Mt. Moon, Misty and Mew - Pokémon Red Version (3DS) Part 3

Hey everyone, AlexGuy here. I'm back with another blog post chronicling my playthrough of Pokémon Red Version. Last time, we beat Pewter City Gym Leader Brock and made it to Mt. Moon. This time we're going cave crawling and make our way towards Cerulean City. Let's go! 

In between the last time I blogged and this time, I tried to find a rare encounter in Mt. Moon, but to no avail. I did, however, find a good number of items in the cave as I wander around. I also encountered a lot of the same Pokémon.

Yup, uh huh, Zubats EVERYWHERE! This is the first cave dungeon we've come across, but this becomes a trend later on in the series, so all I can say is bring repels if available. Unfortunately, if repels were available in Pewter, I didn't buy any, so I either have to beat every Pokémon I encounter that I don't want to catch or run from them. The initial cave of Mt. Moon has three ladders in it that lead to lower floors, I explored each one and found a few different things.

Turns out, that man reading about Team Rocket activity was being a bit prophetic when reading because Team Rocket is trying to mine fossils. They're supposed to be "Pokémon gangsters" according to one member I battled, and yet, there's nothing inherently illegal about fossil extraction (unless Mt. Moon is area where that is prohibited), but they still battle the player for (allegedly) interrupting their fossil extracting operation. In battling these thugs, I also find items that will be useful going forward.

I eventually make it near the end of the caves when I'm stopped by some super nerd that happened to find some loose fossils that weren't claimed. I guess I walked in on him claiming the fossils for himself because he stops and battles me in hopes that I don't touch either of the fossils. I wipe the floor with Charmeleon alone and he offers only one fossil for me to keep, either the Done fossil on the left, or the Helix fossil on the right; I choose the Helix fossil and head on my way out of Mt. Moon and towards Route 4. I pick up more items as I go along and finally make my way to Cerulean City. Before I go to the Cerulean City Gym, I decide that I want to do some training and catch one Pokémon in particular. I try to head towards the Nugget Bridge north of Cerulean, only to be stopped by my rival, who challenges me to battle with a more filled out team.

Due to the fact that I've been leveling up Charmeleon a lot as of late, I can sweep the entirety of BLUE's team with little (if any) difficulty. After beating my rival, he tells me about Bill, a Pokemaniac who created and now moderates the Pokémon Storage System, and how I should thank him for it since I use it. After facing my rival, I take on the Nugget Bridge Gauntlet; if I can beat 5 trainers in a row, I'll win a fabulous prize. I do so with Charmeleon alone and get a nugget as my reward. Unfortunately, the man who gave me my prize was a Team Rocket grunt, so he tried to recruit me into Team Rocket. Obviously, I don't want to join Team Rocket, so the recruiter tries to forcefully convince me. Since Charmeleon is so powerful, he was a cake walk, and I beat a sixth trainer in the gauntlet. After that, I battle some more trainers, enough to activate a glitch that allows me to encounter the mythical Pokémon, Mew. I also grab an Abra I had, as this glitch requires teleportation and Abra is the first available Pokémon that is capable of teleporting. There is a trainer down and to the left that will battle us if he comes on screen. If the menu is opened by pressing the START button (or X on the 3DS) before he notices us, we can have Abra teleport us back to the last Pokémon Center we healed at (usually Cerulean City) as the trainer notices us. After trying to come back to Route 24, I need to battle a trainer with a level 17 Slowpoke. In the battle, the move Growl needs to be used six times before the Slowpoke is beat. After beating the Slowpoke, I try to head back towards Nugget Bridge when the menu pops up. After closing it, Mew appears; I catch it, and it's added to the Pokedex.

Training continues until I get to Bill's house at Cerulean Cape, where I find Bill turned himself into a Pokémon in a freak accident involving teleporters (maybe he was trying to catch Mew as well?). We help him turn back to normal and gives us a ticket to a party on a cruise ship in Vermillion City.

We leave and return to the Pokémon Center to heal before heading to Cerulean City Gym, led by Misty, The Tomboyish Mermaid. Just like Brock's gym, there are Gym trainers for us to beat, and we do before facing Misty.

After healing at the Pokémon Center, we get to face Misty. Her Pokémon are Water types with Water type moves, so Fire will be at a disadvantage here, while Grass and Electric types will be at an advantage here. Charmeleon is supposed to be at a disadvantage here, but all the training combined with being taught the Electric type move Thunder Punch when being transferred to another game give Charmeleon an edge it wouldn't have in any other circumstance. That being said, if it's hit by any Water type move at all (which I know both of Misty's Pokémon have thanks to Bulbapedia), it will take heavy damage.

Luckily, Charmeleon's training combined with Thunder Punch is more than enough to carry me to victory and being rewarded with the Cascade Badge, a badge that makes it so that Pokémon up to level 30 will obey me, whether traded or not. It also allows any Pokémon with the move Cut to use it outside of battle. With this badge, I can start reliably using some members of my team, but not all of them, as there are 2 that are over level 30. If I want to get closer to using all of my team reliably, I'll need to go to Vermillion City and get a gym badge from there as well, but that will be for the next blog. Next time, we head toward Vermillion City to attend a party and win a gym badge. I'll see you all then. Smell ya later!