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Most of the people I know use OBS for recording, it's free and offers good enough quality. Then for editing, if you don't do any fancy stuff and just cut things/speed up, etc. everything will do the job, even windows movie maker or something.

[spoiler=Part 16 - Overview before the big battle] So let's see what we have available before fighting the elite four. Pidgeot - level 46 Not bad attack and speed. Fly is for having a flying STAB against Bruno's fighting types. Featherdance may be useful against some of the stronger physical attackers that we'll face. Almost a must for Bruno's Machamp. Hyper Beam is for finishing STAB. The main reason I got it is Alakazam. You already know that but my team is not really strong against psychic types. And actually one of the strongest pokemon in the game is psychic and we'll have to face it at monstrous level. Muk, Tentacruel and Primeape are all weak against him. Ninetales, Electrode and Pidgeot are left and the other two are not physical attackers. So that's my only choice. And Quick Attack is just there. Again, Alakazam is the reason I gave the quick claw to Pidgeot. Primeape - level 45 Primeape is a real powerhouse right now. I selected Brick Break for a STAB as it has good accuracy, it's strong enough, has enough pp and has a bonus effect. Earthquake will be deadly with Primeape's attack power. Will make my life easier against rival's Arcanine. I had to give Toxic to somebody and Primeape just had an open space. And Bulk Up will help a lot too. Also, his Brick Break will be boosted by the black belt. Electrode - level 45 Amazing speed, I'm pretty sure it will outspeed even speed demons like Alakazam despite the huge level gap. And surprisingly not bad physical defense but that special attack is just pathetic. Thunderbolt will be the main attack and Thunder is there to compensate Electrode's lack of power when needed. Thunder Wave may give me the upper hand in speed against some of the faster opponents and Selfdestruct is a last resort, although it probably won't do much with that attack. Also, the magnet will help a bit with the attacks. Ninetales - level 43 Stat wise is far from the best Ninetaes I've had but it's enough. Flamethrower is a strong STAB, Overheat is for a "oh, a flamethrower left opponent at 60%hp" situations. And Will-o-wisp and Confuse Ray are to help along the way. Charcoal will also boost Ninetales' power. Muk - level 45 Muk usually just screams tank in your face. But when some of the opponents are almost 20 levels above it, it's hard to fit in that role. And I don't blame him. Still, he probably could take 2 hits from not super effective special attacks from just about anything. And Acid Armor can help him with absorbing the physical ones too. Sludge Bomb is great STAB. Won't be effective against pretty much anything but it's still strong enough to do good damage just with Muk's high attack power. Brick Break is for more coverage and Explosion, you know. If things don't go well, boom. He also has the focus band. Tentacruel - level 44 Just amazing special defense and Barrier could improve the physical one. The thing is also really fast. Probably will go first against almost anything. On other hand, doesn't really shine with attack power. Surf is amazing STAB. Ice Beamu is for Lance's dragons mainly. And Giga Drain just gives me more options although it probably won't do much with Tentacruel's attack. Surf is also backed up by the mystic water. That's the team we'll use to beat the elite four and become the new pokemon league champion. There are some obvious flaws like half of my team being weak to psychic and not having anything good against Agatha's ghosts but that's not really a mistake on my part. It's more a part of the "not selecting perfect team" thing. Of course, the elite four battles will be in videos and I will try to comment about everything important in the battles with each member.

[spoiler=Part 13] So we enter the last gym. And even the dude at the entrance doesn't know who the leader is. There are a lot of trainers and your fighting, water, flying, psychic, etc. pokemon will get tons of exp. While I was fighting them Grimer finally learned sludge bomb. So now I can take away the everstone and let it evolve on the next level up. And we get to the mysterious leader. tun-tum-tun-tum-tun-tum-turururu-tun-tum-tun-tum Giovanni is here again to get his ass kicked by us. Come on, dude. You're even more pathetic than our rival. Okay, whatever you say. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFIJ_4b37Xc Dugtrio and the first Rhyhorn were no problem for Tentacruel's surf. Against the second Rhyhorn I sent Primeape so I can bulk it up for Nidoking and Nidoqueen as I don't have anything really good against them. He gives us earthquake as a prize which is really cool. And while going out of Viridian our rival meats us for one last battle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r50waZuKXk Electrode dealt with his Pidgeot. Then Rhyhorn succeeded with its bullshit ohko attack versus Primeape. Tentacruel took the thing out. Ninetales somehow took down Alakazam without even taking a hit. Great luck here. And Blastoise is a monster. I had really hard time melting its health. And Growlithe and Eggsecute weren't hard. After the battle Grimer evolved into Muk. We go through all the guards as we have all the badges. Victory road, here we come. I didn't even bother using repels as all of the pokemon here are higher level than mine and they show up anyway. So consider that before wasting your repels. Here you should choose between the two pokeballs. But it's not really necessary to choose. You know how when you walk away the trees that you cut grow back up? It's the same here. Just go away and come back and the boulder will be on its old place giving you a chance to get the second item. And the items are a rare candy and tm02 - dragon claw. And the cave is pretty much moving boulders around while fighting trainers. I try to avoid the trainers when possible though because they're really though, the pokemon center is not that close and I'll have to waste tons of items after each battle. Hail - I don't have any ice types so I won't be using it. Overheat - Really strong fire attack but it severely cuts your special attack after using it. So it's for finishing things only. And right at the end of the cave there's a guy that offers to teach double edge to your pokemon. It's a really strong normal type attack that has a recoil damage. For now I won't be getting it. And we went through the victory road. Now. The hardest puzzle we've faced lies before us. Let's try from here. Right? No. Let's continue ahead. Oooh!! Damn, I was so lucky to solve it so quickly. And here we are. THE place. Inside, there's a pokemon center, a shop and, of course, the elite four room. Go away woman, I won't be facing them right now. [spoiler=Part 14 - Last preparations before the elite four] Now we have a lot of things to do before going to the elite four. First we go back to Celadon and go out of the town through the way where the Snorlax was sleeping before. There's the cycling road. A lot of trainers with not too threatening pokemon (mainly poisonous and some fighting ones) that give a lot of exp and a lot of money. So we just beat them all from the top to the bottom of the road. Then we fly to the rock tunnel. And go surf beside the grass in which we caught Voltorb. And there's a building. There are only electric pokemon inside. You can get here as soon as you learn surf so that's a good place to get a electric pokemon if you still haven't. There are Pikachu, Magnemite and Magneton inside and in Fire Red you can also find an Electabuzz. I already have a Pikachu so I catch only Magnemite and Magneton for the pokedex. We also find some tms. Protect - It's usually used in complicated strategies. I'm stupid so I won't use it. Thunder - The main reason we came here for. Really strong electric attack but not perfect accuracy. And at the end there's that guy. As I already said, we won't be catching legendaries right now. Then we go to one island through Vermilion. And we surf from here. Let's check that spa. Those geezers probably had the best time of their life. And the one outside of the water gives us HM06. Which we could use to smash rocks. We continue surfing. And we get here. That person can teach you the move explosion. It's like a stronger version of self-destruct. Here I choose not to get it as I'm stupid but -spoiler- later I come back and make Muk learn it. Those guys are planning something. But we can't do anything about it before postgame. And we enter that cave. It looks really scary. I wouldn't go around that place to be honest. And we come out at the top of mt. ember. We push some boulders and find the last legendary bird. Won't be catching it as usual. Then we fly to Saffron. Where we challenge the opened gym beside the psychic one. It's not an official gym and there isn't a badge for it. That's exactly the reason why I didn't beat it until now. But I decided to do so now just for the sake of completion. Didn't even make a video because as I said you're supposed to beat it earlier and even the leader was a few levels behind us. So it was a two attacks battle. But after you beat him he gives you the right to choose one of those two fighting pokemon - Hitomlee and Hitmonchan. I take Hitmonlee as he's usually my choice for a fighting type in that game. Won't be using it, of course, as we already have Primeape. And I actually have to steal a few things now. And that's easier to do with a stronger pokemon as we may be stealing from another strong one. So I caught a lv.46 Golbat at the victory road and made it learn thief. Then we fly to Fuchsia again and at the entrance of the town where all the trainers are there are a dude and dudette with fighting types. Each of their pokemon holds a black belt which you can steal. And I do so. It's basically one of the items that boost attacks of a certain type. In the newer generations the boost is 20%, here it's only 10. But it's still better than nothing. Primeape will get that. Then we go to steal some mushrooms from Paras for the mushroom guy that teaches attacks. And we go to him. You basically get a list of all the attacks that a pokemon could've learn at earlier level. In my case I want featherdance for my Pidgeot as I accidentally clicked no when he learned it. And it's finally shopping time. I have tons of money - 270k. And when I sold all the items that are for sale (nuggets, pearls, etc.) and the ones I don't need (like evolution stones) that number grew to 300k. So we first go to the Celadon store and buy one hyper beam and one brick break. I already have a brick break tm but I will need one more. And on the top of the store there's a thirsty girl. Just give her one of each type of drink from the vending machine and she'll give you a move in return. The next thing we need is at the game corner. But to buy stuff from there we need a case. Which we can find in one of the buildings. So we go to the prize center. What I need from here is TM13 (ice beam), TM24 (thunderbolt), Charcoal and Mystic water. The last two are of the type boosting items for fire and water respectively. That makes 10000 coins. Which will cost us 200k in pokedollars. Damn, life would be so much easier if I could sell my bike. Looks like 9500 is the maximum so we go spent some of them and come back for the last 500. And we got everything we needed from here. Now we need to find a good place for Machoke as has a chance of holding focus band. The best one is the cave at mt. Ember. So we go there and steal one. Basically, the pokemon holding it has some chance to survive with 1hp after an attack that would kill it otherwise. Then we go back to the power plant and steal a magnet from a Magneton the same way. It's an electric type boosting item. And finally, the only thing left is to buy healing items with all the money left. Which is almost 90k So we buy 24 revives (to make them 30 with the ones I had). Not that I need that much but whatever. It doesn't hurt to have them. We also get 39 hyper potions to get them to 40. And we buy full heals with the money left.

[spoiler=Part 11] Now that the rockets are out of the way, we can enter the Saffron gym. The trainers there use psychic types and the leader is Sabrina. It's probably clear by now but I'm not in a good position against psychic types with my team. So I will fight only Sabrina. There are tons of other trainers but you can skip them. Here's how. Use the only teleport in front of you when you enter the gym. Shouldn't be hard. Then take the upper one. Then the one in left of you. Then Dawn. (awww, you get it?) Dawn again. And you're there. Without fighting any of the trainers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_T-gLLidg Alakazam was just too strong. So I had to bring the secret weapon - Kaboom. Also in one of the houses that you couldn't visit before there's a person that will give you psychic. Great attack, too bad nobody in my team can learn it. After that we go back to Fuchsia to do whatever's left. In one of the houses there's an old guy. If you give him back his golden teeth (which we picked up earlier in the safari) he gives you the hm strength. It's used to move boulders around and it's not bad in a battle either - 80 power with 100 accuracy. Then we go to the safari again so we can collect what we didn't the last time and also catch some more pokemon. And now that we're done with pretty much everything, we can leave Fuchsia. There's only one way. We meet some more trainers on the way. There are tons of water trainers here so if your electric type's falling behind that's a good place to train it. I missed most of them as they don't give much money. And where the fuck do they keep them anyway? And we got to some island. But not the one we wanted. Yeeeah, it's time for everyone's favourite - caves. And not just some cave. THE cave in which you spend 30 minutes trying to find the exit. Also, in the cave chills (daaamn, I'm on fire today 8) ) the first legendary bird - Articuno. It's a beast as you would expect from a legendary. But at least for now we won't be catching any of these. After literally spending more than 30 minutes I actually found the exit. But before going out I let my repel fade out and caught a bunch of pokemon for the pokedex. So it's time to surf again. And we reached our destination. [spoiler=Part 12] Will we get our 7th gym badge? Nah. How are the guys inside even alive if it's locked? Looks like they won't come out any time soon so we'll have to solve the problem. We go to the lab. And in one of the rooms there's a guy that collects fossils. You can give him the fossil that you received ages ago right at the beginning of the game and he'll give you the pokemon later. Also, here I remembered that we already have caught 50 kinds of pokemon so I flew back to Fuchsia for a while to get the exp share. Really bad timing to give it to you, just like the fossil. Pokemon guy 1: Hey guys, I think we fucked up. We give the player a level 5 pokemon right before the end of the game for a fossil that he received at the beginning. Pokemon guy 2: No probs guys. We'll just give him the exp share when he catches 50000 kinds of pokemon and he'll give it to the pokemon of the fossil. Pokemon guy 1,3,4,etc.: Great idea!! We go back to that island and visit the only place that's left - the mansion. We catch a Raticate because we don't have one. And there's a really easy puzzle with switches. Just be sure to take all the possible items before activating some switch. And there's some scary hole. The right one leads you to the place that you came from. And the left want, which you should choose, gets you here. We go down the stairs. We get tm14. Which is Blizzard and I think it's the strongest ice attack in that generation. Not that accurate though. Then we get a secret key. Could it be the key for the gym? We also get one more really strong attack - tm22 Solarbeam. Nobody can learn it though. And there's nothing else that we can take from here. So we just use the escape rope and finally go to the gym. It has a pretty interesting concept. There are doors after each trainer. You can either beat him or answer a question on that machine behind him to open it. I decided to fight all of them because Tentacruel was a little low on levels. And we finally get to the gym leader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMzSBAhPOrM Really easy battle for Tentacruel. Arcanine lived with like 2 hp at the end and actually defeated our Tentacruel but fainted by the recoil of its own attack. So that's a seventh gym badge for us. Also Pidgeotto finally evolved into Pidgeot while fighting all these trainers. And when we go out of the gym we have an unexpected guest. The angrybrow womanizer Bill. Fine, whatever. He takes us to some island. And then makes us do his dirty work. Okay, let's go to two island. We find the guy that we are looking for but he also gives us more work to do. He lost his daughter or something. On another island. Really good dad. We go there and we find a whole bunch of bikers. And we have to fight aaal of them. At least they're not that hard. There's only one way to go so we follow it and hope that we'll find the girl. Then we enter some forest. Where we catch ourselves a Hypno. And we finally find her. And then we have to fight 30 level Hypno. Not too hard considering the ones in the grass right beside it are like 10 levels higher. I think you can catch it too but we already caught one so it's pointless. Give me money to buy a bike. Well, that's fine too. Now we can go back to the angry eyebrow. And he takes us back. But now we can go to the islands any time by taking SS Anne in Vermillion. Also we spent a lot of time doing all that stuff so let's check out the fossil guy. What are you doing here Kabuto? Go fight Naruto or something. And we have nothing more to do here so we leave the island. Again, there are trainers on the way but I try to avoid them. And we get to good old Pallet town. And we get attacked by a wild Ratatatata. Thank god we got away safely! And the leader in Viridian is finally back so now we can get our 8th and last gym badge. I decided to not be lazy for once and I'm posting everything before the elite four. But there's a limit for the images in one post so I'll split it in two post with two parts each.

[spoiler=Part 10]We already have 40 kinds of pokemon caught so before anything else we go get our prizes from the professor's lackeys. The itemfinder can get you some items that are hidden. And the amulet coin doubles the amount of cash you get after a battle. The pokemon that holds it just has to appear in the battle. And after we get the items we can finally go and wipe out the rockets. There are tons of doors around. You can use the portals to go about anywhere but it's hard to keep a track on where each one sends you. So it's easier to just get the key first and then go around. To do so, go to 5th floor. Then in that corner. Use that teleport and and then once more to come back but that time on the other side of it. Then just follow the way to the pokeball in which you can find the card key. And now that we have it, we'll come back to the second floor and will check everything on each floor. We fight some guys along the way. We check what's behind that door. And that lady offers us the move thunder wave. Which we don't need. Behind the other door there's only a battle. But something really cool happened. Holy shit, look at how badass that thing is. Now it can molest schoolgirls with its tentacles. And more battles. Next floor. And next battle. Let's go there. Nothing interesting. Next floor. And tons of battles. And we found some items here. I didn't take screenshots so I don't remember what they were. But probably nothing interesting. Next floor. And next floor. Neext one. And there's a girl. That offers you to rest. Accept, trust me. Behind that guy there's a teleport. Which takes you to that one. Which takes you here. Oooh, we know that guy, don't we? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9yGvedVlQ Only his Alakazam was a problem. I sent in Tentacruel despite his weakness so I can lower his defense with acid but I actually defeated him with it. Really easy battle. And you can receive a Lapras. I'm pretty sure that's the only place you can get it. It's one of the better pokemon for in-game use with its ice/water type, above average defenses, perish song and ability to learn psychic, thunder and thunderbolt. We unlock one final door. And here he is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeH0PBexuac By mistake I started with an unhealed Electrode. Then I sent in Ninetales to lower Nidorino's attacking power by burning it. And then finished it with two flamethrowers. Rhyhorn has a x4 weakness against water so Tentacruel wiped him out with surf. Then I mistook Kangaskhan's type. It's actually a normal. So I changed to Primeape. Who finished the job with one hit. And for Nidoqueen I went once again for the burning. That mixed with confusion and Ninetales' flamethrowers was enough to beat it. And the old man gave us a masterball. I have 4 more parts ready before fighting the elite four. So the lp will probably be finished in the next week or so. And we'll see afterwards if I'll continue with the postgame.

[spoiler=Part 9 - Our team is full now and Koffing is a bitch.] Now that we have the pokemon flute, we can wake up the sleeping Snorlaxes. We go south of Lavender. There are bunch of fishermen along the way so if you already have an electric or a grass type, that's a good training spot. In my case Electrode will get some exp as it falls behind the others at the moment. And we get to the Snorlax. I don't plan on using it so we just beat it as it's too much of a pain to catch it just for the pokedex. And there's one more anyway so if I decide to catch it, we can do that later. We continue and get to a house which we visit. There's a fisherman that gives us the super rod. If you still don't have a water type that gives you a plenty of options. We won't be using it to catch a water type. What we'll be using it for, though, is catching a Grimer. At that point the only place we can do that is the small pond in Celadon. Pretty strange place for a Grimer but whatever. It has a 1% chance to show up and I actually spend more than half an hour in trying to get the bastard. But in the end, we caught ourselves our 5th team member. It comes at a pretty high level too and I won't have to babysit it so it is ready for use. Grimer evolves into Muk at level 38. But here's a thing. Grimer learns sludge bomb at level 43. Muk does at 49. Most likely it won't be getting to 49 before beating the elite four but I want the attack. So the everstone will come in handy here and I'll be using it to stop Grimer from evolving until he learns sludge bomb. We go back to the water path and continue. And we stop in that grass. Where we catch a Venonat for the pokedex. And then more trainers. They're not fishermen anymore. Here's a grass too and I checked out what's there. Weepinbell which we don't have. Catch it. Then I actually decided to skip the other guys and save the exp for later when I'll be able to decide who will need it most. Maybe our water type will come at a lower level so some trainers will help. And we're finally in Fuchsia city. There's a gym here, there's a safari game and there's some pretty good items and moves and here we'll get the chance to catch our next team member too. So a lot of stuff to do. First we meet one more fisherman who gives us the good rod. And we go straight for the safari game. I don't think it's possible to do everything in one go here. I usually go twice. The first time our priority is getting surf and getting as many as possible pokemon and items. And when we come back we'll do whatever is left. We start by catching a female Nidoran which I already had but I'm a retard, Doduo and Nidorina. Then we just follow the path. Then we find a quick claw. It gives you a 20% or something chance to go first even if slower. Sounds good but in practice it's rarely useful and is usually an item that I give to a pokemon that I can't give nothing else. We also find golden teethe which will be useful later. And we finally get to the place where we can get surf. And now that I got surf, it's possible to catch a Tentacool. I don't have any water types that can learn surf though so first we go catch a Goldeen. Okay, now le- FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU---!!!! Okay, time for a gym battle I guess. There are poison guys there, some of them have psychic types too. Really annoying foes, had to go back to the pokemon center a few times before even reaching Koga. But we finally get to him. It's time for duel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zN8Aa4sp4w Ninetales was the mvp here. Tough battle against bulky pokemon with annoying moves some of which being 10 levels ahead. The fucker even used selfdestruct. 2 fucking times. But now we can finally use surf and catch ourselves a Tentacool. It can be found almost everywhere, I personally flew back to Pallet to catch it there. 27 level. Not too bad. It has jolly nature which gives it more speed. Which is good but it also lowers its special attack which is not good at all as it's not really that powerful to begin with. It will be a shitty Tentacruel but it will be our shitty Tentacruel. So no worries. Here's how our final team looks like. Finally full. Pidgeotto, Grimer and Tentacool will evolve but generally that's our final group.

[spoiler=Part 8] We went back to route 9 to the trainer with the two Beedrills. They give decent amount of exp (over 600 each) and are pathetically weak so that was a great chance to get a few levels for our Vulpix. Then we return from where we stopped the last time and go into the big Celadon store. There are different things for sale on each floor but we know exactly what we want from here. We go to 4th floor where you can buy the elemental stones for evolution. And buy 1 fire as we don't need any of the other. Now we're ready for Vulpix's evolution when it learns flamethrower. Then we go west of Celadon. But the path is blocked by a sleeping Snorlax which we still can't wake up. What we can do, though, is cut that tree and look what's there. More trainers, what fucking else. We beat them and move on. And on the other side there's a house. Let's check it out. She gives us HM02 which is fly. It's an okay flying attack for battles but it's main use is traveling around faster. And now I think we're ready for the Celadon gym. The trainers there use grass types so it shouldn't be too hard as we have Pidgeotto and Vulpix. And Vulpix is the one I plan using for all the battles. But first, there's an unexpected guest outside the gym. Anyways, like I said, the chicks around the gym weren't much of a threat. All of their pokemon went down after one or two embers by Vulpix. And Vulpix got to level 29. Which means we can finally evolve it as it learnt flamethrower. Great. Now we have a real fire type. Which will really help against Erica. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNx065uQ-I With the now evolved Ninetales it wasn't that hard. Victreebel also luckily paralyzed Ninetales early so her pokemon couldn't do their bullshit and put it to sleep or poison it after that which would be worse. And one thing left here is to clear the rockets' hideout. So we go to the game center. And then to the poster.with the dude in front of it. After we beat him, he basically shows us how to open the path. And we go down the stairs. There isn't much going on on the first floor. Just some guys to beat and some random items. We go down again. And we stumble upon some puzzle. Well, not really a puzzle. If you know the directions and can follow the fucking arrows, you'll be fine. And we get some items while going around. And finally we're done with that. First we go upstairs and beat that guy. There's nothing else there. Must be pretty lonely for him. But our Voltorb hits level 30 and evolves. Now we have a badass pokeball. We go back to the elevator. But we need a key. And can you guess where it is? No, it's not in Sinnoh but it's still far enough to frustrate me. We go back to the beginning and go one more floor down. I think I was supposed to go there first. Whatever. And that stupid thing again. At least we get a rare candy. Always nice to get one. And we also get black glasses. It makes dark type attacks more powerful. Guess who doesn't have any of these. We take the stairs. And we beat one more rocket guy. Come on dude. You're more worthless than the plants over there beside you. They probably would've guarded the key better. Now we can use the lift. We need to go to 4th floor. Where two more grunts await us. We beat them and they kindly open the door for us. Inside we find some yakuza looking dude with angry eyebrows. Turns out it's Giovanni - the rockets' leader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywC-lp2B6p4 Meowth had a really important role in the fight. He's awesome. And we're done with the guy. We'll meet him again, that's for sure but for now we can go back to the pokemon tower as we took the silph scope away from him. There's a fog and you can encounter pokemon like in the grass and caves. There's only Gastly here. We beat some chicks (they may not be actually, it's what they look like though). And we get to some pure place that heals our pokemon. And we also get a cleanse tag which is like a worse version of a repel when held by your main pokemon. But at least you don't pay for it. Then we continue fighting those creeps. And we get to the ghost. If I came here before getting the silph scope I wouldn't have been able to continue. But now we identify it with the item and find out that it's actually a Marowak. Which we fight. And we find those guys. Damn, they're everywhere. What are they even doing guarding the poor old guy. After we beat them and save mr Fuji he welcomes us to his house. And gives us the pokeflute. We can use it to wake up the sleeping snorlax that block two of our possible paths and either defeat them or catch them. The screenshots for the next part are ready too but I'm too tired to write at the moment so I'll do the update tomorrow. We'll be getting our final 2 team members in it. And also we'll be having our toughest gym battle so far. Also, for those who don't know, Youtube has an option to speed up videos which can make mine more watchable as I don't speed them up.

[spoiler=Part 7 - Training Vulpix and doing stuff] So now that I've got Vulpix it's time to train it up a little. It got most of the experience from the trainers on our way. And now it's level 22. Only 7 more to go. Oh, by the way. Cool stories time. Wanna know where Voltorb fainted from poisoning? Right fucking there. The way to Celadon is blocked again so we'll have to go through some tunnel one more time. And that's where we got. Pretty sure there's nothing new in that grass so we just leave it alone and enter Celadon. And there's a lot going on here. First we follow the hidden path behind the pokemon center. It's not really that hidden but whatever. And we get to that building. Go up to the last floor and you can get a free Eevee. I fecked up the screenshots so I can't show it. Next we visit that mansion. There's a nice old lady inside who gives us a tea. You can give it to the guards that block your way between cities as they're thirsty and then you'll be free to go around. It was that easy? Really? Why didn't they just sent one guy to buy some drinks? And how the hell all of them that are probably miles away from each other drank the tea? So now we have more options for our next destination but we aren't done with Celadon and that's a priority for now. That's a short part, sorry about that. But the next one will compensate.

[spoiler=Part 6 - New team member] So it's time to decide who needs to learn flash. Guess who did it? Fecking Meowth. I guess cats can shine somehow, I don't know. If you realize you don't have pokemon that can learn it, go to the grass behind the pokemon center and just catch a voltorb. Anyways, our Meowth made the place brighter and now we can continue through the cave. Here's a funny story. The first time I played the game it probably wasn't clear enough for my simple mind that I have to use flash and just went trough the cave in the dark. It took me like 2 hours. And actually most of the people I know did the same. There's a repel in a pokeball close to the entrance. It's something you should always have with you. Most of the wild pokemon give too less exp and show up too often in caves to just go without repel. It's painful when you have to run from a fight every 2 second. There are also some new kinds of pokemon in that cave which we can catch and add to the pokedex. And the rest is just boring cave with not that many unavoidable trainers. Though, there's actually a move that your pokemon can learn here. It's a rock attack which should be pretty obvious. It's an okay attack, I don't need it for now but may return to get it in the future. Then we find an max ether which is always good. Don't use the ethers by the way. You shouldn't even need them before end game actually. There's a pearl too. I think it's an item for sales, just like the nugget we got some time ago from that rocket grunt. And after dealing with some more pretty average trainers with Ratattatatatas, Pidgeys, Onixes, etc. we get to the exit. And when we come out... "Oooh, the player has just finished fighting with tons of fuckers in the cave, why not place some more outside of it, pretty sure he'll appreciate it" <--- Pokemon director right there. Thanks. We leave them alone for now so we can heal first. And we get to Lavender town. The first thing we do after healing is going to the grass to west where we can catch our next official team member. And it's the fire type Vulpix. It evolves into Ninetales when exposed to a fire stone. It's a pretty good pokemon but the thing is there are many other really good fire types that make it seem bad for some people. Ninetales' speed and special defense are awesome and the other stats are about average. Really falls behind in terms of raw power compared to Charizard, Magmar, Arcanine, Flareon all the fire legendaries etc. but is probably my favourite fire type in LG/FR. Vulpix learns flamethrower at lv 29 so that's when we will evolve it. Then we go to the pokemon tower where pokemon's spirits wander. At that point we still can't do everything in the tower as we have to do some other thing first. But what we can do is kick our rival's ass. The battles with him are still easy at that point as before that moment we had two pokemon. But now we got our third and fourth and will catch the other ones pretty soon and they all be at a pretty low level. So they'll steal most of the experience from battles and his pokemon will start to catch up with our Pidgeotto and Primeape. My pokemon are usually 38-42lv when I get to the e4 and I guess that will be the case this time too as Vulpix, Voltorb and the other guys that we need to catch will have to take most of the exp for the next few gyms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3gC_EihCI0

[spoiler=Part 5] Now that we dealt with Misty and Bob, we can finally go through the house that was robbed. On the other side of it we are stopped by another rocket grunt. Of course, no difficulties here. As we go outside the city, we stop in the grass to catch a Meowth. Right next to the caretaker. But the road's closed. So we take the alternitive one - through the small building that is connected to some tunnel. Inside that building there's a girl that trades a male Nidoran for a male one in Leaf Green and the opposite in Fire red. I know there are a lot of Nidoking fans out there so if you play LG, you could trade it and have the 50% exp bonus. We get to the other side of the tunnel where more guys wanting a pokemon battle await us. Probably both. That's the harsh truth. We finally get to Vermillion city and the first thing we do is go to the pokemon center of course. Where we meet that woman who happily gives us an item. And a good one on top of that. It's the VS seeker - it lets you battle the trainers on the road again. So you can become rich and farm exp from the easy ones that give more money. I'm too lazy for that though so I never actually use it. And right outside the pokemoncenter there's a hidden item. It's in the sand right where I am standing. Then we go through the houses around the city. In one of them there's a fisherman that will give you an old rod which you can use to catch the legendary Magikarp. And nothing else, I believe. And in another house there's an old guy that wants to tell you some old boring story. Just lie to him that you'd like to hear it and he'll give you a bike voucher. Damn, that's worth a million. There's a lot going on here so we start with the less important to do. We go east and battle the trainers that have gathered there. We also catch a Drowzee in the grass there. After we beat them all we continue and the next thing I always do here is to buy some repels and go to Diglet's cave. Why, you'd ask. Well, there's tons of Digletts in there as you probably would guess but there's also a Dugtrio which is always around level 30 which is most probably higher than your pokemon. And here's the electric gym so we could use him as a last resort if something goes wrong. But if you don't want to go through hundreds of thousands of millions of Diglets before getting a Dugtrio you could just use repel with a pokemon above level 20-22 and just wait for it to come out. It could take some repels though, be patient. We still can't go to the gym as there's a fucking tree that blocks our path and I guess is too hard to get around or get through the fence. So we head towards the dock and SS Anne with the ticket we got from Bob. There's tons of rooms. We start with going down the stairs and taking the hidden hyper potion in that bucket. And then we beat the trainers. There are a lot of water types so if you have a Pikachu you'll have no problems here. And in one of the rooms there's a nice girl which offers us her bed. It basically works as a pokemon center. We get to the kitchen where we get a pretty obvious item from a pokeball and three hidden berries. And you know what happened? Mankey got to level 28 and evolved into Primeape. Now he's even more angry than before. That happened right before the battle with our rival. Which was pretty pathetic, to be honest. His guys gained almost nothing while ours are like 10 levels higher than the last time we met. That won't be the case anymore though. Pretty sure the next time his will be as high as ours. Anyways, here's the battle but it's pretty pointless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZleUMQjazH8 So we get to the captain and looks like his back hurts. And what do you do when your back hurts and you see a stranger kid? That's right, make her rub it. Holy shit. Well, if you actually do it, at least give her an award. He did. That's the move cut which we can use to cut the tree next to the gym. And that's what we do. We go heal our dudes and get right to the job. The trainers in the gym aren't hard but there's that bullshit puzzle that you need to go through. You just need to find the two bins that turn off the electricity. But it takes ages to do so. We finally go through and are ready for battle. And the battle was actually shorter than the electricity thing. I don't see the point of even showing a video but here it is anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctSV7utYZi8 And after we got the badge now we've done almost everything we could in that city. In one of the houses there's a girl that trades Farfetch'd for a Spearow. So I caught one more Spearow and gave it to her. Just for the sake of getting it in the pokedex. Then we saw this shady looking guy. He wasn't there before, what could he want? Looks like there's one of his clones on road 2 and he had to tell us. I guess we'll be going there then. The way's right trough Diglet's cave. We get to the other side and first check out the house that is right in front of the cave. There's a guy that can give you a Mr. Mime for an Abra. We continue and finally find the clone Yeah, I have 180. And after that we are finally done with Vermillion. Now we can return to Cerulean. Where I also catch Bellspourt as I forgot to do so the last time around. It's right where Abra is. And we also get the bike. I never use it but it's worth a million, why not to get it. There's nothing to do anymore in Cerulean too so we head east towards the tree that we can cut now... Guess who forgot the fucking Meowth though? That's right, meee. So we get back to the pokemon center, take the Meowth that we teached cut and now we can cut the tree. And there's the usual road with trainers that have Ratatatatatas and stuff. There's also the move Aerial Ace in a pokeball. On the end of the road there's a grass. And in that grass lives our next team member. Voltorb. It's 16 level with a shitty impish nature. Great. He also doesn't know any electric attacks so we teach him the Shock Wave move that we won in the third gym. And finally we get to the pokemon center that is close to the road. We heal our guys and also see one more of those clones. He gives you an everstone which stops your pokemon from evolving. Oh yeah, let's give it to Tentacool when we get him. And it's worth nothing so you can't even sell it. And the next time we'll be going in that rock tunnel, I guess.

I'll try to make it better. It's just that everybody's already played the game and I would guess it's not really fun for people to watch all the stuff the unnamed characters have to say. I've done video lps with voice commenting and it's really harder to make things like I want to with just text and screenshots. It's either too much or less content, too serious or whatever. Anyways, thanks for the tips and I'll try to improve and make things more interesting.

I decided to show the battle against Misty as a video instead with screenshots and comments. And I will probably be doing the same for every important one from now on (against gym leaders/rival/other important guys/e4). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8aNzWfbs9w I also wrote most of the next part but accidentally refreshed the page and floosh. I'm furious right now so I'll probably do the update tomorrow.

[spoiler=Part 4 - Preparations for the second gym] Pidgey was one level away from becoming Pidgeotto so I decided to train it a bit and make it tougher and cooler. So we headed towards the bridge and guess who was there? Yes, the same fucker that's basically everywhere in the game. And that's actually the first battle against him that could be troublesome for you depending on what pokemon you have available. He has a 17lv Pidgeotto (cheater), about the same level Wartortle and Ratatatata (good that he didn't cheat for Raticate too) and 16lv Abra that knows only teleport so if you fail against it, you know there's something wrong with your strategy. I had 18lv Pidgeotto, 17lv Mankey and 12lv Charmander which is usually just about enough. He always starts with his Pidgeotto so I threw Charmander in the battle with hope that he'll burn him and cut down his physical damage. Didn't work out but at least he landed two hits which had him at about 70% health and my Pidgeotto finished the job with two quick attacks. Then I sent Mankey against Wartortle and two karate chops had him down. He didn't even get a chance to attack, he used screech or something on his turn. One karate chop was enough for Ratatatata too. And then we somehow won the furious battle against Abra. He almost destroyed us with his teleport ability, I tell you. After the battle he smelled us as usual and ran away. Or so we thought... He was like "you're so worthless so I'll give you that". Adorable. Tsun tsun~~ So this bridge is famous with it's team of 5 unbeatable guys or something. Come on, you guys know you're failures when two kids just come and beat you all for like 10 minutes. And when you get to the last guy, you get the prize. It's a nugget that you can sell for a lot of money. But here's a thing. The dude actually gives you the prize while you talk to him before the actual fight. So if you lose you just go there, get the same dialogue and get the thing again. And you become rich. Don't know if that was for the US version or the Japanese one though. Forgot to try it and already saved after it. Here in the grass besides the bridge you could catch an Abra. It's one of the best Psychic tipes but only knows teleport at that point and is a bitch to catch beca use there's nothing else that it could use. There are several ways to get it. 1 - just throw pokeballs at it and hope it works. I personally don't like to waste any. 2 - Use pokemon that blocks running away. I don't have one. And 3 which is my favourite - just put him to sleep with something. If you selected Balbasaur as a starter or got Butterfree from the Viridian forest then just use sleep powder and catch it. We continued beating some people. Get a hold of yourself, woman. Cheating is no good, ask Christy Mack. Oooh, so that's the guy. Well, too bad your girlfriend prefers me. You don't need cut to get the item behind the dude. You just have to make him see you and battle you at exactly the same place as me in the screenshot. If you get closer to him, he'll block your path. And finally, we got to Bill's house. And he's a pokemon and want our help to become human again. So after we help him, he give us a boat ticket which allows us to continue the game. But look at him. Those manly eyebrows. His existence by itself probably makes women wet. I guess that's the reason Misty's gym is the water one. So she could be like "yeah, somebody splashed some water on my thights". Great cover. This is how our pokemon look right now: With a little luck and some potions I think we'll be able to do fine against Misty.

[spoiler=Part 3 - Mt. Moon] So we beat all the trainers on the way and got to the mt. Moon's entrance. But before we entered it, I had other job to do. I couldn't afford repels before but now I'm rich after all the battles on the way here. So we went back and bought some of those. Also, we caught a female Nidoran. And a Jigglypuff too. And in the cave itself we caught Geodude, Paras and Zubat, the last of which I forgot to take a screenshot of. Then we went to the lower level and found this guy. We beat him with no effort and took the item in the pokeball which I don't remember what was and also the one hidden in the rock which was an ether. Then we got a moon stone from a pokeball. It's actually rare and I don't think you can buy it in the shops. And almost at the end of the cave, where the fossils are, you can get another one hidden in the rock. So you could evolve both Nidoran and Clefairy immediately if you wanted to. Also there's some tough guy that's like "Everything is for the stronger, gtfo" and after you beat him he's like "We are all brothers, let's split it in half, Amen". Come on Mankey, just kick his whiny ass already. Anyways, I got that fossil. I don't remember which one what pokemon was. I won't be using it though, that's for sure. We got outside the tunnel and finally got to Cerulean city. I quickly ran to the pmarket and bought some pokeballs so I can catch Sandshrew in the grass right outside the city. Oh, and THAT bike shop. Yeah, try to sell a fucking bike to a kid for a fucking million. Way to go, Paul. That "Nigga stole my bike" song would sound really harsh in the pokemon world, you know? And we got to some old man's house that gave us some item that I will probably never use. And now we have some things to do. We could go battle our rival and the other guys at the bridge or just go straight for the gym. I think it would be wiser to do the first as at the moment I have a fighting type, a fire type and Pidgey so I probably won't do too well against Misty. With a bit of training though, thing might work out. Also, how is the image size? I just use the original resolution. Are they too small?

[spoiler=Part 2 - Brock is rock hard] We went through Viridian's forest and on our way we beat some trainers for exp and also caught Weedle, Caterpie, Pikachu and Metapod. I didn't bother to wait for Kakuna to show up though. That way Pidgey and Mankey gained some levels and we went back to beat our rival. He always has his starter and Pidgey in that battle and they always have only their normal attacks so the outcome was pretty obvious. Then we finally went to the first gym where we had to deal with rock type enemies. And that guy wants her on top. Sir, that girl's like 12. Chris Hansen would like to have a word with you, why don't you have a seat right over there? Oh, you too. Your rock-hard willpower? Let me guess what else of yours is hard... ...That's right! Your pokemon! Anyways, Mankey didn't have difficulties beating his Onyx and Geodude after he learned his first fighting moves so we got all of Brock's money and are going ahead. Some weirdo stopped us though. Apparently, he wanted to give us running shoes which our mom sent. Yeah, so he traveled to this town and decided to wait for us right on that spot. Those are just some of the trainers that we'll face next time. Here are our pokemon right now: (Here's the part where I found out I forgot to heal Mankey after the fight with Brock so I guess we'll be returning to the pokemon center first)