When you start playing, your character will be in a truck, and soon it will stop moving and you can step out, to the right. Your mom will come out and lead you to your new house. Inside there will be some machokes moving around stuff. What you need to do is go upstairs and set your clock by selecting your clock and then moving the cursors to the time you want. You can have any time, but I prefer setting the same time as the time is where I live. When you have done that, your mom will come and ask if you like your room and then leave. Take a potion from the PC, by selecting it and selecting withdraw item and selecting potion. It restores 20 HP. Go downstairs and you will go automaticly to the Tv, and your dad ( a gym leader) is on tv. However the program ends just then. Go outside and in to the house next to yours, the other small house. That is your rivals house. Her/his mom will say that your rival is in his/her room. Go upstairs and talk to your rival. She will leave after the conversation. Do so too, and leave the house.
Go north to the opening and a man will say that some one needs help. Go north and you will se a man being chased by a = poochyena. He will say that you can take a pokemon from his bag. Go to his bag and select it. There will be three pokeballs there. However, you can only take one, and be careful, for this pokemon will be yours to keep later and you can't change it for another of the pokemon in the bag. There is treecko, the grass pokemon, Torchic, the fire/fighting pokemon, and mudkip, the water/ground pokemon.When you have choosed your pokemon, confirm, and a battle will start. You fight against the poochyena, and it is really easy, since your starter is at lvl 5 and poochyena is at lvl 2.Just use your normal attacks, pound/scratch/tackle to win. A little chat will start with the professor, and you will end up in his lab. You will officially recieve the pokemon you chose, and you can nickname it if you want to. He will ask you to see his daughter, your rival, at route 103, so let's head there!
Leave the lab and head north, past the site where you battled earlier and you will find a small town, Oldale Town.. If your pokemon has ben hurt, heal it at the pokemon center, and then head north again. Head through the grass and you will see your rival north. Go and talk to her, and prepare to battle! She will have the pokemon that has an advantage over yours, Trecko if you chose mudkip, torchic if you chose treecko, and mudkip if you chose torchic. She won't be so hard either, if you took your potion from your computer it will be even easier, just hit her with normal attacks, and heal with potion if your HP runs low. She will head back to littleroot when you have won. Do so too, healing at the pokemon center if you wish. Go to the lab, and talk to professor Birch. He will give you the pokedex, and May will give you 5 pokeballs to catch pokemon with.
On to Rustboro City
Leave the lab, and head north, your mom will interrupt you, and give you the running shoes. Press and hold B when walking to run. Head to Oldale town, but this time, head west. There are several trainers on this route, route 102. Beat them all, they should be very easy, and you will reach Petalburg City. Heal your pokemon at the pkmn center if needed and buy some balls or potions if you want to. Then head to the north of the city to find a gym. Go inside and you will find your dad, the gym leader of that gym. Talk to him, and eventually a boy will come and ask for a pokemon. Your dad will ask you to follow him, and you will see when the boy, Wally, catch a Ralts. You will then come back to the gym, and Wally will thank you. Wally will be a half rival too, and fight you at various places. Wally will leave, and you will be left with your dad. But to battle him, you first need 4 gym badges. Leave the gym, and head west, and you'll come to route 104. Here is only one trainer in your path, and he is easy to beat.If you want more battles, there is trainer on the beach too. Head along the path to reach Petalburg Woods. And as all forests, it is infected by bug pokemon. Here are some trainers, and a team aqua/team magma trainer. Well inside Petalburg woods, head left and battle the trainer, head north and then east to find a person who starts to talk with you. After a while, a team aqua/magma member will show up, and you have to battle him!!!
Battle: Team Aqua/Magma Grunt
Pokemon: Poochyena lvl 9
This is a very easy battle, provided you have leveled up your starter some and caught one or two pokemon. The only thing you have to do is attack him with your new learned attack: Ember/water gun/Quick attack and you will do fine. When you have beat him, he will leave and the man you save will give you a great ball. He then will leave. Head north until you come out of the forest. Talk to the person next to the entrance to receive TM 09, Bullet Seed. Go to the building in front of you and talk to the girl walking back and forth in the back of the house to receive wailmer pail. If you plant berries, water them with this to make them grow. Head right, battling the trainers there, and then across the bridge. There, if you have 2 or more pokemon, you can talk to the twins and battle them, your first 2 on 2 battle!!! When you win, head north and you will come to Rustboro City.
Rustboro Gym: Youngster Ralph, Geodude lvl 10, geodude lvl 8, geodude lvl 6
Youngster Tommy, Geodude Lvl 11
When you come to Rustboro, go to the pokemon center, heal, and head to the pokemon gym. The types used there is rock, and the first two trainers are easy but then comes....
Rustboro City Gym Leader Roxanne
Pokemon: Geodude lvl 14. Nosepass lvl 15
Badge: Stone Badge (Heightens Attack Power, enables use of cut outside battle)
This is a pretty hard battle, especially if you choosed Torchic as your starter. If you have Mudkip, use water gun, and with treecko, use absorb. And of course heal when needed. If you have torchic, you might want to catch Shroomish in Petalburg woods, as it has absorb, or ralts, the psychic pokemon which Wally caught. It can be found at that patch where Wally caught it, but it is rare. Also, you could get Torchic to 16, and it will evolve into Combusken, and will learn double kick, which will make it much easier for you. When you win. You will get the stone badge, and TM39, Rock Tomb. When you leave the gym, you will see a Team Aqua/Magma member run away from the screen, and the person you saved in Petalburg woods running after. Go to the pokemon center if you need to, and then to the house left of the poke center. You will receive HM 01, cut, which will enable you to cut down small trees.
