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Time for some ghost-busting. If you've found the Silph Scope in Team Rocket's Hideout, you can now safely enter the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town.
The Silph Scope will turn the unknown specters you would otherwise encounter into, well... more tangible specters. Turns out those hostile apparitions are just Haunters and Gastlies. Since this is your first encounter with ghosts, here's an important tip: don't use Normal or Fighting type attacks. They won't work. Instead, use whatever Psychic attacks you've got. All Ghosts are also dual Poison types, so Ground, Psychic and Bug attacks work especially well. Since you've got Dig, be sure to teach it to one of the Pokémon in your group. It's devastating against the Ghost enemies.
Getting through the tower is easy. You can really wreck shop if you have a built-up Fearow or similar flying Pokémon, who also has a Dark attack (like Pursuit).The Pokémon Tower isreally linear and there aren't really any tricks to getting through. Just fighting all the trainers and continue on up. You might as well use a Repel on yourself after you've caught Gastly and Haunter, although you might get lucky and encounter a Cubone once in a while...
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Rival Battle
You'll also run into Gary on the second floor of the Pokémon Tower, and he's currently using a Pidgeotto (25), Ivysaur (25), Gyrados (23), Kadabra (25) and Growlithe (22). A good mix of Water and Rock Pokémon should sort him out.
Pokémon Tower
When you finish with Gary, head up to the third floor and battle these trainers:
- Channeler Patricia
- Gastly (22)
- Channeler Carly
- Gastly (24)
- Channeler Hope
- Gastly (23)
Near Hope, you'll find an Escape Rope. Grab it and head to the next floor.
- Channeler Laurel
- Gastly (23)
- Gastly (23)
- Channeler Jody
- Gastly (22)
- Channeler Paula
- Gastly (24)
Also on this floor, you'll find an Elixir, an Awakening and a Great Ball. When you have all the goods, cruise up to the next floor. At the center of this room is a healing area, so visit that.
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- Channeler Janae
- Gastly (22)
- Channeler Karina
- Gastly (24)
- Channeler Tammy
- Haunter (23)
In the healing area, you'll find a Cleanse Tag, and there is a Nugget in the lower left corner. Beforeheading up, be sure to grab these goodies. On the next level, you'll run into:
- Channeler Angelica
- Gastly (22)
- Gastly (22)
- Gastly (22)
- Channeler Jennifer
- Gastly (24)
- Channeler Emilia
- Gastly (24)
You will find an X Accuracy and Rare Candy on this level. The stairs to the top floor are guarded by a ghost -- which turns out to be the spirit of a Level 30 Marowak. At the top of the tower are several Team Rocket Grunts. They play as follows:
- Team Rocket Grunt
- Zubat (25)
- Zubat (25)
- Golbat (25)
- Team Rocket Grunt
- Koffing (26)
- Drowzee (26)
- Team Rocket Grunt
- Zubat (23)
- Zubat (23)
- Rattata (23)
- Raticate (23)
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Get the Poké Flute
After you have beaten all the trainers, you will find the missing Mr. Fuji. As a thank you for rescuing him, he will give you an awesome prize: the Poké Flute.
Not only can you use it to wake up the two sleeping Snorlax that block your way, you can even use it in battle to wake up any sleeping Pokémon. If you want, you can now head to Route 11 or Route 12 and wake up and capture the Snorlax. Remember though, there are only two Snorlax in the game. Be sure to catch at least one of them, as it's a powerful Normal type. Next stop: Saffron City. Go west from Lavender Town to get there.
