Viridian City - Back Where We Began!

Viridian City - Back Where We Began!

The Viridian City Gym Leader is... 

As we contemplate the upcoming final Gym Battle and the earning of our 8th Gym Badge, we must prepare by restocking our kit as well as one additional concern -- you see, the time has come for us to finally look to the moves of our Pokemon.

Up until now the moves we have assigned to each Pokemon were mostly a matter of convenience -- for the most part whatever moves that they acquired in the process of Leveling was sufficient -- in a few rare cases we might have intentionally added a specific move from our TM Case, this being more of a strategic decision and part of the process of replacing inferior moves, and of course there was the assignment of various HM's as needed, but now we must take a very critical look at each of our team members, and not just at their moves.

Some of the very good moves have a low PP count, which translates often to the ability to use a move less than a dozen times before its PP is gone, and you have to seek out a healing spot.  There is something that we can do about this, but it requires careful planning and resource management.

Unless you can find the uber rare PP-UP devices that can be used to increase the number of PP points for a given move, the only solution to this limiting issue is Ether.  There are several types we can have:

- Ether (Restores 10 Points)
- Max Ether (Fully Restores all Points)
- Elixer (Restores 10 PP for ALL moves on ONE Pokemon)

The problem is that you cannot buy these, you can only find them.  Obviously if you could purchase Ether than this would not be a problem at all, now would it?  Hopefully you have been hoarding these and not using them, because you are going to need them when you take on the Elite Four...

Spend some time now carefully reviewing what you have in your TM Bag and the moves of your team.  If you see any areas that you can improve upon, do it now, so that you can test out the improvements on the final Gym, and thus know for sure that you have the team set up correctly for the Elite Four!  When you are ready, go to the Gym.

 -- Viridian City Gym --

The old gentleman standing outside of the Gym cheerfully tells you that the Gym Leader has returned!  Inside you see the Gym Greeter and say hello.  The Greeter tells you that he does not know the identity of the Gym Leader -- odd that he should feel the need to tell us that...  Perhaps there is a reason?  He also tells us that the Gym favors Ground-type Pokemon.  Hmm.

As is always the case, the first order is to take care of the AGL's.

-- Assistant Gym Leaders --

Tamer Cole has a Level 39 Arbok worth 1228 XP, and a Level 39 Tauros worth 1762 XP and $1560.

Black Belt Kiyo has a Level 43 Machoke worth 1344 XP and $1032.

Cooltrainer Samuel has a Level 37 Sandslash worth 1291 XP, a Level 38 Rhyhorn worth 1098 XP, a Level 37 Sandslash worth 1291 XP, a Level 39 Nidorino-M worth 985 XP, and a Level 39 Nidoking worth 1629 XP and $1404.

Black Belt Atsushi has a Level 40 Machop worth 753 XP, and a Level 40 Machoke worth 1251 XP and $960.

Cooltrainer Yuji has a Level 38 Sandslash worth 1326 XP, a Level 38 Graveler worth 1090 XP, a Level 38 Onix worth 879 XP, a Level 38 Graveler worth 1090 XP, and a Level 38 Marowak worth 1009 XP and $1386.

Tamer Jason has a Level 43 Rhyhorn worth 1243 XP and $1720.

Cooltrainer Warren has a Level 37 Marowak worth 982 XP, a Level 38 Rhyhorn worth 1098 XP, a Level 37 Marowak worth 982 XP, a Level 39 Nidorina worth 976 XP, and a Level 39 Nidoqueen worth 1620 XP and $1404.

Black Belt Takashi has a Level 38 Machoke worth 1188 XP, a Level 38 Machop worth 715 XP, and a Level 38 Machoke worth 1188 XP and $912.

That completes the AGL's, which means all that is left is the Leader!

-- The Viridian City Gym Leader is... --

Giovanni?!  All this time the Super Villain is a Gym Leader?!  Does the Pokemon League know this?!  Good gravy!

Giovanni leads with his Level 45 Rhyhorn worth 1300 XP, following with his Level 50 Rhyhorn, worth 1446 XP.  His Level 42 Dugtrio is worth 1377 XP, while his Ldevel 44 Nidoqueen gives a massive 1828 XP!  His final Pokemon is his Level 45 Nidoking, which is worth 1879 XP and $5000.

He hands over the Earth Badge,  explaining that now Pokemon of any level will obey, including those from trades.  As a gift he hands over TM26, Earthquake, mentioning that it would be useful for our challenge of the Elite Four!

I don't know about you but I was not expecting it to be him -- it had been so long since I played the original game that I was not sure who it was, but I did not expect it to be Giovanni.

Exit the Gym now and head back to the Pokecenter to heal and save, and then we have a few minor chores to do before we begin our challenge of the Elite Four! 

We are almost done and ready for the grand finale - but first there are a few minor issues to take care of, starting with the last of the three Legendary Birds!