How To Get Through Victory Road: Pokémon FRLG Walkthrough Part 15

by ReOcelot

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Quick Guide
Reaching Victory Road
Victory Road Walkthrough (Step-by-Step)
Indigo Plateau & The Pokémon League

Quick Guide

From Viridian City, walk west until you reach Route 22.
Battle your Rival on Route 22, then continue west until you reach the Pokémon League front gate.
Walk through the gate on Route 22 then continue north. Show each guard the badge they ask for and make your way all the way to the end of Route 23.
Walk inside the cave entrance to Victory Road.
Push boulders onto all 4 buttons/pressure pads inside of Victory Road to get through the cave.
Exit Victory Road, heal your Pokémon in the Indigo Plateau building, and prepare for the Elite Four.

Reaching Victory Road

Now that we have all eight Gym Badges, we can finally head to the Indigo Plateau. The Indigo Plateau is in the north-west part of Kanto, and we have to travel through Victory Road to reach it.

Before you depart for Victory Road, I recommend stocking up on Ultra Balls, Hyper Potions, Revives – and maybe even some Repels too.

You’ll also need to make sure that you have Pokémon that know the moves Surf and Strength, because we’ll need them to actually get to the Indigo Plateau.

Starting on Route 22

Luckily, we just defeated Giovanni and are in Viridian City already.

So travel West from Viridian City to reach Route 22.

Route 22, just west of Viridian City

We will pretty much travel along Route 22 / 23 until we hit Victory Road. So follow the Route 22 pathway, then walk north through the tall grass. Afterwards, we’re pretty much just going to forge-forward west.

Heading west on Route 22 to reach Victory Road

Rival Battle

As soon as you start heading west on this path, your Rival will come forward and stop you in your path. This will probably be the toughest battle you’ve experienced, so make sure your Pokémon are leveled up and healed.

Your Rival has a full party of six Pokémon, but the exact party will depend on your Starter Pokémon:

If you chose Charmander:

Pokémon	Level
Pidgeot	47
Exeggcute	45
Rhyhorn	45
Alakazam	47
Growlithe	45
Blastoise	53

If you chose Bulbasaur:

Pokémon	Level
Pidgeot	47
Rhyhorn	45
Exeggcute	45
Gyarados	45
Alakazam	47
Charizard	53

If you chose Squirtle:

Pokémon	Level
Pidgeot	47
Growlithe	45
Rhyhorn	45
Alakazam	47
Gyarados	45
Venusaur	53

Defeat him as fast as you can, then continue onward.

Route 23

After you defeat your Rival, you can continue west along Route 22 until you reach the Pokémon League Front Gate.

This building is huge and glamorous so it’ll be pretty hard to miss.

Outside of the Pokémon League Front Gate Building

Head inside of the building and continue forward through the door in the back.

The guard will stop you and make sure that you have the Boulder Badge.

Guard checking for the Boulder Badge at the Pokémon League Front Gate

Get used to this treatment, because there will be 7 more guards ahead of us, and every single one is going to stop us and check for a badge.

Route 23 is very straight forward.

You just walk north through all of the gates.

Although you’ll eventually reach a little river that you’ll need to Surf across, so make sure one of your Pokémon knows Surf.

Surfing across the river on Route 23

Surf straight ahead and continue north. Finally, after a few more guard checkpoints, we’ll reach the final guard.

Final checkpoint on Route 23 before Victory Road

This guard will check for the Earth Badge that we just won from Giovanni. Of course we have it, so we can continue past this guard and finally enter Victory Road.

Outside of the entrance to Victory Road

Victory Road Walkthrough (Step-by-Step)

Victory Road is a bit convoluted.

There are many boulders lying around, and we have to use Strength on those boulders, then push them over buttons in order to leave.

Without guidance, it can be a bit tricky to get through Victory Road.

But if you want a quick rundown of how to get through it step-by-step, we have you covered.

Button 1 (First Floor)

Step inside and use Strength on the first boulder to the left of the entrance

Move this boulder south until you hit the rocks below

Push this boulder down once, then right as far as possible

Move the boulder east until you hit the rocks, then north until you hit the wall

Once you hit the rocks with the boulder, push it up as far as possible, then push it right as far as possible once again

Move this boulder east as far as possible

Once you hit the east wall (aka rocks), push the boulder up until it is one space above the white button

Move the boulder north until it is one tile above the button (where the red circle is)

Push the boulder east once, then push it down onto the white button

Pushing the first boulder on the white button in Victory Road

After you’ve moved the boulder onto the switch, head back to the entrance.

Then walk up the stairs just northeast of the entrance hole.

Walk up these stairs by the entrance, then follow the west side of the cliff until you reach a ladder going down

Make your way to the north-west part of the cliff, then walk down the stairs.

Afterwards, make your way to the north-west part of the First Floor (where the purple-haired Trainer and ladder going up are located).

Walk down these stairs on the cliff, then make your way to the north-west part of the floor

Take the ladder going up in the north-west corner of the first floor.

Take this ladder in the north-west corner of the first floor to get to the 2nd boulder

Button 2 (Second Floor)

When you reach the 2nd floor, head directly south and use Strength on the closest boulder

Use strength on this boulder once you reach the 2nd floor

Push the boulder left until it is two tiles right of the button, and two tiles north of it (see the screenshot below)

Position the boulder here and then push it south

Push the boulder south as far as possible, then push it left until it’s on top of the button

Push this boulder on top of the white button on the 2nd floor

Afterwards, head up the ladder just northeast of the button / boulder we just pressed. Then you’ll want to walk up the stairs onto the cliff.

Walk up these stairs to head towards the 3rd button

Follow the cliff, and take the first set of stairs down.

Walk down these stairs then head east

Walk east as far as possible, then start walking north until you see a ladder going up. Take this ladder up to the 3rd floor.

Take this ladder up to the 3rd floor of Victory Road

Button 3 (Third Floor)

When you reach the third floor, use Strength on the boulder closest to the ladder (north-west of the ladder)

Use strength on this boulder when you climb up to the third floor and we are going to push it over the button to the far-left

Push the boulder up two times, then push it left as far as possible

Push the boulder here, then start pushing it left as far as possible

Step 3: Once you hit the left wall, walk above the boulder and push it down once.

Hit the boulder down one time so that it can fit between the hole in the rock wall

Push the boulder left 4 times until it’s just one space to the left side of the button (and 3 above)

Push the boulder left 4 times until it is one space to the left of the button

Walk above the boulder and push it down as far as possible until it’s sitting directly left of the white button

Push the boulder down until it is right next to the white button

Push the boulder one space to the right, leaving it on the white button

Push the boulder right once so it lands on the button and then prepare to move on to button number 4

Once you’ve pushed this boulder onto the 3rd pressure pad / button, walk back east towards the ladder we climbed up on. But don’t go here just yet, as there’s one more button to complete.

Button 4 (Third Floor – Second Floor)

Go back to the area just left of the ladder we used to get to the third floor. Then climb up the stairs leading onto the cliff here.

Climb up onto the cliff right next to the ladder we took to get onto the 3rd floor

Follow the cliff all the way to the end the walk down the steps past the two purple-haired trainers.

Walk down these stairs and the end of the cliff and as far south as possible

Continue right while hugging the south wall. Walk past those two purple-haired trainers and through the little corridor.

Walk until you see a boulder perched by a hole in the floor.

Continue right and walk through this little path. Keep walking right until you see a boulder and a hole

Once you reach the hole in the floor, push the boulder right into it. Then follow the boulder down (walk into the hole).

Push this boulder into the hole to the right. Afterwards, jump into the hole yourself to follow it down

Once you land next to the boulder, use Strength again and push it straight left until it lands on the white button at the end. (Do not push it any direction except left)

Push the boulder left from this point until it lands on the white button on the far left

After you push the boulder onto the button, head back to where we first started pushing the boulder after it fell through the hole. You’ll be able to walk up the cliff there.

You’ll also notice that the barrier blocking the ladder going up will be gone now. So we can take that ladder back up to the third floor.

Take this ladder up back to the Third Floor

Once you take the ladder up, walk past the two purple-haired trainers (or battle them in a double battle), and then take the ladder going down directly behind them.

Walk past these trainers and then take the ladder going down

Once you climb the ladder down, you can talk to the purple haired trainer to teach one of your Pokémon the move Double-Edge.

Double-Edge is a pretty good move, so feel free to teach it to any of your Pokémon as a nice reward for completing Victory Road!

Teaching a Pokémon Double-Edge at the end of Victory Road

Finally, walk just east of this purple-haired NPC and exit the cave.

Exiting Victory Road onto Route 23

Indigo Plateau & The Pokémon League

As soon as you exit Victory Road, I highly recommend saving your game just in case anything were to happen (KO, Power Outage, etc).

Afterwards, head north on Route 23 until you reach the Indigo Plateau, and the front of the Pokémon League building.

Standing on Indigo Plateau, outside of the Elite Four building

Walk inside and make sure to heal your Pokémon up immediately.

Even if all of your Pokémon are full HP, you’ll want to heal so you can set a checkpoint here just in case. This will allow you to fly back to the Pokémon League at any time.

There’s also a shop in the Indigo Plateau building, so you can stock up on Revives, Hyper Potions, Full Restores, and whatever else you need.

Now prepare yourself to take on the Elite Four!

Remember: if you lose against any of the Elite Four members, you will have to restart the entire E4 chain again. So make sure you’re well-stocked on items and that your Pokémon are all trained and ready for battle.

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