Off to a Good Start hints and tips for Pokemon FireRed

Off to a Good Start

When you start the game, scroll through the Prof.'s rambling: yadda, yadda, yadda. Once you are in your room, go outside and summon the Prof. By walking towards the grass. He will let you choose one starter pokemon. Picking Bulbasaur gives you faster raising plus the type of poison makes foes unable to

Poison it. The downside is that several of it's moves have low PP. If you pick Squirtle, you will have average raising, higher defense, more gym advantages, plus it's attacks have good PP. The downside is just that it's only a bit above average. Charmander has good Sp. Attack and speed when evolving into Charizard,

And learns quite good moves. Its cons are that it has few gym advantages, except for when it learns Metal Claw, good for beating rock types, and it is raised slowly. The last part is that in just about every Pokemon game, you can get 3 potions early. The 1st is in your PC. Withdraw it from there. The 2nd is if you talk to a guy who works at a PokeMart. The third is in Firered and Leafgreen, not so sure about others. In Viridian, an old man teaches you how to catch Pokemon and gives you a TV set. To his left you see a small tree blocking an item ball (looks like a Pokeball). Go clockwise from the right of it around the fence and there is a 1 square wide pass leading to the item. Press A and you will have it.

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