With your first Badge in your pocket, it’s time to go and get the second one in Cerulean City, with the crossing of the first cave in Pokémon Red and Blue, Mt. Moon, thrown in!
Beating Misty and then meeting Bill: there’s no shortage of things to do in Cerulean City!
- Quick access:
- Mt. Moon: Meeting Team Rocket (and Zubat)
- Cerulean City: Discovering the city
- Cerulean City: Misty’s Water-type Gym
- Cerulean City: Visiting Bill
Mt. Moon: Meeting Team Rocket (and Zubat)
Before going in, stop by the Pokémon Center to heal up. Also, inside, a man offers you a Magikarp for $500, which can be worthwhile if you want to have Gyarados on your team.
Exploring Mt. Moon can still be quite a pain on your first attempt, when you don’t know which way to go. You’ll get to know the Pokémon Zubat, the plague of caves, and Team Rocket, a band of Pokémon thieves… Still, take the time to explore the place:
There are lots of items lying around in this mountain, but they’re often guarded by Team Rocket Trainers. Take the time to pick up TM12 (Water Gun, to the west right at the entrance), TM01 (Mega Punch, reachable on the 2nd basement floor by taking the second ladder you come across), or even the Moon Stone, essential for the evolution of certain Pokémon, located at the end of the ground floor!
Tip: Keep a Geodude! Even though it won’t be good in Cerulean City’s Water-type Gym, the Rock / Ground Pokémon will help you much more effectively in Vermilion City’s Electric Gym, especially if you chose Squirtle at the start.
On the way out of the mountain, you’ll have the choice between one of two fossils: the Dome Fossil or the Helix Fossil. The first will get you a Kabuto and the second an Omanyte, but only near the end of the game, when you reach Cinnabar Island… for now, put the fossil in a PC.
Then follow the path out of Mt. Moon, and continue east to reach Cerulean City!
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Cerulean City: Discovering the city
Cerulean City is a charming little town tinged with a mysterious blue. The city has a Gym, as well as several houses, including two shops: a regular Poké Mart, and the brand-new Bike Shop.
The latter sells bicycles (which is probably why Misty has one in the anime), but you won’t be able to afford one anyway, since $1,000,000 is an amount impossible to reach in the game! It makes it easier to understand why Ash had such a hard time paying her back…
Explore the rest of the city! Access to a house in the north-east has been blocked off by the police, apparently because of Team Rocket. We’ll come back to it later. For now, keep going north of the city to come face to face with Blue, your rival! It’s time to give him another beating, so be around level 20 to be safe:
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Normal / Flying
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15
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Psychic
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17
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After this battle, you have two different options:
- if you feel strong enough, go and take on the Cerulean City Gym and its Gym Leader Misty to win your second Badge,
- if you’d rather improve your Pokémon even more, keep going over Nugget Bridge to go and see Bill.
Either way, you’ll have to do both. If you started with Bulbasaur, you shouldn’t have any trouble in the Water-type Gym. If you took Charmander, go for the second option first to be safe, though.
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Cerulean City: Misty’s Water-type Gym
Misty is the Gym Leader of the second Gym: she has Water-type Pokémon. If you have Bulbasaur, it will be extremely easy. With Squirtle, it will be trickier, and with Charmander, downright hot…
Tip: To make things easier, Pikachu can be very useful if you caught one in Viridian Forest. Otherwise, Bellsprout or Oddish (to be caught after Nugget Bridge) may come in handy.
As in every Gym, two Trainers must be defeated before you reach the Gym Leader:
Now, go and challenge Misty:
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As Misty says, her strategy is to charge right in. Staryu and Starmie do a lot of damage, especially the latter with the move Bubble Beam, but they are also fairly sturdy, even more so with the X Defenses used by the Gym Leader.
Once defeated, Misty will reward you with the second Gym Badge, the Cascade Badge, as well as TM11 with the move Bubble Beam. As she showed you very well, this move is useful early in the game if you have a Water-type Pokémon.
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Cerulean City: Visiting Bill
The other path to take in Cerulean City is to go and see Bill, a Pokémon collector and the inventor of the Pokémon storage system. He lives north-east of Cerulean City, away from town… which mostly means you’ll have quite a few Trainers to beat to get to the end.
The first stage of the trip is to cross Nugget Bridge, to the north. This bridge has 5 Trainers with Pokémon around level 15 to beat… once that’s done, a Team Rocket Grunt waits for you at the end to hand you a Nugget and offer you to join the criminal organization. Unfortunately, you can’t accept, and all that’s left is to beat his Ekans (Lv. 15) and Zubat (Lv. 15)!
Pokémon Red and Blue: Visiting Bill (11) on PokemonFranceTV
Then continue east, along Route 25… where a multitude of Trainers are still waiting for you. If you want to train your Pokémon, this is the ideal setting; otherwise, only beat the ones who get in your way.
Tip: Be careful, there is one Trainer you absolutely must not defeat! It is essential not to beat the Trainer shown here, as you’ll need them much later in the game to get the 151st Pokémon, Mew, which cannot be obtained any other way in the first-generation versions. Getting this Pokémon involves using a game glitch, which itself requires that this Trainer can still be challenged. To learn more about how to get Mew:
> More information on the bug that lets you get Mew
At the end of the route, you’ll reach a big house. Bill, the Pokémaniac, lives here. You’ll have to help him turn back into a human using his PC, because he accidentally turned himself into a Pokémon. As a thank-you, he’ll give you a ticket to board the S.S. Anne, a ship in Vermilion City, and you’ll also be able to explore his PC, which will give you information about Eevee and its evolutions.
Now go back to Cerulean City to finally be able to move on…
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