Red & Blue Seafoam Islands
Fast currents and Strength boulder puzzles fill this frozen island cave, with Articuno, the Freeze Pokemon, roosting in its lowest chamber.
Seafoam Islands is in Kanto. In the story you arrive from Route 20 through its entrance and it comes before Cinnabar Island.
SEAFOAM ISLANDS MAP
The currents run too fast to Surf until you weigh them down, so you shove boulders into the water with Strength, then cross the slack channels. The cave keeps dropping floors as you go.
Seafoam Islands Walkthrough
1F
- The eastern doorway only leads down, so take its ladders to B3F, ride the eastern water into B4F, and climb the western ladders back up.
- Push the west boulder north and then west into its hole, and the east boulder north and west into the other.
Requires StrengthMoveStrengthNormalClassPhysicalPower80Accuracy100%PP15A powerful physi cal attack. (Rainbow Badge) to move
B1F
- Drop after it and push it east again on B2F.
- Take the ladders back up to 1F and fall through the east hole.
- Shove the second boulder east into its hole.
Appears here only after you push it down a hole on 1F; requires StrengthMoveStrengthNormalClassPhysicalPower80Accuracy100%PP15A powerful physi cal attack. (Rainbow Badge) to move
B2F
- With both B2F boulders sunk, the B3F current stops dragging you away.
- Collect the hidden NuggetNuggetB2F, on a rock in the south area of the floor (hidden) on a rock in the south area of B2F, where the south ladder of B1F sets you down.
Appears here only after you push it down a hole on B1F; requires StrengthMoveStrengthNormalClassPhysicalPower80Accuracy100%PP15A powerful physi cal attack. (Rainbow Badge) to move
NuggetB3F
- Shove them until one falls down each hole, which stills the B4F current.
- Pick up the hidden Max ElixirMax ElixirB3F, on the rock south of the easternmost boulder (hidden) on the rock south of the easternmost boulder.
Requires StrengthMoveStrengthNormalClassPhysicalPower80Accuracy100%PP15A powerful physi cal attack. (Rainbow Badge) to move
Max ElixirB4F
- Save first, since knocking it out removes it for good.
- Then climb the western ladders and leave west for Route 20.
Pokemon Encounters
Seel and Dewgong make these caves the best spot to add an Ice-type, and the rods split by version, Red's Seadra against Blue's Krabby and Kingler. Articuno itself roosts at the bottom, a level 50 catch worth saving up for.
Old Rod1
Good Rod2
Super Rod4Old Rod1Good Rod2Super Rod4Articuno
ITEMS
Seafoam's items are all hidden among the ice, a Nugget, a Max Elixir, and a spare Ultra Ball for catching what lurks deeper in.
Nugget
Sell for 5000 Pokédollars, or to Ore Collector for 10000 Pokédollars.
Nugget
Sell for 5000 Pokédollars, or to Ore Collector for 10000 Pokédollars.
Max Elixir
Restores PP to full for each move.
Ultra Ball
Tries to catch a wild Pokémon. Success rate is 2×.
Seafoam Islands Guide
With Strength, sink a boulder into each pit you come across. That cuts the rushing water on the floor below down to nothing, opening a Surf path over to Articuno at level 50. Skip the puzzle and you'll just get washed back the way you came.
Surf, at the very least. The islands sit out at sea between Fuchsia and Cinnabar, so you ride there over the waves. Strength is the other requirement, used inside for the boulder puzzle, so teach both to one team member before setting out.