Now that you can catch some Pokémon here, you might find something of interest, though I doubt it. Spinarak is an option if you’re playing HeartGold or there’s Ledyba if you’re playing SoulSilver, but neither are really that good and each lacks good moves for a long time.
There’s also a few Trainers for you to fight on the route now! After fighting some of them, they might ask you if you want to give them your number. You might as well, so that way they’ll call you for rematches and stuff.
[trainertable]
[trainer c=”Youngster” n=”Joey” p=64 phone=true]
[tpoke p=rattata l=4 g=m]
[/trainer]
[trainer c=”Youngster” n=”Mikey” p=64]
[tpoke p=pidgey l=2 g=m]
[tpoke p=rattata l=4 g=m]
[/trainer]
[trainer c=”Bug Catcher” n=”Don” p=48]
[tpoke p=caterpie l=3 g=m]
[tpoke p=caterpie l=3 g=m]
[/trainer]
[/trainertable]
None of them should be too tough or anything. They’re not much stronger than the wild Pokémon you’ve fought in the area, but they do provide a nice amount of EXP for beating them.
[info class=”special” title=”Switch Training your little guys”]
Throughout the game, you’ll be sure to catch a bunch of Pokémon. Some of them you may like to train up to have as permanent additions to your team, whereas others you may just want to collect or use to fill out your Pokedex.
For those Pokémon that you are interested in training, you’ll often find that they don’t have the greatest stats or attacks when you first catch them. If you’re looking for a way to train them up, you can do something that I like to call “switch training.”
Basically, you have whatever Pokémon you would like to have gain some EXP in the first position of your party, preferably against Trainer fights (because slower Pokémon may be unable to run against wild Pokémon that you don’t want to fight). Then, when it is sent out in the battle, you switch it for your main attacker—at this point in the game, this is most likely your starter Pokémon—and have it finish off the opposing Pokémon. That way both of those two Pokémon earn EXP, even though only one of them did the work. Repeat the cycle for each Pokémon in a Trainer’s team, switching back to the switch trained Pokémon when asked to switch, then switching to your attacker again.
This does mean that whatever Pokémon you are doing the attacking with will be receiving at least one hit every turn, because the opponent will get free reign of their attacks, but usually your stronger Pokémon can take more than a few hits without worry.[/info]
Make your way north, fighting any of the three Trainers en route you’d like, and you’ll reach Route 31.
[link to Route 31]