Pokémon Gold and Silver/Mt. Moon

New Pokémon Available

Red	Blue	Yellow
Zubat Geodude Paras Clefairy

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 treaures!

File:Pokemon RBY MtMoon 1F.png

Mt. Moon Floor 1

1	Bug Catcher	File:Pokébuck.png110
	Weedle	LV11
	Kakuna	LV11
2	Lass	File:Pokébuck.png210
	Clefairy	LV14
3	Super Nerd	File:Pokébuck.png375
	Magnemite	LV11
	Voltorb	LV11
4	Bug Catcher	File:Pokébuck.png100
	Caterpie	LV10
	Metapod	LV10
	Caterpie	LV10
5	Lass	File:Pokébuck.png165
	Oddish	LV11
	Bellsprout	LV11

6	Youngster	File:Pokébuck.png150
	Rattata	LV10
	Rattata	LV10
	Zubat	LV10
7	Hiker	File:Pokébuck.png350
	Geodude	LV10
	Geodude	LV10
	Onix	LV10
A	TM 12
B	Potion
C	Potion
D	Rare Candy
E	Escape Rope
F	Moon Stone

Mt. Moon Battle Tactics

This cave is full of Zubats, but once you put a Pikachu or Spearow 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.

Geodudes are a bit trickier. They're weak to Grass and Water so Squirtle's Bubble and Bulbasaur'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.

File:Pokemon RBY MtMoon B1.png

Mt. Moon Basement 1

Mt. Moon 1F encounters

Zubat	80%	80%	80%
Geodude	12%	12%	12%
Paras	4%	4%	N/A
Clefairy	4%	4%	4%
Sandshrew	N/A	N/A	4%

Mt. Moon B1 encounters

Zubat	70%	70%	70%
Geodude	16%	16%	16%
Paras	10%	10%	10%
Clefairy	4%	4%	4%

Mt. Moon B2 encounters

Zubat	50%	50%	50%
Geodude	30%	30%	26%
Paras	14%	14%	14%
Clefairy	6%	6%	10%

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 Ratticate 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 Kabutops. The Helix Fossil can ultimately become a Omastar. You can't go wrong with either one, but if you can't make up your mind, you can always flip a coin.

File:Pokemon RBY MtMoon B2.png

Mt. Moon Basement 2

1	Rocket	File:Pokébuck.png330
	Sandshrew	LV11
	Rattata	LV11
	Zubat	LV11
2	Rocket	File:Pokébuck.png360
	Zubat	LV12
	Ekans	LV12
3	Rocket	File:Pokébuck.png390
	Raticate	LV16
	Rattata	LV13
	Zubat	LV13
4	Rocket	File:Pokébuck.png390
	Rattata	LV13
	Zubat	LV13

5	Super Nerd	File:Pokébuck.png300
	Grimer	LV12
	Voltorb	LV12
	Koffing	LV12
6	Jessie & James	File:Pokébuck.png420
	Ekans	LV14
	Meowth	LV14
	Koffing	LV14
A	TM 01
B	Ether
C	HP Up
D	Moon Stone

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: Nidorino (Nidoking), Nidorina (Nidoqueen), Jigglypuff (Wigglytuff), and Clefairy (Clefable). 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.

#41 Zubat	#74 Geodude
Zubats aren't really that exciting. They're Flying and Poison-type (even though they don't learn any Poison techniques), so they're weak to lots of stuff, and Leech Life's draining ability is cool, but it's weaker than, say, Oddish's Absorb. While Confusion techniques are cool, Supersonic isn't as good as the Psychic skill, Confusion.	Geodudes can be painfully slow, and their weakness to Grass and Water can be annoying. But they do learn a lot of powerful early techniques like Rock Throw and Self Destruct, and their strength versus Electric, Flying and Fire Pokémon will be very useful later on.
#35 Clefairy	#46 Paras
Only highly skilled trainers can even tell Clefairys and Jigglypuffs apart... They're both big, puffy Pokémon that evolve with a Moon Stone, have a ton of HP, and can use just about any Technical Machine. But Clefairys learn techniques like Double Slap a bit sooner than Jigglypuffs, and get interesting attacks like Metronome at higher levels, so Clefairys have the edge in the pink fluffy Pokémon category.	A unique Grass/Bug combo, Paras is weak in the regular game, but can be a good Psychic-stopper at high levels if you play against your friends often. If your main concern is getting through the game, use Bulbasaur, Oddish, or Bellsprout to fill up your Grass slots. Paras never learns any real attacks, just Spore and Growth and stuff like that.