Fuchsia City

Fuchsia City

Exploring Fuchsia City

Previously on Lost... err.. no... Sorry, wrong game. 

Previously in Kanto, with Team Rocket still recovering from the nasty beating they took at the hands of that spectacularly extraordinary trainer from Pallet Town, said trainer finds the way unblocked towards his previous mission, of becoming a Master Trainer.  That being the case, and having negotiated the deadly Cycling Road without even a flat tyre, our hero finds himself standing in the Fuchsia City Pokecenter chatting with Nurse Joy, who fills him in on the background of this new city!

Home to the celebrated Safari Zone, an almost theme-park-level famous holiday destination for up and coming Pokemon Trainers, our hero learns that the Safari Zone is home to quite a few Pokemon he cannot easily find anywhere else in the region!

In addition to its well known recreational attractions, the city is also home to a celebrated master angler, and famed Gym Leader and Pokemon Trainer Koga, the master of the Fuchsia City Gym!

A quick tour of the City is the order of the day, and our hero sets out from the Pokecenter with his team well rested, and his stomach full!

Note for Trainers who chose Charmander as their Starter

At this point you should have evolved him to his final form, Charizard, which is a winged (thus Flying Type) form.  You can, if you like, teach him Fly, which would basically eliminate the need to have the Pidge or Spearow based member of your team, which is, I have to admit, not the strongest or most useful member and can be thought of as the weak member in the team... 

Of course, if you do that, you will need to pick a replacement and then level it up to the base team level before you continue with your adventuring...  The thing is, this presents an excellent opportunity to bring in the Graveler we had swaped out of the team in order to place our HM Mule in it.  And as that Polemon is both dual class (Rock/Ground Type) and already mostly leveled to the base team level anyway, it is the obvious choice!

Another point worth raising is that there really is no need to consider your HM Mule to be just a mule...  If you chose Meowth than your mule is now a Persian, and that Pokemon does have some teeth to it, so it is worth training it to the base-level of your team and maintaining parity after that.  I know that means a little extra effort, but the pay-off is worth it.

-- Fuchsia City --

I know that I have not mentioned this before, but Fuchsia City is one of the more interesting cities in the Kanto Region, mostly due to the fact that it is for the most part a Tourist-slash-Holiday destination geared largely towards recreation and entertainment.  It has the Zoo, it has the Safari Zone, and it has some recreational fishing in the form of a private but very well-stocked pond in the back yard of the Fishing Guru's House!

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- Area Pokemon -

(Key: Pokedex # - Name / Acquisition Method)

118 - Goldeen / Fishing (Good/Super Rod)
129 - Magikarp / Fishing (Old/Good Rod)
060 - Poliwag / Fishing (Good Rod)
119 - Seaking / Fishing (Super Rod)
079 - Slowpoke / Fishing (Super Rod), Surf

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The trainers lounging around the Pokecenter are full of useful advice, so be sure to chat them up before you leave for your tour of the city.  As you depart the Pokecenter you will notice that to the west there are two houses sandwiched between the Center and the City Gym.

- The Move Deleter -

The first house belongs to the Move Deleter, a man who can delete any move on any of your Pokemon.  This is a very useful service and one whose location you should burn in your memory!

The reason that it is important has to do with how move management is handled in the game...  A normal TM can be over-written by any other normal TM or an HM, but any HM you teach to a Pokemon cannot be over-written by a TM *or* another HM!  If you need to get rid of an HM the only place to do that is right here, at the Move Deleter's house!

So place a marker on that map in your head before you depart!

- Bill's Grandparents -

The house next door to the Move Deleter belongs to the grandparents of the celebrated Bill, creator of the Pokemon Storage System, co-creator of the Pokemon Transfer System that allows you to send Pokemon, via Pokecenters, back to the Professor later on in your adventures that take place in other regions, as well as have the Professor send you some of your old ones that he kindly looked after for you!

Have a chat with Bill's grandparents while you are here, and say hello to his daughter, who is wandering about the house.  In the corner of a full-size map of the region if you want to take a peak, but as it is the same map as the one you own, there is not much to see there you have not already seen!

- Back on the Tour -

Pop into the Pokemon Gym and read the Gym Status Marker (one of the pair of statues) to learn that Gary has been here before you, and has defeated the Gym Leader!  Say hello to the Gym Greeter, who is standing beside the statue on the right to learn a secret about the Gym!  That is all that we want to do here right now though, so turn around and head back outside!

If you head back to towards the Pokecenter you will notice a path that you can take to the south - this leads to Route 19, and a few trainers that give you the opportunity to pick up some more XP and pocket money, so why not?

-- Route 19 --

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- Area Pokemon -

(Key: Pokedex # - Name / Acquisition Method)

130 - Gyarados / Fishing (Super Rod)
116 - Horsea / Fishing (Good Rod)
098 - Krabby / Fishing (Good Rod)
129 - Magikarp / Fishing (Old/Good Rod)
072 - Tentacool / Surf
073 - Tentacruel / Surf

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Battles abound on Route 19

Ahead of you on the beach are a pair of swimming trainers, so let us go and have battle with them now!

Simmer Richard has a Level 30 Tentacool worth 675 XP, and a Level 30 Shellder worth 622 XP and $210. 

Swimmer Reece has a Level 29 Goldeen worth 688 XP, and a Level 29 Horsea worth 514 XP, followed by a Level 29 Staryu worth 658 XP and $116.

There are swimming trainers out in the water, but at the moment we cannot reach them, so just ignore them for now :)  After you get the Good Rod (in a few minutes) you may want to come back here and fish up a Krabby and a Horsea just to add them to your Dex, right?

- Back on Tour -

Beside the Pokecenter down a ledge are a pair of houses -- the first, if you check the mailbox, belongs to the Warden of the Safari Zone!  Let us pay him a visit, shall we?

It seems that the Warden is having significant difficulty in making himself understood... I know I could not understand him!  Something to do with his teeth I believe...  We will have to look into the matter and return if and when we can help him!

Notice the display cases in the center of the room -- the one on the left shows ancient Pokemon fossils, while the one on the right is a display of old Pokemon merchandise.  To their right is a desk with a treasure ball that is blocked off by a large boulder.  As we cannot move it... yet... we will also have to return to deal with that when we are able.

Exiting the Warden's home you will notice that the house next door is open and, when we go inside, we discover that it is the home of the Fishing Guru's brother!  A brief chat with him results in his gifting us with a Key Item: the Good Rod!

After we put the Good Rod away in our bag, he explains that this rod is far superior to the old one we have been using, which was only able to catch Magikarp!  Since we are here, and we have this wonderful new rod, how about we test it out??  Yes?  Excellent!

Leave the house by the back door and you will find yourself at the Good Guru's private fishing pond!  No sense in not taking advantage of this situation, right? Well, dip that rod in the water why don't you?

Only moments later you get a nibble and hook into a nice-sized Pokemon!  I very much wanted to capture this Goldeen, but I knew that all of my core team were now too high to be able to do that without killing it, but then I remembered my HM Mule!  A Level 12 Meowth is not likely to 1-hit kill this baby, so I quickly shifted over to it, and in no time at all had the Goldeed ready for my Poke Ball!

You capture your first true Water Type, a Goldeen!  Good on ya mate!  Before leaving whip out your trusty old Item Finder and it will reveal a hidden Max Revive on the ground near the flowers!

When you head back to the road above you will see the main entrance to the Safari Zone Lounge, inside of which is a group of very rude Interns -- but hey it has been my experience that all Interns are rude, no matter the industry!  These ones have made up a disparaging nickname for the Warden, and they are not shy about sharing it with you!

Beside the Lounge Building you will find a pen with a Slowpoke in it.  If you examine the ID sign on the pen you will get to see a picture of the occupant.  How cool is that?  Around back is a pen with a Chansey and one with a Voltorb,

There are small trees you can cut to make your route through the zoo displays easier, and additional displays that include a Kangaskhan, where a trainer will offer to teach one of your Pokemon the move Substitute, a pen with a Kabuto, and a pen containing a Lapras by the Poke Mart!

-- The Fuchsia Poke Mart --

Normally a Poke Mart does not get its own subsection of a section in the guide, but this one is special...  It is not the pair of trainers inside who you can talk to, or the items sold by the shop.  It is not the  counter person, but they are closer to the mark!  What it is, in fact, is the Questionnaire that is ON the counter that warrants this special attention!

When you enter the Poke Mart you will see, on the counter, a clipboard with a Questionnaire in it.  When you approach nothing jumps out at you as obvious, so there is no reason for you to realize that here is something very special and important indeed!  You see, this questionnaire is the magic ticket to Mystery Gift Land!

Normally when you start the game, the start screen only has just that, the ability to start a new game or continue your old one...  But if you fill out this questionnaire properly, a new selection will be added to that menu, one called "Mystery Gifts" that will give you access to both the official Mystery Gift events (though they do not hold many for the GBA games now), but also this will give you access to Mystery Gift tickets that were claimed by other trainers that they can share with you by linking with this option selected! 

As it is still useful to have, you should fill this out now!

The correct answers to the questionnaire are: "LINK TOGETHER WITH ALL" and when you turn in the questionnaire the bloke behind the counter will fill you in on the good news.  Well done!

With that we have taken care of almost all of the tasks that are left, and it is time to head to the Safari Zone, where we will play a game that will obtain for us some very desirable Pokemon!  So what says you?  Yoiks!  Off we go!