Now that you've gotten your badge, it's time to move on, but not before one thing. Make sure that you get the item from the woman who lives to the right of the gym. She will be standing by a chair. Talk to her and she will give you an item. Once you have obtained it, go north in the city. Keep going north, past the two check-in stations until you reach a park. You can either fight the roaming trainers for money or go to the mid right section where, you'll find another check-in station. Pass through the check-in station and make your way to the right, past the two trainers and find a small pathway leading north. You'll see that the path is blocked by a strange bush that you can't cut. You might want to save your game now.

Inspect the bush with the A button. It will bring up a dialogue box and then an option. Choose the first option, which uses the potion the woman gave you. The bush will awaken and will reveal itself to be a level 20 Utsokii, a grass Pokémon. It is easy to beat with brute force using your starting Pokémon's best attack. Catching it however, is another story. If you have a butterfree, use psychic attack to knock away around 18% of it's life bar. If you don't have butterfree, try different attacks, but no poisons or confusions, you'll end up accidentally knocking it out it. Once you have its life bar whittled down to a thin slice, try to put it to sleep. Then, use a Pokéball. If you don't put it to sleep, it has a better chance of breaking out and thus you lose more Pokéballs. If you stick with it, you should be able to capture it and it's a very good and strong Pokémon. Its rockslide attack is very powerful. Much like snorlax, it is rare.

After you are done, you should go to the right and find a man in a blue shirt . He will give you TM8. While it doesn't seem like much, this is like an HM except that you can use it once, this will allow you to break the cracked rocks once you have equipped it to a Pokémon in your line-up. After that, head back left and then continue up the way until you reach town after a couple trainers. There, you will find the fourth gym.

You don't have to fight him right now, there are plenty of places to raise your Pokémon's level and some tasks that you must do to progress in the game. Right behind the Pokémon center, you will find a house, enter it. Once inside, you will find a stage with around five kabuki actors. They are all eevee trainers, some even have the two new evolutions of it! You must fight and win every one of them. Then, when you have beaten them all, you should see a man in the center aisle with blue hair and a black hat . Talk to him and he will give you HM 3, Surf. This is why it is crucial that you talk to everyone multiple times. They often give you important items. On that note, go to the house to the right of the gym. Once there, talk to the man inside and he will give you an Item Finder . This is useful to find because it will help you find helpful items like ethers. After that, head north in the city, until you find a multistoried temple. Once inside, you will encounter your red haired arch nemesis. He's been raising his Pokémon and offers some new surprises. A level 20 Haunter, a level 18 magemite, a level 20 zubat, and a level 21 Hinoarashi. Though tough, you should be victorious, if not, refine your battle plan, raise your Pokémon and try again. Once you have defeated him, you can smash the cracked rocks blocking two pathways. Take the right one first, cahallenge the trainer, collect the Pokéball, and go to the right path. Fight the trainer there, collect the Pokéball, then fall down the small square hole in the floor, near the center of the room. You should find yourself standing in front of what look like Pokémon statues. As you draw closer, they will turn from gray to different colors and scamper away. You cannot catch them. Simply head south and take the ladder back to the first floor and exit the temple. When you feel you are trained enough, you should challenge the leader. Just make sure you have a Pokémon that is good against ghosts before even trying.

Make sure you rest your Pokémon up before challenging him. Once you enter the gym, you will most likely fall through the gray floor once or twice. There is a hidden pathway. You can look at the pic below for the path or follow these instructions. First walk up through the two Pokéball columns. You will be challenged by a trainer. Defeat him and line up with the right Pokéball column. Continue up until you reach the old woman who will challenge you. Then, go left until you are just before where the old man is standing. Go north and face him. Then go east until you are just before where the old woman is standing. Go north to face her then keep going north until you reach the gym leader.

The gym leader Matsuba is pretty hard if you don't have the right Pokémon. Once again, having butterfrees psychic attack will make things a LOT easier. If you have been depending on your starting Pokémon, then I hope you like getting yer arse whooped. Mainly, the trainers use mid-teen gastlys and haunters. Matsuba follows their lead and uses a level 21 gastly and haunter, a level 23 haunter and a level 25 gengar. The first three are pretty much a breeze. If you knock about half of their life with an attack, they'll finish themselves off by preparing for an attack which takes of around 1/2 of their HP. Gengar is a tough one though. You might want to use one Pokémon for all attacks and when it gets knocked out, switch to a high leveled Pokémon that doesn't do much against a gengar to use revives and high potions, then switch between them as needed. Watch out though, gengar has a life sucking attack that will do mucho damage against you while refilling his life bar. If you're lucky, you'll get a couple free shots as gengar waits for his move. In time, you should beat him though and acquire the 4th badge, the ability to control Pokémon up to level 50, and TM30, a ghost attack.

Now that you have another badge under your belt and your Pokémon are well raised, you can fight a very rare Pokémon. You don't have to do this now, but the rare Pokémon is invaluable if you are in needs of a water Pokémon with some fire attacks. Go to the right of the city and enter the eastern check-in point. Once through, you should see a cave and a lake. Use swim and swim east. You should hit ground shortly thereafter, but you should use swim again on the land's east side. Keep going until you see a guy in a green shirt standing by the western shore. Go on land and head east until you find a small town. It is too soon to enter the gym, but rest up your Pokémon and head north, past the next check-in station and past two trainers. Finally, you should break through the forest and see a big lake. Swim north until you see something red in the lake . Save your game now. Once you have saved your game, you should talk to the red creature. It will challenge you and turns out to be a level 30 red gyarados! It is a very rare colored Pokémon nicknamed a "shiny" Pokémon. What makes this gyarados different is that is uses a fire attack and is more powerful than a standard gyarados. Now, it's time to capture it!

It is extremely powerful and its dragon rage attack is killer. Just center on trying to take it down with your most effective attack. Nothing really will wipe it out in one shot so you have to keep on hitting it with attack after attack. If your Pokémon faints and you have no other well developed Pokémon, use one as your dummy Pokémon. Don't attempt to attack, just use a Pokémon for giving items. Have it give your main Pokémon a revival potion, preferably one that gives back 1/2 the Pokémon's HP bar. If it lives past another attack, have it give a potion to your main Pokémon to assure it won't be KO'd in a short while. Then, switch back to your main Pokémon and if needed, do it again. Soon enough, it should only have a sliver of life left. Throw out a Pokéball, which it should break out of at the last second. Throw another one and it should stay still. Keep throwing Pokéballs until he is captured. If you KO him or run out of Pokéballs, restart your game. You only get one chance at this. Once completed, you can teach it swim, because if you're like me, you taught swim to a low level water Pokémon. Gyarados is very powerful and you didn't even need to train him! Talk to the guy standing by the sign on shore in a cape , he will talk to you and fly away. Now, head back to the town where you fought the ghost gym and got surf, back west.

lv 20 Bite

lv 25 Dragon Rage

lv 32 Leer

lv 41 Hydro Pump

lv 52 Hyper Beam

Well, if you caught the gyarados, your travels will be muuuuuch easier. Just try to raise it as often as possible when against trainers. Once your restocked and restored, head west in the city until you find a check-in station. Pass through it and head west until you can't go any further, then head north, then west again. There's a tauros ranch, skip it and then head south into town. You'll notice the gym there and you might want to try it out, but the gym leader is not there. Instead, go to heal your Pokémon at the Poké Center then go to the left of the Poké Center, talk to the two guys inside and one of them will give you HM 4, Strength. Now, head south until you see a check-in station, head east and you'll see a large tall building. Enter it. Make your way up the tower, past the lurking trainers. Continue upwards until you reach some stairs with a woman with a blue belt to the right and some stairs blocked by a hole in the ground. After fighting her, go to the left hand side of the hole and fall in. You'll fall into a room with a trainer and a set of stairs. Go up the stairs. Then, once you've taken the stairs and are back on the floor where you jumped in the hole, take the next set of stairs to the south and you should be at the next floor. Make your way south until you find the next set of stairs and you should be at the final floor. Go north and you will find a girl standing next to a Pokémon , talk to her. Nothing big happens and she will not leave, but now you have to complete another task before fighting her. Make a hasty exit by falling through the hole in the northeast side of the room. Keep falling until you're at floor one, then exit.

Make your way west in the town until you reach three rocks. You can smash them to fight some turtle Pokémon called Tsubotsubo. You can teach them surf or teach your Gyarados surf, it'll make for an excellent attack. You should also teach it the newly acquired HM strength, another fine attack that gives an advantage when fighting other water Pokémon. Surf down southwest until you find a shoreline and another city. You are going to need strength equipped to an active Pokémon. Then, enter the gym. Continue north in the gym, past the gym trainers until you reach three stones blocking the path. You have to use strength to use them. Simply go up to one and press A then choose the first option to begin strength. Next, move the left boulder north, then the right one north and finally move the middle boulder west.After a few more trainers, you should see the gym leader Shijima , talk to him. He is fairly simple, using only a level 30 Polywrath and a level 28 Primeape. Not much advice to give, just pummel him with your strongest Pokémon. Butterfree is good to use. After you win, exit the gym and talk to the lady just outside . She'll give you HM 2, fly. Next, talk to a guy with sunglasses on, who lives in the house furthest south, below the gym. He should give you something imperative to fight the next gym boss (in the tower in the other city). If you have a flying Pokémon, you can teach it fly and fly back to the city you just swam from. It beats swimming back. If not, then just swim back to the city.

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Now that you are back in the town where you went up the tower, you should go to the tower again. Once again, climb all the way to the top floor until you find that girl with a Pokémon next to her . If you picked up the item she needs (back at the town you just left) she should ask you a question, pick the first option. She with then talk some more and leave. Now you can fight her in the gym in town. Exit the tower and head towards the gym in town that was previously vacant. Make sure you rest your Pokémon up before challenging her. There are no trainers here, simply walk up to her and challenge her.

This battle is a gruesome one. Mikan is unexpectedly strong and since I have no electric Pokémon, she was very tough for me. She uses two level 30 magemites and a level 32

This had to be my toughest battle so far. She first brought out a level 30 magemite. Fortunately, I already had my level 27 Chikolita out. Magemite managed to bring it down in a few rounds. I switched to my level 32 Butterfree counting on it to KO the magemite with 14 hp to spare. Unfortunately, it managed to get in the pre-emptive strike and KO'd butterfree before it could release the final blow to magemite. I couldn't bring out my gyarados yet because the magemites can get a 1 hit KO, besides, I was saving him for later. Instead, I switched to my Level 11 Hoo Hoo. It managed to give my Chikolita a revive and a potion before being KO'd. I switched back to Chikolita and finished the magemite off. Then, to my surprise, she sent out onix's evolution, Haganeru. Not knowing what its weaknesses were, I used strength...wrong move. It took out about 1/3 of my hp with an earthquake. I then tried dragon breath which served nicely. After two more rounds, I thought that I'd have enough to KO onix and then take a dent out of the next magemite before being KO'd...wrong. Okay, three down and Chikolita doesn't bode well against steel. I switched to my level 13 togepi. Gave Gyarados a revive, togepi's KO'd, brought back out my level 4 Otachi, gave potion, Otachi's KO'd. Switched to gyarados, Haganeru uses high potion, all hp restored...oh, great...back to square 1. Gyarados uses fire breath repeatedly, Gyarados hit twice, one flame later, onix is down. Level 30 Magemite sent out, gyarados uses fire, knocks off 75% of his HP, magemite finishes of gyarados.