>>56526000Luckily for me, there are a lot of routes post Misty, and you get the Old Rod. Diglet cave was replaced with Litwick cave. Thankfully, they had lost minimize, they gained a 90bp STAB move, but the Route 4 litwicks were a threat because they had two DoT effects and prevented you from escaping. Though I was down there before beating the S.S. Anne because I forgot you need Cut to get back to the town between Pallet and Pewter, and I was on red health with everyone who wasn't Madame Web and a level 5-13 Worra, and I wanted that Town token to save the money on healing, since Madame Web was the Candle Cove adventure she was one battle away from becoming Level 25 by the time we left.
S.S. Anne was tense had like three healing items by the end. Wouldn't have had this issue if I didn't need to explore every room, it would have been easier. Since items are randomized Primarium Z could be in any trash can.
I don't know what the best stage 1 starter you could get stuck with is (probably Bulbasuar) but Charmander knows smoke bomb, so it isn't a complete wash for Blue1, he got me pretty roughed up and made me box Madame Web, not that I would have used her against Surge.
Surge and his gym were easy, magical leaf has infinite accuracy, which meant he was wasting his time boosting his evasiveness, I probably didn't need to teach Justina Dig for the fight, but I'm glad I planned ahead of just using two mons.
Both my Steenees have had natures that reduced the Attack stat, which is pain.
