Celadon City - Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow Guide - IGN (2024)

Celadon City

Welcome to the biggest city in Pokémon Land.

Not only is there tons of stuff to discover and battles to be won, but Celadon City actually features a Pokémon Super-Store as well. Here, you can pretty much buy anything you can imagine.

Well, okay. Maybe not everything. But it's still the best place to shop in the whole game.

Celadon Mansion

Have you ever dreamed of meeting the people that programmed Pokémon? Here's your chance -- at least kind of...

Inside Celadon Mansion, the large building in the north, you can talk to virtual members of the Game Freak team. You'll be told to return once you get all 150 Pokémon. What will you get? A certificate, of course. But there's a much better secret slumbering in this mansion. Sneak into the building through the back door and you will get your hands on one of the coolest Pokémon in the game: Eevee. With the help of three mysterious stones, you can evolve Eevee into another, even more powerful Pokémon:

• Thunder Stone: Evolve into Jolteon
• Fire Stone: Evolve into Flareon
• Water Stone: Evolve into Vaporeon

The vote for best evolution goes to the insanely fast Jolteon but all three are great additions to your team. Sadly, you can only find one single Eevee in this game. Players who want to get all three evolutions AND still keep an Eevee should grab a copy of Pokémon Stadium for Nintendo 64. You can easily win multiple Eevees by completing the Gym Leader Castle mode in that game. But that's a topic for another guide...

Celadon Department Store

If you've got a lot of cash to burn, this is definitely the place to be. The sheer amount of stuff you can buy in this giga-sized Pokémon Mart... And it's not just the usual power-ups.

Here are a few things you should definitely do while in the store:

• Don't forget to talk to the clerk on the 3rd floor. He will give you TM 18 - Counter -- for free!
• Buy a Thunder Stone on the 4th floor (or, if you're not into turning your Eevee into a Jolteon), get a Water Stone or Fire Stone.
• Buy a Poké Doll. You will need it in Saffron City.
• Go to the roof level and buy one beverage from each vending machine. Give them to the thirsty little girl to receive TM 48 - Rock Slide, TM 49 - Tri Attack and TM 13 - Ice Beam.
• Buy an extra drink (Water is fine) for the guards that block your passage into many of the towns. Note that one drink does the job for ALL guards.
• Stock up on Lemonade. It heals 80 HP and costs only 350. It's definitely the most economic healing potion in the game.
• If you've got cash to burn, buy some performance enhancers, like Protein, Iron, Carbos or Calcium.

Celadon City Dept. Store, 2F

Celadon City, 4F

Celadon City, 5F

Get TM 41 - Softboiled

The awesome Softboiled ability is hidden right in the middle of Celadon City. However, you can't get it unless you've got a Pokémon that knows Surf. Once you do have it, simply cross the little pond and talk to the guy on the other side.

Get the Coin Case

You need find a coin case if you're planning to win big at the Casino. It's really easy to get. Just enter the Restaurant in the southeast of Celadon City and talk to the gambler. Be sure to visit the warehouse next door to get a vital hint.

Game Corner

Here's your chance to win tokens that can be exchanged for some hard to find Pokémon. The slot machines in the game center have different odds, so be sure to abandon a machine that's not paying off at all. Your best bet is to always save your game before you play at a machine. Reload your saved game whenever you lose too much money. Save again if you take in a major win. This way, you can rack up quite a lot of tokens -- and you'll need them if you want to get your hands on some of the great prizes available in the Exchange Corner:

• Abra: 180 (Red), 120 (Blue)
• Clefairy: 500 (Red), 750 (Blue)
• Nidorina: 1200 (Red only)
• Nidorino: 1200 (Blue only)
• Dratini: 2800 (Red), 4600 (Blue)
• Scyther: 5500 (Red only)
• Pinsir: 2500 (Blue only)
• Porygon: 9999 (Red), 6500 (Blue)
• TM 23: 3300
• TM 15: 5500
• TM 50: 7700

This is the only place you can get a Porygon, by the way. So start saving.

Celadon City Gym

This city's gym is ready for your challenge at any time. Led by Grass Pokémon enthusiast Erika, you should be able to breeze through this gym in no time if you've got some good Fire or Psychic Pokémon in your party.

1. Lass: Bellsprout (23), Weepinbell (23)
2. Beauty: Bellsprout (24), Bellsprout (24)
3. Beauty: Bellsprout (21), Bellsprout (21), Oddish (21), Oddish (21)
4. Jr. Trainer Female: Bulbasaur (24), Ivysaur (24)
5. Beauty: Exeggcute (26)
6. Cool Trainer Female: Weepinbell (24), Gloom (24), Ivysaur (24)
7. Lass: Oddish (23), Gloom (23)
8. Erika (Red and Blue): Victreebel (29), Tangela (24), Vileplume (29)
9. Erika (Yellow): Weepinbell (32), Tangela (30), Gloom (32)

Once you beat Erika, you get your hands on the Rainbow Badge as well as TM 21 - Mega Drain. Trainers who own the Rainbow Badge can command Pokémon up to level 50.

Team Rocket's Hideout

To access Team Rocket's secret hideout, examine the poster in the Game Corner. You will find a secret switch and a way in. The place actually looks more complicated than it really is. The only thing that may throw you off are the conveyor belt tiles that automatically move you. Just experiment with different paths and you should be able to find plenty of items and get through the whole stage.

You need a key to get to the boss, so do that first. To get it, follow the stairs down to the northwestern corner of the fourth basem*nt level. With the key in hand, return to the top floor and take the elevator down to B4.

Items

There are a ton of items in this stage, including the mysterious Silph Scope you need for the Pokémon Tower. Apart from the Lift Key, here's what you can find:

• Escape Rope
• Nugget
• TM 07 - Horn Drill
• Moon Stone
• Super Potion
• Hyper Potion
• TM 10 - Double Edge
• Rare Candy
• TM 02 -Razor Wind
• HP Up
• Iron
• Silph Scope
• PP Up

These are the trainers you will face:

Trainers

1. Rocket: Drowzee (21), Machop (21)
2. Rocket: Raticate (21), Raticate (21)
3. Rocket: Zubat (17), Zubat (17), Koffing (17), Grimer (17), Raticate (17)
4. Rocket: Machop (21), Machop (21)
5. Rocket: Rattata (20), Raticate (20), Drowzee (20)
6. Rocket: Koffing (21), Zubat (21)
7. Rocket: Grimer (22), Koffing (22)
8. Rocket: Grimer (20), Koffing (20), Koffing (20)
9. Rocket: Raticate (19), Raticate (19), Rattata (19), Rattata (19)
10. Rocket: Sandshrew (23), Ekans (23), Sandshrew (23)
11. Rocket: Ekans (23), Sandshrew (23), Arbok (23)
12. Giovanni (Red and Blue): Onix (25), Rhyhorn (24), Kangaskhan (29)
13. Jesse and James (Yellow): Koffing (25), Meowth (25), Ekans (25)
14. Giovanni (Yellow): Onix (25), Rhyhorn (24), Persian (29)

You now have the Silph Scope, so head east to Lavender Town and enter the Pokémon Tower. You can now take Route 7 to get there more quickly. Simply hand one of the beverages you got in Celadon City to the annoying guard blocking your way. Voila! Now all guard houses are open.