When you arrive, heal up in the Pokémon Center and shop if you need to. Then head north onto Route 111.
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Route 111¶
Once here, go north and along the path as before to Route 112. Rebattle some Trainers if you want, but don’t feel obligated to.
Route 112¶
As you head west along this Route, ascend again onto the mountain. This time, when you do so, you’ll find that the Cable Car house to the northeast is not blocked anymore, so feel free to ride a car up to the top of Mt. Chimney! Speak with the receptionist on the left to ride.
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(Though, before you catch a ride, note that there is a Guard Spec . to the right of the gatehouse, sort of behind it.)
Mt. Chimney¶
As you arrive at Mt. Chimney, you’ll see a bunch of Team Aqua and Team Magma Grunts battling it out; don’t get between their Pokémon! (Or do, just to see what happens.)
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Everybody’s too busy to greet you, so head east, then north and upstairs. To the west, one of the admins (from the team you don’t face in your game) is taking on three
North past here, you’ll encounter the other admin (from your game’s antagonistic team): Magma’s Tabitha in Omega Ruby, and Aqua’s Matt in Alpha Sapphire. Either way, the battle’s pretty easy, like the Meteor Falls battle except a bit more work for you since your rival isn’t here to help.
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After the battle, go east and you’ll find the main leader of your game’s team who will decide to battle you!
BOSS - Magma Leader Maxie (Omega Ruby)¶
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If you’ve been keeping up with a Fairy Pokémon or a Bug Pokémon that likes to specialize in Special moves of the same - such as
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Otherwise, you could just outright overpower the beast with a Fighting move on your lead Pokémon; even if weakened, you should be about of the level that this will still be a 2-hit-KO, and then you can just switch out after.
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If you didn’t bring along Pika, just use STAB moves to death. He doesn’t work much towards attacking, other than with Air Cutter, so basically bring in a good Rock Pokémon if you have one (or Electric or Psychic.
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BOSS - Aqua Leader Archie (Alpha Sapphire)¶
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By this point, most of you should have a Fighting Pokémon, and most Fighters are inherently Physical, which means most of the time they’ll lose 1/8 of their HP due to Rough Skin.
Still, if you feel you can take him out in one blow, go ahead;
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After the battle, the Leader will end up preparing to unleash some Mega Evolution on you before a cell phone completely ruins the mood. Aww… In any case, it seems like they’ll head out to Mt. Pyre, and you’ll get the Meteorite . With a rebuttal from the other team, you finally regain control.
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Go west and down the stairs to find TM59 (Incinerate). Next, walk all of the way around to the east side of the crater to find a hidden Protein , then walk down the stairs near the Cable Car house. Head to the back of it and use the Dowsing Machine to find the Zinc there.
You can also speak with the woman in front to get your party fully healed. Now, go south to the Jagged Pass .