise your Mudkip to a level 75 Swampert before you get the first badge and it'll still listen to you, even if that would take forever Evolving Pokemon Evolving Pokemon is my favorite and exciting thing in this game. When evolved, they will become a stronger, better form of their earlier stage in the family. Evolution has its pros and cons, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons. When evolving, your Pokemon will have better stats and be able to fight more. Sometimes they'll gain a lot in some stats and drop down significantly in other stats. The downside to evolving is that Pokemon will learn some of their best moves later. Also, earlier forms of Pokemon can learn moves that their later evolved forms can't by leveling up. Let's take a look at a few examples: Torchic evolves into Combusken at Level 16. But if you stop the evolution by pressing the B button, you can continue raising it to level 25, where it would learn Fire Spin. Combusken, no matter what level, cannot learn fire spin by leveling up. Torchic can also get Flamethrower at level 43, but Combusken/Blaziken need to learn Flamethrower from the TM to learn it. But would you keep Torchic for that long? When you stop the evolution, it will try to evolve the next time it goes up a level. You can still stop this by pressing B. Also, Teecko can learn Mega Drain at level 26. Its evolved form, Grovyle, cannot learn Giga Drain at all. But if you raise your Treecko higher than level 29, Grovyle cannot learn Leaf Blade, which is Treecko/Grovyle/Sceptile's best move. Another example of the ups and downs of evolution. There are several ways of which a Pokemon can evolve. 1. One way is by leveling up. If the Pokemon gets to the certain level, it will try to evolve into its next form. This is the most basic way of evolution. For example, Treecko evolves into Grovyle at level 16, and then to Sceptile at level Some Pokemon will evolve by using elemental stones, which are the Thunderstone, Fire Stone, Water Stone, Leaf Stone, Sun Stone, and Moon Stone. With an elemental stone, you can use it on the Pokemon at any level you want.

8 But beware: after a Pokemon evolves with a stone, there's a good chance it will not learn any moves by leveling up anymore. Wait until your previous Pokemon has learned all the moves you wanted on him, and then use the stone. This is a good way of getting a powerful Pokemon. 3. To get other Pokemon, you must simply trade them. The 4 Pokemon that evolve by trading are Graveler, Machoke, Kadabra, and Haunter. You can trade them at any level and they will evolve. Unlike elemental stones, traded Pokemon will still learn the same moves at the same level as their previous evolution, so there's no drawback in this. Plus you get good stat boosts, so there's no reason why you should hesitate to trade when your Pokemon can evolve by trading. 4. Other Pokemon will evolve by trade, but you'll need to have them holding certain items. One example will be having Seadra holding a Dragon Scale. When traded while holding this item, it will evolve into a very powerful Kingdra, who becomes a water/dragon type. Kingdra has awesome and balanced stats in every category and is a tough opponent to take down, so if you have a Seadra, find a Dragon Scale and trade. You won't regret it. 5. The last way to evolve a Pokemon is to level them up when their happiness is at a very high rating. To get their happiness up, you must have your Pokemon fight in battle, keep it in your roster for a long period of time throughout the game, not let it faint, leveling it up, and giving it beneficial items such as Protein and Iron. You can also get their happiness up by just walking around. To find out how happy it is, check out the lady living in the house south of the battle tent in Verdanturf Town. If she says "It adores you. It can't possibly love you any more. I even feel happy seeing it," then your Pokemon is at the highest happiness level possible and is guaranteed to evolve at the next level if it evolves by happiness. One example would be Golbat, who will evolve into Crobat if you got its happiness rating very high. =============== 5. Walkthrough =============== This section will guide you throughout the whole game, from the first step out of your house to your final triumph over the Elite Four. First, you must pick if you are a boy or a girl. Your rival will become the opposite gender. After, you give your character a name and then you start the game out by being in the back of a moving truck...what a nice mother you have. After you get out, all of the Vigoroths will help unpack and put everything in place in your house. As you get out of the truck, head into your house. If you are a boy, you will be on the left side in Littleroot Town. If you are a girl, you'll be on the right side. Enter your room and head up the stairs to get into your room. The first thing you'll want to do is press A on the clock on the wall. Set the time to whatever you want but be careful: this is the only point in the game where you can set the time. Also note that certain things happen between AM and PM time, I'll cover those later. Before leaving this house, go to your PC and press A to turn it on. Then access your PC and go to "Withdraw Item". Take out the potion, leave your room, and head out the house. Now that you're finally back inside, it's time to check out your rival's house. Simply do this by going to the opposite house in this town and go up the stairs. Walk around and you'll meet your rival. After, leave your rival's house and then the adventure will begin Littleroot Town/Route

9 Since you have met your rival, head north where you find a path leading up to Route 101. Head into it and continue north. But then you'll see something: Professor Birch is being chased by a wild Pokemon! Don't panic, because this is where you get to be his hero (by defeating a level 2 Pokemon, so feel proud). When you go up to his bag, you will be able to choose one of three Pokemon. Choose carefully, because this will be your starter and will be a big part of your team for the game to come. Here are each of the three you can choose between: Treecko: Treecko is the grass Pokemon out of the starting three. It starts out slow, but as you progress through the game and raise him, you'll be happy you chose him in the first place. His moves are weak, but those will change in the future. It evolves into Grovyle at level 16 and Sceptile at level 36 This family is known for its high and amazing speed. Also with an above average special attack, it can OHKO (one hit knock out) nearly anything it is strong against. Its best move upon leveling up is Leaf Blade, but you won't find any other exciting moves when leveling up. You'll need to use TMs and tutors to make the best out of the grass family. Plus Treecko has a disadvantage to only two of the gyms, while it will be a very big help in the Elite Four. Strengths: Water, Ground, Rock Weaknesses: Fire, Bug, Poison, Flying, Ice Torchic: Torchic is the fire Pokemon, making it a pretty popular choice for newcomers to this game. It has high Special Attack and Attack ratings, but poor ratings on the defense and special defense side. With moderate speed, you can make it a powerhouse. But the thing is, when evolving into Combusken at level 16, it will become a fighting type. This is a disadvantage, because it gives it more weaknesses than fire already has. You can use it as an attacker or a special attacker. Once evolved, it has a disadvantage to 3 gyms, but if you know how to use it right, this Pokemon isn't so bad after all. Strengths: Grass, Bug, Ice, Steel Weaknesses: Water, Rock, Ground Mudkip: Mudkip is simply an excellent starter. Plus water is another popular pick, but this one is definitely worth it. It may lack speed but can have very powerful moves. When evolving into Marshtomp at Level 16, it becomes Ground type. This helps it more than hurts it, because it makes Marshtomp and Swampert immune to electric (which is weak too), and gives it more strengths. The only thing you have to worry about being Water/Ground is grass. A grass move can do up to 4x damage to a water/ground, and 6x if it is from a Grass Pokemon. But you can give Swampert killer moves such as Earthquake, Ice Beam, and Surf. Nasty anybody? You won't need to worry about being weak to any gym. The only exception is the third gym, unless your Mudkip has evolved by then. Strengths: Fire, Ground, Water Weaknesses: Electric, Grass After you choose your Pokemon, you will need to use it to help out Professor Birch. When fighting, use the attacking move against the wild Pokemon (pound for Treecko, Scratch for Torchic, and Tackle for Mudkip), and you'll defeat it in no time. After you defeat the wild Pokemon, it will run away, so follow Professor Birch back to his lab in Littleroot town. He will thank you for helping him out at Route 101 and will allow you to keep the Pokemon you chose from his bag as a token of thanks. Then he wants to you see your Rival (Brendan if a boy, May if a girl) in Route 103, which is up the path to the north. Go back to Route 101 and cut through the tall grass. If you get attacked by wild

10 Pokemon, do your best to defeat them and get some experience points for the road ahead. If possible, you could gain a level or two. After you get through the grass and walk around the ledges, you'll find another path. It will take you to Oldale Town, a little quiet town Oldale Town/Route 103/Route With this being the first town outside of Littleroot town and with more stuff, it's time to explain this since you'll be seeing these for the first time. Pokemon Center: In the southwest corner of this map is the Pokemon Center. Here, you can go to your PC to desposit/withdraw items and Pokemon and have the nurse inside heal your Pokemon absolutely free. Then how does she get paid if she's behind a counter all day putting Pokeballs on the machine and healing them to 100% health? You can do it as many times as you want and they won't ask for a dime. These are very essential for your long journey. Pokemon Mart: Here, you can buy items in any amount. They are cheap right now, but as you get into later parts of the game, you'll find less common and more valuable items such as Ultra Balls and Max Potions, items you'll want to stock up on. Also, you can sell items for money if they are un-needed or if you have too much of one thing. Here is a list of what the Mart in this town has: Antidote (100 dollars) Awakening (250 dollars) Paralyze Heal (200 dollars) Poke Ball (200 dollars)* Potion (300 Dollars) * means you cannot buy this item after you have gotten Pokedex from Professor Birch Even with that, there is little to do in Oldale Town. But before you get out of here, talk to the man next to the house in the southeast corner of this map. He'll give you a free Potion for talking to him! Heal your Pokemon if you need to, and then we're heading out of here. Besides getting here from route 101, there are two ways to get out of here. One way is route 102, which is blocked off at the moment (to the west). The other is route 103, which is at the north end of this town. So gear up and head north into Route 103. Cross the tall grass and continue up, where you'll find your rival in the middle of the route. Talk to your rival and (s)he will ask for a battle. Your rival's Pokemon will be your starting Pokemon's weakness Pokemon. So if you chose Treecko, your rival will have Torchic, Mudkip if you chose Torchic, and Treecko if you took Mudkip. Your rival's Pokemon will be at level 5, so if you leveled yours up on your way, you should have the better advantage. Just like you did with the wild Pokemon, keep using your attack moves to whittle down your opponent's health and since you'd have the better edge, you should win this without a problem. After you defeat your rival, you'll need to head back to Littleroot town once more. You should know where to go, just keep heading down south. Back at Littleroot town, go into Professor Birch's lab. Talk to him and he'll say that he has something for both you and your rival. He will give you both a Pokedex, which you can use to track Pokemon you've seen, caught, and to find their location and cries. Also, your rival says (s)he has something for you and will give you 5 Poke Balls to start your journey. Now leave Professor Birch's lab and get back to Oldale Down. Heal if needed and now since you have your

11 Pokedex, you can now purchase Poke Balls at the Mart and head west out towards route 102, which is the next direction we're going to. Route 102 is the first area where you'll have to battle trainers. If I were you, battle them. They are your best source of getting experience and money. Here is a list of the trainers found in this route: Youngster Calvin - Match Call Trainer Poochyena, Level 5 (Dark) Money: $80 Bug Catcher Rick Wurmple, Level 4 (Bug) Wurmple, Level 4 (Bug) Money: $64 Youngster Allen Zigzagoon, Level 5 (Normal) Taillow, Level 3 (Normal/Flying) Money: $48 Lass Tiana Zigzagoon, Level 4 (Normal) Shroomish, Level 4 (Grass) Money: $64 With a new route, you'll also find some wild Pokemon here in the grass. ****************************************************************************** Wurmple (Common) Zigzagoon (Uncommon Poochyena (Uncommon) Lotad (Rare) Ralts (Rare) Seedot (Rare) Few of these Pokemon are worth catching for a long-term team. Ralts is a musthave. It's an early psychic Pokemon. At Level 20 it will evolve into Kirlia and Gardevoir at Level 30. Gardevoir has an outstanding Special Attack and Special Defense stats, with average rankings everywhere else. Ralts will have weak stats, so don't let it fight anything too strong if you're going to catch it. Lotad is also a good Pokemon to catch. After evolving it into Lombre at level 14, use a Water Stone to evolve it into Ludicolo, a Grass/Water Pokemon with no special weaknesses and a high Special Defense. Only take him if Torchic is your starter, since you won't want another grass/water Pokemon on your team. ******************************************************************************* Keep heading west, battling through the trainers and getting through the wild grass. Halfway along the route, you'll find an Oran Berry and a Pecha Berry. You can pick up 2 of each and then plant one of each in the soil so they can grow back and allow you to pick up new berries. As you head west, a Potion will be below a ledge near the end of the route. Pick it up before continuing into Petalburg City, where your dad is currently living Petalburg City/Route 104/Petalburg Woods PokeMart Item Listing: Antidote: $100

12 Awakening: $250 Escape Rope: $550 Great Ball: $600* Orange Mail: $50 Paralyze Heal: $200 Poke Ball: $200 Potion: $350 Super Potion: $700* X Attack: $500 X Defend: $550 X Speed: $350 * means you can only buy these items after getting the first four gym badges. As you enter Petalburg City, go in the Pokemon Center right next to you and heal if you have to. Now continue out west and you'll find a gym, where you battle the gym leader and earn a badge. Continue west and you'll be interrupted by a man. You will be taken to the gym where you will find your father. He'll check out your new Pokemon. He is the gym leader, but he'll say that you'll need to raise your Pokemon because right now, he is way too strong for you. After, a kid named Wally enters the room. Now you will have to help him out by catching a Pokemon in the wild. Your dad helps out by giving him a Zigzagoon. Now he will catch his Pokemon out in route 102. He will catch a wild Ralts (and how does he always find it on first try?) and then go back to the gym and give Zigzagoon back to Norman. After your dad is done talking to you, leave the gym, and you'll meet another man in sunglasses saying he is looking for talented trainers in Hoenn. After he leaves, continue out west and you'll find a path leading to route ROUTE Route 104 trainers: Youngster Billy Zigzagoon, Level 5 (Normal) Seedot, Level 7 (Grass) Money: $112 Fisherman Darian Magikarp, Level.9 (Water) Money: $360 Lady Cindy - Match Call Trainer Zigzagoon, Level 7 (Normal) Money: $1400 Here is the list of Pokemon found in route 104 ******************************************************************************* Poochyena (Common) Wurmple (Common) Marill (Common) Wingull (Uncommon) Taillow (Uncommon) We've got a few new faces here. Marill is a horrible Pokemon with horrible stats, even when evolving into Azumarill. Do what I did and use it as an HM Slave for Waterfall, Dive, and Rock Smash. Taillow evolves into Swellow, a Pokemon with good speed and attack, but not so good on the defense side. But

13 overall, Taillow/Swellow are decent flying Pokemon. Wingull is another flying Pokemon, but when evolving into Pelipper, it lowering its speed and giving it several other weaknesses. I'd stay away from Pelipper, but Taillow is a good choice for now. ******************************************************************************* As you enter route 104, head north and west, through the wild grass. You'll find a lone house by the water and next to a dock, but let it be for now. To the north of the cottage is a path. Follow it into an opening and you'll be inside the Petalburg Woods PETALBURG WOODS Trainers found in the Petalburg Woods: Bug Catcher Lyle Wurmple, Level 3 (Bug) Wurmple, Level 3 (Bug) Wurmple, Level 3 (Bug) Wurmple, Level 3 (Bug) Money: $48 Bug Catcher James - Match Call Trainer Nincada, Level 6 (Bug/Ground) Nincada, Level 6 (Bug/Ground) Money: $96 Pokemon found in Petalburg Woods: ****************************************************************************** Poochyena (Common) Wurmple (Common) Shroomish (Uncommon) Silcoon (Uncommon) Cascoon (Uncommon) Taillow (Rare) Slakoth (Rare) Most of these Pokemon are repeats found in previous routes. Silcoon and Cascoon are just the evolved forms of Wurmple, but they're still horrible. Both evolve into Beautifly and Dustox respectively at Level 10, but either way, they turn how to be bad bug Pokemon. Slakoth is a Pokemon worth nothing. It has a massive Attack stat but its special trait only allows it to attack every other turn, giving the opponent an advantage. Slakoth is up to you, but it becomes even better when evolving into Vigoroth and Slaking. Shroomish is an ok grass Pokemon and becomes part Fighting when evolved into Breloom, but it's a Pokemon I wouldn't have on my final roster. ******************************************************************************* Once inside the woods, cut through the grass to your northwest. Get the Paralyze Heal from the grass and continue east until you pass another grass patch. Then head north of this grass where you'll be introduced to Team Aqua. They are stealing the Devon Goods from the researcher in the woods. After, the researcher will get on your side and ask you to get rid of the Grunt. His level 9 Poochyena shouldn't be a problem, so dispose of it. He'll give you $180 for beating him. The researcher will reward you with your first Great Ball, which is better at catching Pokemon than a Poke Ball. Since you're still very early in the game, I'd save it until you find either a rare Pokemon or one that's hard to catch. Continue west and you'll get to two split grass patches. There

14 is an Ether in one of them, so pick it out. Head up north and you'll find an opening leading back out to Route 104, so go through it to get the fresh air ROUTE Ah, fresh air! Before going out to battle the trainers, let's do a couple of things first. Talk to the man right to your left and he'll give you TM09, which is Bullet Seed. It's a weak grass attack that attacks the Pokemon 2-5 times each turn, but does little damage. If you have Treecko as a starter, I would take Bullet Seed over Absorb, however. To the left of the man is an Oran Berry and a Cheri Berry. Do what I do and plant one of each back in the garden. North of where you are is a garden house. Enter it. Talk to the girl in the back for a Wailmer Pail, an item used to water the berries. Funny how it has unlimited water, even when you don't fill it. You can use this to water the berries you planted outside as a start. Another girl in this shop will give you a berry a day. One other is selling plants for your secret base, but you can't make one yet. Plus you can't buy items here until you have 3 badges. Now we can leave and get to the real action on the other side of the route. Back outside, head east where you'll find the trainers. Here they are: Rich Boy Winston - Match Call Trainer Zigzagoon, Level 9 (Normal) Money: $1400 Lass Haley - Match Call Trainer Lotad, Level 6 (Water/Grass) Shroomish, Level 6 (Grass) Money: $96 Twins Gia and Mia Lotad, Level 6 (Water/Grass) Seedot, Level 6 (Grass) Money: $144 This is your first 2 on 2 battle. They will not fight if you have less than two Pokemon on your team. You send out two Pokemon and they send out two. You can have both of yours attack one of their Pokemon or have one Pokemon go for both. Just keep type advantages and disadvantages in mind. Fisherman Ivan Magikarp, Level 5 (Water) Magikarp, Level 5 (Water) Magikarp, Level 7 (Water) Money: $280 After heading east, cross the bridge where you'll find the twin trainers and after the bridge is the fisherman to your right. Next to the fisherman is an old lady. Talk to her for a Chesto Berry. Also next to you is a Cheri Berry and a Leppa Berry planted. Take them out if you want to, and then head out north into Rustboro City Rustboro City Pokemart Item Listing: Antidote: $100

15 Escape Rope: $550 Paralyze Heal: $200 Poke Ball: $200 Potion: $300 Repeat Ball: $1,000* Repel: $350 Super Potion: $700 Timer Ball: $1,000* X Attack: $500 X Defend: $500 X Speed: $350 * means these two Poke balls won't show up in the Pokemart until you get to the Rusturf Tunnel. May seem pricey at this point of the game, but they are useful. With Repeat Balls, you have a better chance of catching wild Pokemon you've captured before. Timer Balls become more and more effective as the battle with the wild Pokemon increases (not in time, but the amount of turns you've gone through) Ah, so many things to do in this city, but where to start? As soon as you enter this city, follow the path north to the Pokemart. Then continue north until you get to the Pokemon Center, which is right above the Pokemart. You'll most likely need to heal because of going through route 104 and the Petalburg Woods. As soon as you get out of the Pokemon Center, enter the house to the left of it. Talk to the man inside the house and he'll give you HM01, (Cut), the first HM you'll get in the game. You can use it to cut down bushes and even wild grass! You can teach it to a Pokemon right now, because it has a power of 50 and it slightly stronger than Tackle/Pound/Scratch. You can use it as an attack whenever you want, but to be able to cut down trees and use it outside of battle, you'll need to defeat the gym leader in this city. Also, you can use an HM as many times as you want, unlike TMs, which can only be used once. So if I were you, I'd teach it to a Pokemon with weak moves. Aside from that little lesson, go back to the Pokemon Center and head east where you will get to a fountain. Right above that fountain is a building, so enter it. This is the Pokemon Trainer's School. On the board, you can read about each status condition and go through other people's notebook. But there is one important thing here: talk to the teacher and he will walk up the aisle first. After, he'll talk to you and give you a Quick Claw. This valuable item can be held by any Pokemon in your party. What it does is increases the chance of striking first in the battle. The best way to make use of this item is to give it to a very slow Pokemon who has a low speed stat. Maybe you'll get lucky and your slow Pokemon will strike first. Now leave the school and head up north through the city. As you continue north, you'll find the Pokemon gym. You can enter it now, but there's something else you can do in this city. In the house to the right of the gym, you can trade your Ralts for a Seedot nicknamed Dots holding a Chesto Berry. This is not mandatory, but the choice is yours if you want to make a trade. Enter the gym now.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! POKEMON GYM - Battle Roxanne for the Stone Badge Gym's Pokemon Type: Rock Best types against Rock: Ground, Grass, Fighting, Water, Steel Not Recommended: Electric, Bug, Poison, Flying, Fire Your first gym is pretty easy. Just get the type advantage over the gym leader and you'll be all set. There are 3 trainers in here. One is right near you at the entrance, the other two are near Roxanne. If you don't know what you are doing, you could walk in between them and get into a double battle. If you only have 1 Pokemon, 1 trainer will battle you and then the other will walk up to

16 you after the first battle to battle you. Here are the 3 trainers in the gym: Youngster Josh Geodude, Level 10 (Rock/Ground) Money: $160 Youngster Tommy Geodude, Level 8 (Rock/Ground) Geodude, Level 8 (Rock/Ground) Money: $128 Hiker Marc Geodude, Level 8 (Rock/Ground) Geodude, Level 8 (Rock/Ground) Money: $300 After you get through the trainers, just go through the twisted paths to get to the other side of the gym. If you need to, go back to the Pokemon Center to heal up, save in front of Roxanne, and then talk to her to battle her. Gym Leader Roxanne Geodude, Level 12 (Rock/Ground) Geodude, Level 12 (Rock/Ground) Nosepass, Level 12 (Rock) Easy battle here if you chose Treecko or Mudkip as a starter. Since Geodude is both rock and ground, it will take 4x damage from a water/grass attack (or 6x if used from a water/grass Pokemon), and it will go down in most likely 1 hit. If you chose Torchic for a starter, you'll have a bit of a problem, since Fire is weak to Rock. An alternative to Treecko/Mudkip would be Lotad. It learns the grass-type Absorb at level 7, which is very effective against rock and ground Pokemon. If needed, capture one out in route 102 and raise it up to level 12 or even higher. While the two Geodudes are easy, Nosepass is a bit of a problem. Being just rock, it will only get 2x the damage from a water/grass attack. Also, its defense is very high and its Special Defense is right up there too. But it has a very low Attack and HP, so you don't need to worry about it. Just keep the type advantage in mind, give it all you got and it'll eventually go down. Still, water/grass is recommended for Nosepass. After you have defeated Roxanne, she will give you the Stone Badge and TM 39, Rock Tomb. It is an attack that lowers the opponent's speed when it hits and causes a good amount of damage. With the Stone Badge, you can use HM01, Cut outside of battle without a problem. You'll need it for the upcoming events.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations on earning your first gym badge! But all isn't peace and quiet. Upon exiting the gym, you'll see some guy in red hair running after a Team Aqua Member. Remember these two from the Petalburg Woods? Well here they are again. Follow them by heading north until you get to the end of the gray path. Then continue following the path east where you'll find the person who works at Devon Corporations. He'll explain to you that Team Aqua once again stole his goods, so you'll need to continue east onto Route Route 116 and the Rusturf Tunnel With a new route comes new Pokemon. Here is the Pokemon list for this route:

17 ******************************************************************************* Poochyena (Common) Whismur (Common) Nincada (Common) Taillow (Common) Abra (Uncommon) Skitty (Very Rare) The new faces here are average-above average. If you want a Whishmur, don't worry about one here, because you'll always find them 100% of the time in the Rusturf Tunnel. Nincada is a bug type Pokemon that when at level 20, it splits off into two Pokemon: Ninjask and Shedinja. Ninjask is a very fast Pokemon while Shedinja will always have 1HP no matter what level. This is because of Wonder Guard, which means it can only be struck by moves it is weak against (being Bug and Ghost, you have Fire, Rock, Flying, Dark, and Ghost). Skitty is a Pokemon that evolves into Delcatty with a Moon Stone. Even with the evolution its stats are balanced but just merely average. Abra on the other hand, is an excellent Psychic Pokemon and is a good alternative to Ralts. He may only know teleport, but if you raise him up to level 16, it'll evolve into Kadabra and get Confusion, and then you can trade him at any time to evolve him into Alakazam, which has an awesome speed and a very high special attack stat. Just watch out for the very low defense, for a physical attack could knock it out in one hit or put its health in the low red. ******************************************************************************* Route 116 trainers: Bug Catcher Jose Wurmple, Level 8 (Bug) Nincada, Level 8 (Bug/Ground) Money: $128 School Kid Karen - Match Call Trainer Shroomish, Level 9 (Grass) Money: $180 Youngster Johonson Shroomish, Level 8 (Grass) Lotad, Level 8 (Water/Grass) \ Money: $128 \ \ This will be a double battle that is Hiker Devan / unavoidable Geodude, Level 8 (Rock/Ground) / Geodude, Level 8 (Rock/Ground) / Money: $320 Hiker Clark Geodude, Level 9 (Rock/Ground) Money: $320 School Kid Jerry - Match Call Trainer Ralts, Level 9 (Psychic) Money: $180 Janice and Jerry is also an unavoidable Lass Janice double battle Marill, Level 9 (Water) Money: $144 Youngster Joey

18 Machop, Level 9 (Fighting) Money: Start this route out by heading east through the grass patches. You'll need to stay on the south half of the route, mainly because of the ledges blocking the northern half. Keep heading east and you'll get to a house. From there, head right and you'll find a cave opening leading to Rusturf Tunnel. The guy standing near the entrance lost his Peeko (his nickname for a Wingull) and the guy who stole it is part of Team Aqua, the same person who stole the Devon Goods. Time to bail both the worker and the old man out by defeating the Team Aqua member. Let's head into the Rusturf Tunnel. In here, head north up two sections of steps and you'll get to a Poke Ball, so pick it up. For Pokemon, the only thing you'll find here are Whismur, a Pokemon that evolves into Loudred and Exploud, who have high HP and Attack, but poor stats overall. Now head down the stairs and then head east to confront the Team Aqua member. Team Aqua Grunt Poochyena, Level 11 (Dark) Money: $200 It's only 1 Pokemon and it shouldn't be too hard to deal with him. After you defeat the Team Aqua grunt, Mr. Briney will take his Wingull back and gives back the Devon Goods as well. Once you have all this settled, leave the cave and backtrack back to Rustboro City, avoiding all the Pokemon and battling any remaining trainers you haven't defeated. Once you're back into Rustboro City, the Devon Staff member will give you a Great Ball and then take you up to the Devon Corporation building to see the president. Looks like they want more out of you right after you just saved them from Team Aqua. He gives you the goods to deliver them to Captain Stern up in Slateport City, but that's a bit out of our reach right now. Also, he wants you to take a letter and deliver it to a rock collector Steven, who is sitting in the Granite Cave at the moment near Dewford Town, which is our next destination. He'll at least reward you by giving you a Pokenav, a little tool with a bunch of neat features such as the Hoenn Map, Conditions of Pokemon (contest conditions, that is) and even Ribbons you've earned. Upon leaving the building, a scientist will come out at the last second and upgrade your Pokenav with the neatest feature yet, the Match Call. The Devon President is added to your Pokenav and he calls you to test out the Match Call. You can use it to have rematches with trainers and gym leaders, but you will not have any rematches until you have your 5th badge. You'll know a trainer/gym leader wants a rematch when there is an envelope icon next to their name in the Match Call list. Now that we've settled this, head down south where you'll see your rival outside the Pokemon Center. Before battling May/Brendan, head into the Pokemon Center and heal up. (S)he'll ask if you want a battle, so say yes, where (s)he'll add you to her Pokenav BATTLE: BRENDAN/MAY If you chose Treecko as starter: Lotad, Level 13 (Water/Grass) Torchic, Level 15 (Fire) Easy battle right here. Since Lotad is water and grass, it has no special weaknesses. A flying type like Wingull or Taillow should get the job done and maybe a Lotad or Marill of your own will take care of Torchic.