Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen/Completing the Pokédex
To truly beat the game you will need to complete the Pokédex. The regional Pokédex is the same as the Pokédex from the Pokémon Red and Blue games. Once you have 60 unique Pokémon registered in your regional Pokédex and beaten the Elite Four, Professor Oak will upgrade your regional Pokédex to the National Pokédex, which includes all the Pokémon from Pokémon Gold and Silver and Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, making it a total of 386 Pokémon.
Pokédex Certificates
To obtain the regional Pokédex Certificate you need to catch 150 Kanto Pokémon, excluding Mew.
To obtain the regional National Pokédex Certificate you need to catch 380 of the 386 Pokémon, excluding Mew, Ho-Oh, Lugia, Jirachi, Deoxys, and Celebi.
Catching Pokémon
Most Pokémon from the Kanto region are accessible in the wild as you progress through the game. However, there are specific Pokémon exclusive to each version of the game and you will need to trade Pokémon from the complementary version to complete the regional Pokédex.
Kanto exclusives
This is the list of Pokémon that you need the other version of the game to trade for them
Johto and Hoenn exclusives
This is the list of Johto and Hoenn Pokémon you can catch in FRLG. If the Pokémon isn't listed then you need to trade for them in RSE, Pokémon Colosseum, or Pokemon: Gale of Darkness XD.
Legendary Pokémon
These Pokémon will only appear once, so if you defeat them you won't see them again. Save the game before battling them.
Pokémon | Location |
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Articuno | Seafoam Islands |
Articuno | Power Plant |
Moltres | Mt. Ember |
Mewtwo | Cerulean Cave |
Legendary Beasts
You can only obtain one Legendary Beast, depending on which starter Pokémon you chose. You will need to trade with other players for the two you didn't obtain.
Pokémon | Starter Pokémon |
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Raikou | Squirtle |
Entei | Bulbasaur |
Suicune | Charmander |
Available from NPCs
Although not available in the wild, certain Pokémon are available by interacting with characters in the game.
You can only obtain these Pokémon by trading with specific NPCs:
Obtain | Location |
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Farfetch'd | Vermilion City |
Lickitung | Route 18 |
Mr. Mime | Route 2 |
Jynx | Cerulean City |
During the game, you will collect an Old Amber in Pewter City and either a Dome Fossil or a Helix Fossil in Mt. Moon. Taking these to the Pokémon Lab on Cinnabar Island will allow you to regenerate Aerodactyl, Kabuto and Omanyte respectively. As you can only collect Kabuto or Omanyte, you will need to trade with another player for the one you didn't obtain.
These Pokémon will be given to you as you progress through the game.
Obtain | Location |
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Hitmonlee or Hitmonchan |
The Fighting Dojo |
Eevee | Celadon Mansion |
Breeding
You only receive either Hitmonlee or Hitmonchan from the Fighting Dojo, and Hitmontop is not available at all. To collect all 3, you will need to breed the one you have with a Ditto to produce a Tyrogue. Once it reaches level 20, it can evolve into one of the 3 evolutions based on his stats:
Evolution | Stats |
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Hitmonlee | Attack higher than Defense |
Hitmonchan | Defense higher than Attack |
Hitmontop | Attack equal to Defense |
There are 5 possible evolutions of Eevee, so you will need to breed the Eevee you are given four times. If it's a female Eevee then you can breed it with any Pokémon in the Field Egg group, if it's male then you can only breed it with a Ditto.
Evolution | Requirements |
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Flareon | Fire Stone |
Jolteon | Thunderstone |
Vaporeon | Water Stone |
Espeon | Level up during the day with high friendship |
Umbreon | Level up during the night with high friendship |
The below Pokémon can only be obtained through breeding. Check the Breeding page for more information.
- Pichu
- Cleffa
- Igglybuff
- Magby
- Elekid
- Smoochum
- Tyrogue
- Azurill
- Wynaut
Friendship
The following Pokémon need at least 220 friendship to obtain through evolution
Evolution | Requirements |
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Blissey | Level up Chansey |
Unobtainable Pokémon
The following Pokémon are unobtainable through regular means as the events have passed unless you did them on your RSE games and you can trade for them
- Mew
- Celebi
Trading
The following Pokémon need to be trade to evolve.
Evolution | Requirements |
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Alakazam | Trade Kadabra |
Machamp | Trade Machoke |
Golem | Trade Graveler |
Gengar | Trade Haunter |
Slowking | Trade Slowpoke holding King's Rock |
Steelix | Trade Onix holding Metal Coat |
Scizor | Trade Scyther holding Metal Coat |
Kingdra | Trade Seadra holding Dragon Scale |
Porygon2 | Trade Porygon holding Up-Grade |
To complete the National Pokédex Certificate with Pokémon that aren't listed above you will need a Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire,Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, and Pokémon Colosseum game.