Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire/Dewford Town

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire | Table of Contents | Gameplay | Walkthrough

Table of Contents

Gameplay

Appendices

Moves

Items

Walkthrough

Pokémon Emerald

New features

Trainer Hill

Battle Frontier

New Pokémon
Ruby	Sapphire	Emerald
Fishing: Tentacool Magikarp

File:PRS&E Dewford map.png

Dewford is a small seaside town on a small island accessible only through two water routes. Before getting Surf you can only go here by asking Mr. Briney to take you here on his boat. Just north of Dewford is Granite Cave. This town doesn't have a Poké Mart, so you'll want to stock up on items before you come here.

In the house north of the ship dock, talk to the person; he will give you a Silk Scarf. The person to the east of the gym will give you an Old Rod. The northernmost building in town is the Dewford Hall, where residents discuss the latest trends in Hoenn. Inside, a man will give you TM36 Sludge Bomb once you have earned five Gym Badges.

Dewford Gym

Gym Leader: Brawly
Badge: Knuckle Badge

When you enter this gym, it will be pitch black. As you beat more of the trainers in this gym, the illuminated area around you will expand.

This Gym's speciality is Fighting Pokémon. It's weak to Psychic and Flying moves, though some trainers have a Meditite to negate this weakness. Any Flying type or Psychic type would do. Avoid Normal, Rock and Dark types. If you have a Combusken, it would have learned the Flying move Peck before evolving; this move will be useful here. Surprisingly, both of Wurmple's final evolutions are effective here, as they are Bug type which resist fighting moves while they both learn Gust, a Flying Type move, at level 13, which is the ideal level to challenge this gym.

Ruby and Sapphire
Picture	Pokémon	Reward
File:PKMN Emerald BattleGirl.png Battle Girl Laura	Meditite (lvl. 14)	336
Black Belt Hideki	Machop (lvl. 14)	448
File:PKMN Emerald BattleGirl.png Battle Girl Tessa	Meditite (lvl. 12) Machop (lvl. 12) Meditite (lvl. 12)	288

Emerald
Picture	Pokémon	Reward
File:PKMN Emerald BattleGirl.png Battle Girl Laura	Meditite (lvl. 13)	312
File:PKMN Emerald BattleGirl.png Battle Girl Lilith	Meditite (lvl. 13)	312
Sailor Brenden	Machop (lvl. 13)	416
Black Belt Takao	Machop (lvl. 13)	416
File:PKMN Emerald BattleGirl.png Battle Girl Jocelyn	Meditite (lvl. 13)	312

Brawly in Ruby and Sapphire

Brawly	1st	2nd	Reward
	Machop (lvl. 17)	Makuhita (lvl. 18)	1800, TM39 Bulk Up

Most of the danger you'll face from Brawly is from one move: TM39 (Bulk Up). It raises the DEF and ATK stats of its user by one level, which, combined with his Pokémon's naturally high ATK stats and high-power physical moves (for example, Arm Thrust), can easily make it so that he OHKOs you. Luckily, like the rest of the gym, his Pokémon are weak to psychic and flying type moves, so catching Pokémon like Abra, Ralts, or Taillow beforehand should make the battle easy.

Brawly in Emerald

Brawly	1st	2nd	3rd	Reward
	Machop (lvl. 16)	Meditite (lvl. 16)	Makuhita (lvl. 19)	1900, TM08 Bulk Up

In Emerald, Brawly gains a third Pokémon to his team in the form of Meditite. It's Fighting and Psychic type, so the best way to defeat it is with a Flying type move.

Defeat Brawly and he'll award you with the Knuckle Badge, which makes any Pokémon up to level 30 obey you and lets you use HM05 outside of battle. You also get TM08 Bulk Up, which is a great move to teach to physically oriented Pokémon such as Fighting and Flying types.

After the Gym

Once you're done with the gym, there's not much else to do but head out to Granite Cave to deliver the letter to Steven if you haven't done so. If you did, talk to Mr. Briney to go to your next destination: Slateport City.

Items

Silk Scarf - obtained from the Ace Trainer in the house directly north of the dock
Old Rod - from the fisherman near the gym
TM36 Sludge Bomb - from a man inside Dewford Hall after you get five badges
Stardust - found on the eastmost rock close to the water outside Granite Cave (Hidden)
Poké Ball - at the very end of the sand path behind the cave (Hidden)
Heart Scale - in a northeast tile of the beach next to the water (Hidden)

Pokémon found

Ruby	Level	Encounter Rate	Sapphire	Sapphire	Encounter Rate	Emerald	Level	Encounter Rate
Old Rod
Magikarp	5-10	70%	Magikarp	5-10	70%	Magikarp	5-10	70%
Tentacool	5-10	30%	Tentacool	5-10	30%	Tentacool	5-10	30%
Good Rod
Magikarp	60%	Magikarp	60%	Magikarp	60%
Tentacool	10-30	20%	Tentacool	10-30	20%	Tentacool	10-30	20%
Wailmer	10-30	20%	Wailmer	10-30	20%	Wailmer	20%
Super Rod
Wailmer	100%	Wailmer	100%	Wailmer	100%

New Pokémon

#129 Magikarp
After getting the Old Rod, the most common Pokémon you can fish is Magikarp. Now anyone who's familiar with Magikarp knows that it is absolutely useless. It's first move, Splash, does no damage at all, it can't learn TMs or HMs and it only learns Tackle at level 15. Even battling it isn't worth the trouble since it gives so little experience. If you're patient and manage to train one to level 20 however, it evolves into Gyarados, a powerful Water and Flying type with some useful moves, including the powerful Hydro Pump and Hyper Beam.

#72 Tentacool
The other Pokémon that you can catch with the Old Rod is Tentacool. As a Water and Poison type, it can learn moves of both types. Just by leveling up it can learn moves like Constrict, Acid and eventually Hydro Pump. Tentacool's strength isn't in how powerful it's attacks are though, it's in its high Special Defense, letting it survive against common Water type, Fire type and Dark Type attacks. It evolves into Tentacruel at level 30.