Pokemon Sapphire Classic: Abraful Routing

Pokemon Sapphire Classic
Abraful Routing
[Updated 26 Aug 2026]

- The idea is to skip most (if not all) optionals leading up to Dewford, then do old school Abra strats, killing encounters along the way
- If you didn't encounter (or manage to catch) Abra, you could still bail on the strat and attempt Abraless (probably with early Brawly)
- This would be ideal for most "standard" kips, i.e., neutral atk or low +atk, as it would allow both late Brawly and late Winona, as well as forgoing Flannery poison strats
- Since you also need to grind for a flyer in manipless, this could work well with YOLOing R116 (possibly repel at least once, since Abra isn't available here and exp yield is low for these encounters)

EXP ROUTING
- Assuming you fight at least Clark, with no encounters, you leave R116 with 2202 total exp
- Thus, you are short:
	> 333xp to L16 for Museum
	> 549xp to L18 for Grovyle
	> 823xp to L28 for Zangoose (early desert candy benchmark; assuming no early Laura)
	> 1326xp to L19 for Grovyle
	> 2292xp to L23 for Wattson's Voltorb (making X Speed practically impossible on neutral speed)
- In addition to wild exp, you could fight Laura early, as long as you have already evolved
- Early Laura means -273xp later in the route, which would have to be made up (could kill an encounter on R114, or something similar)
- Laura exp: 273
- Granite Cave exp yields:
	> Aron L9: 123
	> Aron L10: 137
	> Aron L11: 150
	> Aron L12: 164
	> Zubat L7: 54
	> Zubat L8: 61
	> Geodude L6: 62
	> Geodude L7: 73
	> Geodude L8: 83
	> Geodude L9: 93
	> Makuhita L6: 74
	> Makuhita L7: 87
	> Makuhita L8: 99
	> Makuhita L9: 111
	> Makuhita L10: 124
	> Sableye L9: 126
	> Sableye L10: 140
	> Sableye L11: 154
- If you desert candy early (before Zangoose), you are short 30xp to L34 for Winona (kill Kecleon?)

THEORETICAL SEQUENCE
- You fight Clark, but skip both Jose and Joey, killing any R116 encounters while you search for a flyer
- You (always?) fight Winston, so that you don't need to get Stardust and to make up for the little bit of lost money
- You kill Granite Cave encounters while looking for Abra, depending on your stats:
	> 20-23IV~ atk: 1326xp to get L19 for Grovyle (probably almost always combine with early Laura)
	> 24-29IV~ atk: 823xp to get L28 for Zangoose (early desert candy)
	> 30-31IV~ atk: As you get higher rolls on Machop, you could consider always doing standard Abraless+early Brawly (24 atk at L10)
- Teleport sequence would follow the old manipless route; you'd initially set your teleport point to Petalburg in case you end up doing Abraless, but if you caught Abra, you would just reset your teleport point to Mauville when you get there