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Pokemon Crystal Phase 3: Gym Strategy - Whitney, The Normal Leader

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Gym puzzle: Simple — a couple of trainers and a short path. Goldenrod City Gym Leader Whitney, Goldenrod City Gym Miltank is the wall: Rollout snowballs, Milk Drink resets chip, and Attract can stall male attackers cold.

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By Damodar Sharma Updated June 2, 2026 Walkthrough

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Gym puzzle: Simple — a couple of trainers and a short path. Goldenrod City Gym Leader Whitney, Goldenrod City Gym Miltank is the wall: Rollout snowballs, Milk Drink resets chip, and Attract can stall male attackers cold.

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Gym Strategy - Whitney, The Normal Leader

Gym puzzle: Simple — a couple of trainers and a short path.

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Goldenrod City Gym Leader

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Whitney, Goldenrod City Gym

Miltank is the wall: Rollout snowballs, Milk Drink resets chip, and Attract can stall male attackers cold.

Clefairy Clefairy Lv 18 MovesDoubleslapMimicEncoreMetronome ReadAnnoying but soft — KO it fast.
Miltank Miltank Lv 20 MovesRolloutAttractStompMilk Drink Read★ The wall: Rollout snowballs, Milk Drink heals 50%, Attract locks opposite-gender attackers.

Why Miltank is hard: Rollout snowballs fast, Attract can steal turns from male attackers, and Milk Drink resets your progress.

How to break it: Best answer is a Ghost-type (Gastly/Haunter/Gengar) to blank her main offense, then chip with a non-Normal attack. Failing that, use Fighting pressure from Heracross or Machop. Lead a female or genderless attacker if possible, hit hard before Rollout ramps, and bring Super Potions.

Heads up: If Rollout lands twice unanswered it can sweep you — reset the snowball by switching to a Ghost (immune) or by KOing/forcing a miss. This is the toughest fight of early Johto; go in at Lv 20+.

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