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Miscellaneous in-game how-tos.

  • Re-config ↪️ Utilities
  • Roamer hunting ↪️ Roaming Pokemon
  • Shiny breeding and min-maxing ↪️ Breeding
  • Friendship Evolutions ↪️ Friendship
  • Held item hunting ↪️ Wild Held Items
  • Early-game Headbutt (without the Tutor): Wooper, Lv. 15
  • Money:
    • Valuables from smashable rocks at the Ruins of Alph
    • [Post-E4] Mulches onto Starf Berries at Route 6 to sell them to the gourmet maniac at Cherrygrove Bay
  • Levelling up:
    • Wild encounters in some areas, particularly new ones added to the G/S/C map, scale with your Badge count
    • The Honey* vendor at a house in Goldenrod; the wild encounter triggered by Honey now scales with your lead's level
      • Works well in the end-game, with Lucky Island
    • The Exp. Candy vendor in the Goldenrod Underground: now $1 == 1 Exp.
      • Handier than Rare Candies at early levels
    • A classic way: deposit your money with Mom and "train" with E4
  • Bottle Cap fishing: Super Rod at ponds, e.g. in Violet and Ecruteak
    • Ponds: 0.5% Bottle Cap; 55% Pokémon encounter
    • Leading with Suction Cups or Sticky Hold will only boost the encounter rate, which will lower the Bottle Cap chance
  • Phones + items ↪️ Phone contacts
    • Switch daylight saving time on/off repeatedly by asking Mom
      • Delete all but the relevant number(s) (temporarily) before this grinding
  • Useful moves for the Mirror Herb method (usually after consulting Blackthorn Move Deleter):

* "Sweet Honey" on Regular