Pokémon Gold and Silver/Victory Road

New Pokémon

Gold	Silver	Crystal
Rhyhorn

You have one more obstacle before you make it to the Indigo Plateau and the Elite Four. The cave is really no big deal to get through, but the items in the cave are a big deal! Pick up as many as you can, then head out to Indigo Plateau.

Floor 1

Floor 1

Floor 2

Floor 2

Floor 3

Floor 3

Don't be too surprised when you rival shows up to challenge you right at the end of a long dungeon, mere steps away from a Pokémon Center. Be prepared for this fight when you head up to the exit. Your rival has six Pokémon now, and their levels are quite high. The new addition is Kadabra, a quick and powerful Psychic. A Dark-type Sneasel would be great against it, or any Pokémon with Dark-type moves.

Rival: 2280 Sneasel (lvl. 34, 960 EXP) Magneton (lvl. 35, 1173 EXP) Golbat (lvl. 36, 1318 EXP) Haunter (lvl. 35, 945 EXP) Kadabra (lvl. 35, 1087 EXP) Meganium/Typhlosion/Feraligatr (lvl. 38, 1710 EXP)

Drop down for TM 26

You might want to pop into the Plateau and heal before you come back out, jump into the pit in the upper left corner of the third floor, and drop down to TM 26. This TM contains the Ground-type attack Earthquake, which is a must-have move.

Items

#111 Rhyhorn

First chance to catch Ground and Rock type Rhyhorn, and its evolved form Rhydon if you are in Crystal. Evolved form Rhydon has amazingly high Attack and Defense scores. Their Speed and Special stats are fairly low, but the Special shouldn't matter since their best attacks are all Physical. As is often the case in Gen 2, the time at which you face this Pokémon it is either level 35 in Gold/Silver or 32 in Crystal. This means that it will have forgotten its best starting move, Horn Attack. A Physical move that does 65 damage while being 100% accurate. It will instead have Stomp as its main Attack. Can learn the move Horn Drill which is very inaccurate but will guarantee a knock out if it lands. At level 65, Rhydon can learn its first Ground-type's most powerful move, Earthquake, its only level 55 for Rhyhorn.

Items
1st Floor Max Revive (far right side of F1) Full Heal (hidden in a rock to the left of the entrance in F1) Full Heal (top right corner of F1) 2nd Floor X Special (G/S only, southern ledge) HP UP (Crystal only, southern ledge) TM26 (Earthquake): Fall into the hole to the left of the exit. Full Restore (northeast ledge - use ladder on 2nd floor) Max Potion (Hidden in rock - south of TM26)

Pokémon found

Victory Road encounters

	Gold			Silver			Crystal
	Morn	Day	Night	Morn	Day	Night	Morn	Day	Night
Golbat	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	10%	10%	30%
Graveler	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	30%	50%
Ursaring	20%	20%	20%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Donphan	N/A	N/A	N/A	20%	20%	20%	N/A	N/A	N/A
Onix	15%	15%	15%	15%	15%	15%	20%	20%	20%
Rhyhorn	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	5%	30%	30%	N/A
Sandslash	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5%	5%	N/A
Rhydon	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5%	5%	N/A