Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen/Pokémon Tower

The situation in Pokémon Tower is grave indeed, but with the Silph Scope, you should be able to dig up whatever is causing all the trouble. You don't have to do anything special with the scope, but just make sure you have it with you when you enter the tower. The Silph Scope automatically identifies ghosts and makes it possible to engage them in combat.

If you cleared out the tower earlier, skip to the bottom to finally identify the ghost that was blocking the way to the final floor and clear out the Rocket grunts.

1st floor	2nd floor	3rd floor
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4th floor	5th floor	6th floor	7th floor
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FireRed	Level	Encounter Rate	LeafGreen	Level	Encounter Rate
Gastly	13-19	85%	Gastly	13-19	85%
Cubone	15-19	9%	Cubone	15-19	9%
Haunter	20-25	6%	Haunter	20-25	6%

Into the Tower

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Pokémon Tower Floor 1

Scoping out danger

Without the Silph Scope, you can't identify the ghosts lurking in Pokémon Tower, and therefore you can't fight them. With the scope in hand, you can fight and try to capture these astral aggressors. Many special attacks don't affect Ghost-type Pokémon at all, so use caution in battle. You'll have better luck catching a Gastly or a Haunter if you use Great Balls instead of regular Poké Balls.

With the Silph Scope in your hot little hands, it's time to head back to Pokémon Tower and figure out what the heck is going on. The quickest path is to go back to Route #7, hand the guard the tea from the lady in Celadon to end the baffling "Thirsty Guard" crisis, and then cut through Saffron City on your way East to Lavender Town. On your way through Saffron City, you might just want to stop in at the Poké Mart and grab a Max Repel. The Repel is for the Tower, where you'll be assaulted by Gastlies, Gastlies, an occasional Haunter, and more Gastlies, but if you plan to fight some Gastlies it might be best to use Pidgeotto.

Not this guy again...

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Pokémon Tower Floor 2

When your rival gets in your way on the second floor, he'll pick a fight as usual.
Depending on your starter pokemon he may have an alternate lineup(a level 25 Pidgeotto, a level 23 Gyarados/Exeggcute/Growlithe, a level 22 Growlithe/Gyarados/Exeggcute, a level 20 Kadabra, and the Pokémon he chose at the beginning of the game). Gyarados is absent if you select Charmander and your rival will have a Level 23 Growlithe and a Level 22 Exeggcute in his lineup. Exeggcute is absent if you select Squirtle and your rival will have a Level 23 Gyarados and a Level 22 Growlithe in his lineup. Growlithe is absent if you select Bulbasaur and your rival will have a Level 23 Exeggcute and a Level 22 Gyarados in his lineup.

Name	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Money
Rival	Pidgeotto 25	Kadabra 20	Exeggcute 22	Wartortle 25	Growlithe 23	900
Rival	Pidgeotto 25	Kadabra 20	Ivysaur 25	Gyarados 23	Growlithe 22	900
Rival	Pidgeotto 25	Kadabra 20	Exeggcute 23	Gyarados 22	Charmeleon 25	900

Fighting Ghosts

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Pokémon Tower Floor 3

Ghosts are completely invulnerable to the two most common offensive skill types: Normal and Fighting. Ground-type attacks such as Dig are rendered useless by Gastly's Levitate. Pokémon with Psychic attacks like Kadabra and Drowzee, are really powerful. Farfetch'd is also a strong option because it is immune to all of Gastly's moves except curse. But those are few and far between, so if you don't want to deal with lots of random encounters, just pop open the Max Repel... After you catch a Gastly for yourself.

Addition: If you have Pokemon with Ghost or Dark type moves (such as Bite), they work pretty well against the Ghosts as well. After catching your own ghost type here, you can train it up a little and use it to wipe out the ghosts.

Name	1st	Money
Hope	Gastly 23	736
Patricia	Gastly 22	704
Carly	Gastly 24	768

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Pokémon Tower Floor 4

Name	1st	2nd	Money
Laurel	Gastly 23	Gastly 23	736
Jody	Gastly 22		704
Paula	Gastly 24		768

A chance for rest

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Pokémon Tower Floor 5

The leader of the Channelers has broken free of the dark power that held her, and created a reusable healing zone on the 5th floor. Make sure you heal and save while you have the opportunity, since there are a number of surprises ahead.

Name	1st	Money
Ruth	Gastly 22	704
Tammy	Haunter 23	736
Karina	Gastly 24	768
Janae	Gastly 22	704

Surprise, surprise

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Pokémon Tower Floor 6

The first surprise is at the stairway to the top floor, where the Ghost that you needed the Silph Scope for finally reveals itself as a level 30 Marowak. Make sure you have some strong, non-Psychic Pokémon for this fight! Unfortunately, you can't catch it, even with a Masterball, as it dodges the ball every time.

Name	1st	2nd	3rd	Money
Angelica	Gastly 22	Gastly 22	Gastly 22	704
Jennifer	Gastly 24			768
Emilia	Gastly 24			768

At the top

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Pokémon Tower Floor 7

More non-Gastly foes await on the top floor. There are three rocket grunts up here.

Name	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Money
File:Pokemon FRLG Team Rocket Grunt M.pngGrunt	Zubat 25	Zubat 25	Golbat 25		704
File:Pokemon FRLG Team Rocket Grunt M.pngGrunt	Koffing 26	Drowzee 26			768
File:Pokemon FRLG Team Rocket Grunt M.pngGrunt	Zubat 23	Rattata 23	Raticate 23	Zubat 23	768

Mr. Fuji

After you've bested those foes, you'll find the missing Mr. Fuji. He'll thank you for your efforts with a gift of a Poké Flute, which you can use to awaken any sleeping Pokémon, and which finally makes that Rest skill useful.

You can also use it to wake up that sleeping Snorlax that was blocking the passage between Route #11 outside of Vermilion City and Route #12 south of Lavender Town. But first, let's pay a visit to Saffron City.

Items

• Escape Rope: on the north side of the third floor
• Elixir: near the staircase leading from the third floor to the fourth floor
• Awakening: in the center of the fourth floor
• Great Ball: on the south side of the fourth floor
• Cleanse Tag: in the center of the healing spot
• Big Mushroom (hidden): above and to the left of the northernmost Channeler on the fifth floor.
• Nugget: on the south side of the fifth floor near the healing spot
• X Accuracy: near the staircase leading from the fifth floor to the sixth floor
• Rare Candy: on the southwest side of the sixth floor
• Soothe Bell: search the exact spot Mr. Fuji was standing with the Item Finder on the seventh floor