2.0 Baby - One Badge Tentacool/Blue Guide

A simple guide on the One Badge category using the Tentacool/Blue route. I'll be splitting this up into 3 parts, Intro, Tentacool, and Blue.

Intro: Essentially, it's mostly holding B (to get through the text ASAP) and mashing A to just get through the menus as fast as possible. Note that it is faster to hold RIGHT rather than to mash RIGHT when going through the character selection and starter selection. You will use Seel for your starter since it has Surf. Remember that once you see Slowpoke, be ready to press A on the next Pokemon, which will be Seel. After mashing A (and holding B ) for the 3 time select boxes, switch to mashing B (and holding A) for the rest of the textboxes to avoid going through Shock's intro text/saving/setting a nickname on Seel. Once you gain control of your character, press Start, go UP 2 times, press A, press LEFT 2 times (for setting Text Speed to NONE), press DOWN, press LEFT (for setting Battle Animations to OFF), press DOWN, press LEFT (for setting Ask Switch to NO), press UP 3 times (to get to the next page of options), press A, press LEFT (for setting Encounter to FAST), mash B (for getting out of the menus), and that should set the options as fast as possible (under 5 seconds if you are quick).

Tentacool: Now that everything is set up, you want to hold B to run to the water near Pallet Town. However, the water in Pallet Town won't work, you near to go a little further to Route 21 (marked by the green ground). Once you get on Route 21, turn LEFT, mash A to Surf on the water, spin around (hard at first but you get better with practice), or move LEFT/RIGHT or UP/DOWN if you don't mind the slower method. Soon you'll get a Tentacool or Tentacruel encounter. Once you encounter Tentacool, yolo-ball it, it's about a 1/3 catch rate so keep trying the run until Tentacool stays in the ball. Once you get near perfect execution, getting a fast Tentacool will pretty much decide how fast a run is. To note, it is generally better for the Tentacool/cruel to be at least level 36, as it will have Acid as its first move and it will pretty much be guaranteed to OHKO all of Blue's team. Once you get Tentacool to stay in the ball, mash B until you get into the overworld. Now press START (to pause), press DOWN (to select POKEMON), press A, press DOWN (to select Tentacool), press A, press DOWN (to select SWITCH), press A, press UP, press A. This will swap Tentacool to the top of the party. Afterwards, mash B to get out of the menus.

Blue: Basically, hold B and run through Route 1 and hope the one spinner doesn't spot you and you don't get any wild encounters. If RNG is nice, you won't get any. Get to the Viridian Gym, talk to Blue, mash A to get through the text boxes. If Tentacool is level 36 or more, just mash A throughout the battle, since your first move will already be Acid. If Tentacool is less than 36, then press DOWN once when selecting the first move to highlight Acid. Generally at this point you just mash B and time the run after Blue goes through all his dialogue.

Pokemon Crystal Clear (v2.3) Glitchless Any% Guide

1. Start Goldrenrod city, name yourself one character

2. Select seel as starter, nickname one character

3. Opening menu once in game: call pokemon league to disable them,  TS: NONE, BA: OFF, AS: NO. Sound: MONO. AR: OFF, FT: 1, MA: ON; Menu pg 2.: Encount: FAST, NURSE: Quick, Continue: Quick, Gear Color: Red, Last Flown: Save

4. Get Kenya, put Kenya first in party, take NMI off seel

5. Fly to AZALEA TOWN

6. MART SELL POTION & NMI ---- BUY: x3 Great Balls, x3 Escape R, x9 super repels;

7. Fly to Cerulean City; Go towards Cerulean Cave (left) before trainer surf and repel and enter cave and save game

8. Run back and forth until a Dodrio is encountered, soft reset if not caught, when caught nickname A, leave cave, switch to front of party, fly to Cerulean City

9. Go up Nugget Bridge then right (right-Bill house side), then surf down below and left until item (protein), go down and enter cave

10. Once in cave go up-right to ladder, then right-down to next ladder, down-surf-item (Rare Candy), then surf-down-not first exit-look for stairs to left, from stairs go left-up to ladder, then go right-up-left for item (Rare Candy), then back and up-left to talk to BLOINK, down and exit.

11. Fly to Blackthron City and go left to get to Ice Path, go in and talk to PINKY, exit the same way

12. Fly to Rock Tunnel, generally follow rightish till ladder then leftish until you run into WEIRD GRAPE and talk to him, escape rope out (just practice this movement a few times its not that bad or hard once you get the hang of it)

13. Fly to Mt. Moon, up and left talk to LEMON, then talk to dude, go up through the ladder, then down to exit, left and up into the next part of Mt. Moon, navigate through, at split go up and talk to LEMON once more, then down and left out, down-left to house

14. Talk to the guy to gain access to the Battle Tutor, go to PC and use Grizz’s PC, teach Dodrio: Hi-Jump-Kick over rage, Swords Dance over agility, Final move set should be: Tri-Attack, Hi-Jump-Kick, Drill Peck, Swords Dance

15. Fly to Cherrygrove City and hit the seas, keep going left until you see cave (don’t enter) then head north until you see next cave entrance, enter here

16. Surf up and go right-up-left towards the stairs into pool, surf and go to lil shore top left tile has hidden Rare Candy, surf out of pool, up-right to stairs leading to water, surf right-up to ladder, surf down-right till item (Rare Candy) then back to ladder to main floor, surf left until pickaxe, then escape rope out, enter entrance again except go left then down a waterfall, right from there to land to where you use pickaxe, enter and talk to SS and then to Pigy, get 25 Rare Candies and escape rope out

17. Take on the gyms, you need 8 badges to take on E4

18. Theory Crafted Gym Order: Falkner - LT. Surge - Brock - Blue - Jasmine - Pryce - Sabrina - Janine (Might want to save before some of the later gyms) (More testing needed to find the most optimal gym order but this one is pretty good)

19. Head to E4, heal up, buy x2 Full Restores x7 ethers x2-3 full heals, rest money to hyper potions

20. Protein and Rare Candy up Dodrio to OP. Save before E4 and head in, SAVE BEFORE EVERY E4 FIGHT (Something can go wrong on every fight and most times its just faster to reset), mainly use common sense on moves used throughout and set up swords dance asap on all fights, use items as needed between fights, Hall of Fame

21.  Fly to Viridian City head towards MT. Sliver, Enter MT. Silver, keep going on up until MT. Silver Trainer, Make sure Birb is ready to go and then SAVE BEFORE

22. Try and set up Swords Dance as soon as you can and just 1 shot to victory, end split as soon as MT. Silver Trainer vanishes

Congrats! Run over!

You can watch my v2.3 Glitchless speedrun to see this route in action to get a sense of it. Really not difficult route to learn and very fun!

Name	Author
2.0 Baby - One Badge Tentacool/Blue Guide	CasualPokePlayer 4 years ago
Pokemon Crystal Clear (v2.3) Glitchless Any% Guide	bmfalbo 4 years ago