Here is a list of spawns added by staff on 17-18/07/26 with introduction of many poke spawns

Ty to all people that have helped filling this out !

If you have precisions / corrections please say so i'll try to keep this updated :)

Boss Team:

Whimsicott

EV: 252 HP, Need 270 Speed, Rest Def

Item: Lagging Tail

- 1st Move Switcheroo

- 2nd Move if Alive, Memento.

Shuckle

EV: 252 Def, 252 HP

Item: Lum Berry

- 1st Move Sweet Scent

   - 2nd Move Stealth Rock
        - 3rd Move Flash (up to 6x's if alive)
        - 4th Move Final Gambit (6x flash's complete, use to [Come here and let me hug you buddy])

Golduck

EV: 252 Spd, 252 HP

 Item: Leftovers

 - Hypnosis (Always keep Slept)

   - Substitute (Always Stay Behind)
        - Simple Beam (Use 1 time, changes enemy ability to simple, flash 2x effective)
        - Flash 3x(Shuckle's flash count as 1, golduck after Simple Beam count as 2, you need 6 total)

*When flash's are complete, let enemy wake up, and refresh sleep before switching to a baton passer*

Ninjask

EV: 252 Spd, 252 HP

Item: Leftovers
      - Substitute (Always Stay Behind)

- Sword Dance (3x total)
        - Baton pass to Pangoro (Make sure behind a substitute)
        * Protect - (Weave it in-between substitutes and sword dances to gain health if low)
    
Gorebyss

EV: 252 Spd, 252 HP

Item: Leftovers

- Substitute (Always Stay Behind)

- Aqua Ring (Use once)

- Shell Smash (Only need 2x total)

- Baton pass to Pangoro (Make sure behind a substitute)

*You will only use Gorebyss if Ninjask is killed

Pangoro

EV: 252 Atk, 252 Spd

Item: Focus Sash

- Power Trip to victory unless stated otherwise.

- EQ (Use for Special Occasion)

- RS (Use for Special Occasion)

- Rock Smash (only for travel)

Start in Vermillion

        1. Xylos    - Verm Eevee House (Requires all Eevee evolution data)

        2. Brock    - Verm Digletts Cave (Use Memento 1st move)

        3. Cie     - Verm Sailor Adam (Costs 3 rare candy, and requires Sinnoh Champ)

        4. Officer Jen  - Verm Pinkan Island Lighthouse 2F *Use EQ on Gengar*            

5. Klohver    - Verm Pinkan Island Forest     

  6. Shary & Shui - Verm Love Island (120 caught 38 volved data)

        7. Chuck    - Saffron Golds Gym

        8. Koichi    - Saffron Dojo *Test EQ on Pangoro*

        9. Naero    - Cerulean Cave

       10. G. Entei    - Cerulean North Cave

       11. Urahara    - Lavender Pokémon Tower *Use EQ on Volcarona*

       12. Off. Shamac - Pewter Jail (Use Memento 1st move)

       13. Prof. Oak    - Fuchsia Cinnabar Lab

       14. Terminator    - Viridian MT. Silver Moltres Chamber *Need Waterfall, req  Sinnoh Champ*

*Boss's not on list :

Erika  - Viridian Forest Maze (Need Whims, Shuckle, Golduck, Klefki, Volcarona, Slowbro)
 George  - Pewder City jail (Legendary Event Move Quest Completion)
 Jessie and James  - Celadon City (need Pikachu) *not very good rewards*
 Pumpkin King  - Lavender Town Graveyard (*Do it 1x to unlock berry vendor in Goldenrod*)

Travel to Johto

       15. Battle Bot    - Olivine Dock Island (Req 200+ hrs, active MS)

       16. Bugsy    - Olivine Dock Island (Focus Sash on Whimsicott, Use Memento 1st move) *Use EQ on Volcarona*

       17. Misty    - Olivine Route 41 South East

       18. Thor    - Olivine Route 41 Inside North Caves (Req Sinnoh Champ) *Use Rockslide on Zapdos*

       19. Pewdie & Diepy  - Goldenrod Casino

       20. Lorelei    - Blackthorn Ice Cave

21. Lance - Blackthorn City Dragon's Den (150+ Evolved Data & Dragon in Party)test dragon only once

       22. G. Suicune    - Mahagony North of Lake of Rage (Req cut) *Bonus Lum berry farm right side*

     23. Bruno    - Ecutreak East Mt. Mortar (Use Memento 1st Move) *Use EQ on Scraggy*

       24. Neroli    - Azalea Ilex forest (Req. Cut) or Goldenrod City head South

       25. Prof. ELM    - Violet Ruins of Alph Research Center

       26. Sage    - Violet Sprout Tower

Travel to Hoenn
 

       27. Tigerous    - Lilycove Sailor to Eumi Island (Use Memento 1st Move)

       28. Morty    - Mt. Pyre (Use Memento 1st Move) *Use EQ on Frostlass*

       29. Toothless    - Slateport South, West into Abandoned ship

       30. G. Raikou    - Slateport, North into Water a Hole in a Bush.

 31. Lt. Surge    - Mauville Powerplant *EQ on Raichu*

       32. Nar/ Fanboy    - Mauville North to Desert, Cave in South of Desert

       33. Prof. Birch - Verdanturf House #2(Testing Use Memento 1st Move No Sash)

*Boss's not in list

 Steven  - Lavaridge Valley of Steel (need 2 steel types, one with Iron Defense & Steven Quest Completion) 
  Gingery Jones  - Lavaridge right Fiery Path Excavation (2400 Discoveries)

Travel to Sinnoh

      34. Link    - Sandgem, West, South, Twinleaf Town

      35. Spectify    - Sandgem House (Use Memento 1st Move)

      36. Letrix    - Floaroma East to Valley Windworks, swim North to Secret Passage

      37. Maribela    - Floaroma, North Route 205, Swim West *Use EQ on Volcarona*

      38. Medusa & Eldir  - Oreburgh head West, Ore gate, North, Legends Cave 

      39. Prof. Rowan    - Jibilife City West of PC (Req 50 caught Sinnoh)

      40. Logan    - Celestic head West, Route 210 North, Cave of Justice

*Boss's not in list

Ash Westbrook - Eterna right Meteor Cave (RNG with Roar)

  Saphirr    - Survival Area - Right, North (Requires Rock climb, Heatran Quest Done, 1 Fire Type) *Use EQ on Volcarona*

This guide will be aimed towards NEWBIE PLAYERS who struggle getting through Kanto and to start building teams, capturing stuff and how to complete the game, enjoy it and unlock extra areas, quests and obtain all optional stuff to make their PRO stay fun and long. This guide can also help out experienced players, but it's not the intention here. I wanted to write a guide for Newbies that includes: What pokemon you should get, why you should get them, what items could you get, what specific strategies you can use (5 Geodudes and 1 Magnemite vs Giovanni, for example), why should you go to this place and not this other one, and more.

I will go IN DEPTH to help newbies get through the game and obtain anything that can be helpful for them. This guide will NOT be just a "go to this place, beat Brock using Water types, then go to the east, beat Mt Moon" and so on. It will have detailed info on what pokemon to use, when or not to evolve your pokemon, what stuff you can buy from shops to help you out and will also have links to other forum guides to help out. 

WELCOME TO POKEMON REVOLUTION ONLINE!

If you're reading this guide, it means you've just started playing PRO and you've checked forum guides for help or someone has redirected you from the official discord (WHICH YOU SHOULD JOIN, BECAUSE IT HAS VERY IMPORTANT TOOLS AND HELP AND A SUPPORT CHANNEL TO HELP YOU OUT, A BOT THAT GIVES YOU A LOT OF INFO TO PLAY THE GAME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE GAME, AND IF I WRITE THIS IN CAPS IT'S BECAUSE I'M HIGHLIGHTING HOW IMPORTANT IT IS. JOIN IT: https://discord.gg/98pMNxq )

Before you begin, make sure to read PRO's rules:

 https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/forum/161-pro-rules/.
 

The most important rules that you need to remember now are:
-Do not use an inappropriate username, IN ANY LANGUAGE.

-Do not be toxic nor antagonistic towards other users.
-Do not troll in any chat.
-Speak English in all chats EXCEPT Other chat (it's called like that lol).

-Do not use third party software such as keyboard macros or bot programs.

And there are more rules you should definitely check out.

Please make sure you read ALL rules before you begin playing.

For example, don't enter trade chat or participate in trades without reading Trade Rules.

These are some of the most important ones you should remember for now.

Important tips during your adventure:

-Evolving your pokemon will make them require way more experience to level up than their preevolved forms. Some pokemon function differently than their preevolutions. Some change their main attacking side, some go from defensive to offensive. Some pokemon's movesets become really bad upon evolving, some become really good. Check the pokedex data and ask for opinions before you evolve your pokemon. In some extreme cases, people avoid evolving your pokemon until level 90 or above, so that you level your pokemon extremely fast during your adventure, and then you Rare Candy the last levels to 100. However, as a newbie, you will find many situations where you'll have to evolve early to beat a specific fight (for example, evolving Metapod into Butterfree will let you gain access to new moves that can beat Brock. However, you might struggle to level up Butterfree since it requires more experience. Here's a few examples:

Clefairy learns incredible moves via level up, but Clefable barely learns anything good. Learn all the important moves before you evolve it. You can unlock a preevolution move tutor in the mid to lategame to not have to worry about evolving too early.

Magikarp does not learn any good moves via level up, but its evolution Gyarados learns amazing moves. However, Gyarados is very hard to level up. due to its EXP requirement.

Trapinch is a very slow but hard hitting attacker. However, Vibrava becomes much faster but loses attack until it evolves again into Flygon.

Dusclops is a very strong tank, but once it evolves, it becomes a way less tanky physical attacker that deals much more damage.

-Rare Candies are items you should never waste before levels 90 or above, where the experience to level up is really, REALLY high. Keep them for that time because they are also very valuable to sell. There are other valuable items such as PP Up and PP Max that are really valued for the late stages of the game. If you're not sure if spending an item early in the game is worth it, ask for second opinions.

-Don't be afraid to use small healing items during story (Potion, Antidote). However, don't buy them from any shops. They are not worth the investment. A single Escape Rope will teleport you to your last visited pokecenter for 550 pokedollars and will also fully heal your team. Buy a few, spend some training time in any place you'd like and then use an Escape Rope to heal.

-While it is true that Story's difficulty is nothing compared to the lategame, try to find good natures, abilities and decent IVs for your pokemon as you progress through it. Many of the pokemon you find can be later recycled to sell them in Trade Chat, use them against Bosses or if lucky enough, even in PvP.

-Using pokemon with bad natures, abilities and IVs instead of hunting for better pokemon will just make your life harder. Why should you settle with bad pokemon if it's going to make your Story adventure harder? You might have to spend entire days training a single trash pokemon for a single fight than hunting a new one in just a few minutes that might require just an hour to train from scratch. Never settle for bad pokemon, it will just make you lose time and waste hours on pokemon you will never use again.

-Don't be afraid to ask for help, but if you ask for help, make sure to ask multiple people and not just one person. If possible, look for experienced PvE and PvP players. Some PvE players can know PvE strats that PvP players don't know and viceversa. Pokemon such as Wigglytuff have incredible PvE movesets and usages that PvP players don't know about. Some pokemon are only viable in PvP and some are only viable in PvE. Make sure to ask multiple people when you need help.

-Join a newbie friendly guild in forums that will help you throughout your adventure. Don't be afraid to ask for help. If someone is not willing to help you, find someone who does.

At the same time, don't expect everyone to spoonfeed you throughout every single step in story. You're supposed to grow up and learn by yourself too. Nobody will be your parent here and hold your hand every five minutes. You're not a baby.

-Try to not rush through the story just to get to the Lategame or you will burn out and drop the game. There's activities to do throughout the entire game's story that are repeatable content. There's also events. This is an MMORPG you can start and stop and continue whenever you want. Take your time and enjoy things.

-Capture all kinds of pokemon and experiment with them. Many pokemon have multiple usable sets, moves, utilities that you can only find out if you try them out. Arbok, for example, is an amazing PvE pokemon for both the Early game and for Bossing. However, it's seen as useless in PvP. Many pokemon that are often ignored by PvP players will help in your PvE adventure. Furthermore, many quests in the game ask you to fill up your Pokedex data to obtain legendary pokemon and complete certain tasks.

Let's begin!

But, what exactly is PRO? PRO is a Pokemon MMORPG based on the original Pokemon games with new additions (and by new, I mean that there's so much stuff to do you will get lost wandering around. You will play through the four initial regions (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh), and then there's dozens of places to explore that are sidequest related or extras, such as Sevii Islands, Eumi Islands, Breezy Waterfalls, Eriyadu, Vulcan Island... you get the point. PRO is a gigantic MMORPG. For now, we will stick to Kanto, since it's what this guide aims at.

You just created your account and are ready to go! (if you have not, register your account here: https://pokemonrevolution.net/home )

You will now download the game and create the character you want to play as. (https://pokemonrevolution.net/download ).

(and if you're unlucky and your internet goes off while you create your character, you start as a bald guy. Yes. It happened to me.)

Choose whichever appearance you want! You'll get a prompt asking you if you're sure about this.

You appear somewhere strange... what is this place? Well, your only way is to continue and interact with the pokemon and people you see (wow, a Mew? And some special trainers? What is going on?) Talk to Oak who is blocking your way and talk to the Red NPC that you will see to join a language chat (optionally). Now, go and check the trainer fight that is going on and when the event ends you'll be teleported to Pallet Town.

The Beggining: your first steps!

When you spawn in, you'll go downstairs in your house and talk to your mother. You'll then leave and try to leave the town but of course, you have no pokemon and that means you can't leave (unless you want to be beaten up by random trainers). You're forced to go to Oak's lab and pick up a pokemon. You can choose between four starters: Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle or Pikachu. You can only choose Pikachu if you first talk to the three other starters in their pokeballs and choose NO.

My opinion is: CHOOSE WHICHEVER YOU WANT TO HAVE FUN WITH. You're SUPPOSED TO HAVE FUN IN THIS GAME. However, choosing certain pokemon CAN make the game way harder, but there are ways to solve it. You'll also be able to obtain and hunt all starters way later in the game infinitely, so do not worry!

Keep in mind you can hunt ALL starters in the wild in future areas. Do not worry about your choice: it will not have permanent consequences.

If you refuse to choose all three starts by checking them and clicking the NO option, you will be able to pick Pikachu. The only benefit you get from picking Pikachu is the access to an extra mini-quest for Ash's hat. That's it. Nothing else.

My opinion on each starter:

Bulbasaur is, in my opinion, the best starter. However, it has its risks. Pokemon that can defeat Water, Ground and Rock types can be powerleveled easily in this MMORPG (during both Story and the Lategame). Bulbasaur defeats the first and second gym easily (however, Misty's Starmie can surprise you), it resists the third and fourth gyms (it does a decent job as Grass resists Grass and Electric), it is neutral in the fifth gym, but gets completely destroyed in the last three gyms. Bulbasaur is tanky, it learns Leech Seed, Sleep Powder and Poison Powder (which are amazing to capture pokemon early on), Vine Whip is a decent attack and it will get you through the first two gym as if they were nothing.

The only bad things he has is his weaknesses (mother of god: flying, fire, ice, psychic, these kinda hurt), he's somewhat slow, but he is pretty tanky and fun to use. He is EXTREMELY easy to powerlevel (to absurd extents where you can level him up 10 to 20 extra levels if needed.) If you want information on natures (which are ESSENTIAL) click here: https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/152671-natures-abilities-ev-iv-and-stats-for-newbies-the-guide/?tab=comments#comment-840375

We won't talk about EV or IV yet in this topic, but just keep in mind: the higher these orange numbers in your pokemon are (From 1 to 31), the better it will be. It is generally advised to focus on pokemon with 20 or higher IVs in each important stat. Some pokemon require more stats to work than others. For example, Shuckle only requires high SPDEF, DEF and HP. Some pokemon like Gyarados require everything except SPATK. Some only require high HP like Ditto. It's all individual cases!

Good natures for Bulbasaur's Story are: Rash, Mild (best, because Bulbasaur's moveset is both mixed: Special and Physical attacks. However, his moveset is better on the physical side), 

Lonely, Naughty (powers up physical moves more, but does not decrease special moves, which is Adamant's issue, and the opposite happens with a Modest nature). Relaxed and Sassy are acceptable since his speed is slow but his bulk is great, and he becomes tankier, which makes him survive a lot of battles he shouldn't be able to (and it will be easier to powerlevel him),

Bold and Calm are also okay, since he becomes tankier, but he loses either physical or special attack. We don't want to lose too much damage either. 

Bulbasaur's useful moveset.

Squirtle is the next option I think of. This is the safest starter and the safest choice. He's also my second favourite starter in Kanto in case you hadn't noticed Bulbasaur's presence above. Squirtle learns not super good moves, but still usable ones: Water Gun at level 7 (destroys Brock completely), Withdraw (to spam defense increases versus brock and other stuff), Bubble (why does he learn Water Gun at level 7 but Bubble at level 13? Questions science can't answer) and Bite at 16. His moves are... just okay.

Nothing special, sadly. He's tanky, he destroys Brock, helps versus Misty since he resists Water but completely drowns in the third and fourth gym, which are his weaknesses. He does good in the seventh gym but is neutral on the others. He can also learn Water Type moves so you can travel around like Surf and similar stuff.

The best natures for Squirtle are: Bold/Calm (These are the best natures. We want Squirtle to be a tank, his physical damage does not matter, we sometimes use Bite through story to flinch opponents, we don't care about its damage. We want it to be TANKY). Relaxed/Sassy (same reason as above, we sacrifice his slow speed even more to make him tanky and bite opponents harder). Timid/Modest/Quiet (sacrifice speed or physical attack for extra special attack, which will make you hit harder). All remaining natures are either bad or terrible.

Squirtle's useful moveset... not so much though.

Charmander is... the risky choice. He's the hardest hitting, but he's the hardest to train (BY FAR, BY A LARGE MARGIN, HE IS PAINFUL TO TRAIN), learns decent moves (he learns Dragon Rage at level 16, which steamrolls through the first gyms, but he's still godly awful at the beggining. You need to get him support pokemon to get through the first two gyms because he's TERRIBLE there. He will get oneshot by a single attack (unless you manage to overlevel him or get good ivs on him). He's just awful. However, after the first two gyms, he becomes a pokemon beating machine which steamrolls through the entire story (until you reach the Elite Four). If you're willing to go with Charmander, get the Dragon Rage TM in Viridian Maze. It's the only way to make him usable before the third gym.

Charmander shares the same exact natures as Pikachu: Lonely/Naughty if you want to increase your physical damage and decrease one of your already pathetic defense stats (which don't matter since you'll get destroyed if you get hit even once), Rash/Mild if you want to increase your special damage output and also decrease one of your defenses, Modest/Adamant if you will go either the special or the physical attacking way, Hasty/Naive if you want to increase your speed to hit first and destroy while decreasing your defense and Jolly/Timid to increase your speed and sacrifice the physical or special attack stat you won't use. Any other natures are COMPLETELY USELESS for the two.

Charmander can you learn something THAT IS NOT A FIRE TYPE MOVE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

Pikachu is the last choice. I don't even know where to start with this guy. He's either the biggest garbage in pokemon starter existence (still better than Chikorita lol), or he's a super fast somewhat usable sweeper/support guy for Kanto story. Pikachu levels up fast, Thundershock is a nice leveling up move and he's extremely easy to powerlevel him when surfing or fighting Flying or Water pokemon while fishing. Quick Attack is also good, it just deals next to no damage. Electro Ball is an extremely overpowered move to level up and defeat slower pokemon, which is nice, but most Water types and Flying types are fast. Electro Ball's power increases if you're way faster than your pokemon but decreases if you're slow. Thunder Wave or Nuzzle are absolutely needed so he can paralyse wild pokemon to capture them or cripple anything annoying you face (*cough cough starmie in the second gym), and the next parts of his moveset are amazing in comparison to the other three (Charmander's and Bulbasaur's are acceptable, but Squirtle's is horrendous). For Pikachu natures, read the paragraph above.

After that, he can also learn Double Team (which makes you annoyingly evasive, but if they hit you anyway you're dead because Pikachu's deffenses are GARBAGE. Spark is a good Thundershock upgrade and Nuzzle is the upgraded and OBLIGATORY version of Thunder Wave, since it always paralyses and deals damage. It helps a LOT to capture pokemon and to defeat trainers. Discharge and Thunderbolt are both amazing moves for him, Slam is useless and Wild Charge is a really strong move, but it will take some hp after every use. However, it's worth it. To summarise: His moveset is really good, but any ground type literally laughs at him while he can't do ANYTHING to them. His bulk is horrendous too. If you manage to get a Light Ball from a wild Pikachu in Viridian Forest (which is... dumb, because you could've just not chosen Pikachu as a starter and captured one there), you can equip it to DOUBLE his physical and special attack and make him a monster. He will then be usable. But we will cover this later. It has a 5% chance to hold it in Viridian Forest, so you can try and steal it with the move Thief or by capturing wild Pikachus. Good luck!

Helo ma name is Pikachu im a cool mascot! I'M ALSO USELESS. Almost. We'll try to make him work, don't worry.

We will not worry about their abilities for now. The battle will start once you try to leave the town with your pokemon. Jackson has an annoying Eevee which, if you have horrible luck (and this is likely to happen with Charmander and Pikachu, due to them having lower defensive stats), you'll faint and lose. If you win, you get a free level up which is GREAT for the first two routes. The result of the fight does not matter, the story will continue anyways. The issue is that losing makes you lose a LOT of money and the free level up. From now on, if you're going to 100% lose any fight against a NPC, LOG OUT WHILE IN BATTLE. You'll be teleported to the last visited pokecenter (or your mom's house) AND YOU WILL NOT LOSE ANYTHING.

Logging out against a wild pokemon will not teleport you, you will appear in the same place and have completely avoided the fight. Use this to your advantage!

So, now we have our starter pokemon! But what the hell are all those numbers? Jesus christ, THERE'S SO MUCH INFORMATION. 

(Note, this one is one I bought from trade chat, that is why it's level 14).

So, let's go slowly one by one! First, we have the name of the pokemon: Bulbasaur. In PRO, you cannot rename your pokemon (for more than obvious reasons, imagine people naming them after racist terms).

Afterwards, we directly have the gender of your pokemon. There is no breeding in PRO! Unfortunately (and fortunately), you cannot have 6x31 IV pokemon, which would completely ruin the economy, and you cannot breed easy shinies either. However, gender affects a few things: the ability Cute Charm, the move Attract and certain Pokemon can only evolve towards certain other pokemon if the gender is the right one.

Next, we have the region of the pokemon. Big note: THIS IS WHERE THE POKEMON WAS CAUGHT, NOT WHERE THE POKEMON POKEDEX REGION IS! You CAN find other region pokemon in Kanto, and so on in other regions. This is important because if you are traded a pokemon from another region, you will be completely unable to use them until you unlock that region.

Next to it we have the pokemon's ID. This ID is used by PRO to identify a pokemon. This is often used to be able to find a lost pokemon!

To the right we also find an empty box. This empty box is the Held Item! Pokemon can hold items. These items can provide passive or active bonuses to your pokemon.

Next we have the ability. We can check the effects of abilities in the pokedex (or in Bulbapedia). Abilities are passive or active bonuses our pokemon can have. MOST abilities are very good or useful in a lot of situations, but there's also really, REALLY bad abilities (Truant, for example). 

Next is the Nature. Natures grant a 10% boost to one stat and a 10% decrease to another stat. This mechanic is one of the easiest bonuses to farm for and to look for in your pokemon. You'll always prioritise good natures when you hunt for pokemon!

We also have the EXP indicator. The Current EXP you have is the EXP you've earned up to that point. To be honest, that stat is pretty useless and pointless, because what we must focus for is in the "Till Next": the EXP we need to reach the next level!

We also have the OT indicator. This shows who is the player that originally caught that pokemon. Close to it we also have the pokemon's types. There are 18 types (if we exclude the Shadow Type) a pokemon can have. Each type has their own resistances, weaknesses and immunities. It is important you learn the type chart to take full advantage of your pokemon and to not immediately lose fights you could otherwise win easily!

If you ever have doubts on which natures and abilities you should use on your pokemon, you can also use this guide I made!

If you want to take some time and read about the basics of pokemon (what do these numbers mean, what's the blue, orange, white number, what's an ability, a nature, and so on), please read this guide.

For now, we have nothing else to do in Pallet Town, so we will head onto route 1. We will come back later!

Route 1 has the first pokemon of the game. Look behind some of the trees in the route: some of them have hidden items! Ironically, we are only interested in two pokemon: Sentret (Which spawns in the morning and day time but not night time, who are very common and we need to capture one for a mission), and Rattata. We need to ignore Rattatas for now, they do not give us any benefits.

I suggest you use the Reborn Bot from Discord (https://discord.com/invite/98pMNxq) to know what pokemon spawn in each area.

If you write ^s Route 1 , you'll get a list of all the pokemon that spawn in Route 1, at what time, what method (grass, headbutt, surfing, fishing), rarity (the higher the tier, the rarer they are: tier 1 is the easiest to find, tier 9 is the hardest), their level range, their MS requirement (if it says NO, it means you don't need a membership active in your account to find them, and if they hold any items).

My recommendation is that you actually try and hunt all possible pokemon (for fun, enjoy the game! Catch them all! Having different pokemon will help you out in the lategame as some side areas and quests require that you've completed a lot of your Pokedex). Capture some Sentret, Rattata and beat some of the pokemon you find. Try to level up to level 7 or 8, and heal up constantly in Viridian Pokecenter. Grab all berries in the route!

As you can see in the picture below, you have some information to see:

At the top left you have your Team. Your team is formed by up to 6 pokemon that you can change whenever you want by visiting any Pokecenter (or Daycare, and there are some buildings where you can access a PC). Talk to any PC to change your team composition. 

At the bottom left you have five tabs:

PvP

The PvP Tab has the section where you can choose to fight people in Ranked PvP or Unranked PvP. Ranked PvP is the mode where almost everyone participates with competitive PvP Teams. You must follow the 

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/31283-ranked-pvp-rules/

Unranked PvP is the same as Ranked PvP. However, Unranked PvP HAS NO RULES. This is a for fun queue you can use to practice with friends or whoever wants to practice before getting into Ranked PvP.

Beware that these two modes require you to have 6 level 100 pokemon. If you want to battle anyone with your low level pokemon, it is indeed possible! There are other ways you can battle anyone, even as soon as you get your initial starter.

Backpack

This is your classic Pokemon Backpack. There are different sections in your Backpack.

The Misc tab is the section where most items go to. They can be really different: Move enhancing items like Gems, Type enhancers (Black Belt, Blackglasses), Plates, PvP items (Choice Items, Assault Vest, etc), Diggable items (Evolution Stones, Fossils).

The next section is the Balls bag section (this sounds so wrong lol). Here you can find your desired balls. To your most loved Pokeballs, to the expensive Ultraballs, to Greatballs, Lureballs, Moonballs, Netballs... and so on. This is where all Balls go to. Each ball has different effects when you use them to capture a pokemon. For now, you must only know that Pokeballs are, by far, the best for newbies, the more cost effective, the easiest to pay and obtain and the ones that will help you the most. Use your Balls wisely, don't waste them on something that is not worth it!

If you want to read more about each Ball and their individual effects.

The next section is the Medicine collection: All healing and consumable items go here. These items can be used on your pokemon to heal them, level them up (Rare Candies) increase their PP (Leppa Berries, Ethers, Elixirs, PP Ups and so on). They're the healing items. You should always try to carry a LOT of berries and pick them all up, because sooner or later they'll be useful. While Leppa Berries may seem incredibly common, they will be extremely useful in some parts of the game (Get ready for Mt Pyre lol).

Next we have the TMs/HMs section. Here we have to do some mentions: The TMs work like in the first 4 generations. Once you use it, it is consumed and it will disappear from your bag. You can purchase TMs, find them in the overworld, purchase them from Tutors and so on. They are like in the original games. While you do not have to worry much as you will always be able to buy extra copies of a TM, you have to worry about the fact that they're consumed upon usage. Thus, think really carefully if you want to teach a TM to a pokemon before you use it!

The HMs in PRO are infinite AND removable. Thus, you can change HMs anytime, You do not need to worry about going to any tutors anymore! You can just replace your HM move easily.

The next section is the Key Items section. This section will have both Key Items (Bicycle, Old Rod, and so on) from the original games, new Key Items and additionally, the Tools you buy from other players or directly from the Coin Shop. For example, the Battering Ram, which will allow you to Headbutt Trees without having a pokemon with Headbutt in your party.

The Mounts and cosmetics section is the second to last one. This one will hold all custom items that you can use for better transportation and to dress up properly.

The last section is the Eggs section. However, since there's no Eggs section, this feature just doesn't exist. (I wonder why it was never removed).

Pokedex

The Pokedex displays a lot of information about each individual pokemon:

-Information on the Pokemon's Base Stats. This highlights at what is each individual pokemon good at. For example, Gengar is very good at being a fast Special Attacker.

Golem is a very slow physical attacker with a high defense stat. In the picture above you can see the ATK, DEF, SPDEF, SPATK, SPDEF, HP base stats of Bulbasaur. These are based on a hidden formula that tells the game how much their stats will normally grow level by level. You can make these strats increase by training them accordingly.

Thus, it's up to you what each pokemon becomes! Pokemon like people are naturally at some things and some others they're terrible at. Analyse each pokemon individually!

-The Height and Weight of the pokemon. These can be important for sidequests and for specific moves like Low Kick which depend on your Weight.

-Their name

-Their abilities. Each ability in the game has a different function. Some pokemon share the same ability. Some have unique abilities. Each ability is different and there are only a few that do exactly the same. The abilities in blue are the pokemon's normal abilities. The orange one is their hidden ability. Finding a pokemon with a hidden ability is Rare, compared to its common abilities.

-Their level up moveset. Each pokemon learns moves at different levels. Each pokemon learns moves in a different way than others. Some pokemon require tutors for the same moves another pokemon would just learn by level up.

-Their spawn locations and where they can be hunted + what methods do you need to use to find them. Note that there are special mechanics such as Dig Spots, Headbutts and Excavations where you can find these pokemon alternatively.

-On the left, you have the Owned data (this means you had that pokemon atleast once in your PC OR did a specific quest that gave you that pokemon's data. This is indicated with the Pokeball.

The seen data (means you fought against this pokemon once against an NPC or in the wild)

Evolved (this means you evolved a specific pokemon into their evolution atleast once in the past). This is indicated by a star.

Trainer Card

As you can see, your Trainer Card is like your real life ID. It shows your:

-Ingame name

-Guild

-Playtime

-Registration date

-Total pokemon you have in your boxes

-If you have an active or inactive membership

-Your Doctor Quest rank

-Your Excavation Quest rank

-The amount of badges you have

-Your cosmetics

-Your Pokedollars

-Your PvP and PvE coins.

Social

The Social Tab is where all your friends can be found. Here you also have some Emotes you can use so your character reacts with them, your guild, the members of your guild, your guild management options and your ignore list!

Let's begin our adventure!

Viridian City Missions, catching useful pokemon and getting to Pewter!

Once you reach Viridian City, there are a lot of new tasks to do. Once you've caught the pokemon above, you can show Sentret to the policeman so you get a bit of extra money. After that, go to the southwest of the city. You'll see a bridge there. Cross the bridge and grab the pokeball to obtain a Rare Candy. This item makes your pokemon level up once every time you use it. DO NOT USE IT. KEEP IT IN YOUR BAG. We will use this way later in the game to either become rich or level up your pokemon.

Rare Candy here.

After that, we have a lot to do: our access to route 2 is blocked until we defeat or lose against Jackson in the Pokemon Academy in Viridian. If you only go with your starter at level 8, you'll get destroyed. We will now check the poketime before we do anything: The poketime is at the top right of your screen, and it also shows the time in real life. Five minutes of poketime equals to one minute in real life, so a minute of poketime equals to twelve seconds in real life. (QUICK MATHS BRO). We COULD capture a Pidgey with both IVS in Atk and Speed higher than 15 to trade it for an Oddish, but it's a complete waste of pokeballs. You need to get lucky, instead of just going straight and capturing one in Viridian Forest. If you want, try your luck and capture a Pidgey with atleast 15 IV in Attack and Speed and give it to Madeline. You can find them in Route 1. I do not recommend this because you can just catch Oddish in Viridian Forest during Night time instead.

I recommend Bold, Calm, Modest, Timid, Rash, Mild, Relaxed or Sassy natures for Oddish for story and PVE.

If it's day or morning in poketime, we will catch Nidoran Male and Nidoran Female in Route 22. If it's night time, we will catch Poliwag. The best natures for both Nidorans are: Lonely, Naughty, Hasty, Naive. Adamant and Jolly are also usable, but we want Nidoking or Nidoqueen to be able to Surf later on, and they will decrease your spatk a bit. Timid and Modest should be avoided for now. All other natures are less usable.

For Poliwag, it depends: If you want Poliwrath, a tanky physical attacker which is also a fighting type (he's terrible, but I love the dude), you need Adamant, Jolly, Relaxed, Sassy, Impish or Careful. If you want to go for Politoed natures: Modest, Timid, Calm or Bold.

Route 22 entrance.

Keep in mind that, from now on, I do NOT suggest you evolve ANY pokemon unless they're completely useless otherwise (Abra, Magikarp, Beldum) until you have access to TMs or Tutors way later in the game. If you evolve a pokemon, they will need an absurd amount of experience. You could level a Gastly from 50 to 100 in the same time you'd level a Gengar from 90 to 100. The different is absurd. You can powerlevel them faster without evolving them and then evolving them at level 90+. Their rapid growth will compensate their terrible stats. If you want to have fun, however, and you REALLY want that cool sweet Charizard burning everything, then evolve it and have fun. It's just my recommendation. Have fun and try whatever you want! I also would evolve really bad pokemon with bad natures (but why would you train them in the first place when you can hunt better pvpable or super good versions later on?).

Route 22. Poliwag, Nidorans here.

After you've caught one of each, train them until level 8. Go to Viridian Academy and face Jackson. His Eevee hits really hard and is tanky, so I suggest using Poison Sting with the Nidorans to poison it, Leer to lower its defense and destroy it afterwards, Growl to reduce its attack to pathetic levels, and if you trained your Nidorans enough, you can Double Kick it hard. If you win, you'll be able to go to Route 2. If you lost, you can go and talk to his mother in Pallet Town, and it will unlock the way to Pewter City.

If you feel you're still struggling with the Early Game, I suggest you go back to Route 22 and catch a Psyduck, a Slowpoke, a Mankey and multiple Natu with the ability Synchronise. The ability Synchronise makes it so that, once you place the pokemon with this ability in the first slot of your party, 50% of the wild pokemon will share the same nature as your Synchronise pokemon. This can be used early in Kanto to hunt for PvP and very good story pokemon early on in your adventure.

Here you have all the natures a pokemon can have and why they are good or not:

+SPEED: Timid, Naive, Hasty, Jolly. These natures are incredibly good and used for fast attackers or fast support pokemon.

+ATK: Adamant, Lonely, Naughty, Brave. These natures are very good, used for either fast physical, mixed or slow attackers.

 +SPATK: Quiet, Rash, Mild, Modest. These natures are also very good, used for special, mixed, fast or slow attackers.

+DEF: Bold, Impish, Relaxed. These natures are very good, used for defensive pokemon.

+SPDEF: Calm, Careful, Sassy. Also very good natures, used for defensive pokemon.

NOT GOOD NATURES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE:

Lax, Gentle: these increase a defensive stat and decrease the other one. On an offensive pokemon this is completely useless because it doesn't increase your power output or the damage you deal. On a defensive or support pokemon, they are useless because you just gain defense on one side to lose it on the other.

Hardy, Serious, Quirky, Bashul, Docile: these natures do not increase any stats. These bring no bonuses. While they're acceptable for story, why would you settle for this instead of finding a nature that actually boosts a stat?

It is important that you try to get decent to good natures for your pokemon. Each pokemon specialises in something different, remember that. Some are physical attackers, some are special attackers, some are support pokemon. Check the base stats of a pokemon to guide yourself on what they are good for. There are only very few exceptions to this rule.

Mankey requires Lonely, Naughty, Adamant, Hasty, Naive or Jolly.

Slowpoke requires Bold, Relaxed, Calm or Sassy.

Psyduck requires Timid, Modest, Naive, Hasty, Rash or Mild.

These three are very good examples. Psyduck is a special attacker that is also an utility pokemon. Slowpoke is a tank that uses special attacks and is an utility pokemon. Mankey is a physical fast attacker. 

Mankey is clearly a physical attacker.

Psyduck is a fast special attacker and utility pokemon.

Slowpoke is a great tank and slow special attacker. Beware that, even though Slowpoke has a lower SPATK than ATK, when it evolves it gains a ton of SPATK.

Let's go back to Viridian School now.

School 😄

After you've done this, talk to the police woman in Viridian. Tell her you want the Thief mission (after you've completed the Sentret one), to gather Rattata hair. Teach Thief to one of the Nidorans (preferably, the male one), and go to route 1. You need your Nidoran to have NO ITEMS equipped. Use Thief against wild Rattatas. Sometimes, you'll steal a Rattata Hair. You can defeat the Rattatas with Thief, it will always steal the item if they have it, no matter if they are fainted or not by your attack. When you get a Rattata Hair, click on your pokemon on the top left (Where your pokemon list is) and click on the item it is holding. The hair will go into your bag. Then, keep hunting Rattatas until you have stolen three Rattata Hair by using thief on all of them. Bring the Rattata hair to the Officer Jenny in Viridian to get a huge reward. It's time to move onto the forest!

Officer Jenny wants to give you work for FREE EASY MONEEEEY

Route 2, Viridian Forest, Missions and Pewter City, defeating Brock.

Route 2 sadly has nothing of interest for us (for now, it will later on!). We will come back to headbutt some pokemon for a quest in Pewter. You can use this route to train vs Kakuna and Metapod for some really high exp. Catching a Snubbull during night time is optional, he can help you later on in the game. He learns the elemental fangs and has some nice moves. Try to catch it with a Brave, Adamant, Lonely or Naughty natures. All other natures for it are a bit disappointing. Additionally, if you can, you should catch a few Hoppip with the natures Timid, Jolly, Hasty or Naive. This pokemon is an extremely good lategame tool that is used to catch wild pokemon with Stun Spore, Sleep Powder, but is also used to level up other pokemon with Toxic, Leech Seed and Memento, but is also a great boss and NPC debuffer with Flash, Cotton Spore, Worry Seed, Stun Spore, and is also an amazing story pokemon as it has access to physical, special and utility moves with decent stats.

We will now go north and enter Viridian Forest. We have some stuff to tackle here: defeat Bug Catcher Gerald for the mission in Viridian.

Viridian Exit to Route 2 (finally the old man stopped harassing us.)

With this, all Viridian quests will be done. You'll have obtained a good chunk of money which we'll save for the bycicle. In Viridian Forest, we want to hunt a single Budew in the morning and day times (he's a bit hard to find) which we will use for the first and second gyms. In the night time, we'll hunt for an Oddish. We also will hunt a Pikachu (if it was not our starter. Check the first section for Pikachu natures!). We want a Modest, Rash, Mild, Timid, Hasty or Naive Budew. Oddish can also work with these natures, but he can also run Bold and Calm, since its evolution Vileplume can benefit from them. We need the Pikachu for a mission in Pewter City.

Note here: if you are bored enough and hunt for Pikachu, with the natures mentioned at the beggining of this guide, there is a small chance that you find a Light Ball in one of the wild Pikachu in Viridian Forest. It is VERY recommended that you equip this item to Pikachu because it will DOUBLE its ATK and SPATK stats in battle. This makes Pikachu an absolute monster in story (whenever he doesn't suck). If you find a Light Ball, be sure to equip it to a good Pikachu you find. 

Route 2

Bug Trainer Gerald for the quest. He hides, afraid of us T-Posing and ASSERTING DOMINANCE to win against him and get some money.

Our other interest place here is the gigantic maze. The maze is found in the top left of the entrance from Route 2 south (so, from Viridian). It's a big tree with a fat hiker on its front. Behind the tree on its left, there's a Rare Candy. We will enter the tree and fight the rocket dude that is inside. Then, we will go to the left and down to teach Headbutt to our Nidoran who we also taught Thief before. This will give us the prize of another mission in Pewter City. After this, we can fight our way until we reach Pewter City, if we have done all previous steps. It's just a long way of being poisoned by trainers and Weedles (these damn Weedles).

BIG NOTE HERE: Carry ONE Escape Rope in case you accidentally get lost in the maze. At this stage in the game you don't have access to the TM Flash and it is very easy to get lost inside.

I'll leave the map linked if you dare enter it, but you may never escape it.

Entrance to the Maze. To the left of where I stand, there's a hidden Rare Candy. Press spacebar when you're looking at it to grab it.

We will ignore the Pokestops for now. We cannot use them until we get our 4th badge.

Headbutt Tutor to the bottom left. 2000 pokedollars per usage. Where the Headbutt Tutor is there will be a Rocket Grunt you can defeat when you get here for the first time. The chat hides the entrance to the Maze.

We found the way to Pewter!

Jenny ready to give us SOME MORE MONEEEEY in exchange for... weird tasks.

It's time to face Brock. If you chose Pikachu or Charmander, you can investigate the Viridian Maze to its depths to find an abandoned pokemon in a pokeball which contains either a Horsea (nice to have, pretty useful too), Bellsprout (just decent grass pokemon) or Growlithe (amazing pokemon, but terrible for the first two gyms). Otherwise, use any of the mentioned pokemon that we have found in the routes before that can help us:

Psyduck, Slowpoke, Poliwag (Water types), Hoppip, Budew, Oddish (Grass types), Mankey (Fighting type), Nidoran Male and Female (while they are Poison type and Poison is weak to Ground, Brock uses NO Ground type attacks. Furthermore, Nidorans learn Double Kick which wrecks Brock).

You can also teach the TM for Dragon Rage to Charmander. However, there's an issue: Brock's pokemon, Geodude and Onix, have a chance to have Sturdy as their ability. Dragon Rage deals a fixed amount of damage: it will always lower the opponent's hp by 40. So, no matter if you were level 5 and your opponent was level 100, if they have 40 hp or less and you use Dragon Rage, you'll defeat them. The issue is that Sturdy prevents the opponent from defeating you in a single hit. If you use dragon rage when Geodude or Onix have their hp bar completely full, THEY WILL SURVIVE. And they will destroy you with a Rock Tomb move.

If you will use Charmander, first use a pokemon to lower their hp, and then use Dragon Rage to finish them off. Pikachu has no way of doing anything in this fight, don't even bother. The only thing Pikachu can do in this fight is to use Tail Whip to reduce Geodude and Onix's defensive stats.

Bulbasaur and Squirtle can spam moves and still win. Use Stun Spore, then Leech Seed, then Synthesis to heal and spam Vine Whip with Bulbasaur. Repeat this strategy against the two. With Squirtle, use Withdraw a few times, heal it up, proceed to spam Water Gun. Level 10 to 12 should be more than enough for this gym. Don't overlevel too much, try it at level 10!

Recommended types of attacks you should use for this gym:

Water - Water types are extremely effective here. Geodude and Onix (both of Brock's pokemon) are 4 times weak to Water.

Rock is weak to Water, so is Ground. Geodude and Onix are double type pokemon, which means they have 2 types, not just one.

If a pokemon shares a weakness in both of their types, the damage is quadrupled (4 times the normal damage).

Slowpoke, Psyduck, Poliwag and Squirtle will have a really easy time in this gym.

Grass - Grass types are extremely effective too. For the same reasons, both Geodude and Onix are very weak to Grass.

Grass is very effective against Ground and Rock types. Not only that, but Rock types in generally have pretty bad Special Defense. Grass is mainly a Specially oriented attacking type and also a defensive type at the same type. It completely wrecks Brock.

Budew, Oddish, Bulbasaur, Paras and Hoppip can easily beat this gym. Keep in mind that Paras is both Grass and Bug. Bug is weak to Rock. Also beware that Hoppip is Grass and Flying. Flying is weak to Rock.

Fighting - On a more secondary type, Fighting also beats Rock super effectively, but is neutral against Ground. It's still a very good type to use!

For this fight, I can recommend Mankey and both Nidoran. They learn Fighting type attacks that are very useful. Keep in mind Rock types have really big Physical Defensive stats and your attacks might not damage them much! 

This is the basic type chart. It follows very simple logic.

Water beats the Ground because it floods it. Water also breaks Rocks by eroding them.

Grass grows from the Ground and breaks its way through, same with Rocks.

Very strong fighters can easily break rocks!

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU JUST BEAT THE FIRST GYM!

Talk to the police woman and receive the last mission reward. We will heal up in Pewter, talk to the policeman for the Headbutt and Pikachu rewards. Then, we will talk to her again and ask her if we can take the Headbutt quest again to hunt for a Silcoon. We will headbutt Viridian City, Viridian Forest, Route 2 and Route 1 trees to find a Silcoon.

Hello lady Silcoon! Headbutting in Route 1 🙂

To Headbutt, your pokemon needs to have atleast 150 happiness. This action also happens in other moves such as Dig. All pokemon are captured with 70 base happiness. You gain 1 happiness every time you defeat a wild pokemon and 5 happiness every time you level up the pokemon. You lose 5 happiness if your pokemon faints. You can check the happiness of a pokemon by writing /happy and the number of the position of the pokemon in your team in the chat and pressing enter. If your nidoran is in the first place, you'll write: /happy 1. If your Nidoran is in the third place of your team, you'll write /happy 3. (without the ., obviously). We want Nidoran to reach 150 happiness by defeating wild pokemon and leveling it up until it reaches 150 happiness (remember not to forget headbutt or thief or you'll have to pay a lot of money to get them back). Headbutt the trees in the zones indicated above until you find a Silcoon, catch it and go get your reward! You will also need to have defeated the First Badge in Kanto!

Write the command as in the picture and press enter.

Now, we will backtrack to Pallet Town. Headbutt these trees (there are more in the Town). You can get all three starters to spawn from these trees. This is an amazing way to get the other starters in the game before the second gym badge. You can also get Exeggcute which is a really strong Grass type that also knows Psychic type moves and has a lot of utility moves to help you out through your adventure.

We will then try headbutting in route 1 to try and find Pinsir, an incredibly powerful bug type pokemon (in fact, one of the strongest in the game) which will steamroll through anything in the early game. His abilities: Hyper Cutter makes its attack not be lowered. If it has Mold Breaker, it will IGNORE Geodude's and Onix's ability Sturdy, and thus, you will be able to defeat them in a single hit. If it has Moxie, it will gain a physical attack boost every time it defeats a pokemon. This one is the best ability, but the other two are also amazing for him.

At level 8 he learns Seismic Toss, which deals the same damage to the opponent as your level. Thus, if he is level 12, he will always deal 12 health to your opponent. At level 15 he learns Revenge, which is a Fighting type move that doubles its damage if you have received a hit before. He has really good moves and learns a lot of useful stuff!

You can also try headbutting in Route 22 for evolved pokemon forms, Viridian City and Route 2 for other rare pokemon and some useful support stuff like Venonat, Viridian Forest to get a Heracross (if you find one, it's a gift from the gods), and Pewter City for an early Golbat. Keep in mind that evolved or pokemon that cannot evolve need more experience to level up in order to compensate for their overpowered stats.

I was lucky 🙂

Route 3, Mt Moon and getting to Cerulean City.

So here we are in route 3, finally advancing! We finished the long grind versus Brock, we can continue onwards onto our big adventure! If you finished the first two cities missions, of course, and picked up all the stuff I mentioned in this guide (you don't need to capture all the pokemon I mentioned, they're just options, however, completing the Pokedex is essential for many sidequests later in the game). The wild pokemon here are... forgettable, to say the least. We have a certain option which has very big drawbacks: the only interesting pokemon here is Arbok. Of course we can go and catch all other pokemon in the previous routes too for fun (we'll eventually need to fill the entire pokedex for sidequests).

The first noticeable spot are the Dig spots just below the route's entrance from Pewter. These Dig spots respawn every 72 hours and you can dig them to obtain prizes such as Nuggets, other monetary items, healing items, fossils, evolution stones... They are absolutely necessary to progress through PRO and maintain your economy to get through the game. I will link my own money guide here so you can understand how important they are. Dig Spots in Kanto are found in Route 3, Mt Moon, Rock Tunnel, Diglett Tunnel and Routes 14 and 15. Talk to the rock in the picture to obtain a stardust, sellable later for some nice money.

These dig spots were already dug, and this stone has a Stardust. Remember to use dig on these spots every 3 days! They'll appear as cracks in the ground.

Arbok spawns frequently and he knows the elemental fangs, which are extremely overpowered moves combined with an evolved pokemon. The drawback? He's not very strong, but he's still useful. If you want to include him in your team as a last resort, capture him with a Adamant, Naughty or Lonely, Hasty, Naive or Jolly nature. He can hit hard and he can help out with a lot of coverage thanks to these fangs.

We can relearn all of these level 1 moves in the move relearner in Cerulean. We want our Arbok to ALWAYS have Intimidate and the moves Ice Fang, Thunder Fang, Fire Fang and Crunch.

After fighting our way to the Mt Moon Pokecenter, we can finally find a place to rest! We can now heal up here. Don't forget to interact with the small hole to the left of the Pokecenter!

The route was disappointingly empty, in my opinion, but whatever. We can buy a Magikarp from the salesman here! However, each one costs 2.5k... this is not really worth it at all. You're also running on luck to get a good one. We can catch any Magikarp with just one pokeball, which is 200 pokedollars. We can get 12 Magikarps for the same price. However, this one can have a special attack. Show the Magikarp you bought and he will give it a special move. As you can see, my Magikarp is complete garbage, not worth the pokedollars AT ALL, and it got Dragon Rage, which is really nice, but pokemons will now start surviving the 40 fixed damage Dragon Rage deals.

We will now enter Mt Moon. There's a lot to investigate, so we will start slowly. Right when we enter, we can find these Dig Spots. We will grab them later on in the game. Above this hiker, there's a pokeball, you can pick it up! We're now going to check out the wild pokemon spawns here, as there are some interesting things to capture. We willl keep the Dig Spawns outside of the question since we can't dig for now. Our interests are: Four Geodudes with Sturdy (yes, FOUR. We will use a cheese strategy with them later in the game). Different pokemon appear in each floor, but we will first focus on Mt Moon 1F, the entrance.

One of them should/must be Adamant, Brave or Naughty. Acceptably, we can also get an Impish or Relaxed one. Careful or Sassy can also work. However, we really want an Adamant, Brave or Naughty one. They must all have Sturdy. To know if they have Sturdy, we have to hit them with a really strong attack. If they would normally faint, a text will pop up saying that the pokemon survived with 1 HP thanks to Sturdy. We want four of them with Sturdy and we will include one in our party with the correct nature.

We must hit Geodude hard enough to normally faint it in a single hit from full HP. If we see this message and he survives, it means he has Sturdy. We will capture this one. If it's bad, we will keep it in our PC for way later. If it's good, we'll put it in our party.

We also really, REALLY want a Paras. This will be our other HM Slave aside from Nidoking and it will aid us in the future. We want a Brave/Quiet Paras, Relaxed, Sassy also work. Modest could be acceptable, but not Adamant. Even if his moveset is mostly physical, it is way easier to train him with special attacks. Effect Spore is its best ability, but it is not obligatory. It sometimes might accidentally poison an enemy we don't want to poison.

The move Spore is the only move in the game that will make an opponent fall asleep with 100% accuracy. We will make Paras learn Absorb (to level up fast against rock and ground types such as Geodude or against water types, then Cut, Flash and Spore. When Paras is fully leveled, we will substitute Absorb with False Swipe.

We have three more optional pokemon to capture. (we could also capture Zubat, but we'll go back later to these low level zones and capture all the missing pokemon). The first one is Sandshrew. He is a really bulky, tanks physical hits like a truck, and has an insanely varied movepool. He is also a pure ground type which makes him only slightly weak to grass and water. His movepool is absurd for store: Poison Sting as a reliable poison condition to wear down enemies, Rollout as a Rock type attack that increases in power each turn (and since he's so bulky, he will for sure tank some hits), Fury Cutter (this move is absolutely disgusting in the early game. Each time you use it successfully, it doubles in power. It will start oneshotting pokemon after the fourth move.) which also counters grass pokemon, and Magnitude at level 14, which is an absurdly hard hitting Ground type move.

We also want him because at level 30 he learns the move Dig for free, which we can show to the police officer in Cerulean to get a reward from a quest. He also learrns Sand Tomb which traps enemies (useful for catching Abra) and deals % damage each turn, Gyro Ball, a Steel type move that hits harder if you're slow (and boy is Sandshrew slow), Swords Dance (I have no idea why does it learn this move, but it makes your attack skyrocket), Sandstorm (DARUDE just kidding, it activates your abilities when used and summons sandstorm) and finally, Earthquake This guy is an absolute UNIT of a pokemon. He's a BOSS. However, he does not have Sturdy (the most overpowered ability in PVE together with Mold Breaker), and his abilities do NOT work UNLESS sand is on the field. If you want to capture one and use one, try the natures Adamant, Brave, Relaxed, Impish, Sassy or Careful. Try not to use Lonely or Naughty because they lower its bulk. We want one that can stay for a long time in the field while hitting hard.

The next optional pokemon is an absolute MONSTER and UNIT of a pokemon. TBhimhis pokemon is Onix. His physical defense stat reaches absurd points for this stage in the game, he's a bit fast (surprisingly) and he learns really good utility moves. If you find a level 10 to 12 Onix, it might have Curse, which will boost its physical damage and physical resistance to insane levels. You NEED to capture it with the Sturdy ability. It's the same reasoning as Geodude: having a free turn to do anything you want (unless you get fainted by a mold breaker or multi hit move) is insanely advantageous. At level 16, you learn Stealth Rock, which is an amazing setup move for some gyms and specific battles (Stealth Rocks will destroy the 7th gym and Lance and Lorelei in the Elite Four).

He also learns cool support moves: Gyro Ball is nice for Steelix when it evolves (by the way, who is a godly physical tank), Smack Down is cool since it's the only Rock type attack that has 100% accuracy, Dragonbreath is... pathetic, but the paralyse chance is appreciated. Screech is a nice defense lowering move, and he also will learn other powerful moves upon level-up. However, he has a big issue: he does not learn ANY ground type moves until you level him up a lot. Thus, Geodude outclasses him heavily to beat the third gym easily. If we catch an Onix, we want to catch one with the natures Relaxed or Impish. Brave or Adamant are also viable, however, we want him to focus on being an absolute immortal tank. Careful and Sassy are also usable to make it impossible to defeat. All other natures are bad.

The last pokemon we will want to capture is the ABSOLUTE DEGENERACY. This pokemon is called Clefairy. It might look like a cute pokemon, but let me just tell you: this guy is a complete degenerate, he's toxic, he's obnoxious to play against and his moveset is so insane that you can never know what he will do. He has so many options it's not even funny. His evolution, Clefable, is a monster in the PvP battles in PRO. He's just that good that, if you happen to come across it, you should ALWAYS try your luck and find it.

The natures for this guy are: Bold/Calm (if you get one of these two, you hit the jackpot), Relaxed/Sassy (amazing for story, not usable for PvP), or Modest (if you feel like trolling a bit). The point of this guy is to be an immortal tank that spams Cosmic Power and then has useful support moves (healing ones like Wish) and a few specially oriented attacking moves while equipped with Leftovers. This guy can solo almost everything in any place by just spamming six Cosmic Powers (so both his defenses are maxed out) and he is just unstoppable. His moveset is also insane, try teaching any TM because he learns ALMOST EVERYTHING possible. You can only encounter him in the Night time (20:00 to 04:00 in Poketime). This is one of the pokemon that introduces you to poketime cycles to learn how to hunt a pokemon in specific times. One minute in real life equals to five minutes in poketime. Do the maths yourself to see if you can wait until morning or night or you'd rather wait for another moment!

Let's now investigate!

Dig spots when we enter Mt Moon. They're to the bottom left of the entrance. (Onix what are you looking at, bruh?)

We will go down the next stairs in the picture below. This is an optional route where we can find a Star Piece (VERY IMPORTANT, THIS GIVES US A LOT OF MONEY. PICK IT UP, IT'S IN A POKEBALL), and some Dig Spots at the end. Below these stairs, there's also a pokeball with an Escape Rope. We can pick it up, optionally.

The Star Piece will be found here, in front of my character. It's in a pokeball. Below it, there's a pokeball with a Water Gun TM (this would've been useful for the first gym...).

Dig spots in the same place as the Star Piece, just go below and grab the ladder. It's just to show them, we can't use them right now.

We will now go back to the ladder we climbed down from and go to the northeast. We'll find more Dig Spots and an old man there.

We will now find the next ladder. This one is also optional and brings us to another optional zone with Dig Spots which we'll visit way later in the game.

Last Dig Spots in Mt Moon.

We'll finally reach this point. We can now only continue from here! The next small part is just a straightforward line.

Oh, there's a Rocket Grunt! What are they doing here? Let's fight them and move on! We have to beat them all!

The way is just straightforward towards the left now.

We finally made it here... We have defeated the second Rocket Grunt here after clearing the optional ones. We have this Super Nerd blocking the way. He wants to take the fossils, oh, no! WE NEED TO SAVE LORD HELIX! WE MUST FACE THE WRATH OF THE INFIDEL DOME SEEKERS!

In my opinion, both fossils are great, but do not worry. We can get them later on via dig spots infinitely, so do not worry about which one you choose. We can't even revive them until the seventh badge so... who cares? Generally, Omanyte is better than Kabutops due to how broken Shell Smash is, but Kabutops is also really nice. Choose whichever you want! I chose Helix. Be careful, this fight can be hard!

Yes, we're out! Finally! Interact with that small hole in the wall and talk to the Cleffa to obtain its dex data. We'll use that hole to travel back later on. We will now get to Cerulean City but we will backtrack to Mt Moon to pick up something pretty special. This is optional. However,

this pokemon is one of the best pokemon in PRO, and if we can, we should try our luck and get a good one: Bronzor. If you're willing to spend some time trying to find it and praying to the lord that you get lucky enough, try to hunt it. It appears in Mt. Moon B1F all day long. You can see the floor and area where you are just below the poketime, on the top right of your screen.

Bronzor is an amazing tank with an incredible typing which can also have an ability that either removes one weakness entirely (Levitate) or makes him tank fire type hits better (Heatproof). Then there's Heavy Metal, which we won't use at all because it's borderline useless on him. If we capture Bronzor, we want it to have Confuse Ray, Iron Defense (optionally, this will make him undefeatable), an attacking move (anything works, Psywave for example) and Hypnosis. We will use him for multiple fights later on and we will also use him in the lategame as a Boss Screen Setter and as an immortal obnoxious tank. We will later on change his moveset. We want him to have the following natures: Bold, Impish, Relaxed, Calm, Careful or Sassy. If you get one, almost all gyms in Kanto will be way easier to deal with.

Second Gym, Misty's Starmie, Grinding and Routes 24-25

Yay, we finally made it to Cerulean! The cave was long and very annoying and filled with a lot of annoying Rock types and Zubats. We now heal up in Cerulean and set out sight onto the second gym. So, how do we tackle it? The second gym is the Water gym. The Rock gym had a glaring weakness to both Water and Grass since almost all the pokemon there also had the Ground type. In this Water gym, we can find different typings: Water is the most common type in all of Pokemon. Water can be followed by almost any type. In Kanto, we already have a lot of combinations: Poliwrath is Water Fighting, Tentacruel is Water Poison, Slowbro Water Psychic... you get the point. Misty can be a problem, and we have two options: we either go to Route 24 and 25 and we grind, or we grind before we go there and we train hard for it. Since Water is only weak to Electric and Grass, our options are severely limited.

There's many things we should explore:
-Routes 24 and 25 have many cool useful options. Route 24 is used to EV train your pokemon. EV training allows you to train the specific stats of a pokemon to your liking depending on what your pokemon needs and the pokemon you fight. I only recommend that you EV train good pokemon whose IVs are high, have the right natures and abilities and that you'll use throughout the Story and other regions. For now, you should forget about EV training unless you accidentally come across a very good pokemon. Here's the link for the EV stats and total stats explanation.

Here's another useful guide for EVs. Route 25 has a few interesting pokemon (Grass types, Bug types, Abra + Kadabra).

-Headbutts in past areas and in new areas. Some of the pokemon can be extremely useful for your adventure.

-Officer Jenny Quests

-New pokemon to be hunted (Route 4 too!)

-2nd gym: Misty's Water Type gym.

Let's go over the most important things first:

-Officer Jenny

-Headbutts (quick rundown)

-Route 4, Route 24 and Route 25

-Misty's Gym

Since at this point we're poor, we might as well make some money! We'll start with Officer Jenny's missions.

Jenny has three missions to offer us.

-Effort train a pokemon. Following what I said just above, you can complete this mission once you have trained one of the stats of one of your pokemon until 50 EVs into a single stat or above. In your pokemon description, one of its blue numbers must be atleast 50 or above. This can be accomplished by defeating wild pokemon over and over. This mission can be a bit boring and slow. To make it worth it, I suggest you train a Water or Grass type in Mt Moon against Sandshrew, Sandslash, Geodude, Graveler and Onix so you are prepared for Misty. All of these award Defense EV points, useful for some of the pokemon inside! In exchange, she will give you 5000 pokedollars.

-Teach a pokemon the move Dig (part 1) and show her 2 Gems (part 2). This quest cannot be done until you've beaten Misty (unless you catch a Sandshrew in Mt Moon and level it up until it learns Dig, but you cannot use this move outside of battle until you've beaten the third badge). After you beat the Cerulean Gym, similar to the original games, you'll be given the TM for Dig. In this game, Dig is used to dig up diggable patches which give you money items, pokeballs, repels, gems and also spawn rare pokemon. You can buy the TM in any Department Store or you can train a Sandshrew or Diglett so they learn the move. She will give you pokedollars once you show her a pokemon that has learned this move AND once you show her a few gems you have obtained through Dig Spots.

-Show her a Clefairy with Cute Charm. These can easily be found in Mt Moon. Bring one to her to obtain 7500 pokedollars! Additionally, there is a Moon Stone in the entrance from Route 3, at the top left corner. You can evolve Clefairy, Nidorino or Nidorina very early in PRO if you feel you need a big hitter early in the game! You will be given additional pokedollars if you show the Clefairy to Laila in Vermillion's City Library, after you have beaten the 2nd badge.

Going back to Headbutts, we now have access to multiple new things. You should really go back to Pallet Town and Headbutt from there: Pallet Town, Routes 1, 2, 22, 3, and 4. Bug Types can be useful for Misty's gym to defeat her Starmie, but also Exeggcute, which is a Grass type and also a Psychic type, so it resists both of Starmie's Water Pulse and Psyshocks.

As a famous philosopher would say: The topic is now eggs.

-Route 4, Route 24 and Route 25

Let's explore each area by turns. 

Hello everyone, my name is Cody. I have been playing Pokémon Revolution Online since 2021, and during that time I have gained a lot of experience with the game’s systems, community, and progression.

The purpose of this guide is to help new and returning players better understand the game and avoid some of the common mistakes that many beginners make. When I first started, there were many things that were confusing or difficult to learn, especially regarding trading, chat rules, abbreviations used by players, and overall progression.

In this guide, I will share my personal experience, tips, and advice to help players get started. The guide will cover topics such as Trade Chat, common abbreviations, important rules, a basic story walkthrough, and other useful information that can help improve your overall experience.

My goal is to make the early stages of the game clearer, easier, and more enjoyable for new players.

I hope this guide will be helpful, and I wish everyone the best of luck on their journey! P.S If I'm missing any information, Please point it out here or my discord.

(Useful command if you are on desktop to find content) CTRL F [content])

Discord: codyful

Ingame: Codyful

Credits (COMING SOON)

Chat Commands and Reborn Bot commands (COMING SOON)

Common Abbreviations

Trade Chat Abbreviations

 Chat Abbreviations

Stuff I do even during the endgame!

Story

What to do after story?

Move Tutor Locations (WITH EVERY DAYCARE LOCATIONS ASWELL) and guides to egg move tutors and how to Unlock them (COMING SOON)

How to get PvE Coins?

Coin Shop Guide

Mega Stone Quest Links

Boss Teams and Info (COMING SOON)

How to repel pokemon? 

Dungeons (COMING SOON)

Love Island (COMING SOON)

Events (COMING SOON)

PvP INFO (COMING SOON)

Forum Navigation (COMING SOON)

INTRODUCTION

I LIKE TO BE UNKNOWN TO EVERYONE CAUSE MY IDENTITY IS NOT IMPORTANT. HELPING EVERYONE IN THE SHADOW 

THAT'S WHAT I ALWAYS DO. ENJOYING WITH THIS GUIDE EVERYONE SPECIALLY THE NEWBIES!

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NOTE: I ARRANGED EVERYTHING THROUGH PROGRESSION

 KANTO HIDDEN ITEMS 

 JOHTO HIDDEN ITEMS 

HOENN HIDDEN ITEMS

SINNOH HIDDEN ITEMS

SPECIAL AREAS!

NOTE: I WILL DO MY BEST TO FIND ALL THE HIDDEN ITEMS!!! 

NEXT GOAL: SPECIAL AREAS

PS: Cerulean Cave, Love Island, Vulcan Island etc. will be added separately in the near future. As i'm using a new account i also need to progress in this new account to open this areas. Thank you for the understanding!!!
 

PPS: It might take a little longer for SPECIAL AREAS HIDDEN ITEMS to post! I need to do alot of quest and dex!!! I wish everyone will understand it! I love you all!!! 

This guide is still a work in progress. I plan to add more over time, so please bear with me. It’s written with both new and experienced players in mind. Some sections may feel obvious or not especially advanced to certain readers, but I’ve included my own thought processes throughout. It also may not look as polished or structured as I ultimately want it to be just yet (for now). I’ve outlined and created some of the sections below I want to comment on, and I’ll be gradually working through them and sharing my thoughts as they develop. If even small parts of it prove useful, then it’s done its job. Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t, and enjoy.  

1. Foundations of Auctioneering. What auctions are (and aren’t), when to auction and when not to, balancing short term profit with long term value, and the principles of quality auctioneering.

What an Auction Is (and Isn’t)

An auction is a way to discover market value through competition. It works best when there is demand and enough interested buyers to create momentum. An auction is: A process where buyers compete in the forum (or in-game), a way to let the market, not the seller, set the price (in a sense) and best suited for Pokémon or items with desirable traits or appeal. An auction isn’t: A guaranteed way to get a high price, a replacement for private sales or direct offers, or a place for unrealistic expectations. If a Pokémon or item has weak demand, poor timing, unclear value, an auction may expose that.

When You Should Auction

Auctioning makes the most sense when: The Pokémon has strong PvP relevance or rarity, demand exists with multiple players, you’re unsure of the value and want the market to decide, timing is favourable (events, meta shifts, player activity etc). Auctions shine when competition is likely. Ideally, two or three serious bidders can push a Pokémon or item beyond what a private sale might achieve. This is especially true for quality PvP Pokémon, very rare or limited cosmetics or mounts with high appeal.

When You Shouldn’t Auction

Not everything benefits from an auction. You may want to avoid an auction when: Demand is low or highly niche, the Pokémon or item is easily found (Standard Pokémon from a hunt with below average stats and no exceptional traits), you need quick liquidity (if you’re unable to wait the standard 24 to 48 hours of an auction, it may be better not to auction at all...unless you intentionally run a short auction of 10 hours or less and are comfortable accepting the risks that come with a reduced timeframe), you already have a fair private offer on the table. In these cases, auctions can stall, underperform or damage perceived value. Knowing when NOT to auction is just as important as knowing when to run one. This won’t apply to most players, but on rare occasions a PvP shiny or form of truly exceptional value, may actually be better sold privately to one or two specific buyers. If you’re dealing with something in a higher tier, you’ll usually know it. In such situations, a public auction can sometimes underserve you, especially when there’s already strong interest from a very small pool of serious collectors or PvP players. If you find yourself holding a genuinely rare gem, take your time. Gather multiple opinions, do your own research, and be cautious...particularly if you’re inexperienced and suddenly receiving a flood of offers that feel unusual. Protect yourself, trust your instincts, and don’t sell yourself short when you’re in one of these unique situations.

Short Term Profit vs Long Term Value

Some Pokémon are quick flips. Others are long term holds. Short term profit focuses on immediate demand, meta relevance and fast turnover. This approach prioritises liquidity and quick results (for most players, this tends to be the default...playing and making decisions with shorter term profit in mind). Long term value, on the other hand, is about recognising what is unlikely to be easily replaced. This may justify waiting for the right buyer, especially if the Pokémon has timeless PvP utility, an exceptional stat spread (nature, ability and IVs) compared to what’s available, collector appeal or other future relevance. Future meta changes can also play a role. For example, a Pokémon that is moderately valued today may become more desirable if a new Mega Evolution or game update is introduced later. In these cases, holding can mean sacrificing some short term value in exchange for stronger long term upside. Selling a high potential Pokémon or item too early could cost you more in the long run than waiting for the right moment or buyer.

Quality Auctioneering

Quality auctioneering isn’t just about posting it. It’s about presentation, trust and judgement. A well run auction includes: Clear, complete and honest details, sensible starting prices, good timing, good treatment to your bidders, with chill and consistent communication. Create confidence. When bidders trust an auctioneer, they engage with your posts more freely. This can be as simple as just starting your auction or placing some early bids. A likability factor (for one reason or another), having supportive guildmates, or others that wish to support you or because you’ve supported them in the past. Over time, this creates a positive and beneficial environment built around reputation and trust, and that can benefit everyone involved. Reputation compounds with time. A clean and fair auction today can make the next one easier and hopefully more competitive.

2. Buyer Preferences. Evolution decisions, how training may affect value, and some considerations relating to PvP players, collectors, and those buying for utility.

Evolution Decisions

Whether to evolve a Pokémon before auctioning sometimes isn't a simple yes or no. Keeping a Pokémon unevolved preserves flexibility for the buyer. Some buyers may simply prefer a Pokémon in its lower evolutionary stage...particularly collectors, or in the case of shinies and special forms. Preserving this flexibility gives buyers a freedom of choice and can help retain or increase value, especially for baby Pokémon and starters. In other cases, evolving a Pokémon (and training it and showing off its Mega Evolution) can make its role and idea's to the buyer much clearer, relating to PvP ideas or builds. As a general rule, evolution should be done if it clearly adds value or removes uncertainty...not just because it’s available. Think before making this choice. In many cases it won’t matter, but in others it can have a real impact (this is entirely situational).

Training: When It Adds Value (and When It Doesn’t)

Training can increase value. For PvP Pokémon etc, completed EVs, level, and moveset can make an auction more attractive by reducing effort for the buyer. Essentially, it removes a cost the buyer would otherwise have to pay. This can matter when the price of levelling or EV training is close to the Pokémon’s overall value. In those cases, the difference can be significant. For higher value Pokémon, however, training costs tend to be minor in comparison and have far less impact. Once again, the importance of this depends on the situation. For collectors (for any number of reasons), untrained Pokémon can just be their preference. Overall, training should be a deliberate choice, than an automatic thing. Consider what you’ve got and whether training really adds value. In many cases maybe not, but it’s still worth being mindful. If you’re unsure, get advice from people you trust.

PvP Players, Collectors, and Utility

Not all buyers are looking for the same thing. PvP players value readiness and obvious competitive relevance. Collectors may care more about rarity, form...even the fact that it's old or untouched in a long time. Collectors may value a wide range of unique traits, such as older Pokémon with very low ID numbers, Pokémon with all IVs under 10 in each category, Original Trainer (OT) names can also have some value...belonging to well known players, long standing community members, former staff, or other "thing" that collectors recognise and appreciate, legacy quirks or historical bugs that may have existed on certain Pokémon, unusual or "fun" IV patterns or simply favourite Pokémon collected across multiple event forms. When building a collection, preferences can vary widely. The collector market is broad and highly individual. What may seem unremarkable or illogical to one player, can quite easily hold strong meaning and value to another. Utility buyers prioritise function over perfection (such as a Breloom or a Smeargle etc built for hunting). When IVs are average or bad, but the Pokémon’s role is clear, utility is often the defining factor, in this respect. Pokémon for hunting is just one example (there are more examples). One advantage is that the player base is often a blend of "all" of these things mentioned. Many players are part PvP player, part collector, part hunter...meaning multiple interests are frequently covered at once. As a result, the PRO community will offer a healthy pool of potential buyers. If something is genuinely desirable, there’s rarely a shortage of players willing to compete for it.

To be continued. The sections below are just notes and outlines, and will be expanded on further.

3. Pricing. Setting the Right Starting Price/Details (good listings build trust...how poor starting details such as too vague, too high, too low can damage credibility, suppress bids, hurt outcomes in ways that aren’t always obvious), Finding the Insta Buy Sweet Spot, Understanding Market Demand, Price Decay (why waiting too long can cost you), Being First to Auction Something New (or one of the first) vs Being Late…and More

4. Payment Methods and Their Value. Pokedollars and Mixed Payments, Why Some Payment Methods Should Be Valued Differently (relating to timing, events, demand and seller preference affecting the value...how adjusting valuation can subtly guide bidder behaviour)

5. Timing. Best Times to Start an Auction, Duration: Too Short vs Too Long, The Ending, Bid Momentum

6. Promotion and Visibility. Where to Promote (and where not to), Different Promotion Methods Explained, Cross Server vs Single Server, Avoiding Spam, Maximising Reach

7. Finding. Identifying "The Right" Buyers, Using Discord Effectively, Tagging Without Being Annoying, Making the Right People Aware (subtly), Why Relationships Outperform Mass Pings

8. Presentation. Formatting That Gets Attention...Clear, Clean, Professional Listings, How to Improve Presentation Over Time, Learning From High Performing Auctions, Misleading and “Half Misleading” Auction Titles: Why clear, accurate titles outperform exaggerated or those that are carefully framed…how the appearance of being misleading can damage trust, credibility and outcomes. Understanding “Epic”, “Godly” and Other Hype Terms…an honest look at popular buzzwords used to attract attention…what they should mean, how PvP players perceive them, where exaggeration starts to undermine credibility (in my opinion…since I use them often). Understanding “20+” and “25+”…and other similar labels. Why phrases like “25+ Bulk” or “25+ Except Attack” (and similar workarounds that aren’t a full and true 25+ because another stat may be a fail) can weaken your auction…even when the wording is technically honest and well intentioned. Deeper reasoning behind that, from my perspective.

9. Reputation. Why Reputation Matters, How to Avoid Being Ignored, Engagement (hearts, ticks and acknowledgement to bidders posts so they feel seen and valued), Consistency, Fairness, Follow Through

10. Service. When Offering an Auction Service Makes Sense, What Value You’re Actually Providing, Fair Percentages, Protecting Yourself, Why Trust Beats Fees

11. Organisation. Tracking Auctions with Discord Notes, Managing Multiple Listings, Follow Ups and Closing Loops, Staying Organised Without Burning Out (or getting into trouble with trade moderators)

12. Guilds, Servers (and the Effects). Why Guild Servers Matter, How to Join Without Being "That Guy", Building Presence Over Time, Effects in Auctioning

13. Price Checks. Sharing Price Checks Responsibly, Avoiding Bias, When to Give A Price Check and When Not To, Protect Your Credibility

14. Judgement. Should You Auction This at All?, Private Sale vs Public (explained in detail to support your own decision making)

15. Final Thoughts. Providing Real Value to the Community, Why Long Term Thinking (relating to your actions in the game) Pays More, Earn Lasting Trust

General Information:

- Iv's, nature and ability of the Pokemon you receive is random.

- Pokemon you receive may be shiny. (probably same 1/81xx rate).

- Trades are one-time only.

Kanto:

Location: Viridian City (southeast)

NPC: Madeline

Pokemon: Wants to see a Pidgey with over 15 ivs in Attack and Speed for an Oddish (not holding anything)

Location: House North of Viridian Forest

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Nidoran(F) for a Nidoran(M) (holding a Moon Stone)

Location: Route 2 Stop 3 (where Oak's Aide is for Flash HM)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them an Abra for a Mr. Mime (unknown if holding anything)

Location: Mt. Moon PokeCenter

NPC: Magikarp Salesman

Pokemon: Give them $1,500 for a Magikarp (not holding anything)

Location: Cerulean House 3 (west of PokeCenter)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Poliwhirl for a Jynx (not holding anything)

Location: Cerulean House 5 2f (east of PokeMart)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Clefairy for a Cleffa (unknown if holding anything)

Location: Vermillion House 1 (west of PokeCenter)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Spearow for a Farfetch'd (holding a Stick)

Location: Celadon Mart 5

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Magmar for a Magby (not holding anything)

Location: Bike Road Stop 1F (House inbetween Cycling Road and Fuchsia City)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Golduck for a Lickitung (not holding anything)

Location: Fuchsia PokeMart

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Mr. Mime for a Mime Jr. (not holding anything)

Location: Pokemon Lab 2 (Closest Room in Pokemon Lab on Cinnibar Island)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Raichu for an Electrode (unknown if holding anything)

Location: Pokemon Lab 2 (Closest Room in Pokemon Lab on Cinnibar Island)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Venonat for a Tangela (not holding anything)

Location: Pokemon Lab 4 (Furthest Room in Pokemon Lab on Cinnibar Island)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Ponyta for a Seel (unknown if holding anything)

Johto:

Location: Violet City (East of the School)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Bellsprout for an Onix (unknown if holding anything)

(Unconfirmed)

Location: Route 31

NPC: ???

Pokemon: Give them a Dugtrio for a Magneton (unknown if holding anything)

Location: Goldenrod City (Directly south of the PokeCenter)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Drowzee for a Machop (holding Macho Brace)

Location: Eructeak City (Above Dance Theatre/PokeCenter)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Haunter for a Xatu (not holding anything)

[unconfirmed]

Location: Olivine City

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a ??? for a Voltorb (holding a Metal Coat)

Location: Blackthorn City (Northwest of the PokeCenter)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Dragonair for a Shelgon (holding a Dragon Fang)

Sevii Islands:

Location: Altering Cave (Northeast Corner)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Dragonite for a Goodra (not holding anything)

Hoenn:

Location: Petalburg City House 2 (West of PokeCenter)

NPC: (unnamed)

Pokemon: Give them a Ralts for a Slakoth (not holding anything)

Location: Valley of Steel Weatern Peak (West of PokeCenter)

NPC: Laila

Pokemon: Give them a Buizel for a Ferroseed (not holding anything)

Location: Valley of Steel Eastern Peak (South of PokeCenter)

NPC: Cronky

Pokemon: Give them a Bisharp for a Klefki (not holding anything)

Vitamins:

TMs:

Evolution Stones:

Rare Candies:

Welcome, everyone! This guide came as an idea as everyone seems to spend their first two to three hundred hours exploring the game but don’t find out a way to unlock Cerulean Cave.

A lot of people struggle with the requirements: Johto Elite 4 (which is actually pretty hard, considering Johto’s punishing level curve although it was recently fixed, beating the region without external help is pretty insane), 240 Pokemon caught (while realistically acheivable, it’s around a 4th of all Pokemon in existence. It’s a LOT of Pokemon to take into account), 200k Pokedollars (this is the main issue: most people have no idea how to make money and save it without buying something overpriced or being scammed in trade chat) and and a single level 100 (thanks to the newest discovery)

We will also have to beat one of the hardest bosses for begginers: Lance, who seems to be fond of critical strikes, which won’t be an easy feat. Unless you use this guide, of course, which teaches you how to cheese it in less than two minutes!

In this guide, we will explore, step by step, how to meet each requirement to unlock it. You will be surprised to know that we can unlock Cerulean Cave BEFORE we even visit Hoenn. While we will be somewhat restricted by the amount of catchable pokemon we can find, we will easily solve this with Headbutt, very common spawns and hunting some extra pokemon while we level up our team for the challenge.

Obligatory and Unskippable Requirements:

-Having beaten the Johto Elite 4 (thus, also having beaten Kanto’s Elite 4)

-Paying 200k Pokedollars to purchase a Dragon Membership

-Obtaining 240 caught data in your Pokedex for a Dragon Medallion.

-Having a full team of level 100 to fight Lance.
^big note here, we are going to CHEESE this last requirement. Full team means that you only need ALL POKEMON IN YOUR PARTY to be level 100.

Thus, WE CAN DO THE QUEST WITH ONLY 1 LEVEL 100.

Recommended tools:

-Macho Brace (to EV train our Lance Sweeper)
-Surf Mount (completely optional, but keep in mind one member of your team will have to be level 100 and have learned the move Surf to get to Dragon’s Den. It is impossible to access Lance without Surf and you need 1 level 100s for the fight).

-Smoke Ball (to EXP train your pokemon quickly, as this will allow you to escape from any wild pokemon fight you want to avoid and just fight specific pokemon to level up fast)
 

-Membership/EXP Potion active (completely optional too, but it’s a pain to level up a pokemon to 100 otherwise).

-Synchronise pokemon (to get the correct nature on the Boss Sweeper we need)

-Focus Sashes (we will abuse them and they’re extremely cheap in trade chat. However, it’s not obligatory as we can abuse Dragonite’s low Hurricane chance to beat Lance anyway).

-False Swipers / Memento + Leech Seed pokemon to be able to powerlevel your pokemon for the fight quickly (However, it’s not really needed, as long as you’re patient enough).

-Rare Candies, Choice items (Can be obtained by recycling gems in the Forest Pit Item Recycler if you’re very lucky after you beat the Johto Elite 4), Life Orb (can be obtained in the Bug Catching Contest). These are used to powerlevel our pokemon faster.

-Anything mentioned below, such as HM Slaves (specially for Dig and Headbutt), Tools (like Shovel, etc) and anything you’ll 100% need during your PRO stay (I hope it’s long!)

Brightpowder: As a last minute extra addition, you can obtain it hidden in Goldenrod's Underground Basement. Equip this to Cloyster in the Lance Battle to make your Cloyster be more likely to win! 

Issues:

We will first go over the main issues: Johto Elite 4 is the obligatory one we must tackle, which is pretty hard itself. We then will focus on hunting for a Synch, getting our Lance Sweeper (we will actually only need one pokemon for the fight!), hunting for another Synch and farming the required money for the battle, capturing wild pokemon and finally fighting Lance!

This guild will assume you get NO external help outside of selling your items. Thus, no one will lend you money, a team, no dex services, nothing. You’re working by yourself now. You’re all alone in this MMO world! You CAN buy and get help from others but, what’s the point of this guide, then?

First step: Beating the Johto Elite Four

(and Kanto, if you’re somehow still there but you’re curious about how to get Cerulean Cave unlocked)

The Johto Elite Four is the painful part in my opinion. It’s not very easy and it’s uncomfortable at best to fight. A single missclick, a single pokemon living with a sliver of HP can already mean you’ve already lost the fight. We will try to go over this quickly: We need Gengar, and some support from your team. If possible, you need Gengar, Mamoswine (this can also be used in Lance as a Support tool) and a Fighting, Bug or Fairy type. These can be filled by Machamp, Clefable and any bug type that you’d like.

This is due to the fact that Gengar can pretty much obliterate the first three Elite Four members alone (except for Koga’s Skuntank, but that’s dealt with by Mamoswine), but struggles extremely hard against Karen (I’d like to speak to the manager!) who is a Dark Type trainer. Lance is just fine for him, but we’d rather support him with Mamoswine, who will defeat Lance with a single hit as Ice types completely steamroll through his team. Gengar’s Shadow Ball (level up move) will obliterate the first Johto E4 member, Psychic (Saffron Gym TM, purchasable) obliterates Koga and Bruno.

Mamoswine will have to assist against Koga’s Skuntank and against Karen, as Gengar is weak to Dark. Lance will be a mix between Gengar and Mamoswine: Gengar can take out some of his pokemon with Thunderbolt and Shadow Ball, and Mamoswine’s Ice Shard will obliterate the remaining Dragons.

We have two options: 

First, try to repeatedly fight the Johto Elite Four with your team, to a point where you’re gaining experience nonstop and leveling up as you try to beat it more and more. Log out in a battle in the Elite Four when you know you’re going to lose. Try not to use any items to continue fighting unless you reach Lance. There, you should try to heal up and fight him. I suggest you train your Pokemon in Dragon’s Den until 60 or 70, and then start spamming fights against the Elite Four, obtaining absurd amounts of experience. If you want to train Gastly and Swinub (Gengar and Mamoswine when fully evolved), I’ll leave you a chart on how to train them below:

Gastly: Capture one in Vermillion Graveyard. Natures should be: Modest, Rash, Mild, Naive, Hasty, Timid. Their Spatk and Speed IV (orange numbers) should be 20 or more. The other IV don’t matter. Any of these 6 will work with 20 IV in Spatk and Speed.

Teach it: Thunderbolt TM (Vermillion Gym, purchasable), Psychic TM (Saffron Gym, purchasable), Shadow Ball (level up move) Destiny Bond (level up move).

Swinub: Capture one in Ice Path. Natures should be: Adamant, Jolly, Naughty, Lonely, Naive, Hasty. Their important IV should be Atk, Speed, and optionally, HP and Spatk (only Atk and Speed are really relevant though). Any of these natures with 20 IV in Atk and Speed will be good enough.

Teach it: Earthquake TM (Viridian Gym, purchasable), Ice Shard (level up move), Ice Beam (Mahogany Gym, purchasable) or Avalanche (should be level up move), and the last move can be anything (I recommend Ancientpower, which you need to evolve Piloswine into Mamoswine).

Gastly can be leveled from 15 to 25 surfing in Vermillion City, 25 to 40 in Route 28 surfing, and after that surf in Mt Silver and Thunderbolt everything.

Swinub can be leveled easily in Power Plant to 30 by spamming Earthquake, and then to 40 in Route 28, then in any cave spamming Earthquake, Ice Shard, Ice Beam and Ancientpower.

Once after level 70 to 80, you can evolve them if you want and try spamming Johto Elite 4 attempts.

Your entire story pokemon should be able to tackle it, after multiple attempts. Sooner or later, you’ll get through. This is the most painful way, because you’ll lose nonstop, but it’s the quickest. If you can, log out on purpose whenever your pokemon are 97 or above in the middle of an Elite Four fight, and train the next pokemon, until you have 6 level 95-97+ pokemon. This will be used to fill the requirements for Lance’s battle. By using Elite Four’s infinite experience, we can train anything extremely fast.

The other way is to actually think, and start building your lategame equipment now, and not delay it even further. The reason for this is that, if you enter Hoenn and you don’t have good enough pokemon to defeat the Elite Four, you’ll be stuck there forever, as you cannot go to any other region until you beat the Elite Four, and not the 8th badge, unlike in Johto.

If you wish to learn how to level your pokemon faster, efficiently and properly, read this guide:

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/152189-how-to-level-up-any-pokemon-fast-and-easy-for-newbies-the-guide/

Getting the Tools!

Let’s start from somewhere. We will need a pokemon that can actually help us hunt whatever we may need. We need pokemon with the ability Synchronise to hunt the necessary tools to beat Lance. We will also want a Macho Brace to train our pokemon’s EV faster, a Smoke Ball to avoid unwanted fights (so we just level up against whatever pokemon we desire), some Leftovers, and optionally, a Choice Band/Specs/Scarf to level our sweeper of choice (unintended pun). The choice items are optional, but they’re extremely helpful when we have to level up, really, really, REALLY weak pokemon.

There are multiple pokemon with the ability Synchronise: Natu and Xatu, Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam, Espeon and Umbreon, Ralts, Kirlia and Gardevoir and finally, Gothita, Gothorita and Gothitelle. The issue with these is that the easiest to find are Natus, who are just tier 1 and extremely easy to hunt, but their moveset is kinda underwhelming outside of being a Synchronise pokemon. Still, we will use them for this guide as they’re extremely easy to find.

Abra is a pain: Tier 5+, keeps teleporting (thus, we need an Arena Trap pokemon), it also needs to be taught Psychic TM from Saffron’s Gym to level it up. It’s just awful.

And we’re not even reaching the extreme points: Espeon and Umbreon evolve from Eevee, tier 9 (the hardest to find by far), having to level it with happiness during daytime or nighttime. Ralts and Gothita are tier 8+, not really accessible before Hoenn either. (Ralts is, but you get the point: Let’s just hunt for Natu, tier 1, extremely easy to find and just does the job).

We can obtain a Macho Brace from the Biker in front of Goldenrod Pokecenter. We will trade a Drowzee (we can capture one in Route 34, in the route just below. Open your Pokedex and check!) for a Machop who will be holding the Macho Brace. We can steal a Smoke Ball from wild Koffing and Grimer while surfing in Celadon City.

There are two issues here: some Grimers have the ability Sticky Hold, which prevents item theft, and Muk also spawns there but gives no items. Avoid Muks and try to get lucky with Grimer and Koffing! You can purchase the Thief TM from the Thief on Celadon’s Rooftop after you help him out. You can otherwise train a Mankey to a high level and make it relearn Covet (attention: MANKEY, NOT PRIMEAPE! Primeape can’t relearn Covet.) and avoid doing the Thief quest.

You can also teach the Thief move to a pokemon with the ability Mold Breaker such as Pinsir, who can be found in Kanto. This will ignore Grimer’s Sticky Hold and allow you to 100% get a Smoke Ball. This is not obligatory, but heavily recommended.

We can get a Membership, an Exp Potion or a Surf Mount by donating to the game (which I heavily recommend, supporting this amazing game is the best you could do!). However, if you’re a cheapskater like me and don’t want to spend real money/can’t spend it, we have other options. We can skip this one if you want.

We can’t currently obtain a Focus Sash unless we beat a Boss or we trade it for PvE coins… this is kinda out of our scope right now. We can get Life Orbs if we are lucky in the Bug Catching Contest in Johto. We can try our luck daily trying to earn it, but this takes long. Choice Items are completely out of our hand: They’re extremely expensive, and we need to get lucky while recycling. This will be a pain. We’ll avoid them, but I will still suggest you give the Item Recycler and the Bug Catching Contest a try.

We'll also be getting a False Swiper (Farfetch'd) which we will be using to make hunting pokemon infinitely easier during or stay in PRO. 

Starting the journey!

Now that we have listed these tools, Macho Brace in hand and Smoke Ball in our bag, we will start our hunting trip! The first step can be two options: we can directly go for Natus, as we need the Synchronise pokemon to build our team against Lance, or we can first get ANY Abra to do something optional: Role Play. Role Play is a move which Kadabra learns upon level up. This move will copy the opponent’s ability. This will also show you if a Natu has the ability Synchronise. If it doesn’t have Synchronise, we will just not capture it and flee.

I am going to link bloe a guide that will teach you how to properly hunt for pokemon, if this will help you out!

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/157347-how-to-start-hunting-any-pokemon-the-newbie-guide/

To capture an Abra, first go to Diglett Tunnel. Find a wild Diglett or Dugtrio and try to escape. If you are not able to escape, capture it and check if it has Arena Trap. If it does, nice! We will now go to Route 25, north of Cerulean. Just next to the small tree maze before Bill’s House you will spot a few bushes where wild pokemon spawn. Place Diglett or Dugtrio with Arena Trap in the first slot of your party. Keep running away from all wild pokemon until you find Abra or Kadabra.

When you find it, stay with Diglett in the fight just spamming pokeballs. Abra and Kadabra won’t be able to Teleport and leave. Once you catch it, evolve it into Kadabra (if it’s not evolved yet), teach it the TM Psychic (you can purchase it super cheap in Saffron Gym) and level it to 41 so it learns Role Play. We will use this move a lot and you’d better keep this Kadabra for the future!

We can now begin our hunting but monotonous journey: hunting Natu! It’s both fun and boring, sadly. We need these tools if we want to complete everything there is in PRO. We have two options:
If we have completed Johto’s Elite Four, we will now head to Route 28. Route 28 can be found in the same place where we would normally enter Kanto’s Victory Road. However. Instead of going up, we’ll now go to the left, where a Guard used to block it. Once we enter it, we’ll be in Route 28! Get to the end of the route (you only need to head west nonstop) until you hit Mt Silver’s entrance. Heal up in the pokecenter, and we’ll start the hunt!

If you have not completed Johto’s Elite Four, we have an alternative place. This will a bit longer, as it’s not as comfortable to hunt Natus there as it is in Route 28. We will head to Azalea Town in Johto. We will now head east to Union Cave with a Surf pokemon. Surf inside of the cave to get to the bottom floor through the ladder and then make your way through until you find the exit. There are two exits, one next to each other: one will directly drop you next to some grass tiles. You need to hunt for Natu there.

Now, we will capture ALL Natu we see that have the ability Synchronise (following the steps mentioned above, you can use Role Play to know which ones have it. Otherwise, just capture all Natu you see). We are looking for these natures:

Adamant, Lonely, Naughty, Hasty, Naive, Jolly natures (these can be used with Cloyster)

Bold, Calm, Relaxed, Sassy (these can be used with Slowbro/Slowking/Clefable).

If you’re bored, you can also try and get the full list of all useful natures in Pokemon. Basically, this is the list:

Adamant, Lonely, Naughty, Brave (physical attackers and mixed attackers benefit from this)

Impish, Relaxed, Bold (defensive pokemon appreciate these natures)

Calm, Sassy, Careful (same as above)

Modest, Rash, Mild, Quiet (special attackers and mixed attackers benefit from this)

Timid, Jolly, Naive, Hasty (fast pokemon want these natures).

When you obtain an Adamant, Lonely, Naughty, Naive, Jolly, Hasty nature with the ability Synchronise pokemon, travel to Route 13. Capture a Farfetch’d with over 20 IV in ATK and Speed and with any of these three natures. Bring it to Diglett Cave, level it easily to around level 30 to 35, then level it in Cinnabar Mansion until 45-50. Make it learn Cut, False Swipe and any two other moves. He will be used later in this guide, he is extremely important. You can use this False Swiper to hunt other synchs easily, as False Swipe will always leave the opponent with 1 HP.

Optional steps here: HM Slaves you SHOULD definitely obtain and train for your adventure, these will help you in the future too.

Nidoran Male with Naive/Hasty/Lonely/Naughty/Rash/Mild natures (you can choose).

Once it’s a Nidoking (evolve it when you think it’s okay to do so), it will learn: Headbutt (tutor in Viridian Maze, NEEDED FOR THE LAST STEP IN THIS GUIDE), Rock Smash (TM Purchasable in Celadon Department Store), Dig (also purchasable in the same place), Surf (HM03).

You can easily level it up with Double Kick (level up move) and Dig (TM, Purchasable in Celadon Department Store) in any cave (specially, in Cinnabar Mansion).

Paras with Quiet, Brave, Relaxed or Sassy natures (you can choose)

Once it’s a Parasect, it should know Spore (level up move), Cut (HM move), Flash (HM move), False Swipe (TM Purchasable in Johto Safari entrance).. It can level up easily with Absorb, Mega Drain (TM Purchasable in Celadon Gym) and Giga Drain in Caves and Water places while surfing.

Tentacool with Bold/Calm/Modest/Timid natures (you can choose) It can level up easily in any cave by teaching it Surf and spamming it against all Ground/Rock pokemon.

Once it’s a Tentacruel, it will learn Flash (HM), Surf (HM), Dive (HM, later in Hoenn), Waterfall (HM, later in Hoenn).

I HEAVILY suggest you get these three with decent Ivs (15+ in most stats) and natures and you teach them the movesets mentioned above. They will be your HM Slaves during all your stay in Pokemon Revolution Online. You will 100% need them sooner or later.

While having all these natures is nice, we’ll focus on the first ones. Once we have one Adamant, Lonely, Naughty, Naive, Hasty, Jolly Synchronise pokemon, we’ll go to Olivine City. There, we’ll surf and hunt for wild Shellder. We want to capture as many Shellder as possible.

The Shellder we want must have its orange number (or IV) in ATK and SPEED above 20. The rest of the stats don’t matter. It must also have the ability Skill Link, and the natures must be Adamant, Lonely, Naughty, Naive, Hasty or Jolly. These are obligatory, because if we don’t get these natures, we will not ensure that our strategy works. I will link a guide on how do IV and Natures work. I will also link a guide so you can understand how to hunt for a specific pokemon.

However, to keep it simple: place the Synchronise pokemon in the first slot of your party, and on the second slot keep your False Swipe pokemon (Farfetch’d, in this example). Keep running away from all encounters until you find a wild Shellder. Spam False Swipe with your Farfetch’d until it has 1 HP (remember: False Swipe will NEVER faint the wild pokemon, no matter how hard you try), and capture it. Check if it mentions what I said in the paragraph before.

Once we have found it: congratulations! It is time to train it. We want to EV train it to its full potential. We want to train its SPEED and ATK (physical attack) EV until they both reach 252. To do this, we can use any of the free EV Zones in all regions or we can make a visit to the Safari EV Wald. You can check here where you can EV train your Pokemon and how does EV training work (I hope I don’t forget to hyperlink this once I finish the guide lol)

If you have trouble understanding how Abilities, EVs, IVs, Natures work, and how to EV train your pokemon, I will link some guides below that will 100% help you out!

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/153453-how-to-hunt-specific-abilities-guide-for-newbies/ < To learn how abilities work!

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/152671-natures-abilities-ev-iv-and-stats-for-newbies-the-guide/ < To learn the basic stuff about everything related to your Pokemon!

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/153443-how-to-ev-train-your-pokemon-for-newbies-and-safari-ev-wald-guide/ < Guide on how do EVs work and how to train them!

It's Training Time!

(yes while I was doing this guide I ended up buying that T-shirt lol)

Once it’s trained to its fullest potential (252 ATK EV, 252 Speed EV), we will bring it anywhere to level it up. My recommendation is that you teach it Surf (HM) and Icicle Spear (Level Up move), and if possible, Ice Shard. From level 20 to 40 you can easily level it up in Route 28, by spamming Icicle Spear on wild Grass, Flying, Ground types. Dodrio, Donphan, Natu, Tangela are easy targets for easy experience. You can also Surf to defeat Rapidash and Ponyta. The needed moveset for Lance is: Shell Smash, Icicle Spear, then two optional moves (Ice Shard and Surf are good last options. Specially Ice Shard, as it has priority and it can help you in an emergency).

Heal up in the Pokecenter in MT Silver. Above 40, try to start defeating wild Gravelers in Mt Silver (and other Ground Types and Flying Types) spamming Icicle Spear. Since this is a multi-hit move, this will always bypass Sturdy. You can also risk using Surf against Ground types, but if they have Sturdy they will survive. Here you can grind until you reach level 80 or even 90 if needed. Use Surf against Magmar, Icicle Spear against all other pokemon you may encounter.

Once your Shellder is at level 90, you can just Rare Candy it to level 100. Purchase a Water Stone in Celadon Department Store. With the moveset mentioned above, you are now ready to evolve it! Cloyster with Icicle Spear and Shell Smash will take out Lance easily. Surf is needed to get to Dragon’s Den.

Now that we have our Lance sweeper, we need to tackle the other requirements: 240 Caught Data and 200k pokedollars. 

My recommendation is that you level up five Hoppip, they are extremely easy to level up and they will be extremely useful later. Hoppips are used for a trick called Leech Seed + Toxic + Flash + Memento, which is used to powerlevel any pokemon in existence, no matter how bad they are. Hoppips are a bit weak pokemon, Grass/Flying, with great access to leveling up moves such as Mega Drain, Giga Drain and Bullet Seed.

This will allow you to quickly train other pokemon so you can get Dex Data quickly. For better reference, use my Level Up guide and check the Hoppip Section.

If you wish to follow my advice and train the Hoppips, go to the routes below Lavender Town and capture a few Hoppip in Route 13. Preferably, they should have a Calm nature. Once you have 5 Hoppip with a Calm nature (or any nature works, but Calm and Bold are the best ones. You can use the Synchronise pokemon you obtained previously to make this easier) and decent Def, HP and Spdef IV (the rest does not really matter, high Speed and Spatk is nice though), you can start training them.

My recommendation is to train them from 20 to 30 in Ruins of Alph when surfing by spamming Bullet Seed, Mega Drain and Absorb (you’ll always face Wooper/Quagsire, they give a decent amount of exp and HP evs), 30 to 40 surfing in Route 28, 40 to 50 surfing inside of Mt Silver and after 50 you can both fight Water types and Ground types by surfing and just running around in Mt Silver. Most pokemon there are extremely weak to Grass type moves, and since Mega Drain and Giga Drain heal you, you will be able to stay there for long periods of time.

Once your pokemon are over level 90, you can Rare Candy them easily.

If you still need help with leveling your pokemon and want to learn how to use the Hoppip Strategy properly, I will again link this guide below:

We’ve finally tackled the level 100 pokemon requirement! Now we only have two requirements to tackle: the 200k Pokedollar fee and the 240 Pokemon caught requirements.

Next step: MAKING BANK! STONKSSSS and money.

This is the nightmare and bane for some people to get over with. 200 thousand pokedollars looks like a lot (and it is, indeed). Thus, how can we get the money? Well, we will tackle this issue from the beggining point. If you wish to completely skip the entire explanation, you only need to follow my other guides on how to make money. These are the links:

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/134841-how-to-make-money-in-pro-101-the-guide/ < This lists the main activities you can do so as to obtain as much money as possible, 100% needed to gain access to Cerulean Cave.

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/132722-location-of-all-monetary-items-in-pro/ < This lists almost all monetary overworld items you can obtain to get rich quickly!

However, if what you wish to do is to learn from zero, I will explain what you should do from scratch. For this guide, we will not take into consideration that you can sell your Rare Candies to other players and we will try to eliminate them from that possibility. Thus, don’t count on selling them to anyone (However, you easily can sell them in Trade Chat, but we’re trying to do this entire guide without having external help). To obtain money, there are different ways: fighting wild pokemon and trainers, selling monetary items, completing daily tasks, quests, and missions.

My suggestion is that you first tackle all the Quests in Kanto that give money (Officer’s missions), starting from Viridian to Pewter to Cerulean to Celadon to Fuchsia and to Cinnabar. They all give a lot of money which is taken into account in the guides above. This will atleast grant you about 60 to 100k, in pure money value.

After reading that, you should also pick up all the obtainable money items in Kanto and Johto which can later be sold in Route 25’s Item Maniac. These will amount to 82.5k pokedollars, so we only need to get around 60k pokedollars now. Now that we’re here, we’re kinda stuck. We still need to do more: we will try and do Dig Spots and Pokestops to get something sellable. We will do dig spots in all Kanto and Johto spots and pray that we get atleast two or three nuggets (or even more) and other sellable items in both regions. If we get some, we’ll have made the 200k pokedollars easily!

But this is not over yet. We should also do the Bug Catching Contest in Johto on a daily basis to ensure we get a bit more every day if we’re lucky. In addition to this, Pokestops and Dig Spots will give us Pokeballs which we will invest into the last (and biggest) issue remaining we have in mind.

Now that we’ve gone through these, if we don’t want to depend on other players, what we will do is fight all trainers after the fourth badge of each region (thus, visit Kanto and Johto regions and try to refight the trainers as much as you can). The higher their pokemon are, the more money you’ll earn. A bit of money will stack up quickly as you go around battling them. You’ll gain from 500/600 pokedollars to up to 2000 pokedollars per trainer fights, going around routes fighting them. You should also revisit Gyms, as you’ll be able to refight them. You can fight Trainers once every 7 days, so after 7 days you can fight them again!

Finally, try to do Dig Spots every three days. The few monetary items you’ll get will help you quite a lot throughout your adventure. You can sell them all in Route 25’s Item Maniac, and you’ll be able to gain a lot from Star Pieces, Stardust, Nuggets, and more. Use the guide above to see what items you can obtain and try to do the Dig Spots in Kanto and Johto nonstop. Recycle the Gems in the Item Recycler in the depths of Mt Mortar (by the way, also defeat the trainers inside, they have high level pokemon and they give good experience and money). I’ll link guides and maps throughout the guide so you can find them (if I don’t forget about it lol). Once you’ve done Dig Spots a few times and obtained around 250 or 300 thousand pokedollars (or even more), it’s time to tackle the last issue: capturing 240 pokemon for the Pokedex!

If you still are missing a bit of money, fight wild pokemon in Mt Silver to train your pokemon. Each fight will be 200 to 400 pokedollars (depends on whether you have a Membership active or not). In the long run, you’ll end up making some bank!

Second to final step: Capturing the 240 pokemon.

Alright, let’s make things clear: you will need a LOT of Pokeballs for this step. A LOT. We will try to reduce it in certain ways, however. With Pokestops and Dig Spots we’ll obtain a lot of Pokeballs for free, but we’ll have to take measures to avoid wasting too many. To make capturing pokemon easier, you can check hunting guides, but I’d rather teach you personally. Check my hunting guide if you need some help regarding how to hunt pokemon easily!

https://pokemonrevolution.net/forum/topic/157347-how-to-start-hunting-any-pokemon-the-newbie-guide/

Capturing pokemon is easier when they have a status condition (such as paralysis or sleep) and when they have low HP. This is sometimes not possible because some pokemon have immunities to status or certain moves. For example, Ghost types are immune to False Swipe. Grass types are immune to moves like Stun Spore or Sleep Powder, but can still be affected by Thunder Wave or Yawn. Electric types are completely immune to all paralysis inducing moves, but can still be put to sleep by moves like Spore.

You get the point. We’ll have to work a bit around certain pokemon to capture them. Additionally, some use self damaging moves, so if they have moves like Explosion, Take Down and so on, we’ll have to be careful not to accidentally faint them in the process.

To begin with, we should go to Celadon’s Department Store. In one of the floors, there is a Smuggler that will sell us 50 pokeballs for 9 thousand pokedollars. We want to atleast have 200 to 300 pokeballs in our inventory, or even more, as you wish.

However, DO NOT BUY SUPERBALLS, ULTRABALLS OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF POKEBALLS. They are not worth the money you’d have to spend on them until the very, VERY lategame. Avoid buying them, AT ALL COSTS! ONLY BUY POKEBALLS! I write this in caps because it’s VERY important. When we have 300 or more pokeballs, we’re ready to go!

To fill our Pokedex easily, what we must do is to hunt for pokemon which are extremely easy to find and require next to no effort to level up. Using the discord bot AND MY MARVELOUS HUNTING GUIDE (shameless plug by the way) we will look for all pokemon whose tier is extremely low (Tiers range from 1 to 9, the closest to 1 the easier they’ll be to find) and we will capture them all. Using the 5 Hoppip we trained earlier we will powerlevel them in a few minutes. In a single day, you can easily get over a hundred caught pokemon data. It is extremely easy to fulfill, just annoying and time consuming sometimes.

My recommendation is that you now go pokemon by pokemon checking their tiers on the Discord Reborn Bot and checking if they’re tier 4 or below, which means they are extremely easy to find almost anywhere. You should capture one of each and quickly train it and evolve it. This will increase your Caught and Evolved data in your Pokedex, which will also allow you to later be able to capture legendaries such as Mew, the legendary dogs, Celebi, Jirachi, Latios and Latias and more. The more data you get, the more access to sidequests you’ll obtain! Use the Hoppip Memento + Leech Seed method if you want to powerlevel a lot of pokemon in succession in just a few minutes, instead of having to train them all one by one (which is extremely painful).

If you can, and this is the most important advice: put a pokemon with Headbutt in your team (check the HM Slaves section mentioned above), and go through the ENTIRE Kanto and Johto Regions HEADBUTTING EVERY SINGLE TREE IN EVERY SINGLE AREA. This will make you find VERY rare pokemon from other regions (Unova and Kalos included!) and a lot of the Hoenn pokemon you may still not have access to. Also, most of these pokemon evolve quickly. Go through all the main cities and routes of each region and headbutt and capture all pokemon you’ve yet not caught.

Now I will drop a list below with a LOT of pokemon which should be enough to fill your dex quickly as long as you headbutt everywhere and go one by one hunting them down. I will skip over Trade Evolutions and any requirements that demand too much experience and are too hard for a newbie to obtain. You can try doing your daily Headbutts in every route, cave, city and town in Kanto and Johto. A lot of incredibly rare pokemon from different regions will appear.

In the list below, I will add some of the pokemon you can easily find through these methods in Kanto and Johto: surfing, headbutting, fishing, and going around all possible places. Keep in mind during your playthrough you will easily find other region pokemon (doing Dig Spots for example) and capture them. Thus, the list is NOT limited to these below. Go around travelling and capture all pokemon you can find!

Kanto Dex easy to find pokemon:

Caterpie + 2 evolutions

Weedle + 2 evolutions

Pidgey + 2 evolutions

Rattata + evolution

Spearow + evolution

Ekans + evolution

Sandshrew + evolution

Nidoran + evolutions (Requires Moon Stone to fully evolve)

Nidoran 2 + evolutions (same as above)

Zubat + evolutions (Requires happiness)

Oddish + evolutions (3 in total, requires Leaf and Sun stones)

Paras + evolution

Venonat + evolution

Diglett + evolution

Meowth + evolution

Psyduck + evolution

Mankey + evolution

Poliwag + evolutions (note, one requires Water Stone and the other requires a trade with King’s Rock. Avoid Politoed).

Machop + evolutions (note, you need to trade for Machamp. Avoid it).

Bellsprout + evolutions (you need Leaf Stone for the final evo)

Tentacool + evolution

Geodude + evolution (same issue as Machop)

Slowpoke + evolution (Slowking requires trading)

Magnemite + evolutions

Doduo + evolution

Seel + evolution

Grimer + evolution

Gastly + evolution (same issue as Machop)

Drowzee + evolution

Krabby + evolution

Voltorb + evolution

Koffing + evolution

Horsea + evolution (Kingdra requires trading with a Dragon Scale)

Goldeen + evolution

Magikarp + evolution

The fossils + their evolutions (you can dig them easily since they are in dig spots)

Total: around 75+ caught data.

Johto Dex easy to find pokemon:

Sentret + evolution

Hoothoot + evolution

Ledyba + evolution

Spinarak + evolution

Chinchou + evolution

Natu + evolution

Mareep + evolutions

Hoppip + evolutions

Sunkern + evolution (requires Sun Stone, diggable)

Wooper + evolution

Unown

Girafarig

Snubbull + evolution

Teddiursa + evolution

Swinub + evolutions

Aipom + evolution

Corsola + evolution

Total: around 30+ pokemon

Hoenn Dex easy to find pokemon:

Poochyena + evolution

Zigzagoon + evolution

Wurmple + evolutions

Lotad + evolutions

Seedot + evolutions

Taillow + evolution

Wingull + evolution

Whismur + evolution

Makuhita + evolution

Numel + evolution

Barboach + evolution

Corphish + evolution

Fossils and their evolutions (easily diggable)

Feebas + evolution (Milotic requires trading)

Shuppet + evolution

Duskull + evolutions (Dusknoir requires trading with an item)

Snorunt + evolutions

Clamperl + evolutions (they require trading)

Spheal + evolutions

Luvdisc

Total: around 40+.

In addition to these above, you will find Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos pokemon from doing Headbutts and Dig Spots and in some random routes and towns too. Good luck!

Final step: THE FINAL BATTLE

(you can play some like, epic soundtrack from a random anime while you follow these steps I guess)

Now that you’ve completed these steps, you need to talk to the two old guards in Blackthorn's Dragon Tower. Talk to the two old men and pick up the Dragon Membership and the Dragon Medallion from them. Then, talk to the Policeman in front of Cerulean Cave’s entrance. With your Cloyster at level 100, Adamant, Lonely, Naughty, Jolly, Naive or Hasty 20+ IV in Atk and Speed, 252 EV in Atk and Speed, Shell Smash, Icicle Spear, Surf, travel to Blackthorn City and enter Dragon's Den.

Surf above the gym and go into the cave. Go downstairs. Surf until you find the ladder to the floor below (southwest in Dragon's Den) and go downstairs again. You’ll now be in the same floor as Lance.

Now, there is another issue: There's a Dragonite blocking your way and you have to defeat it. If you lose against this Dragonite, you have to wait 24 hours to try it again. To win against the Dragonite you can use any pokemon, this fight has no restrictions. My recommendation is that you simply use Icicle Spear with a Brightpowder equipped. If you are successful, Dragonite will die to a single hit. You can also try using Ice Shard, which will always go first, and pray that it dies in a single turn. Icicle Spear is the riskier, but 100% rate to win this fight instantly. With an equipped Focus Sash, thi

Now, go around the small maze and stand in front of him. We now have to explain how this Boss Battle works, because it’s very unique compared to the other Boss Battles in PRO.

This Boss Battle has six pokemon at level 120. These pokemon are approximately a 10 to 20% stronger than a normal pokemon when fully trained at level 100. They have additional defenses, speed, attack… you get the point. They’re extremely overpowered. However, since PRO’s Boss AI runs on a hamster running on a wheel powering up a potato toaster, it can easily be exploited.

This boss also functions differently: you can use items while in battle and you have infinite attempts with no cooldown. This is the best possible situation, because we can keep trying the same strategy over and over again without fearing any consequences: there are none! We can keep slamming attempts over and over. We will be using a strategy which requires us to use NO items. However, you can still carry from 10 to 30 revives if you’re willing to be disgusting and beat this in the unfairest, easiest, and noobest possible way.

This is the full lineup for Lance:

Dragonite, Altaria, Hydreigon, Flygon, Salamance, Garchomp. What do they have in common? 5 out of the 6 are 4 times weak to ice moves. Our Cloyster will literally run over Lance’s team. After a Shell Smash, they’ll be stomped.

The way to cheese this boss by using no brain is to simply use Cloyster in the first slot of your party and playing the Jackpot. Yes, that’s it. There’s no more strategy to it.

We don’t need to worry about any other pokemon than Dragonite. They will all be outsped and oneshot, with no chance to do anything to us. Let’s begin.

Dragonite’s moves are: Outrage, Hyper Beam, Hurricane and Dragon Dance. If you have noticed, he has three issues: Hyper Beam, Hurricane and Dragon Dance will either have a chance to miss (Hyper Beam has a 10% chance, Hurricane has a 30% chance and Dragon Dance will not damage you) or you have a very, VERY small chance to survive a single hit. We won’t rely on you surviving a single hit because Cloyster’s special defense is as low as my real life money savings after having spent it all on my gym memberships.

These are all our possible decisions and the outcomes we will get.

Outcome 1:

We use Shell Smash.

Dragonite hits us before and faints our Cloyster instantly.

Here we have two choices:

A) we cry.

B) we log out, we log in, we’ll reappear in Blackthorn City. We just travel back to Lance immediately, talk to him and try the same again. Since there is no cooldown to refight him, we can just try again infinitely!

If successfully use Shell Smash because he has missed a move, he has used Dragon Dance or you’re still somehow alive, proceed to Outcome 2.

Outcome 2:
Congratulations, if you’ve survived a hit (unless Hurricane has confused you, then risk it anyway and if you lose, relog and go back to Outcome 1), you’ve literally won the fight. Yes, that was it.

Now, after a single Shell Smash, you’ll now click Icicle Spear six times. All of Lance’s pokemon will instantly faint. Lance’s pokemon have no priority moves and no way to cripple you with Scary Face, Perish Song or anything. Since Icicle Spear has 100% accuracy, you cannot miss. Since Shell Smash boosts your Physical Attack, Special Attack and Speed by two stages (doubled), his pokemon are automatically gone thanks to Icicle Spear. They’re incredibly weak to Ice Type moves, and Skill Link will make Icicle Spear always hit five times.

Yes, I know this feels stupidly easy, undeserved, and you just didn’t use any strategy other than “haha look at me I dodged a hit haha I’m so good”, but the point is: you literally just unlocked Cerulean Cave by yourself, no one helped you, and you proved everyone wrong. You didn’t need help at all! (outside of me literally babysitting you with this guide, but whatever).

Congratulations, dude! All your efforts have paid off. So many hours working hard just to unlock a place with mediocre spawns with just 10 higher leveled pokemon lol. Well, atleast now you can farm like a madman and level up quickly! Also, unlocking the Daycare is nice.

Special credits to:

Myself for being so damn handsome and perfect

Zaccard (went through the trouble of hunting several Shellder for me to test the strategy, ended up working perfectly)

Revelc (discovered that we could do this with just 1 pokemon lol).

Other guildmates who were my test subjects and went through the pain of fighting Lance over and over.

Welcome to the Leveling Zones Guide!

Welcome everyone! I have decided to set my other guides aside to distract myself quite a bit and try to make something newbie friendly again.

This guide will try to teach newbies and more advanced players the best Leveling Zones for all regions, divided by Pokemon Types (such as Fire, Bug, and so on), and teach you where the best spots can be found!

Linked to this guide there is also a guide on the possible Leveling Methods you can use if your Pokemon are so bad that even with this guide you’re unable to level them up. This should be an exception however. Pokemon such as Metapod, Kakuna, Unown, Magikarp and so on.

For this guide, however, we will try to level up each Pokemon by itself without any external help (like Memento Trick Room False Swipe Gallade or Memento Toxic Jumpluff).

I will try to also provide a list of common tips regarding strategies, items to use, and extra side areas you can unlock that can be useful. I’ll also try to take into account if you cannot access Surf spawns as sometimes you will be in the early stages of each region, where you cannot surf yet.

We will be dividing the game into the 4 regions and I will assign each type a list of places to level up easily. I will tell you what you can/should do and what recommendations I would take to speed up the whole process. There will be common strategies for all types in specific places against specific Pokemon which can be exploited due to them having bad movesets.

For example, Arbok in Cerulean Cave only knows Poison type moves, so all Steel type Pokemon can be trained against him. Slowpoke and Slowbro in Cerulean Cave only know Psychic type moves, so Dark types can be trained against them. Psyduck and Golduck in Cerulean Cave only know Water type moves, so you can use abilities such as Water Absorb, Dry Skin or Storm Drain against them.

I will first assess the free or easily accessible zones for each region, assuming you’re reading this as a newbie and have no idea how to level up easily. Then, we will go over optional or special areas locked behind sidequests that will also be extremely helpful for you.

I suggest you study the Type Chart, even though we’ll go over each type’s weaknesses over and over again.

Let’s begin with a few tips before we start!

Consider donating to PRO!

This amazing game keeps itself going with donations. If you donate, you will have access to items such as the MS Medallion, which boosts your experience gain by 50%, WHICH IS MASSIVE. You will also be supporting the game in the process! Not only that, but the MS Medallion also boosts all money gained from battles by 100%. That is DOUBLE the normal amount.

Wanna make stoinks? Poor to invest in r/wallstreetbets? Then fear not, just donate and get a Membership and earn money quick through fighting! Additionally, Membership gives you access to side MS only areas which can be used to level up and do useful sidequests!

Don’t evolve your pokemon

This is the most essential tip: DON’T EVOLVE YOUR POKEMON UNTIL THEY ARE LEVEL 95 OR ABOVE! Evolved pokemon take MASSIVE amounts of experience to level up compared to an unevolved pokemon. While evolving pokemon may sometimes look necessary (Caterpie, Metapod, and other pokemon that basically do no damage), there are methods such as Toxic + Memento training that don’t require the weak pokemon to battle at all. They’ll gain exp absurdly fast if you don’t evolve them with next to no risks.

These methods can be found around the early game (when you have 4 Kanto Badges). Thus, avoid evolving your pokemon if possible, switch your team around and when you can obtain methods to train these “useless” pokemon, you can go back and train them instead!
Additionally, most pokemon lose a lot of useful level-up moves if you evolve them early. This is very important on Clefairy, Growlithe and Pikachu, for example.

Thus, remember: you can train any pokemon, no matter how useless they are. Just get to learn different possible methods!
 

Join a guild!

While this is a minor tip, it is helpful: by being in a guild, you gain extra Experience while you fight wild pokemon or trainers. While the bonus is not much (a max of 10%), if the guild is a Ladder Guild (which means that they reached Top 10 in the PvP Ranked Ladder the last season), you will also gain a 25% extra bonus EXP! That’s a lot! (If you manage to enter it, of course).

Take pokemon resistances, weaknesses and immunities into account! (More on this later!)

While I do usually recommend further in this guide that you only visit places where you have a clear advantage, I also suggest that you use places where you don’t have a full advantage. Example:
If I am a Grass type pokemon, I have a complete advantage against Water types. Grass resists Water and Water is weak to Grass.
If I am a Water type, however, I don’t have any advantages against Water types. Water resists Water.
Why should I fight Water types with Water types?

Well, this is the reason: in PRO, many pokemon learn different attacks from different types. Sometimes, these attacks are from types that cover our weaknesses. Fighting types usually learn Thunderpunch, which helps them cover their Flying type weakness. They also can learn Knock Off, which helps against Psychic, and Poison Jab, which helps against Fairy types.

Not only should you visit places where you have full advantages against the wild pokemon in the area, but you should also take your immunities and resistances into account. If you’re a tanky Water type, you can equip Leftovers, teach your pokemon TM Toxic (which is an amazing move I recommend teaching to 90%+ of the pokemon you have for PvE content. This move poisons the opponent and the damage becomes bigger each turn. This helps weak pokemon defeat stronger pokemon) and that you fight other Water types in water filled places. You will resist a lot of hits and you’ll be able to slowly but surely level up easily.

Whenever you level up in a certain Route or spot, think carefully: if my opponents are all from the Bug and Grass type, why shouldn’t I train a Steel type here, even if Steel type isn’t very strong against these? If I resist their attacks, this should be easy! And this is how you must also utilise pokemon types. Remember that taking half of the original damage, one quarter or not taking any damage at all can be an incredible advantage for most Pokemon!

Use items wisely!

Many items will help out during your adventure. Something you might’ve overlooked as a newbie are Held Items. Some of these items provide INSANE bonuses during battle which enable you to fight overleveled pokemon which you would normally lose against. Let’s go over a few of them!

Quick note: many of these items can be somewhat hard to find. Try to purchase them for pokedollars in the ingame Trade Chat! Some of them cost 50 PvP coins and they are extremely overpriced when they’re just garbage items (like Scope Lens or Muscle Band).

Type enhancing items

Items such as the Plates, Miracle Seed, Charcoal or Mystic Water boost a certain type’s moves by 20%. Thus, you get a 20% extra in damage. These items are always helpful at the beginning! They can be found in the overworld and held by wild pokemon (for example, Beedrill holds Poison Barb). They’re a small damage boost you should always consider! You can Dig up the Plates in Dig Spots, so do them frequently.

Leftovers

This item is MAGICAL. Leftovers can be dug up anywhere in Dig Spots. This item, when held, will restore a small percentage of your max health every turn in battle. This item is extremely useful in the Elite Four, as you also heal a bit whenever you defeat a Trainer’s pokemon if they have more than one pokemon. You can use this item in slow fights where you have to train tanky or slow pokemon to level them up, as they will heal up constantly during battle!

Black Sludge

Does the same as Leftovers, but only works for Poison Types (lol). It can also be used to faint your False Swipers quickly if you want to use False Swiping tricks when you level up a pokemon. It will only restore a Poison Type’s HP slowly each turn, and it will damage any other pokemon that is not a Poison Type. It’s held by wild Grimer, Muk and Goomy (Goomy? Why?)

Eviolite

Eviolite is amazing. It will boost your Defense and Special Defense by 1.5x (so 50% boost) in battle if your pokemon has not been fully evolved. Example:
Charmander or Charmeleon can hold Eviolite because they both have an available evolution (Charmander can evolve to Charmeleon and Charmeleon can evolve to Charizard).
However, this item will not work on Charizard, as it cannot evolve.
This 50% extra boost is incredibly on tanky pokemon as it will allow them to fight multiple pokemon in a row without needing to heal up in a pokecenter. However, keep in mind it ONLY works for pokemon that CAN evolve.

Orbs

There are three different types of Orb items that you can obtain from Bug Catching Contest or bought in the PvP Coin Trader with PvP Coins.
The Toxic Orb is an Orb which will poison your pokemon. While this may seem awful at first, this can be exploited with pokemon with abilities such as Guts or Toxic Boost or Poison Heal which give benefits to the user when they are statused.

The Flame Orb is an Orb which will burn your pokemon. As mentioned above, this can trigger abilities such as Guts or Flare Boost.

The Life Orb works differently (and this is an AMAZING tool for training): the Life Orb will subtract (or damage you, to not use Naeroisms) part of your max HP every time you use a damaging move or attack, but in exchange, you will get a big damage boost. This is really useful to level up quickly as you will defeat enemies much quicker than normal as you will have increased damage.

Choice Items

These items can be obtained by recycling Gems, Evolution Stones and multiple Held Items in Johto’s Mt Mortar Item Recycler or by trading PvP Coins for them. These items are amazing, they also are extremely useful in PvP, PvE content and can be sold for some easy money.

The Choice Items are a bit restrictive but their benefits are incredible: you will get a 50% increase in Attack (Band), Special Attack (Specs) or Speed (Scarf) if you equip this item. However, you will be restricted to only being able to use a single move in battle until you switch out. You can use these items to power up a weak attack and you’ll be able to fight higher leveled pokemon easily.

For example, a level 40 Hoppip equipped with a Choice Specs will be able to defeat a level 64 Rhyhorn with a single Giga Drain. Without this item, you would need to be level 50 to 55.

Air Balloon

This item gets its own mention here: this item will grant you an immunity to all Ground type attacks when you hold it. However, if you are damaged by an attack of any other type, this item will disappear. Using this item intelligently, you can train against Mt Silver’s Quagsires, as they only attack with Ground type based moves. Using TM Toxic, you can level up any low level pokemon against them, as you will be immune to all attacks and they will slowly faint from the poison.

Focus Sash + Band.

Focus Sashes are very frequently used to ensure a really weak pokemon can get the last hit on a wild pokemon and earn the full experience. A Focus Sash will allow you to survive ANY hit as long as your pokemon is at full HP when it receives the hit. These are consumable items you can purchase with PvE or PvP coins. However, in my personal opinion, Focus Sashes are too expensive to be farmed with PvE coins for a beginner (until you can farm bosses reliably).

There are better methods that require no sashes (Gardevoir Future Sight Memento, Gallade False Swipe Trick Room Memento, Jumpluff Toxic Memento, Mismagius Perish Song Memento). Most False Swipers require you to have a bunch of Focus Sashes so that your low level pokemon can finish the opponent off when they are at 1 HP. If you have a priority move, this will not be a necessity. It’s always nice to have a few, but I would only use them if you’re really desperate to train something.
 

Focus Band is just a worse version of it: Focus Band is not consumable, so it will last forever, but it has different perks. It can trigger at ANY time if your HP is lowered to 1, and it can trigger infinitely. However, it will trigger only on a 10% chance. Yes, 10% chance to survive the hit. It’s garbage, but it sometimes works, I guess.

Brightpowder

Small explanation here: Brightpowder will make the opponent’s moves lose 10% accuracy. While this may seem near useless, it means that you will always have a chance to dodge the enemies’ attacks, even if they are 100% accurate (such as Flamethrower). You can exploit this at mid to high levels by holding this item and trying your luck against pokemon you normally need to hit twice to defeat, by dodging some of their attacks. Brightpowder is infamously used to cheese Lance Boss, but it can also be used while leveling to make you dodge attacks as if you had Ultra Instinct (Insert Drip Goku here).

Quick Claw

Incredibly useful item: if you know you can defeat your opponent in one hit but YOU’RE TOO SLOW (alright, please don’t bully me for the Sonic Reference), you can equip this item onto your pokemon. This will give it a chance to outspeed the opponent (between a 10 and 20% chance).

Rocky Helmet

This item is extremely hard to obtain and it’s commonly obtained through PvP coins or through the Nap Island quest. However, if you manage to find one, you can always equip it to a tanky Pokemon and if the enemy makes contact with you, they will be severely damaged.

Muscle Band

This item is a literal MEME. It only increases your physical attack damage by 10%. That’s it. There’s many items that outclass this. You can obtain it from Bug Catching Contest, so it’s an okay reward lol.

Assault Vest

Similarly to Rocky Helmet, this item can be obtained by defeating BattleBot or by purchasing it for 50 PvP Coins. This item will boost your Special Defense by 1.5x or 50% and you will be able to tank specially oriented moves easily. However, you will not be able to use any Status Moves such as Spore, Dragon Dance or Confuse Ray. This item is hard to find and you will probably have to buy it from another player.

Smoke Ball

One of the BEST if not THE best leveling item in the game. This item can be held by wild Grimer and Koffing surfing in Celadon City. You can steal it from them using Thief, Trick, Switcheroo or by capturing some of them until you find one. You can also use a pokemon with the ability Frisk to find if they hold this item.

When you hold this item, you will be able to escape from ANY fight, no matter the opponent’s abilities, level or moves (Pursuit will still damage you though). Equip this item onto one of your Pokemon and you will be able to escape constantly until you find the pokemon you want to fight. For example:

I want to level up a level 5 Spearow. I am in Mt Silver where there’s a lot of Rock types that will wreck me up as they are level 50. I will equip Smoke Ball onto Spearow and I will be able to escape against level 50 Golbats and Gravelers until I find a wild Quagsire. Since I know Quagsire only knows Earthquake, I can use Toxic and wait for it to faint. This way, I only fight the wild pokemon I want to!

Scope Lens

This item is just okay. It increases your critical hit ratio. Nothing else. Maybe you get lucky and you get some critical strikes in lol.

Wide Lens

This item just makes your moves’ accuracy increase. That’s it. I guess it’s nice.

Wise Glasses

This is Muscle Band, but on the Special Side. Yeah, nice meme I guess. It’s 50 PvP coins in the PvP Coin Shop (an absolute meme, to be honest).

Expert Belt

This one is actually really good. It is held by wild Primeape in Route 9. It increases the damage of your moves if they are super effective. This rewards you being smart and using your braincells properly when you check the enemies’ weaknesses! Nice! Use the correct moves and you’ll get rewarded with a 20% damage bonus.

Metronome

This is a semi meme item. If you keep using the same move nonstop, it will be more powerful each time you use it. It’s sometimes used, but it’s mainly a meme. It’s a decent choice if you cannot defeat the wild pokemon with a single attack and you need to keep spamming it.

A few extras

There’s also Light Ball, Lucky Punch, Stick and Thick Club, but these only work for specific pokemon. Light Ball is an insane item that DOUBLES Pikachu’s Spatk and Atk and it’s EXTREMELY good to make him level up

quickly. Lucky Punch is a gimmick Chansey item that should NEVER be used (it just makes it more likely to critically hit an opponent). Stick is the same for Farfetch’d.

Thick Club is an insane item that makes Cubone, Marowak and Alolan Marowak pvpable. It makes their Attack DOUBLE. It becomes an astronomical 550+ Attack when EV trained at level 100. It’s really nice to level up Cubone. There are a few other items like Weakness Policy we can use, but they are not worth it.

Quick note before we begin: Spawns in Kanto are MUCH better and better organised than in other regions. Spawns in Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh are very underleveled so you will have to grind harder and use all possible extra trainers in your adventure. I will provide you almost the same spawns in the other regions that are not Kanto. However, I’ll make some small exceptions. Shall we begin? Let’s go over each region!

Leveling Zones

Normal type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Normal type attacks:

Normal type Pokemon are only weak against Fighting Type attacks. This is a huge advantage, as there are no places in Kanto with a lot of Fighting Type Pokemon in the same route or zone. Normal type attacks are also resisted by Rock types and Steel types, and Ghost types are immune to your moves. However, Ghost attacks also do not affect Normal type Pokemon in any way. Thus, we’ll exploit it.

Since Rock and Steel types resist your attacks, we’ll avoid going to any caves unless you have no other choice or you can learn a Fighting or Ground attack, which is super effective against them.

Normal types have no resistances to exploit though.

Normal types normally also learn good coverage moves via TM. I suggest you check on bulbapedia what TM can your Normal type Pokemon learn and you try to purchase some in Celadon’s Department Store.
As an example, Meowth learns Dark type moves as a Normal type Pokemon, which enables it to easily defeat Ghost and Psychic types. Rattata is another example. Other half Normal types such as Pidgey also learn other move types easily, such as Flying or Dragon type moves (Twister).

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Viridian Forest. These Pokemon are normally weak and not strong enough to deal with your attacks.

From 10 to 20, in Vermillion Graveyard or Route 25, if you have Dark Type moves or other type moves. Otherwise, in Route 6.

From 20 to 30, you can level up in Pokemon Tower (same as in Vermillion Graveyard), or in Diglett Cave. Diglett and Dugtrio have really low bulk and sometimes they use Astonish, which does no effect against Normal Type Pokemon.

From 30 to 40, I suggest you level up in Route 15. It’s an easy route to grind.

After 40, level up in Seafoam Islands.
After 50 you can try in Victory Road, but it’s really dangerous for Normal types. Thus, go to Cinnabar Mansion if possible.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).

Water type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Water type attacks:

Water type Pokemon are only weak against Grass and Electric. The only common place for Electric Pokemon in Kanto is Power Plant. There aren’t many Grass type places, mainly Route 13 (which is infested by them), Route 25, and Viridian Forest (This is kind of a false statement, since it’s mainly Bug Types).

Water types are strong against Fire, Ground and Rock Pokemon. Water types also have the benefit of normally being able to learn Ice type moves, which allows them to fight Flying, Grass and Dragon Pokemon easily, and Ground type moves, which allows them to defeat Electric type Pokemon. However, this is not very frequent.

Water types have resistances against Water (same type), Fire, Ice and Steel. Thus, we will exploit any Water place to level up, since we resist Water type attacks. If you don’t have any non-Water attacks, we’ll search for better places. We will look for places where Fire, Rock and Ground types appear, or where Ice types and Steel types spawn.

Water type attacks are resisted by Dragon, Grass and other Water types. Avoid fighting these.

Kanto
 

From levels 2 to 10, we’ll level up in Route 2.
From 10 to 20, in Mt Moon. Ground and Rock types are very frequent here, they faint in a single hit.

From 20 to 30, you can choose between Diglett Cave (extremely easy to level up) or Rock Tunnel. In my opinion, Diglett Cave is better, as there’s only Ground types in the entrance.

From 30 to 40, you can level up in Cinnabar Mansion. Most Fire Types inhabit here.

After 40, you can stay in Cinnabar Mansion until 50, and then move on to Victory Road Kanto.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods. It will be hard, but you must endure the pain! (Or just level up in Route 104).
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).

Fire type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Fire type attacks:

Fire type Pokemon are weak against Ground, Rock and Water type attacks. Thus, you have a clear weakness: you will try to avoid ANY caves and you will try to avoid surfing in water unless you have coverage moves.

Fire type attacks are strong against Grass, Bug, Steel and Ice type Pokemon. This leaves us with a clear message: pull a Hank Scorpio and visit grassy places! Now seriously, Bug and Grass Pokemon are everywhere, so we can level up somewhat fine. Ice and Steel types are harder to find though.

Fire types also somehow have SIX resistances: Bug, Fairy, Fire (own type), Grass, Ice and Steel. Thus, we can exploit this amazingly. We need to focus on areas filled with Grass, Bug, Ice and Steel types, but we can also search for Fairy and Fire plagued zones.

Fire type attacks are resisted by Dragon, Fire, Rock and Water types. Easy chart to learn!
 

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up In Route 2 and Viridian Forest.

From 10 to 20, in Route 25. There’s a lot of Grass types here.
From 20 to 30, in Route 13. A lot of Grass and Bug types live here.

From 30 and onwards things get a bit more difficult. Kanto spawns are kinda lackluster for Fire types unless you have access to side areas. At level 30, we’ll try going to Cinnabar Mansion. If you feel you’re too weak, try leveling until 35 to 40 in Routes 14 and 15.
From 40+, Cinnabar Mansion and after 50+, try Victory Road Kanto. Avoid any Rock and Ground encounters though.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41. Warning: there is no better place to train, sadly. If you can’t train there, you’re pretty much screwed.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Grass type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Grass type attacks:

Grass type Pokemon are weak against so many Pokemon… They’re weak against Flying, Bug, Ice, Poison and Fire. This means we cannot go to any forests, Fire type infested places (Cinnabar Mansion would literally be your nightmare: Poison and Fire types are everywhere there), we cannot visit cold caves and even in the open grassy areas birds will attack you (Ron is still angry that Becky and his girl only wanted Ben 😞 ).

Grass type attacks are super effective against Rock, Ground and Water Pokemon. This means we can level up easily in any Surf location (as long as you don’t meet a Water/Poison type, as they will wreck you) by spamming Grass type moves against them. Additionally, you can also fight in almost any cave, as most things will get easily beaten up.

Grass types don’t have many resistances, however, they do indeed have some useful ones: they resist Water, Grass, Electric and Ground types. Grass type attacks are resisted by SEVEN types, however: Bug, Dragon, Fire, Flying, Grass (self resistance), Poison and Steel types. You heard that right. SEVEN types resist Grass type moves. They’re goddamn awful.

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Route 22.
From levels 10 to 20, Mt Moon.

From 20 to 30, Diglett Tunnel.

From 30 to 40, Surf in Route 19.

From 40 to 50, Seafoam Islands.
From 50+, you can level up in Victory Road Kanto.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).

Electric type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Electric type attacks:

Electric type Pokemon are blessed with some curious properties: their only weakness is Ground type attacks. That’s it. Like Normal types, they’re the only type to only have a single weakness. Thus, we can train practically everywhere! However, we’ll focus on a specific place: water.

Electric type attacks are strong against Water and Flying types. These commonly inhabit in the sea (thanks, Captain Obvious). We will try to level up in any Water location, as we will have an incredibly easy time there.

Electric types also resist Electric attacks (self resistance), Flying attacks and Steel type attacks. Only the Flying type resistance will be important to keep in mind.

Electric type attacks deal no damage against Ground types (they are immune to Electric). Dragon, Grass and Electric types resist Electric type attacks.

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Route 1. If you have surf, level up in Viridian City.

From 10 to 20, level up in Route 6. If you have surf, level up in Route 6.

From 20 to 30, level up in Route 12. If you have surf, surf there!
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 19, surfing there.

From 40+, you can level up in Seafoam Islands or Cinnabar Mansion.
After 50+ you will struggle a bit: try to level up in Victory Road, but run away from ALL Ground types.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).

Ice type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Ice type attacks:

Ice type attacks are very effective against Ground, Flying, Grass and Dragon types. We will try to put this to good usage, but there are a few issues with the Ice type and its glaring weaknesses. We can level up in some caves and in some specific routes absolutely plagued with Grass and Flying types, and sometimes dwelve into some Ground caves.

Ice types however have many weaknesses: Steel, Rock, Fire and Fighting types, which are very common. Additionally, Ice types are usually extremely frail and paper-thin.

Ice types only resist Ice type attacks (self resistance). Yes, that’s it. They only resist themselves. Nothing else. Nada. Res. Rien.

Ice type attacks are resisted by Fire, Ice, Steel and Water types. Thus, leveling up in Water is out of the question (unless we have access to the move Freeze-Dry, which I’ll mention later).

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Viridian Forest.
From levels 10 to 20, Mt Moon, Route 25 or Route 6.
From 20 to 30, Diglett Tunnel.
From 30 to 40, Routes 14-15.
After 40, it would be a wise decision to head into Victory Road Kanto. Be careful about Rock and Fighting types though!

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Fighting type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Fighting type attacks:

Fighting type Pokemon are extremely flexible and they’re possibly the best offensive type (aside from Fire, which is just absurd). Fire types learn a LOT of coverage moves and most of their members are incredibly good in PRO. Fighting type attacks are very effective against Dark, Ice, Normal, Rock and Steel.

Fighting types only have three weaknesses: Fairy, Flying and Psychic. Out of these, only Flying is a common type everywhere. Fairies and Psychic type Pokemon are way harder to find.

Fighting also has three resistances: Bug, Dark and Rock types. Thus, they level up easily in caves.

Fighting types are not very effective against Bug, Fairy, Flying, Poison and Psychic. That’s a lot of types…

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Route 1 and 22.
From 10 to 20, in Mt Moon.
From 20 to 30, you can choose between Rock Tunnel and Diglett Cave. Depending on your Pokemon!
From 30 to 40, leveling up in Route 15 should be more or less fine.
After 40, you should head to Cinnabar Mansion and fight Fire types. Avoid Poison types unless you have taught your Pokemon the TM Dig (Purchasable in Celadon Department Store) or Earthquake (after you defeat Viridian Gym, you can purchase it there).

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Poison type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Poison type attacks:

Poison type Pokemon are generally weak and rely on gimmicks. There are a few exceptions though. Poison types are also only very effective against Grass and Fairy types. That’s it. No other types.

Poison types also resist Fighting, Poison, Bug, Grass and Fairy attacks. This means they’re amazing at leveling up in Forest areas and also in places where Poison types appear, as they resist each other.

Poison types are weak to Ground and Psychic. The Psychic weakness is not much of an issue, but the Ground one is a big one: this means you will have to be careful if you want to level up in caves!

Poison types are not very strong against Poison, Ground, Rock and Ghosts. As mentioned above, caves = bad :(.

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Viridian Forest.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 25.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 13.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 15.
After 40 it might be a bit hard. Look for Seafoam Islands or Cinnabar Mansion. If you only have Poison type attacks though, go to Seafoam.
After 50 you’re practically forced to level up in Victory Road. Avoid any of the bad types mentioned above!

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).

Ground type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Ground type attacks:

Ground types are extremely strong in Pokemon overall, and very, very helpful in PRO. They are very strong against Electric, Fire, Poison, Rock and Steel. This means that Cinnabar Mansion, any cave and Power Plant are free EXP farms! Considering also that you’re the only good type against Electric type Pokemon too.

Ground types are not very effective against Bug and Grass Pokemon. Additionally, they deal no damage to Flying types. This basically means “do NOT step a foot into a goddamn Forest”. Remember Viridian Forest? Well, JUST DON’T GO IN THERE.

Ground types only resist Poison and Rock type attacks. This means that you will almost always win against these types, as you’re very effective against them. They are a bit weird resistances to have though. These types are only common in caves. Ground types are also completely immune to Electric type attacks! This is amazing for you. Power Plant is a free EXP zone.

Ground types are extremely weak against Ice, Grass and Water. While there’s a lot of Grass/Poison and Water/Poison Pokemon, DO NOT RISK FIGHTING AGAINST THEM. Most Ground type Pokemon also have Rock as a secondary type, so you will be extremely weak against them. Just stay out of the water.

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Route 2.
From 10 to 20, Mt Moon.
From 20 to 30, Power Plant (if you don’t have Surf yet, level up in Route 10).
From 30 to 40, Route 15.
After 40, Cinnabar Mansion is an insane zone to level up. Teach yourself TM Dig and destroy all Poison and Fire types!
After 50 you can finally move on to Victory Road Kanto 🙂

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41. Warning: there is no better place to train, sadly. If you can’t train there, you’re pretty much screwed.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Flying type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Flying type attacks:

Flying types are an absolute coinflip in Pokemon. Either they’re terrible or they’re amazing. There’s no inbetween. Flying types are either too good or unusable. They are very strong against Fighting, Grass and Bug types. This leaves us with a clear sign: We’ll level up in Forest areas! Fighting types will not really be relevant for us at all as we won’t be in any areas where they usually spawn.

Flying types are not very effective against Rock, Electric and Steel. Thus, no Power Plant and no caves. DON’T GET INTO CAVES. DON’T. You CAN, but it’s going to be painful.

Flying types also resist Fighting, Grass and Bug attacks. They’re a weird type in that their strengths are the same, both offensively and defensively.

Flying types are weak against Ice, Electric and Rock type attacks. Thus, no Ice Caves, no Caves, JUST NO CAVES. DON’T. Electric types are also a pain as they spam randomly in some routes.

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Viridian Forest (in Route 2 too)
From 10 to 20, Route 25.
From 20 to 30, Route 13
From 30 to 40, Route 15.
From here onwards it’s a bit harder as there is no dedicated Grass or Bug or Fighting area for newbies. After 40, you should head to Cinnabar Mansion and after 50 try fighting some of the Pokemon in Victory Road Kanto. Avoid all Rock types!

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Psychic type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Psychic type attacks:

Psychic types are one of the most overpowered types in all of existence. Remember Mewtwo? Well, yeah, you get the point. Psychic types are barely resisted by anything, thus, it allows them to train ANYWHERE. Psychic type attacks are very strong against Fighting and Poison types. Thus, places like Cinnabar Mansion are free experience for our Pokemon.

Psychic type attacks are only resisted by themselves (Psychic types) and Steel types. These Pokemon are extremely rare to find in the wild.

Psychic types are weak to Dark, Ghost and Bug types. Thus, try to avoid Forests and Ghost filled places. However, there’s a note to make here: a lot of Bug types are also part Poison types. Thus, they’ll still be very weak to Psychic type attacks. If you are faster than them, you can safely fight them with your Psychic attacks. Contrary to popular belief, Ghost types ARE NOT WEAK AGAINST PSYCHIC TYPES. A lot of newbies believe that because Gastly is weak to Psychic attacks. That’s because Gastly and his evolutionary line ARE ALSO POISON TYPES.

Psychic types only resist Psychic and Fighting type attacks. They have no more resistances than that. So… we can’t really put them to much use, sadly.

Kanto

From levels 2 to 10, level up in Route 22, Route 2 or Route 3 (even Viridian Forest). This is to the abundance of Poison types there.
From 10 to 20, Route 25.
From 20 to 30, Route 10.
From 30 to 40, Route 15.
From 40 and above, you can easily level up in Cinnabar Mansion.
After 50, level up in Victory Road Kanto.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Bug type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Bug type attacks:

Bug type Pokemon are goddamn awful. They’re a bit of a meme type, as over 70 to 80% Bug type Pokemon are really, really bad. They have a lot of useless Bug types that cannot level up by themselves at all (Metapod asserting dominance with Harden while doing nothing). The only good Bug types are rare ones. Additionally, Bug types almost always have secondary types which are awful for them (Flying as a secondary type, which grants them 3 additional weaknesses and a x4 weakness to Rock, Poison which makes them weak to Psychic types, Grass which makes them weak to 4 more types and two x4 weaknesses to Fire and Flying…).

Not only that. Bug type Pokemon are only super effective against Grass, Psychic and Dark types. It doesn’t sound that bad until we get to the next point. The Grass strength is a nice point, as most Bug types are also Poison, which grants us another extra advantage against them. The Psychic advantage WOULD BE NICE IF MOST BUG TYPES WEREN’T ALSO POISON TYPES. The Dark type advantage is almost entirely irrelevant, as there barely are any wild Dark type Pokemon. If you find one, they’re very rare, so you’d rather capture them.

Now we’ll get to the worst point. SEVEN TYPES RESIST BUG TYPE ATTACKS. SEVEN. TYPES. And the worst of all: THEY ARE COMMON TYPES. Bug type attacks are resisted by: (read aloud with me) Fairy, Fighting, Fire, Flying, Ghost, Poison and Steel types. SEVEN types. The only good points we can make is that Fairy, Fighting, Ghost and Steel types are not very common in many areas. However, Fire, Flying and Poison types are everywhere. Not only that, since Poison resists Poison, having a secondary Poison type does not benefit you in any way (Ghost resists Poison and Steel is immune to Poison).

Bug types are weak to Fire, Flying and Rock attacks. Thus, most places in the wild are dangerous, we can’t level up in caves at all, and Fire places such as Cinnabar Mansion are completely out of the question.

Bug types resist Fighting, Grass and Ground types. The Fighting interaction is weird: Fighting types resist Bug type attacks and Bug type attacks resist Fighting type attacks. I guess it’s also nice to have a Ground resistance, but most of them carry Rock type attacks anyway. We’ll begin with the leveling areas:

Kanto

From level 2 to 10, try fighting in Route 2 and in Viridian Forest.
From 10 to 20, in Route 25.
From 20 to 30, Route 13. Be careful because most pokemon can carry Flying or Psychic moves!
From 30 to 40, Route 15.
Here, the grind becomes painful. You cannot level up at ALL in Cinnabar Mansion, because it’s plagues with Fire and Poison types. I recommend Seafoam Islands until 50-60. Then, visit Victory Road and avoid Rock and Flying types there. Good luck lmao.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Rock type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Rock type attacks:

Making a comeback from Rock types, Rock types are that type which is so useful to always have on hand, yet they’re almost as terrible as Bug types. Rock types almost always have a secondary type (which is mainly Ground). Rock types are weak against Ground, Water, Grass, Fighting and Steel. Yes, FIVE weaknesses. If your Rock type pokemon is also Ground type, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU JUST HIT THE JACKPOT. If you’re also a Ground type, you’ll be weak to SIX types, while being 4 times weak to Grass and Water. This is due to most Rock types also sharing that trait.

Not everything is bad, however. Rock types are very effective against Bug, Fire, Flying and Ice. Thus, we have many useful spots where we can level up easily. Additionally, since Rock types can learn Ground type attacks, we can safely go against Poison types, Electric types, Steel types (this is situational, as Rock types are weak to Steel type attacks, but Ground type attacks are strong against both Steel and Rock types). We will be able to train in safe spots!

Rock types are decently strong deffensively. They resist Fire, Flying, Normal and Poison type attacks. The Fire, Normal and Poison screams CINNABAR MANSION. That will be your grinding place in the Kanto lategame.

Rock types are not very effective against Fighting, Ground and Steel, so avoid them. (They’re literally super effective against you too, so why would you even fight them in the first place?)

Kanto

From level 2 to 10, you can level up in Route 2 and Viridian Forest (be careful about Grass types though!)
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 6.
From 20 to 30, Route 10 can be an okay spot. If you find it too hard, level up in Route 7.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 15.
From 40 to 50, the best place is Cinnabar Mansion. Here you have a safe spot to Rock Tomb all over Fire types here. Poison and Normal types here will also spawn.
After 50, you can try Victory Road Kanto, but be careful with the Fighting and Ground types.

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41. Warning: there is no better place to train, sadly. If you can’t train there, you’re pretty much screwed.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).
 

Ghost type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Ghost type attacks:

Ghost types are generally good pokemon! They have two immunities (the most in all of Pokemon) to Normal and Fighting types. They also usually learn pretty decent moves. Ghost type attacks are sadly only very effective against Ghost (yes, themselves) and Psychic types (which, remember, are rare and strong). Ghost type pokemon also resist Bug and Poison type attacks.

Ghost type pokemon are only weak against Ghost and Dark. These types are very rare to find, but Dark type moves are VERY frequent among wild pokemon, so you’ll have to be careful. Ghost type attacks are only resisted by Dark types, which is amazing, because over 90% of all pokemon will take atleast neutral damage from your attacks. Ghost type moves have no effect on Normal types, however.

Kanto

From level 2 to 10, level up in Viridian Forest or Route 2, abusing your resistances to Bug and Poison.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 25 or Route 3 and 4.
From 20 to 30, you can try Pokemon Tower, but if you don’t feel safe, level up in Route 10.
From 30 to 40, in Route 15.
After 40, I heavily recommend Cinnabar Mansion. However, be wary that some of the Poison and Normal types carry Dark type attacks!
After 50, you can safely level up in Victory Road Kanto.

Johto
 

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.

Hoenn

From 2 to 10, level up in Petalburg Woods.
From 10 to 20, level up in Granite Cave B1F.
From 20 to 30, level up in Jagged Pass and then Route 118.
From 30 to 40, level up in Shoal Cave.
From 40 to 50, level up in Sky Pillar.
After 50, continue leveling up in Sky Pillar.

Sinnoh

From 2 to 10, level up in Oreburgh Gate 1F or Oreburgh Mine.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 205.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 215 and 214.
From 30 to 40, level up in Route 218 or Iron Island B1F or Mt Coronet 5F.
From 40 to 50, level up in Mt Coronet 5F, 6F and 7F.
After 50, level up in Sinnoh Victory Road 1F (or in all floors).

Dark type Pokemon or Pokemon that use Dark type attacks:

Dark type Pokemon are just okay. The main issue is that they have glaring weaknesses and they are only very effective against Ghost and Psychic types, which are really rare. On the opposite side, they are very weak against Bug, Fighting and Fairy types, which are their weaknesses. Bug and Fighting types are very common, but you can ignore the Fairy type weakness.

Dark type attacks are only resisted by themselves, Fairy and Fighting types. Dark types are also immune to Psychic types, and they resist Ghost and Psychic type attacks. They were designed for that sole purpose.

Kanto

From level 2 to 10, level up in Route 22.
From 10 to 20, Vermillion Graveyard.
From 20 to 30, Pokemon Tower.
After 30, you can start in Route 15.
Head to Cinnabar Mansion after level 35-40.
After level 50, head to Victory Road Kanto. Avoid Fighting types!

Johto

From 2 to 10, level up in Route 31. This has an area with fully evolved pokemon at low levels and they give massive EXP.
From 10 to 20, level up in Route 34.
From 20 to 30, level up in Route 36.
From 30 to 40, level up surfing in Route 41.
From 40 to 50, level up in Dragon’s Den Entrance.
After 50, level up in Dragon’s Den.