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Video Playthrough Link (Team Rocket in Goldenrod City, & Route 44):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBCRvlP4Vqw

Video Playthrough Link (Ice Path): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evrwXY9s1uo

Video Playthrough Link (Blackthorn City Gym & Dark Cave):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWBRqXMdut8

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|Route 44|
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Pokémon on Route 44:

Poliwag (water)

Items on Route 44:

Burnt Berry
Ultra Ball

Take the elevator and stairs back down, leave the building, fly back to Mahogany
Town, heal at the Pokemon Center, and head east onto Route 44.

Psychic Phil
Level 24 Natu (565 EXP)
Level 24 Kadabra (807 EXP)
You get: 832G

Head up to grab the Burnt Berry from the tree, then the item east of that
trainer (Max Repel). Continue heading east and talk to the Fisherman. Also, you
get another call from your Mom. Should you really have trusted my advice at the
beginning of this walkthrough to give your mom access to your bank funds? No
comment.

Fisher Edgar
Level 25 Remoraid (417 EXP)
Level 25 Remoraid (417 EXP)
You get: 1000G

Keep heading east...

Cooltrainer Cybil
Level 25 Butterfree (854 EXP)
Level 25 Bellossom (985 EXP)
You get: 1200G

Keep heading east along this strange route after you beat her...

Cooltrainer Allen
Level 27 Chameleon (820 EXP)
You get: 1296G

Wow, that's two straight trainers that give you respect. You got game. Go pat
yourself on the back. Continue along the path, and then when you can go up, grab
the Ultra Ball. Then head along the northern route around the lake and you'll
find more trainers.

PoKeManiac Zach
Level 27 Rhyhorn (780 EXP)
You get: 1620G

Then talk to the fisherman to the west. He screams at you for losing a Poliwag
that he was trying to catch. Kind of sounds like it was his fault for not paying
attention, am I right?

Fisher Wilton
Level 23 Goldeen (546 EXP)
Level 23 Goldeen (546 EXP)
Level 25 Seaking (910 EXP)
You get: 1000G

Now head back east...

Bird Keeper Vance
Level 25 Pidgeotto (604 EXP)
Level 25 Pidgeotto (604 EXP)
You get: 600G

Now, you'll be heading into the Ice Path. Good luck with the puzzles! You got
this! By this, I mean a puzzle game in the middle of a role-playing game. Fly
back to Mahogany Town to heal at the Pokémon Center. Make sure you have a
Pokémon with HM Strength, because your 10-year old character isn't buff enough
to move boulders physically or with his mind. Then ride all the way east back
down to the route to a cave called the Ice Path.

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|Ice Path|
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Pokémon found in the Ice Path:

#042 Golbat
#124 Jynx
#220 Swinub
#225 Delibird (Silver only)

Items found in the Ice Path:

Full Heal
Iron
Nevermeltice
PP Up
HM07 Waterfall
TM44 Rest

The Ice Path has several puzzles. Follow the ice path. The first one's simple:
right, down, right, down. Then, go up the stairs, follow the route, go down the
stairs, follow the route, and you'll hit your first ice maze. Go up, left, up,
right, up, right, down, left, up, left, down, right, down, right, up, and then
right. Also, get ambushed by Golbats and Swinubs. Aren't those Swinubs so cute?
Maybe it's not so bad to get ambushed by them after all. 

When you complete this first ice maze, get HM07 Waterfall. To do so, head right
(from the bottom square), up, right, left, down, left, and right to take the HM.
Afterwards, just go left, down, and left to get out of the area. HM07 Waterfall
is a good move that you can teach to water types later. Head up the stairway and
along the icy path. Head down the stairs and then down the ladder.

The next puzzle is in the next room. There are four boulders and four holes that
the boulders can fall into. You'll want a Pokémon with the HM Strength.

Let's get the first boulder down the southwest hole. Move the bottom boulder
right, then 6 squares down, 3 squares to the left, 1 square up, 1 square to the
left, and 2 squares up. There goes one boulder.

Now let's get the second boulder. Go all the way to the right and then up. Move
that boulder 1 square to the left, 4 squares down, 1 square to the right, 2
squares down, and then 5 squares down.

The bottom path has another boulder. You've moved the right one down, now let's
move the left one up. Push this boulder two up, then one left, and two up.
Simply push it two to the right, then up, and then left to smack it in. Fall
through the hole below it and then go left, up, and right to snag the item, Full
Heal! Head down the ladder then rock smash the rock near you. Grab the
Nevermeltice, then head right and go up, down the stairs, and with the ladder
going down, to the next stage.

Finally, there's the remaining one. Move that one two to the left, then three
up, then push that one back down one. Then push it left one and down one. 

Head to the right side, and then you'll want to slide down to the part before
you fall off. Find the stairway, then go the opposite direction and slide down.
Slide right and you have the TM for Rest, TM44. Now go left and up, then go back
around. This time, go up the stairway and down the other one and you'll reach an
island of solid ice in which you can go up the ladder.

Move towards the right and down the stairway. Then go left, down, left, and then
down. Simply head left on the weird slippery ice path to get that Iron. Once you
head back out, go right, up, right, down, left, up, left, up, and then left.
Woot. You're done. Climb up the steps and go up the ladder.

Go up even more steps to get the Protein, then slide down at the very left to
grab a PP Up. Slide back up and drop anywhere in the middle of the area and then
go down from there. Walk out of the cave and finally, into Blackthorn City!

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|Blackthorn City|
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Head southwest and heal your Pokémon at the Pokémon Center. In the northeast
house, there's a lady that would trade her Rhydon for a Dragonair. In the house
in the south, the Move Deleter can delete HM moves from your Pokémon.


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|Blackthorn City|
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When you reach Blackthorn City, make sure you restock on Ultra Balls so you're
back up to 30 Ultra Balls. Then heal your Pokémon at the Pokémon Center and
deposit any extraneous items. In the northeast house, there's a lady that would
trade her Rhydon for a Dragonair. In the house in the south, the Move Deleter
can delete HM moves from your Pokémon. 

Head up to the top of the city to reach the gym. This is a dragon-based gym, the
first of its kind!

If you're just leveling up your Starter, your lineup should look something like
this:

Level 57 Starter Evolution
Level 30 Gyarados
Level 22 Sudowoodo
Level 21 Tentacool
Level 10 Kenya the Spearow
Level 6 Bellsprout

If you have a balanced lineup, your team might look like this:

Level 36 Gyarados
Level 35 Raticate
Level 35 Quilava
Level 15 Dratini
Level 4 Wooper

Head left to fight your first trainer battle. If you are just using your starter
Pokémon, the HM move Strength should take out every trainer in the gym,
including the gym leader. The advice below would be for a more balanced lineup.
If you're doing that, Gyarados should do pretty good damage with that Dragon
Rage.

Cooltrainer Paul
Level 34 Dratini (487 EXP)
Level 34 Dratini (487 EXP)
Level 34 Dratini (487 EXP)
You get: 1632G

Move up above him and head up the stairs. You'll find out you need to move even
more boulders. Use any Pokémon that you have that has Strength. For the two
above you, move the right one up two, and the left one down two and into the
hole. Now head down to fight...

Cooltrainer Fran
Level 37 Seadra (1228 EXP)
You get: 1776G

You'll see two more boulders nearby. Push the right one down three, and the left
one up nine, then to the right two to make that fall. Head up to fight the last
dragon trainer on this level.

Cooltrainer Cody
Level 34 Horsea (604 EXP)
Level 36 Seadra (1195 EXP)
You get: 1728G

Push the boulder right next to you three to the right, then move the other one
down one. Easy. Now, head down the stairs you saw earlier next to the second
hole you encountered. Head two up, then to the left to fight that trainer.

Cooltrainer Mike
Level 37 Dragonair (1141 EXP)
You get: 1776G

Head across the boulder path you just created and then to the final trainer
before Clair.

Cooltrainer Lola
Level 34 Dratini (487 EXP)
Level 36 Dragonair (1110 EXP)
You get: 1728G

Now that you've finished beating everyone, use the warps to return to the
entrance to heal at the Pokémon Center, if needed.

Save before you battle, and make sure you have a few Revives, Full Heals, and
Hyper Potions in case you need it. Clair says she can hold her own against the
Elite Four as the dragon master. We'll see about that, my good friend!

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GYM LEADER CLAIR
Level 37 Dragonair (1141 EXP)
Level 37 Dragonair (1141 EXP)
Level 40 Kingdra (1773 EXP)
Level 37 Dragonair (1141 EXP)
You get: Rising Badge, 4,000G, TM24 (Dragon Breath)
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Strategy VERSUS Dragonairs: Use HM Strength to do a lot of damage, or Body Slam
if you have that on a Meganium. Try not to use grass, fire, or water moves, as
the Dragonairs resist those moves. Beware: Dragonairs can use Fire Blast, which
can do a decent amount of damage against a Meganium, and Thunder Wave, which can
paralyze your Pokémon from being able to attack.

Strategy VERSUS Kingdra: Kingdra is a water Pokémon that can use dragon moves
like Dragon Pulse. Grass and normal moves are ideal here from your starter.

This would be your 8th badge, but Clair won't give you it just yet. Apparently,
she's a sore loser and she won't give you the badge until you get the Dragon
Fang in the Dragon's Den. Now, leave the gym.

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|Dragon's Den|
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Pokémon in Dragon's Den:

#129 Magikarp
#147 Dratini

Items in Dragon's Den:

TM24 Dragonbreath

The Dragon's Den is located across the sea above the gym. Make sure you have in
your lineup a water Pokémon that can use the HMs Surf and Waterfall. Heal at the
Pokémon Center, then head in talking to the bodyguard in front of it. Does that
guy just stand out there every day? That's a pretty boring work shift. Go in,
head down the ladder, and go through the door, and then you'll get to battle.

Surf around counterclockwise from the left side and you'll spot a Whirlpool.
Remove it, then keep surfing eastward. Eventually, you'll find Dragon Fang just
lying on the ground. Clair will then come and give you the Rising Badge and TM24
(Dragon Breath). She insists that it's not her own breath. Maybe it's the breath
one of our Dragonairs. No one will ever know. It's a state secret.

Clair then gives you instructions to go to the Pokémon League, by heading from
New Bark Town and surfing east to the Pokémon League. She tells you that she'll
feel even worse if you lost at the Pokémon League because she lost to you so you
must win. 

Now head back out the way you came and when you leave the cave (at the
entrance), Professor Elm will give you a call. If you swing by the lab, you'll
get something really awesome. However, Elm still has his last starter Pokémon
just sitting out there, waiting to be stolen by your thief Rival again. Elm
doesn't really know how to properly store his valuables. Head to the Pokémon
Center and heal your Pokémon.

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