Escape To Victory Online
Ortiz Ullery
Hello, I've created this guide to help out the newer players who may be struggling with progressing in the story. In this guide, I will go over how to beat the Kanto region's story; from the intro to the Elite 4. Hopefully, you can find use of it and it helps you
It follows the same structure as this guide so everything should be familiar to the new players who are following along. Arielgg has also made the Hoenn and Sinnoh guides, so be sure to give a big thanks to her!
WELCOME TO PRO! Once you start a new game on any of the two servers, you will be greeted by Professor Oak. From here you can design your character; please note, you cannot change your character's appearance without buying the Magic Mirror from the coin shop. So chose wisely.
Once you have chosen your character you will be spawned into the intro world. Follow the dirt path South until you reach Oak; talk to him then continue the path. Eventually, you will reach Mew, it will flee and you can continue the path. Once you reach your mother she will start crying about how much she will miss you, once her dialogue is over you will be teleported to Pallet Town.
Once you spawn in Pallet Town you should leave your home and walk to Professor Oak's Lab, which is at the Southeast of your home. Once there you will be given the option to chose your starter Pokmon. You will also be given your Pokdex.
There is also a trainer here who will trade her Oddish for a Pidgey that has 15 IVs or more in Speed and Attack. If you chose Charmander or Pikachu I recommend this trade as it will greatly help with the first gym.
There isn't much to do in Pewter City except for defeating the gym. Once you enter the city you will be greeted by Team Rocket outside of a Pokcenter. Talk to them then continue to the gym. Brock uses Rock Type so water, grass and fighting are your best options.
After beating Brock he will reward you with the Boulder Badge. By receiving the Boulder Badge you can now use Headbutt and Flash outside of battle if your Pokmon has 150 happiness or more. You also can buy TM34 - Bide from the man near the entrance.
Continue walking through until you reach Mt. Moon B2F, defeat the Rocket Grunts and talk to the scientist. He will battle you for the fossils that he found. After defeating him you are allowed to chose one to keep.
After defeating the Cerulean gym you should continue south to Route 5. On Route 5 you will find the daycare center however it's good to note that breeding is not in PRO. Instead, the daycare is used to teach your Pokmon egg moves after defeating the Naero boss. This is end game content and won't be covered in this guide, if you want to learn more about bosses then check out this guide: Boss Guide.
Once you arrive at Route 6 you will be able to battle a few trainers. Make your way to the entrance to Vermilion and talk to Psychic Wade. He will teleport you to an alternate reality where Lance has destroyed Vermilion City. Confront Lance and you will be engaged into a battle with him. He will use his Dragonair which spams Hyper Beam; slowly eliminating each one of your Pokmon.
To start the SS Anne quest you will first need to talk to Lt. Surge at the Vermilion Docks.He will return to his gym and you will be able to enter the cruise ship. If you didn't get the SS Anne ticket from Bill then you will have to walk all the way back to Route 25 and complete his quest.
Make your way to the first floor and enter the kitchen; located on the far left. Make sure you have a Pecha berry to give to the doctor, if you don't have one in your inventory then there will be one in a trash can.
Talk to the doctor in the kitchen and offer to help him cure the captain. When you show him the Pecha berry he will tell you to go the second floor and meet Jenson.Go to the second floor and enter the room on the far right.
Continue to the ballroom and head to the upper floor where you will find Jenson's Blissey. Talk to it and it will disappear and leave you with the secret potion.Now you can return to the second floor and find the captain. On the way there you can pick up some leftovers from this trash can,
Lt. Surge's gym puzzle is probably the most annoying one out of the Kanto gyms. Instead of having something cool like teleporters or... teleporters, he has a bunch of trash cans switches and two of those switches need to be activated in the correct order.
You now have to find the second switch in the sequence by going through all the switches again. However, if you click the wrong switch then you'll have to start again, so you better remember where that first switch was.
Upon paying him $60,000 & giving him an OT Ditto, Samuel will thank you by giving you the bike voucher. You can trade this voucher in at the Cerulean Bike store to receive your bike and gain access to the bike route.
After you are done in Vermilion, head East to Route 11. Here you can talk to a karate expert outside of Diglett's Cave and he will move out the way.Enter the cave and follow it through to Route 2. Once there you should head South to the stophouse. Talk to Oak's aide and he will check your Pokdex. You need to have caught 10 different species of Pokmon. You can check your caught data by going to your Pokdex and looking at the number next to "Owned."
After travelling through Route 9 and beating the trainers there, you will have to enter Rock Tunnel. However, similar to Viridian Maze, Rock Tunnel is pitch black so you will have to teach one of your Pokmon HM Flash.To use Flash outside of battle you have to, first, click the Pokmon in your party and then click the move "Flash."
Once you escape Rock Tunnel, head South to Lavender Town. Upon arrival you will hear two guards talking about crime in Celadon City. Since you cannot do anything in Lavender Town yet you must go West to Route 8.
You can't catch it so once you KO it move on to the 7th and final floor. There you will have to defeat a few Team Rocket Grunts and save Mr. Fuji. Once you save him he will reward you with the Pok Flute.
Once you either KO or capture it you can now use the stophouse to the left for a faster way to get to Vermilion City. In the upper floor of the Route 11 stophouse there is another Oak's aide who will give you Dig after you capture 30 different Pokmon.
Pick it up and continue the wooden path to Route 13. On Route 13 there is a large maze with a lot of trainers in it and at the end of it, Berry Tower.You can battle in Berry Tower and win.. you guessed it, berries.
Unlike some other cities, the first thing you should do in Fuschia is defeat the gym. Janine, the leader of the gym has many other lookalikes in her gym and you have to work your way through them and an invisible maze. Follow this route to battle each trainer and get to the gym leader.
When you leave the gym walk south until you meet Victor on the beach. Battle him and he will tell you where to find HM Surf. You can also teach any Pikachu Surf if and only if you chose Pikachu as your starter.
When you arrive at Silph Co. your first impression might be that you have to spend 20 minutes spamming warp panels until you get it correct. However, this isn't the case as a matter of fact, you only need to use 2 warp panels to get to Giovanni. But I highly recommend taking your time and battling all the Team Rocket Grunts to gain as much EXP as you can. Once you feel that you are ready then go to the 3rd floor and take the first warp panel. Then take the next panel opposite the bed.
To most the Saffron Gym puzzle can be both confusing and frustrating, it's almost as bad as Vermilion's puzzle. However, similar to the Silph Co. warp pads I've put together an image that shows you the fastest way to Sabrina.
There are two ways that you can travel to Cinnabar Island from. You can surf either South from Pallet Town or Southwest from Fuschia. If you surf from Pallet Town then you'll encounter a few trainers and eventually arrive at the North side of Cinnabar. If you surf from Fuschia, however, you will have to go through the Seafoam Islands. You can also surf Southeast from Fuschia to start the free Arcanine mount quest.
If you chose the Seafoam Route then you'll eventually surf to these islands. Enter through the cave entrance and walk East in the cave. There is no need to use any ladders unless you're looking to level your Pokmon. Just carry on East until you reach the exit.
Enter the Mansion and go to the second floor. From there you should take the staircase at the North side of the second floor. When you reach the 3rd floor you are given the option to enter one of five doors. Each one will lead you to a different location in the mansion; some lead you outside of the mansion.
Work your way through the gym and it's trainers until you reach the last trainer on the first floor. There will be a small scene between Lt. Surge and Blaine involving Mew. When Mew leaves you can go downstairs and find Blaine.
Defeating Blaine will give you the Volcano badge, you can also buy TM35 - Flamethrower from the man at the front of his gym. You also gain access to the fossil recovery room at the Cinnabar Research Lab.
Finally, now that you've defeated the 7th gym you are allowed to enter the fossil recovery room at the Cinnabar Research Lab. From here you can revive any fossils that you pick up on your journey.
When you're done at Cinnabar Island you can head North to go back to Pallet Town. From there continue to head North to Viridian City.If you were taking your time with the story that Rare Candy might've respawned. Anyways, go to the gym and enter it. Inside you will meet Blue and he'll tell you about how strong Giovanni really is. If you feel like you're prepared then continue.
Despite Giovanni having 6 Pokmon with him, he will only use one. His Armoured Mewtwo; a Steel/ Psychic type. Dark, ground, ghost and fire type Pokmon will be extremely useful in this battle. I highly recommend you level your Pokmon to around level 85 before challenging this gym.
To get to Victory Road you will have to head West of Viridian City, through Route 22. Talk to the guards outside of the reception and they will let you pass. Once you're inside, head North and meet Red. He will battle you and probably completely destroy you again.