1st Gen How did you make it past the first gym in yellow?

[Diamond 97]

In Pokemon Yellow, you are forced to have Pikachu as your starter. Unfortunately, the first gym is all Rock/Ground types, and Electric doesn't effect ground.

I caught a Caterpie and trained it to a Butterfree. I also trained a Nidoran-M and taught it Double Kick. Nidoran-M was mostly backup.

 

[Nah]

Pretty sure Butterfree was also how I did it. Not a whole lot of choices to pick from for the first gym. Brock not actually having any Rock type attacks+Confusion being a special attack makes it an ok pick.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

Ol' reliable: Nidoran (M) at level 12 so that it learns double kick. This is exclusive to yellow as in R/B both Nidorans learn double kick at like level 40. My most recent run of yellow I actually decided to use butterfree for the first time.

 

[ReKoil]

Too long ago to remember... I probably just trained something up to a really high level =P

 

[Devalue]

Cannot even really remember the team from back then. Might have brute-forced it with Pikachu and maybe Spearow.

 

[Reginald Cosmic]

I had to grind really hard with Pikachu and Pidgey and then spam Sand Attack.

 

[foxdievictim]

In Pokemon Yellow, you are forced to have Pikachu as your starter. Unfortunately, the first gym is all Rock/Ground types, and Electric doesn't effect ground.

I caught a Caterpie and trained it to a Butterfree. I also trained a Nidoran-M and taught it Double Kick. Nidoran-M was mostly backup.

A combination of Butterfree's Confusion, Mankey's Low Kick, and Nidorina's Double Kick.

 

[Sheep]

Oh geez. Lots of Potions and Quick Attack spam. It was exhausting each time lol. Sometimes I would get a Butterfree with Confusion, but that wasn't often since it took a little bit to evolve it and I was lazy.

 

[Lysander]

I would always catch a Mankey on Route 22, get it to at least Level 9 to teach it Low Kick and then just keep spamming that until I beat Brock.

 

[chongjasmine]

I think it is Butterfree that does it for me. I trained it and fought Brock with it.