Pokemon/BlackWhite/Walkthrough
Starting the Game
As usual, there's a long scene at the start of the game. Pick your name, then save after by pressing select, going down to the bottom, then hitting A twice.
Press Select again, go down to save again, then press Right. Hit A to open the options menu, then go right to set the speed to fast. Go down 5 to save and hit A to save your options. Save your game again if you want.
=== Select your starter. ===
Go to the bottom left corner of the room. Move all the way right until you hit something, then go up until you can go right.
Push down to be up against something and press A. If nothing happens, move right one step and press A again until you talk to someone. Keep pressing A until you hear a little jingle sound that goes on for a little while. You now have your three starter options presented to you.
If you want Snivy (grass type), just press A. If you want Tepig (fire type), hit right once then hit A. Lastly, if you'd prefer Aushawott (water type), press right Twice and hit A. Note: This decision cannot be changed later unless you start all over.
Press A a few times and you'll hear a little jingle to tell you you've picked it.
Two rival battles
Keep pressing A or B until the fight starts. The first is Bianca, so keep using your first attack (probably Tackle) until you win. Next you fight Cheren so do the same thing. Okay, so you won both fights, which means your starter is now at level 6 (it started at 5)
A few little scenes
Go all the way: Left, up, right, up, right. You'll find some steps to go down which is represented by a little bouncing sound. This throws you into a scene with your mom.
After this, go down all the way, then tap right and down until you leave the house (same sound as going down stairs). This is usually how you find exits of buildings.
Leaving will throw you into another quick scene.
To reach the southwest corner of town, keep going left, then down, until you cannot move in either direction anymore. Then take 3 or 4 steps right and go up to hit either the door of Bianca's house, or the side of the building. Search around for the door if you have to, but don't let yourself run north or you won't be near the house anymore.
Yet another little scene is in this house.
There's just one more little scene in the lab, which is a bit tricky to get into because Cheren blocks the entrance until you talk with him. We're stuck, right? Well not if you:
Go to the northwest corner,
Go right so you hit the side of the building, then go south and try to move right until you've gone around to the front of it. The person directly right is not Cheren, so go right to go around them and then talk to the next one you come to while moving right (keep clicking A).
You'll go through a scene; answer No (B) to the professor's first question (you don't likely want to nickname your pokemon), then Yes (A) to her second question (you want to help her).
Leave afterwards (south as usual).
Another scene runs as you leave and you'll receive a map, but more importantly the way out of town, which is the northeast exit, is no longer obstructed. Go there now.
A scene occurs as you leave, and afterwards sit back and listen to the how to catch a pokemon tutorial movie.
Basically, attack the pokemon so it's health is lowered to make it easier to catch. Then on the battle screen go left to items and press A, then right to pokeballs and press A several times until you throw one (if you have them). Hopefully you catch it and hear the jingle you heard in this scene, if not press A a few times on the next turn to try again.
Now just press A or B a few times to get through the rest of the scene; you'll receive some pokeballs from the professor.
Now would be an excelent time to save your game as we're now about to go through a route where there are pokemon to fight.
There are Patrit and lillipup on this path; catch them if you want, but I'm just going to snag a lillipup along the way so later I can evolve it into a low level Watchog and teach it strength to move big rocks out of the way.
Route 1
To cross Route 1 and reach Acumula town, just go north. You'll hear when you are walking in grass, which is important because this is when wild pokemon attacks happen. Fight your way north until you reach the end of the first patch, then: Go up 8 or so steps or until you can go right several steps. Now Go one step left, then up until you go through grass and hit someone. Talk to them to get a potion which heals pokemon when they are hurt. After this, just take a step left to go around this person, then run north for a while and you'll reach your next scene and the entrance to your next town. Press A instead of B at the start of the scene or you'll cancel it and have to press up to enter again. After the scene continue north until the new music starts.
Acumula town
Save. Pokemon centers are where you heal your pokemon, and in this town it's about 4 steps to the right of the entrance, and then up. Now search along this building for the door, but in this case you'll run into the professer so talk to her for a scene. Note: sometimes when searching for doors, you'll hit an object and have to tap down a time or two in order to continue right or left to go around it, then you can push up to hit it and continue your search. This will probably happen in this case too.
After the scene, the pokemon center music starts so run forward to the nurse and press A several times. You will hear your pokemon being healed. Make sure you do this as you cannot continue otherwise.
Go south and search left for the exit. After a bit of diologue go up to enter again.
Go right all the way, then 3 steps up and right all the way to reach the mart's top counter. The lower counter, which you could have reached by only doing one step up instead of 3, sells useless things like mail which you don't need. Press A.
After a few presses you'll hear the unusual beep that means you selected something, in this case it's buy. You start on poke balls, and pushing down will take you to potions. These are the only items available. Pressing A on one of them will ask you how many you want and you start on 1. Going up adds one each time, so go up 4 times if you want 5 pokeballs, for example.
After the ching sound which tells you that you bought something, pressing A until 2 more beeps brings you back to the item select screen and you'll start on whatever you just bought.
Go down to the next item if you want to buy something else, otherwise just keep hitting B until you are out.
Personally, I won't be buying anything at this time as I feel I can get through the next couple of areas on just the free items found on the map.
Go south and search left for the exit.
Right after leaving, just run streight left for your first scene with Ghetsis and a battle against N. This is like a little mini boss, but use your starter's 3rd move (one down), as long as you fought a couple of pokemon on route 1 you'll have this, and with the potions you just bought he'll be easy. If the music changes to beeping, instead of attacking hit left to go to items, then A a bunch of times to drink a potion and heal. You'll have to manually navigate back to items on the next turn though.
Save after the fight. You can save any time as when you start again you'll be in exactly the same spot.
Move about 7 steps left then go up. You'll hit a house so search for the door. Inside, find a staircase in the top right.
After the stairs, go 2 steps down, 1 step left and down until you hit someone who gives you a free pokeball.
Find the stairs again in the top left (all the way up, right, up then left should work) then find the exit of the house.
Now just go far left to enter a little gatehouse and then further left to enter a new route. This is the far west point of the town if you need to find it again. The entrance of Acumula where you came in is the south of town in case you want to come back and heal or something.
Anyway, time to explore route 2 and go to Striaton city.
Route 2
This route has the same pokemon as last time as well as Purrloin. Just go left and you will find a scene with your mom almost right away. Now go Left, up, right 2 grass steps and then down to hit a potion on the ground. A to pick it up. If you didn't hear 2 grass steps and a pokemon appeared, then the step didn't count so after the fight continue right until you do reach the 2 steps. After picking it up, go up all the way and then right until you start a trainer fight. Your first trainer only has Patrit and is an easy win.
Now go right, up, a step down, and right. This is the next trainer. This one just has a purrloin but is still easy enough.
If you need to heal at this point (I did), hit select, then go down 2 to bag and press A. You start on the Items pocket or whichever pocket you last accessed. Move right to reach Medicin then hit A a few times and you'll hear a sound who's pitch quickly goes up to tell you your health has been restored. You probably don't have enough HP to require 2 at this point, but later in the game you might have to keep pressing A until it happens again. Now hit B until you are out of it. Keep track of how many of each item you have, in the order you received them. Right now you should only have poke balls in the items pocket and potions in the medicin pocket. Each time you use one, you should document this; when you have zero of an item, remove it from the list entirely, or just don't let it reach 0 by going to buy more before this happens. This prevents you from looking for an item later and saying: "Hmm, I wonder which spot it's in?" This is more important in the items pocket. If you forget which pocket you accessed last, save your game, then turn it off and back on. This resets your position in your bag entirely.
Continuing, go up, then right until your 3rd grass step, then up until your next trainer fight, acknowledging that wild battles may happen along the way.
Before your next fight, there are 2 free items to get: a pokeball and a potion. To get them,
Take a step down and then go right, down, left, press A to get one.
Take 3 steps left, go up, and press A for the other.
Go right, then up, then left.
Go down until you can go left and then go north. Keep tapping left and up until you move north and encounter Bianca who will battle you.
She starts with a lilipup and then uses her starter (she chose the one that is week to your own, so use your elemental move to knock it out quickly.
Head streight north to enter Striaton city. This is the first gym city, but we cannot go to the gym just yet. Even if we could, we couldn't win at this point, because the gym leader always has the elemental type that is week to your own; grass if you have water, water if you have fire and fire if you have grass. Not only that, but there are events which must be completed all over town before we'll even be allowed passage into the gym.
Striaton city.
First thing's first: head 4 steps up from the very beginning, right, then up until you hit a building. You have to enter this one through the left hand side, so tap left and then up until up doesn't result in you bumping into it, then hold right to enter (staircase sound). If you don't enter, tap up again and then try right. There are lots of these kind of buildings throughout this game.
Once inside, just go east, then north, then east 2 steps, then south. You'll hit someone. Talk to get a free great ball, a pokeball with a better catch rate.
Search south and west for the exit, which you press down to go through instead of left, in spite of you having to press right to enter. Odd, I know.
Back outside, take 4 steps south, then go west until you crash, then south and press A to pick up an X speed, a one time use item which you can use during a battle to increase a pokemon's speed. It expires either when the fight ends, when the pokemon is knocked out, or when you switch to a different pokemon. If you're a real strategist, you might be able to use this during a tough trainer battle before the trainer sends out their toughist pokemon just to give you that extra advantage to pull off the win.
Head north, east, and north again. You are now hitting a building which you need to go around. You are facing it, and you want to put it behind you, so head left until you can move north, hit right to bump into it, north until you can go right (if you enter the building doing this, hit down to exit, take a step left and then continue this paturn). If you hit something to the north, take a step left to go around it. Once you don't hit something going right, push down to hit the back of it. Now move right until you can move down, past the building. You'll hit something. If it's a person and you can talk to them, that's good; you'll receive a dusk ball, which is another type of pokeball which has a better catch rate at night or in dark places. Use this if you are playing at night or if you want to catch something while inside a cave.
If you just hit a wall, tap right and you'll hit this person right away. Talk to them to receive the item.
From here, go left to hit something, then tap up until you can move left and don't hit it (it's more than 8 steps so you can safely tap up this many times, then start doing this paturn). After this, take 2 more steps up, 12 steps left, then head up to enter the pokemon center. Otherwise search for the door.
Run up and heal, then run down to exit.
If you need to buy more items (there are still only the pokeballs and potions available), use the same steps as last time.; up to re-enter, right, up 3, right, press A.
I suggest that you buy only what you really need, as you'll want your cash available to spend on better items later. After you win a gym badge, the mart's invintory will be upgraded so you'll be able to buy new items, in this case super potions, which heal your pokemon more than regular potions do.
Either way, leave afterwards.
Head to the east tip of the city; you'll have to tap up a couple of times on the way.
The music will change; this is the entrance to the dreamyard.
Dreamyard
Head streight east to encounter 2 trainers. The first has 2 purrloin, the second has 2 patrit and a lilipup; more easy battles to get your pokemon up a few levels. After the fights, go east and try to talk to someone. If she's not there go west a few steps, then go east again. Do this until you talk with this person. She's moving around so you might have to take some time to try and catch her. A step up might help as well. Keep pressing A so you say yes when she asks a question, and you'll receive a pokemon which has an advantage against the gym leader.
If you chose Snivy as your starter, the gym leader will have the fire type monkey Pansear, so you will receive the water type monkey Panpour to counter this. If you chose Oshawott as your starter, the gym leader will have the grass type monkey Pansage, so you will receive the fire type monkey Pansear to counter this. If you chose Tepig as your starter, the gym leader will have the water type monkey Panpour, so you will receive the grass type monkey Pansage to counter this.
Go around this person and get to the far east. Now go north as far as you can and move left until you can move north further. Go north all the way, then east, then 3 steps back to the west, then south until you hit an item; an X defend. Pick this item up; it works the same as the X speed item, except it razes a pokemon's defence stat.
It's now time to leave the dreamyard for now, but there's a quest coming up here soon.
Go west, south, east until you can go further south, south all the way, west, a step north, west to exit.
Now we need to collect a couple of random items placed around the city before moving on.
Go west,
south,
take a step east to avoid a person,
south,
go west, you'll run into another NPC.
go north one step,
go west,
one step east,
go south,
go 2 steps east,
south,
West,
2 steps north,
west,
south,
east to pick up another great ball; we now have two of these.
We now need to get out of this area.
Go north,
east until you can go north,
North,
East and you'll hit something right away,
South until you can go east,
East (if you hit someone, take a step north and continue east),
south,
west and you'll hit right away,
north until you can move west,
west until you can move south to find the exit of the city.
When you re-enter, moving up will actually cause you to run into the gym, but it's obstructed for now because the event at the school isn't done.
From here, just tap north and west until you can't go either way.
Go around the building to your left and enter it, this is how you can reach the pokemon center if you need to.
Later the gym will be opened so you will enter that, but just leave and push left to hit the side of the pokemon center again.
From the center, take a step west and go south, west, north until you can go west, north. Search to the left for the door to the school. Inside, go right, up until you can go right, right, up, left until you can go up, up until you hit. This is a kid who asks you three questions, and if you answer correctly you'll receive a full heal from him, an item which can be used only once and heals any status condition. There's a moving NPC in the way who will block your way to this guy. Wait for them to get away or you won't get through.
For the first question select the first answer (out of 2), the first answer for the second question, and the 3rd answer for the 3rd question.
Head south and search left for the door just to give yourself a reference. Head back in, go north all the way then east to hit your rival Cheren. Talk, answer yes (so don't press B) to his questions to start a fight.
He'll open with his starter and then send out a Purrloin after you knock his starter out. If you've trained your own starter well up until now it could actually outlast his, especially since you have some potions at your disposal.
Win, and you'll receive 3 Oran berries, which just restore a bit of HP. More importantly,you'll earn access to the gym!
Leave the school. Go right until you hit something, go around to face it. Take 6 steps right and head up into the pokemon center, otherwise search for the door. Heal your pokemon, because it's time to enter the gym!
Striaton gym.
The gym is 7 steps to the right of the pokemon center. After taking 7 steps right, push up and talk to the person blocking the way (or search for him on this building's outside if you didn't reach him). He'll allow you passage after the conversation, so just walk in!
This is an easy gym. Just run forward until you hit a switch. If you hear a buzzer sound to tell you that you selected the wrong one, move right or left to try one of the other 2 (they're all in a row, and you are in the middle of the 3). Once you hit the correct one, the path will be opened so you can run forward and fight a trainer who has pokemon you've seen many times.
After the fight, do this all again; switches, run forward, fight the trainer.
Do this once more, except running forward this time will throw you into a short scene and then further running forward will take you to the gym leader. Heal up with potions if you want and prepare for the fight!
My status at this point:
Playtime: 34 min 11 sec. Money: 7616 Items pocket: X defend (1), Dusk Ball (1), X speed (1), Great Ball (2) and Pokeball (6). Medicin pocket: Fresh water (1), Full Heal (1) and Potion (2). Berries pocket: Oran Berry (3) The key items pocket just contains the map and the phone. Your invintory may deviate somewhat depending on what you've used so far and what you bought at the mart. Pokemon: Oshawott (Level 14), Pansear (Level 10), \Lilipup (untrained).
Pansear is not a pokemon that I will be using later in the game. It's just fine early on, but it lacks strong moves later in the game so I'm not going to bother training it. The only reason I have it is so I can beat this gym leader, as your starter is weak against his monkey.
His Purrloin should be easy to take down with your starter. His monkey however, will use Work Up a couple of times and then use his elemental move, which would knock your starter out just like that. Switch to your monkey and use it's elemental move until you knock his monkey out; heal if your health gets low.
If you win you'll receive the badge and the TM for work up; leave the gym through the south exit to enter another scene.
Fennyl will take you to her house and give you the Cut HM, which lets you cut down trees.
Go up and then left to go down the steps and then south to leave her house. Outside, take a step up and you're actually in front of the gym. The exit back to route 2 is directly behind you. Take 7 steps left and go up to enter the pokemon center. Heal your pokemon. The PC is just to the left of the nurse if you ever need to put some pokemon away or take some out, but don't put your monkey away just yet as you'll want to teach it cut. The mart now has new items available, so you should buy some stuff that you couldn't get before. Personally, I'm only going to get the super potions (3 down from the top, stronger potions), and repels (1 up from the bottom, they prevent wild pokemon from attacking you). The rest of the items at the mart are the old stuff from before, as well as items that heal status conditions; something you don't have to worry about for a little while anyway. With my current amount of money, I could potentially buy 5 repels and 5 super potions. You might want these repels for times when you are trying to grab an item and the wild pokemon are just really throwing you off. Leave and head back into the dreamyard. At this point, a pokemon on your team needs to learn cut to remove a bush that blocks your path forward. Cut is not a particularely useful move in battle, so teach it to a pokemon that you are not using (Patrit is good, so is your monkey if you aren't going to use it in battle, but sadly Lilipup cannot learn it). The TM pocket is to the right of the medicin pocket. Place your slave pokemon at the front of your team, then go to the TM pocket and go down one. When you select a TM or HM you hear 2 beeps. Keep pressing A until you hear the little jingle that tells you that you've acquired something. Now place your slave pokemon at the bottom of the list again.