"Skill Kaizo" brainstorming (FireRed)

The rules below are designed to preserve the excitement Kaizo IronMON, but with a greater emphasis on skill and less emphasis on luck. These rules are for FireRed, but they could be modified for other games.

1. Add a move tutor to the lab and Viridian Forest who can teach any move, but you can only use this feature once
2. Add a salesman to the lab who sells all items for $600 each (or just good items, if the game has an inventory cap), but can't buy your items
3. You can choose any starter ball
4. All TMs are allowed to be taught
5. 100% TM and move tutor compatibility
6. 100% success rate for all balls
7. Everything is a dungeon (Viridian Forest, each route, each city, each building -- including centers and the lab)
8. You can re-enter up to 2 areas in order to reach Saffron City (typically done after Blaine/Route 21 by flying to Celadon --> Route 7)
9. Lavender Rival must be done later
10. You are allowed to cancel evolutions

Rule 2 is primarily designed to make up for lost experience in Viridian Forest and early Viridian Rival (since that fight is banned as a result of every route being a dungeon). You can just buy 5 candies to reach a reasonable level for Brock, or perhaps 4 candies and a PP Max.

Rules 1-3 make Rival 1 much easier, so the main luck-based reset point is neutralized.

Rules 1, 4 and 5 improve the odds of getting a winnable moveset, so runs are almost never lost to bad moves.

Rule 6 adds tons of difficulty. Not only are you forced to clear routes in one go, but you can't enter some areas at all, and you can only use each Pokemon Center once. This means most Pokemon will make it to the Elite Four at a much lower level, so they will struggle despite having amazing movesets. However, more seeds should be winnable with proper decision making, since you have so much control over your Pokemon's moves.

Rule 6 also reduces the amount of time spent backtracking for items, centering after every fight, etc. It should eliminate the boring parts of the run entirely. Of course, the run overall will require much more planning, so viewers who only want to watch gameplay and not strategy discussion will be bored.

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"Skill Kaizo" routing

- Get a good lab mon or Route 1/2/forest pivot mon (YOLO ball only)
- Buy candies and/or PP Maxes, generally use right away
- Clear as much of Viridian Forest as possible
- Center before Brock (after if you somehow have high HP and PP)
- Fight Brock
- Clear as much of Route 3 as possible (can center midway through or before Moon)
- Full clear Mt. Moon + take Cerulean Center OR min clear + do Nugget Bridge and Route 25 before centering
- Fight Misty + Route 6 trainers (Misty before Route 6 is required because of rule #6)
- Take Vermilion Center
- Clear as much of S.S. Anne as possible while leaving HP/PP for Surge's gym and 2-4 trainers on Route 9
- Fight Surge
- Take Rock Tunnel Center
- Fight Route 10 girl
- Clear as much of Rock Tunnel and the 4 trainers on Route 10 as possible
- Take Lavender Center
- Clear as much of Route 8 + Rocket Hideout as possible; fight Erika if you can
- Take Celadon Center
- Get Fly (this is required)
- Clear as much of Lavender Tower + Routes 12-15 as possible
- Take Fuchsia Center
- Fight Koga
- Get all Safari items (pre-Koga Safari misses 2)
- Fly back to Fuchsia to get Strength
- Clear as many Route 19-20 trainers as you can (get Seafoam items on the way)
- Take Cinnabar Center
- Complete mansion
- Fight Blaine
- Clear as many Route 21 trainers as you can
- Fly to Celadon (can do Vermilion/Lavender instead to clear some Route 6/8 trainers if you did Erika earlier)
- Fight Erika if you didn't earlier
- Bike to Saffron
- Clear Dojo
- Take Saffron Center
- Clear as much of Silph Co. as you can while leaving PP for Sabrina
- Fight Sabrina
- Fly to Viridian
- Take Viridian Center
- Fight Giovanni
- Fight Viridian Rival
- Skip Victory Road trainers unless somehow high on HP + PP
- Take Elite Four Center
- Beat Elite Four

ILLEGAL AREAS:
- Mom's house for healing
- Route 22 for early catches and early Viridian Rival
- Cerulean hidden item yard (requires entering a building twice)
- Route 11 (unless you do it after Surge while having Teleport on your main Pokemon and skipping Vermilion Center)
- Route 2 for items below Diglett's Cave
- Route 23 for early items
- Routes 16-18/Cycling Road (entering these forces you to Fly somewhere you've already been)
- Fuchsia hidden item yard (requires entering a building twice)
- Warden's house item (unless Erika is done early)
- Power Plant + Pokemaniac trainer outside
- Route 4 for Lass trainer

AREAS THAT CAN BE REVISITED FOR PROGRESSION REASONS:
- Pallet Town (once, to deliver Oak's Parcel)
- The lab (once, to deliver Oak's Parcel)
- Route 1 (twice, to deliver Oak's Parcel and to reach Viridian Forest)
- Viridian City (twice, to reach Viridian Forest and to reach the 8th gym)
- Cerulean City (twice, to reach Vermilion after Bill and to reach Route 9 after Surge)
- Route 5 (once, to reach Route 9 after Surge)
- Route 6 (once, to reach Route 9 after Surge)
- Route 10 (once, to reach the separate area south of Rock Tunnel on the way to Lavender)
- Lavender Town (once, to reach Pokemon Tower with the Silph Scope)
- Fuchsia City (once, to deliver the warden's Gold Teeth)
- Celadon/Cerulean/Lavender/Vermilion City + the route connecting to Saffron (once, to reach Saffron before flying to Fuchsia/Viridian)