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Video Playthrough Link (Mahogany Town & Lake of Rage):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5_tkLJ0fvw

Video Playthrough Link (Mahogany Town Gym):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoPpbons5bY

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|Mahogany Town|
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Heal at the Pokémon Center and withdraw your Gyarados so that it's in your
lineup. If you head to the middle of the town where a guy is selling things,
you'll find Lance inside basically forcing his way through that house. He'll
show you the secret stairway to Team Rocket's Hideout.

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

Level 44 Starter Evolution
Level 30 Gyarados
Level 21 Sudowoodo
Level 20 Eevee
Level 21 Tentacool
Level 10 Kenya the Spearow

If a more balanced lineup, it should now look something like this:

Level 27 Starter Evolution
Level 28 Sudowoodo
Level 30 Eevee
Level 30 Gyarados
Level 31 Raticate
Level 5 Pidgey

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|Team Rocket Hideout|
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Items in the Team Rocket Hideout:

Ice Heal
Hyper Potion
Nugget
Protein
X Accuracy
TM46

You and Lance must now stop Team Rocket's operations, but you're still left on
your own. Head downstairs and left after you do so. But you have been spotted.
You intruder!

Rocket Grunt (M)
Level 17 Drowzee (368 EXP)
Level 19 Zubat (219 EXP)
You get: 760G

A second Rocket Grunt runs out to greet you. Hooray. You see, every time you
pass one of those statues, two Team Rocket grunts will fight you.

Rocket Grunt (M)
Level 16 Zubat (184 EXP)
Level 17 Grimer (327 EXP)
Level 18 Rattata (219 EXP)
You get: 720G

See? You really should read the dialogue. I'm not saying this as a hypocrite who
doesn't read some of the dialogue himself. Anyway, you'll spot another statute
while heading left. If you pass by that statue, you'll fight the same two Grunts
again, with the Drowzee and Zubat, and the Zubat, Grimer, and Rattata. If you go
down further, you'll fight a Rocket Grunt with many Rattatas. You could say that
he's a Rattata connoisseur.

Rocket Grunt (M)
Level 16 Rattata (195 EXP)
Level 16 Rattata (195 EXP)
Level 16 Rattata (195 EXP)
Level 16 Rattata (195 EXP)
You get: 640G

Does Team Rocket have an undercover Zubat, Grimer, and Rattata breeding
operation? I mean, probably. No one wants to admit that publicly, because that's
embarrassing. Anyway, if you head back past that statute and go down, you'll see
a pattern of zig-zags that avoids the statutes and leads to a scientist with
glasses. We know he's smart because he's wearing glasses. Let's fight him and
get him to give us some answer.

Scientist Jed
Level 20 Magnemite (381 EXP)
Level 20 Magnemite (381 EXP)
Level 20 Magnemite (381 EXP)
You get: 2000G

Talk to the scientist again. He'll tell you about Warp Panels that can take you
back to the entrance. I told you he was smart. Then go to the computer next to
him and press A to turn off the switch for the statues. Good thing the scientist
isn't a security expert. Now, no more Team Rocket Grunts will  swarm you every
time you reach a statue.

You can now roam around the floor like you own the place. Pick up the X
Accuracy, Hyper Potion, and Nugget. Then make your way around to the
southwest part of the room and take the staircase down to the next floor
(Negative Floor 2). Lance, who is not only a Pokémon champion but also a healer,
will meet with you and heal all your Pokémon. What a nice, kind-hearted guy.
Then head to the right and beat both Rocket Grunts.

Rocket Grunt (M)
Level 18 Venonat (288 EXP)
Level 18 Venonat (288 EXP)
You get: 720G

Now head to the right.

Rocket Grunt (M)
Level 18 Golbat (658 EXP)
You get: 720G

Head downstairs to Negative Floor 3. Lance says we need two passwords to unlock
the doors on this level. Unfortunately, one of the passwords is not 123456. But
if you beat the right Rocket Grunts, they'll spill the beans. Fortunately for
you, the hero, they are both on this level. Go up and left and you can pick up a
Protein and an Ice Heal. Then loop all the way back down and to the right, go
past the trainer that Lance beat up for more intel, and go up to fight the
scientist.

Scientist Ross
Level 22 Koffing (537 EXP)
Level 22 Koffing (537 EXP)
You get: 2200G

Head up to fight the Team Rocket Grunt above that. She says she MIGHT have the
password. She does! You've got to give that to the Team Rocket Grunts. They
aren't liars. They are, in fact, people of integrity.

Rocket Grunt (F)
Level 18 Ekans (238 EXP)
Level 18 Gloom (508 EXP)
You get: 720G

Now that you've beat her, you have the password after you talk to her. It's
SLOWPOKETAIL. I know, it's shocking. Then head left for your next battle.

Scientist Mitch
Level 24 Ditto (313 EXP)
You get: 2400G

Head left to the final trainer to the left of the table. Fight him.

Rocket Grunt (M)
Level 19 Raticate (471 EXP)
You get: 760G

Talk to him again now that you've beat him, and he'll give you his password
(RATICATE TAIL). Get the items (Dire Hit and Full Heal), go up the stairs at the
upperright part of the floor, then head left on Negative Floor 2. Fight the Team
Rocket member that spots you...or that you reach.

Rocket Grunt (M)
Level 17 Rattata (207 EXP)
Level 17 Rattata (207 EXP)
Level 17 Zubat (196 EXP)
You get: 680G

Head up the stairs to Negative Floor 1. Head right and then before you reach the
locked door, your rival will come and talk to you. He can't battle you though,
cause Lance just destroyed him. "He said I don't love and trust my Pokémon
enough." Press A at the door to open it and go into Giovanni's office. No idea
where Giovanni is, but there's a Rocket Executive that you can square off with.

Rocket Executive (M)
Level 22 Zubat (253 EXP)
Level 24 Raticate (595 EXP)
Level 22 Koffing (537 EXP)
You get: 1584G

He quickly runs off after he loses. Talk to the Murkrow next to the Rocket
Executive and it'll give you the final password, HAIL GIOVANNI. Now head to the
second stairs that you did NOT come out of, and grab TM46 from there, then go
back down to the same floor as where you just beat the executive.

Head back the way you came, past the spinning Team Rocket member, and go back
upstairs. Go back down to the floor with the gate blocking you from entering the
area with machines inside. We're going ALL the way back to where you met Lance
for the second time within the Team Rocket hideout. It's the second floor where
Lance healed your Pokémon.

You'll find a passworded door right there. Open it, and you'll quickly get
surrounded by two Team Rocket executives. Now you'd have to take both
executives, but Lance comes just in time. This time, you're fighting the female
Team Rocket boss while Giovanni's apprentice takes on Lance. Spreading the fun?
The battle isn't too difficult though, so just defeat her with any combo.

Rocket Executive (F)
Level 23 Arbok (724 EXP)
Level 23 Gloom (649 EXP)
Level 25 Murkrow (573 EXP)
You get: 1800G

She later says that you would be powerful enough to be a Rocket Executive. Well,
not quite. You're strong enough to run all of Team Rocket. But you are a kind
soul. You're here to do good for the world. After the Team Rocket Executives
lose, they run away like the losers that they are. Lance will then talk to you
and he'll want you to help him destroy the Electrodes supplying the base with
electricity. 

Lance runs to the right to take the Electrodes on the right, so you'll take the
left. The Electrodes will typically try to Self Destruct, so move your Sudowoodo
into the first spot temporarily as Sudowoodo can absorb a lot of damage. If
you're lucky enough to have any Electrode not use Self Destruct, you can try to
catch it with a Great Ball.

Level 23 Electrode (492 EXP)

Level 23 Electrode (492 EXP)

Level 23 Electrode (492 EXP)

The Lake is saved, and Lance thinks you're the hero. Why thank you, Lance. You
are the hero that the world deserves! Lance gives you HM06 Waterpool, an item he
just found lying around in the hideout. Excellent. You'll need the 7th badge
from the Mahogany City Gym to use it, though. Follow Lance's way out to the
stairs, then use the warp next to it to head out of the hideout. You know your
way out now.

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|Mahogany Town|
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Heal at the Pokémon Center, then enter the Mahogany Town Gym. I hope all those
trips to the ice rink as a kid pay off, because you'll be sliding all over the
place. This gym will actually have lower-level Pokémon than Jasmine. Fire and
grass moves will be effective. It's an ice gym!

Skate to the left to fight the very first trainer.

Boarder Ronald
Level 24 Seel (513 EXP)
Level 24 Seel (513 EXP)
Level 25 Dewgong (942 EXP)
You get: 1728G

Slide up twice, then right one, then down one, then left one to fight another
trainer.

Boarder Douglas
Level 24 Shellder (498 EXP)
Level 25 Cloyster (1087 EXP)
Level 24 Shellder (498 EXP)
You get: 1728G

Talk to the trainer again to get Gym Leader Pyrce's secret. He meditates under a
waterfall every day. When you're listening to music as you meditate, it's
actually a recording from Pryce's special waterfall. Now slide down, then to the
right.

Boarder Brad
Level 26 Swinub (433 EXP)
Level 26 Swinub (433 EXP)
You get: 1872G

Slide once to the right, then down to face another trainer.

Skier Clarissa
Level 28 Dewgong (1056 EXP)
You get: 2016G

Head up twice, then slide left to the final trainer.

Skier Roxanne
Level 28 Jynx (822 EXP)
You get: 2016G

Slide down and out of the gym to heal at the Pokémon Center before you return to
fight the gym leader. Go to just left of the left pillar then go up, up, right,
down, left, up and finally right. You will be standing in front of the gym
leader in your ice skates. Your time falling down at the ice rink as a kid did
pay off after all!

Good luck against Pryce. This will be a piece of cake after fighting Jasmine. He
thinks he's amazing because he has been fighting since before you were born. But
you're an underage kid who's been biking around the world on a rental bike. How
could you be stopped?

If you are focusing on leveling up your starter, your lineup should be around:

Level 47 Starter Evolution
Level 30 Gyarados
Level 22 Sudowoodo
Level 21 Tentacool
Level 20 Eevee
Level 10 Kenya the Spearow

If you have a balanced lineup, your lineup should be around:

Level 31 Raticate
Level 31 Gyarados
Level 31 Bayleef or Quilava, or Croconaw
Level 31 Eevee
Level 31 Sudowoodo
Level 5 Pidgey

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GYM LEADER PRYCE
Level 27 Seel (577 EXP)
Level 29 Dewgong (1093 EXP)
Level 31 Piloswine (1062 EXP)
You get: Glacier Badge, 3,100G, & TM16 (Icy Wind)
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Strategy VERSUS Seel: Use the highest-powered attack from your highest level
Pokémon that is not a fire or water type. Grass moves are ideal. Finally, a gym
that somewhat favors anyone who started with Chikorita!

Strategy VERSUS Dewgong: Use the highest-powered attack from your highest level
Pokémon that is not a fire or water type. Grass moves are still ideal.

Strategy VERSUS Piloswine: Pilowsine is a bit tougher. It is higher level and
more defensive. But it is also slow. Use the highest-powered attack from your
highest level Pokémon that is not a fire or water type. Grass moves are still
ideal.

You're worthy of the badge, and you get the SEVENTH badge. W00t! This raises
your Pokémon's special stats, you get more mooooney, and you have TM16 Icy Wind.
You can now use Whirlpool, once you find that in a dark cavern. Skate your way
to the bottom of the gym, then exit. One more badge to go!

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