Gold Cea 199 route so far

Pokemon Gold Catch em all Glitchless 199
discontinued, since no time to actually optimize the route :(
Check my PB on my youtube channel or my Speedrun dot com page if anything is unclear (thanks pastebin for not letting me use links, everyone is so much safer now :) ).
Since I did a lot of small changes during the run, my PB might not fully reflect the notes below, be aware of that.

If you have any questions about this run/route, feel free to ask me.


For Raikou/Suicune Manip, after Entei Manip, save on the tile in the video, reset and continue on F12 and follow the movement
These are some cues:
F10:	r
F11:	l

F12:	D:	Manip

F13:	D
F14:	r

If you are using the same Entei (imo good enough stats for a main, obviously good enough if you don't main it until kanto) maybe exploring Frame 7 might be better to distinguish between the 3 frame cluster around the target frame, but I couldn't find a combination of Movment that results in Raikou and Suicune to be on the same route.
For Even better improvement, find a Entei/Raikou Manip that has all 3 roamers on the same route (I couldn't find that manually, but also didn't really look for it since I didn't understand how roamer manips work ig)

One other improvement to this "route" that doesn't evolve manips (I think this run has limitless potential for manips lol) is getting even more Masterballs (I got 38 i think) to normalize even more of the catching.
At that point you probably want to do Bug catching conntest earlier and reset if it goes very badly.
But yeah, all of that isn't really needed to beat my PB. Just a matter of getting luckier and/or making less mistakes (which I made plenty of xdd)
Would love to see someone beating this sometime, good luck :)



(soft routed untill kanto minus fights i think)
*Notes for the finalized route:
Since you want to be doing something while the eggs hatch, I'll probably reorder things in the following way:
	-After Chuck: get extra Masterballs (prob while keeping track of RTC for later Manips and have nightime, more info later)
	-get Ditto and Eevee and put them into daycare
	-do lake of rage stuff (maybe togepi hatches here?)
	-get exp share and gastly
	-give exp share to gastly and do rocket HQ stuff
	-after that get magmar, get egg (if possible), and swap eevee with magmar
	-now do jasmine + pryce, go to blackthorn, get jynx on the way
	-get next egg and swap magmar with jynx
	-fight hiker on 45 for his number (do stuff that makes sense to do on the way and after, prob fight clair)
	-make marill outbreak and do mt.mortar (leave at least party space open for marill and tyrogue)
	-after that swap tyrogue for jynx and so
The specifics need to be figured out (especially finding roamer manips for after Clockreset would be huge), but this is what the ooptmal route kinda looks like.
Probably rush to kanto while the first tyrogue is in the day care, swap it with clefairy, hatch tyrogue and put the new one into day care and then grind encounters to have tyrogue at a higher level.
All of these things should be done with the minimal amount of catching, so that when you grind for rarer encounters like Miltank and Tauros and/or you take extra steps for outbreaks to happen, you are still making progress towards egg hatching.
One thing I like to avoid is having to bike around for 30 min at the end just to hatch the final pokemon.



Manip list(Paranthesis mark manips that aren't made yet):
Notes on Later Manips:
Stepcount is very important for Manips to work, so make sure not to take extra steps and follow the step route perfectly.
Entei Manip plans to pickup any useful items, just so if you take extra steps you may have a Chance to fix your missteps.
I recommend skipping the XATK in Union Cave and/or the full heal to be at -6/-6 steps. Gonna try to make a Video of the route up to Entei Manip (or suicune Manip)

    LID Manip
    (TID Manip for optimal Headbutt trees and good clock reset code, depends on the Money amount before Luckiest Lottery trick)
    Toto Manip
    R29 Manip first pass
    R29 Manip second pass
    Don Manip
    Sandshrew Manip
    Entei Manip* could still be improved, but is good enough
for now
    Suicune/Raikou Manip* could be slightly improved, but really good currently
    (add encounter Manips for some mons| 1%s especially Chansey)

Remark about stepcount:
    Stepcount needs to be exact until Entei Manip, otherwise it won't work.
    For that keep in mind that following actions change stepcount
	-Repel wear out is also -1 step xdd (found that out the hard way)
    -Ledgehops -1
    -Walking in the sight of a trainer(esp relevant for Spinners) -1
    -Getting a phone call while walking -1
	-Leftside Kimonos instead of rightside is -2 steps
    -It is very easy to fix your stepcount if you took less steps
    -If you took more steps, you could either skip some items in Ilex forest or in the worst case: note how many steps you took, then walk 256-(the bonus steps) after ecruteak center then teleport (or be smart abt it lol)
	-If you want to fix your stepcount, do it before Dick (Trainer after Rival 3) to reach the saving point with psn stepcount 0 (appearently resets after battle, just keep that in mind)


Do LID Manip
Start a timer and soft reset at the same time and Keep that timer running until the last Clock reset before the last manip
Start the game on SS0 (Timer at ~1:00.5)
Name yourself a 1 Letter name

Do Toto Manip, take off Berry and do R29 Manip (could check TID before the save and put it into the Clock reset website)
Defeat any Wild Encounter until Ralph (Goldeen Trainer later)
Get the Potion after Mr.Pokemon house and get the berry on the way down

Rival:  Leer, Tackle spam
Name Rival A
(Make sure not to catch anything extra before suicune manip)
Do R29 manip second Pass

Mikey:  Rage/Scratch spam

Give berry to toto (heal) and call mom before Don Manip(very important!!!)

Abe:    Rage spam (swap Rage to slot 1)
(heal)
Rod:    Rage spam
(heal)
Falkner:    Rage spam

don't jump the Ledge before the center unless you get the Potion on R32 (maybe if no Potion left)
Center+ get Egg
Get PRZCUREBERRY

Albert: Scratch spam/Rage spam if 15 ATK

Get Super Pot
Turn without walking to get an encounter if you still need exp
Ralph:  Leer, Scratch spam

Ideally kill up to 2 ground type encounters, unless you get hit by Daniel (Keep in mind that you will be -1 steps if he sees you)

Russel: WG spam

Sandshrew Manip (only to guarantee no Bill hit, since it is actually not much faster on average)
Pick up the X ATK (-6 steps if skipped)
Dodge Anthony
pickup Full heal first (from the right side), then shop, then Kurt
Azalea Shop:
- 2 Super Pot
- 2 Escape Rope
- 7 Repel
- 3 Antidote

Repel 1 step after exiting Kurts House (no ledgehop)

Slowpoke well (talk to the first 2 trainers)
Grunt1+2:   WG spam
get the super potion
Grunt3:     Rage spam
Grunt4:     WG spam


Do Bugsy gym (don't ledgehop on the way)

Fight twins from the right

Amy&May:    2Scratch, 2 WG
Josh:       Leer, Scratch
Dodge Benny
(could save here)
Bugsy:      Rage spam (pray)

1 step before Rival 2
equip PRZCUREBERRY
heal
repel
teach FC in slot 2 (over Leer)
save!!!
Rival2:     2WG, 3 FC, 2WG

After rival 2
teach Cut over slot 3 (Scratch) before the tree and repel
get extra Full heal and Super Pot then HB(maybe skip Full heal to have some room for error on step count (-6), can skip Super pot (-4) if you did alot of mistakes, but generally a bad Idea to skip healing items here)
teach HB in next repel menu over slot 1 (Rage)
get sweet scent (could skip and get later if needed -6)
go around the left side of the sign to avoid the spinner
can cut last grass patch to avoid Encounters
get bike, register, go to whitney

Connie:     HB spam
save!!!
Whitney:    FC spam
teach Bite over Slot 2 (FC) (could be skipped, but has good upside)
get squirtbottle, then Kenya
UnderGround
Teru:       HB spam or Bite if you have it
other guy:  3WG, HB

Coin case (extra Super pot)
get Abra (note Money)
get Master Ball
Save Right after getting the Masterball, reset the Clock (down select b in the title screen), set the time to Sunday 6:00PM
repeat until the Timer for SS0 is close to 1:00:00
on the last Clock reset confirm the time when SS0 timer is at ~1:01:00.5 for Entei Manip (you want at least 4 Masterballs)
teleport to violet (don't center)

violet shop:
buy
-2 awakenings

go to sudowoodo skip save and masterball it

After the Catch get rocksmash!!! (Entei Manip is dead if you forget)
bike up to ecruteak and enter center and take center heal

do Kimonos starting with jolteon (start with Flareon if FDFF, -2 steps)
Kimonos:    HB spam basically
don't jump the ledge after the fights

heal, repel, teach Surf in Slot 4 (watergun), teach Rocksmash over FC if no Bite, teach it over Bite if not FDFF and L24
go to Burnt Tower
*You could save before Rival 3
with the berry you only really die to Tshock crit + RL crit (and a few Tshock + RL crits), but Magnet can miss supersonic and Bayleef isnt 100% to use RL and can flinch, but up to you, dying means resetting bc of step count and stuff

Rival 3
Haunter:	Surf
|if curse swap to kenya and let it faint, if no curse amnd Haunter lives setup on haunter, since smart AI can't use Curse if they are below 25% HP
Magnemite:	X ATK, Surf	|Thundershock 20-24 (35-42)
Bayleef:	2 HB	|Razorleaf 25-30 (45-54)
Zubat:	Surf

If you still Need to waste some steps do it now

Dick:	Surf
free the roamers and escape rope (heal poison)

After Tower go straight down along the right side of the houses
save facing right in the lowest row before loading that one NPC (specific Location will be in the manip Video eventually)
Repel+Save for Manip

After the Manip swap Entei to top and teleport
bike to Morty gym (be carefull of steps)


swap Ember to Slot 1
Ping:		Ember spam
Jeffrey:	Ember 85%
Martha:		Ember spam
Morty:		Ember spam| Haunter2 is 33%

teach Stomp Slot 3 (Leer)

Repel before the grass
get Nugget on moomoo farm (take the steps so that the spinner can't barely see you)
take the optimal path to Olivine (watch a top Level run for that)
Olivine shop:
buy a few Super repels (For now 5?)

Talk to Alfred
swap Ember and Stomp
Alfred:		Stomp
Preston:	Stomp
Talk to connie
Connie:		Stomp

skip ernest, prob spam Stomp if he hits you idk
menu Right after Talking to Jasmine
Repel and Escape rope

Get strength, teach it on Kaylee pass, over slot 2 (Roar)
go left most and bike to Chuck

Chuck Gym

Yoshi:		Strength
Lao:		Stomp, Strength
Nob:		Strength, stomp+Strength
Lung:		Strength spam

Chuck:		Xatk Srength, Stomp+Strength

after chuck gym get Fly, Secretpotion, then center
in Center deposit at least egg, Abra and sudowoodo (can also depo croc then Entei the sudo+egg and withdraw croc+Entei, if Kenya still lives
get shuckle then teach Fly to Kenya
swap croc to the top

Fly to ecruteak go to saving spot, repel and save (Maybe repel on fly teach?)
After getting raikou fly to ecruteak, buy great balls
Now do lake of rage
get ultraball
surf there
After surf grind for mareep and catch good stuff on the way
on the route before lake of rage, stall for girafarig and Flaafy, noctowl is good, bbut not needed
Rocksmash to weaken, heal if low yadayada
(can use Ultraball for Flaafy if are dmged below 1/3, between 73-92%)
Go around the left side to lake of rage and get:
FR, Candy, Detect, Hiddenpower

fly to gyarados masterball it, save weaken with HB and use great balls if not enough masterballs (want to have 2 for Ho-oh, Lugia| better to save extra masterballs for Snorlax, Mantine, Ditto as they have horrible catch rates)
dmg gyrados to at least 1/3 HP and chuck great balls (reset if you use too many or gyara dies)
Talk to lance afterwards

||until here it is figured out i think, next get exp share, gastly, eevee, ditto and put stuff in daycare, Details will follow, below is from the previous route idea

fly to violet get exp share from mr.Pokemon
fly to violet get candy+PPup (change to nighttime)

Do Sprout Tower (do it with Croconaw) and get Flash/Escape rope, stall for gastly
chuck rest of poke balls (can't really weaken it with current party, but at full 25%/33% with poke/greatballs, can save if low on balls)
after roping out
fly to ecruteak get gastly and equip exp share
bike down cut tree (maybe fight abra guy before)
fight Bugcatcher

Saving before most catches is a good strat, in case you get unucky and/or waste a lot of balls

grind for Nidoranm, Nidoranf, Ditto, Drowzee
if Nidorans are caught move on
Bike down to Golden rod and get eevee (depo before)
get Ditto around day care if still needed
If Ditto is caught put it together with Eevee into the daycare
get the rarecandy, catch Drowzee if still needed (can also easily delay this)

fly to Mahagony and do Hideout

Items to get in Hideout:
    Xacc next to jed
    Hyperpotion
    Nugget

    Thief

    Protein

Rocket Hideout

Rocket1/2:	Stomp/strength spam
Jed:		Ember spam

Lance heal
(Fire spin neer Kills, unless explicitly stated)
Rocket3:	any, any
Ross:		Ember/strength twice
Rocket4:	any, any
Rocket5:	Stomp/strength
Rocket6:	any
Rocket7:	3 any
Exec1:		any, Strength, Ember/strength
Exec2:		Strength, Strength/Ember, Stomp/strength

can save before first Electrode to "guarantee" the catch or masterball
Ember + Great ball  to catch one Elctrode (can also Firespin), below 33% with great ball is 27-34%
Strength them to kill (87% range on perfect electrodes)

Jasmine:	Ember Magnemites, could Firespin+Ember Steelix to avoid the heal
Douglas:	Strength Shellder, Ember Cloyster (89% range)
Pryce:		Strength, Stomp+Strength, Stomp+Ember

Now rush Blackthorne, prioritize catching Jynx
Get Max revive and Ultraball before Icepath
In Icepath catch Swinub and jynx
Items to get
    Waterfall
    Carbos (Fall down, down left)
    Maxpotion(fall down, up left and hidden rock)
    Rest
    Iron
    PPup

Sell stuff in Blackthorne
buy:    All Ultraballs (should be enough for now)

go back into icepath if no jynx, and grind for it

Fly to Daycare check for egg (should be there)
swap eevee with jynx
hold eggs as long as party space allows for it(always have: Entei, Kenya, Croc, Ghost)

Change to daytime on a Bug catching day

Fly to ecruteak, enter burnt tower
get
    Endure
    Nugget
    HPup
    Ultraball

then grind for Magmar (also get Koffing and Zubat)
get Aipon and Heracross (can flee) to the right of ecruteak (or on lake of rage if unlucky)

If you got everything listed, Enter the center and swap to Box2 (18)

get Weepingbell, Tangela (can flee), Lickitung, bellsprout (can be skipped for later)

get Stantler (could get Growlith while doing it)

save before (Pineco has selfdestruct)
get exeggcute, Pineco , Caterpie (can be skipped for later)


Do Bugcatching Contest
lead Entei
get scyther, Pinsir, Weedle
win twice (if bored can delay to later ig)

get dig in national park

If you still need to win:
Catch   L14 Pinsir/Scyther
        L14 Butterfree/Beedrill
	    L18 Metapod/Kakuna if you don't have it
        Venonat

if needed just catch Pinsir/Scyther until you win (reset if you lose)

get sunkern after being done with the contest

check daycare for egg
swap Jynx with Magmar if egg
gve exp share to croc if not gatr yet
now do radiotower section (ideally with 2 eggs in party)

Box2 is at around 12-16 ish

After Radiotower check Daycare for egg put magmar into PC (swap to box3 ?)

After that, it should be time for mt.Mortar, so have Togepi in Party for flash
before Mt. Mortar we gonna do Blackthorne and the route below (+dragons den)
maybe could get Raikou before Clair?
Otherwise, xitems, strength, Return should be enough to force Entei through that gym

since I don't need thief anymore, could just teach haunter thief to weaken normal types

After Clair gym
Do Dragonsden (Repel if you have magikarp), escape rope afer getting the badge
Now do Route 45
Catch:
    Teddiursa (can flee)
    Gligar
    (Geodude
    (graveler
continue after getting Gligar+Teddi

Enter Dark cave and get Wobuffet (geos if you haven't yet, can also get Golbat)

After that go down the left side and fight hiker Parry (get his number)

get good items
    left side down Nugget
    again l s d revive
    after, right side water PPup

Then go all the way down
repel with Lv 5 for Jigglypuff

Start the Marill swarm
Fly to ecruteak, center
either get a mon that learns Waterfall out of the pc, or make space and catch
only have: Entei, Gyarados, Haunter in the Party
teach gyrados the moves


(actually, do the catching after getting tyrogue, you need the party space
details need to be figured out)
Enter mt Mortar
grind for marill at the entrance floor, surf encounters are Goldeen and Seaking (maybe get those to teach waterfall?)
after Marill use Waterfall and go further in
surf to the left for a candy
no further items on Candy floor
candy floor can spawn Raticate, and Machoke
floor after that has Iron (nugget is pretty far out of the way), and max revive
Next floor has Tyrouge (fight trainer to the right)
Carbos and PPup on that floor

aftter that exit
check daycare and depo tyrogue if egg
fly to ecruteak
Fight top left trainer on Miltank route
start outbreak of snubull
then catch:
    Snubull
    Magnemite
    Farfetch'd
    Tauros
    Miltank

Fight arnie on R35 to start Yanma outbreak
catch yanma

Then fly to azalea
get charcoal have day set to friday
do slowpoke well
catch Slowpoke(surf)
fight anthony for his number and do union cave
catch
    wooper
    quagsire
    lapras

exit to ruins of alph (upper exit)
catch
    smeargle
    natu (can flee?)

do dunsparce

do one of the puzzles and catch unown

next up is the way to E4
prob super repel before surfing to the right
get Rarecandy
go to tohjo falls (daytime)

in Tohjo falls pickup Moonstone
get Sandslash, dodou on next route, Ponyta, Dodrio if they show up

enter VR
grind for Rhyhorn, get Ursaring, Golbat(if missing), Graveler(if missing)| skip onix, catching sucks in this game

Do E4 (lol) (get a few Max repels and Fullrestore| maybe 10 each?)

After E4 get SS Ticket and Masterball
get Sentret on R29 if still needed
Check egg
go to vermillion
prob do the powerplant quest while leveling something up with the exp share
make sure to have eggs in the party
after unlocking everything in Kanto check egg again, only need 2 tyrogue eggs, jigglypuff egg for now (Pichu, cleffa, elekid,chansey2)