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Welcome to the Generation 1 Section of the Website.

This Website is composed of multiple pages, click on the cards at the top of the page to navigate through the different pages:

Main Page

Overview of the Generation 1 Section.

Pokédex Tracker

Use this page as a checklist to keep track of your Pokémon, it's also divided into boxes so you can organize yourself better.

Map

Interactive map of the Kanto Region for Generation 1. I made it so you can guide yourselves throughout the game per area, click on the cities, routes and other landmarks to show which Pokémon are found in each location. Pokémon will be highlighted in bold when the respective location is the best recommended place to catch them.

Pokémon List

The list of Pokémon you can catch in these games and their possible locations, they're also highlighted if they're version exclusive.

Full Guide

Recommended guide of the most optimal way I could think of, including a checklist to track your progress. If you have any suggestions feel free to contact me through the contact box at the top of the page.

Version Exclusives

Back in 1996 Pokémon released two versions of the game to incite playing and trading with your friends so there's a few disparities between the games, mostly just the different Pokémon available, here's a list of the Unobtainable Pokémon for each version:

Catching Mechanics

In Generation 1 the catching mechanics were quite chaotic, back then it wasn't as sophisticated as it is today and so there were a lot of issues, thankfully Lyra made a website made a great video explaining all the mechanics which is based off of Dragonfly Cave's explanation on Gen 1 Capture Mechanics you can watch here:

To summarize the video:

• Sleep status automatically adds a flat 21.11% chance to catch any Pokémon if you throw an Ultra Ball (and 14.52% for the Great Ball), yes, including Legendaries.
• Lowering HP has thresholds, meaning for an Ultra Ball, at 33% HP, the threshold is met and lowering the HP any further won't have any impact. (50% HP for the Great Ball).
• There is no benefit to using an Ultra Ball over the previous balls if the Pokémon's catch rate is higher than the respective Ball's Generated number (255 for Poké Ball, 200 for Great Ball, 150 for Ultra Ball).
• The Great Ball has a different modifier than the Poké Ball and the Ultra Ball that affects the current HP catching mechanic, meaning that at full HP, this makes it the best ball to catch Pokémon.

In conclusion

• Sleep is broken, use it whenever possible.
• Put a Pokémon to sleep and throw Great Balls at full HP Pokémon for the least hassled odds captures.
• Best odds of catching a Pokémon with a low catch rate is Sleep + Ultra Ball under 33% HP.

Level Up Mechanics

Best place to level up without glitches BY FAR is the Pokémon League, but there's also a mechanic with traded Pokémon that increases their experience gain by 50%, so it's recommended to trade the following Pokémon to help levelling up easier:

Strongly Recommended:
• Dratini
• Dragonair

These only appear later into the game and evolve at late levels, they are the Pokémon with the highest experience requirements to level up so it's heavily recommended to trade them into your main game and THEN levelling them up.

Recommended
• Bulbasaur
• Ivysaur
• Charmander
• Charmeleon
• Squirtle
• Wartortle
• Omanyte - Level 40
• Kabuto - Level 40
• Ponyta - Level 40

The starters are some of the slowest leveling Pokémon, besides the initial starter of your main playthrough you probably won't be needing to level them up in their own game, instead it's better to trade them to your main game for faster leveling in your main playthrough.

Mew Glitch

There is absolutely no legit way of getting a Mew until the third Generation of Pokémon games, so the only way to obtain one is through cheating or glitching the game. Luckily, there's multiple glitches that can be executed to obtain a Mew, you can check some of them at Bulbapedia.

The earliest and recommended way of doing this is, before fighting Misty, avoiding these two specific trainers:

First, catch an Abra, heal at the Cerulean City Pokémon Center and follow the instructions below: