Viridian Forest was a real pain, I had to keep using valuable potions to keep poisoned Pokemon alive long enough to get to the Pokemon Center.
Doubled back to fight Hitler on route 22 for exp, but his damn Pidgey scored 3 critical hits and forced me to use yet another of my limited potions. arrrg!
After that, I went back to Pewter and entered the gym. Four uses of Water Gun later, I had the boulderbadge.
Team:
ShellYeah! - Squirtle lvl 15 (Pallet Town)
Bird Flu - Pidgey lvl 13 (Route 2)
Biter - Rattata lvl 10 (Route 1)
Poopflingr - Mankey lvl 10 (Route 22)
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