Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen/Safari Zone

Speak to the gate attendants to receive 30 Safari Balls. To catch any wild Pokémon you find, toss Safari Balls at them. Often you'll have to throw bait or rocks to distract certain Pokémon, so try different combinations when a particular Pokémon keeps escaping -- that is the trick. When you run out of Safari Balls, or walk 600 paces, you'll warp back to the gate automatically.



Catching Safari Pokémon
The nice thing about the Safari is that you don't have to fight with Pokémon before you can catch them, but you can only catch them with the Safari Balls provided.

There are a few original options: throwing rocks at Pokémon to make them angry and easier to catch, but also more prone to running away, or tossing out some bait, which makes them stick around longer but be harder to catch (despite the idea that they are distracted while eating food).

To make matters worse, the rarer the Pokémon is, the harder it is to catch. You may see a only once for an average of every twenty wild encounters, but when you do, you'll probably fail to catch it. And since it runs at a hair trigger, it may take some ten or more tries until you can catch it, so be patient, really patient.

You can turn around (with light taps on the control buttons), still encountering Pokémon but not taking steps. If you have an Oddish/Bellsprout or Bulbasaur, make use of its Sweet Scent move to attract wild Pokémon without having to move.

Also, don't forget to fish! It's the way to get certain Pokémon, and you may very well it out here in the exotic Safari Zone. You need the Super Rod to catch the more interesting Pokémon, where a Dragonair is included.

Learn how to SURF


You'll be able to get around a lot better if you can cross the ponds here, so the priority should be to get to the Secret House (containing HM03 ) in the northwest corner of Area 3. It's more complicated than it sounds, especially in under 600 steps. Head east to Area 1 from the Main Entrance, cross the two cliffs, and out to the Northwest to Area 2, then head all the way around to the exit in Area 2's Southwest corner.

The house is just ahead, but don't forget to grab the Gold Teeth while you're in the neighborhood (see below).

Surf can be taught to just about any Water Pokémon, and is a surprisingly strong Water attack when used in battle.

Lost Teeth and HM04


It seems like you just got a new HM. Well, there's one more in Fuchsia City, and then you'll have the whole set. It's HM04, which the Warden will hand you when you return the Golden Teeth that you found in Area 3. Use this on one of your larger Pokémon, and they'll learn, a technique that lets you bat aside boulders like the one on the right side of the Warden's office, which is there for you to test out the new skill, giving a Rare Candy reward.

For later dungeons, a Pokémon at hand with Strength will be needed, although it's not as important as Cut, Fly or Surf, at all.

In battle, Strength doubles as a basic attack, comparable in power and accuracy to Tri Attack and Drill Peck. Like all HM's, it can't be unlearned by normal means (see the Move Deleter), so give it to a Pokémon that needs a source of damage and doesn't get a lot of good skills, like your brand new.

Items
In the Main Area: In Area One: In Area Two: In Area Three:
 * Safari Ball (x30) (Given to you for paying a visit to the Safari Zone; doesn't get listed as an item in the bag)
 * Nugget (On the island)
 * Leaf Stone (Hidden on the island, near the Nugget)
 * Leaf Stone (On the ledge)
 * Full Restore (West of the rest house)
 * TM11 (In the grass on the patch of ground that extends into the lake)
 * Max Potion (Close to the entrance to Area Two on the ground)
 * TM47 (Between two trees)
 * Protein (West of the rest house)
 * Quick Claw (Near the middle of the area)
 * Gold Teeth (Just south of the west entrance to Area Two)
 * TM32 (To the left of the Teeth)
 * Max Revive (South of the Teeth)
 * Max Potion (All the way in the southwest corner of the area)
 * Revive (Hidden near the Secret House)
 * HM03 (Surf) (Given to you by the man in the Secret House)

Quick Claw is one of the few reusable items to be held by Pokémon. It can help them in battle, naturally. Give it to your slowest Pokémon, perhaps.