The Beginning and Pallet Town

Like in the Red and Blue versions, you start out with Professor Oak giving you a lecture on Pokémon. You get to choose a name for yourself in the game, and your rival. After that, you appear in your house in Pallet town. Go to the computer in the corner, and you can get a Potion. Leave the house. You can go next door to your rival’s house, and his sister tells you that he’s over at Prof. Oak’s lab. Go to the lab, the large building below your rival’s house. You will find your rival there. He says that Prof. Oak told him to come because he was going to give him a Pokémon. Oak doesn’t seem to be around, though. Go outside again and walk up to the grass on the north end of Pallet Town. After two steps (wow! One more step than in the Red and Blue versions!) Oak runs after you, telling you that there are wild Pokémon in the grass. A Pikachu appears, and he captures it. He tells you not to go into long grass without your own Pokémon, then he takes you back to his lab. Your rival is still there, waiting. Oak tells you to take the Pokéball on the table, so try and go get it. Your rival runs over, pushes you out of the way, and grabs the Pokéball! Oak lets him take it, then gives you the wild Pikachu that he caught earlier. You get to choose a name for it. As you walk away, your rival calls after you, asking for a battle with your new Pokémon. This is the first fight of many you will have in the game. Your rival sends out Eevee, the Pokémon that he got, and you send out your Pikachu. Both of your Pokémon are at level 5. Your Pikachu knows Thundershock and Growl, his Eevee knows Tackle and Tail whip. The Eevee is easily defeated by a few Thundershocks, but if your Pikachu gets hurt badly you can use the Potion you got earlier to heal it. If you win, your Pikachu grows to L6 and learns Tail Whip. Your rival walks off. Strangely, your Pikachu comes out of its Pokéball. Oak says it will be happier if it stays outside. You can look at its face to see whether it is happy or not. Right now it looks pretty upset. Go outside and back to the grass that you first met Oak in. Continue upwards. You will fight your first wild Pokémon here, probably a Pidgey or Rattata. You can’t catch them until you buy some Pokéballs, so be patient and keep going upwards. Talk to the people you meet along the way. One of them will give you a free potion. After a while you will reach Viridian City.

Viridian City

Pidgey	Rattata
Common

Your Pikachu might be hurt from fighting, so go to the Pokémon Center to heal it. Pokémon Centers are buildings that say “PoKé” on the front. You can heal your Pokémon, switch Pokémon, get items, and other things in them. Walk up to the person at the desk with the Chansey beside her. She will heal your Pokémon. Leave the building. Now you need to get some Pokéballs. Go to the building that says “MART”. When you go inside, the salesperson gives you something to take to Prof. Oak. You need to go back to Oak’s lab in Pallet town. Give the item to Oak, and he will give you a Pokédex. It will keep track of which Pokémon you have seen and caught, and also have information on them. Go back to Viridian City, and to the Poké Mart again. Now you can buy things. Get a couple Pokéballs. Now you can go catch some Pokémon. Make sure Pikachu is healed, then go back into the grass below the city. When a Pidgey or Rattata appears, fight it until it has nearly fainted, then use a Pokéball. If the Pokémon is weak enough, you will catch it. Once you catch a Pokémon, go back to the Pokémon Center to heal it. Now you can fight with that Pokémon, as well as Pikachu. After you get a Rattata and Pidgey, walk to the left of Viridian. There will be a small patch of grass. Don’t walk above that grass yet. You can catch Spearow, Mankey, and Nidoran female and male. Catch a few. If you catch more than six Pokémon, they will go to Someone’s PC (later called Bill’s PC) on the computer in the Pokémon Center. You can switch them with other Pokémon in your team if you want. Once you have a team of six Pokémon, start training them. Walk around in the grass and KO other Pokémon. I recommend doing this until your Pikachu and one other Pokémon are at least level nine. Then you can go above that grass, but heal your Pokémon first because your rival will be there. He will fight you with a level 9 Spearow and a level 8 Eevee. If you win, you will get some money. Now you can heal your Pokémon once more, and then continue walking upwards to Viridian Forest.

Viridian Forest

Pidgey	Pidgeotto	Caterpie	Metapod
Common	Rare	Common	Common

There will be some new Pokémon here to look out for, like Caterpie and its evolution, Metapod. The evolved form of Pidgey, Pidgeotto, is also here, although it is very rare. A Caterpie is a very good Pokémon to have because it evolves very quickly. It will be a strong Butterfree by level 10. There are also a few trainers who have mostly bug-type Pokémon. If you have a Spearow, it will be very useful since its Peck attack is super effective against bugs. Walk through the forest, picking up items and fighting the Pokémon. This place is very good for gaining levels. After a while, you should make it to the top left corner of the screen, the entrance into Pewter City.

Pewter City

Like Viridian City, there is a Pokémon Center and a Poké Mart here. There is a road on the right that leads to Route 3 and Mt. Moon, but when you try to go there, a person leads you to the Pewter City Gym. You need to beat the gym leader before you can leave. At the upper part of the city is the Museum. You need to pay some money to get in, but they have some exhibits of Pokémon fossils that are pretty interesting. Later, when your Pokémon know the skill Cut, come back and enter the other part of the museum. Some people there will give you some Old Amber that is useful later. Train your Pokémon a bit more, then head to the gym.

Gym 1, Brock

Pokémon: Geodude L10, Skills: Tackle.

Onix L12, Skills: Bide, Bind, Screech, Tackle.

The people in Brock’s gym specialize in rock and ground Pokémon. You need to fight a few trainers before him. If they are easy for you, go ahead and fight Brock. If they are hard, level up your Pokémon some more. Brock starts with a Geodude at level 10 and then has an Onix at level 12. If you have a Butterfree that knows Confusion, it should beat him pretty easily. If not, start with a Pokémon that knows Leer, Growl, Tail whip, or some stat lowering move, use it a few times, then attack with stronger damaging moves. After you beat Brock, you get the Boulder Badge, which raises the attack of all your Pokémon by a little, and lets them use the skill Flash when you teach it to them. You also get TM 34. If you use it on one of your Pokémon, it will teach it the attack Bide.

Route 3

Rattata	Mankey	Spearow	Sandshrew
Common

Leave Pewter City to the right and keep walking along. There are a bunch of trainers along the way. After some more walking, you will find a Pokémon Center near the entrance to Mt. Moon. In the center, you will find a man who is selling a Magikarp. Magikarp is the worst Pokémon in the game (until it evolves), so don’t buy it unless you have extra money and really want it for some reason. You can easily catch Magikarp later. After healing your Pokémon, enter Mt. Moon.

Mt. Moon

Clefary	Geodude	Zubat	Sandshrew
Rare	Very Common	Very  Common	Common

There are a lot of new Pokémon inside Mt. Moon. If you see a Clefairy, try and catch it! They are really rare! There are a lot of trainers around. After a while, you will get to the bottom floor, and run into a lot of people in black uniforms. This is the first time you need to beat Team Rocket. After beating a few Rockets, you will find a person guarding two fossils. Beat him, and he will let you choose one of the fossils to take. If you chose the dome fossil you can get Kabuto later, if you chose the helix fossil you can get Omanyte. After you get the fossils, Jesse and James show up, and try to get the fossil from you. They have an Ekans, Meowth and Koffing, all at level 14, and they are pretty easily beaten. Find the exit, and leave to Route 4.

Cerulean City

Like the other cities, Cerulean has a Pokémon Center, a Poké Mart, and a gym. It also has a few other interesting things. In one of the buildings, you will find a woman with a few Pokémon, including a Bulbasaur. If your Pikachu is really, really happy, and about level 20 or above, she will give you the Bulbasaur. To the north of the town is a bridge with a bunch of trainers on it. When you near the bridge, your rival appears again, and fights you. He has a level 18 Spearow, a level 15 Sandshrew, a level 15 Rattata, and a level 17 Eevee. After you beat him, start heading across the bridge and fighting the trainers there, going back to the Pokémon Center when necessary. When you talk to the last trainer, he will give you a nugget, which you can sell at a Poké Mart for a lot of money. Then he tries to talk you into joining Team Rocket. You refuse, and fight him. North of the bridge is a trainer with a Pokéball beside him. If you talk to him, he says he is a bad trainer, then asks if you want his Pokémon. Say yes, because it’s a Charmander! He will give it to you. If you feel like you are ready to fight the gym leader, Misty, go back down to the gym and fight her.

Gym 2, Misty

            Pokémon: Staryu L18, Skills: Tackle, Water Gun.

            Starmie L21, Skills: Bubblebeam, Harden, Tackle, Water Gun.

Misty specializes in water-type Pokémon. If you have trained your Pikachu well, Misty should be very easy to beat. Bulbasaur, Oddish and Bellsprout do well against her, too. When you beat her you get the Cascade Badge, which makes all Pokémon up to level 30 obey you. It also lets your Pokémon use the skill Cut once they have learned it. She also gives you TM11, which teaches the water-type skill Bubblebeam.

Route 25

Cross the bride again and head to the right. You will find a small patch of grass, and a ton of trainers. Try to catch a few Pokémon in the grass there, you can find the cool and rare Pokémon Abra in it. If one appears, try to paralyze it or just throw a Pokéball. Abras teleport away if you spend too long attacking them. If you catch an Abra, use a TM on it so it can fight. Once it evolves it will learn a lot of cool moves, but now it only knows teleport which will take you back to the last Pokémon center you were at if you use it out of battle. Now keep going to the right. Fight the trainers for experience if you want, but you can go around some of them. After a while, you will reach Bill’s house.

Bill’s House

Bill is a Pokémaniac. You might have heard people talking about him in the Pokémon center. When you enter his house, you will find a Pokémon in it. To your Pikachu’s surprise (Pikachu makes some pretty funny faces here!), the Pokémon is really Bill! Help him get back to being himself by going over to his computer and turning on the transformer machine once he is inside it. As thanks for helping him, he will give you a ticket to a party on the S.S. Anne in Vermilion City. After you leave his house, visit him again and he will show you some information on Eevee and its evolutions. Now leave again and go back to Cerulean City. Find the house with the police officer in front of it. She will have moved away from the door so you can go in. Apparently, someone had broken into the house and stolen a Dig TM. Walk through the hole in the back wall and you will find a Team Rocket member in the back. Beat him, and he will give you the Dig TM. Now walk around the house, and keep walking down around the side of the city. You will get to a new place, Route 5.

Route 5 and Route 6

There is a lot of grass, and at the bottom is a house. This is the Daycare Center. If you want, you can leave a Pokémon with the person there, and he will raise it slowly. You need to pay some money to get it back. This is a great place to leave a Pokémon like Magikarp, but the daycare person seems to like replacing good attacks with bad ones that the Pokémon learns. If you want a good Pokémon on your team, you should probably raise it by yourself. At the bottom of Route 5 there are two other buildings. The larger one is a gatehouse to Saffron City. The guards won’t let you go there yet. Go into the other building. There is a girl there who will trade a Machoke for a Cubone, so come back later when you have an extra Cubone. When you trade, the Machoke will evolve into Machamp!  In the building is a tunnel from Route 5 to Route 6. Go all the way through the tunnel. You will come out on Route 6. There is a lot of grass here, and some trainers. There is also a pond. Later, when you can surf, go back to the pond and surf on it. You can catch Psyduck and Golduck there. Keep heading down and you will get to Vermilion City.

Vermilion City

There are a bunch of places to visit in this city, also the usual Pokémon Center, Poké Mart and gym. Next to the Pokémon canter is a building. Go inside. Talk to the man and he will give you an Old Rod. Use it when standing in front of some water, and you might catch a Magikarp. One of the buildings near the Poké Mart is a Pokémon Fan Club. When you walk in, your Pikachu falls in love with a Clefairy! Go talk to the president of the club. After listening to him talk about his Rapidash for a long time, he will give you a Bike Voucher. If you go back to the bike shop in Cerulean, you can exchange it for a bike. Now find the long dock on the southeast part of the city. Walk on it for a while, and you will find the S.S. Anne.

The S.S. Anne

Thanks to Bill, you can visit the S.S. Anne. It is full of trainers to battle, and has lots of items to pick up. Enter all the rooms you see, a lot of them have items in them, some have trainers wanting to fight. You can make a lot of money fighting the trainers on the ship. There are a lot of water Pokémon owned by sailors, so your Pikachu should come in handy. If your Pokémon get hurt, leave the ship, heal them, then come back. Here is how to fight all the trainers on the ship. When you first enter the ship, you are in a hall on the main deck. Go left, don’t go down the stairs, then go down. You will enter the Mess Hall. Search all the garbage cans, you will find a Great ball. They catch Pokémon more easily than Pokéballs. Now leave the hall and look at the right side of where you entered the ship. You will be on the lower deck. Fight all the trainers in the rooms. Go back up the stairs, and go down the stairs above the Mess Hall. Now walk down and go down the next set of stairs you find. Walk to the left and you will find a bunch of trainers at the bow of the ship. Go back to your right and up the stairs you just came down. To your right will be a long hall. There are a lot of trainers in the rooms. You might want to heal your Pokémon now, because your rival will appear at the end of the hall. His Pokémon are between levels 17 and 20. After beating him, go to your far right, then up. Go down the stairs. You will find the Captain there. He is really seasick, but if you go up to him and talk, you will rub his back and make him feel better. As thanks, he will give you HM01, Cut. Teach it to one of your Pokémon, but be careful, that Pokémon can never forget it once it has learned it. Leave the ship and it will sail off.

Gym 3, Lt. Surge

Pokémon: Raichu L28. Skills: Growl, Mega Kick, Mega Punch, Thunder Bolt.

Now you should be ready to face the gym leader. He specializes in electric Pokémon, so ground Pokémon like Sandshrew, Diglett and Geodude or a Pokémon that knows Dig will beat him pretty easily. If you want to beat him really, really easily, and you have a Nidorino or Nidorina and a Moon Stone, use the Moon Stone to evolve your Nidorino/a into a really strong poison/ground-type. Go to the gym. Cut down the tree in your way. Unlike the other gym leaders, you need to solve a puzzle to get to Lt. Surge. Along with the usual trainers you can beat, the room is full of garbage cans. Look in them. After a while, you will find a switch in one. The other switch will be in a can next to the first one. After pressing both switches, a door opens, and you get to fight Lt. Surge in there.

He only has one Pokémon, but it’s still pretty hard to beat. After beating him you will get a Thunder Badge, which will let you use Fly when your Pokémon know it. It also increases the speed of your Pokémon by a bit. He also gives you TM24, Thunderbolt, which is probably the coolest electric move in the game. Your Pikachu will learn it by itself later, so you can teach it to a different Pokémon.

Route 11

Rattata	Raticate	Pidgey	Pidgeotto	Drowzee
Common

Route 11 is to the right of Vermilion City. There are a lot of trainers, and a huge amount of grass. You can find a new Pokémon here, Drowzee. The building at the far right leads to Route 12. If you go through, though, you will find that a sleeping Snorlax blocks the way. In the building, go up the stairs. Professor Oak’s Aide is at the top, and he will give you an Item Finder if you have caught at least 30 different Pokémon.

Diglett’s Cave

Diglett	Dugtrio
Common	Rare

The entrance to Diglett’s Cave is near the dock that leads to the S.S. Anne. Enter the cave, and go to the other side. Along the way, you will get attacked by tons of Digletts. There are also Dugtrio, but they are really rare. Find the exit at the other end of the cave, and leave. You will find yourself at somewhere familiar.

Route 2

When you leave Diglett’s Cave you will be back on Route 2, next to Viridian Forest. Walk down and pass the house. There is a man in it who will trade his Mr. Mime for a Clefairy. Cut down the tree, and keep going downwards. Eventually, you should find a big house. Go inside and talk to the people. They will tell you about HM05, Flash, and if you have caught 10 different kinds of Pokémon, they will give it to you! Leave the house and go down the rest of the way, there are items lying around there. If you go back to Viridian and Cut a few bushes down, someone should give you TM42, Dream Eater. Now go all the way back to Cerulean City.

Route 9 and 10

Rattata	Raticate	Spearow	Fearow	Nidoran	Nidorina	Nidorano	Machop	Magnemite
All are Common

Go through the burglarized house again, but this time leave the city using the path on the far right. It should be blocked by a tree that you can Cut down. Keep walking right. You are now on Route 9, which is filled with other trainers who will fight you. Go to the far right. There is a patch of grass that has the usual common Pokémon, and a few new ones, Machop and Magnemite. (Note: when you can Surf, come back here to get to the Power Plant). Walk down and you will arrive at a Pokémon Center, and the entrance to the Rock Tunnel.

Power Plant

Magnemite	Magneton	Voltorb	Grimer	Muk
Common

When your Pokémon are at higher levels, come back to route 10 and Surf down to the Power Plant. There are a lot of items here, and electric Pokémon to catch. Also, the second Legendary Bird, Zapdos, is near the exit.

Zapdos

The electric/flying Zapdos, like the other Legendary Birds, is very hard to catch. Save the game before trying to get it! You will need a ton of Ultra Balls, and a Pokémon with a sleep/freeze/paralyze attack will be really helpful, too. Zapdos is at level 50. Try to get it down to just a few HP. It is hard to hit with Poké Balls, you need to put it to sleep, paralyze it, or freeze it to be able to hit it better.

Rock Tunnel

Zubat	Geodude	Machop	Onix
Common	Common	Common	Rare

Be sure to heal your Pokémon before entering, there are a lot of wild Pokémon and trainers in here. You probably should have a water, grass, ground, or psychic Pokémon in your team. You also need a Pokémon that knows Flash, or you will have a REALLY hard time getting through. When you first enter the tunnel, everything will be dark. Have your Pokémon use Flash to light the place. It’s hard to show how to get through the tunnel without pictures, but I will try to explain. Walk down and to your right, fight the trainer, then go up until you find a ladder. Go down it. Now walk down a few steps, then go to your left. Go up when you can. Keep going up and right. There will be a few trainers. Eventually you should find a ladder. Go up the ladder, then head down and to your right. There will be a trainer, and a ladder above him. Go down the ladder. Walk left and up, there will be some trainers. There is a ladder at the top left corner of the screen. Go up it (you are nearly out!).Now walk down, past the two trainers, then to your left. There will be another trainer, then a sign. The exit is the ladder near the sign. There are four trainers after you exit the tunnel. If you need to heal your Pokémon badly, take the path to your right and walk around the trainers. You will arrive in Lavender Town

Lavender Town

The people in Lavender Town are all talking about Team Rocket and how cruel they are to Pokémon. They have killed a Cubone’s mother! Before you try to stop Team Rocket, there are a lot of things that you can do in Lavender Town. They are selling a new and important item at the Poké Mart, Revive. It costs 1,500p, but it will revive a fainted Pokémon and restore half its HP. The building under the Pokémon Center is the Abandoned Pokémon House, where Mr. Fuji takes care of abandoned Pokémon. Mr. Fuji is being held at the top of the Pokémon Tower, you’ll have to save him later. In the second house is someone with a Cubone. The Cubone’s mother had been killed by Team Rocket. The final house is the home of the Name Rater. He will let you change the nicknames of your Pokémon. Did you get your male and female symbols mixed up, so you were surprised when your Nidoran, Bob, evolved into Nidorina? The Name Rater can help you. Now look at the huge, tall building at the upper right of the city. That is the Pokémon tower. Enter, and you will find a lot of people grieving for their dead Pokémon. You can climb the stairs, but you won’t get very far. You will get attacked by unidentified ghosts, which will scare your Pokémon so much that they can’t attack! Also, your rival will be there, on the second floor. He has Pokémon from level 22 to 25. You will need to exit the tower, and come back when you have a Silph Scope, which will identify the ghosts.

Route 8

Leave Lavender Town to your right. There are a lot of trainers here. You should fight them for experience, because there is another gym leader coming up. You can’t get through the gate to your left, yet, but there is another underground passage to Route 7. Go all the way through the passage (you can bike if you want to save time). Exit the tunnel, then go up and left. You will arrive at Celadon City.

Celadon City

Celadon has the largest department store in the Pokémon world. Like Lavender Town, you might hear complaints about Team Rocket. Before you go to beat them, take a while to explore and go shopping. One of the larger buildings near the Pokémon Center is Celadon Mansion. If you enter from the front there are some people to talk to on a few floors. One of the floors has the people who made the game. Come back there after you have completed your Pokédex and they will give you an award. Now go around to the back of the mansion and enter through the secret door. Climb all the stairs, and you will find a room with a man and a Pokéball on a table. Get the Pokéball. There is an Eevee inside! Eevee is a cool and unique Pokémon that can evolve into three forms (five in Gold and Silver). You might have heard about it on Bill’s computer. Now leave the mansion and go to the huge building Celadon Department Store. Here is a list of the floors and all the stuff you can buy on them:

Celadon Department Store
Floor 1: Service Counter

Nothing to buy.

Floor 2: Trainer’s Market

Great Ball- p600

Super Potion- p700

Revive- p1500

Super Repel- p500

Antidote- p100

Burn Heal- p250

Ice Heal- p250

Awakening- 200

Paralyz Heal- 200

TM32 (Double Team)- p1000

TM33 (Reflect)- p1000

TM02 (Razor Wind)- p2000

TM07 (Horn Drill)- p2000

TM37 (Egg Bomb)- p2000

TM01 (Mega Punch)- p3000

TM05 (Mega Kick)- p3000

TM09 (Take Down)- p3000

TM17 (Submission)- p3000

Floor 3: TV Game Shop

TM18 (Counter)- Free! Talk to the man at the counter by the stairs.

Floor 4: Wiseman Gifts

X Accuracy- p950

Guard Spec- p700

Dire Hit- p650

X Attack- p500

X Defend- p550

X Speed- p350

X Special- 350

Poké Doll- p1000

Fire Stone- p2100

Thunderstone- p2100

Water Stone- p2100

Leaf Stone- p2100

Floor 5: Drug Store

HP Up- p9800

Protein- p9800

Iron- p9800

Carbos- p9800

Calcium- p9800

Rooftop Square: Vending Machines

Fresh Water- p200

Soda Pop- p300

Lemonade- p350

TM 13 (Ice Beam)- Give the girl on the top floor Fresh Water.

TM48 (Rock Slide)- Give the girl on the top floor Soda Pop.

TM49 (Tri Attack)- Give the girl on the top floor Lemonade.

Be sure to have an extra water, soda, or lemonade left over for the guards around Saffron City. If you give it to them, they will let you through. The drinks can also be used as Potions. In the middle of Celadon City is a house with a lake in front of it. When you can Surf, come back and talk to the person by the house. She will give you TM41, Softboiled, which only Chansey and Mew can learn.

Gym 4, Erika

            Pokémon: Tangela L30, Skills: Bind, Constrict, Mega Drain, Vine Whip.

Weepinbell L32, Skills: Acid, Razor Leaf, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore.

Gloom L32, Skills: Acid, Petal Dance, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore.

Erika specializes in grass-type Pokémon. Her gym is full of plants. You will need to Cut a few down to get to her. Like usual, there are a bunch of smaller trainers to face before Erika. Use them to level up and make sure that you can face her. She is the trainer that looks different from the others. If you have fire Pokémon, they will be very useful against her. So will psychics, poison-types, and bugs. After beating her, you will get the Rainbow Badge. It raises your Pokémon’s attack by a bit, and makes all Pokémon up to level 50 obey you. You also get TM21, which is the grass-type move Mega Drain. It does a lot of damage and heals you at the same time. Great for teaching Bulbasaurs! 

The Game Corner

You may hear some people around the city complaining about the Game Corner, a big gambling place. One person will give you a Coin Case if you talk to him. You can use it to store coins that you win playing the slots. You can exchange those coins for prizes at the building next to the Game Corner. Here is what you can get:

Abra- 230c

Vulpix- 1000c

Wigglytuff- 2680c

Scyther- 6500c

Pinsir- 6500c

Porygon- 9999c

TM15 (Hyper Beam)- 5500c

TM23 (Dragon Rage)- 3300c

TM50 (Substitute)- 7700c

There are a lot of ways to get coins besides playing the slots or buying them. Walk around and talk to the people in the Game Corner. A lot of them will give you coins to make you go away. You can also walk around pressing the A button a lot, there are many hidden coins on the floor that you will find.

Team Rocket’s Hideout

In the back of the Game Corner is a suspicious looking person who is guarding a poster. Fight him, and he will go away. When you examine the poster more closely, you will find a hidden switch. It opens the door into Team Rocket’s hideout. This is a very annoying building. It’s full of Rocket people, who sometimes have poison Pokémon, and there are a lot of propulsion pads on the floor, which force you to move in one direction until you hit another pad that stops you. Your goal in this building is to defeat Giovanni, the head of TR, who is on the fourth floor down. Before you get to him, you need to get the Lift Key from a Rocket on another part of the fourth floor down. After beating him, talk to him again and he will drop the key. Now find the lift and take it to Giovanni. Before you can enter his room, you get attacked my Jessie and James again. They still have Meowth, Koffing, and Ekans, at level 25.

Giovanni

Giovanni is the head of Team Rocket. He specializes in ground and rock Pokémon, but also has a Persian. He starts out with a level 25 Onix, then a level 24 Rhyhorn, and finishes with his level 29 Persian. Once you beat him, he gives you a Silph Scope, which will let you identify the ghosts in the Pokémon Tower of Lavender Town. Go back there.

The Pokémon Tower

Now that you have the Silph Scope, you can catch ghost Pokémon and rescue Mr. Fuji. Your rival is on the second floor, if you haven’t beaten him already. There are a lot of items lying around and Channelers to fight. And it turns out the ghosts are Gastlys and Haunters, although Haunters are rare. Normal and fighting moves don’t work on ghosts, and ghosts don’t have weaknesses, but these are ghost/poison types. Treat them like poison Pokémon and attack with psychic, rock, and ground. They really aren’t that hard to beat, after all. Keep going up the stairs. If you need to heal your Pokémon, keep heading up. There is a square on the ground by a Channeler that will completely heal all your Pokémon. When you get near the stairs on one of the floors, you get attacked by a different ghost, the Cubone’s mother that Team Rocket killed. This Marowak is pretty tough, and can’t be caught. When you get to the seventh floor, Jessie and James appear once again, but now their Pokémon are at level 27, and Koffing and Ekans have evolved into Weezing and Arbok. After beating them, Mr. Fuji takes you to his house and gives you his Poké Flute, which will let you wake up the Snorlaxes blocking routes 12 and 16.

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