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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
How to Beat Frenzied Palkia and Dialga
Whether you face off against Palkia or Dialga depends on your decisions during the story. These Pokémon have slightly different stats, battle moves, and weaknesses. Luckily the boss battle is the same for both! This is the most difficult boss battle to date. While there are several opportunities to throw Balms during the fight, you need to hold ZL
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
How to Beat Frenzied Avalugg
Avalugg is the last of the frenzied lords (though not the final boss of Legends: Arceus). This tanky Pokémon has incredible defense, but low speed and poor Sp. Def makes it easy for a Pokémon like Gardevoir to take advantage of its 2.5x weakness to Fighting with Aura Sphere ! This boss battle has a few more moves than the prior encounters, but they
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
How to Beat Frenzied Electrode
The Frenzied Lord Electrode is a test of your speed. Throughout the encounter, he continually fires orbs which chase you around the room while calling reinforcements to create explosive hazards around the room. This is a chaotic fight with little room to chip away using balms. Follow the boss's patterns carefully, focus on dodging, then capitalize
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
How to Beat Frenzied Arcanine
Frenzied Arcanine is a step up in difficulty. The boss battle has a transition phase where you need to use your Balms to interrupt this before the boss unleashes a massive blast. Between transitions Arcanine charges around the arena, rarely holding still. Because his attacks are predictable and linear you can often weave Balms in between the charge
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
How to Beat Frenzied Lilligant
Lilligant is the second Frenzied Lord you quell as part of the main story. She has a predictable attack pattern that is telegraphed based on the musical notes she plays before each sequence. While Lilligant has high damage, especially with Victory Dance , she has numerous weaknesses, making her a glass cannon. Like with the prior fight, you can ret
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
How to Beat Kleavor
Kleavor is the first of the frenzied lords you quell as part of the story. He is found in the Grandtree arena. After completing the story there is a higher level version of this fight where you can battle for extra rewards. Kleavor has a simple attack pattern. When you are up close it attempts to use slicing attacks, these can be avoided by moving
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen: How to Prep for the Elite Four
After defeating all of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen's Gym Leaders and navigating through Victory Road, you face your final Pokémon League challenge at the Indigo Plateau. Your next opponents are the most powerful Pokémon trainers and are standing between you and your Champion title. Here are some tips on how to prepare for the Elite Four, as well
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Safari Zone Guide
The Safari Zone in Fuchsia City is a special area where trainers catch Pokémon in a reserve of sorts. There's no fighting, and no PokéBalls. Instead, for a fee of 500 Pokédollars, trainers get 30 Safari Ball s to use to throw at Pokémon. The catch is that you only get those 30 Safari Ball s or 600 steps around the Safari Zone before you're kicked o
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Key Items and Pokédex Rewards
You find a lot of stuff on your journey in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. All of these items take up space in your backpack, and most of them can be stockpiled and consumed multiple times, like Potions or Berries. However, some of them have a unique purpose and stick around for your entire journey once you've found them. These important items are c
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
How to Get the Exp. Share in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Newer Pokémon games are much more generous in spreading out experience among a team of Pokémon, giving experience to all Pokémon in your party. But in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, a Pokémon must participate in a battle—and not get knocked out—to earn experience. Experience (EXP) is split evenly between the Pokémon that participate in a battle, an
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Legends Arceus Combat Explained
Pokémon Arceus is different from traditional titles in that it focuses more on exploration and less on combat. However, there are still times where you have to battle other trainers, Wild Pokémon, or bosses. So even if your goal is to catch them all you need to understand how combat works in Legends: Arceus. The game does several things differently
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Viridian City Gym Guide (How to Beat Giovanni) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Surprise! Giovanni is the leader of the Viridian City Gym, and the Gym Leader who hands out the Earth Badge in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. It is arguably the hardest challenge to face thus far, as Giovanni has several strong, high-level Ground -type Pokémon.To be safe, your Pokémon should be Level 45 or above at this point; Giovanni's highest le
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Cinnabar Island Gym Guide (How to Beat Blaine) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
If you reach Cinnabar Island in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and head straight to the Cinnabar Island Gym, you're greeted with a locked door. The Secret Key is hidden inside the Pokémon Mansion to its left, and is required for access. Head there to find the key, then come back to the Gym. Inside, there are six rooms to get through before reaching
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Saffron City Gym Guide (How to Beat Sabrina) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Things aren't going well in Saffron City. Team Rocket is everywhere, and you're not able to enter Gym Leader Sabrina's Saffron City Gym until the bad guys are taken care of. To get into the gym, first you must enter the Silph Company building and fight Giovanni and Team Rocket. Once that's done, head over to the Saffron City Gym to solve the gym's
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Fuchsia City Gym Guide (How to Beat Koga) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Now that you've reached Fuchsia City, it's time to take on Gym Leader Koga in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. Koga trains Poison -type Pokémon and hands out the Soul Badge , which lets you use HM03 (Surf) out of battle. He also awards you TM06 (Toxic) when defeated. The Soul Badge has the added effect of increasing the Defense stat for your Pokémon
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Celadon City Gym Guide (How to Beat Erika) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
The Celadon City Gym in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen is where you face Gym Leader Erika, a Grass -type Gym Leader who awards the Rainbow Badge , which lets Pokémon use HM04 (Strength) outside of battle to move rocks. Pokémon up to Level 50 will also obey you after getting this badge. Pokémon trainers who chose Charmander as their starting Pokémon
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Vermilion City Gym Guide (How to Beat Lt. Surge) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Vermilion City Gym is the third gym in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. Lt. Surge is the Electric -type trainer handing out the Thunder Badge . He gives out TM34 (Shock Wave) for winning the badge, as well as the ability to use HM02 (Fly) outside of battle—so long as you find and teach a Pokémon to use it. Lt. Surge's gym is also the first gym in Pok
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Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Cerulean City Gym Guide (How to Beat Misty) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
Cerulean City Gym is the second gym in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. It's where Misty hands out the Cascade Badge , which lets you command Pokémon up to Level 30 and use HM01 (Cut) (after you acquire it first, of course.) She also rewards you with TM03 (Water Pulse) , the super strong move that her Water -type Staryu and Water - and Psychic -type
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Pewter City Gym Guide (How to Beat Brock) | Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen
You made it to your first gym in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. At Pewter City Gym, you face Brock, a Rock -type trainer. If you're looking for help getting the Boulder Badge , we'll help walk you through the preparation and fights to take down Brock and his two Pokémon team. Brock—as the first gym leader—isn't too tricky to beat, but you want to m
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus
All Hisuian Form Pokémon in Legends: Arceus & Where To Find Them
Some Pokémon have an ancient Hisuian form, this changes their typing. Usually this means adding more type coverage thanks to new moves and a STAB (same type attack bonus), but also new weaknesses. But in some cases, the new type(s) from the Hisuian form cover for each others weaknesses, making the resulting Pokémon far more powerful. This is simila
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