How To Get To Vermilion City

Vermilion City is a bustling coastal city.

After the city itself, moored on the dock, is a large luxury liner, the S.S. Anne, which needs to be explored before it's possible to access this city's gym. Head to the dock and take on S.S. Anne right after checking out the city. However, you must have the S.S ticket in order to get on it (you can get it in Route 25 if you haven't gotten it yet).

PokéMart [edit]

Poké Mart
Poké Ball	200
Super Potion	700
Ice Heal	250
Awakening	200
Parlyz Heal	200
Repel	350

Vermilion City Gym [edit]

Try visiting S.S. Anne before accessing this gym, which is initially barred.

Lt. Surge is the leader. He's standing behind an electric field. You must activate two electric switches (which look like trash bins) to open the field. Stand next to a switch and press A to activate it. The second switch is always next to the first switch. Find the right combination by trial and error.

	Name	1st	2nd	3rd	Money
1	Dwayne	Pikachu 21	Pikachu 21		672
2	Baily	Voltorb 21	Magnemite 21		1,008
3	Tucker	Pikachu 23			1,656
GL	Lt. Surge	Voltorb 21	Pikachu 18	Raichu 24	2,400

This is an electric-type gym. Electric Pokémon are weak against ground-type attacks and electric-type attacks don't affect ground-type Pokémon. Using a ground-type Pokémon isn't a bad idea. Lt. Surge's best Pokémon is Raichu, fast and somewhat high leveled. It also uses Double Team, which causes your attacks to miss more often.

If you own a Geodude, use it to beat the gym. It will help against Lt. Surge's Pokémon, which do laughable damage, thanks to Geodude's immunity to Electric, resist to Normal and high Defense stat. Use Magnitude to defeat them.
Diglett is also very useful for beating the gym. It's fast and learns Magnitude too. Digletts can be found nearby in Diglett's Cave. It's recommended to use either of these two Pokémon.

Lt. Surge will award you the Thunder Badge upon defeat. This badge will slightly increase the Speed of your Pokemon, and allow you to use Fly outside of battle. Lt. Surge will also award you TM34 Shock Wave, a decent electric-type move that is unaffected by Accuracy losses.

Pokémon found [edit]

FireRed	Level	Encounter Rate	LeafGreen	Level	Encounter Rate
Surfing
Tentacool	5-40	100%	Tentacool	5-40	100%
Old Rod
Magikarp	5-10	100%	Magikarp	5-10	100%
Good Rod
Magikarp	5-15	20%	Magikarp	5-15	20%
Horsea	5-15	60%	Horsea	5-15	20%
Krabby	5-15	20%	Krabby	5-15	60%
Super Rod
Gyarados	15-25	15%	Gyarados	15-25	15%
Horsea	15-35	44%	Krabby	15-35	44%
Shellder	15-25	40%	Staryu	15-25	40%
Psyduck	25-35	1%	Slowpoke	25-35	1%

Trades [edit]

This trade can be found in the house with the orange roof, north of the gym.

Trade	For
Spearow	Farfetch'd

New Pokémon [edit]

#83 Farfetch'd
Farfetch'd, a ninja bird that beats enemies with a leek, is a solid fighter, and capable of learning Cut. Because it was traded, this particular Farfetch'd goes up levels 50% faster than normal Pokémon. Since it doesn't evolve, it really won't get much better than it is, so using for the long term isn't recommended.

Key items [edit]

The Vs. Seeker can be found in Vermilion's Pokémon Center. Highly recommended, it allows rematches with previously defeated trainers, making it easy to train Pokémon and earn money. The trainers may display stronger Pokémon and different dialogue in the rematches. Some trainers change more than once, requiring more than one rematch. There isn't quite a way to know which trainers change.
The Old Rod allows for fishing and is obtained from the house next to the Pokémon Center. However, it disappointingly mostly catches low level Magikarp.
In the green roofed house above the gym, there is a Pokémon Fan Club. The Chairman there will give you a Bike Voucher. Take it to the bike shop in Cerulean City and get a Bicycle.