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Pokemon 146Moltres.pngMoltres

Enter the league's front door to find yourself in the rocky cavern known as Victory Road. The trick here is to push the loose boulders onto the round switches to open up new paths. You must open the path to ladder D on the second floor. This leads to ladder E, which leads to the exit.

The road to success

Victory Road is a lot like Seafoam Island. Once again, you'll need a Pokémon with Strength, and you'll need to do a lot of pushing rocks around. This time, there's a twist: The rocks must be pushed onto eye-shaped switches, which then makes those weird little red and white blocks disappear.

The first few are easy, if you're careful not to get the blocks stuck against a wall. But when you get down to level 3, you'll need to push a block all the way from one side of the dungeon to the other. Then loop around to the bottom, and push the next block down the hole to level 2, to open the final switch.

You'll need a strong and versatile team to handle the many Junior Trainers here, but go heave on Water Pokémon for the random encounters and Moltres.

File:Pokemon RBY VictoryRoad F1.png
Victory Road Floor 1
Puzzling
There's an interesting puzzle on the first floor. To get one of the items balls at the top, you need to push the rock that it's blocking the other. The only way to get both is to leave and come back, resetting the stone.
Floor 1
1 Cooltrainer♀ File:Pokébuck.png1540
Persian LV44
Ninetails LV44
2 Cooltrainer♂ File:Pokébuck.png1470
Ivysaur LV42
Wartortle LV42
Charmeleon LV42
Charizard LV42
A Rare Candy
B TM 47
Floor 1 encounters
ZubatPokemon 041Zubat.png 15% 15% 20%
Pokemon 042Golbat.pngGolbat 5% 5% N/A
GeodudePokemon 074Geodude.png 20% 20% 60%
Pokemon 075Graveler.pngGraveler 4% 4% 10%
MachopPokemon 066Machop.png 20% 20% N/A
Pokemon 067Machoke.pngMachoke 4% 4% N/A
OnixPokemon 095Onix.png 20% 20% N/A
Pokemon 105Marowak.pngMarowak 2% 2% N/A
File:Pokemon RBY VictoryRoad F2.png
Victory Road Floor 2
Moltres
Like Zapdos and Articuno, Moltres appears only once per game, so this is your only chance to capture it. Moltres is on the second floor, but to reach it, you must first take the ladder marked C to go back down. The Fire-type Moltres is at experience level 50, so be ready!
Floor 2
1 Karate King File:Pokébuck.png1075
Machoke LV43
Machop LV43
Machoke LV43
2 Juggler File:Pokébuck.png1435
Drowzee LV41
Hypno LV41
Kadabra LV41
Kadabra LV41
3 Tamer File:Pokébuck.png1365
Persian LV44
Golduck LV44
4 Juggler File:Pokébuck.png1680
Mr. Mime LV43
5 Pokémaniac File:Pokébuck.png2000
Charmeleon LV40
Lapras LV40
Lickitung LV40
A TM 05
B Full Heal
C TM 17
D Guard Spec
Floor 2 encounters
ZubatPokemon 041Zubat.png 15% 15% 13%
Pokemon 042Golbat.pngGolbat 5% 5% 13%
GeodudePokemon 074Geodude.png 20% 20% 43%
Pokemon 075Graveler.pngGraveler 5% 5% 13%
MachopPokemon 066Machop.png 20% 20% N/A
Pokemon 067Machoke.pngMachoke 5% 5% 5%
OnixPokemon 095Onix.png 25% 25% 13%
Pokemon 105Marowak.pngMarowak 5% 5% N/A
File:Pokemon RBY VictoryRoad F3.png
Victory Road Floor 3
Boulders
To get a rock onto the switch on the second floor, you'll need to push it into the hole on the third floor, and jump down after it. Once you kick it all the way to the switch, its weight will depress a switch and you'll open the path to the dungeon's exit.
Floor 3
1 Cooltrainer♂ File:Pokébuck.png1505
Exeggutor LV43
Cloyster LV43
Arcanine LV43
2 Cooltrainer♀ File:Pokébuck.png1505
Parasect LV43
Dewgong LV43
Chansey LV43
3 Cooltrainer♀ File:Pokébuck.png1505
Bellsprout LV43
Weepinbell LV43
Victreebell LV43
4 Cooltrainer♂ File:Pokébuck.png1505
Kingler LV43
Tentacruel LV43
Blastoise LV43
A Max Revive
B TM 47
Floor 3 encounters
ZubatPokemon 041Zubat.png 15% 15% N/A
Pokemon 042Golbat.pngGolbat 5% 5% 20%
GeodudePokemon 074Geodude.png 20% 20% 45%
Pokemon 075Graveler.pngGraveler 5% 5% 15%
MachopPokemon 066Machop.png 5% 5% N/A
Pokemon 067Machoke.pngMachoke 20% 20% 10%
OnixPokemon 095Onix.png 20% 20% 10%
Pokemon 105Marowak.pngMarowak 10% 10% N/A
#146 Moltres
Pokemon 146Moltres.png

Moltres, accessible though the C ladder on F3, is easily the worst of the Ancient Legendary Birds. But fortunately, he's the easiest to catch. If you've been doing the Birds in order, you should have an Articuno now, and one Ice Blast from him should put Moltres directly into the red zone. Now you can tolls Ultra Balls until you get a hit (if you're having trouble, reset and keep trying until Ice Blast freezes Moltres, making him a cinch to catch).

Why is he the worst? Because unlike Zapdos and Articuno, he never learns his type's best skill, although he does learn Sky Attack at Level 60. Good stats, but you'll need to use TM 38 to teach him Fire Blast to make him truly useful. Also, Fire is a bit weak.