Mistralton City

Our first stop is obvious, the Pokemon Center, where we heal, re-supply, and save the game.

Outside you can chat with some trainers to learn about the town and about Join Avenue, and in the house beside the Center a woman gifts you an HP Up for showing her your TM collection. As you head to the road behind the Center you are stopped by Professor Juniper, who examines your Pokedex and gifts you with a Master Ball as a reward for your hard work so far.

A word about the Master Ball: this is the ultimate Pokemon Ball mates, and you want to be wicked choosey about how you use it, because it will capture ANY Pokemon, sure thing! Most trainers save it for capturing a Legendary, and you may want to do that as well! At this point Skyla appears, the local Gym Leader, and it seems she is ready to fly the Professor to her destination but the Prof has something she wants to do first, so the trip is delayed.

Skyla asks you if you are going to challenge her or do some training first... Well? Which is it? If you need to level your team you may want to do some training, but I suspect that the two caves we cleared went a long way towards leveling, but either way get your team leveled and return here. I will wait.

Exploring the Airport

Once you finish any leveling you needed to do, take a moment to explore the Airport - in front of the plane parked on the tarmac below the entrance is a treasure ball with TM58 Sky Drop. In the Garden Patches to the south you will find a Treasure Ball with a Max Repel, and to the east of that there is a person who will trade you for any Mulch you obtain in Grottos - so if you do get some you should look them up later and see what they have to offer.

On the tarmac above along the west side is a trainer who, when you chat her up will give you the Funfest Mission “Big Harvest of Berries” and you should collect that for sure.

Inside the Airport Control Building there is a trainer who will gift you with the held item Sharp Beak.

Now that you have that all wrapped up it is about time that we dealt with the Gym Leader, right?

The Misralton Gym Battle

The Gym is located in the hanger at the north end of the runway, so when you are ready, head there and take out the Assistant Gym Leaders first. When you enter the Greeter is blown into you, and he says hello and gives you the traditional Fresh Water, explaining that you need to hide behind walls when the wind starts blowing from the wind machine. And he mentions that the Flying-type Pokemon here are weak to Rock and Electric-type as well as Ice-type moves.

You start with Pilot Flynn who has a Level 37 Swoobat and pays $2220.

Pilot Winslow has a Level 37 Sigilyph and pays $2220.

Pilot Elron has a Level 36 Archen and a Level 36 Unfezant and pays $2160.

Pilot Ewing has a Level 37 Unfezant and pays $2220.

Pilot Chase has a Level 36 Ducklett and a Level 36 Swoobat and pays 2160.

Gym Leader Skyla Battle

Once you work your way to the back of the Gym it is time to take on Skyla for the sixth Gym Badge – at this point you should know which of your team has the best advantage over her, it will be the ones that had the best success against the Assistant Gym Leaders. So with that in mind, arrange your team and, if you need to heal them, either use items or head to the Pokemon Center now, heal and then return - either way, when you are ready, make your way to the back of the Gym and face its Gym Leader!

Skyla opens with her Level 37 Swoobat, then her Level 37 Skarmory, and closes with her Level 39 Swanna.

After you beat it she pays you $4680, and gives you the Jet Badge, along with TM62 Acrobatics. Pokemon up to Level 70 will obey you, including those obtained in trades.

To leave you simply step on to the center launch pad and you are blown out of the gym. When you get outside Skyla asks you to go and get the Professor and tell her that the flight is ready.

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Before you do that take a moment to appreciate what you have accomplished and how far you have come.

Open your Dex and review your sightings and captures – you are very close to 100 which is a third of the Pokemon in the regional Dex. Checking the Habitat System reveals a fairly impressive completion ratio, and with any luck that includes having captured an Eevee in Castelia City.

A brief look at the map shows you a visual record of your progress, with the Blue starting to catch up on the Gray. Well done mates! But your Adventure has only reached the half-way mark at this point.

With all that in mind I have an important piece of information to share with you – all of that hard training to get your Pokemon to this level has now paid off, because at this point even if you had to face the Elite Four and the Champion, they are now at a level where they could survive and win the battle right now!

What that means is that any levels you gain from here on out are gravy, and will just make your path that much easier as you battle the final two Gym Leaders, those idiots from Team Plasma, and the Elite Four and Champion! So while it is a bit early, I just want to say well done!

The strategy that we used in this guide was to make you a powerful force, and we have certainly managed to do just that. From here forward you are going to grow more and more powerful as you progress, so settle in and really get to know your team, its strengths, and its weaknesses. If you need to make any changes now is the time to do it so that you have the chance to bring a new member up to team level. Just saying...

Collecting the Professor

Before we pop off to collect the Prof we should pay another visit to the house behind the Pokemon Center and chat up the lad in the red cap, who will reveal to you the location of their treasure now that you have obtained the local Gym Badge!

Head out to the end of the runway and you will find TM40 Aerial Ace, whose Treasure Ball is now revealed to us. With that in hand, the kids appear and confirm that they are gifting you with this TM. Very nice of them.