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.

 

[TeeVeeBlue]

I did the Mankey from route 22 with low kick too! I remember being stumped and reading about that strat in some guide at the time. My little-kid brain wasn't smart enough to think of that on my own 😅

 

[EmeraldSky]

Brock, say hi to a Butterfree with Confusion.

 

[Rainbow Metal Pigeon]

Buttefree and Monkey. And Pikachu for reducing opponents' stats first, so it felt useful! :D

 

[Meganium]

Little me tried to use Pikachu for tackle, because using thunderbolt was useless.

Growing up and returning to the game, I leveled up my Butterfree and Nidoran (female) so I have a type advantage.

 

[Lucifer]

As I have said in another thread, it was almost 25 years ago, I don't remember at all.

 

[Red1530]

My go to strategy was Butterfree with Confusion.

 

[Catgirl Rika]

Kid me really had no idea what to do outside of leveling up my starter. As I got older, I would just use Butterfree.

 

[Janp]

I used female Nidoran with Double Kick. I remember it quite well. I had no idea about type advantage of Fighting-type move against Brock's Pokémon, it was mostly luck.

 

[Lawrence63]

I leveled up my pikachu to learn slam
It was like level 21 or level 22

 

[Missy Oak (Gone)]

I caught a Mankey.