Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen/Fuchsia City

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Fuchsia City

Team Rocket is still reeling from its crushing defeat in Saffron City, which gives you a chance to resume your original quest: to become the greatest Pokémon trainer ever. Fuchsia City has two main attractions, the Safari Zone and Koga's Gym. In addition, this is the first place you can buy great items like Ultra Balls and Full Heals so pick some up when you can.

Poké Mart
Ultra Ball 1200
Great Ball 600
Super Potion 700
Revive 1500
Full Heal 600
Super Repel 500

Pokémon found

Pokémon found (Surf)
Fire Red Level Encounter Rate Leaf Green Level Encounter Rate
Psyduck 20-40 100% Slowpoke 20-40 100%
Pokémon found (Old Rod)
Fire Red Level Encounter Rate Leaf Green Level Encounter Rate
Magikarp 5 100% Magikarp 5 100%
Pokémon found (Good Rod)
Fire Red Level Encounter Rate Leaf Green Level Encounter Rate
Poliwag 5-15 60% Poliwag 5-15 60%
Goldeen 5-15 20% Goldeen 5-15 20%
Magikarp 5-15 20% Magikarp 5-15 20%
Pokémon found (Super Rod)
Fire Red Level Encounter Rate Leaf Green Level Encounter Rate
Goldeen 15-25 40% Goldeen 15-25 40%
Seaking 20-30 40% Seaking 20-30 40%
Gyarados 15-25 15% Gyarados 15-25 15%
Psyduck 15-35 5% Slowpoke 15-35 5%

New Pokémon

#118 Goldeen #060 Poliwag
Now that you've gotten your hands on the Good Rod, you can finally start fishing without expecting to get only more worthless Magikarp.

Quite unexpectedly, Goldeen has Waterfall in its moveset, an attack that you would usually need a HM for. Despite this, Goldeen, and its evolution Seaking, only sport average stats, and mostly Normal moves.

Another new Pokemon now available through fishing with a Good Rod, Poliwag may not seem like much, but can work well in your team as a Water Pokemon... and HM slave.

Once you evolve Poliwag into Poliwhirl at Level 25, and use a Water Stone, you will obtain Poliwrath, a Water/Fighting Pokemon. Poliwrath sports decent stats all around and is capable of learning Surf and Strength.

Points of interest

Fuchsia City Gym

The Fuchsia City Gym

The Safari Zone may be the most popular tourist attraction in town, but the real trainers eventually make their way to the gym for a true test. The Fuchsia City Gym is the headquarters of Pokémon trainers who also follow ninja disciplines. Their training regimen focuses on techniques that poison and induce sleep, so be sure to have some Antidote and Awakening on hand.

A lot of the Junior Trainers are packing Psychic Pokémon, so bring a Bug-type (Parasect is good) or strong, speedy fighters to finish them quickly. The ninja master himself will send out two Koffing, a Muk, and a Weezing.

Poison Pokémon are good here, since they can't be affected by Poison themselves. Ground is always strong against Poison, and Psychic is great.

Name 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Money
Kayden Hypno 38
1520
Nate Drowzee 34 Kadabra 34
1360
Kirk Drowzee 31 Drowzee 31 Drowzee 31 Kadabra 31
1240
Shawn Drowzee 34 Hypno 34
1248
Phil Sandslash 34 Arbok 34
1360
Edgar Arbok 33 Arbok 33 Sandslash 33
1320
File:Pokemon FRLG Koga.pngKoga Koffing 37 Muk 39 Koffing 37 Weezing 43
4300

Koga is protected by a maze of invisible walls and a troop of ninja-style trainers. The invisible walls in Koga's Gym are annoying, but their locations have been made more obvious for you in the map below. Koga is a snap compared to the difficulty in reaching him. Look at the floor tiles carefully. The boxes with white dots in the corners are the invisible walls.

If you defeat the poisonous lot of Koga's Pokémon, victory earns you the Soul Badge. This badge boosts the Defense rating of all your Pokémon. It will also gives Pokémon the ability to use HM 03, Surf, outside of battle. Koga will also yield TM06 Toxic, a powerful Poison move that not only poisons your opponent, but its damage will increase with every turn.

Safari Zone

The Safari Zone is an amusement park for Pokémon trainers. You are given special Safari Balls and Pokémon bait and are allowed to captured as many rare Pokémon as you can within 600 paces.

To enter it, you'll need to walk through the entire Zoo (or use a Pokemon with Cut), but at least you'll see some cool Pokemon on the way, and one of the tourists is a Move Tutor that can teach your Pokemon Substitute!.

Move Deleter

In the house next to the Pokecenter you'll find an old man who calls himself the Move Deleter. This old man allows you to force a Pokémon to forget any move it knows. While you won't ever have a need to make your Pokémon forget normal moves, you can use his ability to make a Pokémon forget an HM it has been taught. Outside of exploiting a glitch in the Day Care System, this is the only way you can do this in the entire game.

Safari Warden

In the bottom right corner are two houses, the left of which contains the Safari Zone Warden. The warden has lost his Gold Teeth, and no one can understand a word he's saying. His chompers are probably in the Safari Zone somewhere. Find them and return them to the warden and he'll reward you handsomely with HM04 Strength, a good Normal move that can also be used outside of battle to move large boulders.

Fishing Guru

Next door is the Fishing Guru's older brother, who runs a fish farm here in the city. Speak to him to get the Good Rod. Although it may seem pointless if you already got the Super Rod, which lets you fish for even more Pokémon, there is still variety of Pokemon and catching rates between rods, so it is still worthwhile to get both.

You can drop a line in the pond behind the man's house in the bottom left corner, and see what turns up. It's a good chance to catch a Poliwag or a Goodeen.

  • Good Rod (Given to you by the Fishing Guru's brother)
  • HM 04 Strength (Given to you by the Safari Zone Warden after you return his teeth)
  • Rare Candy (Behind the rock in the Safari Zone Warden's house)
  • Max Revive (Hidden) right of the lowest flower in the garden behind the Fishing Guru's brother's home