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Vermilion City - Kanto

Overview

Location A positional vantage point of Vermilion City in Kanto.

Vermilion City Gym Gym-leader Lt. Surge Type specialty Electric Badge Thunder Badge

Resources Battleable NPCs 2 Ground-lootable items 0 Berry trees 0

Adjacent areas ↑ Route 6 Vermilion City Route 11 →

Vermilion City is a city located in Kanto. It is a perpendicular junction between Route 6 and Route 11.

This city houses Vermilion Gym—the third gym one will challenge in Kanto's successional line. Lt. Surge presides over the gym, who specializes in Electric-type Pokémon and will reward the Thunder Badge to victorious challengers. This badge is also required to advance to Route 11, which is occluded to passersby who have yet to procure the badge.

S.S. Anne can be found adock Vermilion Harbor, and it will be accessible once Bill has bequeathed his passengership to you out of gratitude for completing his mini-task at his house on Route 25. This is the domain of the S.S. Anne quest, which rewards HM01 (Cut); this must be obtained in order to access Vermilion Gym in order to deobstruct the barricading tree in its passageway.

This is also where the novice-tier fishing rod in the Old Rod is claimable; this helps facilitate a player's huntability of Water-type Pokémon greatly early on, since most are not huntable at this progressional stage due to one's incapacity to Surf by then and the limited bevy of land-inhabiting Water-type Pokémon.

Notable miscellanies

Vermilion Harbor

Vermilion Harbor moors most of the transregional ferry transits that are available in the Kanto region, as well as the S.S. Anne itself.

S.S. Anne

Main article: S.S. Anne

S.S. Anne is an upscale cruise liner that is boardable by the player as soon as Bill's mini-task is completed in his house on Route 25.

While it can not be used to transit to another area during the player's ephemeral passengership, it must be accessed exhaustively in order to complete the S.S. Anne quest in order to obtain HM01 (Cut)—an indispensable navigational agent for immediately accessing Vermilion Gym and ultimately traversing other obstacular trees that may exist.

Once the quest is completed, S.S. Anne will no longer be embarkable; as such, one is advised to maximize all the resource payouts they can while on the ship.

Love Island

Main article: Love Island

If one has 120 caught-data entries and 38 evolved-data entries registered on their Pokédex, The Love Sailor will transport them to Love Island for a fee of 5,000 or for free if they have an active transportational pass.

Sevii Islands

Main article: Sevii Islands

With active membership and a Kanto-league championship, one can costlessly be ported to the Sevii Islands—a membership-exclusive archipelago that concatenates a supplementary region in the game.

Pinkan Island

Main article: Pinkan Island

Pinkan Island can be accessed from here—a standalone island of the Orange Islands archipelago that is inhabited by specially pinkened species of Pokémon.

In order to have admissible Pinkan Islands access, you must first interact with Officer Jenny in this city; she will apprise you on a lead of Team Rocket members who have hurtled to the island itself, which will start the introductory quest.

Fishing Rod

In the fishing guru's house (westward of the Pokémart), the Old Rod will be costlessly claimable; this is the foundational rod that will enable you to fish for a multitude of Water-type Pokémon that might not be otherwise huntable without Surf.

It is advisable to obtain this early on, as your possession of this will be a prerequisite to obtaining the higher-tier Good Rod and ultimately the Super Rod.

Farfetch'd-trader

An NPC trader in Vermilion House 1 (adjacent to the Pokémon Center) will broker a Spearow in return for her Farfetch'd, thereby purveying the earliest-obtainable avenue of Farfetch'd in the game.

The Farfetch'd tradee will defaultly hold a Stick.

Bike Voucher

An indigent house tenant, Samuel, will supplicate 75,000 from you in order to help subsidize his electricity bills; should you comply, he will return a bike voucher, which can be redeemed for a Bicycle in Cerulean City's bicycle shop.

Dig Spot-fixer

In Vermilion Pokécenter, an explorer NPC will proffer to fix all potentially latent diggable patches that have yet to load despite that the cooldown time has elapsed.

Vermilion Subway

Vermilion City is one of the seven destinational outlets available in Kanto's intraregional-subway system, thereby providing an expeditious shortcut to this area and to six other destinations from it.

Contingent that you have completed the intraregional-subway quest, you may board the subway from Vermilion City's Pokémon Center for a fee of 2,500 or for free with an active transportational pass.

TM-vendor

Outside, Elder Maulana will sell TM44 (Rest) for 6,000 singularly or 5 for 24,000. Its purchasability also requires the Thunder Badge.

Pokémon Club

The Pokémon Club houses an assemblage of Pokémon connoisseurs.

Herein, you can interact with all-seven of the available Eeveelutions in the game; this is the earliest-available avenue of culling their seen-data entries, as it may be a while until they are all naturally battled.

If you have registered the evolved-data entries of all Eeveelutions, Eeveelutionist Devan will reward you the Eviolite.

Wild Pokémon

Surfing

Pokémon		Level range	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
	Horsea	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Magikarp	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Octillery	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Uncommon
	Seadra	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Squirtle	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Rare
	Staryu	13-18			Night			Rare
	Tentacool	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Tentacruel	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Pink-colored names denote that this Pokémon is exclusively encounterable for members in this area Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Fishing

Pokémon		Level range	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
	Gyarados	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Horsea	13-18	Morning	Day	Night	Dragon Scale		Common
	Krabby	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Magikarp	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Psyduck	13-18	Morning	Day				Common
	Slowpoke	13-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
	Staryu	13-18			Night			Uncommon
Pink-colored names denote that this Pokémon is exclusively encounterable for members in this area. All Pokémon tabulated here can only be encountered via fishing; they are not Surf-encounterable.

Items

Pokémart

Vermilion City Mart
Item		Price
	Pokéball	200
	Potion	300
	Repel	350
	Escape Rope	550
	Ether	600
	Paralyze Heal	200
	Revive	1,500

Pokéstop

Pokéstop
Required badge
Items Pokéball Great Ball Potion Super Potion Super Repel Ether Revive Full Heal Rare Candy PP Up

Vermilion Gym

Upon defeating Lt. Surge, you will procure the Thunder Badge.

Additionally, the gym-greeter will sell you TM24 (Thunderbolt) in quantities of 1 for 3,000 and 5 for 12,000.

Accessing the gym

Due to an occlusive tree in the passageway of the gym's entryway, HM01 and either a Cut-toting Pokémon or a Hatchet is required to reach the gym.

Complete the antecedent S.S. Anne quest if you have not already, since the HM item will be required for Cut to be out-of-battle-usable and for the Hatchet to be usable to deobstruct the tree.

Gym puzzle

In order for Lt. Surge to be reachable, the electropad barriers must be deactivated; they will occlude the pathway to him until then.

The puzzle will be solved once you have activated the right sequence of trash-can bins in the gym.

The sequential combination is randomized for each player out of the 30 trash-can bins and it will remain constant until the puzzle is completed; as such, it may entail a trial-and-error run to deduce the correct combination. If you have a mismatch, simply activate the initial trash-can bin correctly and try a secondary switch in tandem.

NPCs

Lt. Surge

As an Electric-type specialist, Ground-type Pokémon will be the most type-advantageous against his Pokémon. With a Ground-type Pokémon on-hand and/or one with a powerful Ground-type move to deploy, it is generally easy to trounce Lt. Surge's lineup—both due to their Electric-type immunity and his Pokémon's defensive weakness against Ground-type attacks.

If you have not already claimed the one-off Dig TM from the burglarized house in Cerulean City, you are advised to do so and teach it to one of your Pokémon—especially a Ground-type Pokémon, which are abundantly encounterable in Mt. Moon.

Lt. Surge

Voltorb <td style="background-color: #{{_color}};">[[_(type)|]] <td style="background-color:#{{_color}};">[[ Moves|]] Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Charge Beam Electric Special 50 90 Swift Normal Special 60 — Electro Ball Electric Special — 100 [[]]

Pikachu Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunder Wave Electric Status — 100 Feint Normal Physical 30 100 Double Team Normal Status — — Spark Electric Physical 65 100

Electrode <td style="background-color: #{{_color}};">[[_(type)|]] <td style="background-color:#{{_color}};">[[ Moves|]] Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy [[]] Spark Electric Physical 65 100 Rollout Rock Physical 30 90 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100

Raichu Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100 Thunder Wave Electric Status — 100 Growl Normal Status — 100 Dig Ground Physical 80 100

Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.

Gym-trainers

Vermilion City Gym Trainers

Gentleman Gregory Pikachu

Old Man Baily Voltorb Magnemite

All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise. Gym-NPC levels are not known; as such, no level data is displayed hereon.