Welcome to Week 3 of Pokémon Gen1 Club!
Game Club
Walkthrough: English | Japanese
Participation 
Will you be joining us this week?
- Yes, I’m playing along
- I’m still playing but haven’t reached this point yet
- I’m just here for the discussion
- I’m playing after the club has ended
👣 This Week's Guide
- Head to the right to leave ニビシティ and enter 3番道路
- From 3番道路 you’ll end up at 4番道路 where there’s a Pokémon centre. Inside there’s a guy that will sell you a magikarp if you like! How nice
- Head into the cave on the right to enter お月見山 and have a look around for several battles and items. Eventually you’ll run into a guy who will make you choose a special fossil, choose wisely!
- Exit お月見山 to reach 4番道路 east side. Keep in mind you won’t be able to return to お月見山 and co for a bit once you jump over the ledge to ハナダシティ
- For Pokemon yellow/Let’s go players, if you visit the house to the left of the Pokemon centre the lady will give you a bulbasaur if your pikachu/eevee likes you!
- You can fight the gym now or come back to it later - note this can be a very difficult gym so if you’re doing a nuzlocke make sure you’re ready
📓 Pokemon Tips and Tricks
- STAB moves: when a move type matches the type of a Pokemon, it will do 50% extra damage
- Status conditions: Inflicting status conditions like sleep give you a greater chance to catch a pokemon
- Weak Pokemon: If you want to level up a weak Pokemon in a high level area, you can send it out first in a battle then immediately switch to another Pokemon to share the EXP with both
- HM moves: These moves are necessary for game progression but are worse than most moves and cannot be deleted once learned. It can be a good idea to have a pokemon on your team dedicated to carrying as many of these moves as possible
- Losing Battles: Note that when you lose a battle you also lose half your money
🔥 Nuzlocke Rules
An optional challenge for Pokemon games to shake them up a bit is to do a nuzlocke challenge which basically involves only catching one pokemon in each area. If you’re interested in trying it out you can make a little “home post”/list for a running count of who you’ve got from each area and to keep track of duplicates if you’re using that rule.
Core Rules
- If a Pokemon faints you cannot use it again. (Box or release it)
- You must catch the first Pokemon you find in a new area. If it flees or faints you cannot catch another in that area
- You must nickname all pokemon you get
Optional Rules
- If you already own the first Pokemon you encounter in a new area, you can catch the next instead to prevent duplicates
- If you encounter a shiny, you can catch it no matter what, and it doesn’t count towards that area’s catch
There are many other optional rules but these are the basics from Nuzlocke university
Note: If you’re playing Let’s Go it’s a little different for 2 reasons: wild Pokemon walk around in the overworld so there’s no random encounters, and you level pokemon up by catching them. Therefore if you want to Nuzlocke Lets Go you can do the following:
- Catch the Pokemon closest to you in a new area, or run around with your eyes closed and catch the first one you bump into
- You’re allowed to catch extras to level up, but they must be immediately released
Extra Resources
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The experience point gain for catching is quite broken in this game
Otherwise I didn’t have much trouble getting through the mountain, thanks to my new ニドラン. He had already gained 11 levels and evolved by the time I left the tunnels!
タジロ, a real champ again wild イシツブテ with つるのムチ and はっぱカッター, but these moves weren’t so effective against all the ズバット.
ザシメ was useless against the イシツブテ, but did slightly okay with against ズバット.
Chris just wasn’t having it.
ゾボロク joined the team this week and was also useless.
I went out exp grinding and caught a psyduck, named it かずみ after Misty.
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