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How To Get To The Shock League
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How To Catch Houhou

Welcome to the my Gold and Silver F.A.Q. It's far from complete, but for those of you struggling with the early few levels of the Japanese Gold and Silver, this guide is for you.

What's In This Guide
1. The Story And Plot
2. How To Get To The First 8 Gyms
3. The Shock League
4. The 'Retro' World
5. What's New From Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow

1. The Story And Plot

From what I understand from some of my friends who can speak Japanese, the plot goes like this: You start the game by setting the game's internal clock, and saying if you're a guy or a chick. Then Oak goes into the normal "This is the world of Pokémon" introduction, and you state your name (the default name is Kin), and are teleported to your house. You then goto his lab where you have the choice between the 3 starting pokémon:

Chikorita (#152) (Grass)
Hinoarashi (#155) (Fire)
Waninoko (#158) (Water)

I chose Hinoarashi (#155), because it looks the coolest out of the three, and he actually is rather powerful (and unlike starting with Charmander, the first 3 gyms aren't totally against you). I have heard Waninoko (#158) is also a good choice, but haven't heard anything about Chikorita (#152).

Anyways, Oak then tells you that you should go to the professor in a cottage north to get your Pokédex and Poké Balls. To get to this professor, you need to head west to the 2nd town you find. On the way you'll see Otachi (#161) and Pidgey. When you get to the next town, heal your Pokémon at the Pokémon Center, and then head northeast to find the cottage. Once you get there and talk and talk and talk some more, you go back to [Pallet?] and fight your rival (Gin). However, your rival isn't all that nice. He got his Pokémon by stealing them! When you battle him he'll have the opposite of your starting Pokémon. He shouldn't be too hard to beat, seeing that his Pokémon won't know any of their special attacks yet. Finally you get to Oak and he sets you off on your Pokémon journey.

2. How To Get To The First 8 Gyms and More

First of all, before you start you'll want to know that you can get your Poké Balls by hitting right on your item list twice. There are also 3 versions of Poké Balls in this game, but I'll get into them some other time.

Anyways, after you go back to Oak's house, head back to that town where you were before. From there head northwest, where you'll notice the two kids having a battle and blocking the road are now gone. On the way you'll see some familiar Pokémon from Red and Blue. If you have the Gold version you'll be finding Caterpie and Metapod, and if you have the Silver version you'll be finding Weedle and Kakuna. Once you get to the most northern and western part you can go to, you'll notice a house that you can walk through. Gonig through here leads you to the first town with a gym. When you go to the Pokémon Center, make sure that you talk with the guy standing near the computer where Joy is. He'll give you a Togepi egg that hatches after approximately 2,000 steps or so. If he's not there, you'll need to solve the puzzle (stated below).

Before you go to solve the puzzle, hit the gym in town. You'll find some easy trainers with bird Pokémon, and the gym leader has a Lv. 7 Pidgey and a Lv. 7 Pidgeotto (easy stuff). Watch out if you started with Chikorita (#152), becuase he will have some problems against birds.

Next, when you head west, you'll notice that there's a tree blocking the road that shakes when you press a on it. This is actually a Pokémon, but you can't fight it until later on. Instead, head south through the house, and you'll find two caves. Goto the north cave, where you'll find a little station where there's a puzzle you have to solve. When put together, the puzzle is a Kabuto. Remember that, for it will help you solve it. Once you beat it, you'll be transported to the 2nd cave where you can fight a Ghost type Pokémon with a ton of different forms (but one Pokédex entry). Now, if you don't already have a Togepi, go back to the Pokémon Center and get one. When you get out of the cave you were transported to, go east and then go south.

After fighting a bunch of trianers, and several new pokemon that you haven't seen yet, you enter a cave where you'll fight Geodude and Zubat. When you get out of the cave you'll find yourself going west to a new town. However, before you can get into the gym or any other buildings in the town, you have to beat Team Rocket and spread Slowpokes (?) all over the town. Now, when you go to the gym, you'll be fighting the bug gym. The leader has a Metapod, Kakuna, and a Scyther, and is pretty easy (especially for my Hinoarashi [#155]). Now, you'll want to go west through a house into the forest. To get through the forest you'll need the HM01 (Cut), which you get by chasing a bird around (talk to the officer once you get him to the officer).

Once you get through the forest, you'll go north a little past some trainers and grass to a town that is rather like Celadon. It has a big shop, and a ton of small little houses. The gym here uses normal Pokémon (including this really weird Pokémon I call Cowgaskhan). Fighting Pokémon should rip this gym up.
Note: I had to talk to the gym leader twice after beating her to get the badge.

Once you beat that, go north, where you'll find Drowzee, some new pokemon, Pidgey and more. You'll also find a lot of trainers in what looks like a park. When you go north, then go east (through houses), you'll meet up with that tree that doesn't get out of the way again. In order to battle it, you'll need to talk with the guard in the house before you enter the park. Talk to him a lot and he'll teleport you to a place with a lot of other trainers, and you'll be able to battle the tree. When you beat him, you can now go northwest, to the next city.

This city has a gym that specializes in Ghost Pokémon. To get to the leader, you'll need to travel across a path that you can't see or you'll be teleported back to the start. The path is (if I can remember):
Go forward one, then go right to the wall. Go up from here to the next trainer.
Go left from where the trainer you battled was, and until you're 1 space from the wall.
Go up and get to the next guy, where you go left a few steps to the next trainer, then up 1 space to the leader. He/she has a Gastly, Haunter, Gengar, and another Haunter.

Now that you're half done the game, go congratulate yourself, pat yourself on the back, and get back to the game! The next place you'll want to go is in a house in town. This house contains a man, and 5 Eevee daughters. They have either a Vaporeon, Flareon, Jolteon, Efui (#196), or Burakki (#197). Once you beat them all, talk with the man and he'll give you HM03 (Surf). Now you're ready to head for the next gym.

You're going to want to travel west of the town, past the guard house. When you travel west some more, you'll find 2 houses. I believe one of them contains a man giving away HM04 (Strength). Next, head south to the town on the coast. When you get there, you'll probably enter the gym. However, you'll notice that it's empty except for that strange guy who gives out advice. The gym leader is actually up in the tower (lighthouse), but she won't come down until you get the 5th badge, which is an island town.

To reach the island town, head a little west of the city, and when you see the 3 boulders that you can't move, start surfing south. When there's a turn, head west, and you'll end up in the island town. In the island town, talk with a lot of people there, becuase one of them will trigger the gym leader in the coastal town to chat with you and then come down. Before you go back to the coastal town, battle the gym leader, who uses fighting types. She has a Primeape and a Poliwrath. Before you leave, talk to all the people in the town. One person will give you HM02 (Fly). Note: You'll need HM04 (Strength) to get to her.

Now, head back to the coastal town, and head to the tower. Head to the 4th floor, and then jump down on of the holes in the floor next to where you see 2 ladders. Then, climb up the ladder where you fall down, and up another. Going up another floor gets you to the leader with her 'Steel Onix', who, after a chat, goes back to her gym to fight.

Go back to the "Steel" gym, where you'll only find the gym leader (no junior trainers!). She has a few Magnemites and Haganeru (#208) or 'Steel Onix'. She won't be too hard to beat. After you beat her, head back to the ghost gym town. Go east this time, through another gate, where you should surf across two rivers (each having a cave that as far as I know is of no importance). You'll then get to a town where you can't do much except visit the shop and the center. A man blocks the gym, and another man blocks the path (he charges you $500 to talk with him). Go north through 1 house, and avoid the 2nd by going around it in the grass (it contains Rocket members who cost you $1000 to cross). Continue to move north until you see a lake with a red Gyarados visible. After fighting him (try to caputre him), [Lance?] will appear next to a sign. Talk to [Lance?] and he'll run off to the shop, where you'll find him forcing some doors to open. This turns out to be a Team Rocket base entrance!

After going around (talk to all the trainers and get all the items), try to open one of the doors that has what appears to be a Cardkey-only entrance. After beating the trainer in the first door you open, goto the second door, where you'll find [Lance?] and the two Team Rocket bosses. [Lance?] takes out the guy, while you take on the chick, who has an Arbok and a few others (it's not Jesse). Next, you'll have to take out the [reactor?] by battling all the Electrodes around it. Now exit the cave and all the men leave along with [Lance?]. He'll also give you HM06, which allows you to get rid of whirlpools.

You'll now be able to get into the gym and go to the path to the west. Hit the gym, which is an ice gym. The leader has a Seel, a Dewgong, and Inomu (#221). A fire type will roast the place up. Once you have the 7th badge, you only have to get one more!

Before you get to the next gym, you'll need to take a pitstop at the town with the 3rd gym (the one with the big market). Here you'll find that Team Rocket has taken over the town. To beat them, head to the house a little west of the gym, the one with the black steel on it. You'll fight a bunch of Team Rocket members (watch out, their Golbats are really annoying). When you destroy all of them, go heal your Pokémon, then set out to the northwestern alley of homes, to the tunnel underneath the town. When you go down in the tunnel, you'll notice a small little side alley, leading to a door locked until now.

This looks like a prison of some sorts, underneath the big shop. Hit the switches and beat the Rockets to get to the elevator, where you head up to find that you're in the big shop. Go to the center to heal your guys, then go back into the house with the steel on it. Go to the 3rd or 4th floor (whatever one has the big door on it), and hit the switch which opens it. Once you beat all the Rockets there, you'll finally be able to go to the next gym (it was blocked off if you stopped there before, but now it's free for entry).

To get to the next gym, head west (the guy who wouldn't let you through will no longer be there). You'll enter an ice cave that has Urimu (#220) and some Zubats, along with some really annoying ice mazes. It will take a lot of logic to figure out the first one or this map at http://poketoon.bulbagarden.com/goldsilver/artic01.gif, and you'll have to push down 4 boulders from the top level for the 2nd puzzle. The rest of the sliding ice puzzles aren't too hard.

You'll exit the cave and find yourself in another town. The gym here is a dragon gym, where you'll again have to push down boulders from above to step over the lava to the leader. The leader is rather powerful, and has 2 Dragonairs, a Kingudora (#230), and a Dragonite. However, she's apparently either lost the badge, or isn't in the mood to give the badge to you! So, you have to surf behind the gym, to a cave. Once you get in there, surf around until you see a whirlpool. Using HM06, the whirlpool will disappear. Now, surf around till a small little plank where you see an item ball. When you pick the item up, guess who appears? The 8th gym leader! She now has the badge, and you can now use HM07 that you got in the ice cave.

Houhou
Now that you've beaten the 8 gyms, you can now go and get Houhou! In case you didn't know, Houhou is the rainbow legandary bird that appeared in the first episode of the TV series. Anyway, to get Houhou, go to the Town with the 4th gym (the ghost gym). Now, go to a brown topped house that's next to another one that doesn't have a door. You'll go through an underground path to another one of those temple shrines. If you went there before you would have noticed that you couldn't do anything there. However, now there is a ladder so that you can go up to the 2nd floor.... and about 5 more floors after that. To get around, you have to move over "jump squares" to progress to ladders going up. Once you get to the top floor, you'll see the bird like you would see a legendary bird in Red, Blue, Green, or Yellow. Remember to save before you fight him, so if you don't catch Houhou, you can just turn the game off, and then turn it back on and fight him again. Make sure to have a ton of Ultra Balls (the Poké Balls that cost $1200) because nothing else will catch Houhou, being at level 40 with a lot of recovery attacks. Houhou has some sort of Fire Blast attack that's pretty powerful (since it only has 5 PP), possibly a Leer attack, some sort of psychic attack, and Recover.

3. The Shock League

To get to the Shock League, you'll need all of the badges, and almost all of the HMs. Now, return to your home town, and travel east via surfing. You'll get to an area on a coast with a cave. Now, using HM07 to float up waterfalls, you'll easily get past the cave, and on your way to the final cave before the league. After battling a ton of trainers, you'll end up in an easy to solve cave (unlike Victory Road). Before you get to the end of the cave, your rival shows up for a final time to determine if you're ready for the league. If you have to struggle to beat him, train your Pokémon some more. Once you finish this, you'll end up in the center/market.

Make sure that you have at least 1 or 2 Pokémon over Lv. 60. You'll also need 3 or 4 at Lv. 50 for backup. All those Potions and such that you've picked up over the way should be useful. There are also probably 3 or so Revives that you've picked up along the way to help. The League has 5 trainers that you have to battle. The first one specializes in Ice Pokémon, the second in Bug Pokémon, the third in Fighting Pokémon, the fourth in Psychic and Ghost Pokémon, and the last is [Lance?] with his Dragon Pokémon. I'll get that more detailed by the next version.

Once you beat the league, you'll go through the credits, Oak and what looks like your mom show up, and you finish. At the end it reads THE END... of course, that's not the case...

4. The 'Retro' World

Now that you've become a Pokémon Master, it's time to take a step back into the past. Go back to gym town #6, with the empty gym. You'll now be able to get somewhere in the large buliding with 3 men guarding the port. This leads to a boat, and after beating some trainers on there it will arrive in the Red and Blue world! It's been modified and upgraded with all the graphics and all new trainers and revisions. There are still some mysteries, like where in the world is Misty, and how to get up some places. Because Bulbasaur has a little deadline, I don't have time to go into a full walkthrough of this area... yet.

5. What's New From Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green?

Well, for one thing, the graphics are totally different. They're now in full color, and are much improved over Yellow, which was improved over the 3 previous versions. Next, there are 100 new Pokémon, with several rare ones (such as Lugia and Houhou). There is also a new clock feature, which determines if it's day or night (you can only get some Pokémon in either the day or the night). Each Pokémon now has a male or female sign, and you can breed Pokémon (although I'm not sure how).

I have yet to see the Skateboard, which was rumored to be the new tranportation in the game. There were also rumors that Togepi evolved like Eevee, with different stones, but those rumors have been squashed.

---Credits---
*- Writer - [TK]-Pikachu (ikillkenny@chesco.com)
*- New Pokémon Names - Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden (http://www.bulbagarden.com)
*- Thanks To Andog for tips on the Shock League and HMs
*- Written For - Poketoon (http://poketoon.bulbagarden.com)
*- Please do not steal this!

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