guardians_song: Ken Sugimori's concept art of the Pokemon starters, with the main characters and rival beside them. (Pokemon)
guardians_song ([personal profile] guardians_song) wrote2013-09-29 02:14 pm

Current progress:

Viridian Forest CLEARED! (Also - are Poison-types impossible to poison on Gen 1? I wonder if Nidoran availability was supposed to remove need for antidotes. Oh well.)

Everyone's alive, though I would have been SCREWED without Antidotes. I don't think it's possible to survive the walk to the Pokecenter without overleveling otherwise. Reservoir is L10, everyone else is L7-L9. Going to check out pre-Pewter grass before going ANY farther with grinding for Brock - don't want to get into OHKO territory. (I'm blind-running everything but checking the occasional level-up moves, since I remember a fair chunk from muscle memory and I want to make this more of a challenge.)

Plan to get Reservoir to L13 before Brock, since Brock himself is pretty easy if you Tail Whip through Bide, as I recall. Misty will be MUCH more cautiously treated, since I have no Pilachu and I'm not betting on getting a Bellsprout/Oddish (whichever is Blue version ) before her. And Lt. surge... *shudder* I had better be VERY careful to catch Diglett when I see it! D:

Update to likely come later tonight. I wonder if I have the guts to fight Route 22 Rival.