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POKEMON FIRE RED AND LEAF GREEN WALKTHROUGH
 
Getting Started
When you start the game, Oak explains to you the basics of Pokemon, and you are prompted to choose between a male trainer and a female trainer. The only difference being the kind of bag you use, and your gender.
   
Once you have selected a trainer, you will be asked your name, and your Rival's name.
After this, you will be dropped in Pallet Town.
Pallet Town
You begin your journey in your room in Pallet Town. In the top left hand corner of your room, grab the Potion out of the PC. Head downstairs and exit your house. You can't do anything in Pallet at the moment, so head north to the grass, and Professor Oak will shout out and come running up to stop you. He will lead you back into his Laboratory. Once inside, talk to Oak and he will introduce you to his Grand-son, your Rival and will inform you that you can choose one of the three starting Pokemon sitting on the table to your left.
Bulbasaur
Left Pokeball
Grass/Poison type
Beginner difficulty
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Squirtle
Middle Pokeball
Water type
Intermediate difficulty
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Charmander
Right Pokeball
Fire type
Hard difficulty
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After choosing your starter, your Rival will choose the Pokemon which has a type advantage over yours. Each time we come across your Rival in this walkthrough, there will be three trainer information boxes. Each box refers to which starter you chose. Once you have chosen, head south toward the exit and you Rival will challenge you to your first battle.
Rival Battle
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| If you chose Bulbasaur: |
 Charmander |
Level 5 |
Fire |
| If you chose Charmander: |
 Squirtle |
Level 5 |
Water |
| If you chose Squirtle: |
 Bulbasaur |
Level 5 |
Grass/Poison |
| Money Earned: P80 | This battle shouldn't be too hard. You will usually win if you just keep using your damaging attack. If in need, use the Potion you obtained from your PC. If you win, your Pokemon should grow to Lv. 6. If you lose, nothing really happens, except you don't get the money or the experience. Either way your Rival will run off. Your Pokemon will automatically be healed to full health, but if you ever need healing in Pallet Town, go and talk to your mom who will let you rest fully healing your Pokemon. It's time to start your adventure into the Pokemon world, so let head north onto Route 1.
Route 1
In each area, this walkthrough will list the encounter ratios for each Pokemon, and any differences in versions. Pokemon in LeafGreen will have a  icon next to them, and Pokemon in FireRed will have a  icon next to them. So here are the encounters ratios for Route 1.
At the moment you can't catch any Pokemon, so just head up doing a few battles to gain experience points. If you talk to the first person on this route, to the left of the first sign, he will give you a free Potion. There are no trainers to fight, so continue north until you arrive at Viridian City.
Viridian City
In nearly every city there will be two essential buildings, firstly, a Pokemon
Center, where you can fully heal all your Pokemon by talking to Nurse Joy inside.
It also has a Cable Club to battle your friends, and a PC in the top right hand
corner where you can store Pokemon and Items. Secondly, a PokeMart, where you
can buy essential items.
 
In this walkthrough, the first thing I will list are the items you can get at that city's PokeMart and the items' costs.
 Pokeball | 200 |
 Potion | 300 |
 Antidote | 100 |
 Paralyz Heal | 200 |
The first thing to do in Viridian City is to heal your Pokemon at the Pokecenter. Then go to the PokeMart. You can't buy anything yet, instead the assistant shouts out asking if you know Professor Oak, and asks you to take him Oak's Parcel. So head south, via Route 1, to Pallet Town, and enter Oak's Lab and talk to him. When returning via Route 1, you can follow the yellow road and jump over the ledges avoiding a lot of grass if you wish. Oak will give you and your Rival a Pokedex each, and this will allow you to catch the first 150 Pokemon! He will also give you 5 Pokeballs to help you get started. Now head into the house above the Laboratory, which is your Rival's house. Talk to his sister, and she will give you a Town Map.
 For those who missed this, here is a map of the Pokemon World:
For a detailed map click HERE
Now head back up to Viridian City, on the way you can catch Pidgey and Rattata if you wish. Ignore the water encounters listed above and below, these are for when you return later in the game. When you arrive in Viridian, stock up on any items you may need, especially Pokeballs. It is very useful to catch Pokemon now, as some events later in the game rely on the number of Pokemon you have caught. Be sure to always carry a decent number of Pokeballs in case a new Pokemon shows up. Below are the water encounters for Viridian City.
As mentioned above, you can't get these Pokemon yet, these ratios are for when you return later in the game. The guy standing in front of the Gym will not move until later in the game, so just ignore the Gym for now. Another important thing to note is you can now unlock the Mystery Gift system in the Pokemart, by filling in the clipboard on the counter inside. If you enter the words "LINK TOGETHER WITH ALL" it will unlock Mystery Gifting at the startup screen. You use the Mystery Gift to obtain special items from Nintendo Events. That's about it for Viridian City, so let's head west onto Route 22.
Route 22
In the grass on Route 22 are the Pokemon above. Catch these if you want, but make sure you don't leave the grass. Ensure you are fully healed and stocked up on items before heading above the grass. Doing so will trigger a battle with your Rival.
Rival Battle
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 Pidgey |
Level 9 |
Normal/Flying |
| If you chose Bulbasaur: |
| Charmander |
Level 9 |
Fire |
| If you chose Charmander: |
| Squirtle |
Level 9 |
Water |
| If you chose Squirtle: |
| Bulbasaur |
Level 9 |
Grass/Poison |
| Money Earned: P144 | This time he's a little tougher. If you are finding this battle very difficult you should train a bit more, or read on, go to Viridian Forest, catch a Pikachu, train it, come back and use Thundershock to defeat Pidgey. If you lose, you will lose half your money, this is the same any time you "black out". After beating/losing to your Rival, head to the upper right part at the start of the area, go to the tree and press A, and you will find a Potion. Anytime you see a Pokeball laying around, it will be an item for you to pick up. Continuing along this path leads to a dead end, as it leads to Victory Road and the Elite Four. This is the end of the game and can't be reached until you get all 8 Gym Badges. So return to Viridian City and head north. On the exit of Viridian is a man who shows you how to catch a Weedle. After he's done explaining he will give you a Teachy TV. You can use the Teachy TV to explain anything you don't understand in the game. It's like a tutorial machine, and Poke Dude explains everything to you.
Now let's continue north to Route 2.
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Rattata
Psyduck
Poliwag
Poliwhirl
Slowpoke
Gyarados
Spearow
Mankey
