Pokemon Heart Gold Walkthrough: Union Cave

Part three in our Pokemon Heart Gold walkthrough makes it possible to make your way to Azalea Town to earn the second badge. Along the way you'll get a mysterious egg, encounter new Pokemon, and battle Team Rocket for the first time.
As you trimphantly exit the Violet City gym, where you earned the Zephyr badge from Falkner over the last part individuals Pokemon Heart Gold walkthrough, your phone will ring. Answer it and you will find Professor Elm includes a surprise for you: he wants one to take the mysterious egg you retrieved from Mr. Pokemon earlier hanging around. Fortunately you'll not have to trek all the way up back to New Bark Town to find the egg. One of Professor Elm's assistants is waiting to meet you in Violet City's Poke Mart.
Once you will find the egg, it stays inside your party as being a Pokemon, but an obvious caveat: it can't be used in battle. It will hatch right into a Togepi after about 2800 steps which, depending on how a lot of time you spend wandering through tall grass searching for Pokemon, will probably take longer than this portion of the guide. When it does hatch, Togepi proves to be a powerful normal-type Pokemon with a range of psychic- and normal-type attacks. Its evolution, Togetic, gains wings and represents a secondary flying type.

Head south from Violet City to arrive at Route 32. This straightforward path walks you down through some fields where you can catch new Pokemon like Bellsprout, Hoppip, and Mareep, as well as over a boardwalk in which you'll battle a couple of fisherman trainers. A fishing guru lives in the house near the boardwalk and may offer you the existing rod, a straightforward fishing rod which allows that you capture Magikarp.
At the southernmost end of Route 32 you will find a Pokemon Center plus a cave. Heal up in the Pokemon Center if required, then enter the cave to proceed. Union Cave marks your first chance to capture rock Pokemon (except for the Geodude maybe you have caught before battling Falkner) as well as some poison-type Pokemon like Zubat and Paras. You'll also find a number of tough hiker trainers my review here, but it is nothing you cannot handle by incorporating well-placed grass-, ice-, or water-type attacks.
The cave's straight path takes you through three subterranean layers before bringing you back out to the sunlight on Route 33.

Route 33 is the smallest route you've encountered yet. Except for an individual battle using a trainer here, there's little to determine, so just head west into Azalea Town. As soon as you enter a major city, you'll witness a short cut-scene with a black-clad fellow harrassing the townsfolk. This is your introduction to Team Rocket, the game's main antagonists. Right now the Team Rocket member is blocking over entrance to Azalea Town's prime attraction, the Slowpoke Well.
Head for the far west end of town to discover Kurt's house. You'll find yourself returning here throughout the game since Kurt has the capacity to turn Apricorns into rare and powerful varieties of Poke Balls. Inside, Kurt will show you he's too busy at the moment after which run off. Chase him time for the Slowpoke Well and you will probably find your way is not really blocked by the Team Rocket member. Enter the well to find Kurt injured on his back.
Deeper within the well you will find a room filled up with Team Rocket members around no good, capturing Slowpokes and cutting their tails off as being a food delicacy. Get ready for battle and go ahead and take scum down. Throughout our Pokemon Heart Gold walkthrough you'll generally find Team Rocket grunts to be far weaker than gym leaders and in many cases ordinary trainers. After felling the three Team Rocket grunts, their leader, Executive Proton, arrive at you which has a level 9 Zubat and level 12 Koffing.

Defeating Team Rocket frees the Slowpoke and earns your Kurt's gratitude. He'll give you the fast ball, a Poke Ball especially good at capturing fast Pokemon, as being a reward and also offers to make any Apricorns you discover on trees into Poke Balls. He can do one each day, so visit him often.
For now, your next task is usually to head on the Azalea City gym and earn yourself the Hive Badge. Its leader with his fantastic five underlings use pokemon in the bug variety. Bugsy's junior trainers use Pokemon ranging from level 8 to 12, so they shouldn't give you to definitely much trouble. If you chose Cyndaquil because your starter Pokemon, you will have an easy time since bug-type Pokemon are weak against fire-type attacks. Otherwise, you'll flourish with either a rock-type Pokemon like Geodude or perhaps a flying-type such as Spearow or Hoothoot.
Pokemon gym leader Bugsy himself wields a level 15 Kakuna, level 15 Metapod, and level 17 Scyther. The first two Pokemon certainly are a joke, but the Scyther may give you a bit of trouble if the Pokemon's levels aren't high enough. Defeating Bugsy earns you the Hive Badge, which enables you to control Pokemon around level 30 as well as lets you utilize the move cut beyond battle.