PokŽmon Stadium (USA) Strategy Guide

                             Version 3.29

                       Last Updated: 09/03/2000

                          Created: 01/30/2000

         Created by:  Magus747 (Mark)--paladin423@hotmail.com

              Major contributors (see credits for info):

Alvaro--robot_z50@hotmail.com, Laura 182--laurar182@hotmail.com, 

                   Striker64--striker64@mailcity.com



****AN IMPORTANT NOTE TO EVERYONE, LOOK IN MY DISCLAIMER.  I CAN 

ONLY ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS ABOUT GAME SECRETS IF YOU EARNED THEM 

YOURSELF THROUGH HARD WORK AND GAME PLAY.  I CAN NOT ACCEPT RIP 

OFFS FROM OTHER SITES OR MAGAZINES.  THIS IS FOR YOUR 

PROTECTION.  THANK YOU.****



****IF YOU HAVE FURTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW STATS WORK, AND HOW 

TO ACHIEVE MAX STATS, EMAIL ME.****



Table of Contents:



   I. Updates/Version History

  II. Introduction

 III. How to catch a pokŽmon with good potential

  IV. Some basic strategy

   V. Pika and Petit Cups, PokŽ and Prime Cups, Gym Leader 

        Castle

  VI. The single types

 VII. Dual types

VIII. The benefits of status attacks and status boosters, and 

        other tricks

  IX. Ultimate teams

      A. Recommended movesets by alexgen@sinectis.com.ar

   X. Secrets

  XI. Credits

 XII. Disclaimer and other legal stuff

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I.  Updates/Version History



3.29--Thanks to alexgen@sinectis.com.ar for his recommended 

movesets.  Currently, I will be accepting no more submissions to 

enhance the guide unless it is totally something surprising 

about the game.  You may still email me with movesets, ultimate 

teams, etc. for discussion, but please do not email me with 

things you want published.  Thanks.



3.28-Made a few more corrections on the guide.  Counter always 

waits for your opponent to attack, so you should use it on 

pokŽmon that you know are only going to hit you with "physical" 

moves.  And softboiled only recovers half your HP instead of all 

of it.  Psychic is not the most powerful psychic attack, dream 

eater is, but it is harder to use --thanks to Alvaro for 

pointing this out.



3.27-Added that Raichu can learn light screen (while in Pikachu 

stage).  Must have been an oversight.



3.26-Beedrill and Venomoth are not weak against ground type 

attacks, the attacks balance out.  Thanks to 

alexgen@sinectis.com.ar for pointing this out.



3.25-Made several corrections thanks to cmsnrub25@yahoo.com who 

has a very observant eye.  I changed the places where I said 

that acid could poison, as it can reduce physical defense; and I 

changed where I said aurora beam may reduce speed as it may 

reduce attack.  Venomoth and Beedrill are also weak to ground 

type attacks, which I corrected, and Tentacruel can learn the 

grass type attack, mega drain.  Also corrected a bit of the info 

on how to get a good pokŽmon from gaming experience.



3.21-Oops again, a mistake in the attack chart was fixed, 

fighting does only normal on ice/psychic, not super effective.  

Hopefully that is the rest of my mistakes.



3.20-Fixed a few errors in the "Earliest Levels PokŽmon Found 

At" section.  Removed some that didn't qualify for cups, and 

explained how to catch a normal experienced Tangela at its 

lowest level.  Went through and made numerous corrections, so it 

may be wise to re-read a lot of the guide.  Spellchecked.  I 

believe this is the final update unless someone points out a 

grammar mistake or such.



3.11-Oops, found that I made a small error in the attack types 

chart.  There is no pure ice type, so I made the corrections and 

added ice/psychic where needed.  I will continue to look for 

errors, but I am near a final update.



3.10-Updated the info about stat growth under section III.  Be 

sure to check it out if you are going for a pokŽmon with awesome 

stats.  Also updated section V with new teams and strategies for 

defeating the hard mode.  Check it out if you are having 

trouble, and these teams also work great for round 1.



3.06-Corrected a few mistakes, Aerodactyl can not learn rock 

slide, and Slowbro can not learn hydro pump.



3.05-Added a bit of new info on the Surfing Pikachu secret.  

Added a new secret about the Battle Now mode.  Unfortunately, it 

appears you cannot rent Mewtwo after round 2 is finished, which 

is bad news for all you guys going through on rentals.  How lame 

to just get bonus stickers eh?



3.00-Corrected the secret on how to get the hyper mode to the 

mini games, turns out you can just win five in a row on 5 or 

more rounds.  Finally got the secret about what you get for 

finishing round 2 added.  Finished Surfing Pikachu and gave the 

real secrets to getting him, my past info was not correct.  

Spellchecked.  **This should be the final version of the guide 

unless I find grammar mistakes or such, or find out some new 

secrets.**



2.994-Added a section that tells where to get each PokŽmon at 

their earliest levels, and which version of the game.  This is 

at the bottom of the Basic Strategy Section.  Still can't get 

surfing Pikachu on my own to confirm the secret (can we say 

arggh?).



2.993-Fixed the Surfing Pikachu secret to show how to really get 

him.  Changed Clefable on my ultimate teams, he can not learn 

hydro pump, oops.  I gave him double edge now instead.  Added a 

secret about changing backgrounds in the Game Boy Tower.  

Changed some other errors as well.



2.99-Finished the mini games to get hyper mode.  Adjusted the 

technique to get the secret, see the secrets section.  I will 

soon get the surfing Pikachu rumor investigated to see if you 

actually can continue and still get him.  It may be a while 

before I finish PokŽ Cup, Petit Cup, Pika Cup, and the final 

battle.  When I do I will tell whatever new secrets I uncovered.  

I do have suggestions for teams, etc., posted below though.  

Hopefully I can finish within a few weeks.



2.988-I have added notes about Gym Leader Castle also on hard 

mode as I have finished it.  Adding two rumors to the secrets to 

modify them, I will test these as soon as I can to see if they 

are true, and some of you guys could email me to confirm them 

and help me out if you would :-).  One says you can get surfing 

Pikachu even if you use a continue, the other says that you can 

beat the computer five times in a row with a five round battle 

on the hard mode to get hyper mode in the mini games.



2.985-Went and corrected lots of little errors, like Mew being 

in contention for the best pokŽmon, it is by far Mewtwo.  Also 

added the idea to a lot of TM suggestions that takedown and 

double edge, and even mega kick are good picks.  Updated a lot 

of info on pokŽmon, etc.  Spell checked.  Fixed formatting.



2.981-Huge thanks to Brian-lkr@oneimage.com for confirming the 

secret about the mini game hyper mode.  Check secrets for how to 

get it.  Found out that the Gym Leader Castle still has level 50 

(level varies depending on your highest) pokŽmon instead of all 

100 as I had first thought.  Found out that Brock can cheat with 

confuse ray to bring down Mewtwo and totally whoop you in the 

first gym.  Still being tested by the challenge of the computer.  

Updated the section describing the different game modes to let 

you know just how hard this game has gotten.  I also added some 

ideas for some good teams, but a lot of it may be up to luck, 

and some choices may be better than the ones I am thinking of.  

If someone has finished the game on hard mode, email me with the 

secrets of what you get, cause I may never beat these awful 

computer tactics (at least not until I spend a lot of time 

getting better teams and getting lots of TMs to beat the 

computer).  Also added a secret about wallpapers.



2.98-I have heard many rumors about a "hyper mode" to the mini 

games, if anyone knows about this for sure by having actually 

gotten it yourself, please email me.  Also I am having big 

trouble finishing the hard mode of the game, so if anyone 

already has, could you email me and tell me what different 

things you get for finishing it?  Added a new secret.  Added 

some notes about Amnesia Psyduck thanks to kill me-

zodaic@hotmail.com .  Updated the strategy on status attacks, 

found a lot of useful info in checking moves of pokŽmon.  Tested 

that poison is indeed a physical attack rather than special, 

thanks to Pesmerga-pesmerga_99@hotmail.com .  Added a few notes 

to basic strategy to update some ideas.  The new notes in basic 

strategy are above the note on critical hits.  Updated the note 

about take down and double edge in basic strategy.  Added a note 

about agility in the basic strategies section, thanks to 

Gyarados13O@cs.com for the info.  Sorry no info on the hard mode 

rewards yet but the hard mode is really tough to finish.



2.975-Forgot to update the attack chart to reflect the 

information in the below update.  I think I will have to get to 

the hard mode and finish parts of it before the next update, so 

it may be several days.  



2.97-Ground vs. grass/poison, and poison vs. bug/poison is 1-

1.5x effective instead of 2x-3x. Grass vs. rock/flying, poison 

vs. grass/poison, fire vs. water/ice, electric vs. 

dragon/flying, fighting vs. normal/flying, water vs. rock/water, 

grass vs. water/flying, and grass vs. poison/ground I found to 

do also normal damage instead of 1/2-3/4x damage.  I fixed these 

errors under the appropriate pokŽmon below.  



2.96-Allowed for publication of my guide in the near future to 

be on http://www.happypuppy.com/ also.  Added a new note about 

email to the disclaimer, I suggest that everyone take a glance.



2.95-Thanks to Matt-Formatt777@aol.com for info on how to get 

Surfing Pikachu.  Check secrets, section X.  Updated notes on 

Amnesia Psyduck due to new information from Jeff.



2.93-Added little notes here and there, changed this and that.  

Read through some of the Gym Leader Castle info to see some of 

the more important changes.  It is going to take me a bit to get 

the different kinds into the hall of fame, so it will be a while 

before I get back to hard mode to learn its secrets.



2.92-Added a new secret about "Amnesia Psyduck" thanks to Jeff-

rubee64@hotmail.com .  Added the important note above table of 

contents because I get lots of submissions about secrets, but 

only a few have been valid so far.



2.91-Also found out that ice vs. water/flying is only 1-1.5x 

damage.  Really cost me against Gyarados in the Pika Cup.  I had 

to start over on round one (easy mode, bye bye Dodrio Game Boy 

for now....I'll miss it till I get it again) to get my pokŽmon 

in the hall of fame more easily, I really urge all of you to get 

all but Mewtwo and Mew in the hall of fame on the first Prime 

Cup>Master Ball tournament.  Try to squeeze Mewtwo in there if 

you have him, as he will make it much easier.  And oh yeah, YOU 

CAN RENT MEW ON THE HARD MODE!  He is decent.  (See secrets for 

details).  Found out that the gym trainers' teams are all at 

level 100 on hard mode, and the rentals remain at 50, so it is 

important that you have Game Boy pokŽmon trained up.  Also added 

a weird quirk about color under secrets, thanks Laura182.



2.90-Finished the Gym Leader Castle and found out some 

interesting things.  View secrets and the info on the Gym Leader 

Castle.  Added a couple of notes to basic strategy, under the 

note on seismic toss.  Seems double edge and takedown aren't as 

useless as I thought, but I still don't like them much.



2.81-Added a secret thanks to David-Dolphins1324@aol.com .



2.80-Updated the attack chart and pokŽmon for electric vs. 

electric/flying, ground vs bug/poison, bug vs. poison/flying, 

grass vs. water/poison, bug vs. ghost/poison, fighting vs. 

ice/psychic, fighting vs. rock/flying, ice vs. ice/flying, and 

fighting vs. ice/flying.  It seems that these attacks do regular 

(1x-1.5x) damage instead of super effective damage (2x-3x).  

Working on the Gym Leader Castle but it gets pretty tough.  Also 

allowed for publication of this guide to be also on 

http://www.rpgamer.com/ , see legal stuff and disclaimer in 

section XII.



Version 2.75-Discovered a fluke that I added to basic 

strategies.  It is directly above the note on critical hit.  

Finished the Prime Cup with mostly rental pokŽmon and my own 

Mewtwo and added notes about it and what you get for finishing 

it.  I will try to get through the Gym Leader Castle soon.



Version 2.61-Fixed little errors here and there about strategy.  

I changed some ideas on substitute.  See the notes in the 

strategy section, and also some pokŽmon's evaluations and notes 

about TMs have changed slightly with the new ideas on 

substitute.  Credit for this goes to Lee-deathmeister@webtv.net 

because he pointed out substitute is very risky to use if you 

don't have the speed needed to use it before your opponent hits 

you with a strong attack.



Version 2.60-Added info about what you get for finishing the 

PokŽ Cup and some strategies on finishing it.  The next update 

will take a while, because it will be a bit before I get six 

good pokŽmon to level 100 to take down the Prime Cup.



Version 2.51-Fixed a big mistake in the secrets section.  Turns 

out you can not play through the game over and over to rack up 

on items because every time you start the game over, the ID 

number changes.



Version 2.50-Fixed a few mistakes and am adding a bit of info on 

the Pika and Petit cups, along with the PokŽ and Prime cups, and 

Gym Leader Castle section, which is in the works.  Since the 

demand on gamefaqs for answers on Stadium has risen quite a bit, 

I will try to get more of the info about the game as well as 

strategy on here.  Please be patient as it will take me at least 

a couple of weeks to get this info out if not more.  Found out 

seismic toss and sonic boom even work on ghost types.  Added a 

few new sections and changed a few things in basic strategy.



Version 2.01-Fixed the formatting and the copyright info on 

Stadium.



Version 2.00-Ahhhh yeah!  The ultimate in pokŽmon strategy!  

This guide even is an interesting read to me after I finished 

it, so now I know how to beat all my friends.  Finally finished, 

spellchecked, and proofread.



Version 1.76-The rest of the info is coming within a few weeks, 

I will try to get it done by the 7th of March.



Version 1.75-Finished the attacks chart with help of Alvaro and 

the dual type info.  Received new info from Laura182 on pokŽmon.  

The guide is starting to take publishing shape.



Version 1.5-Added a lot of material, fixed spelling errors, etc.  

Huge thanks for contributions!



Version 1.0-The creation of the guide.  I am starting what I 

hope will be the most comprehensive guide to pokŽmon strategy.

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II. Introduction



Know that this guide is intended to cover only the highest 

evolved or never evolving pokŽmon.  It covers more of a PokŽ Cup 

to Prime Cup status, the real power pokŽmon.  I do go into the 

Pika and Petit cups, but I am not planning to do an elaborate 

pokŽmon by pokŽmon analysis of the weaker pokŽmon.  If you are 

having trouble, I did mention a few good teams to raise from 

Game Boy in Section V.



I think this guide is perfectly timed as we are getting close to 

time for PokŽmon Stadium to be released.  Well, it was released 

and this guide has done well I guess, peaking at #2 on the top 

ten at gameFAQs :-).  I am, along with some very helpful people, 

writing this guide to go deep into the different strategy 

elements of what is  going to be many people's favorite game, 

PokŽmon Stadium.  If you are like me and aspiring to be one of 

the greatest pokŽmon masters of all time, you probably have 

found yourself wondering "would an Aerodactyl be at a 

disadvantage or an advantage against an electric type since it 

is both a rock and a flying type?".  You have probably wondered 

what TMs are best and which pokŽmon will use them most 

effectively.  Would Thunder be best for an electric type like 

Electrode, or for someone like Dragonite to add an element of 

surprise to his attack?  You have probably wondered what the 

sense is in keeping moves like Thunder Wave when seemingly 

better moves come along.  You have probably also wondered if a 

pokŽmon's statistics like strength are more important than their 

type in battle.  I decided to write a guide to answer these age 

old questions and let you in on the secret knowledge that all 

those "masters" possess.  Tired of being beaten by your friends 

when they know an impossible strategy to beat?  This guide will 

attempt to give you all the information you need to put them in 

their place, and make you the greatest master of all time!

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III.  How to catch a pokŽmon with good potential



You have to go back to the Game Boy for this following strategy.  

One of the most important aspects to having a good pokŽmon is to 

have high stats such as strength.  I had caught two level 9 

Abras one day, gazed at their stats, and I realized one of the 

big secrets to pokŽmon--two pokŽmon of the same level and kind 

may have very different stats.  For those of you who have the 

time and the patience, you can try this following method to 

build pokŽmon to their optimum power.  What's the advantage?  

Your pokŽmon will be much stronger and more difficult to defeat 

in battle, and in some cases it may mean the difference between 

victory and defeat.  For those of you who don't have the time or 

don't wish to follow this method, don't despair, you only will 

have a few extra stat points even if you catch a good pokŽmon.  

You should still try to find them at the lowest level possible 

and train them the hard way, otherwise you could end up with far 

less stats than other pokŽmon.  The other parts of this method 

only get you a few extra stat points.



You may want to have finished the game before trying this.  You 

will need lots of money and patience if you want a near perfect 

pokŽmon.  Depending on the level and type of the pokŽmon you 

want to capture you may need anything ranging from a pokŽ ball 

to an ultra ball.  You will need to carry a weak pokŽmon to help 

injure the weaker kinds so you can capture them more easily, if 

you don't have any weak pokŽmon, just put a weak one to sleep 

and try to capture it with regular pokŽ balls because they are 

less expensive and ultra balls are only stronger when the 

pokŽmon is really weak (thanks Alvaro for pointing this out). 

Also you may want to use leech seed to slowly wear your 

opponents down, this helps a lot.  For pokŽmon of the Safari 

Zone, save in the Safari Zone and reset when you run out of time 

so you don't have to spend the admission fee over and over while 

looking for the pokŽmon you want.



Search for the pokŽmon you want, and fight several of them until 

you determine the lowest level that particular pokŽmon shows up 

at.  You may have to search several areas and different versions 

of the game.  Mankey, Cubone, Pinsir, Scyther, Tauros, Venonat, 

Chansey, Grimer, and a maybe a few others show up at earlier or 

much earlier levels on yellow.  When you are sure you have found 

that pokŽmon at its lowest level possible, capture 3-5 of them 

at that level.  A level 51 pokŽmon trained since an early level 

will have higher stats than a wild level 51 pokŽmon of the same 

kind.  Compare all their stats--life energy (HP), strength, 

defense, speed, and special power.  If you think you haven't 

caught a good one keep trying.  For pokŽmon you only get once 

per game such as Eevee and Mewtwo, you may keep receiving them 

(save right before getting them) until you get the one you want.  

Find the one with the best overall stats (you may want the extra 

stat points in its weaknesses or in its strengths) then begin to 

build it up towards level 100.  Release the other ones into the 

wild.  Evolve most as soon as possible, as evolved pokŽmon gain 

more stats at level up.  Wait until pokŽmon that evolve by using 

stones on them have learned all their moves, or at least the 

moves you want before evolving them.  Optionally, you can also 

use TMs to teach moves that you want to pokŽmon that evolve from 

stones and then evolve them.  TM taught moves, though, are never 

quite as strong as the ones pokŽmon have learned on their own, 

though the difference isn't much (I will discuss more about this 

later in the guide).  For the trade evolutions, trade as soon as 

your pokŽmon has reached its second form (example:  Abra becomes 

Kadabra at level 16--do not build it up any higher until you 

have traded it and evolved it to Alakazam).  Then, trade that 

same pokŽmon right back to yourself to avoid it having boosted 

experience.   The others you never want to trade until they are 

at level 100.  Also, never put your pokŽmon in daycare, or use 

rare candy on it.  Why?  Because any of these things (including 

boosted experience) will take away stat points from your pokŽmon 

at level up (my friend's Slowbro and Kadabra ended up weaker for 

this reason than my pokŽmon at the same level).  Unfortunately, 

the best way to build them up is the normal way, the long way.  



A note about Jynx and Mr. Mime--you can only raise them with 

boosted experience.  You must trade for them, so give the 

computer person the pokŽmon they want at the lowest level 

possible, as that is the level you will receive your new pokŽmon 

at.  Just follow all the other parts of the method regarding 

them.  Also, Lickitung is caught in the wild at level 50+ in the 

yellow version or with boosted experience in the others.  Alvaro 

discovered that with Lickitung, the stats are very close if you 

caught him in the wild from yellow or got him earlier in red and 

blue.  Farfetch'd can be caught in the wild at an early level on 

PokŽmon Yellow with no boosted experience, although you can 

trade for it with a level 2 (or 3) Spearow.  Alvaro also 

discovered that the stats for Farfetch'd are nearly the same by 

either method, so either way is fine.



I will discuss which moves to keep as your pokŽmon grows in 

other sections of this guide.  Good places to build levels are 

in Mewtwo's cave and by fighting the Elite Four repetitively--

the Elite Four also give you lots of money towards buying those 

many pokŽ balls and stat boosters you will need if you use this 

method.  I find Mewtwo's cave to be a more steady way of 

building levels though.  



The actual truth of stats is a bit different than I thought at 

first.  You will want to give your pokŽmon that you caught-at 

its lowest level-all the stat boosters it can take when you 

first get it, this in turn will increase the amount of stats it 

gains at each level up.  Be sure to give them all the stat 

boosts they can take in their lowest evolved form.  You may hold 

out to learn the moves you wish to learn with a pokŽmon before 

evolving them, the stats usually end up being about the same 

whether you evolved them early or later.  Again, as I mentioned 

earlier, try to get the ones with the best stats possible in the 

wild when you catch them, you may have to catch four or five or 

even more if you want one with absolutely great stats.  The 

bottom line though--even if your pokŽmon has a perfect rating in 

any of the stats, it will only be maybe 30 points (likely less), 

and strategy can still overcome them.  Yes, they will have a 

slightly better chance of surviving, but all in all, as long as 

you have caught them in the wild at their earliest level and fed 

them stat boosters immediately, then your pokŽmon should be 

formidable if you give it the right moves.

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IV. Some Basic Strategy



--Your pokŽmon's strength and defense ratings effect how well it 

uses/resists the following type attacks (at least from what I 

could find in combat):



normal

rock

ground

bug

fighting

flying

ghost

poison



These would be "physical".



--Your pokŽmon's special rating effects how well it uses/resists 

the following type attacks (again at least from what I could 

find in combat):



electric

grass

ice

psychic

fire

water



These would be "special".



--Using attacks that are the same type as your pokŽmon seems to 

do around 1.5 times the damage the attack would in the hands of 

another types.  Example:  Raticate uses quick attack better than 

Pikachu because Raticate is a normal type using a normal type 

move.  Pikachu would be an electric type using a normal type 

move.  Compound this figure with the damage of an attack being 

super effective and it does 3x damage, and to some it would do 

6x damage (like Articuno using blizzard on Dragonite).  Factor 

this in when you calculate how much damage you are racking up.  

Defense-wise, if you were to use a Raticate's quick attack on an 

Onix, it would do slightly more damage than a Pikachu's quick 

attack.  Instead of the usual 1/2 damage caused by an attack 

that a pokŽmon resists, if the pokŽmon using the attack is the 

same type as his attack he is using, then it will cause 3/4 

damage.  Or if the attack only does 1/4 damage it will do 3/8.  

Example:  Zapdos (electric/flying types) uses thunder on 

Venusaur.  Since Zapdos is one type electric, using an electric 

move will automatically do 1.5x normal damage.  Venusaur being 

one type grass resists this attack to where it usually does just 

1/2 damage.  But since Zapdos is doing 1.5x the normal damage, 

it will do 3/4 of the normal damage to Venusaur.  Charizard 

greatly resists bug attacks by being both a fire and flying 

type.  But if Beedrill uses a bug attack (and since he is one 

type bug), he will do 3/8 the normal damage instead of 1/4.

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PokŽmon attack chart



Your attack will always have a type.  Your opponent's defense 

may have one or two types.  The following explains how your 

attack effects different types of opponents.



Normal (your attack type, NOT defense type)

strengths (attack type does 2x-3x damage to opponent if they are 

the following types): none

resistances (1/2-3/4 damage to opponent of the following types): 

rock/ground, rock/flying, rock/water

immunities (opponent takes no damage): ghost/poison



Water

strengths: fire, ground, fire/flying, poison/ground, rock/flying 

resistances: water, grass, dragon, dragon/flying, grass/poison, 

grass/psychic, bug/grass, water/flying, water/fighting, 

water/psychic, water/ice, water/poison

big strengths (4x-6x damage to opponent): rock/ground

big resistances (1/4-3/8 damage to opponent): none



Fire

strengths: grass, bug, grass/psychic, grass/poison, ice/flying, 

ice/psychic, bug/poison, bug/flying

resistances: fire, water, dragon, water/flying, water/fighting, 

water/psychic, water/poison, dragon/flying, rock/ground, 

rock/flying, fire/flying

big strengths: bug/grass

big resistances: rock/water



Electric

strengths: water, water/ice, rock/water, water/psychic, 

water/poison, water/fighting, ice/flying, fire/flying, 

normal/flying, bug/flying, poison/flying, rock/flying

resistances: grass, electric, dragon, grass/poison, 

grass/psychic

big strengths: water/flying

big resistances: none

immunities: ground, poison/ground, rock/ground 



Ice

strengths: grass, ground, dragon, grass/poison, grass/psychic, 

poison/ground, rock/ground, normal/flying, fire/flying, 

bug/flying, poison/flying, electric/flying, bug/grass

resistances: ice/psychic, water, rock/water, water/psychic, 

water/poison, water/fighting

big strengths: dragon/flying

big resistances: water/ice



Fighting

strengths: normal, water/ice, rock/ground, rock/water

resistances: poison, psychic, bug, poison/ground, 

electric/flying, fire/flying, water/flying, dragon/flying, 

water/psychic, grass/psychic, bug/grass

big strengths: none

big resistances: bug/poison, bug/flying, poison/flying

immunities: ghost/poison



Grass

strengths: water, ground, water/ice, water/psychic, 

water/fighting

resistances: fire, grass, poison, bug, dragon, grass/psychic,  

ghost/poison, normal/flying, ice/flying, electric/flying

big strengths: rock/ground, rock/water

big resistances: fire/flying, grass/poison, poison/flying, 

bug/flying, dragon/flying, bug/poison, bug/grass



Psychic

strengths: fighting, poison, water/fighting, bug/poison, 

poison/ground, grass/poison, water/poison, ghost/poison

resistances: psychic, grass/psychic, ice/psychic, water/psychic

big strengths: none

big resistances: none



Ground

strengths: fire, electric, poison, poison/ground, water/poison, 

ghost/poison, rock/ground, rock/water

resistances: grass, bug, grass/psychic

big strengths: none

big resistances: bug/grass

immunities: normal/flying, bug/flying, electric/flying, 

ice/flying, fire/flying, poison/flying, water/flying, 

rock/flying, dragon/flying



Flying

strengths: grass, fighting, bug, grass/poison, grass/psychic, 

water/fighting, bug/poison, bug/flying

resistances: electric, electric/flying, rock/water, rock/ground, 

rock/flying

big strengths: bug/grass

big resistances: none



Poison

strengths: grass, bug, grass/psychic, bug/flying

resistances: poison, ground, poison/flying, water/poison

big strengths: bug/grass

big resistances: poison/ground, rock/ground, ghost/poison



Rock

strengths: fire, bug, ice/psychic, water/ice, normal/flying, 

electric/flying, poison/flying, water/flying, rock/flying, 

dragon/flying

resistances: fighting, ground, water/fighting, rock/ground, 

poison/ground

big strengths: ice/flying, bug/flying, fire/flying

big resistances: none



Bug

strengths: grass, poison, psychic, bug/poison, poison/ground, 

water/poison, ice/psychic, water/psychic, bug/grass

resistances: fire, fighting, normal/flying, electric/flying, 

ice/flying, bug/flying, water/flying, rock/flying, dragon/flying

big strengths: grass/poison, grass/psychic

big resistances: fire/flying



Ghost (the only true ghost type attack is lick)

strengths: ghost/poison

resistances: none

big strengths: none

big resistances: none

immunities: normal, normal/flying, psychic, ice/psychic, 

water/psychic, grass/psychic



Dragon (the only dragon attack, dragon rage, does a weak 40 HP 

damage always)

strengths: none

resistances: none

big strengths: none

big resistances: none

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--There are exceptions, some moves will always do a set amount 

of damage.  Sonic boom will always do 20 HP damage--this move is 

generally too weak though.  Seismic toss and night shade seem to 

do about as much damage as your current level, ignoring 

resistances.  Psywave does random damage, up to 1.5 times your 

current level (thanks Alvaro for investigating this), but since 

the damage is random, it is not as useful as seismic toss or 

night shade.  At high levels, even weaker pokŽmon could do heavy 

damage with these moves.  Choose who you teach it to wisely 

though, teach these moves to a pokŽmon that will survive to use 

them enough to win.  Some high level pokŽmon have near and over 

500 HP, so even doing 100 HP damage each round would take a few 

rounds to win.  Also, the use of power moves on opponents that 

have type weaknesses, or weaknesses to special or physical 

attack could cause more damage.  Example:  using ice beam on 

Dragonite (ice hurts dragon/flying badly) or headbutt on Chansey 

(Chansey has very low defense) may well cause over 100 HP damage 

to them.  Golem may receive over 100 HP damage from a psybeam 

because he has a low special.



--On Stadium, you can not switch pokŽmon as your opponent is 

brining new ones out.  It is therefore very vital to have a 

great lead pokŽmon to stay in until it faints, then to have two 

good pokŽmon to back it up.



--Moves like takedown and double edge take life away from your 

pokŽmon in order to score a tough hit.  I found out that even 

though I don't like them much, if you use them and the opponent 

faints, you won't receive recoil.  This can be very helpful to 

bring down strong psychic types.  You will receive damage on the 

Game Boy if you use these moves even when it makes your opponent 

faint in one hit.  Strangely too, on the Stadium game you will 

always have to recharge after using hyper beam, on Game Boy if 

it made the opponent faint then you would not have to recharge.



--You will want to give lower level pokŽmon stat boosting 

medicines like carbos, etc.  This can really pay off if you want 

to challenge a friend using Pika, Petit, or PokŽ cup rules, or 

the computer on hard mode.  



--If you switch pokŽmon in the middle of battle, your opponent 

will get a free move.  If your pokŽmon is defeated, your next 

pokŽmon will get first move provided it has more speed.



--A weird thing happened on Stadium that confirmed my suspicions 

on Game Boy.  If you hit a dual type that has one type that gets 

hurt from the attack badly, and one part the resists the attack, 

it will balance out and do regular damage.  For instance if you 

use thunder on Zapdos, the flying part of him would take 2x-3x 

damage from the attack.  The electric part would only take 1/2-

3/4 damage.  On the Game Boy it had said these attacks were 

"super effective", but on Stadium it did not.



--If you use wrap/bind/fire spin/clamp on Stadium then your 

opponent can switch to another pokŽmon without the penalty of 

you getting a free round against them.  If you have more agility 

though, you can continue to wrap/bind/fire spin/clamp them.  

They can also keep switching until you miss or you run out of 

these moves.  On Game Boy you could force them to switch and 

then bind/wrap/fire spin/clamp the next one automatically.



--Substitute is not as good as I originally thought it would be.  

In most cases it is destroyed in one round and you lose 1/4 of 

your HP to use it.  Don't waste a lot of game corner coins 

buying a bunch of these, they are only useful in certain 

situations, so take this in mind when you see me writing 

something about substitute in my reviews of the pokŽmon.   



--Remember though that substitute does prevent status ailments 

and one hit KOs on Stadium, but not on Game Boy.



--Agility is a pretty good move because it does the following:  

it raises your accuracy, gives you the chance to strike first, 

and raises chance for critical hit.  It is a great counter to 

moves like minimize.  Thanks to Gyarados13O@cs.com for this tip.



--Moves that have a high chance of critical hit are useful.  

Critical hits do near double damage that the attack regularly 

does, and defenses don't matter.  Critical hits also cut through 

defenses like reflect, barrier, and amnesia, BUT unlike I 

thought before, resistances still apply and they are not as 

effective on those who resist your attacks (seems to me too if 

Psychic or other moves get a critical hit on those with a 

resistance, they don't do as much damage as they would if they 

didn't get a critical hit).  Another thing that reduces the 

damage of these hits are the defense and special stats of your 

opponent. Slash, crabhammer, razor leaf, and karate chop all 

have good chances at critical hits.  The move focus energy seems 

to bring up your chances for a critical hit on other moves.  

Think if you got a critical hit on a 6x damage hit, wow, nearly 

12x the damage!



--If your attack brings down an opponent's special, strength, 

etc. the move will not do as much damage that round as it 

normally would (but likely will give you an advantage the next 

if it scores a normal hit).



--If you ever use all your moves up (all the PP for them), you 

will still be able to choose to fight.  You will attack with 

struggle, which is a medium damage normal move.  You receive 1/4 

the damage you deal with struggle, and it isn't effective on 

rock types and has no effect on ghost types.



--Accuracy with attacks, ability to evade attacks, and 

resistance to status attacks seem to go up with level up too.



--PP ups give you more uses of certain moves.  Moves that have a 

lot of uses gain a lot more PP, and moves that have few uses 

gain very few PP.  If you gave the bonus to something like 

tackle, you would gain 7 extra uses, if you gave it to hyper 

beam, you would get 1 extra use.  It is more important to use 

them on powerful offensive moves, but choose which pokŽmon you 

give the bonus to wisely.  You only can find a few hidden PP ups 

in the game, they can not be purchased.  They are usually found 

in suspicious looking spots, but some are hidden in the open.  

Use your itemfinder everywhere to find them.  You can play 

through the game over and over and trade your pokŽmon to that 

game to use the PP ups then trade back, and you can also get 

extra TMs you would like to have.  You can use three PP ups on a 

move before it reaches its max.



--One hit KO moves like fissure and guillotine can have big 

payoffs, but since they often miss, they aren't worth it except 

in cases where you have no other option.  Each time you miss, 

you give your opponent a free round.  You also only get five 

uses of each.  On Stadium they seem to connect more often 

though.



--Most pokŽmon have either high hp/strength/defense-low 

speed/special, or high speed/special-low hp/strength/defense.  

Usually ones with more speed/special win if you have a type 

advantage, but if the pokŽmon survives with more strength/hp, 

it's strength may crush the pokŽmon with less defense/hp.  

Example: if Golem faced off against Starmie, and Starmie used 

hydro pump, Starmie would likely win first round without even 

being hit--because he has more speed and high special.  If Golem 

somehow survived due to his high HP, he could use hyper beam and 

win, due to Starmie's low defense.  



--All TM and HM taught moves will not be as strong as if the 

pokŽmon learned the move itself, except for those that don't 

cause damage/percent gain or that cause a fixed amount of 

damage.  For instance, rest (HP and status restored, sleep two 

rounds) and dragon rage (causes 40 HP damage) would always work 

the same, but Thunder (different damage) and swords' dance 

(different percent gain of attack) would not.  The type move the 

TM or HM teaches will be more effectively used if your pokŽmon 

is the same type and has high stats 

in either special or strength, whichever determines the strength 

of the attack.  (Confusing huh?)  Here's an example-Raichu would 

be better to learn Thunder because he is an electric type 

(thunder is an electric move therefore he does 1.5x the normal 

damage of Thunder for starters) and he has high special; 

Raticate would not because he is a normal type and he has very 

low special.  Raichu's Thunder would be stronger if he had 

learned it on his own, rather that from a TM.  (I taught my 

Dodrio tri attack instead of letting it learn it on its own, and 

the wild Dodrios use it much better).



--Know that some TM/HM moves are always ok to teach if you think 

it would help; just choose to whom you give the move wisely and 

make it part of a team strategy...give powerful special moves to 

pokŽmon with high special and moves that are powerful physical 

moves to pokŽmon with high strength, and only make exceptions if 

you think you could win against your opponent just by having a 

type attack they are weak against (rarely happens, you need 

stats to back it up). See the note directly above, also, about 

teaching TMs and take it into consideration.  Moves such as 

hyper beam, mega punch, mega kick, dig, earthquake, mega drain, 

thunderbolt, thunder, ice beam, blizzard, psychic, fire blast, 

and rock slide are all excellent moves that can do big damage.  

Skull bash, sky attack,  and solar beam do great damage, but you 

must survive one round to use them the next, and if your pokŽmon 

is slow, you may have to survive two attacks.  Substitute, 

toxic, explosion, counter, bide, dream eater, thunder wave, and 

swords dance are all good strategy moves; think about whom you 

give them to though.  Swift is not extremely powerful, but 

useful since it always gets a hit.  Double team, rest, reflect, 

and mimic can be of uses sometimes too.  The others I think are 

either not strong enough or have risks involved or penalties for 

using them (like razor wind lacks strength, metronome is too 

risky since it does a random move, and double edge takes energy 

to use...so a big hit means big damage to you).  And remember, 

never replace an already good move.

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Earliest Levels PokŽmon are Found At



I am listing the earliest levels you can find many PokŽmon at in 

the wild, as you need a lot of them for the Pika and Petit Cups, 

and even the higher evolved forms at early levels for Pika Cup.  

If the level they evolve at is earlier than the level you find 

the evolved forms at, I will not list them (example Nidorino is 

found earliest at level 16, when he is evolved from Nidoran 

Male, instead of in the wild).  I will also only list the 

evolved PokŽmon if their earlier level helps them qualify for 

Pika or Petit Cup.  If you are looking to build a pokŽmon 

towards level 100, catch them at the earliest level in their 

least evolved stage because they gain more stats even than 

higher evolved forms at lower levels (example, a level 10 

Dratini will become a stronger Dragonite than a level 15 

Dragonair).  Remember that PokŽmon evolved by stones or trade 

can be changed immediately and may be able to enter the Pika and 

Petit Cups in this fashion.



Bulbasaur-level 5, red/blue, from Professor Oak

Charmander-level 5, red/blue, from Professor Oak

Squirtle-level 5, red/blue, from Professor Oak

Caterpie-level 3, all versions, Viridian Forest

Weedle-level 3, red/blue, Viridian Forest, Route 2

Pidgey-level 2, all versions, Route 1

Pidgeotto-level 9, yellow, Viridian Forest

Rattata-level 2, all versions, Route 1, 2 (22 red/blue)

Raticate-level 15, yellow, Route 21

Spearow-level 2, yellow, Route 22

Fearow-level 19, yellow, Route 9

Ekans-level 6, red, Route 4

Pikachu-level 3, red/blue, Viridian Forest (reminder that on 

Yellow he learns more moves)

Sandshrew-level 6, blue, Route 4

Nidoran Female-level 2, blue/yellow, Route 22

Nidoran Male-level 2, red/yellow, Route 22

Clefairy-level 8, red/blue, Mount Moon

Vulpix-level 15, blue, Route 8

Jigglypuff-level 3, red/blue, Route 3

Zubat-level 6, all versions, Mount Moon

Oddish-level 12, yellow/red, Routes 24 and 25

Paras-level 8, red/blue, Mount Moon

Parasect-level 13, yellow, trade for Tangela (catch Tangela at 

level 13 on red/blue by trading for a Venonat you caught at 

level 13 on yellow on Routes 24 or 25)

Venonat-level 13, yellow, Routes 24 and 25

Diglett-level 15, all versions, Diglett's Cave

Dugtrio-level 15, yellow, trade for at level 15 Lickitung on 

route 18 (you can get a level 15 Lickitung on red/blue by 

trading for a Slowbro caught at level 15 from routes 12 and 13 

on yellow)

Meowth-level 10, blue, Routes 5 and 6

Psyduck-level 15, yellow-route 6 on pond, red/blue-fishing 

Safari Zone and others

Golduck-level 15, yellow, Route 6 on pond

Mankey-level 3, yellow, Route 22

Growlithe-level 15, red, Route 8

Poliwag-level 5, yellow, fishing on Route 22 or Viridian City

Poliwhirl-level 15, yellow, fish on Route 22

Abra-level 6, blue, buy from Game Corner Exchange

Machop-level 15, red/blue, Rock Tunnel

Machamp-level 16, yellow, trade Cubone at level 16 for Machoke 

on Route 5 (get level 16 Cubone from the Safari Zone on yellow, 

and then trade Machoke to get Machamp at level 16)

Bellsprout-level 12, yellow/blue, Routes 24 and 25

Tentacool-level 5, all versions, Sea Routes and several fishing 

spots

Tentacruel-level 20, yellow, fish on Route 20

Geodude-level 7, red/blue, Mount Moon

Ponyta-level 28, red/blue-Cinnabar Lab, yellow-Route 17

Slowpoke-level 15, red/blue-fishing Safari Zone and others, 

yellow-Routes 12 and 13

Slowbro-level 15, yellow, Routes 12 and 13

Magnemite-level 16, yellow, Route 10

Farfetch'd-level 2, red/blue, trade for Spearow in Vermilion 

City (get your Spearow from the yellow game at level 2 on Route 

22)

Doduo-level 18, red/blue, Route 16

Seel-level 22, yellow, Seafoam Island

Dewgong-level 15, yellow, trade on Cinnabar Island for a level 

15 Growlithe (level 15 Growlithe can be found at Route 8 on red)

Grimer-level 23, yellow, Cinnabar Lab

Shellder-level 10, yellow, fishing in Vermilion City

Gastly-level 18, all versions, PokŽmon Tower in Lavender Town

Haunter-level 20, yellow, PokŽmon Tower in Lavender Town

Onix-level 13, red/blue, Rock Tunnel

Drowzee-level 9, red/blue, Route 11

Krabby-level 10, yellow, fishing on Route 25

Kingler-level 15, yellow, fishing on Route 25

Voltorb-level 14, red/blue, Route 10

Electrode-level 3, red/blue, trade for a level 3 Raichu (get a 

level 3 Pikachu from red or blue and evolve it to Raichu 

immediately)

Exeggcute-level 20, yellow, Safari Zone

Cubone-level 16, yellow, Safari Zone

Hitmonlee-level 30, all versions, pick from the Karate Master in 

Saffron City **level 20 from Stadium**

Hitmonchan-level 30, all versions, pick from the Karate Master 

in Saffron City **level 20 from Stadium**

Lickitung-level 15, red/blue, trade for a Slowbro on Route 18 

(catch the Slowbro at 15 on yellow on routes 12 and 13)

Koffing-level 30, red/blue, Cinnabar Lab

Rhyhorn-level 20, yellow, Safari Zone

Rhydon-level 15, yellow, trade for Golduck level 15 (found on 

pond at Route 6 on yellow)

Chansey-level 7, yellow, Safari Zone

Tangela-level 13, red/blue, trade for Venonat on Cinnabar Island 

(catch Venonat at level 13 in yellow on Routes 24 and 25)--for 

normal experience, Tangela can be caught at level 22 in the 

Safari Zone on Yellow

Kangaskhan-level 25, red/blue, Safari Zone

Horsea-level 5, yellow, fishing on Route 11 and Vermilion City

Seadra-level 20, yellow, fishing on Route 13

Goldeen-level 5, yellow, fishing on Route 6 and Celadon City

Staryu-level 5, yellow, fishing in Pallet Town

Mr. Mime-level 6, red/blue, trade for Abra (buy Abra from the 

Game Corner Exchange on blue)

Scyther-level 15, yellow, Safari Zone

Jynx-level 15, red/blue, trade for Poliwhirl (catch a level 15 

Poliwhirl from fishing on Route 22 in yellow)

Electabuzz-level 33, red, Power Plant

Magmar-level 34, blue, Cinnabar Lab

Pinsir-level 15, yellow, Safari Zone

Tauros-level 21, yellow, Safari Zone

Magikarp-level 5, all versions, use Old Rod to fish

Gyarados-level 15, yellow, fishing in Fuchsia City

Lapras-level 15, all versions, Silph Company employee

Ditto-level 12, yellow, Cinnabar Lab

Eevee-level 25, all versions, top of Celadon Mansion **level 20 

from Stadium**

Porygon-level 18, blue, buy from Game Corner Exchange

Omanyte-level 30, all versions, bring the Helix Fossil back to 

life **level 20 from Stadium**

Kabuto-level 30, all versions, bring the Dome Fossil back to 

life **level 20 from Stadium**

Aerodactyl-level 30, all versions, bring the Old Amber back to 

life

Snorlax-level 30, all versions, wake him up with the pokŽ flute

Articuno-level 50, all versions, find in Seafoam Island

Zapdos-level 50, all versions, find in Power Plant

Moltres-level 50, all versions, find in Victory Road

Dratini-level 10, yellow, fish in the Safari Zone

Dragonair-level 15, yellow, fish in the Safari Zone

Mewtwo-level 70, all versions, capture in Unknown Dungeon

Mew-level 5, all versions, get from Nintendo

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V. Pika and Petit Cups, PokŽ and Prime Cups, Gym Leader Castle



--Pika and Petit--



--easy mode--



These cups are really not too hard.  I recommend that you get a 

well balanced rental team and just beat the computer into 

submission.  Definitely choose Kadabra.  My other choices 

usually include Diglett, Raichu, Raticate, Psyduck, and Ivysaur.  

You can also choose Haunter or Gastly.  If you want to get a 

bunch of the weaker pokŽmon into the hall of fame though, you 

may need three really great pokŽmon to lead your team.  In that 

case go back to the Game Boy and catch a Dragonair in the Safari 

Zone on yellow.  At the entrance pond, they should be at level 

15, and you will need the super rod and a lot of luck to find 

them.  When you find one, throw two rocks and a ball and you 

should catch it.  Hope that it doesn't run.  Teach Dragonair 

powerful TMs.  You can teach him nearly all the ones that 

Dragonite can learn, I think.  Also use Clefable and teach him 

some really great moves.  A great third choice here is Gastly or 

Haunter from rental, or from your game.  In most cases, you will 

want to give lower level pokŽmon stat boosting medicines like 

carbos, etc.  This can really pay off if you want to challenge a 

friend using Pika, Petit, or PokŽ cup rules.  All in all though, 

you should be able to easily get many pokŽmon into the hall of 

fame this way.



For the Petit cup, your choices are more limited.  I find this 

cup not to be as hard though.  The only real problem I had was 

in the semifinal with Lass, she kept using minimize.  I 

recommend using Gastly and other great rental pokŽmon for this 

cup.  Make sure you have someone with swift to take out Lass 

though.



--hard mode--



I finished the Pika Cup, and it is difficult towards the end, 

but not too bad with the following team:



Gyarados (level 20)-dragon rage, blizzard, thunderbolt, surf

Dragonair (level 15)-dragon rage, blizzard, thunderbolt, fire 

blast

Lapras (level 15)-psychic, double edge, blizzard, dragon rage

Arcanine (level 15)-fire blast, dig, double edge, dragon rage

Raichu (level 15)-surf, thunderbolt, double edge, submission

Alakazam (level 20)-psychic, thunderwave, seismic toss, reflect



Use Gyarados and the others with dragon rage to blast your way 

through the cup.  If you need something different than Gyarados, 

switch in the formidable Alakazam.



Petit Cup in hard mode is also very difficult.  I finally 

finished it, and I must say the last guy is really hard.  You 

have to get lucky and hope he picks Omania instead of 

Dratinimania, or hope that you somehow get lucky enough to have 

two pokŽmon to face that Dratini.  I used the following team to 

do well:



Diglett (level 26)-rock slide, earthquake, fissure, double edge

Gastly (level 27)-psychic, mega drain, thunderbolt, night shade

Pikachu (level 26)-surf, thunderbolt, body slam, submission

Dratini (level 26)-dragon rage, blizzard, fire blast, 

thunderbolt

Growlithe (level 26)-dig, dragon rage, fire blast, double edge

Abra (level 27)-psychic, thunder wave, double edge, seismic toss



--One thing to look out for is that some of the pokŽmon aren't 

dual types in their earlier stages.  Charmander/Charmeleon is 

only fire instead of fire/flying.  Caterpie and Metapod are only 

bug instead of bug/flying.  Nidoran female/Nidorina/Nidoran 

male/Nidorino are only poison types instead of poison/ground.  

Poliwag and Poliwhirl are only water instead of water/fighting.  

Shellder is only water instead of water/ice.  Staryu is only 

water instead of water/psychic.  Magikarp is only water instead 

of water/flying.  And lastly, Dratini/Dragonair are only dragon 

instead of dragon/flying.  Take into consideration that these 

types will not have 4x-6x weakness, but neither will they have 

1/4-3/8 resistances.  I used blizzard on Dragonair and it 

disappointed me, and then it hit me that it only does 2x-3x 

damage since it is not dual typed.



--PokŽ and Prime--



--easy mode--



I recommend using strong ones you have built up on the Game Boy 

games.  If you really want, use stat boosting medicines to give 

your pokŽmon extra edges in the PokŽ Cup.



Well I finished the PokŽ Cup and believe me the competition gets 

VERY heated at the end of the master ball tournament.  The 

psychic guy is really tough.  For the master ball tournament I 

recommend a strong Jolteon, Alakazam, and Articuno.  I also 

recommend having three strong backups, like Moltres, Dragonite, 

and Zapdos.  I also recommend that you bring these guys up from 

early levels on Game Boy.  Some of this tournament is left up to 

luck, because you may have moves that help you in certain 

situations and sometimes your opponent will just have a better 

moveset.  Seismic toss is a very valuable asset in this 

tournament, as are strong attacks that don't miss very often.  

Using type weaknesses to your advantage is a must.  To see what 

you get for winning this cup, check the secrets section, section 

X.



I rented a group of pokŽmon which are conveniently at level 100 

for the Prime Cup.  I used my Mewtwo from the blue game that I 

had brought up to 100 with some great moves.  The cup wasn't 

really too hard, but things started getting heated in the Ultra 

and Master Ball Cups.  I got to the final battle of the Master 

Ball tournament and I was quite surprised at seeing a certain 

pokŽmon in the last fight.  My recommendation, have a Mewtwo 

with hyper beam, or amnesia and psychic to take this cup rather 

easily.  Just use well balanced teams and you should win.  Check 

the secrets section to see what you get for finishing this Cup.



--hard mode--



The PokŽ Cup is also a wonderful example of how hard a game can 

be.  I finally finished this, but it was an incredibly tough 

endeavor.  But I can say that if you carefully plan, you should 

make it to the final guy with many continues.  Just remember 

what your resistances are and use the special moves I formulated 

in this team to your advantage, know your enemy and their moves, 

resistances, and weaknesses.  For Old Man, use a blizzard heavy 

team to destroy Dragonite if he shows up, and if Snorlax shows 

up, use confuse ray or hypnosis to keep him down.  For the guy 

who has the critical hit team (Tamer, the volcano badge, next to 

last guy), use resistances and immunities to your advantage 

(Gengar is immune to the normal slash, and also resistant to 

razor leaf, Starmie is resistant to crab hammer).  For the final 

guy, throw out Starmie first, and back him up with Jolteon and 

Moltres.  The physical attacks should take out the pure 

psychics, and the elemental ones should take out the dual types.  

Know your enemy's stats, sometimes a physical attack will do 

more than an attack on an elemental weakness and vice versa.  

Dragon rage will no longer be an asset now, so use the same type 

boosts to give you an edge (an ice type using an ice move, 

etc.), and seismic toss is limited in its advantages.  I 

recommend you use a Moltres, Lapras, Gengar, Jolteon, Nidoqueen, 

and Starmie fully tweaked out with great moves and stat 

boosters.  I recommend you have most of your team at level 51, 

and your Starmie at 53, or your Jolteon at 53, whichever you 

want....you may want Jolteon for sake of speed and thunder wave 

to paralyze your opponents.  You may also consider Alakazam and 

others as a backup.  Make sure to PP up the moves that have only 

5 uses.



Here are the moves I recommend you outfit them with:

Jolteon-thunder, pin missile, thunder wave, double edge

Lapras-psychic, body slam, surf, blizzard

Starmie-thunder, blizzard, surf, psychic

Moltres-fly, fire blast, double edge, reflect

Gengar-psychic, mega drain, thunder, confuse ray (or hypnosis)

Nidoqueen-blizzard, earthquake, thunderbolt, double kick (horn 

drill or double edge are also good options)



I actually did finish the Prime Cup on the hard mode.  Somehow 

Mewtwo actually still has an edge in this cup.  It wasn't too 

difficult and it shouldn't be too hard to get a surfing Pikachu 

(see secrets).  I  definitely had more of a challenge than last 

time though.  If you are using rentals, you will be in for the 

fight of your life, so I definitely recommend trained teams.  

Against Mew, make sure your Mewtwo has had its Psychic fully 

maxed out with PP ups.



Here is a good Prime Cup team (all level 100):

Mewtwo-psychic, recover, barrier, amnesia

Articuno-blizzard, fly, double edge, reflect

Jolteon-thunder, thunder wave, pin missile, double kick

Starmie-thunder, blizzard, psychic, recover

Exeggutor-psychic, mega drain, leech seed, explosion

Gengar-psychic, hypnosis (or confuse ray), night shade, toxic



--Gym Leader Castle--



--easy mode--



This is where even us who write strategy guides get taken back 

to school.  Although I thought up some pretty good strategies on 

the guide, some of the computer players are that much better.  

All the Gym trainer PokŽmon are at level 50, however, if you use 

1 pokŽmon over level 50, then all your opponent's pokŽmon will 

be that level.  If you use level 100 Mewtwo, make sure most of 

your other pokŽmon compare in levels, otherwise the computer may 

have some big advantages if it brings Mewtwo down.  If you are 

like me and haven't had a lot of time to teach TMs to your 

pokŽmon (just the time to see who can learn them and all), then 

rental ones may sometimes be more balanced picks to use.



Brock-A breeze, and all his underlings are easy.  Pick good 

pokŽmon to counter rock types and be prepared for other kinds 

before Brock.



Misty-A little more challenging, but still, if you pick the 

right pokŽmon and are prepared for the worst, then you should be 

ok.



Lt. Surge-Not too hard to get to him, but when you do, do NOT 

use ground types.  I thought I could get past him easily and he 

showed up with both a surfing Pikachu and surfing Raichu.  I had 

to pull out my level 100 Mewtwo for this Gym.



Erica-Not too hard if you have a strong psychic type to guide 

you.  



Koga-Koga is easy, it's just the darn juggler before him.  Do 

NOT use a lv 100 pokŽmon for this because Hypno is too much to 

deal with, unless you have a good team of all level 100 pokŽmon.  

Keep the pokŽmon all at 50, with a strong Alakazam to guide you.  

Also have someone like Arcanine with strong normal attacks and 

good speed.



Sabrina-Getting too her is pretty hard.  Keep your pokŽmon 

around level 50 for her to not be too hard.  Watch out for Jynx 

and its ability to freeze you solid.  I found Dragonair with 

fire blast and Arcanine to be helpful.  Arcanine can also take 

out some psychics with takedown.  You may also want Articuno to 

help against Jynx.



Blaine-I used level 100 Mewtwo and didn't have much difficulty 

getting to Blaine, though some heated fights occurred with the 

nerd and psychic I had to take down.  Not too tough though.



Giovanni-Used level 100 Mewtwo and did quite well.  Giovanni was 

easy, and the trainers before him weren't bad, just watch out 

for the tamer that uses Zapdos, if you get thunderwaved, then 

Pinsir will annoy you to death with wrap.



ELITE FOUR

Lorelei-Was pretty tough.  Use a level 100 Mewtwo and use 

Amnesia twice and pound her with psychic.  Also if your Mewtwo 

has a mega punch or something similar, break it out for this 

fight.  Beware Lapras' confusion and body slam, the rest 

shouldn't be too tough.





Bruno-Level 100 Mewtwo destroys his fighting/low special team.  

Don't even bother with Amnesia.



Agatha-Wasn't too bad, but I got lucky enough not to face 

Gengar.  I used level 100 Mewtwo and blasted her poison typed 

array away.



Lance-Didn't put up as much of a fight as I expected.  His 

Lapras wasn't near as good as Lorelei's.  Lance doesn't have a 

Dragonite which I think weakens his team a lot.  Use level 100 

Mewtwo and two Amnesia followed by psychic to put this one to 

rest.



FINAL BATTLE?

You vs. a familiar face.  This person has a balanced team, so 

level 100 Mewtwo with two Amnesia and two good backups help.  

Wasn't as hard as I expected, but I may have been lucky.  BEWARE 

if he uses Toxic and then pulls out Exeggutor, DO NOT get leech 

seeded or your pokŽmon is toast unless you can win in a few 

rounds.  The team of this guy varies depending on if you use 

rental pokŽmon, or pokŽmon from one of the versions.  If from 

red/blue, he will have a team to counter whatever starter you 

picked.  If from yellow, he will have whichever form of Eevee 

that he had in the game.  His teams will be tough no matter 

what.



--hard mode--



I recommend you have a great team of level 100 pokŽmon with the 

best moveset you can come up with.  Strong physical attacks and 

special attack mixes are a must.  Since you pick different teams 

for each Gym Leader, I recommend you have a mostly balanced team 

and alternate some to meet the different challenges of the 

leaders.  Definitely make sure your stats are as near max as you 

can get for this.



Here is a good Gym Leader Castle team (all level 100):

Mewtwo-psychic, recover, barrier, amnesia

Articuno-blizzard, fly, double edge, reflect

Jolteon-thunder, thunder wave, pin missile, double kick

Starmie-thunder, blizzard, psychic, recover

Exeggutor-psychic, mega drain, leech seed, explosion

Gengar-psychic, hypnosis (or confuse ray), night shade, toxic



Brock-Not too hard, just use a good level 100 Mewtwo and beat 

the low special team that he has.  I had a level 98 Seaking 

which helped a lot against the annoying Ninetales.  If using 

rental, keep your whole team level 50 and get some strong water 

and ground types.



Misty-Not too hard at all really; if you have a strong electric 

type this is pretty easy.  Also level 100 Mewtwo again can 

dominate even Starmie with two amnesias and a psychic blast or 

two.  Electric types are good from rental with a team of all 

level 50, but have a balanced team to handle her underlings and 

a fire type to beat her Tangela.



Lt. Surge-Remember not to use ground types, surfing Raichu will 

destroy you otherwise.  Again I found level 100 Mewtwo to work 

wonders here.  He has a Tangela too.  One of the times I really 

think that rentals are not such a good idea, but it you must, 

get a strong grass type with razor leaf, keep them all at 50.



Erica-I found Erica to be quite easy with a level 100 Mewtwo.  

However, her first underling, I believe Lass, has a Dragonair 

with horn drill.  I got unlucky and got beat a couple of times 

for this reason, but I just persisted and eventually she picked 

a ridiculously weak team.  Good psychic types from rental and a 

balanced team will work, keep them all at 50.



Koga-Since you take out Juggler first, it isn't as hard this 

time around.  I had an easy path straight and through Koga with 

my level 100 Mewtwo.  Use a good rental team of all level 50 

guys with a combo of strong physical attacks and psychic powers.



Sabrina-Getting to her was a breeze, fighting her was up to 

luck.  She is really great.  If you have a great physical 

attacker near level 100, now is the time to pull him out.  Her 

Slowbro that has Amnesia was tough, and her Clefable paralyzed 

me with thunder wave.  I won by sheer luck with a fully 

Amnesiaed level 100 Mewtwo.  Also if you go for rentals, have 

STRONG physical attackers and a well balanced team all at 50.



Blaine-Not too tough to get to him, and not too extraordinarily 

tough to beat.  Again level 100 Mewtwo was a great asset.  Be 

careful of the Nerd before him, because he tends to use 

explosion twice in a row.  If you do a rental team, keep them 

all at 50, balanced your team, have a ghost to take the 

explosions (or a strong rock type), and use water and fire 

types.



Giovanni-This team was easier cause the Rocket guy was first and 

didn't use cheap tactics.  I found a lot of raw power teams in 

the Viridian Gym.  Use good defensive pokŽmon and have a well 

balance team.  For Giovanni have a good fighting type to bring 

down Persian and good water types for the rest.  Level 100 

Mewtwo again is a great asset.



ELITE FOUR (hard mode)

Lorelei-Easier this time I thought.  Seems like she didn't have 

as strategic of moves.  With level 100 Mewtwo, barrier once, use 

Amnesia twice, and defeat her.  With rentals have a well 

balanced team with strong electric types to beat her.



Bruno-Tougher than last time for sure.  Beware his strong new 

Snorlax.  If using Mewtwo, barrier up 3 times, amnesia twice and 

blast away on his team.  Be careful of Snorlax's selfdestruct.  

With rentals you are gonna need speedy strong special attackers 

mostly, and some pokŽmon that do well against fighting types, 

such as flying types.



Agatha-Still not the toughest around.  With Mewtwo, amnesia 

twice and barrier a few to protect against a Gengar explosion.  

With rentals, have strong psychic and ground types in your well 

balanced team.



Lance-Even easier than last time.  With Mewtwo, fully barrier (3 

times) and amnesia up twice.  Blast Lance into submission.  With 

rentals, if you made good picks you should win if you play your 

cards right.



THE FINAL BATTLE? (hard mode)

You vs. that familiar face again.  If you used rental, cross 

your fingers and hope you made the right picks against his 

INCREDIBLE team.  If you have level 100 Mewtwo, barrier up 3 

times, and Amnesia twice to prepare for the worst.  Recover when 

you must.  Blast him repeatedly with psychic and you should win 

with a little luck.  The team of this guy varies depending on if 

you use rental pokŽmon, or pokŽmon from one of the versions.  If 

from red/blue, he will have a team to counter whatever starter 

you picked.  If from yellow, he will have whichever form of 

Eevee that he had in the game.  His teams will be tough no 

matter what.



AND YET ONE MORE BATTLE



--easy mode--



A battle against the ultimate pokŽmon.  You can only face this 

pokŽmon if you have cleared all of the Stadium Cups and the Gym 

Leader Castle.  Not too hard because its moveset isn't too 

great, and you get to use six pokŽmon against it, and the rental 

ones are at level 100.  Use a level 100 Mewtwo, Amnesia twice, 

and psychic it to death.  It will probably use rest, which will 

seal its fate.



--hard mode--



As I suspected, this battle was a piece of cake after the rigors 

of getting to it.  Use a rental Electrode with thunder wave to 

paralyze the ultimate pokŽmon, then use a rental Snorlax with 

takedown and even bide.  Then use your own trained Mewtwo with 

the same moves as I recommended for the Prime Cup and Gym Leader 

Castle, Amnesia up twice, and let the opponent have it.  Keep 

pounding away and reparalyzing if it uses rest.



THEN THE BIG SURPRISE-

credits roll, wait........what's this????



Ah, a second, tougher tournament opens up.  All the Cups you 

earned have to be re-earned in tougher situations, and all the 

gym leaders are be back.  The Gym Leaders are much tougher now, 

as is everything else.  It really helps if you brought up a 

great team from Game Boy here.  What rewards may await for 

finishing the harder levels?  Check out the Secrets, Section X.

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VI. The single types



Single types are predictable in battle in terms of what they are 

weak and strong against.  The only factor that changes their 

value is stats.  I will discuss below all the single type 

monsters that are at their highest evolved form or that never 

evolve.  The others are not very strong, so I will concentrate 

only on these.  Please pay attention to the first pokŽmon I list 

here too, because some information will be omitted from the 

others, as it will be believed to be understood.



To really understand how your pokŽmon will fare against another, 

compare stats, weaknesses, and strengths of the attacks you and 

your opponent know.

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Blastoise (Water--your pokŽmon's defense type, remember if you 

do an attack of this type you will do 1.5x the normal damage 

with it)



Stats (ranked excellent, great, good, ok, bad--remember your 

pokŽmon's stats may vary in some categories, but this is the 

usual growth rate I observed, as the pokŽmon gets closer to lv 

100 they follow this rate more): excellent HP, good strength, 

great defense, good speed, good special.



Evaluation: Blastoise is one of the best pokŽmon.  His 

weaknesses are against types with high special and speed, 

especially electric types.  Grass types also have the advantage 

of only taking 3/4 damage from his water attacks.  Blastoise has 

a decent attack power though, so you'd better finish him in one 

round.  He has decent power with water attacks.  Blastoise is 

perfect against rock/ground types, as he will take little damage 

from their physical type attacks and his water attacks will 

expose their huge weakness.



Moves he can learn (by level ups):  Tackle, Tail Whip, Bubble, 

Water Gun, Bite, Withdraw, Skull Bash, and Hydro Pump



Bite, Withdraw, Skull Bash, and Hydro Pump should be kept.  Bite 

has a chance of making your opponent flinch.  Withdraw raises 

his already high defense, you could also substitute Water Gun to 

have extra water moves in an emergency (Alvaro was right in this 

case too).  Skull Bash has only the drawback of waiting one 

round to store energy.  If you can survive that round or have a 

free round, it will do huge damage.  Hydro Pump is the most 

powerful water move, not terribly accurate but probably the 

strongest of strong attacks, (fire blast, thunder, etc.) leaving 

those with resistances still hurt quite a bit.



TM moves he can learn:  mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, 

skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves he can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up:  You may want to replace Withdraw or 

Water Gun with a few surprises.  Blastoise can learn dig or 

earthquake.  If you survive the first round against electric 

types, you will have a nasty surprise waiting for them.  He can 

also learn Hyper Beam and Substitute, which are good for just 

about anyone.  You can also teach him Ice Beam or Blizzard to 

add to the number of types he can beat (including grass), though 

since he doesn't have the greatest special, this isn't the best 

option.  Surf is also a good move with more moves and higher 

accuracy than hydro pump (Alvaro made a good point here).  

(Takedown, Mega punch/kick, and double edge are good moves for 

most pokŽmon).



Blastoise can learn normal, fighting, water, ground, and ice 

attacks. (Please see the chart above in basic strategy to 

determine how these attacks will work on different pokŽmon.) *I 

will not list moves in this section unless they are attack 

moves, if Beedrill learns the psychic move agility, it is not an 

attack and he won't have "Beedrill can learn psychic attacks", 

because it does no damage of psychic type* 



weaknesses (2x-3x damage from opponent due to your type): 

electricity, grass



resistances (1/2-3/4 damage from opponent due to your type): 

fire, water, ice

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Raticate (Normal)



Stats: great HP, good attack, ok defense, good speed, bad 

special.



Evaluation: A good strong and quick pokŽmon.  His moves make him 

an excellent choice against opponents with lower speed and low 

defense.  He is one of the strongest in terms of moves with 

great power.  He is decent against fighting types which pose a 

threat, and even against rock types which have a resistance.  He 

can't take hits very well though.  Super Fang makes him a good 

choice to make a sacrifice play on your opponent's most powerful 

pokŽmon.  Raticate better have higher speed, though, as he is 

terrible at resisting any special type attack.  He is also an 

excellent candidate to teach substitute, see below for why.  

Remember you may need to paralyze your opponent before using 

Raticate's substitute.



Moves he can learn: Tackle, Tail Whip, Quick Attack, Hyper Fang, 

Focus Energy, Super Fang.



Quick attack, hyper fang, focus energy, and super fang should be 

kept.  Hyper Fang is a very strong attack, and will often cause 

your enemy to flinch.  Focus energy will boost his already high 

chance of getting a critical hit with hyper fang.  Quick attack 

is moderately useful in the hands of Raticate, with his high 

strength, and it always gets first strike (unless your opponent 

uses it also, and has more speed).  Super fang reduces your 

opponent's HP to half when it hits, and is very useful for 

weakening your opponent's most powerful 

pokŽmon.  



TM moves he can learn:  toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, 

thunderbolt, thunder, dig, mimic, double team, bide, swift, 

skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves he can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to replace quick attack 

with powerful moves like hyper beam, tri attack, or body slam.  

You may also want to give Raticate dig to give him one type 

advantage.  Electric, water, and ice moves should be skipped as 

Raticate has terrible special.  Substitute would be awesome to 

give to Raticate.  If he has more speed than your opponent's 

most powerful pokŽmon, use substitute, then super and hyper fang 

your opponents into oblivion.  Substitute will take 1/4 of your 

HP to make a clone of yourself, and the clone will have half 

your maximum HP.  Raticate has great HP, so your clone should 

survive a hit, remember though to use substitute only when your 

opponent is paralyzed, asleep, frozen, or has less speed.  He 

also would use takedown and double edge quite well with his 

normal typing.



Raticate can learn normal, water, ice, and electric attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Arbok (Poison)



Stats: good HP, ok attack, ok defense, good speed, bad special.



Evaluation: Arbok is not a very good pokŽmon.  He lacks in both 

areas of defense.  Even if you paralyze your opponent and use 

wrap, his lack of attack power makes this strategy less 

effective.  You won't survive enough rounds to use screech to 

improve your chances.  Poison attacks may poison your enemy and 

help a little more, but Arbok all in all is not a good choice.  

Use substitute to give Arbok a fighting chance.



Moves he can learn: wrap, leer, poison sting, bite, glare, 

screech, acid



You should keep wrap, glare, screech, and acid.  Wrap and glare 

can be used to keep your opponent from attacking you.  Screech 

may work enough on some pokŽmon to make your wrap more 

effective.  Acid may lower the defense of your opponent, and it 

is a decent move against types with a weakness to poison.



TM moves he can learn:  toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

hyper beam, rage, mega drain, earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, 

double team, bide, skull bash, rest, rock slide, substitute



HM moves he can learn:  strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Arbok a stronger 

move like skull bash, hyper beam, or earthquake to make up for 

his poor offense.  You may also teach him mega drain to counter 

ground types that have an advantage on him, but with his poor 

special it won't do much good.  Give him substitute to make up 

for his poor defenses, but remember to use it only when your 

opponent has less speed--when they have been paralyzed, put to 

sleep, etc.



Arbok can learn normal, poison, grass, rock, and ground attacks.



weaknesses: ground, psychic, bug



resistances: grass, fighting, poison

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Raichu (Electric)



Stats: good HP, good attack, bad defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Raichu is an average pokŽmon.  I recommend you catch 

a low level Pikachu from Viridian Forest on red or blue and 

build it up for better stats.  His stats in terms of attacking 

enemies are pretty good, and he resists special attacks pretty 

well.  Stay away from ground enemies though.



Moves he can learn: 

red/blue: thundershock, growl, thunder wave, quick attack, 

swift, agility, thunder

yellow: thundershock, growl, tail whip, thunder wave, quick 

attack, double team, slam, swift, thunderbolt, agility, thunder, 

light screen

stadium trick: surf



Moves he should keep are thunder, thunder wave, swift, and 

agility.  If you raised him from a yellow version Pikachu, you 

may want slam, double team, and thunderbolt.  Thunder is an 

excellent attack, with many types weak against it, thunder wave 

can paralyze, swift hits 100% of the time, and agility can boost 

his high speed on a free round (not to mention raise his 

accuracy with Thunder).  Slam is a strong normal attack and 

thunderbolt is good because you get more uses than thunder.  

Double team brings the evade up and can be useful.  If you use 

the stadium trick replace swift with surf.



TM moves he can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, pay day, submission, seismic 

toss, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, swift, skull bash, rest, thunder wave, substitute



HM moves he can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up:  You may want to give Raichu some 

strong normal attacks from his TMs, and maybe Submission to give 

him an edge on tough rock/ground types.  He is a good candidate 

to teach Thunderbolt on red and blue.  Also takedown, double 

edge, and mega punch or kick are good choices.



Raichu can learn normal, fighting, and electric type attacks.



weaknesses: ground



resistances: electric, flying

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Sandslash (Ground)



Stats: great HP, great attack, great defense, ok speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Sandslash is a wonderfully powerful physical 

pokŽmon.  He doesn't take special attacks very well, but for the 

opponents he can outspeed, he can cause serious damage.  With 

slash's high critical hit rate, he is even good against other 

opponents with a high defense.  Try to blind your opponent with 

sand attack to avoid their attacks and then counter with slash.



Moves he can learn: scratch, sand attack, slash, poison sting, 

swift, fury swipes



Moves he should keep are slash, swift, sand attack, and fury 

swipes.  Slash and fury swipes are strong attacks, slash being 

the best with a high chance of critical hit.  Sand attack will 

make the chances of your opponent hitting you less and swift 

will hit 100% of the time.



TM moves he can learn: swords' dance, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, seismic toss, 

rage, earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, double team, bide, swift, 

skull bash, rest, rock slide, substitute



HM moves he can learn: cut, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Sandslash swords' 

dance to raise his huge attack power.  You may also want to give 

him earthquake or rock slide to add some big type advantages.  

With his high strength he uses takedown and double edge 

decently.



Sandslash can learn normal, poison, ground, and rock type 

attacks.



weaknesses: water, grass, ice



resistances: poison, rock



immunities: electric

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Clefable (Normal)



Stats: excellent HP, ok attack, good defense, ok speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Clefable is a good defensive pokŽmon, and if taught 

the right moves can become quite formidable.  In fact he may be 

able to get one of the best movesets in the entire game!!  

Beware of fighting types with high speed, but if you use psychic 

you may be able to beat them!  And remember, since he uses type 

attacks that don't match his being a normal type, he will not 

use them as well (see notes in basic strategy).



Moves he can learn: pound, growl, sing, doubleslap, minimize, 

metronome, defense curl, light screen



Moves he should keep are minimize, metronome, light screen, and 

doubleslap.  Minimize is great for raising your evade.  

Metronome is an ok attack, a gamble because it uses a random 

move out of all the moves that any pokŽmon can use.  Sometimes 

you get hyper beam, sometimes you get splash.  Light screen 

reduces special damage by 50% and is great since Clefable 

already has a good special.  Doubleslap is the best normal 

attack he has.



TM moves he can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

solar beam, thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, teleport, mimic, 

double team, reflect, bide, metronome, fire blast, skull bash, 

rest, thunder wave, psywave, tri attack, substitute



HM moves he can learn: strength, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: OH WOW, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT? This 

guy is loaded for absolute bear when it comes to the awesome TMs 

he can learn.  Why don't we give him blizzard, psychic, and 

either fire blast, solar beam, or thunder?  Plug in substitute 

due to his high HP, and you would become an incredible power, 

just use it when your opponent has less speed.  You can also 

teach him thunderwave to bring your opponent's speed advantage 

down.  Also he is a great candidate for double edge, mega kick, 

or takedown with his normal typing.



Clefable can learn normal, water, ice, fighting, grass, 

electric, psychic, and fire type attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Ninetales (Fire)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, ok defense, good speed, good special



Evaluation: Ninetales is a decent fire pokŽmon.  Use him against 

other types that are weak against fire and use mainly special 

attacks.  The best strategy is to use his confuse ray and attack 

your confused opponent with fire spin or flamethrower.



Moves he can learn: ember, tail whip, quick attack, roar, 

confuse ray, flamethrower, fire spin



Moves he should keep are flamethrower, fire spin, confuse ray, 

and quick attack.  Flamethrower is a strong fire move, fire spin 

is good to bind opponents with less speed.  Confuse ray is great 

to confuse your opponents and quick attack is a decent attack 

that gets first strike.



TM moves he can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

hyper beam, rage, dig, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, fire 

blast, swift, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves he can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Ninetales strong 

physical moves or dig for an advantage against rock types.



Ninetales can learn fire and normal type attacks.



weaknesses: water, rock, ground



resistances: fire, grass, bug

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Wigglytuff (Normal)



Stats: excellent HP, ok attack, bad defense, bad speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Indeed this one can learn an impressive moveset 

also, but does not have the stats to back it up.  Therefore this 

one is like a cheap imitation of Clefable, very cheap.  The 

benefit to it is a much higher HP that allows it to take a few 

more hits.



Moves he can learn: sing, pound, disable, defense curl, 

doubleslap, rest, body slam, double edge



Moves he should keep are body slam, rest, sing, and defense 

curl.



TM moves he can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

solar beam, thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, teleport, mimic, 

double team, reflect, bide, fire blast, skull bash, rest, 

thunder wave, psywave, tri attack, substitute



HM moves he can learn: strength, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: If you are bound and determined to get 

a good Wigglytuff, follow the same rules as with Clefable.  

Teach some of the same TMs to him for some awesome moves.  Know 

though that he won't be able to use them nearly as well.  You 

may want to give him powerful normal moves because he would be 

able to use them best.  With substitute and higher HP than 

Clefable, he may be able to defeat some pokŽmon.  Again with his 

normal typing he is good to teach double edge, takedown, mega 

kick, etc.



Wigglytuff can learn normal, fighting, water, ice, grass, 

electric, fire, and psychic type attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Dugtrio (Ground)



Stats: good HP, ok attack, bad defense, great speed, ok special



Evaluation: Dugtrio is a very speedy pokŽmon with good power.  

He has big advantages on those that are weak against ground 

moves, and he is decent with slash in terms of physical 

attacking.  The problem with Dugtrio is that he just can not 

take very many hits before fainting.  Use his speed to your 

advantage.



Moves he can learn: scratch, growl, dig, sand attack, slash, 

earthquake



Moves he should keep are dig, earthquake, sand attack, slash.  

Slash improves on his poor offense.  Earthquake and dig are very 

strong moves, and decent even in the hands of Dugtrio.  Sand 

attack will keep opponents from hitting you since Dugtrio has 

low defense and special.



TM moves he can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

hyper beam, rage, earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, double team, 

bide, rest, rock slide, substitute



HM moves he can learn: cut (yellow only)



TMs/HMs to mix things up:  You may want to give Dugtrio rock 

slide to add to types he can beat.  I can't really recommend any 

other TMs for Dugtrio because he already knows the good moves, 

and he has a poor offense.



Dugtrio can learn normal, ground, and rock type attacks.



weaknesses: water, grass, ice



resistances: poison, rock



immunities: electric

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Persian (Normal)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, ok defense, great speed, ok special



Evaluation: Persian is a speedy attacker, but not much else can 

be said for it.  With slash you can do good damage against 

enemies with a low defense, and with Persian's high speed this 

helps against enemies with high special.  Persian can not take 

hits very well.  If you teach him substitute though, you may be 

able to screech and slash your opponent into defeat.



Moves he can learn: scratch, growl, bite, pay day, screech, fury 

swipes, slash



Moves he should keep are slash, screech, pay day, and bite.  

Bite causes opponents to sometimes flinch.  Slash has a good 

chance of critical hit.  Screech lowers your opponent's defense 

greatly.  Pay day is ok in that it gives you money (2x your 

current level=money received each attack).



TM moves he can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

bubblebeam, water gun, hyper beam, pay day, rage, thunderbolt, 

thunder, mimic, double team, bide, swift, skull bash, rest, 

substitute



HM moves he can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Persian thunder 

or bubblebeam to give it some type advantages, but it will not 

use these moves very well.  You may wish to give it some strong 

normal moves like hyper beam.  Substitute works great as he has 

high speed and great HP.  I'm thinking double edge and takedown 

look good for his attack, especially since he gave my Mewtwo 

trouble with similar moves.



Persian can learn normal, water, and electric type attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Golduck (Water)



Stats: great HP, good attack, good defense, ok speed, ok special



Evaluation:  Golduck is pretty good with physical attacks, and 

is ok with special attacks.  He is not a bad pokŽmon if you use 

him in the right instances.  His real advantage lies in the TM 

moves he can learn.  His defense allows him to take a few 

physical attacks, so don't worry as much about his speed as 

some.



Moves he can learn: scratch, tail whip, disable, confusion, fury 

swipes, hydro pump

stadium secret: amnesia



Moves he should keep are hydro pump, confusion, fury swipes, and 

disable.  Hydro pump is the strongest water attack, fury swipes 

is a decent normal attack, confusion is a good psychic attack, 

and disable may take away one of your opponent's good moves.  

You should keep amnesia from Stadium if you got Amnesia Psyduck 

and evolved him, then teach Golduck some good TMs.



TM moves he can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, pay day, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, dig, mimic, double team, bide, swift, skull bash, 

rest, substitute



HM moves he can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may wish to give Golduck moves 

like blizzard, ice beam, or dig.  Dig would give him an 

advantage against electric types.  With his high attack you may 

wish to give hyper beam or other strong moves.  His original 

moveset is not great so he is a good candidate to teach TM 

moves.



Golduck can learn normal, water, ground, and psychic type 

attacks.



weaknesses: electric, grass



resistances: fire, water, ice

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Primeape (Fighting)



Stats: great HP, good attack, ok defense, good speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Primeape is a powerful pokŽmon with good speed.  He 

stands a chance against most flying types, and even against 

psychic types that he can outspeed--I recommend you paralyze or 

burn them first, or maybe even put them to sleep or freeze them.  

His karate chop will serve well with a large chance of critical 

hit, and his other moves are powerful.



Moves he can learn:

yellow: scratch, leer, low kick, karate chop, fury swipes, focus 

energy, rage, seismic toss, screech, thrash

red/blue: scratch, leer, karate chop, fury swipes, focus energy, 

seismic toss, thrash



Moves he should keep are screech, low kick, karate chop, and 

seismic toss.  Screech lowers the opponent's defense greatly, 

karate chop almost always gets a critical hit, low kick may make 

your opponent flinch, and seismic toss does damage equal to your 

level.



TM moves he can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, pay day, submission, counter, 

seismic toss, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, dig, mimic, double 

team, bide, metronome, swift, skull bash, rest, rock slide, 

substitute



HM moves he can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may wish to give Primeape rock 

slide or thunder to counter flying types, rock slide being 

preferred because he has low special (thanks Alvaro).  Those 

moves may also help against psychic types. 



Primeape can learn normal, fighting, electric, and rock attacks.



weaknesses: psychic, flying



resistances: bug, rock

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Arcanine (Fire)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, ok defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Arcanine is a great pokŽmon with good speed and 

strong attack, and decent special.  The only area he lacks in is 

defense, so beware rock pokŽmon.  Give him dig to counter most 

rock pokŽmon with his speed and high attack.



Moves he can learn: bite, roar, ember, leer, takedown, agility, 

flamethrower



Moves he should keep are flamethrower, bite, agility, and 

takedown.  Flamethrower is a powerful fire attack, bite makes 

your opponent flinch sometimes, agility is good to boost his 

speed on a free round, and takedown is a powerful attack that 

does 1/4 the damage that you do to your opponent.



TM moves he can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

hyper beam, rage, dragon rage, dig, teleport, mimic, double 

team, reflect, bide, fire blast, swift, skull bash, rest, 

substitute



HM moves he can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give Arcanine fire blast and a few 

powerful moves, replace takedown.  Arcanine's high attack will 

use strong normal moves well.  Also you may want to give him dig 

to have a better chance against rock types.  Double edge may 

help.



Arcanine can learn normal, fire, and ground type attacks.



weaknesses: rock, water, ground



resistances: fire, grass, bug

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Alakazam (Psychic)



Stats: great HP, bad attack, bad defense, great speed, excellent 

special



Evaluation: Alakazam is Alvaro's favorite pokŽmon and I can see 

why.  If Alakazam is brought up from a low level Abra and 

evolved early, then his special power nearly rivals Mewtwo's.  

His speed is also great, which gives him many advantages, and 

his moveset leaves few with resistances.  If taught substitute 

and left with recover, this pokŽmon is nearly unstoppable.



Moves it can learn: teleport, kinesis (if caught as Kadabra in 

yellow), confusion, disable, psybeam, recover, psychic, reflect



Moves it should keep are psychic, recover, reflect, and psybeam.  

Psybeam has a chance of confusing your opponent and is a 

powerful psychic attack.  Psychic is the strongest psychic move, 

and in the hands of Alakazam it is super powerful.  Reflect 

reduces the physical damage you receive by 50%, and helps 

Alakazam with his poor defense.  Recover is one of the best 

moves because it recovers half of your HP in a round.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, dig, psychic, teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, metronome, skull bash, rest, thunder wave, psywave, tri 

attack, substitute



HM moves it can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Alakazam already has a formidable 

moveset.  You may wish to replace reflect with substitute, 

because of Alakazam's wonderful speed and good HP.  You may want 

to also give him seismic toss or counter in addition to 

substitute, that way if a strong physical attack breaks your 

substitute, Alakazam can pay your enemy back double with 

counter.  He should be able to resist all the special attacks 

that come his way.



Alakazam can learn normal, fighting, ground, and psychic type 

attacks.



weaknesses: bug



resistances: fighting, psychic



immunities: ghost

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Machamp (Fighting)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, ok defense, bad speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Machamp is good at strong attacks, but with poor 

speed, defense, and special he could be easily defeated by 

psychics or strong physical attacks.  If he survives first round 

because of his HP, use substitute if you have enough energy and 

then use your strongest moves.



Moves it can learn: karate chop, low kick, leer, focus energy, 

seismic toss, submission



Moves it should keep are karate chop, low kick, leer, and 

seismic toss.  Seismic toss does damage equal to your level, low 

kick often makes the enemy flinch, karate chop almost always 

gets a critical hit, and leer lowers the opponent's defense



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, double team, bide, 

metronome, fire blast, skull bash, rest, rock slide, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Machamp rock 

slide to defeat flying pokŽmon.  You definitely want to give him 

substitute so he won't be defeated in a few hits due to his poor 

defenses.  You might want to give him earthquake or dig for a 

few extra type advantages.  Counter would be great when paired 

with substitute for this guy.  Mega punch/kick, double edge, and 

takedown help too.



Machamp can learn normal, fighting, fire, ground, and rock 

moves.



weaknesses: flying, psychic



resistances: bug, rock

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Rapidash (Fire)



Stats: great HP, good attack, ok defense, great speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: A good speedy attacker, but not good with fire type 

attacks.  Give him normal powerful moves and uses his speed to 

your advantage.  Give him substitute to protect his delicate 

defenses.



Moves it can learn: ember, tail whip, stomp, growl, fire spin, 

takedown, agility



Moves it should keep are fire spin, takedown, stomp, and 

agility.  Fire spin is good to bind those with less speed.  

Stomp is a strong physical attack that sometimes makes your 

opponent flinch.  Takedown is a strong physical attack that does 

1/4 damage back to you of the damage you deal.  Agility can 

boost Rapidash's great speed.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, horn drill, body slam, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, fire blast, swift, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Hmm, this guy is kinda limited.  Teach 

it swift or hyper beam to add to its strong attacks, or even 

body slam.  Substitute is good because it has high HP but low 

defenses.  Also the moves like double edge and takedown can pay 

off.



Rapidash can learn fire and normal type attacks.



weaknesses: water, ground, rock



resistances: bug, grass, fire

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Magneton (Electric)



Stats: great HP, bad attack, good defense, ok speed, great 

special



Evaluation: Magneton has a great defense, and is ok at using 

strong electric moves.  His main advantage is to use moves to 

confuse and paralyze his opponent, he is often a good pokŽmon to 

sacrifice to give status ailments to your opponent and set them 

up to be pounded by another.



Moves it can learn: tackle, sonic boom, thundershock, 

supersonic, thunderwave, swift, screech



Moves it should keep are screech, thunderwave, thundershock, and 

supersonic.  Supersonic confuses your opponent, screech greatly 

lowers their defense, thundershock is and ok electric attack, 

and thunderwave gives you the speed advantage.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, takedown, double edge, hyper beam, 

rage, thunderbolt, thunder, teleport, mimic, double team, 

reflect, bide, swift, rest, thunderwave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give Magneton thunder (or thunderbolt) 

and he will become a lot better in battle.  You may also want to 

give him swift or hyper beam to add some regular strong attacks 

and help improve his poor offense.  Also think about substitute 

since he has low speed but good HP, just remember to put the 

enemy to sleep or paralyze or freeze them.



Magneton can learn normal and electric attacks.



weaknesses: ground



resistances: electric, flying

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Muk (Poison)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, ok defense, bad speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: If you load Muk up with some strong physical attacks 

and substitute, he should fare well in battle.  He uses sludge 

far better than Weezing and is not a bad choice, lacking only in 

special defense as physical can be made up with acid armor.  He 

would make a good sacrifice pokŽmon with explosion.



Moves it can learn: pound, disable, poison gas, minimize, 

sludge, harden, screech, acid armor



Moves it should keep are sludge, acid armor, screech, and pound.  

Pound is an ok normal attack.  Sludge is a strong poison attack.  

Acid armor greatly increases Muk's poor defense, and screech 

greatly lowers his opponent's defense.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, body slam, hyper beam, rage, mega 

drain, thunderbolt, thunder, mimic, double team, bide, 

selfdestruct, fire blast, rest, explosion, substitute



HM moves it can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give him body slam, hyper beam, 

substitute, or explosion.  Take advantage of his high physical 

attack, as he has very poor special attack.  Substitute would 

help him have a better defense with his high HP, just try to get 

the speed advantage before using it.



Muk can learn normal, grass, fire, electric, and poison attacks.



weaknesses: ground, psychic, bug



resistances: grass, fighting, poison

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Hypno (Psychic)



Stats: excellent HP, ok attack, ok defense, ok speed, great 

special



Evaluation: Hypno doesn't have the pure power of Alakazam but he 

has a little better rounded stats.  He is more powerful in 

physical attacks, and with dream eater he becomes incredibly 

powerful.  Make up for his low speed and defense with 

substitute, just remember to burn, paralyze, freeze, etc. to 

lower your opponent's speed.



Moves it can learn: pound, hypnosis, disable, confusion, head 

butt, poison gas, psychic, meditate



Moves it should keep are psychic, head butt, hypnosis, and 

confusion.  Confusion is an ok psychic attack, psychic is the 

strongest, head butt is a good physical attack, and hypnosis 

puts the enemy to sleep.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, psychic, teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, metronome, skull bash, dream eater, rest, thunder wave, 

psywave, tri attack, substitute



HM moves it can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give Hypno dream eater (make sure to 

keep hypnosis) and it will work wonders.  You may wish to give 

him stronger normal type attacks too.  Give him substitute to 

make up for his lack of speed and defense.



Hypno can learn normal, fighting, and psychic attacks.



weaknesses: bug



resistances: fighting, psychic



immunities: ghost

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Kingler (Water)



Stats: good HP, great attack, good defense, ok speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Kingler is a pretty good one.  He lacks in speed and 

being able to use and resist special attacks.  His high attack 

makes up for that.  His crab hammer also is quite nice because 

it gets a critical hit most of the time and makes up for his 

poor special.



Moves it can learn: bubble, leer, vice grip, guillotine, stomp, 

crab hammer, harden



Moves it should keep are stomp, crabhammer, harden, and 

guillotine.  Guillotine sometimes works for a one hit KO.  

Crabhammer is a great water attack with a high chance of 

critical hit.  Stomp is a strong physical attack that can make 

your opponents flinch.  Harden improves his defense.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, bide, rest, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut, surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Kingler hyper 

beam and other strong normal attacks.  You may want to give him 

bubblebeam, which does decently despite his low special.  You 

may want to give him swords' dance to raise his great attack, or 

ice beam for some type advantages.



Kingler can learn normal, water, and ice attacks.



weaknesses: electric, grass



resistances: fire, water, ice

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Electrode (Electric)



Stats: great HP, bad attack, ok defense, excellent speed 

(highest in game), ok special



Evaluation: Electrode is ok to use toxic and start the battle 

off nicely, or to use thunderwave, thanks to 

deputyheadless@mailcity.com for pointing this out.  Also try 

screeching and explosion if you survive long enough to use it.



Moves it can learn: tackle, screech, sonic boom, selfdestruct, 

light screen, swift, explosion



Moves it should keep are screech, explosion, light screen, and 

swift.  Swift has a 100% hit rate.  Screech helps improve 

electrode's attack by lowering the opponent's defense.  Light 

screen protects from 50% of special damage and that helps him 

have a little better defense.  Explosion is a strong sacrifice 

move and is ok if paired with several screeches.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, takedown, hyper beam, rage, 

thunderbolt, thunder, teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, selfdestruct, swift, skull bash, rest, thunderwave, 

explosion, substitute



HM moves it can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You could give it thunder to improve 

its special attacks and hyper beam to improve its physical 

attacks.  Electrode though has a terrible moveset with few good 

options.



Electrode can learn normal and electric type attacks.



weaknesses: ground



resistances: electric, flying

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Marowak (Ground)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, great defense, ok speed, ok special



Evaluation: Marowak has a good defense, but poor special 

defense.  Her real advantage is in the powerful moveset of 

ground attacks that she has.  She is great against electric 

types, and good against others that are weak against ground.  

Just beware because she has low speed and special defenses.



Moves it can learn: growl, bone club, tail whip (yellow only), 

headbutt (yellow only), leer, focus energy, thrash, bonemerang, 

rage



Moves it should keep are bonemerang, focus energy, headbutt, and 

bone club.  Bonemerang is a strong ground move, headbutt is a 

strong normal attack with a good chance of making the enemy 

flinch, bone club has a good chance of making the enemy flinch, 

and focus energy improves the chance of critical hit.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, seismic toss, counter, rage, 

earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, double team, bide, fire blast, 

skull bash, rest, substitute 



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You could give Marowak fire blast and 

ice beam to counter the types she is weak against, but she 

doesn't use special attacks very well.  She has a pretty good 

moveset as is.  You could also give her double edge, takedown, 

or mega kick.



Marowak can learn normal, ground, fire, ice, water, and fighting 

type attacks.



weaknesses: water, grass, ice



resistances: poison, rock

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Hitmonlee (Fighting)



Stats: great HP, great attack, ok defense, good speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Stay away from ghost, but other than that, Hitmonlee 

is one of the best physical attackers in the game.  Good speedy 

attacks make him a great choice in a lot of situations.  Also be 

careful because his defenses are not too great.



Moves it can learn: double kick, meditate, rolling kick, jump 

kick, focus energy, high jump kick, mega kick



Moves it should keep are mega kick, high jump kick, focus 

energy, and rolling kick.  Mega kick is super powerful.  Rolling 

kick sometimes causes your enemy to flinch.  High jump kick does 

strong fighting damage, but does 1/8 the damage it would have 

done if you miss to you.  Focus energy brings up the chances for 

a critical hit.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

mimic, double team, bide, metronome, swift, skull bash, rest, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Hitmonlee already has a great moveset.  

Don't bother with the TMs.



Hitmonlee can learn normal and fighting type attacks.



weaknesses: psychic, flying



resistances: bug, rock

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Hitmonchan (Fighting)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, ok defense, ok speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Although standing a better chance against ghosts 

with his elemental punches, Hitmonchan has a terrible special 

and doesn't use the elemental punches very well.  He is better 

at using strong physical attacks.  He lacks speed and has a 

little more HP, so Hitmonlee is the better bet.



Moves it can learn: comet punch, agility, fire punch, ice punch, 

thunder punch, mega punch, counter



Moves it should keep are counter, mega punch, agility, and ice 

punch.  You may also wish to keep the three elemental punches 

and leave him with counter.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

mimic, double team, bide, metronome, swift, skull bash, rest, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Hitmonchan 

submission for a true fighting type move.  And you may want to 

give him other powerful physical attacks as his special to use 

the elemental punches isn't great.



Hitmonchan can learn normal, fighting, ice, fire, and electric 

type moves.



weaknesses: flying, psychic







resistances: bug, rock

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Lickitung (Normal)



Stats: excellent HP, bad attack, ok defense, bad speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Other than having a pretty good list of TMs to learn 

from and having an ok special, he is not really good.  Try to 

use substitute due to his high HP, that may keep him alive long 

enough to unleash some ok attacks, just try to have the speed 

advantage on your opponent first.  His defense is better than 

his stats reflect because of his high HP.



Moves it can learn: wrap, supersonic, stomp, disable, defense 

curl, slam, screech



Moves it should keep are screech, stomp, supersonic, and slam.  

Slam is a powerful normal attack, as is stomp.  Stomp sometimes 

makes the enemy flinch.  Screech lowers the opponent's defense 

and helps Lickitung's attack.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, swords' dance, mega kick, 

toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, 

ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, earthquake, fissure, mimic, 

double team, bide, fire blast, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut, surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Since Lickitung does have a little 

better special than attack, equip him with some strong special 

moves like ice beam or fire blast.  You may also want to give 

him substitute to make up for his poor stats other than HP, try 

to get the speed advantage with moves that paralyze or make the 

opponent sleep with another pokŽmon.



Lickitung can learn normal, water, ice, fighting, electric, 

ground, and fire type moves.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Weezing (Poison)



Stats: great HP, good attack, great defense, ok speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Weezing has great defense.  If you avoid psychics, 

he should be able to defeat many pokŽmon with his strong poison 

powers and good defense.  Weezing does not attack as well as 

Muk, but is more well rounded, making him a better choice.



Moves it can learn: tackle, smog, sludge, smokescreen, 

selfdestruct, haze, explosion



Moves it should keep are explosion, sludge, smokescreen, and 

smog.  Smog is a decent poison attack, and sludge is even 

stronger.  Smokescreen raises your chance of evading enemy 

attack.  Explosion is a powerful self sacrifice move.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, hyper beam, rage, thunderbolt, 

thunder, mimic, double team, bide, selfdestruct, fire blast, 

rest, explosion, substitute



HM moves it can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Weezing fire 

blast to counter bug types that he is weak against.  You may 

also want to give him toxic, since he will use it well, being a 

poison type.  Also since he has good attack, he would be suited 

for hyper beam.



Weezing can learn fire, electric, normal, and poison type 

attacks.



weaknesses: psychic, bug, ground



resistances: grass, fighting, poison

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Chansey (Normal)



Stats: excellent HP (highest in game), bad attack, bad defense, 

bad speed, great special



Evaluation: Chansey probably has the worst defense and attack in 

the game.  And though her speed is on the low end of the 

spectrum, she does have some surprising advantages.  She takes 

special attacks very well, limiting your opponents to hitting 

her with physical attacks.  Since she has immense HP, she often 

can survive those.  Use counter to double the damage they did to 

you, and send it back their way.  Her many TMs she can learn are 

put to good use since she has high special.  Just beware strong, 

quick fighting types.



Moves it can learn: pound, tail whip (yellow only), doubleslap, 

sing, growl, minimize, defense curl, light screen, double edge



Moves it should keep are double edge, light screen, sing, and 

minimize.  Minimize raises Chansey's evade, and really helps 

with its low defense.  Sing may put your enemy to sleep.  Light 

screen reduces special attack damage by 50%.  Double edge is a 

strong normal attack that does 1/4 of the damage you deal to 

you.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

solar beam, thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, teleport, mimic, 

double team, reflect, bide, metronome, egg bomb, fireblast, 

softboiled, dream eater, rest, thunderwave, psywave, tri attack, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: With a great special, Chansey can use 

a lot of moves very well.  Teach her ice beam, blizzard, or 

psychic.  Psychic can help her counter fighting types.  She is 

the only one that can learn softboiled (besides Mew), which 

restores helf her HP in one round in battle, and is useful for 

transferring some of her HP to other pokŽmon outside of battle, 

so you don't have to go to the pokŽcenter as often.  Counter is 

good if she takes a strong physical attack and survives due to 

her immense HP, then she can pay back the attack double which 

really does big damage.  Counter is best paired with reflect, 

which will likely let her survive.  Then unleash a counter to 

rack up some big damage.



Chansey can learn normal, fighting, water, ice, electric, grass, 

psychic, and fire type attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Tangela (Grass)



Stats: great HP, bad attack, great defense, bad speed, good 

special



Evaluation: I think this is one of the better pokŽmon.  She 

lacks speed and physical attack, but she has great special 

offense and defense, and great physical defense, along with high 

HP.  In my opinion she is great for a sacrifice play to paralyze 

your opponent or put them to sleep, and if she has substitute 

she may not even have to sacrifice herself in order to 

accomplish this task, just get the speed advantage on the 

opponent by having someone else use paralyze or sleep powder.



Moves it can learn: constrict, bind, absorb, vine whip (yellow 

only), poisonpowder, stun spore, sleep powder, slam, growth



Moves it should keep are vine whip, sleep powder, stun spore, 

and absorb.  Vine whip is a strong grass attack, absorb is not 

as strong but you get HP back from using it.  Sleep powder puts 

the enemy to sleep and stun spore gives you the speed advantage.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, solar beam, 

mimic, double team, bide, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give Tangela solar beam and mega 

drain.  You may also want to give her substitute.  Takedown and 

double edge could pay off too.



Tangela can learn normal and grass type attacks.



weaknesses: fire, bug, ice, flying, poison



resistances: water, electric, grass, ground

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Kangaskhan (Normal)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, good speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Kangaskhan has strong, quick physical attacks.  It 

lacks only the ability to defend against and use special attacks 

well.  She is best used against opponents she can outspeed and 

that are weaker against physical attacks.



Moves it can learn: comet punch, rage, bite, tail whip, mega 

punch, leer, dizzy punch



Moves it should keep are dizzy punch, mega punch, bite, and 

leer.  Leer lowers the opponent's defense.  Dizzy punch is a 

unique powerful normal attack.  Mega punch is a strong normal 

attack, and bite is strong and causes the enemy to flinch 

sometimes.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

thunderbolt, thunder, earthquake, fissure, mimic, double team, 

bide, fire blast, skull bash, rest, rock slide, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You might want to give her earthquake 

or rock slide for some type advantages, or hyper beam for a 

strong attack.  You can also give her double edge and takedown, 

and even mega kick.



Kangaskhan can learn normal, fighting, water, ice, electric, 

ground, rock, and fire type attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Seadra (Water)



Stats: good HP, good attack, good defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Seadra has great balanced stats.  It has no great 

advantages, but balanced stats help it to be one of the better 

pokŽmon.  It can use and defend against all types of attacks 

well.  And it has good speed.  One of the best water pokŽmon.



Moves it can learn: bubble, smokescreen, leer, water gun, 

agility, hydro pump



Moves it should keep are hydro pump, water gun, smokescreen, and 

agility.  Agility raises its good speed.  Hydro pump is the most 

powerful water attack, water gun backs it up with reserve water 

attacks, smokescreen helps with your evade.  (Keep leer if you 

are going to give it hyper beam).



TM moves it can learn: toxic, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, 

water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double 

team, bide, swift, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give Seadra surf or ice beam to give 

it some more powerful moves.  With its good attack it would be 

good to give it hyper beam also.  Think about takedown and 

double edge as well.



Seadra can learn normal, water, and ice type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, grass



resistances: fire, water, ice

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Seaking (Water)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, ok defense, ok speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Seaking is a good average pokŽmon lacking a little 

in speed and defenses.  Her powerful offense and strong water 

moves make her a pretty good choice though.



Moves it can learn: peck, tail whip, supersonic, horn attack, 

fury attack, waterfall, horn drill, agility



Moves it should keep are waterfall, horn attack, agility, and 

horn drill.  Horn drill has a chance of getting a one hit KO, 

agility boosts its fair speed, horn attack is a good high 

accuracy attack, and waterfall is a strong unique water move.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, horn drill, takedown, double edge, 

bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, 

mimic, double team, bide, swift, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Seaking surf or 

ice beam to give her more powerful attacks.  Hyper beam is good 

in her hands too.  Takedown and double edge are helpful.



Seaking can learn normal, water, and ice type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, grass



resistances: fire, water, ice

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Mr. Mime (Psychic)



Stats: good HP, bad attack, ok defense, good speed, good special



Evaluation: Mr. Mime is one of the better traded-for pokŽmon.  

If you teach him psychic and keep the rest of his moveset, he is 

pretty decent in battle.  He can't take physical hits very well, 

but that can be made up for with barrier.



Moves it can learn: barrier, confusion, light screen, double 

slap, meditate, substitute



Moves it should keep are substitute, light screen, barrier, 

confusion.  Confusion is a good psychic attack that sometimes 

confuses.  Light screen reduces damage from special attacks by 

50%, barrier greatly increases his poor defense, and substitute 

makes a clone for 1/4 of max HP to take damage for you.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, solar beam, thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, teleport, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, metronome, skull bash, rest, 

thunderwave, psywave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You will want to teach him psychic to 

take advantage of his special powers fully.  His moveset already 

has pretty good moves.  You also may want to give him strong 

physical attacks like mega kick and double edge.



Mr. Mime can learn normal, psychic, fighting, electric, and 

grass type attacks. 



weaknesses: bug



resistances: fighting, psychic



immunities: ghost

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Electabuzz (Electric)



Stats: great HP, good attack, bad defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Electabuzz is a good choice.  He only has trouble 

with physical defense, so be sure to avoid ground types.  

Electabuzz has good speedy attacks and a good special defense.



Moves it can learn: quick attack, leer, thundershock, screech, 

thunder punch, light screen, thunder



Moves it should keep are thunder, light screen, screech, and 

thunder punch. Thunder and thunder punch are strong electric 

moves, light screen reduces special damage by 50%, and screech 

greatly lowers the opponent's defense.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, teleport, mimic, 

double team, reflect, bide, metronome, swift, skull bash, rest, 

thunderwave, psywave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: With his good attack and special, you 

may want to give him hyper beam or psychic.  You also may want 

to give him mega kick, double edge, or takedown. 



Electabuzz can learn normal, fighting, psychic, and electric 

attacks.



weaknesses: ground



resistances: flying, electric

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Magmar (Fire)



Stats: great HP, bad attack, ok defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Magmar doesn't seem to me to be as good as 

Electabuzz, but he can still use special attacks, especially 

fire ones, pretty well.  Use his speed to do damage before you 

can get hit back.  Avoid rock and ground types.



Moves it can learn: ember, leer, confuse ray, fire punch, 

smokescreen, smog, flamethrower



Moves it should keep are flamethrower, smog, smokescreen, and 

confuse ray.  Confuse ray confuses your opponent, smog is a good 

poison attack, smokescreen gives him higher evade, and 

flamethrower is a powerful fire move.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, psychic, teleport, mimic, double team, bide, 

metronome, fire blast, skull bash, rest, psywave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: With a decent special, you may want to 

give him fire blast or psychic.  Also mega kick and double edge 

look good.



Magmar can learn normal, fighting, psychic, poison, and fire 

type attacks.



weaknesses: water, ground, rock



resistances: fire, grass, bug

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Pinsir (Bug)



Stats: great HP, great attack, good defense, good speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Pinsir is better than Scyther, and a strong speedy 

pokŽmon.  He also has less weaknesses.  He is definitely a good 

choice in battle.  Avoid enemies that have strong special 

attacks, especially ones he is weak against.



Moves it can learn: vicegrip, bind (yellow only), seismic toss, 

guillotine, focus energy, harden, slash, swords' dance



Moves it should keep are swords' dance, slash, seismic toss, and 

guillotine.  Guillotine is sometimes a one hit KO move.  Slash 

is a strong attack with high chance of critical hit.  Swords' 

dance greatly raises its attack.  Seismic toss does damage equal 

to your level.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, seismic toss, 

rage, mimic, double team, reflect, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Pinsir hyper beam 

with its high attack, but it already has a good moveset.  You 

also may want double edge in its arsenal, but slash should do 

big damage as well.



Pinsir can learn normal and fighting type attacks.



weaknesses: fire, poison, rock, flying



resistances: grass, fighting, ground

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Tauros (Normal)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, great speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Tauros is very strong and fast.  The only area he 

lacks in is being unable to use and defend against special 

attacks.  With his speed though, he should fare quite well in 

most battles.



Moves it can learn: tackle, stomp, tail whip, leer, rage, 

takedown



Moves it should keep are takedown, stomp, leer, and rage.  

Takedown is a powerful attack that does 1/4 of the damage you 

cause to you.  Rage is an ok attack that boosts your attack 

power every time you get attacked, you lose control of the 

pokŽmon though, and it attacks automatically every round.  Leer 

lowers the enemy's defense, and stomp may make your opponent 

flinch.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, horn drill, body slam, takedown, 

double edge, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, thunderbolt, 

thunder, earthquake, fissure, mimic, double team, bide, fire 

blast, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Teach Tauros hyper beam, earthquake,  

or strength to give it some more powerful attacks.  Its special 

is not too bad, so you may want to give it some of the powerful 

special moves it can learn.  You may also consider takedown and 

double edge with its normal typing and high offense.



Tauros can learn normal, ice, electric, ground, and fire type 

attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Ditto (Normal)



Stats: good HP, bad attack, bad defense, bad speed, bad special 

(after transforming it gains almost the same stats as your 

enemy)



Evaluation: Ditto can be good in a few situations where your 

enemy has learned a type attack that it is weak against.  

However, in transforming, Ditto will be weak against it too.  

His stats don't completely level up to the opponent's stats.  

All in all I don't think Ditto is very good.



Moves it can learn: transform



Moves it should keep are transform.  Transform lets it become an 

exact copy of the pokŽmon you are fighting.



TM moves it can learn: none



HM moves it can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: He doesn't learn any so this doesn't 

apply.



Ditto can learn whatever type attacks your opponent knows.



weaknesses: fighting--or whatever the weaknesses are when you 

take on your opponent's type(s)



resistances: none--or whatever the resistances are when you take 

on your opponent's type(s)



immunities: ghost--or whatever the immunities are when you take 

on your opponent's type(s)

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Vaporeon (Water)



Stats: excellent HP, ok attack, ok defense, good speed, great 

special



Evaluation: With its good speed, excellent HP, and great 

special, Vaporeon is the queen of the water types.  She doesn't 

take physical attacks very well, but she has no type weakness 

against any physical attacks, and it can be made up for with 

acid armor.  Use her powerful special and speed to defeat many 

enemies.



Moves it can learn: (I recommend you get Eevee from yellow and 

you evolve Eevee as soon as you get it, moves could vary and not 

be as good otherwise) tackle (red/blue only) quick attack, tail 

whip (yellow only), growl, sand attack, water gun (red/blue 

only), tail whip (red/blue only, yellow already knows it), bite, 

aurora beam (yellow only), acid armor, haze, mist (red/blue 

only), hydro pump



Moves it should keep are hydro pump, acid armor, bite, and 

aurora beam.  Aurora beam is an ok ice attack that sometimes 

lowers attack.  Acid armor greatly increases Vaporeon's defense, 

hydro pump is the strongest water move, and bite sometimes makes 

the enemy flinch.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, swift, skull bash, rest, 

substitute









HM moves it can learn: surf



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Vaporeon surf or 

ice beam (or blizzard) to boost its attacks.  



Vaporeon can learn normal, water, and ice type moves.



weaknesses: electric, grass



resistances: fire, water, ice

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Jolteon (Electric)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, ok defense, great speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Jolteon is ok, and if it had better strength it 

would be great.  It is possible to use him against Mewtwo 

because he has high special to resist psychic, and then bombard 

Mewtwo with pin missile, but the lack of strength doesn't help.  

Jolteon has several type advantages with his moves, he just 

could stand more strength to use them.



Moves it can learn: (I recommend you catch Eevee on red/blue for 

this one and evolve it as soon as you get it for the best move 

results) tackle (red/blue only), quick attack, tail whip 

(red/blue only, yellow already knows it), growl, sand attack, 

thundershock (red/blue only), thunderwave, double kick, agility, 

pin missile, thunder



Moves it should keep are thunder, double kick, pin missile, and 

thunderwave.  Pin missile is a decent bug attack and works ok 

against Mewtwo.  Double kick is an ok fighting move.  Thunder is 

the strongest electric attack, and thunderwave will give you the 

speed advantage over an opponent.  You may opt to keep sand 

attack instead of double kick to increase evade, but Jolteon 

loses type advantages.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

hyper beam, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, mimic, double team, 

reflect, bide, swift, skull bash, rest, thunderwave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Jolteon 

thunderbolt for more thunder moves.  You may also want to give 

it hyper beam for stronger attack.  I do have to recommend the 

versatility of most of its original moveset besides agility 

though.  Remember though that agility could help thunder to hit 

more often.



Jolteon can learn normal, bug, fighting, and electric type 

attacks.



weaknesses: ground



resistances: electric, flying

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Flareon (Fire)



Stats: great HP, good attack, bad defense, ok speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Flareon has ok attacks, but lacks defense and speed 

which makes things really bad against ground or rock types.  

Flareon is the least useful of all the Eevee evolutions, but is 

still a good fire pokŽmon.



Moves it can learn: (I recommend you get Eevee from yellow and 

you evolve Eevee as soon as you get it, moves could vary and not 

be as good otherwise) tackle (red/blue only) quick attack, tail 

whip (yellow only), growl, sand attack, ember (red/blue only), 

tail whip (red/blue only, yellow already knows it), bite, leer, 

firespin, smog (yellow only), rage (red/blue only), flamethrower



Moves it should keep are flamethrower, fire spin, smog, and 

bite.  Bite may cause your enemy to flinch, firespin can bind 

slower opponents, flamethrower is a strong fire attack, and smog 

is a decent poison attack.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, fire blast, 

swift, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: none 



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may wish to give Flareon fire 

blast to give it a stronger attack.  You may also wish to give 

it substitute with its lower defense and speed, just remember to 

do something to give you the speed advantage with another 

pokŽmon, like burn, sleep, paralyze, etc.  You may wish to give 

it double edge or takedown as well.



Flareon can learn fire, normal, and poison type attacks.



weaknesses: water, ground, rock



resistances: fire, grass, bug

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Porygon (Normal)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, ok defense, bad speed, good special



Evaluation: Porygon is darned expensive and you don't get much 

in return.  He can learn some good attacks, and conversion can 

help you to always have a resistance.  He is an ok choice.



Moves it can learn: tackle, sharpen, conversion, psybeam, 

recover, agility, tri attack



Moves it should keep are recover, psybeam, conversion, and tri 

attack.  Tri attack is a strong normal attack.  Conversion lets 

you become the type(s) that your opponent is.  Psybeam is a 

strong psychic attack, and recover lets you get back half your 

HP in one round.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, takedown, double edge, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, 

teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, swift, skull bash, 

rest, thunderwave, psywave, tri attack, substitute



HM moves it can learn: flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Since Porygon has a decent special, 

you can give him moves like blizzard and thunder to help him 

out.  Also he can use double edge, takedown, and mega kick 

fairly well because of his normal typing.



Porygon can learn normal, psychic, ice, and electric type 

attacks.



weaknesses: fighting--or whatever the weaknesses of the type(s) 

that you take on are



resistances: none--or whatever the weaknesses of the type(s) 

that you take on are



immunities: ghost--or whatever the immunities of the type(s) 

that you take on are

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Snorlax (Normal)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, ok defense, bad speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Snorlax lacks in defense and speed, but not as much 

as some.  He can usually take a lot of hits with his high HP, 

and he can do some serious damage with hyper beam.  He is one of 

the better ones.



Moves it can learn: headbutt, amnesia, rest, body slam, harden, 

double edge, hyper beam



Moves it should keep are hyper beam, double edge, body slam, and 

headbutt.  Headbutt has a good chance of making your opponent 

flinch, body slam may paralyze them, hyper beam is the strongest 

normal move and since Snorlax learned it on his own and is a 

normal type, he uses it best.  Double edge is a incredibly 

strong attack in Snorlax's hands.  You may want to keep amnesia 

to help his special.   You may want Amnesia instead of headbutt.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, pay day, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, solar beam, thunderbolt, thunder, earthquake, 

fissure, psychic, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, metronome, 

selfdestruct, fire blast, skull bash, rest, psywave, rock slide, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: If you keep amnesia, then you can 

unleash a whole killer group of TMs Snorlax can learn and use 

decently.  On his own he uses moves like earthquake and rock 

slide better though.  You may wish to keep most of his regular 

moveset, as he is a normal type and uses them all well.  Also 

you could give him substitute and use bide with it.  He has 

great HP and should produce a good clone, and since he has lower 

defense, bide would be perfect for him.  Unleash 2x the damage 

that your opponent did to you in 2 or 3 rounds, and it doesn't 

matter if it is special attacks or physical.  Be careful of 

speedy attackers with strong special moves when you are trying 

to use substitute though, sometimes it may be wiser to use 

another one of your team members to gain the speed advantage on 

your opponent.  Definitely consider mega kick for Snorlax too, 

because he can use it VERY well.



Snorlax can learn normal, fighting, water, ice, grass, electric, 

ground, psychic, fire, and rock type attacks.



weaknesses: fighting



resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Mewtwo (Psychic)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, great defense, excellent 

speed, excellent special (highest in game)



Evaluation: This is my favorite pokŽmon in terms of strength 

(Raichu otherwise).  Mewtwo is phenomenal.  His one small 

weakness, that you can make desperate attempts at, is his 

physical defense.  Dragonite and another Mewtwo stand good 

chances against him, and Jolteon can sometimes win with its high 

special to resist psychic, and pin missile to expose the 

weakness (though I have now found pin missile and other bug 

moves to be quite weak).  Make strategy plays, take away 

Mewtwo's speed with paralyze or freeze him and bring Beedrill 

(which has a weakness against Mewtwo) in.  Other than that, this 

guy has the best moveset and will still put up a big fight to 

the finish.  This one is the undisputed ultimate pokŽmon.



Moves it can learn: swift, barrier, psychic, recover, mist, 

amnesia



Moves it should keep are amnesia, barrier, recover, and psychic.  

Psychic is truly an attack to be feared from Mewtwo, and amnesia 

boosts its power along with his defense against special attacks.  

Recover can restore half his max HP in a single round, and 

barrier greatly increases his physical defense, which is his 

only weaker point.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, pay day (can't learn on yellow), 

submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, solar beam, 

thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, teleport, mimic, double team, 

reflect, bide, metronome, selfdestruct, fire blast, skull bash, 

rest, thunderwave, psywave, tri attack, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Well let's see, I rather like his 

awesome moveset as is, but there are some possibilities here.  

You can teach him thunder, fire blast, blizzard, solar beam, or 

bubblebeam and he would use them all well.  You could make 

strategy plays and use bide for his defense, and give him hyper 

beam as a powerful physical attack.  There are lots of 

possibilities here.  Thunder and Blizzard get rid of those 

annoying psychic dual types, and strong physical attacks get rid 

of the other psychic types.  The problem is if you take away 

some of his original moveset you will lose certain advantages 

while gaining others.



Mewtwo can learn normal, fighting, water, ice, psychic, grass, 

and fire type attacks.



weaknesses: bug



resistances: fighting, psychic



immunities: ghost

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Mew (Psychic)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, great defense, excellent 

speed, excellent special--these stats will be nearly what your 

opponent's are if you use transform, so you can lose stats from 

using it



Evaluation: Hmm, Mew has better defense than Mewtwo, but lacks 

in the other areas.  It can also learn almost as good of a 

moveset from TMs, but will be lacking a little more defense 

building moves.  If you give it softboiled it will help.  This 

guy is like a well rounded psychic, better than Hypno and 

Alakazam, but not as good as Mewtwo.



Moves it can learn: pound, transform, mega punch, metronome, 

psychic



Moves it should keep are psychic, mega punch, transform, and 

metronome.  Metronome uses a random move, sometimes good, 

sometimes bad.  Mega punch is a strong physical attack.  

Transform lets Mew become whatever pokŽmon she is fighting.  

Psychic is very powerful in the hands of Mew.



TM moves it can learn: all



HM moves it can learn: all



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Well let's see.  You should give Mew a 

strong physical attack like hyper beam, and maybe reflect to 

make up for its lesser defense.  Also give it blizzard for 

another strong attack.  You could pair swords' dance with hyper 

beam to give it very powerful attack and become a little 

stronger.  I highly recommend you give it softboiled so it can 

regain half its HP whenever you want.



Mew can learn normal, fighting, psychic, water, ice, fire, rock, 

ground, grass, electric, and flying type attacks--and whatever 

attacks the opponent knows if you transform.



weaknesses: bug--or whatever the weaknesses of your opponent are 

if you transform



resistances: psychic, fighting--or whatever the resistances of 

your opponent are if you transform



immunities: ghost--or whatever the immunities of your opponent 

are if you transform

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VII. Dual types



Dual types have great advantages and disadvantages in battle.  

They will resist some attacks to the point of only taking 1/4 to 

3/8 the normal damage, but some attacks may do 4 times to 6 

times the normal damage against them.  Having the right dual 

type in battle will give you a big advantage, having the wrong 

one will give you a big disadvantage.  Using dual types is 

always a huge gamble (unless you know your opponent's pokŽmon).  

Knowing their strengths and weaknesses can take some of the 

gamble out of this situation, though, and increase your 

likelihood to succeed.  This next section will expose the hidden 

strengths and weaknesses of dual types.



Venusaur (Grass/Poison--your two defensive types, remember if 

using an attack of these types you will do 1.5x normal damage 

with it)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, good speed, good 

special.



Evaluation: Venusaur is a good average pokŽmon.  He would not be 

a good choice against Articuno, Charizard, or Moltres because 

most of his moves only do 3/8 the regular damage to them.  He 

also has quite a few weaknesses, steer clear of pokŽmon with 

strong bug attacks.  With his good stats though, he can even 

overcome those pokŽmon that have some type advantages over him.



Moves he can learn: tackle, growl, leech seed, vine whip, poison 

powder, razor leaf, growth, sleep powder, solar beam



You should keep sleep powder, razor leaf, solar beam, and 

growth.  Optionally you can keep leech seed instead of growth 

for the leech seed/toxic trick (see status attacks below).  

Leech seed is cool because it works even after you switch away 

from Venusaur, draining your opponent's energy and giving it to 

your current pokŽmon.  Try using it while your opponent is 

sleeping, and continue to make him sleep until he is out of 

energy, switch to pokŽmon that needs energy, it is quite useful 

(thanks Alvaro).  Sleep powder can put your enemies to sleep 

with ease, and Venusaur has good speed, making it good to knock 

out tough opponents to get free hits on them.  Razor leaf has a 

good chance of critical hit.  Solar beam is really powerful, but 

be sure you can take a hit as it takes a round to charge before 

using.  Growth raises Venusaur's special, which effects nearly 

all of his attacks.



TM moves he can learn: swords dance, toxic, body slam, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, solar beam, mimic, 

double team, reflect, bide, rest, substitute



HM moves he can learn: cut



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Mega Drain is a good TM to teach 

Venusaur, as you get a lot of health back from enemies who are 

weak against grass attacks, but his regular moveset is also 

nice.  You may want to give him strong physical attacks to give 

him a chance against fire and bug types, since he does have a 

high strength (thanks Alvaro).  If you teach him toxic and kept 

leech seed, and set both of them in on your opponent you will 

wear them down to nothing in a few rounds.



Venusaur can learn normal and grass type attacks (see the chart 

in basic strategy to see how these attacks effect other 

pokŽmon).



weaknesses: ice, flying, ground, fire, psychic



big weaknesses (4x-6x damage from opponent due to both your 

defensive types being weak against its attack): bug



resistances: electricity, water, poison, fighting



big resistances (1/4-3/8 damage from opponent due to both your 

defensive types being strong against its attack): none

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Charizard (Fire/Flying)



Stats: great HP, good attack, ok defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Charizard is a fairly good pokŽmon.  Try to stay 

away from pokŽmon with strong rock attacks though.  Omastar and 

Kabutops have big defenses against Charizard.  Grass and bug 

type attacks will barely phase Charizard.  He has pretty decent 

stats, but is probably the least powerful of the original three 

you can pick in red or blue.



Moves it can learn: scratch, growl, ember, leer, rage, slash, 

flamethrower, fire spin



You should keep fire spin, flamethrower, slash, and leer.  Fire 

spin is good to bind slower pokŽmon.  Slash is just one of those 

great normal attacks with a good chance of critical hit.  

Flamethrower is a strong fire move.  And leer is good to lower 

your opponent's defense.



TM moves he can learn:  mega punch, swords dance, mega kick, 

toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, 

counter, seismic toss, rage, dragon rage, earthquake, fissure, 

dig, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, fire blast, swift, skull 

bash, rest, substitute



HM moves he can learn:  cut, strength, fly (yellow only)



TMs/HMs to mix things up:  You may wish to replace leer with 

fire blast, the strongest fire move.  You may want to teach 

Charizard moves like dig or earthquake to give him a good chance 

against rock types, since he usually has the speed advantage.  

You may want to teach him counter or seismic toss.  Counter does 

double damage back to your opponent as long as you took a 

"physical attack" (see basic strategies section above).  Seismic 

toss does damage equal to your current level, and is useful 

sometimes.  You may even want to give him fly (yellow only), 

though I don't think it helps him too much.



Charizard can learn normal, fire, flying (yellow only), 

fighting, and ground type attacks.



weaknesses: water, electricity, ice



big weaknesses: rock



resistances: fire, fighting



big resistances: grass, bug



immunities: ground

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Butterfree (Bug/Flying)



Stats: Good HP, bad attack, bad defense, good speed, bad 

special.



Evaluation: Even with lower stats than most, I found Butterfree 

decent in combat.  His moveset makes most of the difference.  He 

is good at attacking sleeping opponents.  His psybeam is 

powerful even though his special is low.  Unfortunately, he has 

many weaknesses, especially against rock types.



Moves it can learn: tackle, string shot, harden (yellow only if 

evolved from Caterpie--on red/blue if you waited to evolve him, 

but I recommend catching him on yellow), confusion, poison 

powder, stun spore, sleep powder, supersonic, whirlwind, gust 

(yellow only), psybeam



You should keep psybeam, sleep powder, supersonic, and stun 

spore.  Stun spore works for a speed advantage, supersonic 

confuses your opponent, sleep powder is the good sleep move, and 

psybeam is a nice psychic attack that few can resist.  



TM moves it can learn:  razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, solar beam, psychic, 

teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, swift, rest, 

psywave, substitute



HM moves it can learn:  strength (yellow only)



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may wish to teach Butterfree 

psychic if you have an extra TM to use.  You can also teach him 

solar beam and mega drain to give those rock or ground types a 

nasty surprise.  Psywave may be a good choice to teach him also, 

as it randomly does high damage and sometimes low.  Remember 

that he doesn't have the best special though, so these attacks 

may not work very well.



Butterfree can learn normal, psychic, and grass type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fire, poison, ice, flying



big weaknesses: rock



resistances: bug



big resistances: fighting, grass



immunities: ground

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Beedrill (Bug/Poison)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, bad defense, good speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: Beedrill is fairly decent because of his high HP and 

good, speedy attacks.  He is good against psychics who have 

lower speed, which is a rare case.  Try paralyzing, putting to 

sleep, or freezing the psychic type and then getting Beedrill in 

to finish them.  He is the only pokŽmon to have very powerful 

bug attacks and be a bug type at the same time.  His drawback is 

that he has a large amount of weaknesses.



Moves he can learn: poison sting, string shot, harden (if you 

waited until he learned it as Kakuna, then evolved him, I 

recommend you just evolve him sooner though), fury attack, focus 

energy, twineedle, rage, pin missile, agility







Twineedle, pin missile, focus energy, and agility should be 

kept.  Twineedle and pin missile are the only very powerful bug 

moves in the game, and the only moves that do good damage 

against psychic types, twineedle may also poison your enemy.  

Focus energy will give those moves a better chance of critical 

hit, and agility could be used on a free round to gain the speed 

advantage on a psychic type.



TM moves it can learn: swords dance, toxic, takedown, double 

edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, swift, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to teach mega drain to 

Beedrill, but it would only give him a chance at the ground and 

rock pokŽmon.  The rest of Beedrill's TMs all involve normal 

attacks.



Beedrill can learn normal, bug, grass, and poison type attacks. 



weaknesses: bug, flying, rock, fire, psychic



big weaknesses: none



resistances: none



big resistances: grass, fighting

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Pidgeot (Normal/Flying)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, good speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Pretty decent except in taking damage from special 

attacks.  He has only a few weaknesses, and a few resistances.  

His attack power makes him a good candidate to learn powerful 

flying moves.  Use him against someone with big weaknesses to 

flying moves.



Moves he can learn: gust, sand attack, quick attack, whirlwind, 

wing attack, agility, mirror move



You should keep mirror move, agility, sand attack, and quick 

attack.



Mirror move is sometimes useful in that you use the last move 

your opponent did.  This can be great to recover, boost your 

stats, or use an attack that you are not vulnerable to, but your 

opponent is.  Sand attack is ok to lower the chances of your 

opponent hitting you.  Agility can be used on a free round to 

boost the already good speed.  



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, swift, sky attack, rest, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: fly



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Replace quick attack with fly or sky 

attack, fly being the more preferred because you miss a round of 

damage and then use a powerful attack.  Sky attack is more 

powerful, but you have to survive a hit (or two) to use it the 

next round.  You may consider some other normal type attacks, 

because Pidgeot has a good offense.



Pidgeot can learn normal and flying attacks.



weaknesses: rock, electric, ice



big weaknesses: none



resistances: bug, grass



big resistances: none



immunities: ground, ghost

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Fearow (Normal/Flying)



Stats: great HP, good attack, ok defense, good speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: This one is like a cheaper imitation of Pidgeot.  

Though his moveset starts out better than Pidgeot's, Pidgeot can 

learn through TMs the same strong moves as Fearow and use them 

even better.  Again, his weaknesses are not a mile long, but 

neither are his resistances.



Moves he can learn: peck, growl, leer, fury attack, mirror move, 

drill peck, agility



You should keep drill peck, agility, mirror move, and fury 

attack.



Drill peck is a powerful flying move, agility is ok to boost 

speed on a free round.  Mirror move is useful as you can use the 

same move your opponent just did to regain health or boost 

stats, or it is possible that you may hurt them badly with an 

attack that doesn't phase you.   



TM moves it can learn:  razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, bide, swift, 

sky attack, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn:  fly



TMs/HMs to mix things up:  Replace fury attack with fly or sky 

attack.  Fly again is better because you miss a round of damage, 

sky attack you have to endure a round of damage for a bigger 

payoff.  Also give him some of the strong normal attacks to help 

his offense.



Fearow can learn normal and flying attacks.







weaknesses: rock, electric, ice



big weaknesses: none



resistances: bug, grass



big resistances: none



immunities: ground, ghost

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Nidoqueen (Poison/Ground)



stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, bad speed, good 

special



evaluation:  She has more special than Nidoking, enabling her 

special defense, and offense with the great TMs she can use, to 

be just a bit more powerful.  However, her other stats including 

speed are not as promising.  Do not underestimate her, though, 

as she has the ability to counter all of the types she is weak 

against except psychic.  She uses many TMs that teach good 

special moves, and she uses them slightly more effectively than 

Nidoking.  Just remember though that since few of her attacks 

match her types, that they won't be as strong.



moves it can learn: growl, tackle, scratch, poison sting, tail 

whip, body slam (if evolved at lv 23--thanks Alvaro, I recommend 

you wait until she has learned all her moves before evolving 

her), bite, fury swipes, double kick



Nidoqueen should keep double kick, bite, fury swipes, and poison 

sting.  Double kick is a strong fighting attack, bite makes your 

opponent flinch sometimes, fury swipes is an ok attack, and 

poison sting give her one type of advantage.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, horn drill, 

body slam, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice 

beam, blizzard, hyper beam, pay day, submission, counter, 

seismic toss, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, earthquake, fissure, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, fire blast, skull bash, rest, 

rock slide, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Thunder should be taught along with 

earthquake and fire blast.  You may also want to teach her surf, 

rock slide, or blizzard.  She can also learn a great line of 

powerful normal attacks.  Electric, fire, and water attacks 

counter most of the pokŽmon that use attacks she is weak 

against.



Nidoqueen can learn normal, fighting, water, ice, electric, 

ground, fire, and rock type attacks.



weaknesses: water, ice, ground, psychic, bug



big weaknesses: none



resistances: fighting, rock



big resistances: poison



immunities: electric

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Nidoking (Ground/Poison)



stats: excellent HP, good attack, great defense, good speed, ok 

special



evaluation: Nidoking is a great pokŽmon with his only a problem 

being in taking special attacks from his enemies.  He also can 

not use his vast array of special attacks he can learn from TMs 

as well as Nidoqueen, but he makes up for that in terms of 

stats.  Remember that since most of his attacks don't match his 

types, he won't use them as effectively.  All in all, a great 

choice.



moves it can learn: leer, tackle, horn attack, poison sting, 

focus energy, thrash (if evolved at lv 23--thanks Alvaro, I 

recommend you learn all his moves before evolving him though), 

fury attack, horn drill, double kick



Nidoking should keep double kick, horn drill, horn attack, and 

leer.  Leer lowers the opponent's defense, double kick is a 

strong fighting move, horn attack is a great regular high 

accuracy attack, and horn drill is sometimes a one hit KO move.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, horn drill, 

body slam, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice 

beam, blizzard, hyper beam, pay day, submission, counter, 

seismic toss, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, earthquake, fissure, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, fire blast, skull bash, rest, 

rock slide, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Electric, fire, and rock attacks can 

counter almost all the types that Nidoking is weak against.  You 

may also want to give it one of the other impressive physical 

attacks it can learn.  Rock slide, fire blast, thunder, 

blizzard, and earthquake give this pokŽmon lots of options.



Nidoking can learn learn normal, fighting, water, ice, electric, 

ground, fire, and rock type attacks.







weaknesses: water, ice, ground, psychic, bug



big weaknesses: none



resistances: fighting, rock



big resistances: poison





immunities: electric

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Golbat (Poison/Flying)



stats: great HP, ok attack, ok defense, good speed, ok special



evaluation: Golbat is not very good.  He can learn a few decent 

moves, but his stats are poor and he has many weaknesses.  If 

you use him, make sure he has big resistances to the type 

attacks he will be facing, then use his strongest moves and try 

to confuse your opponent.



moves it can learn: leech life, supersonic, bite, confuse ray, 

wing attack, haze



Golbat should keep leech life, bite, confuse ray, and haze.  

Haze removes all status changes to Golbat and its opponent.  

Confuse ray confuses your enemy, bite has a chance of making the 

opponent flinch, and leech life is a ok bug attack that gives 

you a little health back.  You might want to keep wing attack to 

do some damage to fighting types, but it won't help much.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, mimic, double team, 

bide, swift, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Golbat mega drain 

to further harass ground types.  You may also want to give it a 

few powerful moves like hyper beam.



Golbat can learn normal, bug, grass, and flying type moves.



weaknesses: psychic, electric, ice, rock



big weaknesses: none



resistances: poison



big resistances: grass, fighting



immunities: ground

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Vileplume (Grass/Poison)



stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, bad speed, good 

special



evaluation: Vileplume is good in all areas but speed.  Use him 

on pokŽmon that are very weak against grass.  Avoid enemies that 

use bug type attacks while using him.  



moves it can learn: absorb, poison powder, stun spore, sleep 

powder, acid, petal dance, solar beam



Vileplume should keep solar beam, acid, sleep powder, and stun 

spore.  Stun spore gives you the speed advantage, sleep moves 

are always good against opponents, acid is a strong poison 

attack, and solar beam is the strongest grass attack.  Petal 

dance is also a pretty strong (and unique) move, but you get 

confused after using it.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, solar beam, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may wish to give Vileplume mega 

drain or some strong normal attacks.



Vileplume can learn normal and grass attacks.



weaknesses: ice, flying, fire, ground, psychic



big weaknesses: bug



resistances: electric, water, poison, fighting



big resistances: none

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Parasect (Bug/Grass)



Stats: great HP, good attack, ok defense, bad speed, ok special



Evaluation: Parasect is decent if used properly.  His speed is 

horrible so you will need a speed advantage on a pokŽmon 

(paralyze or burn it) before you bring him out, and know that 

this may not even help against really speedy opponents.  His 

attack power is his positive note, and he can use leech life 

pretty well against psychics.  He also does well against ground 

and grass types.  Be careful though, because he has terrible 

defense and three big weaknesses.



Moves it can learn: scratch, stun spore, leech life, spore, 

slash, growth



Parasect should keep slash, leech life, spore, and stun spore.  

You may wish to keep growth to boost his weak special.  Slash is 

a strong attack with good chance of critical hit, spore is a 

really effective sleep move, leech life is a good bug move, and 

stun spore gives you the speed advantage.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, solar beam, 

dig, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, skull bash, rest, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You should give Parasect mega drain to 

help it get HP back since it doesn't take hits well.  Also think 

about giving him cut because he uses it pretty decently.  You 

may also want to give it a few powerful moves like hyper beam, 

or swords' dance to raise its attack.



Parasect can learn normal, grass, and bug attacks.



weaknesses: rock, ice, bug



big weaknesses: flying, poison, fire



resistances: electricity, water, fighting



big resistances: ground, grass

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Venomoth (Bug/Poison)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, bad defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Venomoth is like a better Butterfree.  His stats are 

good except in physical attacking and defense.  Use his status 

attacking moves to get the speed advantage over your opponent or 

put them to sleep, then blast them with psychic.  He also learns 

some pretty good TMs, so he isn't a bad choice.



Moves it can learn: tackle, disable, supersonic (yellow only), 

confusion (yellow only), poison powder, leech life, stun spore, 

psybeam, sleep powder, psychic



Venomoth should keep psychic, sleep powder, stun spore, and 

leech life.  Leech life is a good bug move, psychic is the best 

psychic attack, sleep powder is a good sleep move, and stun 

spore gives him speed advantage.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, solar beam, psychic, 

teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, swift, rest, 

psywave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength (yellow only) 



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to teach Venomoth solar 

beam or mega drain to defeat his rock and ground opponents.  His 

psychic already gives him many advantages though.



Venomoth can learn normal, bug, grass, and psychic attacks.



weaknesses: bug, flying, rock, fire, psychic



big weaknesses: none



resistances: none



big resistances: grass, fighting

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Poliwrath (Water/Fighting)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, ok speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Poliwrath is a good pokŽmon, lacking only a little 

in speed.  His special power can be brought up with amnesia.  He 

has a few weaknesses, but if you stay away from those he should 

perform wonderfully in battle.



Moves it can learn: bubble, hypnosis, water gun, doubleslap, 

body slam, amnesia, hydro pump



Poliwrath should keep hydro pump, amnesia, body slam, and 

hypnosis.  Hydro pump is the strongest water move, and amnesia 

greatly boosts the strength of Poliwrath's attacks.  Body slam 

is a strong move with ability to paralyze, and hypnosis has the 

ability to put your opponent to sleep.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

earthquake, fissure, psychic, mimic, double team, bide, 

metronome, skull bash, rest, psywave, substitute 



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Poliwrath 

earthquake to counter electric types.  You may wish also to give 

him moves like blizzard, psychic, or hyper beam.  Fighting moves 

like submission are good in his hands.



Poliwrath can learn normal, water, psychic, fighting, ground, 

and ice attacks.



weaknesses: flying, grass, electric, psychic



big weaknesses: none



resistances: rock, water, fire, ice, bug



big resistances: none

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Victreebel (Grass/Poison)



Stats: great HP, good attack, bad defense, bad speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Victreebel has unusual stats.  It has great HP and a 

fair attack, and a good defense against and use of special 

attacks.  If given substitute, it fares pretty well in battle 

against types that are weak against grass or strong physical 

moves, just stun the pokŽmon with paralyzing move first.  Even 

still, since its speed really is bad, a paralyzing move may not 

even give you enough speed to use substitute, so you may want to 

skip it.



Moves it can learn: vine whip, growth, wrap, poisonpowder, sleep 

powder, stun spore, acid, razor leaf, slam



Moves it should keep are stun spore, sleep powder, razor leaf, 

and acid (or slam).  Stun spore works for speed advantage, sleep 

powder makes your enemy defenseless, razor leaf is a grass 

attack that almost always gets a critical hit, and acid is a 

strong poison attack.  You may wish to keep slam as Victreebel 

is good at normal attacks too.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, rage, mega drain, solar beam, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Victreebel has an already impressive 

moveset, but you could always add a little power from hyper 

beam, or use substitute to make up for his lack of speed.  You 

may want to give it mega drain so it can gain health from those 

weak against grass attacks.



Victreebel can learn normal and grass type attacks.





weaknesses: ice, flying, fire, ground, psychic



big weaknesses: bug



resistances: electric, water, poison, fighting



big resistances: none

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Tentacruel (Water/Poison)



Stats: excellent HP, ok attack, bad defense, good speed, great 

special



Evaluation:  Tentacruel has good speed and attack in terms of 

special attacks.  His poor physical defense can be made up for 

with the barrier move.  His good speed allows him to do well in 

most battles.



Moves it can learn: acid, supersonic, wrap, poison sting, water 

gun, constrict, barrier, screech, hydro pump



Moves it should keep are barrier, hydro pump, supersonic, and 

acid.  Acid is a strong poison attack and used very well by 

Tentacruel.  Hydro pump is also used well and is the strongest 

water attack.  Barrier greatly increases Tentacruel's poor 

defense, and supersonic may confuse your opponent.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, takedown, double 

edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, 

rage, mega drain, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, skull bash, 

rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut, surf



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Tentacruel ice 

beam or blizzard to counter a few of the types that have 

advantages over him.  If you keep screech you may also want to 

give him some powerful physical attacks.



Tentacruel can learn normal, water, grass, ice, and poison type 

attacks.



weaknesses: electric, bug, ground, psychic



big weaknesses: none



resistances: fire, water, ice, fighting, poison



big resistances: none

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Golem (Rock/Ground)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, great defense, bad speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: With several weaknesses and two big weaknesses, you 

must use this pokŽmon in the right situations.  If you do, he is 

one of the best there is.  Explosion will even defeat Mewtwo if 

you survive to use it.  Have someone put Mewtwo to sleep or 

freeze him, then use explosion.  Golem has great stats except in 

being able to use and defend against special attacks and 

outspeed others.  



Moves it can learn: tackle, defense curl, rock throw, 

selfdestruct, harden, earthquake, and explosion



Moves it should keep are explosion, earthquake, harden, and rock 

throw.  Explosion is a self sacrifice move, and with Golem's 

high attack, he uses it very well.  This sneaky move may be one 

of the keys to defeating Mewtwo, if you can survive the first 

hit, then Mewtwo will really pay with explosion. Earthquake is a 

strong ground attack, rock throw is a strong, though not 

accurate, rock attack, and harden raises his already great 

defense.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, double team, bide, 

metronome, selfdestruct, fire blast, rest, explosion, rock 

slide, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Replace rock throw with the more 

accurate and powerful rock slide.  With his high attack his is a 

good candidate to teach hyper beam, and with the low speed/high 

HP he would be good to teach substitute, remember though that 

your opponent should be paralyzed so you have the speed to use 

it.  Fire blast is not good for him because of his low special.



Golem can learn normal, fire, ground, fighting, and rock type 

attacks.



weaknesses: fighting, ice, ground



big weaknesses: grass, water



resistances: normal, flying, rock, fire



big resistances: poison



immunities: electric

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Slowbro (Water/Psychic)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, bad speed, good 

special



Evaluation: This one is great at fooling your opponent into 

switching so they think they have a type advantage, and then 

attacking them with powers they are weak against.  Slowbro can 

counter every type that he is weak against, and has great stats 

in everything but speed.  You can give him substitute or just 

make sure the opponent is asleep before switching to him.



Moves it can learn: confusion, disable, head butt, growl, water 

gun, withdraw, amnesia, psychic



Moves it should keep are psychic, head butt, amnesia, and water 

gun.  Water gun is an ok water attack, headbutt is good in the 

hands of Slowbro.  Psychic is good for Slowbro, and amnesia 

boosts the power of this and the hydro pump and his special 

defense at the same time.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, pay day, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, earthquake, fissure, dig, psychic, teleport, mimic, 

double team, reflect, bide, fire blast, swift, skull bash, rest, 

thunder wave, psywave, tri attack, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You can give Slowbro substitute to 

make up for its low speed.  You may want to give him earthquake 

and fire blast to destroy those that have advantages over him.  



Slowbro can learn normal, water, ice, ground, fire, and psychic 

type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, grass, bug



resistances: fire, fighting, psychic



immunities: ghost

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Farfetch'd (Normal/Flying)



Stats: good HP, ok attack, bad defense, ok speed, ok special



Evaluation: If given substitute, he has a little better of a 

chance to survive, but remember to paralyze your opponent with 

another pokŽmon first.  His attacks can be formidable if he 

survives to use a few swords' dances and then uses fly or slash.  

All in all, not a very good pokŽmon.



Moves it can learn: peck, sand attack, leer, fury attack, 

swords' dance, agility, slash



Moves it should keep are swords' dance, slash, sand attack, and 

agility.  Swords' dance raises its attack to better levels.  

Slash has a good chance of critical hit and is good when paired 

with swords' dance.  Sand attack makes your opponent less likely 

to hit you, important with Farfectch'd's low defense.  Agility 

can boost his speed.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, swords' dance, whirlwind, 

toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, rage, mimic, double 

team, reflect, bide, swift, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut, fly



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give him substitute to survive and fly 

for a strong attack.  You may want to give him cut or swift as 

well.  Also takedown and double edge are good in his hands.



Farfetch'd can learn normal and flying type moves.



weaknesses: rock, electric, ice



resistances: bug, fighting, grass



immunities: ground, ghost

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Dodrio (Normal/Flying)



Stats: great HP, great attack, good defense, good speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Except for defending special attacks, Dodrio has it 

all.  Use his killer speedy attacks to your advantage.  Due to 

his low number of weaknesses, he is a dominating force on the 

battlefield.  The problem is he is too limited by having only 

flying and normal attacks.  Other than that, this guy should be 

a great addition to your team.



Moves it can learn: peck, growl, fury attack, drill peck, rage, 

tri attack, agility



Moves it should keep are drill peck, tri attack, agility, and 

rage.  Rage is an ok move; you lose control of your pokŽmon in 

order to gain strength each time you are hit and attack each 

round with increasing strength.  Tri attack is a strong normal 

type move.  Drill peck is a strong flying type move, and agility 

can boost his already good speed.



TM moves it can learn: whirlwind, toxic, body slam, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, skull bash, sky attack, rest, tri attack, substitute



HM moves it can learn: fly



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Oddly enough this almost no winged 

creature can learn fly and sky attack.  I would stick with drill 

peck though because it is stronger since he learns it by 

himself, and sky attack is too risky.  You definitely want to 

give him hyper beam in the place of tri attack.  Takedown and 

double edge are also excellent in his hands.



Dodrio can learn normal and flying type attacks.



weaknesses: rock, electric, ice



big weaknesses: none



resistances: bug, fighting, grass



big resistances: none



immunities: ground, ghost

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Dewgong (Water/Ice)



Stats: excellent HP, ok attack, good defense, ok speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Dewgong has pretty decent attacks, but poor speed.  

With substitute though, this pokŽmon does very well in battle 

due to its strong special attacks.  The problem is getting a 

substitute in, try paralyzing your opponent with another pokŽmon 

first.



Moves it can learn: head butt, growl, aurora beam, rest, 

takedown, ice beam



Moves it should keep are head butt, rest, takedown, and ice 

beam.  Rest is risky, you recover all HP and status ailments 

disappear, but you must sleep for two rounds after.  Head butt 

is a good physical attack, and so is takedown with recoil of 1/4 

the damage you deal.  Ice beam is a great attack with the 

ability to freeze enemies solid.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, horn drill, body slam, takedown, 

double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper 

beam, pay day, rage, mimic, double team, bide, skull bash, rest, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You probably will want to give Dewgong 

substitute to make up for its speed.  You can also give it hyper 

beam and surf to add to its powerful attacks.



Dewgong can learn normal, water, and ice attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fighting, rock, grass



big weaknesses: none



resistances: water



big resistances: ice

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Cloyster (Water/Ice)



Stats: good HP, good attack, excellent defense (highest in 

game), ok speed, good special



Evaluation: Cloyster has the highest defense in the game.  His 

resistance to special attacks is fair, the only part he really 

lacks is speed and raw HP.  Use him properly in battle, avoiding 

types he is weak against, and he should prove to be extremely 

useful.



Moves it can learn: tackle, withdraw, supersonic, clamp, aurora 

beam, leer, ice beam, spike cannon (if evolved at lv 50, and 

that is the level he learns his last move, ice beam, so it works 

out nicely)



Moves it should keep are spike cannon, ice beam, supersonic, and 

withdraw.  Spike cannon is a strong normal attack, ice beam is a 

great attack and may freeze you opponent, supersonic may confuse 

your opponent, and withdraw increases Cloyster's phenomenal 

defense.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, 

water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, teleport, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, selfdestruct, swift, rest, 

explosion, tri attack, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Surf and hyper beam are good choices 

for this pokŽmon.  You may also want to give him reflect to 

enhance his defense by reducing physical attack damage by 50% 

from his already highest defense.  Also you could give him 

blizzard as a strong ice attack.



Cloyster can learn normal, water, and ice type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fighting, rock, grass



big weaknesses: none



resistances: water



big resistances: ice

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Gengar (Ghost/Poison)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, ok defense, good speed, great 

special



Evaluation: Gengar is a good pokŽmon to have as he is immune to 

most physical attacks.  He learns a good strategic moveset, and 

has decent stats.  His great special gives him a good attack, 

and only leaves him vulnerable to strong physical moves other 

than normal and fighting ones.  Beware psychic types.



Moves it can learn: lick, confuse ray, night shade, hypnosis, 

dream eater



Moves it should keep are confuse ray, night shade, hypnosis, and 

dream eater.  Hypnosis puts the enemy to sleep and then dream 

eater does huge damage if they are weak to psychic powers, and 

you gain a lot of HP back from using it.  Confuse ray confuses 

your opponent, and night shade does damage equal to your level.  

Know that lick is the only true ghost type attack, and is ultra 

effective on other ghosts, and doesn't work at all on normal, 

psychic, or dual types that have one of those types as a part.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic 

toss, rage, mega drain, thunderbolt, thunder, psychic, mimic, 

double team, bide, metronome, selfdestruct, skull bash, dream 

eater, rest, psywave, explosion, substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Gengar psychic 

since he has high special.  His original moveset is pretty good 

though.  You may wish to give him mega drain to counter ground 

and rock/ground types or thunder to defeat flying types which 

could take advantage of his poor physical defense.



Gengar can learn normal, electric, grass, psychic, ghost type 

attacks.



weaknesses: psychic, ground, ghost



big weaknesses: none



resistances: grass



big resistances: poison



immunities: normal, fighting

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Onix (Rock/Ground)



Stats: good HP, bad attack, excellent defense, ok speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: If you use Onix in the right situations he can be 

useful.  Use him against normal types and flying types for best 

results.  Also use him when your opponent is using mostly normal 

type moves since he has the second highest defense (he can be 

good against Dragonite if it uses mostly normal type moves, for 

instance).  He does not take special attacks well and lacks 

speed, so be careful.



Moves it can learn: tackle, screech, bind, rock throw, rage, 

slam, harden



Moves it should keep are screech, rock throw, slam, and harden.  

Harden raises his very high defense, screech helps him to have a 

better attack by lowering the opponent's defense, rock throw is 

a strong rock move, and slam is a good physical attack.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

rage, earthquake, fissure, dig, mimic, double team, bide, 

selfdestruct, skull bash, rest, explosion, rock slide, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Teach Onix earthquake and rock slide 

to give it some stronger attacks.  Onix may also be able to use 

bide in certain cases to do serious damage to your opponent, but 

it is a big risk.  



Onix can learn normal, ground, and rock type attacks.



weaknesses: fighting, ice, ground



big weaknesses: grass, water



resistances: normal, flying, rock, fire



big resistances: poison



immunities: electric

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Exeggutor (Grass/Psychic)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, ok speed, great 

special



Evaluation: Exeggutor has well rounded stats.  He lacks a little 

in speed, but has a good enough defense to defeat most of his 

enemies easily.  He is very weak against bug attacks, though, so 

be careful (unfortunately most bug attacks are weak).  Exeggutor 

can make the most of his great attacks and defenses and is a 

good pick.



Moves it can learn: barrage, hypnosis, reflect, leech seed, 

stomp (if evolved at lv 28, I recommend you learn all his moves 

before evolving him) stun spore, poison powder, solar beam, 

sleep powder



Moves it should keep are sleep powder, solar beam, stun spore, 

and leech seed.  Leech seed slowly drains an enemy's energy and 

gives it to you, even if you switch.  Sleep powder is a good 

sleep move.  Solar beam is a strong grass move, but you have to 

wait a round to charge it up.  Stun spore helps to get the speed 

advantage.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, takedown, double edge, hyper beam, 

rage, mega drain, solar beam, psychic, teleport, mimic, double 

team, reflect, bide, selfdestruct, egg bomb, rest, psywave, 

explosion, substitute







HM moves it can learn: strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give Exeggutor hyper beam and psychic 

to take advantage of its good attacks.  Also toxic paired with 

leech seed can bring down some of the toughest opponents.



Exeggutor can learn normal, grass, and psychic type attacks.



weaknesses: ice, fire, flying, poison



big weaknesses: bug



resistances: ground, electric, grass, water, fighting, psychic



big strengths: none



immunities: ghost

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Rhydon (Rock/Ground)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, good defense, bad speed, bad 

special



Evaluation: He has a vast number of TMs to learn that can teach 

special moves.  Unfortunately, he has terrible special.  His 

advantage is to use his great strength, HP, and defense to win 

against other strong physical pokŽmon.  Earthquake, dig, and 

rock slide are all good for him to know.



Moves it can learn: horn attack, stomp, tail whip, fury attack, 

horn drill, leer, takedown



Moves it should keep are takedown, stomp, horn drill, and leer.  

Leer lowers your opponent's defense.  Horn drill is sometimes a 

one hit KO.  Stomp has a good chance of critical hit.  Takedown 

is a strong normal move that does 1/4 of the damage you deal to 

you.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, horn drill, 

body slam, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice 

beam, blizzard, hyper beam, pay day, submission, counter, 

seismic toss, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, earthquake, fissure, 

dig, mimic, double team, bide, fire blast, skull bash, rest, 

rock slide, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Teach Rhydon substitute and hyper 

beam.  Substitute will make up for his poor resistance to 

special attacks, as long as it is used before being hit by one.  

Earthquake, dig, and rock slide are also very powerful moves 

that he can learn.  Although he can learn many different types 

of special attacks, he is terrible at using them.  Maybe you 

should teach him thunder to counter water types or fire blast to 

counter grass types, but he probably won't hurt them much with 

it.  Takedown and double edge are good in his hands.



Rhydon can learn normal, fighting, water, ice, electric, ground, 

fire, and rock type moves.



weaknesses: fighting, ice, ground



big weaknesses: grass, water



resistances: normal, flying, rock, fire



big resistances: poison



immunities: electric

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Starmie (Water/Psychic)



Stats: good HP, ok attack, good defense, great speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Starmie has a good moveset, speed and defenses.  It 

also uses special attacks very well.  With psychic from a TM you 

would have a really great Starmie.  This is a great pokŽmon.



Moves it can learn: tackle, water gun, harden, recover, swift, 

minimize, light screen, hydro pump



Moves it should keep are hydro pump, light screen, minimize, and 

recover.  Recover restores half its HP in one round, light 

screen reduces special attack damage by 50%, hydro pump is the 

strongest water move, and minimize helps with the evade.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, 

water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, thunderbolt, 

thunder, psychic, teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, 

swift, skull bash, rest, thunderwave, psywave, tri attack, 

substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Interestingly he can learn thunder and 

use it rather well.  You probably want to teach him psychic, and 

maybe ice beam or surf.  Replace light screen because it is the 

least valuable of all of Starmie's good moves.



Starmie can learn normal, psychic, water, ice, and electric type 

attacks.



weaknesses: electric, bug, grass



big weaknesses: none



resistances: fighting, fire, psychic



big resistances: none



immunities: ghost

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Scyther (Bug/Flying)



Stats: great HP, great attack, good defense, great speed, bad 

special





Evaluation: Scyther has many weaknesses and bad special.  His 

attacks are very powerful and speedy, so he is a good pokŽmon as 

long as he doesn't get hit with strong special or rock attacks.



Moves it can learn: quick attack, leer, focus energy, double 

team, slash, swords' dance, agility, wing attack (yellow only)



Moves it should keep are swords' dance, slash, wing attack, and 

double team.  Swords' dance greatly raises its offense, wing 

attack is an ok flying attack, slash is a great attack with high 

chance of critical hit, and double team helps him with evading 

attacks.



TM moves it can learn: swords' dance, toxic, takedown, double 

edge, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, bide, swift, skull 

bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Unless you want to give Scyther hyper 

beam, its regular moveset is great.



Scyther can learn normal and flying type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fire, poison, ice, fighting



big weaknesses: rock



resistances: bug



big resistances: fighting, grass



immunities: ground

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Jynx (Ice/Psychic)



Stats: great HP, bad attack, bad defense, good speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Jynx has poor attack and physical defense, but she 

is good with strong ice moves.  If taught substitute she may be 

able to do some serious damage.  Stay away from strong fighting 

and rock types (although she can beat most rock/ground types due 

to her speed).



Moves it can learn: pound, lovely kiss, lick, doubleslap, ice 

punch, body slam, thrash, blizzard



Moves it should keep are blizzard, ice punch, lovely kiss, and 

body slam.  Body slam is a strong normal attack that may 

paralyze your opponent.  Lovely kiss is a good sleep move.  

Blizzard and ice punch are strong ice attacks that may freeze 

your opponent.



TM moves it can learn: mega punch, mega kick, toxic, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, submission, counter, seismic toss, rage, 

psychic, teleport, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, metronome, 

skull bash, rest, psywave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: none



TMs/HMs to mix things up: To make up for its poor defense, you 

may want to give her substitute.  Psychic is also a good 

addition to her attacks.  You may want to give her bubblebeam to 

counter fire types.



Jynx can learn normal, ice, psychic, and water type moves.



weaknesses: fire, bug, rock



resistances: ice, psychic



immunities: ghost

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Gyarados (Water/Flying)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, ok defense, good speed, great 

special



Evaluation: Gyarados is one of the best pokŽmon.  The only thing 

you have to watch out for is electric types, and strong rock 

types.  His attack and special are absolutely great.  He can use 

a variety of moves with great results.  Not bad for evolving 

from the weak Magikarp.



Moves it can learn: splash, tackle, bite, dragon rage, leer, 

hydro pump, and hyper beam



Moves it should keep are hyper beam, hydro pump, bite, and leer.  

Leer lowers the enemy's defense, bite sometimes makes the 

opponent flinch, hydro pump is the strongest water attack, and 

hyper beam is the best normal attack.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, 

bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, rage, 

dragon rage, thunderbolt, thunder, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, fire blast, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give him thunder, 

blizzard, or fire blast to give him extra powerful attacks and 

counter some enemies that he is weak against.  You may also want 

to give him substitute.



Gyarados can learn normal, water, ice, electric, and fire type 

attacks.



weaknesses: rock



big weaknesses: electric



resistances: water, bug, fire, fighting



big resistances: none



immunities: ground

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Lapras (Water/Ice)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, bad speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Lapras is a good pokŽmon, lacking only in speed.  It 

can survive most attacks and return powerful attacks of its own.  

A pretty good pokŽmon to use.



Moves it can learn: water gun, growl, sing, mist, body slam, 

confuse ray, ice beam, hydro pump



Moves it should keep are hydro pump, ice beam, confuse ray, and 

body slam.  Body slam sometimes paralyzes, hydro pump is the 

strongest water attack, ice beam is a great attack that 

sometimes freezes, and confuse ray can confuse your opponents.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, horn drill, body slam, takedown, 

double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper 

beam, rage, solar beam, dragon rage, thunderbolt, thunder, 

psychic, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, skull bash, rest, 

psywave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Lapras blizzard 

or surf. You may want to give it psychic to counter fighting 

types.  Since she has good offense, go for moves like takedown 

and double edge as well.  



Lapras can learn normal, ice, water, electric, and psychic type 

attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fighting, rock, grass



big weaknesses: none



resistances: water



big resistances: ice

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Omastar (Rock/Water)



Stats: great HP, ok attack, great defense, bad speed, good 

special



Evaluation: Omastar is not bad.  He has low speed, but most of 

his other stats are good.  He learns some good moves and is not 

a bad choice.  Keep away from grass type attacks, but use him on 

fire enemies.  He has a high number of resistances due to his 

unique dual typing.



Moves it can learn: water gun, withdraw, horn attack, leer, 

spike cannon, hydro pump



Moves it should keep are spike cannon, hydro pump, horn attack, 

and leer.  Leer lowers the enemy's defense, horn attack is a 

good high accuracy attack, spike cannon is a strong normal 

attack, and hydro pump is the strongest water attack.



TM moves it can learn: toxic, horn drill, body slam, takedown, 

double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper 

beam, submission, seismic toss, rage, mimic, double team, 

reflect, bide, skull bash, rest, substitute 



HM moves it can learn: surf



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to teach Omastar strong 

special moves like blizzard or ice beam.



Omastar can learn normal, fighting, water, and ice attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fighting, ground



big weaknesses: grass



resistances: normal, ice, flying, poison



big resistances: fire

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Kabutops (Rock/Water)



Stats: great HP, great attack, great defense, good speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Kabutops is better than Omastar.  He lacks a good 

defense against special attacks, and can not use them as well, 

but has a much better speed.  He is one of the better pokŽmon.



Moves it can learn: scratch, harden, absorb, slash, leer, hydro 

pump



Moves it should keep are hydro pump, slash, leer, and absorb.  

Absorb is an ok grass type move that gives you some energy back, 

slash is a strong attack with good chance of critical hit, leer 

lowers the enemy's defense, and hydro pump is the strongest 

water attack.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, swords' dance, mega kick, 

toxic, body slam, takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, 

ice beam, blizzard, hyper beam, submission, seismic toss, rage, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, skull bash, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: cut (yellow only), surf



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Kabutops hyper 

beam for a strong attack.  You can also give him blizzard for a 

strong special attack.  Takedown and double edge are not bad 

choices either.



Kabutops can learn normal, fighting, water, and ice type 

attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fighting, ground



big weaknesses: grass



resistances: normal, ice, flying, poison



big resistances: fire

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Aerodactyl (Rock/Flying)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, ok defense, good speed, ok 

special



Evaluation: Aerodactyl has a poor defense, and many weaknesses.  

It does have a strong speedy attack, though, so use it in the 

proper situations and it is an ok choice.



Moves it can learn: wing attack, agility, supersonic, bite, 

takedown, hyper beam



Moves it should keep are hyper beam, supersonic, bite, and 

takedown.  Takedown is a strong normal attack that does 1/4 of 

the damage you deal back to you.  Bite sometimes makes the enemy 

flinch, supersonic confuses the enemy, and hyper beam is the 

strongest normal attack.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, dragon rage, mimic, double team, 

reflect, bide, fire blast, swift, sky attack, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: fly



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to teach it fly to help 

it avoid hits while dealing damage.  Takedown, double edge, or 

mega kick aren't bad choices either.



Aerodactyl can learn normal, flying, and fire type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, water, rock, ice



big weaknesses: none



resistances: fire, normal, poison



big resistances: flying



immunities: ground

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Articuno (Ice/Flying)



Stats: excellent HP, ok attack, good defense, good speed, great 

special



Evaluation: Articuno has four weaknesses and a big weakness to 

rock.  But if you play your cards right, he is one of the best 

choices there is.  He is especially good against the tough 

Dragonite, blasting him with a 6x damage blizzard.  His speed is 

usually higher than Dragonite's, so this is the way to bring him 

down.  All his stats are pretty good, so he is a great choice in 

most battles.  Use him to freeze opponents that you couldn't 

normally defeat, even Mewtwo.



Moves it can learn: peck, ice beam, blizzard, agility, mist



Moves it should keep are blizzard, ice beam, mist, agility.  

Blizzard is the strongest ice attack and can freeze your 

opponent, ice beam is almost as strong.  Agility boosts his 

already good speed, and mist protects against your stats being 

lowered (losing speed from string shot, etc.).



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, blizzard, hyper 

beam, rage, mimic, double team, reflect, bide, swift, sky 

attack, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: fly 



TMs/HMs to mix things up: You may want to give Articuno fly.  

Other than that he has a great moveset.  Replace mist with fly.



Articuno can learn normal, water, ice, and flying type attacks.



weaknesses: electric, fire



big weaknesses: rock



resistances: grass, bug



big resistances: none



immunities: ground

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Zapdos (Electric/Flying)



Stats: excellent HP, good attack, good defense, good speed, 

excellent special



Evaluation: Zapdos has fewer weaknesses and better stats than 

Articuno.  Though electric attacks aren't as good as ice, Zapdos 

is by far the king of powerful electric attacks.  His immunity 

to ground allows him to drill peck them into submission, 

canceling one big problem that most electric types have.



Moves it can learn: thundershock, drill peck, thunder, agility, 

light screen



Moves it should keep are thunder, drill peck, agility, and light 

screen.  Light screen reduces special attack damage by 50%.  

Drill peck is a strong flying attack.  Thunder is the strongest 

electric move, and is really good in the hands of Zapdos.  

Agility boosts his already good speed.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, thunderbolt, thunder, mimic, 

double team, reflect, bide, swift, sky attack, rest, thunder 

wave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: fly, flash



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Zapdos has a great moveset as is.  I 

don't recommend any TMs for him.



Zapdos can learn normal, flying, and electric type attacks.



weaknesses: ice, rock



big weaknesses: none



resistances: bug, fighting, flying, grass



big resistances: none



immunities: ground

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Moltres (Fire/Flying)



Stats: excellent HP, great attack, good defense, good speed, 

excellent special



Evaluation: Moltres has a big weakness, rock.  He has a few 

other weaknesses, but more big resistances than the other two.  

His stats are the highest of the three, with him peaking in high 

attack power.  Give him fire blast and destroy those that are 

weak against it.  The undisputed king of fire types.



Moves it can learn: peck, fire spin, leer, agility, sky attack



Moves it should keep are sky attack, fire spin, leer, and 

agility.  Agility raises its high speed, sky attack is the 

strongest flying attack but you must use one round to charge up, 

leer decreases the opponent's defense, and fire spin is a good 

move to bind less speedy pokŽmon.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, whirlwind, toxic, takedown, 

double edge, hyper beam, rage, mimic, double team, reflect, 

bide, fire blast, swift, sky attack, rest, substitute



HM moves it can learn: fly 



TMs/HMs to mix things up: Give Moltres fire blast as he is the 

best at using it out of all the fire types.  Keep fire spin 

though, and sky attack and agility.  Or you might replace 

agility with hyper beam if you wish.



Moltres can learn normal, flying, and fire type attacks.



weaknesses: water, electric, ice



big weaknesses: rock



resistances: fire, fighting



big resistances: grass, bug



immunities: ground

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Dragonite (Dragon/Flying)



Stats: excellent HP, excellent attack (highest in game), good 

defense, good speed, good special



Evaluation: What can I say?  This guy is awesome.  Really 

awesome.  He stands even a good chance against Mewtwo if you 

play your cards right.  His moves are super strong and he has 

good strategy play.  His only downfall is less speed than, and a 

big weakness to, Articuno.  This guy is one of the top choices.



Moves it can learn: wrap, leer, thunder wave, agility, slam, 

dragon rage, hyper beam



Moves it should keep are hyper beam, wrap, thunder wave, and 

leer.  Use thunderwave to take your opponent's speed advantage 

away, then leer at them a few times to drop their defense, then 

use wrap with Dragonite's phenomenal attack and the battle will 

soon end.  For enemies that need to be destroyed sooner, blast 

them with hyper beam.



TM moves it can learn: razor wind, toxic, horn drill, body slam, 

takedown, double edge, bubblebeam, water gun, ice beam, 

blizzard, hyper beam, rage, dragon rage, thunderbolt, thunder, 

mimic, double team, reflect, bide, fire blast, skull bash, 

swift, rest, thunderwave, substitute



HM moves it can learn: surf, strength



TMs/HMs to mix things up: I prefer Dragonite's moveset above.  

Some like to teach it fire blast to get at Articuno, but since 

Articuno has the better speed, I avoid that.  



Dragonite can learn normal, water, ice, and electric attacks.



weaknesses: rock



big weakness: ice



resistances: water, fire



big resistances: grass, bug, fighting



immunities: ground

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VIII. The benefits of status attacks and status boosters, and 

        other tricks



Status attacks can give your pokŽmon advantages against types it 

is normally weak against and pokŽmon with higher stats.  I will 

discuss the different status ailments you can inflict, benefits 

you can use, and some strategies on using them so you can annoy 

your opponents into defeat.  With all status attacks you should 

either have higher speed than your opponent to hit them before 

they can defeat you, or high enough special or defense to 

survive counter attacks.  Haze is the only move which wipes away 

status ailments, but since it takes a turn for your opponent to 

use, you can reinflict them or take the opportunity to attack, 

switch, heal up, or boost your stats with a stat boosting move.



The following status ailments can not be combined with each 

other:



poison/severe poison--A basic attack that drains some energy 

from your opponent's pokŽmon each round.  Not very useful, but 

if you use bind/wrap or fire spin/clamp with a strong (strength 

for bind/wrap, special for fire spin/clamp) pokŽmon that is 

faster than your opponent, you can rack up big damage in a few 

rounds, and leave your opponent with no option but to switch.  

Useful if you know your opponent has a pokŽmon that you would 

love to force him to put back, especially if you know that 

pokŽmon could beat you.  Poison and severe poison are 

ineffective on poison types (including dual types with one type 

poison).  The bind/wrap or fire spin strategy is not very good 

on rock types and has no effect on ghost types (fire spin isn't 

very good on fire, water, rock, or dragon types, and fire spin 

is decent on ghost types), though with enough strength or 

special power you might still hurt them pretty badly even with 

their resistances.  Clamp works well on all types but water, 

rock/water, and water/ice types.  It's great on ground, rock, 

rock/flying, fire, fire/flying, and rock/ground types.  Severe 

poison from Toxic is awesome because the HP it takes is doubled 

(or somewhat near doubled) with each round, so pairing it with 

bind/wrap or fire spin/clamp is ultra effective.  Pair this with 

leech seed and the damage is nearly quadrupled every round and 

will bring down some of the toughest opponents quickly.  The 

only problem is if your opponent switches, severe poison will 

become regular poison, and leech seed will disappear.  If your 

opponent is on their last pokemon, however, toxic/leech seed 

will be the ultimate way to finish them off.



sleep--If it works, your opponent will not be able to attack you 

at all for at least one round, unless they wake up immediately 

(if so use it again).  Sing, hypnosis, lovely kiss, sleep 

powder, and spore is the order of effectiveness of sleep moves, 

least to most.  Once asleep, pound them if you have an attack 

they are weak against or switch to a pokŽmon that can do so.  If 

they are weak against psychic attacks, switch to someone with 

dream eater as you will severely damage them and gain massive 

health in the process.  Sleep is a good move, because if it 

works your opponent is at your mercy.



paralyze--When it hits your opponent, you will almost always 

have a speed advantage over them and get first attack (unless 

they use quick attack or their speed beats yours by a huge 

margin, and quick attack shouldn't be a big concern late in the 

game).  Glare, stun spore, body slam, and thunder wave can all 

paralyze your opponent.  Thunder wave will not work on ground 

types (or dual types with ground as one) though, and body slam 

won't work on ghost types.  This move may also cause your 

opponent to be unable to attack at certain rounds or several 

rounds in a row, which is an added bonus, though you should 

still be prepared for a counter attack, the chance of them being 

fully paralyzed is always 25 percent.  If your opponent's 

pokŽmon has more speed than the pokŽmon you would like to use 

against it, this is a good move.  This is also used well with 

bind/wrap/fire spin/clamp because your opponent will never be 

able to get out unless they switch.



burn--This is like a speed down/poison plus.  All fire moves 

except fire spin have a 10 percent chance of burning your 

opponent.  You will gain a smaller speed advantage over the 

pokŽmon and sometimes get first attack, but it is not as 

effective as paralyzing your opponent.  Again, the 

bind/wrap/fire spin strategy is good, and burning is a good move 

if you want to have speed advantage over an otherwise faster 

opponent.  The added benefits are that your opponent's physical 

type attacks will be reduced to 1/2 strength, and they will lose 

HP each round!  This is one of my favorites, and it's only 

downfall is that it doesn't work on fire types (or dual types 

with fire as one).



freeze--This move is a lot like sleep in that you have an open 

opportunity to pound your opponent, or to switch and then pound 

them.  All ice moves except Aurora Beam have a 10 percent chance 

of freezing.  Don't use fire against your opponent or you will 

thaw them out.  Otherwise, they have no way out and will either 

have to switch or be pounded into submission.  This move is 

great against those pokŽmon you know your opponent could stomp 

you with.  This move will not work on ice types or dual types 

with ice as one.  Also, it might be wise to not freeze water 

opponents....why? because if your last pokŽmon only has fire 

attacks, and your last opponent is a formerly frozen water type, 

you may lose.  (thanks Alvaro) Be careful this situation doesn't 

come up.

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The following status ailments, boosters, and tricks can be 

combined with the above list and with each other:



bind/wrap/fire spin/clamp--Not really a status attack, but if 

your pokŽmon has higher speed than your opponent, your opponent 

will not be able to move.  I usually mention wrap cause bind is 

used by fewer pokŽmon but they work just the same.  If you have 

high strength and use bind/wrap or high special and use fire 

spin/clamp, you can rack up damage.  This strategy is not very 

effective on rock types and (fire spin's not very effective on 

fire, water, dragon, or rock types, and clamp isn't very good 

against water types), but if you have enough strength or special 

you still might hurt them badly even with their resistances.  Do 

not use bind/wrap on ghosts because they are immune.  



blindness/evasion up--Using moves like sand attack, smoke 

screen, and kinesis lowers your opponent's accuracy.  If used 

over several rounds, your opponent may be almost totally unable 

to hit you.  You take a gamble with this strategy, however, 

because you need several rounds for it to seriously lower their 

accuracy.  Minimize and double team raise your pokŽmon's evade, 

so if you switch keep in mind your next pokŽmon will have no 

increase in evade, making blinding attacks better, since you can 

switch with the effects still on your opponent.  With either you 

will need to use the moves a couple of rounds until there has 

been a great change in accuracy for it to make any difference.  

And a big disadvantage, some moves like stomp have a high 

accuracy (most simple moves like horn attack, tackle etc. do), 

and swift will always hit your pokŽmon no matter what.  But if 

you know your opponent is packing power moves like rock slide, 

thunder, etc., this move will make it much tougher for them to 

hit you.



confusion--Use this move to make your opponent less likely to 

hit you, and at the same time likely to hurt itself.  Confuse 

ray is more powerful than supersonic.  This move is good in 

combination with other moves because it reduces the chances of 

your opponent hitting you even more.  If you wish to gamble for 

your opponent to mainly hurt itself, you may use this move 

alone, but be warned they still may hit you.  Opponents with 

higher attack and lower defense will hurt themselves more.  Very 

useful in combination with paralysis.  Throw in a bind/wrap/fire 

spin/clamp with paralysis and confusion and they might never hit 

you.



disable--This move is risky because it usually doesn't work.  If 

it does, it randomly disables one of your opponent's moves for a 

few rounds.  This can be a great move if your opponent has only 

one attack move, and you get lucky enough to disable it.  It is 

also useful for taking away one of their key moves.



leech seed--This move gives you a little bit of energy at the 

opponent's expense every round, even if you switch pokŽmon.  If 

your opponent switches though, the leech seed will go away.  If 

combined with Toxic this move is very useful because all the 

damage done by poison and leech seed becomes your energy and it 

does 4x more damage each round!  It is also useful to put your 

enemy to sleep and keep them asleep to get all their energy, or 

switch to a pokŽmon that really needs the energy.  This move 

always seems to take a certain percentage of the opponent's HP, 

and that percentage goes up slightly with level up.  (thanks 

Alvaro)  Toxic/leech seed is not as useful if you opponent 

switches, because the toxic poison will just become regular 

poison and the leech seed effect will disappear.  This is great 

to use on their last pokemon though.



flinch--Some moves make your opponent flinch when you hit them.  

Bite, low kick, rolling kick, bone club, stomp, headbutt, and 

hyper fang all may have this effect--stomp and headbutt have a 

one in three chance of making them flinch, hyper fang has a one 

in ten chance, and most of the others seem to have a one in ten 

chance.  If your pokŽmon get the first hit and your opponent 

flinches they won't be able to attack you that round, and the 

bonus is these moves are generally very powerful (order of 

strength left to right).  These moves don't work well against 

rock pokŽmon or at all on ghost pokŽmon (except for bone club, 

and rolling kick works on rock types).  This strategy is a 

gamble, but it could have big payoffs.



skip round--Moves like fly and dig allow you to skip a round and 

take no damage provided that your opponent is slower than your 

pokŽmon.  However, swift will hit you even while you are in the 

sky or ground.  If both players use dig or fly, the slower 

pokŽmon will avoid damage and get its attack in.



take no damage and attack--The move substitute will replace your 

pokŽmon with a pokŽ doll which will take a certain amount of 

damage before breaking (I believe half of your pokŽmon's max 

HP).  During this time you can attack without being injured!  

The pokŽ doll will have the same resistances and weaknesses as 

the pokŽmon who used it.  The drawback is that if your pokŽmon 

has low HP this move won't last, and that you sacrifice 1/4 of 

your max HP every time you use it, and eventually you won't have 

enough health to use it.  It is good to give to a pokŽmon that 

can recover.  Substitute prevents one hit KOs (so far that I've 

tested) and it prevents status changes and moves that reduce 

stats.  You can also use rest after using substitute to avoid 

taking damage while you sleep.  I do caution you though, using 

it with a pokŽmon that has low defense is ok, but remember to 

lower your opponent's speed if you have less speed.  Use moves 

that paralyze, burn, put your opponent to sleep, or freeze your 

opponent.  Also remember that your substitute has the same type 

as you, and will be affected by attacks just the same, so many 

times it will only take one or two hits before breaking if 

powerful moves are used on it.  Definitely beware if your 

pokŽmon has terrible speed, you will have to put the opponent to 

sleep or freeze it with another pokŽmon before switching to the 

pokŽmon you want to use substitute with.



substitute/bide--A strange combination that lets your doll take 

the damage, then you dish it out in 2-3 rounds.  All the damage 

done to you and your doll during this time is paid back double 

to your opponent, a good combination move.  With bide it can be 

either special or physical damage.  A simple counter to this 

strategy though is to use the rounds not to attack but to switch 

or build your stats.

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Stat boosts and weakeners



defense up--Several moves boost your physical defense.  The only 

ones worth keeping are Acid Armor and Barrier as they increase 

your defense greatly, though you should be ready to take a hit 

for using this move (unless you have a free round).  In rare 

cases weaker moves may help a pokŽmon with a great defense to 

become even tougher.  Reflect reduces physical attack damage by 

around 50% but generally isn't very useful unless your pokŽmon 

already has high defense.



attack up--Several moves boost your attack.  The only one really 

worth keeping or teaching, though, is swords' dance.  You'll 

take a hit for using it, so be prepared (unless you have a free 

round).  



speed up--Generally not as useful as paralyzing or burning an 

opponent, but if you have a free round it may give you the speed 

advantage you need.  Agility is the only speed building move.



special up--This move serves two purposes, it raises your 

special attack offense and your defense against special attacks.  

The best move in this category is Amnesia.  This move helps a 

pokŽmon with high special that uses special attacks a lot.  Why?  

Because it brings up his offense and defense at the same time by 

a lot.  This move is also useful for pokŽmon that have lower 

special ratings to gain a good special defense.  Light Screen is 

generally a useful move except to those with low special, and it 

reduces special attack damage by around 50%.



*Mist defends against attacks that bring down your stats.



defense down--Several moves and attacks inflict this ailment.  A 

few of those attacks may be good enough to use anyway, and this 

is an added benefit.  However, screech is the best defense 

lowering move, just be ready to take a hit for using it.  It is 

also harder to reduce the defense of opponents with a very high 

defense, as it takes several rounds and you can be attacked each 

round.  (Thanks Alvaro for these reminders)



attack down--Some attacks inflict this ailment.  A few attacks 

may be worth keeping anyway, and this is an added bonus.  

However, this is usually not a useful strategy.  It is also 

harder to reduce the attack of opponents with a very high 

attack, as it takes several rounds and you can be attacked each 

round.



speed down--Some attacks and one move (string shot) inflict this 

ailment.  Paralyzing or burning the opponent is much more 

effective.  It is also harder to reduce the speed of opponents 

with very high speed, as it takes several rounds and you can be 

attacked each round.



special down--One attack brings this down, and it's worth 

keeping, psychic.  This is an added bonus to lower the 

opponent's special offense and defense.  It is also harder to 

reduce the special of opponents with very high special, as it 

takes several rounds and you can be attacked each round.  Using 

psychic though is powerful, so you are sending them toward 

defeat as you use it.

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IX. Ultimate Teams



There are many types of pokŽmon that would make great teams 

together.  Below are just some suggestions.  



Power Tactic Team

This team can beat every type of opponent-All 15 single types 

(like water, normal, electric) and all 22 dual types (like 

bug/flying, water/poison, grass/psychic).



Mewtwo-great power, speed, and defense, use him as your lead.  

Use him to destroy normal types and types with opponents with 

low special.



Golem-great strength, defense, and HP.  Don't rush him into 

battles against enemies that have strong special type attacks.  

Be careful and use his ground and rock type attacks.



Articuno-great speed, special, and HP.  Use him to freeze 

opponents you don't have an edge on.  Ice damages a lot of 

types, and flying attacks are also good.



Dragonite-great attack, high speed, all other good stats.  Use 

him to destroy enemies that are weak against physical attacks.  

Also use his thunderwave to gain speed advantages.



Jolteon-great speed and special, good HP.  If you keep pin 

missile and double kick he can use them decently to defeat a lot 

of types.  Use his electric attacks also.



Gengar-great speed, HP, and special.  Use him to confuse and put 

your opponent to sleep.  He can avoid most physical attacks.  

You may want to give him toxic to badly poison your enemies 

also.

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Power Team

This team can beat most PokŽmon easily with their powerful 

moves.  Contributed by Alvaro.



Vaporeon-Has incredible water attacks and great speed.  Few 

weaknesses, weak against physical attacks, but no physical 

attacks are super effective on it.  Acid armor takes away the 

physical attack threat.



Zapdos-Incredible speed and special.  Is not effected by ground 

types and can beat them with flying moves.  Electric attacks 

work well against most types.

Use thunderwave to paralyze your opponents.



Golem-Great strength, HP, defense.  Use him wisely as he is weak 

against strong special attacks.  Use his ground and rock types 

to beat many different foes.



Alakazam-A great psychic type with good speed.  Stock pile him 

with several psychic attacks and wipe your opponents out.  



Venusaur-A great grass type.  Grass type moves hurt many.  

Beware because he has many weaknesses though.



Moltres-King of the fire types.  Burning enemies is good, so use 

fire blast a lot.  Has great speed and special.

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Super Offense



Contributed by Alvaro.  This team is pure power attack, with 

many attacks to use because the moves have a lot of PP.



Clefable: blizzard, thunder, double edge, fire blast



Mewtwo: psychic, amnesia, recover, hyper beam



Golem: rock slide, explosion, earthquake, body slam



Jolteon: pin missile, double kick, thunder, and reflect



Ninetales: fire spin, flamethrower, fire blast, confuse ray



Vaporeon: hydro pump, surf, ice beam, acid armor

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Super Tactics

Use this team to bombard your enemy with status ailments, then 

finish them.



Mewtwo-great power, speed, etc.  Use him as the lead.



Moltres-Use him to burn pokŽmon and take half their speed and 

strength away from them.



Articuno-Use him to freeze your opponents solid.  His ice 

attacks are great on many types of foes.



Gengar-Use toxic or hypnosis to hurt your enemy bad.



Dragonite-Use thunderwave to take away their speed then use wrap 

until they faint.



Chansey-Use counter when you take a strong physical attack to 

pay the enemy back with twice the damage they gave you.  You may 

want Chansey to have substitute and reflect for it to work 

better.  Recover with softboiled and do it again. You could also 

use Snorlax in here and give him bide, rest, and substitute.

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A.  Recommended movesets by alexgen@sinectis.com.ar



Blastoise 

Body Slam

Earthquake 

Surf 

Blizzard 

Raticate 

Body Slam 

Dig 

Focus Energy 

Super Fang 

Arbok 

Earthquake 

Glare 

Screech 

Acid 

Raichu 

Thunderbolt 

Surf 

Light Screen/Reflect 

Thunder Wave 

Sandslash 

Slash/Rock Slide 

Swords Dance 

Earthquake 

Swift 

Clefable (ooh there are a lot I'll post three) 

Offensive 

Psychic 

Thunderbolt 

Blizzard 

Body Slam 

Defensive 

Seismic toss 

Thunder Wave 

Light Screen 

Reflect 

Double Rester 

Seismic toss 

Thunder Wave 

Double Team 

Rest 

Ninetales 

Dig 

Confuse Ray 

Flamethrower 

Reflect/Body Slam 

Wigglytuff (it sucks, but nothing better) 

Psychic 

Thunderbolt 

Blizzard 

Body Slam 

Dugtrio 

Slash 

Sand Attack 

Earthquake 

Fissure (he has the highest speed for a pokemon with a one-hit KO move, 

so...) 

Persian 

Slash 

Screech 

Bubblebeam (rock/ground types) 

Hyper Beam 

Golduck 

Ice Beam/Blizzard 

Amnesia 

Dig 

Body Slam 

Primeape 

Screech 

Rock Slide 

Body Slam 

Submission 

Arcanine 

Dig 

Body Slam 

Flamethrower 

Reflect 

Alakazam (on my team) 

Psychic 

Seismic toss 

Reflect/Thunder Wave 

Recover 

Machamp 

Submission 

Earthquake 

Rock Slide 

Focus Energy 

Rapidash 

Body Slam 

Agility 

Fire Spin 

Horn Drill 

Magneton 

Thunderbolt 

Supersonic 

Reflect 

Thunder Wave 

Muk 

Screech 

Acid Armor 

Sludge 

Body Slam 

Hypno (hypnosis + dream eater = not such a good idea. Hypno has low 

speed; hypnosis is inacurrate) 

Psychic 

Thunder Wave 

Double Team 

Rest 

Kingler 

Body Slam 

Crabhammer 

Swords Dance 

Harden? 

Electrode (he's not that bad. Good against mewtwo = 1 t-wave + 1-

screech + 1-explosion leaves mewtwo at low health, then a snorlax with 

amnesia to raise special defense can take care of mewtwo, that has been 

screeched) 

Thunderbolt 

Screech 

Explosion 

Thunder Wave 

Marowak (sucks. There is nothing sandslash cannot do better) 

Earthquake 

Focus Energy 

Body Slam 

Ice beam (OK with Focus Energy against types that are weak against it) 

Hitmonlee 

Hi Jump Kick 

Focus Energy 

Body Slam 

Rolling Kick 

Hitmonchan (ugh...I'll do my best) 

Body Slam 

Submission 

Counter 

Agility 

Lickitung 

Earthquake 

Swords Dance 

Screech 

Body Slam 

(Swords dance + screech is EVIL, just you'll have to survive enough...) 

Weezing 

Haze 

Explosion 

Sludge 

Thunderbolt 

Chansey (many. I'll post two) 

Offensive 

Ice beam 

T-bolt 

Softboiled 

Psychic 

Defensive 

Seismic Toss 

T-wave 

Defense Curl 

Softboiled 

Tangela 

Body Slam 

Swords Dance 

Sleep Powder 

Solar Beam 

Kangaskhan 

Body Slam 

Earthquake 

Rock Slide 

Surf (for rock/ground types that have horrible special as well) 

Seadra 

Surf 

Ice Beam 

Smokescreen 

Agility 

Seaking 

Surf 

Agility 

Blizzard 

Double Edge 

Mr. Mime (bah, all he can do alakazam can do better) 

Barrier 

Light Screen 

Rest 

Seismic toss 

Electabuzz 

Thunderbolt 

Screech 

Body Slam 

Thunder Wave 

Magmar 

Body Slam 

Confuse Ray 

Psychic 

Flamethrower 

Pinsir 

Body Slam 

Swords Dance 

Slash 

Hyper Beam 

Tauros 

Body Slam 

Earthquake 

Blizzard 

Double Edge 

Ditto 

Transform 

though some believe that the most useful moveset is transform :-) 

Vaporeon 

Surf 

Blizzard 

Haze 

Acid Armor 

Jolteon (I love this guy; on my team) 

Thunderbolt 

Pin Missile 

Focus Energy 

Thunder Wave 

Flareon 

Body Slam 

Focus Energy 

Flamethrower 

Reflect 

Porygon 

Ice Beam 

Thunderbolt 

Conversion 

Recover 

Snorlax (on my team) 

Body Slam 

Amnesia 

Blizzard 

Rest 

Mewtwo (El Gran Cheapo) 

Psychic 

Substitute 

Amnesia 

Rest 

(this is EVIL. substitute + recover + high HP + amnesia + 2nd highest 

speed is almost invincible) 

Mew 

Body Slam 

Swords Dance 

Earthquake 

Explosion/Softboiled 

Venusaur (Best Grass IMO cuz of Razor Leaf. On my team, now) 

Body Slam 

Swords Dance 

Razor Leaf 

Sleep Powder 

Charizard 

Slash 

Earthquake 

Swords Dance 

Flamethrower 

Butterfree 

Psywave 

Mega Drain 

Sleep Powder 

Supersonic 

Beedrill 

Twinneedle 

Swords Dance 

Mega Drain 

Reflect 

Pidgeot 

Fly 

Mirror move 

Sand Attack 

Quick Attack 

Fearow 

Drill Peck 

Mirror move 

Agility 

Double Edge 

Nidoqueen 

Body Slam 

Thunderbolt 

Blizzard 

Earthquake 

Nidoking 

Body Slam 

Rock Slide 

Earthquake 

Focus Energy 

Golbat 

Screech 

Haze 

Mega Drain 

Wing Attack 

Vileplume 

Sleep Powder 

Solarbeam 

Body Slam 

Swords Dance 

Parasect 

The one and the only... one of the best mewtwo killer.... 

Parasyrex 

Leech Life 

Spore 

Substitute 

Swords Dance 

(Mewtwo attacks and takes heal from you. Then you put it to sleep with 

spore. You pop in a sub, dance and leech 1 time. Now Mew2 wakes up. He 

destroys your Sub. You spore that same turn and create other. You 

continue dancing and leeching. EVIL) 

Venomoth 

Psychic 

Mega Drain 

Sleep Powder 

Stun Spore 

Poliwrath 

Amnesia 

Surf 

Body Slam 

Ice Beam 

Victreebell 

Body Slam 

Swords Dance 

Sleep Powder 

Razor Leaf 

Tentacruel 

Blizzard 

Mega Drain 

Barrier 

Surf 

Golem (on my team) 

Body Slam 

Rock Slide

Earthquake 

Explosion 

Slowbro (on my team) 

THE mewtwo killer...the 2nd strongest pokemon... 

TobyBro (By Toby Martin) 

Surf 

Thunder Wave 

Amnesia 

Rest 

(First T-wave to get speed advantage. Second use amnesia 2 or 3 times 

then rest. His enormous special by that time should give him protection 

against special attacks, and he has already pretty good physical 

defense so he should survive while resting. Then surf away, it'll be 

very powerful with a high special stat and the Same Type Attack Bonus, 

and it should kill anything. Rest when needed, and finish amnesia if 

you didn't already) 

Farfetch'd (sucks) 

Swift 

Swords Dance 

Double Team 

Rest 

Dodrio 

Drill Peck 

Body Slam 

Agility 

Reflect 

Dewgong 

Surf 

Ice Beam 

Rest 

Body Slam 

Cloyster 

Reflect 

Surf 

Ice Beam 

Double Edge 

Gengar (2 movesets. Annoying and attacker) 

Annoying 

Night Shade 

Confuse Ray 

Double team 

Rest 

Attacker 

Confuse ray 

Psychic 

Thunderbolt 

Night Shade 

Onix (sucks) 

Earthquake 

Screech

Explosion 

Rock Slide 

Exeggutor (2 movesets, too) 

Bennedict 

Sleep Powder 

Substitute 

Leech Seed 

Solarbeam 

(use in the order the moveset is posted :) ) 

Offensive 

Psychic 

Mega Drain 

Sleep Powder 

Double Edge/Explosion 

Rhydon 

Earthquake 

Rock Slide 

Rest 

Horn Drill 

Starmie (he was on my team till I figured out that slowbro was much 

better) 

Surf 

Thunderbolt 

Thunder wave 

Recover 

Scyther 

Slash 

Swords Dance 

Wing Attack 

Hyper Beam 

Jynx (it's nice and should fit in any team) 

Ice Beam 

Lovely Kiss 

Seismic Toss 

Reflect 

Gyarados (2 bad 4x weakness to electric) 

Surf 

Ice Beam 

Thunderbolt 

Body Slam 

Lapras 

Blizzard 

Thunderbolt 

Confuse Ray 

Surf 

Omastar 

Surf 

Ice Beam 

Reflect 

Rest (he's so good defenses he should survive while resting. plus he 

has reflect taking out the physical problem completely) 

Kabutops 

Slash 

Swords Dance 

Body Slam 

Surf 

Aerodactyl 

Wing Attack 

Double Edge 

Supersonic 

Hyper Beam 

Articuno 

Fly 

Blizzard 

Double Edge 

Reflect 

Zapdos 

Thunderbolt 

Drill Peck 

Light Screen/Reflect 

Thunder Wave 

Moltres 

Fly 

Fire Blast 

Double Edge 

Reflect 

Dragonite (my personal favourite. he isn't on my team cuz ice's so 

popular) 

Body Slam 

Blizzard 

Thunderbolt

Thunder Wave

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X. Secrets



This will display secrets of the game as I uncover them or get 

them in from email.  Remember only game play and hard work can 

be your source for your info.



--For winning the PokŽ Cup or Prime Cup you get a Doduo Game 

Boy.  It allows you to play the Game Boy games at normal speed, 

or double speed by hitting right C.  Double speed is great to 

help you get levels up faster, especially in Mewtwo's cave.  



--For winning the Prime cup and PokŽ Cup both, you get a Dodrio 

Game Boy.  It allows you to play the Game Boy games at a 

phenomenal 4 times the regular speed.  Need to rush through a 

certain version for a certain kind of pokŽmon?  Need to gain 

levels quickly?  This is the best way to do so.  Hit right C to 

make the game normal, 2x, or 4x speed.



--How to get some secret pokŽmon.  They are...



Bulbasaur

Charmander

Squirtle

Hitmonlee

Hitmonchan

Eevee

Omanyte

Kabuto



You get these pokŽmon by beating the 8 towers and the Elite 4 

and the familiar face. The pokŽmon you get is random.  But once 

you do it once, you only have to beat the Elite 4 and the 

familiar face.  Be warned though that these pokŽmon have boosted 

experience and aren't as good as doing things the hard way on 

Game Boy.



--Unlock hard mode.  Defeat all the cups in the stadium, all the 

gym leaders, the elite four, a familiar face, and the ultimate 

pokŽmon to open up the harder second round.  Start all over 

again, pull your hair out, and discipline yourself to learn the 

toughest strategy to pokŽmon.



--You can rent Mew in the hard mode, on the Prime Cup and for 

Gym Leader Castle.



--If you enter your pokŽmon's name alternating with capitals and 

lowercase, your pokŽmon will be a shade of red.  Different 

nicknames change the pokŽmon's color on this game, see what you 

can come up with.  Names from the movie and TV show work too, 

just try "POOKAH" and see what happens to Pikachu!



--Thanks to Jeff-rubee64@hotmail.com for this.  You can get an 

"Amnesia Psyduck" for registering all 151 pokŽmon to the hall of 

fame.  Rent Mew on hard mode and bring Mewtwo in to register 

him, the rest can be rented on easy mode.  Amnesia Psyduck I 

believe is the same as Psyduck, the only difference is it knows 

amnesia.  Thanks to Jeff for investigating this.  It can evolve 

to Golduck.  Thanks to "kill me" for this bit of info.  Go to 

the hall of fame to pick him up after registering all 151 

pokŽmon.



--Thanks to Matt-Formatt777@aol.com for part of this.  Thanks to 

Scotty819@aol.com for this info.  You can get surfing Pikachu 

from finishing the Prime Cup, master ball division on the round 

2 (hard) mode of the game.  You must have Pikachu as one of the 

three pokŽmon you pick every time for the battle, but you don't 

have to have him participate in battle.  You MUST use all 

pokŽmon from the Game Boy game, you can not use any rentals, and 

you must NOT register your team.  You MAY use continues, I have 

tested this myself and I used continues and was able to get 

surfing Pikachu.  You may not save and quit and then pick up 

your saved game later and still get surfing Pikachu, you MUST go 

through all eight battles in one sitting (thanks to Jeffrey-

jbyeung@yahoo.com for this).  Your current Pikachu will then 

either learn surf if he has available space, or will be given 

the option of deleting one of your older moves.  Choose which 

move to replace wisely.



--Thanks to Alvaro for this.  You can go back to round one 

battles by hitting right C on the screen with the stadium, 

gallery, options, etc.



--Thanks to Brian-lkr@oneimage.com .  Thanks to Nin10d0h@aol.com 

and robbie_goodman00@hotmail.com for help with the mini games 

secret.  To unlock the hyper difficulty setting on the mini 

games you must do the following:



-pick the "who's the best mode"

-challenge 3 computer players (no challenging a mix of other 

people and computer players)

-choose the hard difficulty setting

-choose anywhere from five to nine rounds to determine the 

champion

-beat the computer five times in a row without losing once or 

tying once



Thanks also to GeMiNiGuY611@aol.com for info on this.  



--Thanks to Scotty819@aol.com for this.  You can change the 

background of the Game Boy Tower mode by pressing Z.  You can 

alternate between the Doduo background, the awards background, 

and the game version background.  You can only alternate to the 

Doduo and awards backgrounds if you have won the Doduo and 

Dodrio Game Boys.



--Thanks to evanboy203@yahoo.com for this.  If you beat the Gym 

Leader Castle, all the cups, and the ultimate pokŽmon on round 2 

you will unlock the following secret.  After you defeat the 

ultimate pokŽmon, the credits and new music will play.  After 

this finishes, go into the gallery, and go to the print option.  

Hold L and R at the same time, then press A, and you will get a 

message saying congratulations, etc.  You will now be able to 

print images of the title screen, stadiums, and backgrounds at 

the Snap stations.  



--Thanks to Pascal-pcph@ifreedom.com for this info.  When the 

round 2 stadium is selected, if you go to battle now, all the 

pokŽmon the computer randomly selects are fully evolved.  With 

round 1 stadium on, they are the least evolved forms.

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XI. Credits



Big thanks to Nintendo/Gamefreaks, inc./Creatures, inc. for 

making the PokŽmon games.



Huge thanks to a big contributor, Alvaro, robot_z50@hotmail.com 

.  He contributed the information regarding what was effective 

and what wasn't effective on dual type pokŽmon, and his opinion 

on examples of that type.  All the resistances and weaknesses of 

dual types, and how all the attacks in the chart effect dual 

types is his information.  He contributed what the different TMs 

teach.  He contributed some of the ultimate teams.  He also 

contributed strategy with his name in parentheses after it.  

This was a lot of the info I needed to help my guide be 

complete.  He recently told me about the trick of going back to 

the first round by hitting right C.  Thanks big time man!



Thanks also to Laura, laurar182@hotmail.com .  She contributed 

all TMs and HMs pokŽmon can learn.  She also contributed 

information about Mew, and she contributed all the movelists 

that the pokŽmon can learn.  This was a lot of the info I needed 

to complete my guide, and she was a big help to me finishing it.  

Laura182 may post my guide on her website when she finishes.  

She also pointed out a weird quirk about pokŽmon colors on 

Stadium.



Thanks to Striker64 who allowed me to use some info from his 

guide.  The credit to him goes to his great number of the 

movelists and lists of TMs/HMs from the yellow game.  I needed 

to see those to compare movesets and TMs/HMs from the red and 

blue game, because some were different.  The ones he didn't have 

I researched, and as a return favor to him he can use the 

movelists and TMs/HMs of my guide to help finish his FAQ on 

PokŽmon yellow.  



Thanks to Lee-deathmeister@webtv.net for pointing out that 

substitute can be risky without first having the speed 

advantage.



David-Dolphins1324@aol.com should be thanked for adding some 

information to the secrets section.  He told me that you can get 

certain random pokŽmon for beating the elite four and the 

familiar face, after clearing the Gym Trainer Castle.



Jeff-rubee64@hotmail.com for the secret on Amnesia Psyduck.



Thanks to Matt-Formatt777@aol.com for info on how to get Surfing 

Pikachu.  



Thanks to kill me-zodaic@hotmail.com for more info on Amnesia 

Psyduck.



Thanks to Gyarados13O@cs.com for the tip about agility.



Thanks to Pesmerga-pesmerga_99@hotmail.com .  He pointed out 

that poison is actually a physical attack, which I then further 

tested to find he was right.



Thanks to Brian-lkr@oneimage.com . He confirmed the info about 

the hyper mode on mini games.



Thanks to GeMiNiGuY611@aol.com for info on the minigames hyper 

mode.



Thanks to Scotty819@aol.com for the correcting info on surfing 

Pikachu and for the secret about new backgrounds in the Game Boy 

Tower.



Thanks to deputyheadless@mailcity.com for pointing out some 

errors and helping me with some strategy on Electrode.  Also he 

reminded me of the benefits of substitute.  Also he pointed out 

an error about PP ups.



Thanks to Nin10d0h@aol.com for help with the mini games secret.



Thanks to robbie_goodman00@hotmail.com for pointing out that you 

can win 5 in a row on any set of rounds on hyper mode, as long 

as it is 5 or more.



Thanks to evanboy203@yahoo.com for the secret on what you get 

for finishing round 2.  Big thanks for this as I was having 

trouble getting through.



Thanks to Pascal-pcph@ifreedom.com for the info on battle now.  



Thanks to Jeffrey-jbyeung@yahoo.com for extra info on the 

Surfing Pikachu secret.



Thanks to EJ-ejbyte@hotmail.com for finding out if you can rent 

Mewtwo for finishing the round 2 mode, unfortunately the answer 

was no.



Thanks to meowsie@home.com for pointing out some mistakes about 

Slowbro and Aerodactyl.



Thanks to cmsnrub25@yahoo.com for the corrections.



Thanks to alexgen@sinectis.com.ar for the corrections on 

venomoth and beedrill.



Thanks to mrbig_head@yahoo.com for the info on Raichu's ability 

to learn light screen, I guess I just forgot to add it.



Thanks to soccercat37@hotmail.com for pointing out that you can 

save right before getting Eevee, Mewtwo, your starter pokŽmon, 

etc. and keep receiving them until their stats are as good as 

you want them to be.



Thanks to alan.hoang@virgin.net for pointing out that counter 

will always be used after your opponent has used his move, no 

matter how much speed you have.  Thanks to him also for pointing 

out that softboiled only recovers half your HP like recover.



Thanks to alexgen@sinectis.com.ar for the other recommended 

movesets.

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XII. Disclaimer and other legal stuff



This guide is copyright 2000 to Mark aka Magus747, who authored 

it.  Game Boy is copyright and TM to Nintendo.  The Transfer 

Pack is copyright and TM to Nintendo.  PokŽmon Red and Blue are 

copyright 1995-1998 to Nintendo/Creatures, inc./Gamefreak inc. 

and PokŽmon Yellow is copyright 1995-1999 to Nintendo/Creatures, 

inc./Gamefreak, inc.  PokŽmon Stadium is copyright 1995-2000 to 

Nintendo/Creatures, inc./Gamefreak, inc.  Information was taken 

only from my hard work and game play, and the people in the 

credits.  Any similarity to other guides/information is 

coincidental.  My sources in the credits agreed to get their 

information from gameplay and hard work, not by taking from any 

illegal sources.  If they had sources, they agreed to verify 

that their sources--or the original source somewhere down the 

line--had acquired their information through hard work and game 

play, not by plagiarism.  Information from this page, in part or 

in full, to be used in any magazine, FAQ, guide, sale and 

profit, webpage, or any other public use without my permission 

is illegal and prosecutable.  You may print this guide out for 

personal use and share it with your friends provided that they 

don't misuse it in the ways stated above.  Uses of the words 

"he" and "she" to describe pokŽmon are not meant to indicate a 

gender on the pokŽmon unless it is understood they already 

possess one, and those uses are not meant to offend anyone, just 

for convenience when I was bought for time.  You are assumed to 

have read and understood this disclaimer, and know that it 

applies to you, if you have ever read, seen, or uploaded this 

guide, in part or in full, by web browser or other means.  This 

guide is only to appear on the following: 

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ , http://www.rpgamer.com/ , 

http://www.happypuppy.com/ , and Laura's site when she finishes.  

I have had a problem with receiving more junk mail since the 

publication of my guide.  NO ONE is to sell my email address or 

anyone's email address that appears on the guide (person who 

publishes my guide or person who reads my guide), give my email 

address (or anyone's that appears on the guide) away except to 

their friends who have questions about the game, submit my email 

(or anyone's that appears on the guide) to any organization that 

SPAMS or bulk mails, AND ABSOLUTELY NO ONE is to get the stated 

email addresses off of this guide and then SPAM us.  If I can 

prove that you companies that are spamming us got the email 

addresses from my guide, let me say this--you have been warned.