Where To Get NeverMeltIce in Pokémon FRLG

Surfing inside Icefall Cave in FireRed
All Never-Melt Ice Locations
Method How Often?
1 Stealing from Wild Dewgong in the Seafoam Islands Repeatable
2 On the ground in Icefall Cave (B1F) Once-only

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, the easiest way to get Never-Melt Ice is to steal it as a held item from Wild Dewgong. Each wild Dewgong has a 5% chance of holding a Never-Melt Ice, and they can be found as early as the Seafoam Islands.

Alternatively, you can find one Never-Melt Ice in Icefall Cave on Four Island. This Never-Melt Ice is on the ground to the right side of B1F, across the large sheet of ice (we’ll show you the exact location below).

Prerequisites

Never-Melt Ice can be obtained in two ways. The first way is to find the item in Icefall Cave, on Four Island. This can’t be done until late game, and the prerequisites are to:

  • Defeat the Elite Four
  • Catch 60 different Pokémon
  • Get the National Pokédex from Professor Oak
  • Obtain the Rainbow Pass from Celio on One Island after giving him the Ruby (found at the top of Mt. Ember)

The other way to obtain Never-Melt Ice is to find them as held items on wild Dewgong. This method is repeatable, but takes a bit of luck. The only prerequisites for finding Never-Melt Ice this way are to:

  • Have Surf
  • Be able to reach the Seafoam Islands
  • Have TM46 Thief (found in Mt. Moon) or Poké Balls to catch Dewgong

Wild Dewgong can also be found in Icefall Cave, but you can get to the Seafoam Islands much earlier and easier than you can get to Icefall Cave, so you might as well find your Dewgong there.

Getting Never-Melt Ice (All Methods)

Wild Dewgong

Since the Dewgong method is easier and can happen earlier in the game, we’ll start with this.

Dewgong is quite a hard Pokémon to find, but below is a table with all of its locations in FireRed and LeafGreen:

Wild Dewgong Locations
Location Encounter Rate Never-Melt Ice Chance
Seafoam Islands B3 5% 5%
Seafoam Islands B4 10% 5%
Seafoam Islands Surfing 5% 5%
Icefall Cave Entrance 20% 5%
Icefall Cave Surfing 5% 5%

As you can see, the best place to find Dewgong is in Icefall Cave.

But if you can reach Icefall Cave, then you can get a Never-Melt Ice by finding it on the ground (I’ll cover this further down.)

So I’ll be finding my wild Dewgong in the Seafoam Islands, because you can get there much earlier.

To reach the Seafoam Islands, head to Cinnabar Island and Surf east from the island.

Surf east from here on Cinnabar Island to reach the Seafoam Islands / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Surf east from here on Cinnabar Island to reach the Seafoam Islands

Surf east until you reach a small island with a Cave on it. This Cave is actually the Seafoam Islands, so that’s where we want to enter.

Outside of the Seafoam Islands cave / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Outside of the Seafoam Islands cave

Seafoam Island B4 has the highest Dewgong encounter rate, so you’ll want to take the ladders down until you reach B4 (take 4 ladders down.)

Alternatively, you can use Surf anywhere in the Seafoam Islands and have a 5% chance of encountering Dewgong.

Surfing inside of the Seafoam Islands cave, looking for Wild Dewgong / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Surfing inside of the Seafoam Islands cave, looking for Wild Dewgong

There is only a 5% chance that the Wild Dewgong you encounter will be holding a Never-Melt Ice, so you may have to find quite a few of them before you actually get the item.

Tip: If you have TM46 Thief, you can steal the Never-Melt Ice off of Wild Dewgong simply by using Thief on them.

Using Thief on Wild Dewgong to steal a Never-Melt Ice / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Using Thief on Wild Dewgong to steal a Never-Melt Ice

After you use Thief, an animation will play showing that you took the Never-Melt Ice from Dewgong. If no animation plays, then Wild Dewgong isn’t holding the item so you can run away and look for another one.

If the animation does play, then simply go to your party and select the Pokémon that used Thief (Raichu in my case.) Select the Pokémon and then select Item > Take to take the Never-Melt Ice off of the Pokémon and put it in your bag.

Taking the Never-Melt Ice from Raichu after stealing it from a Wild Dewgong with Thief / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Taking the Never-Melt Ice from Raichu after stealing it from a Wild Dewgong with Thief

If you don’t have Thief, then you’ll need to catch the Dewgong.

I recommend leaving some space in your Party for the Wild Dewgong you catch, so you won’t have to head back to a Pokémon Center every time you catch one to check whether or not you got a Never-Melt Ice.

After you catch a Dewgong, you can open up your party and check whether or not it’s holding an item.

Taking the Never-Melt Ice from Dewgong after catching it / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Taking the Never-Melt Ice from Dewgong after catching it

Don’t get discouraged if you don’t find the Never-Melt Ice right off the bat. If you’re unlucky, then you may have to catch or use Thief on 10-20 Dewgong before actually finding the item.

Just keep trying and you’ll eventually get one!

Icefall Cave Location (Step-by-Step)

If you can reach Four Island and don’t feel like looking for Dewgong all day, then you can find a guaranteed Never-Melt Ice in Icefall Cave.

First off, head to Four Island by taking the Seagallop Ferries in Vermilion City.

Once you’re on Four Island, head to the east side of the island and surf north across the small pond.

Surf north from here on Four Island to reach Icefall Cave / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Surf north from here on Four Island to reach Icefall Cave

This will lead to a cave entrance (Icefall Cave) with a man standing outside.

Talking to the NPC outside of Icefall Cave on Four Island / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Talking to the NPC outside of Icefall Cave on Four Island

Once you’re inside, you need to make your way to B1F, which is a bit more difficult than it sounds.

First, surf directly north-west of the entrance and enter the hole in the Ice wall.

Surf to this hole as soon as you enter Icefall Cave / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Surf to this hole as soon as you enter Icefall Cave

After that, go all the way north until you reach the back wall.

Walk north after entering the hole in the first step / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Walk north after entering the hole in the first step

Notice when you walk over ice, the ice will crack. If you walk on ice again after it cracks, you will fall down to B1F.

This is good, except we need to fall to a specific part of B1F, so we need to break a specific sheet of ice.

Walk past the four square sheets of ice, and continue to the back wall. Make sure not to fall through any ice square, or you’ll need to take the ladder back up and start over.

Do not step on any patch of ice twice or you will fall through. Walk to the back of the room / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Do not step on any patch of ice twice or you will fall through. Walk to the back of the room

Once you reach the back wall, walk onto the single solitary sheet of ice in the corner. Walk onto it one time, then walk off of it. This will crack the ice.

Purposefully fall through the ice in the very back (walk on it twice) / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Purposefully fall through the ice in the very back (walk on it twice)

Afterward, walk onto the ice again to fall through and reach the specific section of B1F that we need.

Falling through the ice to B1F / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Falling through the ice to B1F

Once you fall through, there will be a huge sheet of ice to your right. The Never-Melt Ice is to the right of the ice sheet, but we have to take a little bit of a convoluted path to reach it.

First, take the ladder going up to go back to the top floor.

Take this ladder going up as soon as you fall through the ice to B1F / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Take this ladder going up as soon as you fall through the ice to B1F

Afterwards, break through the ice just right of the ladder you just came up.

Fall through this patch of Ice to fall back down to B1F, except in a better spot / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Fall through this patch of Ice to fall back down to B1F, except in a better spot

This will land you right in the middle of the ice sheet on B1F.

Now simply slide down, and then slide right. And you’ll find yourself right in front of the Poké Ball that’s holding the Never-Melt Ice.

Slide down and then right to stop right in front of the Never-Melt Ice (in the Poké Ball) / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Slide down and then right to stop right in front of the Never-Melt Ice (in the Poké Ball)

One Never-Melt Ice will be enough for most trainers, but while you’re in Icefall Cave, you can always find some more as held items on wild Dewgong.

Finding the Never-Melt Ice in B1F of Icefall Cave / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
Finding the Never-Melt Ice in B1F of Icefall Cave

What Does Never-Melt Ice Do?

The Never-Melt Ice item description / Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
The Never-Melt Ice item description

Never-Melt Ice boosts the power of Ice-Type moves by 10%. The description mentions repelling heat, but the item does not actually give any resistance to Fire-Type moves.

The Never-Melt Ice is a really powerful item because Ice Type moves are particularly powerful in FireRed and LeafGreen (having at least one Ice-Type move is basically required for defeating the Elite Four, for example.)

While Never-Melt Ice is really strong, it’s also really hard to get.

However, I still recommend trying to find at least one, because this can beef up your roster in any playthrough.

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