Pokémon Red and Blue/Mt. Moon

'Mt. Moon is crawling with all sorts of new Pokémon as well as several menacing members of Team Rocket. Team Rocket is after Pokémon fossils, no doubt as part of some diabolical scheme. It's up to you to stop them from raiding these lost paleontological treasures!'

Mt. Moon Battle Tactics
This cave is full of, but once you put a or  at the head of the roster, you'll find them to be little more than an annoyance. Deeper levels of the dungeon have Zubats that use the Supersonic skill to confuse your Pokémon, but that can be shaken simply by swapping the Confused fighter for another.

are a bit trickier. They're weak to Grass and Water so 's Bubble and 's Vine Whip can wipe them out quickly. But if you don't have either of those guys, you can just grab TM 12 and use it to teach Water Gun to one of your Rattatas, Jigglypuffs, Nidorinas, or Nidorinos. Remember that Poison and Rock-type attacks don't do so well against Geodude, and Electric attacks have no effect at all.



More Battles Await
Two nasty surprises await at the end of Mt. Moon (to get to the end, take ladder C to F to G). Blue and Red players may simply want to avoid Rocket #3 since his Level 16 is gonna take a lot of your Pokémon down with it. Yellow players can't avoid their extra battle, though. Use an Escape Rope and come back with a healed party if you're not confident that you can beat Jessie and James when they ambush you at the end.

Which fossil should you take? When you get the Dome Fossil cloned (much later in the game), it can grow up to be a hardcore. The Helix Fossil can ultimately become a. You can't go wrong with either one, but if you can't make up your mind, you can always flip a coin.



Secrets of the Moon Stones
The Moon Stone you picked up in Mt. Moon is a crucial item, and one of only five Moon Stones in Pokémon's world. Moon Stones are the one and only way to make certain Pokémon evolve, of which there are exactly four:,  ,  , and. But don't go burning that Moon Stone quite yet: All four of these Pokémon basically stop learning skills once they're evolved, so before you evolve any of them, check the Pokédex and make sure they've learned all the skills you want out of them. Note, though, that all four can still learn a wide variety of skills from TMs and HMs.