Beyond One Island

Beyond One Island

Obtaining the Ultimate Move 

-- Mt. Ember Continued --

Now that you have captured the second member of the Legendary Trio of Pokemon Birds, you will be relieved to know that the last of the trio, the Electric Type, is tucked away at a Power Plant that we will be visiting after we take care of earning the final Gym Badge, but before we set out to defeat the Elite Four.  Yes, you will have captured all three of them, and how cool is that?

At this point we just want to come off of the mountain, make it through the volcano, and back on to Kindle Road in order to reach the Spa, where we can heal and save.  Once we have accomplished that, the order of the day is to work our way back to the Pokecenter, having completed what there is to do on this part of One Island! 

On the way to the Pokecenter we will be breaking a few rocks to get at something we could not acquire before because we did not have the HM (were you wondering why we did not just Fly back to the Pokecenter? This is why).

Just south of the Spa there is a small area blocked by three breakable rocks in a line -- break those, then grab the oh-so-valuable Ether from the treasure ball here!  Ah, another Ether to add to our kit, and thank you very much!  This really will come in handy later!

Just to the south of here is a set of stairs leading up onto a raised section -- we were here before when we beat on the trainer that is south of here on the raised area -- but this time when we reach the end the pair of breakable rocks in a line will not prevent us from accessing the treasure ball, with its Carbos.  I admit that this is not as valuable as, say, an Ether, but we will put it to use in buffing up our team for the Main Event later, to be sure!

After you grab the Carbos, take the nearby stairs to the small grass ledge and jump down rather than running all the way back to the main stairs.  All that we need to do now is continue south, Surf to the other side of the pond, and hit the Pokecenter for a heal and save.

We are not quite ready to head for the next island, though it is tempting...

-- Treasure Beach --

Head towards the docks, but as you step into the dock instead of walking through the gate, surf off of the west side of the dock, and you will see that the accessible area widens to the south, and there are trainers in the water!

Swimmer Amara has a pair of Level 36 Seel worth 771 XP each, and a Level 36 Dewgong worth 1357 XP and $144.

South is the wide sandy stretch known far and wide as Treasure Beach, an area of the inner harbor of One Island where flotsam washes ashore often, and with it the occasional treasure ball!  To locate these potentially valuable finds though, you will need to use your trusty Item Finder.

On the strand is another treasure hunter, who if you talk to him will admit that he comes here for the treasure.  The items you can find here are random, and are not in fixed locations -- hence the lack of disturbed sand that usually gives away the location of a hidden object.  Each time you visit the beach there will be a different item or items hidden about.

To the south of the beach is a section of tall grass, and if you did not trade for one, you can easily capture a Tangela here!  They are quite plentiful for some reason.

At this point you should be down to only one team member that has yet to reach Level 50, plus your HM Mule...  If you decided to level up your mule, a really good way to accomplish that if they are more than 5 levels below your current team level is to have them hold the Experience Share held item, which will automagically give them half of the XP from every battle you fight, whether wild or trainer based.

This will allow you to get your mule up to the party level without having to deal with the issues that usually impact leveling a lower-level Pokemon.

As soon as you finish up here, return to the docks, hitting the Pokecenter to heal and save if you need to, then use your new Tri-Pass to head for Island Two now!

The Market on Two Island

-- Two Island --

After you get off of the boat and leave the docks, follow the path around but, before heading north to the Pokecenter, continue east to the tree, cut it, and go into that small area where you will find a treasure ball with a Revive in it -- cool, we just replaced one that we used getting Moltres and did not have to pay for it!

Head inside the Pokecenter now, heal and save, then talk to the trainers here to hear some hints about the Island.   The network is still down, which means that the PC is not accessible either.  Bummer.

Around the corner is a small open-air shop, but at the moment all it has for sale is Great Balls and Fresh Water.  My understanding is that the inventory changes in this shop after you accomplish key but unspoken goals -- some of which are objectives in the Islands, while others involve the mainland, for example beating the Elite Four adds some items to the inventory.

For now the only purchase we need to make is to pick up some Great Balls, as thanks to Moltres we burned through all but a handful of our Ultra Balls!  I would rather be buying Ultra Balls, but we cannot get access to them, so Great Balls will have to do.  I bought 15, which combined with the 11 Ultra Balls I have left, gives me a little breathing room if I run into a particularly resistant Pokemon.

-- The Game Corner --

Below the shop is a house, and connected to it is the Game Corner -- but this one is different from the one on the mainland...  In fact unless you have a human partner there is not much we can do here really, but visit anyway, because it is where we trigger one of the missions we need to do!

Inside the manager is frantically running back and forth, upset that his daughter Lostrelle is missing.  He prevails upon you to help him find her, suggesting that Three Island may be the place to look.  While he is explaining all of this, an evil Biker crashes through the door.

It seems that he thought this was Three Island...  Could that have been foreshadowing?

If you check with the desk clerk you will be told that no games are being run today -- games here are not the slots, rather they are interactive games you play with another human trainer, like the Dodrio Berry-Picking Game, and Pokemon Jump.  No worries, you can better explore this when you have someone to play with -- that is beyond the scope of this walkthrough anyway!

We are done here for now, so go ahead and exit, then step into the house next door.

-- Pokemon Move Maniac --

Inside the house is a rather rotund individual whose special gift is the ability to teach any Pokemon any move that it has previously learned and then forgotten!

Well, forgotten in the sense that you over-wrote the move with another move.  The point though is that you now have the ability to recover a move, something that is especially valuable if you accidentally wrote over a move you did not intend to.  As with any really useful service in the game, there is a catch...

The Move Maniac will only preform his service for a fee -- specifically for either two (2) Tinymushrooms, or one (1) Big Mushroom.  That might be something of a problem for you in that these items are only obtained as the held items of captured Pokemon...

They are more often found on Paras' -- in fact frequently -- but you do not want to run about capturing a dozen of those, do you?  Of course not!  And what is more, you do not have to! 

If you check your TM Case you will notice a move there, TM46, Thief, whose description states: "An attack that may take the foe's held item if the user is not holding one."

In simple terms, once you have taught this to a Pokemon in your team, you make sure that that Pokemon is not holding any item, then you target a wild Paras and use this move, and it will steal the mushroom that the Paras is holding!  All you need to do then is kill the Paras, find another, and rinse and repeat until you have an adequate supply on hand!

Your best practice here is to capture a Meowth and teach it that move, and then level it to a reasonable level, mid-20's or early 30's is about right.  The reason you should use Meowth is that it will serve dual purposes -- in addition to being your Thief Mule, it also fills the position of what many trainers call a "Drag Mule" -- a Drag Mule is any Pokemon that has the natural ability of Pick Up -- meaning that it randomly picks up items that it finds in the wild.

Drag Mule's are incredibly convenient -- in fact later I am going to outline a small side-mission you will be undertaking that involves them prior to setting out for the Elite Four!

For now though there is nothing we can do here, so go ahead and hit the door!

The Perfect Move House

-- Cape Brink --

Now that we are done on the lower level of the Island, go ahead and climb the stairs behind the Game Corner to reach the start of Cape Brink.

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- Area Pokemon -

(Key: Pokedex # - Name / Acquisition Method)

069 - Bellsprout / Normal
022 - Fearow / Normal
118 - Goldeen / Fishing (Good Rod)
129 - Magikarp / Fishing (Old/Good Rod)
052 - Meowth / Normal
053 - Persian / Normal
060 - Poliwag /  Fishing (Good Rod)
061 - Poliwhirl / Fishing (Super Rod)
080 - Slowbro / Normal
079 - Slowpoke / Normal
021 - Spearow / Normal
070 - Weepinbell / Normal

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At the top of the stairs is a clearing and a pond that is fed by a waterfall, and a route through tall grass on your left.  Before we take that route, we need to Surf out into the pond, and do some fishing!  We need to catch two (2) Poliwhirl -- one for our Dex and Storage, the other because there is an NOC that wants to trade us a rather special Pokemon for one of these! 

So first, catch a pair of Poliwhirl.  If you somehow failed to get a Poliwag earlier, catch one of those now as well!  

Once you have the Poliwhirls go ahead and climb the tall grass path on the left to the top, where you will find a small cottage, and inside the cottage a very nice woman.  She is, if we interpret the implications, a Move Designer.

-- The Ultimate Move --

Specifically she has created what she considers to be "The Perfection" in moves -- for the right Pokemon that is...

How this works is simple - she will examine whatever Pokemon you have in the Number 1 Slot in your party.  If it is not a Pokemon that is appropriate for the move she has designed, she will simply examine it and then say... No.  A simple "No" but in that simple word is everything!  She has examined your prized Pokemon, she has measured it, appraised it, judged it, and found it wanting!  Bwah!

OK so what is she looking for then?  Simple. She is only interested in one of the Starter Pokemon, that is what.  You can show her the other ones until the cows come home and she will not be interested, but show her a Starter, and you are in, mate!

The good bit is that the moves that she is teaching are actually worth knowing...  Even if you can only use them 5 times before you have to recharge PP, they are, to be blunt, the sort of moves that one uses to deliver the coup-de-grace, the killing blow.

As you can see in the video, I chose to replace Slash with Blast Burn, and believe me that was no easy decision.  After all, Slash had fairly high PP, but on the other hand it was a Normal Type move, and Cinder is a combo Fire/Flying Type Pokemon, which means that replacing a Normal Type move with a Fire Type move is a good idea.  So there you have it...

Once she has taught the Ultimate Move to your Starter we have pretty much exhausted all that Two Island has to offer, so it is time once again to make for the docks and use our Tri-Pass to move on!