i love that pikasprey is still out here finding ways to create tedium in pokemon games for no reason
the situation is laid out thusly:
you are stuck behind the snorlax blocking cycling road, as you have done a glitch to get all the way to the other side of it (the cycling road side) despite not having a bike
all trainers are battled, and all items are either stored in the PC or thrown away, and your money is 0
the last pokemon center you saved at is cinnabar island.
your only pokemon is a poisoned exeggutor on 1 HP that only knows explosion.
so what will you do?
walk back to town back down cycling road? exeggutor will die of poison in 4 steps and you will be sent to the jail known as cinnabar island.
battle the snorlax? what, with explosion? and then get sent to cinnabar island jail?
no.
what you will do is walk three steps, save, and then quit. and then walk three steps, save, and quit. walk three steps, save, and quit. walk three steps, save, and quit.
see, the overworld effect where poisoned pokemon take damage outside of battle (which was removed after gen 4) takes effect every 4 steps (5 in FRLG). if you take THREE steps, save, quit, and then reload, the step counter resets. so you are free to walk all the way down cycling road from the snorlax roadblock, taking three steps at a time, and saving and quitting each time, until you get to fuschia city's pokemon center at the other end.
but the question is. will you?
