Super Nerd Tom

Beating them gives you 8 × the last Pokémon's level in prize money.

Super Nerd Tom fields 3 Pokémon at level 9 in Route 8.

Fought at Route 8.

This is around No badges in the story — that page lists everything you can have caught by this point.

Types on this team: Electric ×3Steel ×3

	Pokémon	Ability & item	Moves	Base stats
	Magnemite Lv 9 ElectricSteel	Ability Aim 4 above the trainer base level	The game’s documentation doesn’t list this trainer’s exact moves. Level-up moves Magnemite knows by Lv 9 in Low Budget Crystal: Tackle Thundershock	HP25Attack35Defense70Sp. Atk95Sp. Def55Speed45Total325
	Magnemite Lv 9 ElectricSteel	Ability Aim 4 above the trainer base level	The game’s documentation doesn’t list this trainer’s exact moves. Level-up moves Magnemite knows by Lv 9 in Low Budget Crystal: Tackle Thundershock	HP25Attack35Defense70Sp. Atk95Sp. Def55Speed45Total325
	Magnemite Lv 9 ElectricSteel	Ability Aim 4 above the trainer base level	The game’s documentation doesn’t list this trainer’s exact moves. Level-up moves Magnemite knows by Lv 9 in Low Budget Crystal: Tackle Thundershock	HP25Attack35Defense70Sp. Atk95Sp. Def55Speed45Total325

How to beat this team

Shared weaknesses. Fighting hits 3 of 3, Fire hits 3 of 3, Ground hits 3 of 3.

Level to be ready for. Lv 9 — Magnemite, the highest on the team.

Fighting Pokémon you can have caught by this point. From this guide’s own encounter tables, by No badges:

• Farfetch'D — Ilex Forest, Lv 1
• Hariyama — Granite Cave B1F, Lv 1
• Machop — Mount Mortar 1F Inside, Lv 1
• Makuhita — Granite Cave B1F, Lv 1
• Mankey — Route 42, Lv 1
• Meditite — Mt. Pyre, Lv 1
• Tauros — Route 38, Lv 1

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