Pokémon Gold and Silver/Route 45-46

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Routes 45 and 46 are built into a mountain, so you will be traveling downhill. You can't walk back up, but you can fly. There are many good items scattered along the routes. Make a few trips to pick them up.

Route 45

After completeing the events in Template:~, you should have gotten a call from Professor Elm summoning you back to New Bark. You can Fly, but you might wish to walk instead, since the direct path of Routes 45 and 46 give you the chance to capture two new Pokémon, and revisit the Template:~.

Talk to Hiker Parry

Take the far-left path down Route 45 to talk to Parry. For some reason, this guy is following the Pokémon situation way over in Template:~. Trade phone numbers with him, and he'll give you a call when the Marill Pokémon are swarming over there. You can take the other paths to face the other Trainers and pick up items by flying back up to Blackthorn City, and then taking different paths back down.

Trainers and Items

Trainers

	Cooltrainer Ryan: 1296 Pidgeot (lvl. 25, 920 EXP) Electabuzz (lvl. 27, 901 EXP)
	Hiker Erik: 864 Machop (lvl. 24, 225 EXP) Machop (lvl. 27, 253 EXP) Graveler (lvl. 27, 387 EXP)
	Hiker Parry: 928 (phone) Onix (lvl. 29, 670 EXP)
	Cooltrainer♀ Kelly: 1152 Marill (lvl. 27, 332 EXP) Wartortle (lvl. 24, 728 EXP) Wartortle (lvl. 24, 728 EXP)
	Blackbelt Kenji: 672 (phone) Machoke (lvl. 28, 876 EXP)

Items
	Hiker Timothy: 864 Diglett (lvl. 27, 468 EXP) Dugtrio (lvl. 27, 885 EXP)
	Hiker Michael: 800 Geodude (lvl. 25, 460 EXP) Graveler (lvl. 25, 717 EXP) Golem (lvl. 25, 948 EXP)
	Camper Quentin: 600 (Crystal only) Fearow (lvl. 30, 1041 EXP) Primeape (lvl. 30, 957 EXP) Tauros (lvl. 30, 1356 EXP)
Max Potion Elixer Nugget Revive Mystery Berry

Grab some items from the Dark Cave

With Flash, Surf and Rock Smash, you can now fully explore the Template:~ which you last visited when you passed through Template:~. If you enter the cave from Route 45, you'll be able to catch Wobbuffet and Teddiursa, and pick up two cool items: the Black Glasses that strengthen Dark-type moves, and TM 13 (Snore).

Route 46

Note that the other end of the Dark Cave is here, but you cannot reach it from the Route 29 end, only from the Blackthorn City and route 31 after surf and rock smash (crystal) have been learned.

Trainers and Items

Trainers

Items

	Camper Ted: 340 Mankey (lvl. 17, 268 EXP)
	Picnicker Erin: 320 (phone) Ponyta (lvl. 16, 528 EXP) Ponyta (lvl. 16, 528 EXP)
	Hiker Bailey: 418 Geodude (lvl. 13, 238 EXP) Geodude (lvl. 13, 238 EXP) Geodude (lvl. 13, 238 EXP) Geodude (lvl. 13, 238 EXP) Geodude (lvl. 13, 238 EXP)

Dire Hit (next to the two young trainers) (Gold/Silver)
X Speed (next to the two young trainers) (Crystal)
Berry (tree)
Paralysis Berry (PRZBERRY) (tree)

Pokémon Found

Route #45 encounters
	Gold			Silver			Crystal
	Morn	Day	Night	Morn	Day	Night	Morn	Day	Night
Geodude	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%
Graveler	40%	40%	40%	55%	55%	55%	30%	30%	50%
Gligar	20%	20%	20%	N/A	N/A	N/A	20%	20%	20%
Teddiursa	10%	10%	10%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Phanpy	N/A	N/A	N/A	10%	10%	10%	5%	N/A	N/A
Donphan	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	10%	15%	N/A
Skarmory	N/A	N/A	N/A	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	N/A

Route 46 encounters
	Gold			Silver			Crystal
	Morn	Day	Night	Morn	Day	Night	Morn	Day	Night
Spearow	35%	35%	N/A	35%	35%	N/A	30%	30%	N/A
Rattata	20%	20%	50%	20%	20%	50%	15%	20%	50%
Geodude	40%	40%	45%	40%	40%	45%	50%	50%	50%
Jigglypuff	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Phanpy	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5%	N/A	N/A

Route #45 Fishing
	Old Rod	Good Rod	Super Rod
Magikarp	100%	90%	60%
Dratini	0%	10%	30%
Dragonair	0%	0%	10%

#227 Skarmory	#207 Gligar
Many combinations of Flying type and another Pokémon type don't always work out too well. But Steel/Flying works for Skarmory, since it makes it weak to nothing but Electric. Even better, Skarmory can learn Fly, does learn a Steel technique, and has a great Defense score.	Gligar is Ground/Flying, possibly the most bizarre type combination in the game. It's nice to have a Flying-type that's immune to Electric, but Gligar's moves are weak and it can't even learn Fly.
#231 Phanpy
Phanpy learns moves slowly and isn't anything special by itself, but its evolved form Donphan is a powerful fighter with HP, Attack and Defense stats that are through the roof. Note that if you evolve Phanpy at level 25, it will learn Fury Attack. If you don't, it will learn Take Down instead. Take Down is probably the better move, but do evolve it into Donphan shortly thereafter, since Phanpy can't learn Earthquake.