In Generation 1 Pokémon (Red and Blue) for the Nintendo Game Boy, there is a weird glitch you can perform by executing a moderately simple yet oddly specific set of instructions. This glitch will allow you to obtain a Level 100 Gengar before facing Brock at the Pewter City Gym. In a previous #shorts video, I showed off how to get a level 100 Nidoking, and this glitch is very similar.
First, choose Charmander as your starter Pokemon, because you need your rival to choose Squirtle. Then, make sure to stay at the Viridian City Pokémon center because you will need to death warp to this location (or at least it makes this trick a lot easier to perform).
Head to Viridian forest and make sure your last living Pokemon is poisoned. You can get one of the wild Weedles to poison you pretty reliably. Then, save your game near the last trainer in Veridian Forest, but make sure you haven’t fought him yet. Now, get into a random encounter on the tile directly in front of that trainer. This may take a few tries, so load up that save file until you get it to work.
When you get into a random battle in front of that particular trainer in Veridian Forest, allow the poison to KO your final Pokemon. When Ash (or in this case Luigi) blacks out, you should see the trainer with a “!” above his head before you respawn at Veridian Pokemon Center.
After respawning, head west of Veridian City and get into a fight with your rival Gary (or Beyonce in this example). Growl at his Squirtle SIX TIMES (that is, until it no longer has an effect) then lose this fight against your rival.
Head to Veridian Forest without triggering any battles, and if you’ve done everything correctly, you should be met with a random bit of dialogue when you enter the forest, and suddenly you will be in a battle with a Level 1 Gengar. Catch this Gengar (and it may take like seven Pokeballs).
After catching him and naming him whatever you want, you can take a look at his stats and observe that his Exp is well over 700,000. But if you have him gain a minuscule amount of experience (by splitting a battle against a wild Weedle for example) he will suddenly become level 100!
Anyway, now you have a very buff Level 100 Gengar in your party and you haven’t even been to Brock’s Gym yet!
This glitch doesn’t work in every Gen 1 game. There’s something similar you can do in Pokemon Yellow, but it works a little different – https://youtube.com/shorts/YyFxxCkM70I?feature=share
And here’s that video I made about how to get a level 100 Nidoking – https://youtube.com/shorts/if6uxuTym2E
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So I like to think I've got a pretty reasonable sense of humor but idk if I can deal with hearing that Charmander is the third best choice even in jest.
"Choose Charmander as your starter, because he's the 3rd best choice!"
the entirety of the Pokémon fandom didn't like that very much
Holy poop, there are a LOT of words in this one. Busta rhymes showing us Pokémon glitches over here.
Yooooo a new short to watch 100 different times
No you ruin it by putting Minecraft a name , I hate you Minecraft
got few laughs out of this funny
If you lost track of the steps, is that also why you have so many pairs of glasses?
Here’s how to speedrun a Pokémon game!
If you could pull this off with the Nidoking glitch as well, I think Brock would just retire on your arrival in Pewter City.
And the second best choice.
And the first best choice.
I like Haunter better though.
Character is the first best choice there buddy
What are you saying??? Bulbasaur it's the best choice
I wish I could pay for affordable healthcare. The free healthcare here is reeeeally bad
There's also a way to get a Mew, if you use the youngster with the slow poke on just past nugget bridge, and a well timed teleport from an Abra
The Lv1 straight to Lv100 instead of Lv2 glitch was a bug the developers knew about. Instead of debugging and/or recoding the leveling system, they opted for the quicker and easier solution. That solution was to simply not have any Pokémon at Lv1. The lowest level a Pokémon can appear in the wild normally is Lv2. And in the second gen, Pokémon hatch at Lv5.
Its better to get a level 100 mew
Cubone is all you need
Free health care isn't crazy you just live in america
Good to know
Big Gengar fan BTW
These nicknames are just perfect.
Do you have to pick charmander
First time I ever played Pokemon I started with Charmander. Terrible decision.
"Charmander because he's the third best choice"
Never have I been so offended by something that I 100% agree with
Me with free Healthcare
Heh look at that dude
Turns out poke centres aren’t free and your mom payed for a lifetime membership but when you sell it all your money and Pokémon are no longer your property because your mom forced you to pay the life dept for the membership and oak is secretly your dad and sells all the Pokémon you send to him
Obama
Do you know any Mario Bros 3 glitches?
but… you said the exact same strat for the lvl 100 Nidoking…
Don’t do my boy Charmander like that 😢
NANI?!
Since my trainer name in Pokémon Blue was Nate, I could find Haunters over level 150 on the coast of Cinnabar Island using the Old Man glitch. Gaining experience also seemed to reset it to Lv100, though.
This would be perfect if you could pull it off in a nuzlock
As someone born in 2004 it’s crazy to image the people who grew up playing Red and Blue. Without the kind of internet access we have today it’d be hard to find legitimate guides to glitches like this. I suppose most knowledge of these glitches would mainly be from rumors and word of mouth. Must’ve been pretty fun paying with your friends and experimenting to pull off any of the glitches.
But healthcare is free
Does this work on Yellow?
I'ma go try this out thanks
How important is it that I choose charmander? Like is it really important that I don't have my beloved bulbasaur???
IM SORRY WHAT
This sounds like it would be fun to try and do.
"You will now choose character as he is the 3rd best choice"
OOF all the fans charmander/charmeleon/Charizard are going to be so pissed at this comment
Specific lvl 100
Is this like a real thing or like one of those fake things I am really questioning it but then again it's gen 1