Pokémon Fire Red - Preparing for the Roaming Legendary Hunt

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Published on September 13, 2014 12:14:47 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eng7tf5G8TA

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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (2004)

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I will not be catching Raikou as he is a terrible pokémon (has IVs of 0 in every stat except HP in this game due to a glitch) and is a complete pain to catch (not to mention I don't use legendaries in pokémon games). If you really want the dog, for example to migrate to Gen IV, you can use the master ball but it means you will have an even harder time with Mewtwo.

Based on your starter, after completing the Sevii Island quests, one of the three legendary dogs of Johto will roam Kanto. You will find the dog with a type advantage over your starter (Entei if you chose Bulbasaur, Raikou if you chose Squirtle, Suicune if you chose Charmander).

If you caught Mewtwo without the Master Ball, this should be easy, as you can throw it as soon as you find the dog. If you don't have the Master Ball, it will be much harder.

The dog will flee on the first turn if it can, but you get 1 turn to attack first. The best tactic is to get a Gengar and Mean Look the dog so it can't escape, then Hypnosis + Shadow Ball (or some other attacking move) it until you can start throwing Ultra Balls.

If you get Suicune, it will be easy, as long as you keep the Gengar alive. If you get Entei or Raikou, beware! They have Roar. If they use Roar to escape, they will permanently disappear from the game. You don't want that, so you can use Taunt to stop them from doing that. (You need to use the TM12 which you get in the Rocket Hideout in Celadon City.)

Note that Mean Look wears off if the Pokémon that uses it switches out or faints. Taunt wears off 2 turns after it was used in this generation, without any message to say so.

Here I catch a Gastly and train it up to level 48 where it learns Mean Look. I stop it from evolving beforehand as Haunter only learns the move at level 64 - which is too high for the repel trick to work. An alternative is to trade a level 5 Gastly (you need to breed to do this) over to R/S/E and level it up to level 13 there.

The music used in this video is the legendary beasts unused theme from Ruby and Sapphire - they were intended to be in those games but that didn't happen and the music was left in the ROM.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_glitches_in_Generation_III#In_Pok.C3.A9mon_FireRed_and_LeafGreen to read up on bugs with the roaming pokémon in Fire Red and Leaf Green.

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