Pokémon Red and Blue/Pokémon Tower

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Gastly Cubone

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 indentifies ghosts and makes it possible to engage them in combat.

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Pokémon Tower Floor 1

Into the Tower

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 a frosty beverage 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.

Not this guy again...

When Gary gets in your way on the second floor, he'll pick a fight as usual. If you're playing the Red or Blue cartridge, he might 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 Gary will have a Level 23 Growlithe and a Level 22 Exeggcute in his lineup. Exeggcute is absent if you select Squirtle and Gary will have a Level 23 Gyarados and a Level 22 Growlithe in his lineup. Growlithe is absent if you select Bulbasaur and Gary will have a Level 23 Exeggcute and a Level 22 Gyarados in his lineup.

In the Yellow game, he'll be a little more formidable. Besides his Fearow, Shellder, Magnemite and/or Vulpix and Sandshrew, your rival will also use his Eevee, which may be then have evolved into a Flareon, Vaporeon, or Jolteon. Shellder is absent if Gary is going to evolve Eevee into Vaporeon and Gary will have a Level 23 Vulpix and a Level 22 Magnemite in his lineup. Magnemite is absent if Gary is going to evolve Eevee into Jolteon and Gary will have a Level 23 Shellder and a Level 22 Vulpix in his lineup. Vulpix is absent if Gary is going to evolve Eevee into Flareon and Gary will have a Level 23 Magnemite and ad Level 22 Shellder in his lineup.

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Pokémon Tower Floor 2

Rival Battle #5
	Pidgeotto Level 25		Fearow Level 25
//	Gyarados/Exeggcute/Growlithe Level 23	//	Shellder/Magnemite/Vulpix Level 23
//	Growlithe/Gyarados/Exeggcute Level 22	//	Vulpix/Shellder/Magnemite Level 22
	Kadabra Level 20		Sandshrew Level 20
	Gary's Starter Level 25		Eevee Level 25

Fighting Ghosts

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Pokémon Tower Floor 3

1	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png660
	Gastly	LV22
2	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png660
	Gastly	LV22
3	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png720
	Gastly	LV24
A	Escape Rope

Ghosts are completely invulnerable to the two most common offensive skill types: Nomal and Fighting, so many of your Pokémon will be useless here. But a few Pokémon rock: Anything that can use Dig, especially a speedy one like Diglett, can pretty much get an instant K.O. with that technique. And Pokémon with Psychic attacks like Kadabra and Drowzee, are really powerful too. 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.

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Pokémon Tower Floor 4

1	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png690
	Gastly	LV23
	Gastly	LV23
2	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png660
	Gastly	LV22
3	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png720
	Gastly	LV24
A	Awakening
B	HP Up
C	Elixer

Pokémon Tower encounters
Gastly	86%	86%	86%
Haunter	6%	6%	6%
Cubone	8%	8%	8%

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Pokémon Tower Floor 5

1	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png660
	Gastly	LV22
2	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png720
	Gastly	LV24
3	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png660
	Haunter	LV22
4	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png690
	Haunter	LV23
A	Nugget

A chance for rest

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

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Pokémon Tower Floor 6

1	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png660
	Gastly	LV22
	Gastly	LV22
	Gastly	LV22
2	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png720
	Gastly	LV24
3	Channeler	File:Pokébuck.png720
	Gastly	LV24
4	Ghost	File:Pokébuck.png-
	Marowak	LV30
A	X Accuracy
B	Rare Candy

Surprise, surprise

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!

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Pokémon Tower Floor 7

1	Rocket	File:Pokébuck.png750
	Zubat	LV25
	Zubat	LV25
	Golbat	LV25
2	Rocket	File:Pokébuck.png780
	Koffing	LV26
	Drowzee	LV26
3	Rocket	File:Pokébuck.png690
	Zubat	LV23
	Rattata	LV23
	Raticate	LV23
	Zubat	LV23
4	Jessie & James	File:Pokébuck.png810
	Meowth	LV27
	Arbok	LV27
	Weezing	LV27

At the top

More non-Gastly foes await on the top floor. Red/Blue players have to go through three Rocket guards, while Yellow players just have to deal with a single visit from Jessie and James, the pair of losers that's been trailing them all along.

Prepare for trouble...

Didn't you just pummel these guys at the Game Croner? No sooner have you defeated the ghost guarding the 7th floor in the Yellow version than Jesse and James show up again, trying to keep you from talking to Mr. Fuji. Their Ekans and Koffing have evolved into Arbok and Weezing, but you should still win the battle easily if you have a Psychic Pokémon. They'll run away, but don't think for a second that you've seen the last of these two troublemakers!

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.

#92 Gastly	#104 Cubone
Gastlies are incredible! Not only are they immune to Normal and Fighting attacks, but they can learn both parts of the Hypnosis/Dream Eater combo by level 35. Ghosts are weak to Psychic and Ground attacks, but their immunities more than make up for that minor inconvenience. Built-in attack Night Shade does damage equal to Gastly's level regardless of type, and Lick paralyzes foes.	As adorable as they are rare, Cubones are seen infrequently in Red and Blue and almost never in Yellow (although in that version only, they're also found in the Safari Zone). The decent Ground-type skill Bone Club comes built in, but better attacks like Boomerand and Thrash (which does heave damage, but confuses Cubone) don't come until higher levels. Cubone is better in Yellow, since he learns Head Butt at level 18!