When you get to Cherrygrove heal up because you will be in for your first trainer battle, when you are ready, cross the boundary to the route the redhead next to the lab will attack you, depending on what you have he will have the one with an advantage so if you have a Cyndaquail, he will have a Totodile, if you have Totodile, he will have Chicorita and if you have chicorita, he will have Cyndaquail, you can beat him by using tackle every time, he will give you 70 Exp points and File:Pokébuck.png300, then go to the lab.
A policeman will be in the lab and ask you for the name of the person you battled earlier. DO NOT PUT ???, put the name you want him to be called for the entire game. After, talk to Professor Elm and give him the egg, after the dramatics, he says that you should battle a Pokémon Gym Leader then he says talk to your mum, the assistant will give you 5 Pokéballs to use, now go to your house.
When you go in, talk to your mum, she will ask if you want to save money (she uses this to buy you decorations for your room), make the choice then go to Route 31.
As you go to Cherrygrove, a boy will approach you and will give you a tutorial on how to catch Pokémon, if you can inflict a status condition on the Pokémon, it makes them easier to catch, when you catch them, you may want to train them. To do this go to Pokémon, choose the new one and click switch and select the starter Pokémon, this will mean whatever you caught will go out first, then go into a battle and switch to your starter and kill the wild Pokémon, now both Pokémon will get EXP!
It is recommended that when they are level 5, you use them on their own to gain more EXP, If you run out of Pokéballs, you can buy more at Cherrygrove Mart.
Now when you go to Route 30 choose the left route, there will be trainers that will fight you when you lock eyes, get ready to battle with:
- Youngster Joey
- Rattata (lvl. 4, 48 EXP) and File:Pokébuck.png64 (phone)
- Youngster Mikey
- Pidgey (lvl. 2, 22 EXP)
- Rattata (lvl. 4, 48 EXP) and File:Pokébuck.png64
- Bug Catcher Don
- Caterpie (lvl. 3, 36 EXP)
- Caterpie (lvl. 3, 33 EXP) and File:Pokébuck.png48