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Pokémon FireRed Deluxe: Before the first badge

What opens up at this point in the game, and everything you can catch by now that you couldn't before.

✓ Pallet Town, Routes 1, 2 and 22, Viridian City and Viridian Forest, the Egress Cave and the Evergreen Garden, up to Brock in Pewter City. The Old Rod is in Pewter City.

Now usable

  • Walk in grass, or on a cave floor
  • Fish with the Old Rod — Old Rod — given in Pewter City
  • A one-off Pokémon: a gift, a fossil, one standing in a fixed spot, or a trade

Newly reachable

Newly catchable (43)

TMs you can now pick up

  • TM10 Hidden Power — Pewter City (pick-up)
  • TM26 Earthquake — Viridian City (pick-up)
  • TM39 Rock Tomb — Pewter City (pick-up)
  • HM05 Flash — Route 2 (pick-up)

Bosses around here

Walkthrough, part 1: where to go from here and what is in each area →