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Video Playthrough Link (Route 25, Cerulean City Gym, Lavender Town, & Celadon
City Gym): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxbOG0kR4QE

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|Power Plant|
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Item in Power Plant:

TM07 Zap Cannon

Heal at the Pokémon Center and make sure you have a Pokémon in your lineup that
has the HMs Cut, Surf, and Flash. Head east on Route 9 and surf to the Power
Plant again. Head in and talk to the Manager, and he'll give you a reward for
the Machine Part: TM07 Zap Cannon! Now surf back up to Route 10 and enter Rock
Tunnel this time.

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|Rock Tunnel|
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Pokémon in Rock Tunnel:

Cubone
Geodude
Kangaskhan
Zubat

Items in Rock Tunnel:

Iron
PP Up
Revive
TM47 Steel Wing

You'll want to use HM Flash to get through the Rock Tunnel. Head along the path
to the right and go down the ladder. Then head left. Keep heading left at the
intersection to get an Iron, then head back and up and to the right on the curvy
path.  

Head up the ladder, then head down and right down another ladder. Head up from
there to grab the Revive, then come back down and go left and down for a PP Up.
Head up the ladder at the leftmost part of that section of the "tunnel". Move
down and left and you can grab TM47 Steel Wing from the cliff. Then bike down
and out of the cave and you'll be on the south side of Route 10.

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|Route 10|
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Welcome to the other side of Route 10. There are two trainers.

Hiker Jim
Level 35 Machamp (1447 EXP)
You get: 1120G

Go down and to the left and you'll find one more trainer to battle.

PoKeFan Robert
Level 33 Quagsire (967 EXP)
You get: 2640G

Keep going down and you'll be in Lavender Town.

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|Lavender Town|
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Lavender Town is still creepy, but a bit less so. They used to have a Pokémon
Tower in the Red, Blue, and Yellow games on the northeast part of town that's
now the Kanto Radio Tower. You can walk in and talk to the director who thanks
you for saving his job. You're so amazing that you can take out international
criminal organizations and save people's jobs! He will thank you by giving you
an EXPN Card for the Pokegear Radio and you can now tune into Kanto channels. 

You'll also find Mr. Fuji in the Soul House to the south of the Kanto Radio
Tower, and the Name Rater in the southern house.

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|Route 8|
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Item on Route 8:

PRZCure Berry

There are five trainers here. You can pick up a PRZCure Berry when you enter the
route. Otherwise, you can fight a bunch of trainers on your way west.

Super Nerd Tom
Level 32 Magnemite (609 EXP)
Level 32 Magnemite (609 EXP)
Level 32 Magnemite (609 EXP)
You get: 1024G

Super Nerd Sam
Level 34 Grimer (655 EXP)
Level 34 Muk (1143 EXP)
You get: 1088G

You'll now encounter three bikers by the Kanto Pokémon Federation. They sound
scarier than they really are. First up is Biker Zeke, who collects ball-shaped
Pokémon that do chain smoking.

Biker Zeke
Level 32 Koffing (781 EXP)
Level 32 Koffing (781 EXP)
You get: 1024G

Biker Harris
Level 34 Flareon (1441 EXP)
You get: 1088G

Talk to him again and he says "Wiped out by some punk from Johto." Now fight the
next trainer, who has a whole collection of Koffings. You could say that he's a
true Koffing connoisseur.

Biker Dwayne
Level 27 Koffing (658 EXP)
Level 28 Koffing (684 EXP)
Level 29 Koffing (708 EXP)
Level 30 Koffing (732 EXP)
You get: 960G

The mighty Kanto Pokémon Federation has quickly gone down. Yay! Now head to
Saffron City and heal at the Pokémon Center.

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|Saffron City|
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Head to the northwest of town, to the left of Silph Co. Now barge inside that
family's home and walk up the stairs. You'll see Mimic Girl from Red, Blue, and
Yellow. Talk to her and she'll imitate you, then ask for a PokeDoll. If you can
give her the one she wants, you'll get the Rail Pass, which will make travel
back to Johto nearly instant.

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|Vermilion City|
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Now, fly back to Vermilion City. Enter the Pokémon Lovers Club in the west part
of the city. in this city. It's the same one in where you got the Rare Candy.
Instead, talk to the guy near the Clefairy. Turns out the PokeDoll IS the
Clefairy. He'll just give you the doll, no questions asked. What a trusting
person. Now, fly back to Saffron.

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|Saffron City|
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Re-enter the Mimic Girl's house and up to her room/floor. Talk to her and give
it back, and she'll give you a Magnet Train Pass. How does she even have a
Magnet Train Pass to hand over to you? She's just a little girl! It's for
unlimited use on the Magnet Train that is at the northwest corner of the city,
to the left of that route-changing house. 

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|Route 7|
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Pokémon on Route 7:

#017 Pidgeotto
#037 Vulpix
#052 Meowth

Head west from Saffron City to Celadon City by taking Route 7. The Saffron City
guard will check your Pokedex as ID. That's pretty weird, man. Anyway, there are
no trainers on this route, so just walk into Celadon City. There are no guards
on the Celadon City side. They don't hold prejudices against Saffron City
residents like that. Apparently, the Underground Path is also sealed due to all
the hooligan battles.

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|Celadon City|
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Items in Celadon City:

Leftovers
TM03 Curse

Heal at the Pokémon Center. To your left is a building with a front entrance and
a back entrance. It's the Celadon Mansion. It's where you can get Eevee in Red,
Blue, and Yellow. Head up three stairs, then go into the room. Talk  to the guy
and he will tell you a scary story. We know it's scary because some biker rolls
down Cycling Road and most importantly, the guy tells you that it is. At the
end, he'll give you TM03 Curse. Now head back down the few stairs and out the
door. If you go through the front entrance, you'll meet the game designers. They
put pixelated versions of themselves in the game. Groovy!

The Celadon Department Store is in the northwest side of town. Some guy says it
has a similar layout as the Goldenrod City Department Store, but he's not an
observant person, unlike you. You'll find that there are different TMs and some
things are on different floors here.

Level 2: Potions, Heals, Ultra Balls, Escape Ropes, Repels
Level 3: TM10, TM11, TM17, TM18, TM37 Sandstorm
Level 4: Pokedolls, Mail
Level 5: Stat increase & X Items (temporary stat boosts)
Level 6: Vending Machine heal items

You can play slots in the middle of town, because it's important to start
teaching 10-year olds how to start gambling. The Celadon Game Corner allows for
a coin exchange for prizes in the building to the right. There are people there,
but you'd want to talk to the two counters to exchange coins for prizes, which
can be TMs or Pokémon:

TM32 1500
TM29 3500
TM15 7500

Mr. Mime 3333
Eevee 6666
Porygon 9999

The Celadon City Restaurant is on the south-central portion of the city. Like
all the best items in Pokémon, you should look in the trash can. You'll get
Leftovers, an excellent item which heals your Pokémon every turn. If you then go
out and head right to a dead end, press A and you'll get a random PP Up! Yay!

Head to the southwest part of town with a Pokémon that can use the HM01 Cut and
you'll arrive at Erika's gym. An old man lurks outside Erika's gym saying, "This
gym is great! Only girls are allowed here!" He's totally not creepy at all.
You'll face a few trainers in Erika's gym. High-power, fire, and ice type moves
are good, while grass and water types will not be effective.

Twins Jo & Zoe
Level 35 Victreebel (1432 EXP)
Level 35 Vileplume (1380 EXP)
You get: 700G

Picnicker Tanya
Level 37 Exeggutor (1680 EXP)
You get: 740G

"Do you think a girls-only gym is rare? Only girls are allowed here!"

Lass Michelle
Level 32 Skiploom (931 EXP)
Level 34 Jumpluff (1281 EXP)
Level 33 Hoppip (522 EXP)
You get: 816G

Head up to face the final minor trainer of the gym.

Beauty Julia
Level 32 Paras (480 EXP)
Level 32 Exeggcute (672 EXP)
Level 35 Parasect (960 EXP)
You get: 3080G

The lineup (from Elite 4) that you would have at this point is:

Level 44 Sudowoodo
Level 45 Dragonair
Level 45 Raticate
Level 47 Typhlosion
Level 47 Gyarados
Level 49 Espeon

Leave the gym, fly to the Pokémon Center (it's faster) and heal, return to
Julia, then go up to Erika. Save, then it's time to battle!

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GYM LEADER ERIKA
Level 42 Tangela (1494 EXP)
Level 46 Victreebel (1882 EXP)
Level 46 Bellossom (1813 EXP)
Level 41 Jumpluff (1545 EXP)
You get: Rainbow Badge, 4,600G, TM19 Giga Drain
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Erika will have three Full Restores that she can use in battle to heal her
Pokémon back to full health and normal status.

Strategy VERSUS Tangela: Use your highest-powered attack from your starter. If
you have a high enough level Pokémon with fire or ice attacks, like Typhlosion
or Ho-Oh, you can utilize them.

Strategy VERSUS Victreebel: Use your highest-powered attack from your starter.
If you have a high enough level Pokémon with fire or ice attacks, like
Typhlosion or Ho-Oh, you can utilize them.

Strategy VERSUS Bellossom: Bellossom looks like it will happily dance for you,
but it has Synthesis, so it can heal half of its health every turn for quite a
while. It can be pretty annoying. It also has SolarBeam, which is a solid
two-turn grass move that could really damage your Water Pokémon. Use your
highest-powered attack from your starter. If you have a high enough level
Pokémon with fire or ice attacks, like Typhlosion or Ho-Oh, you can utilize
them.

Strategy VERSUS Jumpluff: Yes, as much as it looks like a water type, it's a
grass type. Use your highest-powered attack from your starter. If you have a
high enough level Pokémon with fire or ice attacks, like Typhlosion or Ho-Oh,
you can utilize them.

Erika congratulates you and gives you your 12th badge. Yay! You're amazing! Give
yourself a pat on the back, or do a hair flip. TM19 Giga Drain is a good move,
but unfortunately, it's only a 5 PP move. I am deeply saddened by this. I know
you are, too, because how could it not be sad? It's a travesty. Anyway, now walk
out the convoluted maze out the gym.

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