Pokémon Red and Blue/Victory Road

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Moltres

Enter the league's front door to find yourself in the rocky cavern known as Victory Road. The trick here is to push the loose boulders onto the round switches to open up new paths. You must open the path to ladder D on the second floor. This leads to ladder E, which leads to the exit.

[edit] The road to success

Victory Road is a lot like Seafoam Island. Once again, you'll need a Pokémon with Strength, and you'll need to do a lot of pushing rocks around. This time, there's a twist: The rocks must be pushed onto eye-shaped switches, which then makes those weird little red and white blocks disappear.

The first few are easy, if you're careful not to get the blocks stuck against a wall. But when you get down to level 3, you'll need to push a block all the way from one side of the dungeon to the other. Then loop around to the bottom, and push the next block down the hole to level 2, to open the final switch.

You'll need a strong and versatile team to handle the many Junior Trainers here, but go heavy on Water Pokémon for the random encounters and Moltres.

Victory Road Floor 1
Puzzling
There's an interesting puzzle on the first floor. To get one of the items balls at the top, you need to push the rock that it's blocking the other. The only way to get both is to leave and come back, resetting the stone.
Floor 1
1Cooltrainer♀File:Pokebuck.png1540
PersianLV44
NinetailsLV44
2Cooltrainer♂File:Pokebuck.png1470
IvysaurLV42
WartortleLV42
CharmeleonLV42
CharizardLV42
A Rare Candy
B TM 43
Floor 1 encounters
Zubat 15% 15% 20%
Golbat 5% 5% N/A
Geodude 20% 20% 60%
Graveler 4% 4% 10%
Machop 20% 20% N/A
Machoke 4% 4% N/A
Onix 20% 20% 2%
Marowak 2% 2% N/A
Victory Road Floor 2
Moltres
Like Zapdos and Articuno, Moltres appears only once per game, so this is your only chance to capture it. Moltres is on the second floor, but to reach it, you must first take the ladder marked C to go back down. The Fire-type Moltres is at experience level 50, so be ready!
Floor 2
1Karate KingFile:Pokebuck.png1075
MachokeLV43
MachopLV43
MachokeLV43
2JugglerFile:Pokebuck.png1435
DrowzeeLV41
HypnoLV41
KadabraLV41
KadabraLV41
3TamerFile:Pokebuck.png1365
PersianLV44
GolduckLV44
4JugglerFile:Pokebuck.png1680
Mr. MimeLV48
5PokémaniacFile:Pokebuck.png2000
CharmeleonLV40
LaprasLV40
LickitungLV40
A TM 05
B Full Heal
C TM 17
D Guard Spec
Floor 2 encounters
Zubat 15% 15% 13%
Golbat 5% 5% 13%
Geodude 20% 20% 43%
Graveler 5% 5% 13%
Machop 20% 20% N/A
Machoke 5% 5% 5%
Onix 25% 25% 13%
Marowak 5% 5% N/A
Victory Road Floor 3
Boulders
To get a rock onto the switch on the second floor, you'll need to push it into the hole on the third floor, and jump down after it. Once you kick it all the way to the switch, its weight will depress a switch and you'll open the path to the dungeon's exit.
Floor 3
1Cooltrainer♂File:Pokebuck.png1505
ExeggutorLV43
CloysterLV43
ArcanineLV43
2Cooltrainer♀File:Pokebuck.png1505
ParasectLV43
DewgongLV43
ChanseyLV43
3Cooltrainer♀File:Pokebuck.png1505
BellsproutLV43
WeepinbellLV43
VictreebellLV43
4Cooltrainer♂File:Pokebuck.png1505
KinglerLV43
TentacruelLV43
BlastoiseLV43
A Max Revive
B TM 47
Floor 3 encounters
Zubat 15% 15% N/A
Golbat 5% 5% 20%
Geodude 20% 20% 45%
Graveler 5% 5% 15%
Machop 5% 5% N/A
Machoke 20% 20% 10%
Onix 20% 20% 10%
Marowak 10% 10% N/A
#146 Moltres

Moltres, accessible though the C ladder on F3, is the Strongest of the Ancient Legendary Birds. But fortunately, he's the easiest to catch. If you've been doing the Birds in order, you should have an Articuno now, and one Ice Beam from him should put Moltres directly into the red zone. Now you can tolls Ultra Balls until you get a hit (if you're having trouble, reset and keep trying until Ice Beam freezes Moltres, making him a cinch to catch).

Why is he the strongest? He never learns his type's best skill, but he learns Sky Attack at Level 60 and that move makes him the strongest.