HOW EASILY CAN YOU COMPLETE PROFESSOR OAK'S CHALLENGE IN POKEMON GOLD/SILVER?

What's happening guys? My name is John and welcome back to another video in February. I made a video showing a fairly unknown

challenge

known as the Professor Oak Run. This video was without a doubt the best received video I have ever made and By popular demand, today I am going to take on the second generation, we will find out how

easily

you can

complete

Professor Oak's

challenge

in Pokémon Gold and Silver, so I mentioned at the end of the previous installment that if that video reached 10,000 likes, what would I choose for the next generation. I chose that number because I assumed it would never happen because I knew beforehand how incredibly difficult this is, and long story short, I didn't make it to 10,000 likes. at 30,000, so I guess I shot myself in the foot with that, but as promised, let's take a look at the

gold

and

silver

and see how difficult this game can be.

Just a warning if you have no idea what. I'm talking about you can see my previous video on the top right of your screen. I suggest you watch it because this video will make a lot more sense, just like last time, the rules are pretty simple and we have to

complete

them. pokedex as much as we can before every badge and glitches become unusable, so let's jump right into the game and find out how

easily

we can accomplish this if you're subscribed to Professor Oak's subreddit, you already know this is an extremely daunting task if you watched the red and blue video and thought wow that seems extremely tedious, you are in for a treat compared to those games,

gold

and

silver

is a completely different animal among all the games available, this is probably the penultimate game I recommend trying , but if you're interested, I'll put a link in the description of the spreadsheet I made so that the game starts like it normally does, when you choose your name and talk to your mother. but once again we are greeted by our teacher and we have to choose the

pokemon

that we are going to play in the game.

Our options are Cyndaquil Chikorita and Totodile, as I said last time, choosing the

pokemon

that evolves the earliest will be the best option: Koilava evolves into Typhlosion at level 36. Bayleaf evolves into Meganium at level 32 and Crocodile evolves into Alligator at level 30. So Todol will be the best option, but once again we cannot add it to the total gap,

professor

. Souls will meet Mr. Pokémon at his house, who has something important to show us. As you progress to that point, you start to realize how many Pokémon are available so early in the game. I should have expected that considering there are two regions, but Hey, I'm dumb enough to do this challenge so it doesn't surprise me much.

When we meet Mr. Pokémon, we also meet the god of challenge, Professor Oak, he forced us to take the Pokédex, so even if we did. We don't want to do this challenge, we would have to do it now, with this we can add the toenail to our decks total after returning the mystery egg to Professor Elm. We are ready to face this beast of a challenge. Route 29 is not just the first. route in the game but it is also the first location to find a pokemon cup we need here we can catch pidgey and sentrit for some reason they have a higher level here than future routes so this is currently the Best place to catch them if you head north of this route, we can access a small area off Route 46.

This is a pretty easy place to miss, but there are a couple of Pokémon here that we can't get anywhere else, Geodude Spiro and Jigglypuff can be caught here, which brings up the covers. There are six Pokémon in total, we move forward a little and reach route 31. I get a phone call from my mother to save money, which, interestingly, is a pretty important thing that I'll get to later. This rope contains most of the Pokémon we need. catch before faulkner mainly because this also leads to dark cave caterpie. metapod and bellsprout are here, but there are also a few more Pokémon available at different times of the day because this was a new feature at the time, there are a lot of Pokémon that have to be caught specifically during the morning, day, or night because waiting For these days to pass it would be extremely boring.

There is a quick way to fix this if you are in the start menu, press b and select to access a secret menu. which asks for a code, this code can be calculated online from your trainer ID name and current money, which gives you the code to change the time because it would be really annoying to mention it in every encounter if you see me catching a Pokémon The fact that it is only available during a specific time is because I adjusted it through the menu option, this allows us to catch Hoot Hoot and Spinner Rack.

This area is also the first encounter with the exclusive version. Ladybug is available here in silver and technically Weedle and Cocuna are exclusive but that is only because they are not available in this game at the moment, this also means that the leader will also not be available at any time during this game, thankfully although there is no So many exclusives in these games, the next area we have to go to is dark. cave, the all too common zubat, and the extremely rare don spars are in this area, which took a stupid amount of time to find due to their encounter rate of 1.

If you see my gen 2 catch them all, you know they are pretty common in these games, so I'll see a lot more of that later, like in my game of red and blue. This is the point where I am running out of money. There are definitely more trainers than last time, but once again they give extremely small amounts, meaning we're barely fighting to get them all, this game offers a revenge feature via team push, but it's not as simple as Future games either way, we technically have an unlimited supply of money if we have time. Violet City is the location of our first gym leader, but there's still a lot more we can do before we go there, in one of the houses near the Pokémon center there is a person looking to make a trade I caught another battle sprout while getting everything else I used to trade for an onyx because we can't use another game to trade we can't get steelex at any time after the story we can.

Head to the sprout tower to confront the sage at the top of the building to get the hm for flash, this is completely optional, but this area contains more Pokémon that we have to grab. Rattana is available here and also further up the tower, after collecting the sage's hm we can move on if we head south of the purple city and we can reach route 32. which has some new Pokémon, but we are stuck on this area until we defeat the gym leader, so it looks like this is all we can catch, although this area is guarded, we can actually head west from here and go down to Alf's ruins, where I basically have to re-recording my last upload, this area is filled with a bunch of little shrines with puzzles to solve and at this point in the game we only have access to one of the puzzles if we solve it and reveal it.

It's kabuto, we will go down the ground and enter the tunnels of Alf's ruins here now we can catch unknowns and fortunately I don't need to catch another 25 of these this time with this we have reached a total of 17 pokemon. what is the maximum amount of Pokémon you can catch in this area, but that doesn't mean we are done with the Pokedex, just like in the last video, we have to evolve as many Pokémon as we can before facing Falconer and this one is much more harder than red and blue, so let's go over them from easiest to hardest.

Now leveling up Pokémon at this point is kind of interesting, it's obvious that you want to level up where it offers the most experience, but in gold and silver. They are two places that provide the best experience in my opinion, the mouth ruins are nice because no matter which way you fight, the experience payout is exactly the same, this is effective if you want to accurately calculate how long it would take to climb from level. a specific Pokémon, but there is another option. Sprout Tower offers Rattata, which can give around 40 XP at most, but if the weather has changed to night, Gastly appears 85 of the time and gives a minimum of 40 XP and up to 81.

Because it's so easy. To encounter creepies I chose to take care of most of my battles in this area, there are a lot of Pokémon we have to go through so the more XP the better, in my opinion the only downside to this option is that there are quite a few Pokémon here. I don't have a move that is effective against Gastly, so in those cases I just ran away and fought Rattata until I could, as expected, the canopy line is the easiest due to the few levels it needs to evolve. Once again I made the mistake of wasting pokeballs. on getting metapod because it doesn't know any attack moves until it evolves into butterfree after switching Caterpie back and forth for a bit we can evolve into metapod then butterfree centtrip was the second easiest to evolve but I don't get it .

That confused me by saying that it was easy for the centroid to evolve at level 15, which means it has to level up about 12 levels to evolve because it's only available in one area right now. This one took a little over an hour to evolve and postpone, but there are much more difficult Pokémon on the horizon. The next two Pokémon are Spearo and Hoothoot, both of which evolve at level 20. I would have to say Spiro was easier because it instantly has access to peck, where Hoothoot has to level up to 11 first. However, that's an option I planned ahead of time and carried through quite a few battles, which made it less difficult when we got to the grind.

Spiro obviously finished a little faster, but they both finished in about two and a half hours, this gives us firo. and touch the towel. I also want to point out that Huhu learns hypnosis, which can be useful later when catching other Pokémon. Bellsprout was next on this list and, like Spiro, has access to a stab move right when you get it. The vine whip makes the job easier. of everything in the tower and this one took about 3 hours total to evolve into Weeping Bell at level 21. We don't have access to evolution stones for quite some time, so we'll deal with that later on the rotating shelf It was surprisingly easy because he somehow learns belladonna at level 17, which is super effective against Gastly.

Getting to that point was a little difficult because it only knows that poison remains restricted, so it took about three and a half hours for it to evolve into aries at level 22. Rattana was one of the Pokémon I carried in most battles. because it doesn't learn anything other than normal type moves when leveling up. I ended up having to level him up outside of Sprout Tower because the switch training wasn't going to work. Being the fastest option, this one took a little under four and a half hours to evolve into Raticate at level 20. Here's a fun fact: did you know that Rattata can learn Thunderbolt and Blizzard through TMS?

I discovered this while searching for his movement. set while grinding is a weird thing that's in the same realm of why centric can learn to surf like what part of this pokemon can change the weather on command it's a rat zubat gets off to a rough start because it only knows leech life for a while, but once it learns to bite at level 12, the rest is very simple because we are in a new generation, we also have new evolutions, if we reach maximum friendship with golbat and level it up, it will evolve into crowbat, This really doesn't take as long as you think.

Because it already gained a ton of happiness through grinding, it only took another half hour for it to evolve, although Spooky is pretty easy, I saved it to be one of the last Pokémon to grind in case I found a shiny while I. I was grinding and I assume correctly with the amount of grinding you have to do, you almost expect to find one at some point and I'm really glad I found this one instead of the weather rat. The first few levels were actually a bit difficult because I would have to heal after almost every battle because both sides are dealing super effective damage.

It took about four and a half hours for Gastly to evolve into Axetter because we can't trade. Gengar is untargetable but then again, it's brilliant, it sucks so I don't do it. I don't really care, Judo was pretty difficult, mainly due to the fact that it's once again one of those switch training Pokémon until it learns to throw rocks at level 11. This one took a little under six hours evolve into Graveler, but that's nothing compared to the last two, so the next two are much higher level, but in a strange way, they're technically easier than the others.

Totodile and pidgey are both in agroup of eggs faster than the others in this section in which every Pokémon in the game is registered. an XP pool that influences how much XP you need before leveling up, so even though both Pokémon require more XP in total per level, they technically level up faster than the others, that doesn't really matter, but that will have more influence later as we move forward. I progressed through the other gyms once Tortilla gained access to the water gun at level 13, it was all uphill from there. In total, it took me about seven hours to evolve totodile to croconaw and croconata to alligator, which may seem unrealistic since I was only three levels below Graveler, but keep in mind that the difference between level 25 and level 30 is over 10,000 XP, which is about two-thirds of what Graveler earned to reach level 25 and now Pidgey Pidgey is once again the leader of Why did I willingly do this? challenge club, evolve at level 36 which means you have to earn about 40,000 xp to finish and that's about double what the alligator had to get because pidgey gains bursts much faster, it took about 15 hours evolve from pidgey to pidgeotto and from pidgeotto to pidgeot.

I really want to say that this is the hardest in the game, but there are many more difficult ones on the horizon in total. Before the first gym leader we can get 32 ​​Pokémon but there is one more we can get. What a lot of people choose not to do in these games is allow your mom to save your money, it's a pretty useless feature because if you need the money , you have to fly home to get it back, it's meant to be used so you don't. Not spending all your money correctly when you get it, but I feel like it's almost impossible to do no matter where you are in the game.

This mechanic has its incentives, although once your bank reaches a specific amount, your mother will automatically buy you things and put them on your computer, they are not random and they give them to you in specific increments, among that list is the moonstone, in order to obtain one you must have at least fifteen thousand dollars in your mother's savings for her. to buy one you can only get one of them, which isn't the problem, but getting that amount of money at this point in the game is probably harder than leveling up everything for this section when you finish all the available battles and save that much. money as you can, you won't even be close to that amount because you can't rematch the trainers at this point, you have to grow berries to get enough money, these take days to grow and although you can adjust the 3ds clock to get into advanced things like this , the payout is abysmal and, as a result, can take days, if not weeks, to complete.

Almost everyone on the subreddit has acknowledged that this is an extreme waste of time, so technically I already failed this challenge, but at that rate this video. It would never have come out, so instead let's take Faulkner and move on to the next section, so at this point you're probably thinking, "Wow, John, you've spent a whole week fighting to get the first badge, so It should be much easier now." right, no, as I mentioned in the last video, due to our higher level equipment, there is not a single battle that is even slightly difficult, plus we have counters for most types, so even if that was a problem, we would still be fine after complaining.

Badge Professor Elm calls us and says that he wants to go to the Pokémon center in Violet City. One of the

professor

's assistants gives us the mysterious egg and asks us to open it and see what's inside. Normally, I'd break one. of these bad boys on a frying pan, but apparently that's not legal in this region, so we'll have to walk a lot until it's ready to go. This guy sucks because we don't have access to a bike yet, but after walking around a bit. Togepi hatches now that we have finished this event, the man blocking our access to Route 32 allows us through, opening up the area to many new Pokémon.

On this route we can catch Marie Hopp and Whooper for now. The area also has another exclusive demo, as the Atkins is only available on this route in silver. This also means that Arbok is not available, but we will have access to them later in the game, before entering Union Cave, if we stop at the Pokémon Center. We can talk to this fisherman who will give us the old rod. This requires a lot of backtracking to get new Pokémon, but we'll get to that once we're done capturing this section in Union Cave. The only new Pokémon is Sandshrew. which brings the total to 37 pokemon moving forward a little when we reach azalea time, we meet Kurt, who wants us to help him with the slowpoke to defeat the reappearance of Team Rocket, although we have to face Team Rocket alone because it broke .

Back, this is also the place where we can get Slowpoke, which is the only place to get one at this point in the game. After this section, we can head to Elex Forest to grab Paris and Odish, which are the last ground Pokémon we can catch. At this point, with only eight Pokémon caught so far, it shouldn't be much further from that. Actually, as I mentioned before, the Old Rod is a very important item to get at this point because there are a ton of water locations on each route. which we have already visited, if we go back to slow poke, we can start by catching goldeen and magikarp. magikarp is available on all routes at this point, but because the levels will be the same with the old rod no matter where we are.

It's the place where you get one it doesn't really matter going in order the rest are tentacool on route 32 poliwag and violet city and Crabby in Cherry Grove City the last one is definitely the easiest one you can miss on route 32 there is an opponent on the bridge named Fisher Ralph, if you exchange phone numbers with him he can call you and tell you about swarm Pokémon that may appear because the chances of people calling you in these games are very rare, it seems like this would be annoying. but there is a way to increase your chances if you go back home and talk to your mom, you can request to change the clock to daylight saving time because the game cards do not have the ability to do it automatically, you have the option. to power off and then on, if you do that and wait a minute it can trigger calls because you essentially reset the clock events.

This doesn't work all the time, but I was able to get Ralph to call me on the third or fourth try. He let me know that there is a swarm of barbfish on Route 32 and when we go there we can catch one with the old rod. Now that we're done, let's look at the evolutions we need to get when it comes to XP. We don't really get a big boost for wild battles, but then again, this is generation 2 where the highest level battle in jodo is like level 45. Of all the new locations, Union Cave seemed like the best option , the top floor is barely better than the sprout tower, but the bottom floor offers Pokémon about 2 levels higher, giving us an average of about 100 XP per battle, this is about double what it was last time, but that's doesn't say much.

The easiest Pokémon in this section was for Whooper to have access to. Using the water gun early on made the job of almost every Pokémon in the cave easier after an hour and a half. Whooper evolved into quagsire at level 20. Oddish was also just as easy for exactly the same reasons at level 21, it evolved into darkness. although pollywog evolves much higher than many pokemon here, it's in a faster xp pool that only took about two hours to evolve into polywhirl, the rest of the list is much worse. Century was the first of the few Pokémon that was initially unable to battle the Pokémon. in Union Cave because it lacks moves that aren't very effective, this took about three and a half hours to evolve into Sand Slash at level 22.

Paris is in the same boat as he only has access to scratch and leech, so this too he was trained with changes until he could. This took about three hours to evolve to Paris Act at level 24. Hoppip, also known as Floating Magikarp, only has access to splash up to level 10, so this took quite a while through the slow battles. after three hours it evolved into jump loom and then jump luff, while Krabby has access to the bubble, it doesn't take away from the fact that it's still a terrible move after a while, it just knocked it all out, but about 4 hours, Krabby evolved into a king. at level 28.

Magikarp was also a bit annoying because he had to be trained to switch it for 5 levels because he only knew splash when I caught him trying to fight alone it wasn't easy either because it couldn't be done in Union Cave but after four hours evolved into gyarados, mareep was easier than I expected because I just trained him well in slow strike to get a little less experience per battle. Thundershock worked very well on zubat and slowpoke, so it took Marie five hours to evolve into Flaffy and then flappy into ampharos testicle and goldeem were not fun Pokémon to train mainly because their move sets are garbage.

They both took about seven hours a piece to evolve into tentacruel and sea king togepi evolved together after training the others but I don't have an exact time because he spent all the time grinding in the group but the worst of the group by far is slow, it evolves at level 37, which means we have to earn around 50,000 xp to finish this section, don't we. learn a water move up to level 15, so having to advance to that point is just as tedious as the rest of this section, after over nine hours it evolved to be slow bro, so luckily we can move on to no, no, no, no, no, please.

Tell me I'm imagining things, while a bunch of Pokémon can learn to headbutt through the guy in Elex's forest. Slowpoke is one of the few that can learn it by leveling up, since we don't have access to that type because it's locked behind. That chopped tree you imagine wouldn't work well, unfortunately that's not the case, it doesn't work the same way as hm, so if you get the move you can use it right away, so let's hit some trees and see what we get. If you don't know anything about these games, headbutting trees come in two forms, regular and rare trees, they look exactly the same and it's up to you to figure out which is which, unlike the gen 2 catamaran video I made, I'm not going to do that .

I'll blindly hit trees until I find the Pokémon I want, so I'll use this online tool that maps which trees contain which Pokémon. This made it possible to run Pineco Apom and Heracross, bringing the total to 65 Pokémon. Pineco is not a fun Pokémon. evolve mainly because half of its moves kill itself or at least we don't have any rivets this time after six hours it evolved into a fortress would you be surprised if I said there's one more Pokémon at this point? Really frugal with your money, you can make your mom buy you a moonstone.

With this we can involve Jigglypuff with Wigglytuff, which gives us 67 Pokémon and the maximum amount we can have in a batch, finally now that we have used up all our money. our savings it's time to get more after taking on Bugsy and everyone else in the gym. Finally we can advance towards the Elex forest and head to Goldenrod City before going to the big city. We have to stop on Route 34 to catch quite a few Drowzee Pokémon. abra and ditto are here and the same is very important for a lot of breeding that we have to take care of for the rest of the challenge after quickly stopping to grab the bike in goldenrod city we headed north to route 35 to catch schneider and male nidoran female and yanma with a total of 73 pokemon this route is also home to the nightmare that is the national park i have said it once and i will definitely say it again the bug catching contest is without a doubt the most annoying part of generation 2 games mainly because of how unlikely you are to win, to make a long story short, due to bad coding your chances of coming in first place are extremely difficult unless you know the mechanics of the game when the game determines the winner.

Calculate a total of all the stats of the Pokémon you caught due to carelessness. If you damage the Pokémon, it will calculate its current HP into the total instead of the total HP it may have. There is also a trainer that is coded to catch a scythe. or clamp, what are the best Pokémon to enter the contest, so 90 of the time, if you play against them, you will lose once again. We need to win this contest twice because the first place prize is a sun stone. Fortunately, this area contains a huge amount. of new Pokémon, so our attempts will not be completely wasted in this area, we can catch Weedle, Beedrill, Venonat, Pincer and Scyther.

This is quite annoying because you have to reset the clock for each completed attempt, but overall, this didn't takea long time. The day we will also be able to catch the solar curtain that will evolve later east of this area is Route 36, which is only partially available due to a strange dancing tree blocking the path. This is the dead end for this section, but that doesn't mean we're done filling decks on this route, we can still catch Growlithe and Stantler Vulpix is ​​an exclusive build here, so Ninetales won't be available in this game either. Back in Goldenrod City, we can visit the game corner to get the prizes you see.

In any casino there are live animals, like last time, there is a special prized Pokémon that we have to collect and they are definitely not cheap, we definitely don't have the money to buy them, so I resorted to trying my luck and well, now. We are broke, the best option right now is to buy a small amount of coins, spend them until you reach the lucky jackpot of 300 coins, save and then restart after spending about 50 coins without getting the jackpot again on your Most. It's pure luck, but there is a slot machine that offers higher odds, which hardly helps, but obviously I'm going to take the best chances.

Eventually I have enough money to buy ekans and dratini. Yes we have to evolve that after that if we head to the Goldenrod department store we can trade a drowzee from a chop this is the only place we can get one for now so it's easy to skip the last Pokémon we need to get before training in the nursery if we raise the same and Wigglytuff. and collect the egg, it will eventually hatch and become a profit. We will have to do this a lot more, but for now we are ready to start the routine, starting with the easiest ones, we can use two sun stones that we earned. to evolve the gloom to the flower and the sunken to the solar flora, other than that, the easiest ones were definitely male and female nidoran.

Route 35 is the best route to train because drowsy produces at most 200 xp, so after an hour I was able to get both nidorina and nidorino, although abra only knows how to teleport until it evolves, it was quite easy to evolve because I took it through of all the battles I could. This also took about half an hour to evolve into Kadabra Atkins was next and while it doesn't have access to bite from the start it was pretty easy for the most part, it took about 2 hours to evolve into Arbok bringing the total to 92 Pokémon . Our trademachop was also pretty easy because it can't karate chop depending on what level you trade your drowsiness at at the beginning. to avoid drowsiness due to weaknesses, but when I reached the later levels, it was not that bad after two and a half hours, my chop evolved to machoke because we can't trade, we can't make machamp sleepy, it was a little painful because at the beginning I only he knew libra, but once he learned staff confusion it was much easier to win battles, it only took him three hours to evolve drowsy to hypno, then nat was in the same position because he only knew how to tackle, but since he was a level higher How hypnotic, it took him about four hours.

Evolve Venomoth Well, it looks like this section wasn't really that bad. You must have forgotten about Dratini. If you ever complained about any Pokémon grinding before this point, you should probably give up now. Remember how unreal it was that Pidgeot had 40,000 XP to level up, yeah, well how about a billion XP? This is the ultimate challenge, the impossible routine. What was it that it's not a billion, it's just 200,000? Yeah, that's still a lot, while Dratini may be cute, it sucks a lot, which you can get from the game. corner is only level 10, which means he only has access to rap, which is not as good as in generation 1.

Once you get Dragon Rage at level 22, it's much easier, but it only has 10 pp, so I go to the PC a lot to heal, so if you were going to guess how long this took, what would you say? 10 hours 20 hours How about 31? Yes, there is definitely some downtime, but for the most part that time. From what I can tell, I spent working, this is the hardest Pokémon to evolve in probably any of the games that have this challenge, sudos are always a pain, but since your wild battles aren't even level 15, it takes a amount incredible time. to do, but after 31 hours, Dratini evolved into Dragon Air and then Dragonite, this leaves us with 97 Pokémon and the maximum amount you can have at this point after beating Whitney so much that it made sense while crying, this time we can head to the flower shop and grab the spray bottle when we water the tree we realize that it is actually a pseudowudo and that it was definitely thin enough to walk and get to the next area if we talk to the guy east of that event that will give us the hm for rock smash that we will put to good use later in critique city is really interesting because no matter which direction you go from here, there are many Pokémon to catch, if you go to the Pokémon center, we can meet Bill. and he will thank us for using the PC system he created if we return to Goldenrod City and stop by his house, he will give us an eevee as a thank you right after this he brought it to the daycare to take another eevee for later .

Starting this section, we will go west of ecritik to route 38. Here we can get magnemite farfetch miltank tauros and snubble. This is also where you can find the exclusive Silver Meow, meaning the Persian will also not be available. olivine city is the next stop where we can do quite a few things, we can meet our rival for another daring date, but we can also talk to this fisherman to receive the good rod next to the pokemon center, we can also get the hm of strength like In addition to start the event with the ampharos at the top of the lighthouse with our new goodrod, we can take care of all our new fishing encounters only in this area, in the main area, we can fish corsola and staryu, but in the port we can get chinchu and shelder olivine city also has another exchange that we can do krabi can be exchanged for voltorb which is useful because we can't get them until we have access to surf the last thing we can do here is go west to route 40 Because we don't have surf, This is a dead end for now, but if we break the rocks, we have a 10 chance of meeting Shuckle.

Until I made this video, I had no idea it was available outside of the gift you receive, but with. that now we have 110 Pokémon and we return to Equity City. If we go to the burned tower, we can face a rival and catch new Pokémon. All we have to do is drop down this hole here and, oh no, yes, the wandering beasts are. available so early in the game, which means we have to get all three moving forward. I think you already know the slogan. In the basement of this area we can also catch cough and magmar heading east of Equity, we can advance a lot. further than you think, a lot of mountain mortar is blocked due to waves and waterfall, but you can still walk to the other side of the water at the far exit before leaving the mountain, we have to catch Merrell before going. out to catch Manky Mahogany Town has nothing to do right now, but if we head towards Laker Rage we can catch a Giraffe Platform before the waves block us for the next event after this.

I returned to the nursery to raise magmar. get magby and now the beasts raiku entei and suicune will wander around the map and if you are lucky they will both end up on the same route but if you find one it will most likely run away before you. It can be quite a pain hunting them requires a lot of luck and you will definitely waste a lot of time in the process. Luckily, the creator of this challenge also created a guide to finding them faster through trial and error. He was able to figure it out roughly. their patterns and with this map you can calculate exactly where they should appear.

This doesn't work 100 of the time, but you have a good chance of it working in your favor, but catching them is a completely different problem. Many mechanics are broken. In these games, especially related to hunting legendary beasts, like I said, if you come across them and try to attack, they will most likely run away, so you will have to spend another 10 minutes hunting them, but I know what you are thinking, use the hunter. has access to a bad look, well the problem here is that if we use a bad look and are slower than them, they run away before we can attack, so the obvious solution for that would be to destroy Haunter until he is level correct to overcome speed.

The next problem is that everyone has the roar move. You think it wouldn't affect ghost types because it's a normal type move, but unfortunately it lands and they use it on the first turn almost every time I try it, so which is best? Well there really isn't any, if you use a pokeball you have a 0.78 chance of catching it without damaging it. Every status move except sleep and freeze doesn't increase capture rate, so realistically our only option is to put them to sleep, so if you're dumb enough to try this, you have to encounter, one, two, make sure your pursuer can outspeed, three, ground hypnosis, which has 55 accuracy and four pokeball throws while sleeping, and hope for a five percent catch rate, considering you have Up five chances in an encounter, it's really harder to just find them, but trying to figure out how to make this work without any help was incredibly difficult among the evolving hunter, figuring out the best method and catching them, took about 10 hours to do. which doesn't sound too bad in comparison, but watching a suicune come out of a triple move and run is a feeling of failure that I don't think I've ever felt before, but after all the fighting we can add raiku ante and suiku.

In the total of the decks, now let's see the evolutions for this section. Route 38 is without a doubt the best route to train all Pokémon, except Rattata which gives more than 200 XP and double Miltank and Toro, which we also have access to the kimono girls can give. To achieve an enjoyable experience, almost all Pokémon were easy compared to what we have covered in the previous sections. Merrell was by far the easiest and probably the easiest in the game. You can catch it at level 15 and it evolves at level 18, so it took like 20 minutes to evolve into zumaril snubble and chinchu.

They were also very easy to care for. snubble doesn't have a lot of cool moves but it doesn't need a lot of XP to evolve either. Chinchu has access to water and electric moves that are stabbed, both took about an hour each, which were repelled by granbull and chinchu by lantern, meki gets a karate chop from the star, which is cool because almost all Pokémon on route 38 they are normal or steel type in about an hour. hour and a half manky evolved into primate magnemite and voltorb were just as easy volder doesn't learn any electric moves when leveling up but he has a sonic boom and it deploys right before he evolves magnamite's stab is really all he has but still I did the work after an hour and a half, as both magnemite evolved into a magneton and Voltorb evolved into an electrode.

The cough was the worst, but that's only because it evolves at level 35. Once you have access to the stinging sludge, it takes care of almost anything. Wild Pokémon we discovered took about three hours to evolve between coughing and wheezing. The last two Pokémon for this section are the eeveelutions. It's pretty obvious that this section is incredibly short when you look at the big picture, so both Eevees weren't even close. At the friendship level for evolution, the best way to increase happiness at this point is to simply walk around and level up. Each of these took about four hours, which is a long time when you have no idea if you're close or not, this evolves ev into umbreon and evie into espeon, this brings the total to 128 pokemon, which is the maximum amount for three insignia.

After sweeping morty we can access a few more points on the map if you go back to the union cave we can access quite a bit. some new Pokémon in the basement area, we can navigate through the water and access not only another floor but a couple more exits. If we take the exit, we end up in the secret area of ​​Alf's ruins, luckily we don't have to. More puzzles, but we can get Natu and Smeargle back to the cave. If we go to the lowest floor and navigate to the end, there will be a large body of water.

If it's Friday, there will be static lapras that you can find. This is another one of those things, you can just reset the clock for our next stop, which will be route 35. Here we can surf in the water for psyduck and goldoc, which is good because that saves us a lot of time leveling up on this one. spot. I only have one more Pokémonto catch, which is Mantine on Route 41. In this section, Gold is the only one that has an exclusive Pokémon, which means that the total amount for this section will be one less if you play with Silver, the only Pokémon we have.

You have to level up at this point, you can't catch it at level 24 and it evolves at level 25, so it took us about 10 minutes to evolve zatu. The last thing we can do in this section is head to the end. Bark Town, if we serve east of here, we can take our first step towards Kanto. We're blocked from going there because we don't have access to the waterfall, but if we go to the small section of Tojo Falls, we can grab another moonstone. It doesn't really matter what you use this on, so I evolve nidorino into nidoking.

This gives us a total of 36 Pokémon in gold and 35 if you were playing in silver. At this point in the challenge, the Gym Leaders can be defeated in any order. That's what you want, but since we're trying to get the most Pokémon with the fewest badges, we're going to get to Price's Gym in Mahogany Town and head to Laker Rage. I can remove a shiny for free and help Lance take it. in the rocket hideout, with that out of the way, we can take the price and use our new hm for the swirl Lance just gave us.

This opens up the whirlpool islands where we can get all the Pokémon for this section. The seal is available on all floors, but if we go to the cave where Lugia is supposed to be, we can catch Horsey and Sidra, this means that the only Pokémon we have to evolve is Seal, it doesn't get any stab moves when going up. level, but we can teach you the surf movement. I got it from ecritique dance theater which made the process much easier after about two hours. The seal evolved into a dugong. This completes the section with 140 Pokémon for gold and 139 for silver.

During this section, we can confront Chuck or Jasmine because they don't do anything. Impact on what we can or cannot catch at this time. I chose the battle truck so I could finally have access to flying and take the secret potion to finish the lighthouse event. After that, we can confront Jasmine and open. At the eastern exit of Mahogany Town, rough 44 contains a couple more Pokémon that we can add to the total. Here we can catch Tangela and Liquetang before entering the ice path to catch more Pokémon for Dax. This area contains swinub and Jinx, but also has delibird as a silver exclusive, this brings the total to 144 Pokémon.

Before leaving the area, it is important not to forget the hm for the waterfall, as we will definitely need it later, when we leave the area, and reach Blackthorne City, but there is not much we can do now, so we will return when we are ready to face Claire. South of town is Route 45, where most of our remaining Pokémon are found in gold. We can catch Glygar and Teddy Ursa and in silver you can get skarmory phampy and Dawn fan silver has the advantage that fampy's evolution is here which means we have to spend more time leveling up teddy ursa route 45 also has access to the north side of the dark cave which is the only place where you can catch wobble fat before we level up our Pokémon and start the story.

Actually, there is one more thing we can do once you collect seven gym badges. Professor Elm will call you and let you know that something is happening in Goldenrod City if you go. When you reach the radio tower, you will discover that Team Rocket has been taken over again and it is your job to eliminate them after fighting the fake director at the top. He will give you the key to the basement to find him in the underground golden bar after we rescue him and eliminate Team Rocket, the director would give us the rainbow wing in gold and the silver wing in silver and yes that means we can also catch Ho-oh in this section, unfortunately, this is as difficult as catching any other legendary like us.

We won't have access to the Master Ball until we defeat all 8 Johto gems, although its catch rate is terrible, we have a ton of Pokémon that can put it to sleep, which makes it much easier for us after about 30 minutes of casting balls, we have ho-oh, the last Pokémon we need to grab. It's actually an in-game exchange. If you go to Blackthorne City, there is a trainer who is looking to trade a ride to get it. We have to exchange him not only a Dragonair but a female one. You're probably thinking. Well, great. You have to bet all that money just to get back to work because you can't access the dragon's lair, but not really, other than the dragons below, there is one more place we can get them, Route 45.

If we fish in the water, we have a 10. Chance to find Tritini at level 10. It may be the same level as the one we trained before, but at least we don't have to waste the money that we will definitely need later, after we get another Dragonair with the that we can exchange. Getting this right also means that Ryhorn is also available, although we can't catch one we can surely breed one while we are in this area anyway, we can also breed Jinx to get another baby Pokémon, this gives us Ryhorn and smoochum, now it's the moment.

To do some grinding, Swine Up and Teddy Ursa are very easy to make, mainly because I took them through Team Rocket's story to take advantage of the free experience. They were both close to evolving, but I spent an extra hour getting them both to do so. evolve after that, this gives us piloswine and ursaring, we max out the total to 153 pokemon after defeating claire, improving our value in the dragon stand, they give us the 8th gym badge, which is the last thing we need to open the entire map. Well the first thing on our list is to go back to Mount Mortar, now that we can use the waterfall we can go through the rest of the mountain and fight the karate king in the deepest part of the cave, after we defeat him he will give us We are a rogue, this means we have to take care of all his evolutions and this is probably the most annoying thing we have to deal with in this section for those who don't know that Tairog's evolution depends entirely on his attack and defense stats .

Now there's not exactly a perfect way to guarantee which one you'll get, but my best method is to get each of them: level up Tairoge right before he reaches level 20 and save the game. I leveled it up to see what happens. it evolved and if it wasn't what I wanted I gave it stat boosting items to get the right numbers I wanted with higher attack we get hitmonlee highest defense is hitmonchan and attack equal in defense is hitmontop with that out of the way . Now we can head towards the elite four after crossing the waterfall at Tojo Falls, we reach routes 26 and 27.

They both have about the same Pokémon, so it doesn't really matter where you catch the next Pokémon, here we can catch Doduo Dodrio. and ponyta, this is all we can get for this section, which means that ponyta is the only pokemon we need to evolve at this point. This is really easy because there are a decent amount of trainers we can fight before the indigo plateau after clearing it. the routes and fight a rival on Victory Road, we are pretty close to evolving after about 30 minutes, Ponyta evolved into Rapidash, this gives us 61 which is technically the most you can get with 8 badges, but I'll come back to that in a bit.

Second, the elite four were the same way as red and blue because I didn't spend time evolving a specific Pokémon, my levels were pretty much all over the place, but I brought a team full of legendaries so that didn't really matter in absolute. After defeating the elite four, we completed the Johto side of the challenge, but we're definitely not done with the Kanto challenge we still have to face, so when I said I gathered all the Pokémon for eight batches, that wasn't exactly it. The truth is that there are a lot of pokemon that we can get now that we have access to Kanto and the best part is that almost none of them are hidden behind a gym badge so let's start when we get to vermilion city we can head north because the snorlax is blocking the way, if we head to Cerulean City, we can head east, to the power plant.

There aren't any Pokémon inside anymore, but there is a side quest we need to complete to open up all of Kanto if we talk. He will tell the head of the power plant that his machine part was stolen. If we go to the gym in Cerulean City, we can meet the rocket growler who stole it and recover the piece after returning. If we head to Lavender City. We can receive the expansion card that gives us the pokeflute radio channel after that we can return to Vermilion City and use it to wake up Snorlax and add it to the total of the decks.

At this point, I didn't really have a structure for where I would go from here, so I followed the guide I made for myself. If you go through Diglett's cave, we can catch the trio of Diglett and Doug and then grab Pikachu on route 2. The next stop will be Pewter City if we talk to This random guy will give us the second wing which is in the opposite version of these games. Why do you have this? If we go east from here we can reach Mount Moon, which is the place where we can fight our rival again but also trap. clefairy if we take the ladder we can also access a small area that has a field and a small shop if it is night on Monday there will be some koferi dancing around the pond when they notice you they will drop a stone on you that you can crush this will give us another moonstone and this can be repeated every Monday.

That's pretty much all we have to do in this corner of the map, so let's head to Cerulean City and add a little more to our total. If we go back to route 10 we can catch electabuzz before heading to the rock tunnel here we can catch cubone marowak and kangaskhan which is really good because all the old safari pokemon are extremely easy to catch now after reaching lavender city, we can move on to fuchsia city and catch chansey like In addition to getting the super rod from the fishing house, we actually need two of these because of a trade that is a bit annoying because they have a one percent chance to spawn.

If we talk to this person on Route 14, we can exchange one. of them for an aerodactyl for some reason this is the only fossil pokemon you can get in these games so the ammonite and kabuto lines are not available in this challenge to finish our captures for the kanto side we stop at route 7 for murkrow and houndour route 16 for grimer and muck route 17 for slugma and route 22 for mr mine, bringing the total to 178 pokemon before heading back to jodo, there's still quite a few more things we can do if we head north of this. cerulean city we can go to bill's old cabin and talk to his grandfather if we show him the specific pokemon he requests he will give us the evolution stones unfortunately due to some really bad gameplay decisions he will only give you one of the stones of leaf.

Thunderstone, Firestone, and Waterstone, these are the only ways you can get them in these games, which means there are a lot of Pokémon that we can't get now no matter who you choose to evolve, so I'll cover who. We pick a little, there is one more thing we can do in jodo, but it is better to wait until we have completely finished grinding. After completing the Kefari doll event in Saffron City, we can use the train pass to return to Kanto because we arrived. In Goldenrod City I went south to raise the rest of the baby Pokémon we need with this we can add Pichu Klepha and Elokid.

I also raised another eevee for a future stone evolution. The only pokemon we need to get with the super rod is remoraid which you can find very easily on route 44. The last thing we can do is face lukia and the whirlpool islands. Fortunately, this is incredibly easy because we got the master ball from professor elm, so with lugia we now have 183 Pokémon. Return to Kanto and finish off the rest of the Pokémon for this section to begin. We used a bunch of rocks to evolve as many Pokémon as we could with the last two moonstones I needed.

I evolved, I need sand to need a queen and Clefairy. clefable as for those of us who only had one of them, I used the thunder stone to evolve pikachu to raichu, the leaf stone to evolve penumbra to vileplume, the fire stone to evolve eevee to flareon and the water stone to evolve from poligyro to poliira now it's time to level up our captures luckily we have a very small list and they were all easy to do due to the amount of trainers we were able to fight charming I took the time to fight almost everyone I could, so in total for all of these it took me about three hours, this did it.

Is it possible to take Slug Mon and my cargo remora to artillery andHound Hour to Hound Doom. The last one to spin is Chansey, which was a little annoying because I realized I forgot to catch one on a friend's ball, so I caught another one. one and after about two hours, Chansey evolved into Blissey, the last thing we can do in this section is head to the Celadon City corner of the game. I left this for last because once again we need to buy another Pokémon if you've somehow been keeping track. From the dax you know that the one I'm missing porygon is only available through the game corner and as always it is stupidly expensive to get one you need 999 coins, this is the same amount regardless of whether you choose gold or silver but in crystal It is only 5 55 coins, since we fought almost all the trainers in the Kanto region.

We can buy one to get this. You need just under 200,000 to buy one. It's not worth the price, but you should definitely have enough money. For now or at least enough items to sell, this brings us to a total of 194 Pokémon, which is the actual maximum amount you can have with eight badges, so now that we've caught all the Pokémon that are available, we should be done. actually, we can collect a few more Pokémon, as I said before, almost all the Pokémon in the Kanto region do not require you to defeat any gym leaders, but the last ones we need are located in Mount Silver, and if we want to have access there , I have to collect the 16 gym badges so that with my super team of legendaries we can destroy brock misty lieutenant surge erica sabrina janine blaine and blue without any problem if we go to the reception gate we can now access route 28 but Most importantly Mount Silver, this location has a lot of different areas with different Pokémon, so outside we can catch Sneazel, inside we can catch Miss Drivas and in the deeper section we can catch Larvitar.

Those are the last Pokémon we need to catch, which means that Larvitar is the only Pokémon we have to evolve in terms of XP, this is almost exactly the same amount as Dragonite, since we need to get around 200,000 experience to evolve, but since we have access to much higher levels, this is not half as difficult. It was before the deeper section of Mount Silver seemed like it would be the best option for training, but I personally think the outside is easier, especially since you are literally next to a Pokémon center, the average XP yield is higher here than anyway because of the fast and wild ash.

So realistically this is the best option anyway, after grinding for about 5 hours Larvitar evolved into Pupitar and then Tyranitar. This is the maximum number of Pokémon you can catch in a gold or silver copy, but we still have one more thing we can do. If we go back to the deeper section to ride Silver, we can face Red, believe it or not, this is actually a difficult challenge. Their entire team is over level 70 and the only Pokémon we have that is even close to that is Lugia, although it was technically way under level, Tyrants are putting in the most work against this team with moves like rock slide and slam dynamic.

The only Pokémon that could really take quite a few hits was Lugia, it's super bulky and has decent cover for its team, but I had to do it. relive it a few times as a backup if the rest fainted after a 12 minute battle to finish all battles we defeated red and with that we successfully completed the rogue professor challenge in pokemon gold and silver but how I did it let's go over after defeating red. We ended up with a time of 253 hours and 48 minutes, which is about four times as long as it took to defeat Red and Blue.

Like I said, the most Pokémon you can get without training is 199, which excludes beginners. from Kanto, the legendary birds, fossils except aerodactyl mewtwo the mythical ones the other stone evolutions we couldn't get all the commercial evolutions the ones exclusive to the opposite game version and the other johto starters this equates to just under 80 of the dax, which which to me sounds a lot worse than it actually is Although these exclusions were probably due to the games being placed in the same carts as red and blue and having to remove content like cerulean cave viridian forest and safari zone , this is certainly the longest amount of time I have ever spent. video to date between playing the game and making the editing guide, so I'm grateful to be done, although I had a ton of fun making it.

I feel like I was pretty spot on in this whole challenge, but I'm sure you could do it. finish this around 200 hours if you never messed up, but I'm not willing to do this again. I want to thank you all for making the last video over 30,000 likes, something I thought I would never see in any of my videos I don't have a light goal to do generation 3, but I would really appreciate it if you like it, just so you know If everyone really wants me to continue this as a series personally, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but if you're interested in the challenge.

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