You go to your bag, go to the TM and HM section, boot up surf, teach it to a water Pokemon, and when you get to a body of water, select that Pokemon in then menu, and in blue letters, it should say surf, press a and say yes. Or, if your Pokemon already knows surf, go up to a body of water, press a on it, it should say "The water is a deep blue... Would you like to surf on it?" then select yes, then it says "(Pokemon) used surf."
If you are talking about Defog(HM05), then you will have to beat Crasher Wake first in order to use it outside of battle. It is somewhere in the Great Marsh. In Platinum, it's Fantina, and after you beat her, you can use Surf.
You need the Fog Badge from Morty the Ecruteak Gym Leader in Ecruteak City before you can use Surf outside of battle.
You need the soul badge that is obtained from defeating the Fuschia city gym leader Koga in order to use surf outside of battle.
To move a big boulder you need obtain the move Strength. To use the move outside of battle you need the Rainbow badge.
In Pokemon Red, the fifth badge is possessed by the Poison-Type Koga. The badge is named Soul Badge. It lets you use Surf outside of Battle.
When using Surf outside of battle, and if there is a waterfall and you are at the bottom, you can travel up the waterfall by using Waterfall.
what do you mean by how is? but surf lets you ride on a water Pokemon in the water. You will also need it to get to the Pokemon league and you get the move surf from the elder of celestic town and you can use it outside of battle when you beat the hearthome gym leader.
The use of the move "dig" outside of battle is that it can get you out of caves and things like caves without using an Escape Rope.
Fantina gives you shadow claw after beating her, then you can use surf out of battle
If you are talking about Defog(HM05), then you will have to beat Crasher Wake first in order to use it outside of battle. It is somewhere in the Great Marsh. In Platinum, it's Fantina, and after you beat her, you can use Surf.
To get Surf, go to Celestic Town and go into the ruins and Cynthia's grandma will give you surf. Then go and beat gym leader Fantina, so that you can use Surf outside of battle.
You get to use surf outside of battle by beating the 5th gym and you get HM Surf from an elder in celestic town. You get to use rock climb outside of battle by beating the 7th gym in snowpoint city and you get HM rock climb buried in the snow in the loft area in the western area of route 17! Hope it helps!
You need the Fog Badge from Morty the Ecruteak Gym Leader in Ecruteak City before you can use Surf outside of battle.
You need the soul badge that is obtained from defeating the Fuschia city gym leader Koga in order to use surf outside of battle.
You can find octillery outside of the entrance to sunyshore city in the water and you have to surf around to find them or you can use a super rod.
Press X to bring up your menu, select 'Pokemon', click a Pokemon and there will be the name of one of its attacks there in blue writing and this means it can be used outside the battle. For example facing a body of water, you can use Surf.
In ecruteak city. beat the gym leader to be able to use surf outside of battle. then go to the house of the five kimono girls each with a different evolution of evee