Tips and tricks - Rangi42/polishedcrystal GitHub Wiki
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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
- Switch daylight saving time on/off repeatedly by asking Mom
- Useful moves for the Mirror Herb method (usually after consulting Blackthorn Move Deleter):
* "Sweet Honey" on Regular