Pokémon Red and Blue/Route 3: Difference between revisions

There are eight Pokémon trainers between [[Pokémon Red and Blue/Pewter City|Pewter City]] and the entrance to [[Pokémon Red and Blue/Mt. Moon|Mt. Moon]], but they're pretty easy to avoid. Some of them can pose a threat since their still around at your Pokémon's level. Still, you may need the EXP: Mt. Moon is tough, with you getting into many wild Pokémon encounters and trainers who uses a mix of many Pokémon types. This is a good place to get a Pidgey or Spearow for your Flying-type, having a 90% chance (45% chance each) of getting one of them in Red and Blue and a 55% chance of getting a Spearow in Yellow. At the Mt. Moon Pokémon Center, you can pick up a black market {{bp|Magikarp}} for [[File:Pokebuck.png]]500. As for wild Pokémon, {{bp|Jigglypuff}} in Red and Blue are decent, but Yellow players shouldn't move on without a {{bp|Sandshrew}}.

|[[File:Pokemon_039Jigglypuff.png|left]]Jigglypuff, even ''more'' ridiculously cute in Yellow, have a ton of HP, but are mediocre in all their other stats  Their '''Sing''' attack is annoying to be put to sleep by, but is nearly a coin-flip in accuracy with it only 55% of the time. STAB Pound works well enough early on, but Jigglypuff will be starved for good attacks until it learns Body Slam at level 34 and Double-Edge at 39. Jigglypuff ''can'' use a wide variety of powerful TMs, but it probably isn't worthy of these precious TMs, as the result isn't spectacular. Jigglypuff can evolve right away with a Moon Stone, found in Mt. Moon, but this will keep it from learning moves through leveling up. Jigglypuff being a rather mediocre choice to have on your in-game team, Clefairy is the better Normal-type counterpart choice with its better attacking stats.

| [[File:Pokemon_027Sandshrew.png|right]]This Ground-type Pokémon doesn't learn anything particularly exciting on its own (Although it does get the powerful Slash attack at a fairly low level), but it has good Attack and Defense (especially in its final evolution form), although it rather lacking with its Special and Speed stats. Unlike those such as Onix and Geodude, the lack of a Rock-type means that it can potentially survive a medium power Grass-, Ice- or Water-type attack if it must take one. While it must use a TM to give it a Ground-type attack (Like Dig, which you'll get at the next town and Earthquake), Sandshrew is a great Pokémon that is pretty useful as a physical sweeper throughout the game.

''BUT'' if you can get one to level 20, it will evolve into {{bp|Gyarados}}, a Water/Flying-type with great stats (with a great Attack and good Special) and a small but useful move pool that includes the powerful Hydro Pump and Hyper Beam (and several more great moves by TM.)

If you want, you can buy it to begin leveling it up now.  However, this will devour many experience points that would have (and should have) gone to other Pokémon at this early stage. You can fish for a Magikarp anywhere some other time once you get the Old Rod, and it's probably a good idea to do so. Then train it up against more higher level Pokémon by sending Magikarp as lead then switching to one of your stronger Pokémon to finish it up.