Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver/Violet City

Poké Mart
File:HGSSPokeBallSprite.png	Poké Ball	200
File:HGSSPotionSprite.png	Potion	300
File:HGSSSuperPotionSprite.png	Super Potion	700
File:HGSSAntidoteSprite.png	Antidote	100
File:HGSSParlyzHealSprite.png	Parlyz Heal	200
File:HGSSAwakeningSprite.png	Awakening	250
File:HGSSBurnHealSprite.png	Burn Heal	250
File:HGSSIceHealSprite.png	Ice Heal	250
File:HGSSRepelSprite.png	Repel	350
	Escape Rope	550
	Tunnel Mail	50
	Heal Ball	300
	Net Ball	1000

Pokémon Academy

Study hard!

If you talk to the man standing between the Gym and the Mart, and answer "No" to the question he asks you, he will lead you down to his Pokémon Academy to study up on Pokémon types and conditions. In this schoolhouse, he teaches his students some basic Pokémon battling and raising lessons. You can also learn a lot from the writing on the blackboard and the other students. The man to the farthest right of the room will offer you to create a group for your friends to join. This is covered fully in the WiFi section.

Violet Gym

Hold on, champ in the making.

You'll see the Violet City Gym when you enter the city, but you can't complete it until you have gone through the Sprout Tower. It's recommended that you take a detour to Route 32 before you head into the tower to catch a Mareep for training. Mareep's electrical attacks will make the flying-types of the gym trainers even easier.

Trade Bellsprout for Onix

Meet Rocky, your new Onix.

You can catch an Onix later, but you'll never get as much use out of one as you will now versus Falkner and his Junior Trainers. Visit the house southwest of the Pokémon Center with an extra Bellsprout in order to trade it for it. If you're looking for a Bellsprout, you can find one on Route 32. As a traded Pokémon, your Onix will go up levels more quickly than a wild one, but you're stuck with the nickname the trainer gave it. Like all trades with computer characters, its starting level will be the same as that of the Pokémon you traded for it.

A call from Professor Elm

After you beat the Violet City Gym Leader, you'll get a surprise phone call from Professor Elm. He'll direct you to speak with his assistant at the Violet City Poké Mart, who will give you the Mystery Egg that you delivered to Elm earlier. It needs to be near active Pokémon to hatch. Keep this egg in your party as you continue your quest, and after a certain amount of steps, it will hatch. This egg will hatch into the Pokémon Togepi. Togepi has a new evolution in this version that increases Togepi's usefulness compared to Pokémon Gold and Silver.

#95 Onix

#175 Togepi

Onix learns most of its good moves at lower levels than it did in Red/Blue/Yellow, and it can now learn SandStorm, a move that deals damage to non-Rock Pokémon every turn. But the real excitement is that it can now evolve into a new Pokémon, Steelix. This evolution raises most of Onix's stats (except Speed) to competitive levels. A good defensive Pokemon which will be useful for the first two gyms.

Togepi has a lot of fun attacks, like random move-unleashing Metronome (at level 7) and Encore, which forces your opponent to repeat its last attack 2-6 times (at level 25). It's too bad that Togepi's Attack and Speed scores are so low, as you'll need to use it constantly to make it tame enough to evolve into a Togetic. Togepi can learn Headbutt, however, which is a strong Normal type and if you make sure that Togepi doesn't die every time he goes out to battle, he will evolve into a Togetic by around level 25.