So, update time!
From where we last left off:
-Did not heal after Brock at PC, bought 6 Potions
-Defeated Lass with 2 Pidgeys, SR for crits to kill without much damage
-Used one potion on B (squirtle), up to 22 HP/40
-Defeated mandatory trainers, + jigglypuff trainer for exp
-did NOT heal at mt moon PC, used 1 more potion on Wartortle, entered mt moon level 17
-defeated clefairy trainer, hiker, mandatory TR guy at end and super nerd. NO WILD BATTLES (soft reset for a good run, saved after each trainer)
-healed at cerulean PC, saved before T(rival)
-LOTS of luck to beat him, took about 17 tries but managed to win with about 26 HP left
-beat Nugget bridge, water gun-ed all the pokemon with bubble for KOs to save PP when possible.
-beat hiker w/ Onix, Lass, hiker 2, and 2nd lass. Saved before last trainer, crits to beat Oddishes (learnt bite)
-helped Bill (too smart for his own good)
-skipped PC, went straight to gym after 1 potion to take B to about half HP )cant remember exactly)
-in fighting 1st swimmer, important that horseas 1st bubble does NOT reduce speed. KO both with bite
-save before 2nd trainer, make sure you take no damage
-save before misty. took me about 30 tries to defeat misty, ended up with 1 HP left. Basically, bite for the win, hope their are no x defends for starmie (bite will 2hko staryu despite 1 x defend), and hope the starmie has low damage rolls with tackle (if it attacks with any other move, reset. takes 3 bites and 1 crit to defeat starmie. if starmie does 5 HP damage, you should be fine
-healed at PC, taught B bubblebeam and left cerulean. time was about 0:41 (very fast i think!)
- defeated rocket, bite on drowzee to counter (relatively) high special stat
-saved once i exited underground path, made it through route below with no wild battles, fought 2 mandatory trainers. SR until you get pidgeys that are OHKO-d by bubblebeam (saves 3 turns). same for spearow/raticate, important to OHKO spearow
-went directly to diglett's cave, saved as i went down the ladder. now for the hard part
-walked about for around until first encounter. reset unless a dugtrio. (took about 6 times for first duggy)
-use one water gun, should do about 50% damage. 1 or 2 pokeballs to capture
-basically, catch it quickly! Got one about level 29, named it D
-shifted D to top of party, went straight to SS Anne (D had about 41HP)
-went to room with TM 08 Body Slam, defeated only the trainer with nidoran male
-taught D body slam, went to fight rival. won easily due to Body Slam + occasional crits from scratch
got cut HM, left SS Anne. traded spearow for Dux, taught it cut
-DID NOT HEAL AT PC! went to gym, saved outside and kept soft resetting until i was able to get the switches first try
-defeated all Surge's pokemon with Dig. Duggy to level 30
-went to pokemon fan club, got bike ticket, used dig to get straight back to cerulean
-got bicycle. yay! got on path to rock tunnel. defeated trainer with oddish/bellsprout, bug trainer.
-DID NOT HEAL AT PC outside rock tunnel
-now's the tricky part. I know rock tunnel by heart, but i recommend use of Myrrhman's map. once you defeat a trainer, SAVE so that you can reset. It is important that you get no wild encounters (i didn't buy repels)
-defeat 1st 3 trainers, they are mandatory
-at first part with 2 hikers, choose the bottom one. has a single lvl 25 geodude, easy to defeat
-taking the ladder, defeat another hiker (doesn't matter which one), hiker before next ladder (has geodude and graveller. dig first turn, geo tends to selfdestruct saving PP)
-go through next level. skip 2 jr trainers by walking along walls. also skip supernerd with 3 slowpokes, their defenses are too high to defeat
-defeat rest of the trainers in tunnel, simple enough.
-saved outside of Rock Tunnel. time is 1:06! I think that's VERY fast
-duggy is level 32. Knows scratch/dig/body slam/sand attack. haven't used wartortle since I caught duggy.
Sorry for the LONG, LONG update. Still, so far duggy is seeming to do quite well. I intend on teaching him rock slide soon, which I think may be all he needs. Rock Slide/Slash/Body Slam/Earthquake should be enough to pretty much OHKO most of the Elite 4. I'm wondering whether to catch Zapdos after Giovanni to make the E4 SLIGHTLY easier, but I'll tackle that when i come to it.
So, what do you guys reckon?
EDIT: btw Myrrhman, can I be added to the hotmail group? email address is
[email protected] (used to be ftw, but your mistype on page 1 got me laughing). Any of you guys can use it to send me RELEVANT stuff relating to pokemon, I've created this account purely for that.