So. This segment of my adventure has been even more interesting than the last one. I wrecked Misty without too much trouble, got all my team up to reasonable levels, and took out all of the people on the SS Anne, pretty stock standard stuff. But there's a certain trainer on Route 6 that can be used for a couple of glitches, so it was time to mess around again. Both of the glitches have a similar set up to the glitch to get Mew, so I needed Abra. The first one involves teleporting away from the bug catcher, battling a random trainer on Route 11, talking to someone in Vermillion that doesn't have a Machop, and then I walked back onto Route 6. The game slowed down as if time itself was changing, trainers were winking in and out of existence, rapidly flashing on the spot. I couldn't talk to anyone, nor could I open the menu, but when I got into a battle the text was weird and blocky instead of being actual letters. It was pretty damn awesome, although interestingly I didn't get all of the strange sound effects that often come with this glitch, neither did the game crash sadly. Oh well.
I reset the game because if you save when Route 6 is like that the glitchiness becomes permanent, plus I needed the trainer again. This one is almost exactly the same in set up as the previous one, except first you must walk into Route 12, and you don't talk to anyone in Vermillion. When you go back to Route 6, a wild battle starts up, and after you defeat or catch that Pokemon, Snorlax on Route 12 is totally gone. Because this is basically the same as the Mew glitch and the wild Pokemon that appears depends on the special stat of the last one you battled, I decided to see what would show up. So I found a few things, like Gastly and Magmar, but, after I battled a level 7 Drowzee, I was graced with the presence of the elusive Mew once again! Yuuuuuuuuup, we are so going to be drowning in Mews. I tried to catch it by getting my Mew to transform into that Mew so I wouldn't one shot it, but I got a crit. Of course. I reset, and figured that well, I knew that I could get it again if I wanted, and I wanted to see if anything else would show up, so I continued. But, after battling a level 13 Drowzee, something showed up that trumped even Mew.
Missingno.
Of course I freaked out, and tried to catch it using the same technique I tried on Mew. And naturally, I crit it again. God dammit. So I reset (making sure that my rare candies are in the 6th bag slot >>) and go back to battling level 13 Drowzee's hoping that they'll have 31 or 32 special. I came across mostly Pinsirs and Tangala, including one very bizarre Tangala which could talk. No joke, it had trainer dialogue when the battle started. Like an idiot, I didn't write down what this was, but it was "I" and then a new line started with some more dialogue that could be vaguely creepy. I don't really remember what the last line was, but I'm pretty sure nobody in the game has that dialogue. I mean, I can't think of any trainers that go to a new line after only saying "I". Anyway, eventually I run into it again, and this time I catch myself a Level 7 Missingno awww yessss. Its Pokedex entry was completely blank as you'd expect, but its cry was a mismash of other Pokemon, like Ivysaur and Charizard, before it just became the gym leader's theme. Anyway as soon as its in my party I find out its become a Level 2 Rhydon, that knows Water Gun, Water Gun, and Sky Attack. It also needs 776598 experience points to make it to level 3, so raising this thing normally its going to be a bit of a challenge. Good thing that bumping into Missingno gives you 128 of whatever is in your 6th bag slot! So, it learnt Stomp at level 30 like it should normally, but there appears to be something weird with its stats. At level 30 it only has 55 HP, which is really weird considering Rhydon has base 105 HP, and a mere 6 Defense. So, its Rhydon in appearance, type and level up moveset only I think. I can't wait to see how Sun and Moon handle this thing.
I'm trying to use only Pokes I've never really dabbled with, but there aren't many of those in Gen 1... That said, I still have just Bulbasaur. I may pick up Jigglypuff after the first gym. I'm looking to ultimately have Seaking, Magneton and Arcanine on the team as well.
But from there I went on to complete the rest of the glitch and Mew getto daze!
I trained a Jolteon and Vulpix in Celadon to about level 30 but gave up, especially with Erika's subordinates haxing me with Wrap all the time, and just kept going with Blastoise to push to Cinnabar.
