Pokémon Red and Blue/Route 5-6: Difference between revisions

{{sidebar|float=right|width=200px|title=The best way to use the Pokémon Daycare|contents=After you hand over one of your Pokémon to the Pokémon Daycare, it will get one experience point for every step you continue along your long adventure.  Check in one of your Pokémon that you would like to have gain experience this way, rather than by using it in battles.  The weak Magikarp might be a great candidate, since it becomes a ferocious Gyarados at level 20.  Abra would be another good choice, since it becomes much more powerful after level 16, when it evolves to Kadabra.  Even if you're gone such a long time that the Pokémon level passes up it evolution level, The Pokémon will wait for you to return and tell it whether to evolve.  And it will have learned any new abilities that its level would have allowed.}}

You'll need to jump down the rocks from Cerulean City if you want to get to the Day Care Center, where you can drop off Pokémon to be leveled-up while you walk (they gain EXP at the rate of 1 point for each step you take).  Unfortunately, the head of the Center makes all the decisions, so if your Pokémon is full up on skills, he may delete a skill you like or abandon the new one altogether, so be cautious.  But if you bought that {{bp|Magikarp}}, dump him here and return later for a {{bp|Gyarados}}.  You will be charged [[File:Pokebuck.png]]100 for each level gained, though.

The path beyond the lowest building along Route #5 is closed, so you'll have to take the tunnel.  Access the tunnel through the building along the right side of the route.  Press the A button rapidly as you walk to pick up some randomly placed items (nothing too exciting).  At the Route #5 entrance, a woman will offer to trade you a male Nidoran for a female in Blue or Red, or a {{bp|Cubone}} for a {{bp|Machoke}} in Yellow.  Not a great deal either way.  You may not have the Pokémon that she wants, but not to worry.  No matter how long it takes you to find the proper Pokémon, she will wait patiently.

There are lots of powerful trainers on the other side, but you can avoid them all except for the final couple.