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.

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 boulders 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.

You can also find a hidden Ultra Ball in the lone rock near Moltres's location, and a Full Restore just before the exit, immediately to the right of the final ladder, in a rock.

File:Pokemon RBY VictoryRoad F1.png

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

1	Cooltrainer♀	1540
	Persian	LV44
	Ninetales	LV44
2	Cooltrainer♂	1470
	Ivysaur	LV42
	Wartortle	LV42
	Charmeleon	LV42
	Charizard	LV42
A	Rare Candy
B	TM 43

Floor 1 encounters

Zubat	15%	15%	10%
Golbat	5%	5%	10%
Geodude	15%	15%	55%
Graveler	1%	1%	10%
Machop	25%	25%	N/A
Machoke	5%	5%	5%
Onix	30%	30%	10%
Marowak	4%	4%	N/A

File:Pokemon RBY VictoryRoad F2.png

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! There is an Ultra Ball on the free-standing boulder on the way to this Pokémon – don't forget to pick this up if you are running low on Poké Balls!

Floor 2

1	Blackbelt	1075
	Machoke	LV43
	Machop	LV43
	Machoke	LV43
2	Juggler	1435
	Drowzee	LV41
	Hypno	LV41
	Kadabra	LV41
	Kadabra	LV41
3	Tamer	1365
	Persian	LV44
	Golduck	LV44
4	Juggler	1680
	Mr. Mime	LV48
5	Pokémaniac	2000
	Charmeleon	LV40
	Lapras	LV40
	Lickitung	LV40
A	TM 05
B	Full Heal
C	TM 17
D	Guard Spec

Floor 2 encounters

Zubat	15%	15%	N/A
Golbat	5%	5%	15%
Geodude	15%	15%	50%
Graveler	5%	5%	15%
Machop	25%	25%	N/A
Machoke	5%	5%	10%
Onix	20%	20%	10%
Marowak	5%	5%	N/A

File:Pokemon RBY VictoryRoad F3.png

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

1	Cooltrainer♂	1505
	Exeggutor	LV43
	Cloyster	LV43
	Arcanine	LV43
2	Cooltrainer♀	1505
	Parasect	LV43
	Dewgong	LV43
	Chansey	LV43
3	Cooltrainer♀	1505
	Bellsprout	LV43
	Weepinbell	LV43
	Victreebell	LV43
4	Cooltrainer♂	1505
	Kingler	LV43
	Tentacruel	LV43
	Blastoise	LV43
A	Max Revive
B	TM 47

Floor 3 encounters

Zubat	15%	15%	20%
Golbat	5%	5%	N/A
Geodude	15%	15%	65%
Graveler	5%	5%	5%
Machop	25%	25%	N/A
Machoke	4%	4%	N/A
Onix	30%	30%	10%
Marowak	1%	1%	N/A
Venomoth	10%	10%	N/A

#146 Moltres

Moltres, accessible though the C ladder on F3, is the last 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 toss 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, or try using Hypnosis to put him to sleep). Note, however, that whatever you do, do NOT…EVER… use Blizzard. Blizzard can and will knock out Moltres in one shot, especially if you try using it from an Articuno, and if you're trying to catch this legendary bird (which you should DEFINITELY do), any and all work you used getting to that point will have been all wasted in one fell swoop. Be very careful that the attack selector is on the right attack.