Actually, I used the 'Catch an Abra, catch a Bellsprout/Oddish, teach it Sleep Powder, Teleport, first trainer in Misty's gym' thing. Then, I used the similar 'Catch an Abra, catch a Bellsprout/Oddish, teach it Sleep Powder, Teleport, kid with a Slowpoke' thing. Did you know that if you do the first one and talk to Joy to get your Pokemon healed up, you get a bit of dialogue from one of the trainers on Nugget Bridge?
It's not that I want to catch it. God, no! I refuse to catch those things. I want my Masterballs and my Rare Candies. My fear of that stems from my amazing Pokemon Red game getting a little water in the cartridge or something. My file was gone forever and ever. And then it wouldn't save. I always thought that it was my brother using Missingno. in his Blue game to level up my Raichu, which, at the time, was a Pikachu.