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POKEMON GOLD AND SILVER WALKTHROUGH

After beating Whitney, visit the house with plants to the right of the Gym. The lady there will give you a SquirtBottle which you will need for later on. You'll probably need to heal at the PokeCenter too, so do so and head north through the gatehouse. Talk to the keeper to receive a Spearow with Mail attached. Hold on to it for a while - you'll deliver the message in a bit. Continue north - instead of heading through the gatehouse now, head right into the grass and follow the path down and around to get TM04 - Rollout. Now, head through the gatehouse.

National Park Wild Pokemon
Pokemon	Method	Time	Rate
Caterpie	Walk		50%
Caterpie	Walk		30%
Metapod	Walk		30%
Weedle	Walk		50%
Weedle	Walk		30%
Kakuna	Walk		30%
Pidgey	Walk		20%
Pidgey	Walk		15%
Hoothoot	Walk		100%
Sunkern	Walk		25%

National Park is the home of the Bug Catching contest, held on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The objective is to catch the strongest bug Pokemon - the prize is a Sun Stone. Moreover, you'll get to keep the Pokemon, so this is a nice free way of getting some good Bug types like Scyther or Pinsir at the beginning of the game. If you don't want to participate, just ignore the guard and head through. At this next area, talk to the lady on the far right to receive a Quick Claw. If you head further in, you'll see some long grass (You'll notice the park takes the shape of a certain something.. check the World Map to see). There's an outer pathway that appears to be fenced off, but if you head to the north-east side of the park where a boy playing a Gameboy is standing, you'll see an opening through the fence. You'll get a Paralyz Heal if you head right, TM28 - Dig if you head left, and if you head all the way around near the south entrance, you'll get a hidden Full Heal.

When you're ready, head east and examine the funny tree - it's a Sudowoodo. Choose to use the SquirtBottle, and it'll attack. This is the only Sudowoodo in the game, so try to catch it if you can.

Sudowoodo Although it looks like a tree, it is in fact a Rock type. Sudowoodo is an interesting Pokemon that can learn a good range of useful attacks like Mimic, Rock Slide and Earthquake. While its Defense and Attack are very good, it lacks Speed and HP to help it survive.

Whatever the outcome, talk to the guy to the right and he'll give you TM08 - Rock Smash for clearing the path. Continuing east returns you to Violet City - remember that Spearow with the mail? Head past Violet City to that dark cave. There's a fat man nearby a berry tree - give him the mail, and you'll get TM50 - Nightmare in return.

Route 37 Wild Pokemon
Pokemon	Method	Time	Rate
Pidgey	Walk		60%
Pidgey	Walk		50%
Pidgey	Walk		20%
Pidgeotto	Walk		5%
Vulpix	Walk		10%
Vulpix	Walk		15%
Growlithe	Walk		10%
Growlithe	Walk		15%
Hoothoot	Walk		20%
Hoothoot	Walk		60%
Ledyba	Walk		40%
Spinarak	Walk		40%
Stantler	Walk		30%

From where Sudowoodo stood, you can head left towards Ecruteak City (There are three apricorn bushes on the right side of the road, past the wild grass. If its Sunday, Sunny will be here to give you a Magnet). Head to the Pokemon Center to find Bill, and he's just fixed the Time Machine so that you'll be able to trade with Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow tomorrow. You can return to Bill's house in Goldenrod City to get an Eevee from him.

There's quite a bit to do here; first of all, head to the house between the Pokemon Center and the Gym, and talk to the guy there to get an Itemfinder. Behind the Pokemon Center is the Ecruteak Dance theatre - battle the five girls on stage (They each have an Eevee evolution), then talk to the man next to the Rhydon to receive HM03 - Surf.

Burned Tower 1F Wild Pokemon
Pokemon	Method	Time	Rate
Rattata	Walk		50%
Raticate	Walk		5%
Zubat	Walk		10%
Koffing	Walk		35%

Burned Tower B1F Wild Pokemon
Pokemon	Method	Time	Rate

Finally, there's the Burned Tower at the northwest point of town, where your rival will challenge you as soon as you step inside. He's got a lv20 Haunter, lv20 Zubat, lv18 Magnemite and a lv22 evolved starter. He's not really that hard, so once you're done with him, you can explore. You'll really want someone that knows Rock Smash, so teach it to a spare Pokemon to proceed. You can use Rock Smash to remove cracked rocks in the way. The black gaps in the floor cause you to fall down to the basement level where there are some items...and a surprise. Search using your new Itemfinder too. You can pick up a hidden Burn Heal by falling down the right-most gap and another Burn Heal by Rock Smashing up the right path (past the trainer, don't fall down the gap yet). If you do fall down the gap, you'll notice a square-ish rock that you'll need HM04 - Strength to get past.

On the left side, if you fall down the second gap, you can grab an HP Up, but the real deal is if you Rock Smash your way past that and head around the trainer (A FireBreather, notice how he turns black and white after you beat him), and fall down the small 1x1 hole (grab that X Speed before you do). You'll fall down onto an inaccessible ledge, and if you walk up the stairs, you'll release the three legendary Pokemon, Raikou, Suicune and Entei. From now on, they'll appear at random places on the World Map, and you'll be able to catch them. Search their resting spot for a Nugget, and head out.

Raikou Raikou, the legendary electric Pokemon, has some great stats, especially Speed, Special Attack and Special Defense, but still has the one weakness that many electric Pokemon have - an inability to cause good damage to Ground types. Nevertheless, moves like Crunch and Thunderbolt make Raikou a good Pokemon, and Reflect and Roar help it to stay in battle.

Entei Entei, the legendary fire Pokemon, has good HP and Attack, which means it can't take advantage of STAB as good as Raikou can. Still, it can use the tried-and-true Sunny Day combo, which allows it to boost Flamethrower, as well as cover weaknesses with Solarbeam.

Suicune Possibly the most useful out of the three legendaries, Suicune the water Pokemon has strong defense stats, meaning that while it may not be able to cause a lot of damage quickly, it can stay in battle to annoy and stall. Since its only weaknesses are Grass and Electric, both special attacks, Mirror Coat works wonders on Suicune. Combine it with moves like Surf, Ice Beam, Rest, Curse and Roar.

The floor is a giant teleport pad, apart from a thin line leading to the Gym Leader that I've outlined above.

Ecruteak City Gym: Morty Speciality: Ghost	Pokemon	Level	Type	Moves
	Gastly	Level 21	Ghost/Poison	Lick Spite Mean Look Curse
	Haunter	Level 21	Ghost/Poison	Hypnosis Mimic Curse Night Shade
	Gengar	Level 25	Ghost/Poison	Hypnosis Shadow Ball Mean Look Dream Eater
	Haunter	Level 23	Ghost/Poison	Spite Mean Look Mimic Night Shade
Ghosts are immune to all Normal and Fighting attacks. However, since all of Morty's Pokemon are part Poison, you can use that Dig TM from National Park to take out Gastly, Haunter and Gengar very easily, or a fast Psychic Pokemon like Kadabra. If you have a Normal Pokemon that knows some good special attacks, they'll be good too because Ghost attacks don't affect Normal types.. Moreover, Morty likes to use Curse a lot, so take advantage of the free 50% damage, then switch out to prevent Curse damage. Be careful with Lick's paralysis.

Morty will reward you with the Fog Badge when you defeat him, which makes all Pokemon under level 50 obey you, and allows your Pokemon to use HM03 - Surf outside of battle. You'll also get TM30 - Shadow Ball, the most powerful Ghost-type attack. It sometimes lowers your opponent's special defense.