Pokemon Red/Blue - Mew%

*Pokemon Red/Blue*
Gameboy (1998)

Mew% (Teleport Glitch)

Speedrun Strategies
by 26pt2 (aka twenty6pt2 on SRL or wazzumz on YouTube)

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Trainer Teleport Glitch
The method for obtaining Mew requires the use of this glitch, which enables you to teleport (as well as escape rope/dig/fly) away from a trainer whose vision for seeing you is one tile away from being offscreen. This loads a battle in the area you're in. However, since you teleport away, the game enters a confused state where you are unable to access the menu unless you fight a trainer. The trainer you battle MUST walk at least one tile towards you. When you return to the area where you escaped the battle, a pokemon loads based off the special stat of the last pokemon you battled. This happens because you initiated a battle there yet never completed it. Thus, the game needs to substitute in something to load a battle when you return.
-2dos

For the sake of this run, teleport is the method of choice for escaping from the first trainer that is just to the left of Nugget Bridge because Abra is readily available right after beating Misty. The second trainer battled is a Youngster that has a Slowpoke. Unlike my video below, simply walk down-left  towards Nugget Bridge. The menu will automatically appear. Press B to begin the battle with Mew.

Here is a video from one of my first attempts at catching Mew live on stream:
http://youtu.be/-OjO-A2pYKc?t=1h34m31s

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Notes

Gym 1: Pewter City
-Grab potion from PC
-Squirtle (Atk 11 / Spd 10 / Spe 11)
-Talk to the person for a potion on route 1
-Fight a level 2 Rattata for experience
-Grab the hidden potion in the bush next to the old man in Viridian City
-Grab the hidden potion in the tile to the left of the last bug catcher
-Weedle (tail whip -> tackle) use antidote AFTER fight if poisoned
-Dodge gym trainer
-Brock (bubble)
-Given TM34

Gym 2: Cerulean City
-Sell TM34
-Mart: 9 poke balls, 3 antidotes, 11 potions, 1 paralyze heal
-Use a potion
-Bug Catcher (bubble / tail whip -> tackle / bubble)
-Shorts Guy (bubble / tail whip -> tackle)
-Bug Catcher (bubble)
-Bug Catcher (bubble / water gun)
-Catch a Spearow or Pidgey
-Grab rare candy and escape rope in Mt. Moon (money used on potions and poke balls)
-Grab TM01 mega punch
-Teach mega punch (TM01) over tackle
-Catch Paras (if encountered)
-Team Rocket member (water gun / mega punch)
-Squirtle evolves -> Wartortle
-Super Nerd (mega punch / mega punch -> water gun / water gun)
-Grab the Helix Fossil
-Grab hidden great ball (walk right from Mt. Moon to the first raised platform, then up 3 tiles, face left)
-Catch Sandshrew (if needed)
-Heal at the Pokemon Center in Cerulean City
-Jr. Trainer (tail whip -> mega punch)
-Misty (tail whip 4x -> mega punch 2x)
-Given TM11

Bill's House
-Heal at the Pokemon Center
-Grab hidden rare candy behind the house in Cerulean City (up 1, right 5)
-Rival fight (water gun -> bubble / mega punch / water gun / mega punch)
-Nugget Bridge (water gun)
-Grab TM45
-Catch Abra (save the great ball for Mew)
-Hiker on right (water gun)
-Teleport and heal at Pokemon Center
-Trainer Fly glitch
-Slowpoke (tail whip -> mega punch)
-Use bubble twice to weaken Mew
-Catch Mew using the great ball
-Teach bubblebeam (TM11) to Mew
-Change the battle option to shift
-Youngster (mega punch)
-Mew should reach level 9
-Lass (mega punch -> water gun for both nidos)
-Mew should reach level 10
-Jr. Trainer (mega punch / water gun -> bubble)
-Mew should reach level 11
-Lass (mega punch -> water gun / water gun -> bubble / mega punch -> water gun)
-Mew should reach level 12
-Change the battle option to set (Mew is taking over!)
-Youngster (bubblebeam)
-Mew should reach level 13
-Hiker (bubblebeam)
-Mew should reach level 15
-Hiker (bubblebeam)
-Mew should reach level 16
-Grab S.S. Anne ticket from Bill
-Use the Escape Rope

Gym 3: Vermillion City
-Use the Pokemon Center
-Sell TM45
-Mart: 3 potions
-Team Rocket member (bubblebeam / pound)
-Mew should reach level 17
-Grab the hidden full restore (left 1 tile -> jingle skip)
-Jr. Trainer girl (bubblebeam)
-Mew should reach level 18
-Jr. Trainer boy (bubblebeam -> pound / bubblebeam 2x -> pound)
-Mew should reach level 19
-Mart: 6 super potion, 3 repels
-Item management (swapping stuff around)
-Gentleman (bubblebeam -> pound)
-Mew should reach level 20 and learn mega punch
-Grab rare candy on the S.S. Anne (4th door)
-Rival (bubblebeam / bubblebeam / mega punch / mega punch)
-Mew should reach level 22
-Use rare candies (level 22 -> level 25)
-Grab HM01
-Teach dig (TM28) to Squirtle (or Paras or Sandshrew)
-Teach cut (HM01) to Paras or Sandshrew
-Trash cans :(
-Lt. Surge (mega punch)
-Given TM24

Rock Tunnel
-Grab the Bike Voucher from the Chair of the Pokemon Fan Club
-Dig to Cerulean City
-Use the Pokemon Center
-Exchange the voucher for a bicycle
-Item management (swapping stuff around)
-Teach thunderbolt (TM24) to Mew (over transform)
-Jr. Trainer (mega punch, swap around moves -> bubblebeam 1st / mega punch 2nd / pound 3rd / thunderbolt 4th)
-Mew should reach level 26
-Bug Catcher (mega punch / mega punch / mega punch -> pound)
-Enter Rock Tunnel
-Use repel
-Pokemaniac (bubblebeam / thunderbolt)
-Mew should reach level 27
-Pokemaniac (thunderbolt)
-Jr. Trainer (mega punch -> pound)
-Mew should reach level 28
-Use the 2nd repel around the corner
-Hiker (bubblebeam)
-Use the 3rd repel
-Jr. Trainer (mega punch)
-Mew should reach level 29
-Exit Rock Tunnel
-Grab hidden max ether (bottom of rock on the right side)
-Gambler (bubblebeam)
-Grab hidden nugget (left from the stairs for about 5 seconds of walking)
-Grab hidden elixer (down 3, right 7)

Mart
4th floor
-Sell nuggets, remaining pokeballs, paralyze heal, antidote, and potions
-Buy poke doll

5th floor (left guy)
-Buy 10 x accuracy
-Buy 8 x speed
-Buy 2 x special

6th floor
-Buy 2 fresh water
-Buy 1 soda pop
-Give the girl a soda pop for TM48
-Give the girl a fresh water for TM13

2nd floor
-Buy TM07
-Buy 11 super repels
-Buy 1 revive

Poke Flute
-Grab HM02 at the secret hideout
-Teach fly (HM02) to pidgey or spearow
-Teach horn drill (TM07) over pound
-Teach rock slide (TM48) over bubblebeam
-Item management (swapping stuff around)
-Use a super repel
-Fly to Lavender Town (down 3)
-Fight rival (use X accuracy / thunderbolt pidgeotto / horn drill the rest)
-Mew should reach level 30
-Do not learn metronome
-Channeler 1 (rock slide)
-Mew should reach level 31
-Grab the elixer
-Grab hidden elixer (right and down after heading upstairs)
-Healed
-Channeler 2 (rock slide)
-Channeler 3 (rock slide)
-Grab rare candy
-Ghost (use pokedoll, down 8 times)
-Team Rocket member 1 (thunderbolt)
-Mew should reach level 32
-Team Rocket member 2 (thunderbolt / mega punch)
-Team Rocket member 3 (thunderbolt)
-Grab pokeflute

Silph Co.
-Fly to Celadon City (down 1)
-Heal at the Pokemon Center
-Bike to Saffron City
-Grab TM29 from the bottom-right house
-Teach psychic (TM29) over thunderbolt (press down 3 times)
-Bike to Silph Co.
-Take the elevator to the 10th floor
-Team Rocket member 1 (psychic)
-Mew should reach level 33
-Grab the carbos and rare candy
-Grab TM26
-Teach ice beam (TM13) over mega punch (down 2)
-Teach earthquake (TM26) over rock slide (mash a)
-Head down to the 9th floor
-Enter the teleporter (bottom-right room)
-Team Rocket member 2 (psychic)
-Mew should reach level 34
-Grab the card key
-Exit and re-enter the teleporter
-Use the card key in the bottom-left room
-Enter the teleporter
-Walk right, then up
-Use the card key to open the door on the left
-Enter the teleporter
-Rival (X accuracy / X speed / horn drill / quake Growlithe and Alakazam)
-Mew should reach level 35
-Team Rocket member 3 (ice beam / earthquake -> psychic / ice beam)
-Mew should reach level 36
-Giovanni (X accuracy / psychic / horn drill / ice beam / horn drill)
-Mew should reach level 37

Safari Zone
-Dig to Celadon City
-Use the pokeflute to wake up Snorlax (run)
-Use a super repel
-Grab the hidden rare candy (third column from the right in the grass, two rows above the biker)
-Grab the hidden pp up (at least 10 tiles beneath the second biker after the grass)
-Bike to Fuchsia City
-Go to Safari Zone
-Use a repel
-Use carbos and pp up (horn drill)
-Bike
-Use 2nd repel at the lone ball
-Grab Gold Teeth
-Grab HM03 Surf
-Exit the house

Gym 4: Celadon City
-Dig to Celadon City
-Go to the gym
-Beauty (ice beam)
-Erika (psychic / ice beam / psychic)
-Mew should reach level 38

Gym 5: Fuchsia City
-Fly to Fuchsia City (down 2)
-Juggler 1 (quake -> ice beam)
-Mew should reach level 39
-Use elixer and heal
-Juggler 2 (quake -> ice beam / quake)
-Koga (X accuracy / psychic both Koffing / horn drill the rest)
-Mew should reach level 40

Gym 7 (6th in the run): Cinnabar Island
-Give the Warden his Gold Teeth for HM04
-Teach strength (HM04) to Wartortle or Sandshrew
-Teach surf (HM03) to Wartortle
-Grab the rare candy
-Fly to Pallet Town
-Use a repel
-Use rare candies (level 40 -> level 44)
-Surf to Cinnabar Island
-Enter Pokemansion
-Head upstairs
-Walk around to the top set of stairs
-Head upstairs
-Press the secret switch
-Fall down the ledge (down-right)
-Head downstairs
-Walk to the room on the left
-Use a repel
-Press the secret switch
-Walk around to the right side of the room
-Press the secret switch in the top-right room with the beds
-Grab the rare candy in the room next to the room with beds
-Grab the hidden rare candy (top-left corner in the room with the secret key)
-Use the rare candies (level 44 -> level 46)
-Grab the secret key
-Dig back to Celadon City
-Fly to Cinnabar Island (down 2)
-Go to the gym
-To make things a little easier, for each quiz console, press A to initiate the text, then mash this button for each console:
	-1st: A
	-2nd: B
	-3rd: B
	-4th: B
	-5th: A
	-6th: B
-A helpful tip: the first is A, then the whole second column of the Gym is all B, then A, then B again.
-Blaine (earthquake / psychic Arcanine 2x)

Gym 6 (7th in the run): Saffron City
-Dig back to Celadon City
-Fly to Saffron City (down 1)
-Teleporters: up-left, down-left, down-left
-Sabrina (earthquake / X accuracy horn drill / psychic / horn drill)
-Mew should reach level 47

Gym 8: Viridian City
-Enter the teleporter
-Dig back to Celadon City
-Fly to Viridian City (up 1)
-Cool Trainer (ice beam)
-Blackbelt (psychic)
-Mew should reach level 48
-Exit and re-enter the gym
-Toss an extra item
-Giovanni (ice beam, psychic, psychic, psychic, ice beam)
-Mew should reach level 49
-Given TM27

Victory Road
-Teach fissure (TM27) over earthquake
-Heal
-Use a repel
-Bike to Victory Road
-Rival (X accuracy / horn drill Pidgeot and Gyarados / fissure the rest)
-Mew should reach level 50
-Use a repel after surfing
-Bike to Victory Road
-Use strength to move the boulders (have to redo on each floor)
-Use a repel at the 2nd boulder
-Use a repel at the trainer couple in the bottom-left of the room (the longest boulder pushing journey)

Elite Four
-Deposit every Pokemon except Mew (for faster in-game timer)
-Heal at the Pokemon Center
-Buy 10 full restores
-Lorelei (X accuracy / horn drill)
-Mew should reach level 51, then level 52
-Bruno (X accuracy / fissure)
-Mew should reach level 53
-Agatha (psychic)
-Mew should reach level 54
-Use max ether to restore pp of horn drill
-Heal
-Lance (X accuracy / horn drill / X speed / horn drill)
-Mew should reach level 55
-Use an elixer and heal
-Rival (X accuracy / X speed / horn drill)
-Mew should reach level 56, then level 57

The End

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