1. Twinleaf Town and Lake Verity
Twinleaf Town, Route 201, Verity Lakefront, Lake Verity.
Sinnoh is in progress
Walkthrough
You wake up upstairs at home in Twinleaf Town, and your rival Barry bursts into your bedroom on his way to the lake. Go downstairs, where Mom is waiting. Barry lives in the house next door.
Head north onto Route 201. Professor Rowan's briefcase is where your journey really starts: you choose your first Pokémon from it, Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup, and Barry battles you straight away with the one strong against yours.
Turtwig and Piplup both do well against the first Gym's Rock types. Chimchar has a harder start there but is strong against the second Gym's Grass types.
After the battle you are taken home, where Mom gives you the Running Shoes. Then go back to Route 201, where Barry joins you, and walk west through Verity Lakefront to Lake Verity. The scene at the lake plays only on your first visit.
The Running Shoes scene
Let this scene play to the end without opening the menu. If the menu is opened during it, the scene does not count as seen, and Rowan's assistant keeps sending you home later on Route 202.
Sandgem Town is east along Route 201.
Key battles
Barry
Places
What the places this chapter reaches first hold: wild Pokémon, trainers, key items and shops. Every item spot is on the place's own page.
Psyduck
Golduck
Starly
Bidoof
KricketotVerity Lakefront
No wild Pokémon, trainers, gifts or shops here.
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