How to unlock Cerulean Cave without ANY external help while being a complete newbie: The Guide!

[Bhimoso]

How to access Cerulean Cave easily for newbies: The Guide!

 

 

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:

 

 

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

 

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.

 

 

Edited June 13, 2021 by Bhimoso

[Bhimoso]

Guide has been fixed: I LITERALLY FORGOT THERE'S A DRAGONITE FIGHT BEFORE LANCE LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Thanks to my guildmates for pointing it out, now it's properly done.

[Bhimoso]

Guide has been updated with the newest cheese method. POGGERS

[Csxfritz]

This guide was hella big but very nice !! Pls make lite version of your guides too