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Viridian Forest serves as your first "dungeon" stage. It's hard to get lost here, but first timers may wish to explore it slowly to get a feel for the layout. As you cross Viridian Forest, you'll be attacked by wild Pokémon and challenged by other trainers. While encounters with wild Pokémon are random, trainers will only come at you when you cross their line of vision, so you have a degree of control over when they challenge you. Unfortunately, they are usually placed in positions that give you no choice but to pass in front of them, although a few can be avoided by walking around them. However, the behavior where trainers can't change the direction they are looking at is only this way in Generation I games. | Viridian Forest serves as your first "dungeon" stage. It's hard to get lost here, but first timers may wish to explore it slowly to get a feel for the layout. As you cross Viridian Forest, you'll be attacked by wild Pokémon and challenged by other trainers. While encounters with wild Pokémon are random, trainers will only come at you when you cross their line of vision, so you have a degree of control over when they challenge you. Unfortunately, they are usually placed in positions that give you no choice but to pass in front of them, although a few can be avoided by walking around them. However, the behavior where trainers can't change the direction they are looking at is only this way in Generation I games. | ||
If you are having trouble defeating trainers in a given area, it | If you are having trouble defeating trainers in a given area, it means that your Pokémon aren't strong enough and need to be leveled up more. The highest level Pokémon that a trainer in Viridian Forest has is a level 9 Weedle in Red and Blue and a level 10 Caterpie in Yellow, so as long as most of your Pokémon are level 8 or above, you should be in good shape. If you caught Nidoran and Spearow on Route 22, you're golden - Nidoran's Poison-type means you can soak up Poison Stings from Weedle, and Spearow's Peck has a type advantage against Bug-types. | ||
The Pokémon that you encounter in the forest may seem tough, but most of them won't be. Wild and trained {{bp|Kakuna}} and {{bp|Metapod}} can't attack, only using Harden to raise their Defense (which can make for some long battles that wear down your Pokémon's PP, so be careful). These two also give lots of experience when defeated, so use your weakest Pokémon when fighting them. Never try to capture a wild Metapod or Kakuna. Instead, capture {{bp|Weedle}} and {{bp|Caterpie}} and level them up so that they ''evolve'' into Kakunas and Metapods while retaining their old moves. They evolve fast: both will be at their third stage of evolution by Level 10! Definitely capture a Caterpie and raise it to Butterfree, especially if you chose Charmander as your starter. | The Pokémon that you encounter in the forest may seem tough, but most of them won't be. Wild and trained {{bp|Kakuna}} and {{bp|Metapod}} can't attack, only using Harden to raise their Defense (which can make for some long battles that wear down your Pokémon's PP, so be careful). These two also give lots of experience when defeated, so use your weakest Pokémon when fighting them. Never try to capture a wild Metapod or Kakuna. Instead, capture {{bp|Weedle}} and {{bp|Caterpie}} and level them up so that they ''evolve'' into Kakunas and Metapods while retaining their old moves. They evolve fast: both will be at their third stage of evolution by Level 10! Definitely capture a Caterpie and raise it to Butterfree, especially if you chose Charmander as your starter. | ||
