- Mr.fuji agreed to lend us a pokeflute if we helped him out with his orphans for a day. I was happy to oblige, Swift and Chicken
played with them a lot which was helpful, while i gave them general health check-ups and chatted about breeding tips with Fuji. I didn't offer him much advice on feeding though, he seems to have sussed out the orphans needs in that area by himself. While in Mr.Fuji's care, Swift, chicken and i all agreed that it was time to evolve. They had learnt all they could in their current forms and it was time to realize their full potential.
- After recieving the pokeflute i went and woke up snorlax, it was irritated by this fact however, but Swift soon sent it home.
- A fisherman who had been cut off from town due to snorlax gave me a super rod as a thank you gift. I was elated and used it straight away, but nothing i caught had me very interested (gyarados was terrifying and krabby kept cutting the line) After wandering back to vermillion city port i finally caught myself a Brave Staryu. it was perfect! I named it Lionheart.
- I returned to Celadon city with my new Lionheart, i wanted to teach it an electric type move for good coverage and Thunderbolt was the best one i could think of. I was pretty sure i saw one in the game corner when i was buying Chicken's smoke ball...
- I bought a mystic water for Lionheart to wear since it would boost its watter moves, and since it was the brave sort i figured it would need all the extra help it could get to galliantly charge ahead into battle. However, i was quickly running out of money, Thunderbolt cost a total of 4000 coins and i only had 1100 left after getting the gift of mystic water, i decided to save up some more and come back later, instead choosing to head to the next gym in fushia city. I heard koga was a user of poison types so perhaps
Chicken and he dig move would be beneficial here too. Of course Lionheart being a good 20 levels behind was going to take priority
with training though.
- i wondered how staryu ate, if at all, i knew for care i would have to be extra gentle whenever i polished lionhearts crystal as i was aware any damage to it could be detrimental to a staryu's health. Staryu probably absorbed the nutrients it needed from water, so i started mentally concucting the best ways to 'feed' it. Being an oceon pokemon there wouls have to be some level of salt, but perhaps i could mix up a berry paste before hand and allow lionheart to bathe in that like a mud bath before washing it clean in salt water? Would have to experiment at meal times to see what Lionheart preferred.
- finally arrived in fuschia city, it had been a long and tiring journey to get here, before i challenged the gym though, i thought i should check out the the safari first, i heard that there was a quick claw hidden in there somewhere, and felt it would be perfect for Swift.
- I found the quick claw and handed it to Swift just as my time in the safari zone ran out. I turned around and promptly headed back in,
i had previously bumped into an old safari warden, i couldn't make heads or tails of what he was trying to tell me when we spoke, but eventually he wrote down on a piece of paper, asking me to find his golden teeth that he lost in the safari zone after being chased by an enraged rhydon. He promised me the Strength HM in return.
- After a bit of searching i finally found the teeth in question, as well as a guy who gave me the surf HM. Bonus. I taught it to Lionheart
straight away, it needed it good strong move in its repertoire and this was it.
- i returned the old wardens teeth, glad to be rid of them, carrying them around was weird...even my team kept looking at me funny on the way back to him.
- couldn't remember what i had bought at the last town so i stocked up on some super potions here before i took on the gym challenge.
- i challenged the fuschia gym, and was promptly confused. Koga was a poison type gym leader, and yet many of his apprentices used psychic types. It seriously made me doubt my original information about the self proclaimed ninja master.
- Koga was the toughest gym leader i had fought so far, Chicken took out one of his koffings thanks to its move-pool variety, but his Muk was one tough poison type. Even using Swift, my strongest team member, it was a struggle and i ended up using up my small supply of antidotes thanks to its frustrating toxic/minimize combination. Not to mention koga used a hyper potion twice when it got low, and i ended uo also diminishing my supply of super potions too. IT ended up knocking out both Chicken and Swift, leaving the last two of Koga's pokemon up to Lionheart to defeat...i tried using Lionheart's minimize to avoid damage the way Muk had, but it was useless, while koffing went down easily enough, both his attacks had hit Lionheart dead on, leaving it with only 4 hp left to face off against Koga's Ace: Weezing. We didn't stand a chance, and i was forced to retreat to the pokemon centre to rest up and replenish supplies. Perhaps i would attempt koga again once we had trained a little more. Maybe the pre-battle care i had put in before Lt.Surge would come in handy here aswell.
- after a bit of training and a day of play and relaxation we attempted Koga again, it was still a struggle, and Lionheart ended up getting knocked out, as well as Swift, but with a few revives, antidotes and super potions, i was eventually able to drag it out long enough for Chicken to Finish off Weezing with a powerful Flamethrower attack, earning my tired team their 5th badge.
- My team and i traveled to Saffron city next to take on the next gym, while there i stocked up on full heals from the shop and spent some time training at the Dojo next door to the gym, the master was kind enough to allow me to temporarily become one of his students and training there allowed my team to both study the moves and actions of fighting types, as well as become more limber and to think outside the box when it comes to movement in battle. For example, if the situation arose, Chicken had mastered diving out of the way and rolling gracefully to safety, before quickly offering a counter attack, and a machop taught Swift how to properly throw a punch. It was difficult for Lionheart though, and i felt a little bad, but it seemed happy to meditate instead, and occasionally practice spinning and rolling to confuse others.
- once done with our training at the dojo, Lionheart and i decided it was the right time to use the water stone i bought back at celadon city, and evolve it into a starmie. His increase in natural power should be a good help against the gym leader here.
- just before the match i returned to Celadon game corner with Lionheart and purchased him the thunderbolt TM, turns out it was a great addition to his move-set as a lot of sabrina's apprentices used slowpoke.
- Sabrina was a lot easier to defeat than Koga, my team had no problem at all earning our 6th badge. From here i was stumped however, as to where to go next so i looked through my map, there was a gym back at veridium city, but a quick call to some relatives living nearby suggested the gym leader was still away on vacation. Ah! there was a gym on cinnabar island, roughly a day or two away by sea if i left via fuschia city. Guess that was my next destination then!