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VERSION: 1.60 LAST UPDATED: 26 / 12 / 09
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[1] TABLE OF CONTENTS [S001]
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No. Name of Section Page Ref.
1. TABLE OF CONTENTS [S001]
2. VERSION UPDATES [S002]
3. INTRODUCTION [S003]
4. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN D/P AND PLATINUM [S004]
5. POKEMON PLATINUM MAIN WALKTHROUGH [S005]
6. POKEMON PLATINUM AFTERMAIN WALKTHROUGH [S006]
7. ITEM AND TM/HM LISTS [S007]
8. BREEDING POKEMON [S008]
9. THE POKEMON STAT PICTURE [S009]
10. SINNOH DEX SEE POKEMON LOCATIONS [S010]
11. POKEMON LEGENDARIES [S011]
12. WI-FI CONNECTIVITY [S012]
13. OTHER INFORMATION [S013]
14. OTHER GAME CONNECTIVITY [S014]
15. OTHER POSSIBLE CHALLENGES [S015]
16. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS [S016]
17. ACTION REPLAY & OTHER DEVICES [S017]
18. CONTACT INFORMATION [S018]
19. COPYRIGHT & CREDITS [S019]
[ Contained in Pokemon Platinum Main Walkthrough ] [REF.]

000.........BEGINNING NOTES............................[MW000]
001.........TWINLEAF TOWN..............................[MW001]
002.........ROUTE 201 & LAKE VERITY....................[MW002]
003.........SANDGEM TOWN...............................[MW003]
004.........ROUTE 202..................................[MW004]
005.........JUBILIFE CITY..............................[MW005]
006.........ROUTE 204 SOUTH............................[MW006]
007.........ROUTE 203 & OREBURGH GATE..................[MW007]
008.........OREBURGH CITY..............................[MW008]
009.........OREBURGH MINES.............................[MW009]
010.........OREBURGH GYM...............................[MW010]
011.........ROUTE 207 SOUTH............................[MW011]
012.........OREBURGH GATE..............................[MW012]
013.........JUBILIFE CITY..............................[MW013]
014.........ROUTE 204 NORTH............................[MW014]
015.........FLOAROMA TOWN..............................[MW015]
016.........VALLEY WINDWORKS...........................[MW016]
017.........ROUTE 205..................................[MW017]
018.........ETERNA FOREST..............................[MW018]
019.........ROUTE 205 NORTH............................[MW019]
020.........ETERNA CITY................................[MW020]
021.........ETERNA GYM.................................[MW021]
022.........OLD CHATEAU................................[MW022]
023.........ETERNA GALACTIC HIDEOUT....................[MW023]
024.........ROUTE 211 WEST.............................[MW024]
025.........ROUTE 206..................................[MW025]
026.........WAYWARD CAVE...............................[MW026]
027.........ROUTE 207..................................[MW027]
028.........MT. CORONET................................[MW028]
029.........ROUTE 208..................................[MW029]
030.........HEARTHOME CITY & AMITY SQUARE..............[MW030]
031.........HEARTHOME GYM..............................[MW031]
032.........ROUTE 209..................................[MW032]
033.........LOST TOWER.................................[MW033]
034.........SOLACEON TOWN..............................[MW034]
035.........ROUTE 210 SOUTH............................[MW035]
036.........ROUTE 215..................................[MW036]
037.........VEILSTONE CITY.............................[MW037]
038.........VEILSTONE GYM..............................[MW038]
039.........ROUTE 214..................................[MW039]
040.........ROUTE 213..................................[MW040]
041.........PASTORIA CITY..............................[MW041]
042.........GREAT MARSH................................[MW042]
043.........PASTORIA GYM...............................[MW043]
044.........ROUTE 212 SOUTH............................[MW044]
045.........ROUTE 212 NORTH............................[MW045]
046.........POKEMON MANSION/TROPHY GARDEN..............[MW046]
047.........ROUTE 210 NORTH............................[MW047]
048.........CELESTIC TOWN..............................[MW048]
049.........ROUTE 211 WEST.............................[MW049]
050.........FUEGO IRONWORKS............................[MW050]
051.........ROUTE 218..................................[MW051]
052.........CANALAVE CITY..............................[MW052]
053.........IRON ISLAND................................[MW053]
054.........CANALAVE GYM...............................[MW054]
055.........LAKE VALOUR................................[MW055]
056.........LAKE VERITY................................[MW056]
057.........MT. CORONET................................[MW057]
058.........ROUTE 216..................................[MW058]
059.........ROUTE 217..................................[MW059]
060.........ACUITY LAKEFRONT...........................[MW060]
061.........SNOWPOINT CITY.............................[MW061]
062.........SNOWPOINT GYM..............................[MW062]
063.........LAKE ACUITY................................[MW063]
064.........GALACTIC WAREHOUSE.........................[MW064]
065.........GALACTIC HEADQUARTERS......................[MW065]
066.........MT. CORONET................................[MW066]
067.........SPEAR PILLAR...............................[MW067]
068.........DISTORTION WORLD...........................[MW068]
069.........DISCOVER THE PSYCHIC TRIO..................[MW069]
070.........ROUTE 222..................................[MW070]
071.........SUNYSHORE CITY.............................[MW071]
072.........SUNYSHORE GYM..............................[MW072]
073.........ROUTE 223..................................[MW073]
074.........VICTORY ROAD...............................[MW074]
075.........POKEMON LEAGUE.............................[MW075]
[ CONTAINED IN POKEMON AFTERMAIN WALKTHROUGH ]
STARK MOUNTAIN QUEST

000.........NATIONAL DEX...............................[WE000]
001.........FIGHT AREA.................................[WE001]
002.........ROUTE 225..................................[WE002]
003.........SURVIVAL AREA..............................[WE003]
004.........ROUTE 226..................................[WE004]
005.........ROUTE 228..................................[WE005]
006.........ROUTE 229..................................[WE006]
007.........RESORT AREA................................[WE007]
008.........ROUTE 230..................................[WE008]
009.........ROUTE 227..................................[WE009]
010.........STARK MOUNTAIN.............................[WE010]
THE BATTLE FRONTIER

011.........THE BATTLE FRONTIER........................[WE011]
012.........BATTLE TOWER...............................[WE012]
013.........BATTLE HALL................................[WE013]
014.........BATTLE ARCADE..............................[WE014]
015.........BATTLE CASTLE..............................[WE015]
016.........BATTLE FACTORY.............................[WE016]
MISCELLANEOUS QUESTS
017.........SINNOH'S HONEY TREES.......................[WE017]*
018.........VICTORY ROAD & ROUTE 224...................[WE018]
019.........RETURN TO THE LEAGUE.......................[WE019]
020.........THE TOP TRAINER CAFE.......................[WE020]
021.........POKEMON CENTER BATTLES.....................[WE021]
022.........SWARMS IN THE SINNOH REGION................[WE022]
023.........EXPLORING WITH THE RADAR...................[WE023]
024.........THE TROPHY GARDEN..........................[WE024]
025.........GAMEBOY ADVANCE DONGLING...................[WE025]
026.........SINNOH'S MOVE TUTORS.......................[WE026]
027.........HUNT FOR THE BIRDS.........................[WE027]
028.........QUEST TO FULLMOON ISLE.....................[WE028]
029.........SNOWPOINT TEMPLE...........................[WE029]
030.........THE SPEAR PILLAR QUEST.....................[WE030]***
031.........IN-DEPTH POKETCH...........................[WE031]
032.........THE GLOBAL TRADE STATION...................[WE032]
033.........YOUR OWN RESORT HOUSE......................[WE033]
034.........ROUTES 219, 220, 221 & PAL PARK............[WE034]**
035.........CHANGING DEOXYS' FORM......................[WE035]
036.........RETURN TO THE DISTORTION WORLD.............[WE036]***
037.........THE UNDERGROUND............................[WE037]*
QUESTS FROM EVENTS

038.........DISCOVER THE SECRET OF ROTOM...............[WE038]
039.........DEITIES OF ROCK, ICE AND STEEL.............[WE039]
040.........A NIGHTMARE TO NEWMOON ISLAND..............[WE040]
041.........JOURNEY THROUGH THE FLOWERS................[WE041]
042.........HALLS OF ORIGIN............................[WE042]
043.........THE GRACIDEA FLOWER........................[WE043]
* These can be accessed before the National Dex also.

** The routes can be accessed before the National Dex but not the Pal Park.
*** These can be done without the National Dex but you MUST have beaten the
Elite Four & Champion and got recorded in the Hall of Fame to do them.
[ CONTAINED IN ITEM AND TM/HM LISTS ]

001.........REGULAR ITEMS..............................[IL001]
002.........MEDICINAL ITEMS............................[IL002]
003.........POKE BALLS.................................[IL003]
004.........TMs & HMs..................................[IL004]
005.........KEY ITEMS..................................[IL005]
[ CONTAINED IN BREEDING POKEMON ]

001.........THE BREEDING SYSTEM........................[BP001]
002.........PARENT INFLUENCES..........................[BP002]
003.........EGG MOVES..................................[BP003]
004.........HOW MANY STEPS?............................[BP004]
005.........SPECIAL OCCURENCES.........................[BP005]
006.........THE USEFULNESS OF BREEDING.................[BP006]
[ CONTAINED IN THE POKEMON STAT PICTURE ]

001.........AN INTRODUCTION............................[PS001]
002.........INDIVIDUAL VALUES..........................[PS002]
003.........EFFORT VALUES..............................[PS003]
004.........NATURES....................................[PS004]
[ CONTAINED IN SINNOH DEX SEE POKEMON LOCATIONS ]

001.........A QUICK INTRODUCTION.......................[SD001]
002.........WHERE TO SEE THEM ALL......................[SD002]
[ CONTAINED IN POKEMON LEGENDARIES ]

001.........INTRODUCTION TO THE SECTION................[LP001]
002.........ARTICUNO, ZAPDOS, MOLTRES..................[LP002]
003.........REGIROCK, REGICE, REGISTEEL................[LP003]
004.........UXIE, MESPRIT, AZELF.......................[LP004]
005.........DIALGA, PALKIA.............................[LP005]
006.........GIRATINA...................................[LP006]
007.........HEATRAN....................................[LP007]
008.........CRESSELIA..................................[LP008]
009.........MANAPHY & PHIONE...........................[LP009]
010.........DARKRAI....................................[LP010]
011.........SHAYMIN....................................[LP011]
012.........ARCEUS.....................................[LP012]
013.........THE REST OF THEM...........................[LP013]
[ CONTAINED IN WI-FI CONNECTIVITY ]

001.........WHAT CAN YOU DO?...........................[WF001]
002.........POKEMON TRADING............................[WF002]
003.........POKEMON BATTLING...........................[WF003]
004.........WI-FI SQUARE...............................[WF004]
005.........THE GLOBAL TRADE STATION...................[WF005]
006.........WI-FI EVENTS AND MYSTERY GIFT..............[WF006]
007.........WI-FI LIMITATIONS..........................[WF007]
[ CONTAINED IN OTHER INFORMATION ]

001.........POKERUS....................................[OI001]
002.........SHINY POKEMON..............................[OI002]
003.........HAPPINESS..................................[OI003]
004.........SECRET ABILITY EFFECTS.....................[OI004]
005.........THE SPECIFICS OF FEEBAS....................[OI005]
006.........MECHANICS OF CATCHING POKEMON..............[OI006]
007.........EVOLUTIONARY METHODS.......................[OI007]
[ CONTAINED IN OTHER GAME CONNECTIVITY ]

001.........POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION..................[OI001]
002.........MY POKEMON RANCH...........................[OI002]
003.........POKEMON RANGER: SHADOWS OF ALMIA...........[OI003]
004.........THE GBA GAMES AND DIAMOND/PEARL............[OI003]
[ CONTAINED IN OTHER POSSIBLE CHALLENGES ]

001.........CHALLENGES, YOU SAY?.......................[CH001]
002.........MONO TYPE CHALLENGES.......................[CHO02]
003.........MONO COLOUR CHALLENGES.....................[CH003]
004.........SOLO POKEMON CHALLENGES....................[CH004]
005.........OTHER SUGGESTIONS..........................[CH005]
[ CONTAINED IN ACTION REPLAY AND OTHER DEVICES ]

001.........WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH A CHEAT DEVICE........[CD001]
002.........CODES FOR POKEMON PLATINUM.................[CD002]
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[2] VERSION UPDATES [S002]
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1.60 :: 21st May 2009
Several corrections, stuff like that. I'm getting to the point where I'm
being
lazy and letting e-mails rack up, so I had about 84 to look through this
time -
not a good thing! I think I ignored quite a lot of them, so feel free to
resend
your e-mails if there was something important that I haven't answered back
to.
I'll probably do the GTS and other sections I haven't filled out somewhat
soon
too probably. The Wi-Fi Plaza is pretty good from what I've tried, now that
I
can actually understand it.
** Little edit made on December 26 '09. E-mail has since changed, so please
use
the new one if you wish to contact me regarding this walkthrough. I will
actually answer your e-mails now.
1.50 :: 23rd April 2009

Some corrections, additions and stuff. I can't update too much now since
I'm
kinda busy.
1.40 :: 8th April 2009

Added a bunch of edits and new information to the walkthrough based on the
many
e-mails I've received in regards to it; thank you for your corrections and
additions! Otherwise there isn't much to say, I've still got a few sections
empty and stuff. I need to play the American Platinum, but Tales of
Symphonia
is too addictive. Heh ;-; I still need clarification on a few things and I
forgot to add half of the DP -> Plat changes, so you may need to resend e-
mails
that had those as the subject D=.
1.20 :: 26th March 2009

A bunch of updates with stuff I missed out since I didn't see it such as a
Quick Claw being in Jublife, as well as fixing several titles and adding AR
codes to the AR section thanks to a sender (the Game ID is there too if you
require that). Thank you to all of the readers who sent new information in;
it's pretty much all been added. I haven't given actual named credit to
anyone
except two people but those who sent in info like the Quick Claw, Zap Plate
location etc know who they are. Thank you again.
1.10 :: 19th March 2009

A small update to just add the majority of the English names given to the
new
things in this game, such as the Platinum Orb now being the Griseous Orb
and
the new Frontier Brain names/titles, etc.
1.05 :: 14th March 2009

Updated the FAQ question with two questions I have got thus far. Also added
a small bit of text to the parent influences part in the breeding section
because I forgot to mention that the Everstone breeding thing only works if
both parents are the same language. Also added a tidbit in the Gracidea
Flower section about what Shaymin can actually activate the event.
1.00 :: 11th March 2009

The majority of the walkthrough is completed; there are some sections with
no
content in them but the actual walkthrough has been finished.
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[3] INTRODUCTION [S003]
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Pokemon is a franchise that has spanned several 'generations', currently up
to
four. The whole franchise started with the Red and Green versions in Japan
back
in 1996 and since then the game has evolved into a franchise that spans
many
different features including games, toys, an anime, trading cards and a
fair
bit more.
In 1998, Red & Green were released as Red & Blue in the United States,
which
featured graphics from Japan's own Pokemon Blue which was a game similar to
Red and Green but with extra features such as Jynx in Seafoam Islands and
Ditto
in Rock Tunnel. The anime had actually been aired in the US beforehand but
the
games quickly became a huge hit. The same happened in Europe with the
Pokemon
games' release in 1999, ten years ago from now. Later on, a third version
was
released to compliment Red and Blue, specifically Pokemon Yellow. The
release
of a third version with additional features came to be a reoccuring trend
in
the franchise. Yellow brought some new ideas to the table and is the only
game
to date to have a Pokemon following a trainer within the game (specifically
Pikachu.) Pokemon Yellow also changed Wild Pokemon, gave Gym Leaders new
teams
and even added a surfing Pikachu minigame. Spin-off titles were also
released
to compliment these games, including Pokemon Snap and Pokemon Stadium on
the
Nintendo 64 and Pokemon Pinball on the Gameboy Colour.
Come late 1999 for Japan and late 2000 for the United States and probably
early
2001 for Europe, Pokemon Gold and Silver were released. These started the
2nd
generation of Pokemon, adding 100 new Pokemon. Some were actually
evolutions of
those who had lived in the Kanto region where the first generation was set,
such as Kingdra and Blissey but the majority were entirely new species.
This
second generation was received very well, also receiving spin-off titles
such
as Pokemon Stadium 2. The third game in the series turned out to be Pokemon
Crystal, which focused on Suicune as a main legendary. It was also unique
in
that it was the first Pokemon game to allow the player to be a female - in
all
of the other games previously you had to be male. This generation was also
the
first one who use a real-time clock to determine whether it was Morning,
Day
or Night and the Wild Pokemon changed depending on this clock.
2002-03 saw the release of the next generation in Pokemon, namely Pokemon
Ruby
and Pokemon Sapphire. Adding another 135 new Pokemon, the region of Hoenn
was
totally new and many new features were introduced such as full-colour
graphics,
proper growing berry trees, double battles and new HMs. These games
featured
on the Gameboy Advance and played the same as their ancestors at their
core.
The third generation was the one who have the highest number of games to
date,
as in the following years many games were released, including Colosseum,
the
first 3D Pokemon RPG, (though differing incredibly from the normal formula,
instead pursuring 'Shadow Pokemon') remakes of the original Red and Green
versions entitled Pokemon Fire Red & Leaf Green which supported many of the
new features of Ruby/Sapphire and eventually Pokemon Emerald, the third
game
in the series which introduced many new features to the games and focusing
on
Rayquaza as the main legendary. Emerald was the first to introduce special
ability effects, the Battle Frontier, cinematic cutscenes and a fairly
changed
story. It also featured an entirely different font from the Ruby/Sapphire
duo.
Pokemon XD was also released as a sequel to Pokemon Colosseum on the
Gamecube,
following the same quest of Shadow Pokemon and the eradication of Cipher.
There was also the release of games such as Pokemon Trozei, Pokemon Ranger
and
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.
Then in 2006-07, the fourth generation of Pokemon was released on the

Nintendo
DS. Entitled Diamond & Pearl, these two games were the first portable games
to use psuedo-3D graphics, as well as add yet another 107 Pokemon to the
mix.
Many of these new Pokemon were in reality evolutions of older Pokemon such
as
Electabuzz, Magmar, Roselia, etcetera or pre-evolutions of Pokemon such as
Chansey and Roselia but there were also new Pokemon such as the starters,
Starly, Kricketune, etcetera. Taking place in the Sinnoh region, these two
games featured the biggest Pokemon RPG to date. Introducing things such as
use
of the touch screen, the Underground and the biggest battle change in the
Physical/Special split - attacks were now classified according to how they
work rather than what their type was. This changed some Pokemon massively,
giving some like Sneasel (who evolved into Weavile in DP) a huge advantage
while causing some Pokemon who used physical Hidden Power types some
hardships
for now Hidden Power was always special, regardless of type. Diamond and
Pearl
also received complimentary games, including Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Explorers
of Time and Darkness, Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia and the 3D battler
of
the generation, Pokemon Battle Revolution. Come September 13th 2008 in
Japan,
the third version of Diamond and Pearl, Platinum, was released, centering
on Giratina and introducing one of the best Pokemon adventures to grace the
series so far (in my opinion, anyway.)
Nowadays, there are 493 Pokemon total and every Pokemon you catch consists
of
HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense and Speed stats. They
all
have one of twenty-five 'natures', and also have an 'ability' to call their
own that can help them in battle and depending on the ability, help the
trainer
outside the battlefield as well. Some Pokemon can even get one of two
different
abilities. Despite Pokemon being of the same species, it cannot be denied
that
each member of the species has a lot of variation in them. While each
member of
the species will turn out similar (unlike the Fire Emblem series where the
RNG
can cause a unit to be good in one playthrough and absolutely awful in the
next)
there will be some difference. But the thing that gives Pokemon the replay
value
is that you only have a team of six but many choices; it's worth playing
again
to try out some other Pokemon that you may not have used on your first go
of
the game. Now I'm on a tangent, blah. This should summarize the franchise,
anyhow.
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[4] DIFFERENCES BETWEEN D/P AND PLATINUM [S004]
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Of course, being the third version, there are going to be differences,
pretty
much all of them adding to the gameplay at hand. A list of all of the
changes
is below.
1. The Sinnoh Dex has been revamped. While previously holding only 151
Pokemon
it now goes up to 210. The new 59 Pokemon consist of all of the new Sinnoh
Pokemon that were originally only available when getting the National Dex
(such as Electivire, Gallade) etc as well as their pre-evolutions (such as
Ralts, Magmar, Yanma) and a few other welcome additions such as Houndour
and
Swablu. All Sinnoh Dex Pokemon except for Manaphy, Phione, Dialga and
Palkia
are available before you get the National Dex. The only new Sinnoh Pokemon
that
are not in the Sinnoh Dex are the legendaries such as Heatran, Cresselia
etc.
2. The ability to rebattle Gym Leaders has been restored, in a new area in
the
Survival Area called the Top Trainer Cafe. The Elite Four now have a second
round ala Fire Red and Leaf Green where the Elite Four's Pokemon are
several
levels higher, as well.
3. The gym order has been swapped around; though still displaying as the
fifth
badge, the Hearthome Gym is now the third gym, the Veilstone fourth and the
Pastoria Gym fifth respectively.
4. Amity Square has had a revamp. Some of the gyms have also had a revamp,
including the Eterna Gym, Veilstone Gym and especially the Hearthome Gym.
5. There is some 'snow' in the area around Twinleaf Town. It has little
impact
on the game, however.
6. The male and female characters (Dawn & Lucas) as well as the rival all
have
new costumes, most notably being longer sleeved.
7. Nearly every Pokemon in the Sinnoh Dex has been given a new sprite, as
well
as those legendaries introduced in Diamond and Pearl. This does not apply
to
any others except for a few oddities such as Ninetales.
8. Some of the TMs & HMs around Sinnoh have been located; most notably,
HM05
and HM04 are no longer in the Great Marsh or the Safari Zone, instead lying
in
different areas. A few of the items have also appeared in new areas, most
notably the items required to evolve into the new Sinnoh Pokemon such as
the
Electrizer, Magmarizer and the Dubious Disc (as well as the Up-grade).
9. Wild Pokemon on the whole have had some edits. For example, you can
catch
Gligar and Nosepass on Route 206, Ralts on Route 208, Houndour on Route 214
etcetera.
10. Gym Leaders and Elite Four members have new teams as well as new
levels.
On the whole, they are harder than before. New teams incorporate the newly
added Sinnoh Dex Pokemon - some of the Gym Leaders even have new 'main'
Pokemon. For example, Volkner's main Pokemon is no longer a Luxray.
11. The 'secret' part of the Wayward Cave is now accessible anytime. The
rock
that originally barred entry unless you had Strength has now been removed,
meaning that cave can be explored to the end of the secret passage. This
means
you can catch Gible and pick up TM26 Earthquake much earlier than before.
12. Elite Four members now have a completely unique battle background, each
one of them having a main colour theme of whatever their type is (except
Cynthia, of course, who has a purple/white mix). They look amazing.
13. Some of the Swarm Pokemon have been changed. For example, Pidgey is now
a normal Wild Pokemon on Route 229, but a swarm is needed to find Pinsir
there.
14. Move tutors have been added to Sinnoh; there are three each teaching a
selection of moves infinite times. You have to pay them in shards.
15. One of the previously secret Poketch applications in DP can now be

gotten
normally in Platinum (the Luvdisc one, specifically.)
16. The Veilstone Department Centre now has a basement containing a variety
of
berries and Poffins, which is helpful if you want to evolve Feebas without
going through all of the trouble of making good Poffins or something. You
can
also buy Lava Cookies in this basement.
17. Some new areas have been added, the most major of which are the
Distortion
World which plays a large role in the storyline and the Battle Frontier,
which
is similar to the frontier in Emerald.
18. A new Key Item called the Battle Recorder features. This allows you to
record either a Battle Frontier match or a Wi-Fi battle.
19. The Global Trade Station (GTS) in Jubilife has expanded to include
extra
features such as allowing you to upload or download Battle Recorder videos.
There are also features allowing you to see other people's box designs or
Pokemon Super Contest decorations. There are two rooms dealing with Battle
Recorder videos - one allows you to view the most popular, while the other
lets you upload videos and find specific videos using a code.
20. The Pokemon which cannot be obtained within the game have changed.
However
some Pokemon that could not be obtained in DP such as Tangela and Tropius
are
now available within Platinum.
21. Platinum gives new forms, or as Nintendo spells it 'formes', to a total

of
three Pokemon - Rotom (who gets five new forms), Giratina and Shaymin.
22. There are some new items such as the Gracidea Flower which allows
Shaymin
to change into its Sky Forme or the Griseous Orb that lets Giratina change
into its Origin Forme when equipped.
23. The Wi-Fi room has been changed. It is now a room similar to the Union
Room
in the GBA games but you can still ask to trade, battle etcetera. Entering
friend codes is also much easier. Instead of using the menu with letters
and
etc to enter it with it being locked to numbers, there is a new window with
the 10 possible numbers that you can hit very easily with your stylus on
the
touchscreen to enter the friend code.
24. The Old Chateau event with Rotom is now available as soon as you finish
the Galactic Hideout in Eterna City.
25. Key Items to get specific events such as the Secret Key for Rotom or
the
Member's Card for Darkrai are now distributed on Wi-Fi by Nintendo, however
it is for limited times so you will not always be able to get it
unfortunately.
26. You must now see all 210 Pokemon to get the National Dex, instead of
150.
Yes, this includes Manaphy. Thankfully you can see it. Phione is not in the
Sinnoh Dex so that does not need to be seen.
27. Some of the levels of event Pokemon have been changed. Drifloon is now
15,
Giratina is 47, Dialga & Palkia are 70, Regigigas is 1 (yes, level one)
Heatran
is 50 and Darkrai is 50.
28. The Spear Pillar quest has changed quite a bit with the addition of the
Torn World. The Galactic Headquarters has also been revamped very slightly.
29. You are able to get your own house in the Resort Area. You can furnish
it
and occasionally get visitors.
30. Partners such as Cheryl, Mira and Riley can now be battled against in
the
Survival Area's Top Trainer Cafe.
31. Both Dialga and Palkia can now both be caught, like Groudon and Kyogre
could be in Emerald. It is now possible to catch Regirock, Regice and
Registeel
in Platinum as well with specific conditions. Lastly, Articuno, Zapdos and
Moltres are also available, which seems random to me but it's useful.
32. The rival can be battled outside the Top Trainer Cafe every weekend. It
is
possible for his level to rise and at the end his Pokemon team will
actually
have higher levels than Red's team in GSC did, all of his team reaching
79+.
33. The partners you travel with also have new levels, being about five
levels
higher than they were in DP.
34. Stark Mountain and Route 227 have been revamped. Route 227 now features
a
few lava pools near the mountain and Stark Mountain itself has a lava-like
hue
inside. The actual layout of the places remain the same. The Great Marsh
has
had a complete graphical revamp also, now containing more navy blue hues
than
the previous muddy brown.
35. There is now a Wi-Fi Plaza that allows you to play mini-games with your
friends. It seems quite fun.
36. Foreign Dex Entries can now be obtained for any of the 493 Pokemon,
rather
than jut a select few.
37. A lot of trainers around Sinnoh have different Pokemon, many teams
having
new Sinnoh Dex Pokemon to allow you to complete your PokeDex.
38. Some of the PokeRadar Pokemon have changed, for example there is no
longer
any specific PokeRadar Pokemon on Route 218.
39. The mansion Pokemon have also changed slightly. Porygon is no longer
there
but now Ditto is only obtainable from there, for example.
40. There are some more gift Pokemon to get other than the Riolu egg that
Riley
gives you in D/P. While this egg still stays, you can now get a Togepi egg
in
Eterna City, an Eevee from Bebe in Hearthome City (same place as D/P but
now
you can get it anytime) and a Porygon from a house in Veilstone City.
41. Battles as a whole are speedier than D/P.
42. Some specific trainers have animations when they first enter battle -
namely, the rival, Gym Leaders, Elite Four members and partners like
Cheryl.
43. HP Bars are now a sleek black instead of the usual white.
44. Surf speed is now equal to that of the ADV games, rather than D/P.
45. Special battles such as Gym Leaders and Elite Four members will have a
special VS. animation before the battle starts.
46. The Poketch has had a slight graphical remake and now the up/down
buttons
actually go the proper directions rather than both going forward.
47. One or two moves such as Hidden Power and Razor Leaf have new
animations.
48. Platinum possesses an entirely new game intro movie.
49. The cutscene at Spear Pillar is totally different.
50. Area signs when you enter an area are stylized according to the type of
area, ie the Lake Verity one has a lake background.
51. Moomoo Milk can now be bought in batches rather than one at a time.
52. Giratina, if missed in the Distortion World, can be caught in a totally

different area (Turnback Cave.) This is the first time you've been able to
catch the same legendary in two different places, I believe, ignoring
runners.
53. Honey can be bought in batches of ten, as well as singuarly.
** E-MAIL ME IF YOU KNOW ANY NOT IN THIS LIST!
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[5] POKEMON PLATINUM MAIN WALKTHROUGH [S005]
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The walkthrough starts here!
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[000] BEGINNING NOTES
[MW000]
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Before the actual walkthrough does start, I must note down some stuff that
you
may need to know to comprehend the acronyms and whatnot. I will be assuming
you can catch Pokemon, control it and all that since it is incredibly
simple
to do. For listing the Wild Pokemon in the area, it shall be done as
follows:
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
| POKEMON | TYPE | EVO. METHOD | RAR | LVLs FOUND | FIND
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Starly | Normal/Flying | N/A | 50% | 2, 3, 4 | Grass
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
POKEMON is the name of the creature, TYPE are the types of the Pokemon.
EVO.
METHOD is what must be done to get this Pokemon to evolve - if it is level,
it will say level and also list the level it evolves at. Otherwise it could
say Happiness, [Element] Stone, Beauty, Time, Item etcetera. There are a
fair
few possibilites. RAR is short for rarity and it will be listed with the
percentage of how often you find it. This would be like taking it from a
sample
of 100 wild Pokemon - obviously you could get lucky and find a 2% Pokemon
many
times or never find a 60% Pokemon but on the whole it will show how rare it
is.
LVLs FOUND is short for levels found and will list the possible levels for
the
Pokemon to be at. Finally, the find method is how the Pokemon is found.
This
field can include any of the following:
:: Grass - Walking in the grass.

:: Surf - Surfing on the water.
:: Rock Smash - Breaking rocks.
:: Event - Found in an event ie receiving your starter Pokemon from the
bag.
:: Fishing O - Fishing with the Old Rod.
:: Fishing G - Fishing with the Good Rod.
:: Fishing S - Fishing with the Super Rod.
:: Fishing OG - Fishing with the Old or Good Rod.
:: Fishing OGS - Fishing with any of the rods.
:: Fishing [letters] - You get the idea.
:: Grass (R) - In the Grass with Ruby equipped. Post National-Dex only.
:: Grass (S) - In the Grass with Sapphire equipped. Post National-Dex only.
(It may also be with Fire Red (FR), Leaf Green (LG) or Emerald (E). As
always,
post National-Dex only.)
:: PokeRadar - Found in the grass with a Key Item you receive after you get
the
National Dex. Post National-Dex only, obviously.
:: Swarm - Appears in the case of a route swarm as seen in Sandgem Town.
Post
National-Dex only.
:: Garden - In the Trophy Garden Pokemon list, Pokemon with this find
method
will be seen there. It means that they can be in the garden but only on one
day. This day is entirely random.
Each route will have three seperate lists, one each for each time of the
day.
They will be shown each time a new area is explored that has Wild Pokemon
you
can access at the time.
The Pokemon that you may face from the trainers will also be listed before
the walkthrough to each area starts. As always, these will only show if
there
are actually trainers in this area.
You should also note that you can delete your save file by pressing B,
SELECT
and UP on the Giratina screen. This must be done to successfuly save a new
file onto the game cartridge.
You can also soft reset the game at any time by pressing the button
combination
L + R + START + SELECT. This is helpful if you accidentally kill a
legendary,
for example.
In addition, the following Pokemon are now in the Sinnoh Dex:

Rotom, Gligar, Gliscor, Nosepass, Probopass, Ralts, Kirlia, Gardevoir,
Gallade,
Lickitung, Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon,
Glaceon,
Swablu, Altaria, Togepi, Togetic, Togekiss, Houndour, Houndoom, Magnemite,
Magneton, Magnezone, Tangela, Tangrowth, Yanma, Yanmega, Tropius, Rhyhorn,
Rhydon, Rhyperior, Duskull, Dusclops, Dusknoir, Porygon, Porygon2, Porygon-
Z,
Scyther, Scizor, Elekid, Electabuzz, Electivire, Magby, Magmar, Magmortar,
Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine, Snorunt, Glalie, Froslass, Absol, Giratina
In addition, these Pokemon CANNOT be found in Diamond, Pearl or Platinum:

Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Squirtle,
Wartortle, Blastoise, Mewtwo, Mew, Chikorita, Bayleef, Meganium, Cyndaquil,
Quilava, Typhlosion, Totodile, Croconaw, Feraligatr, Raikou, Entei,
Suicune,
Lugia, Ho-oh, Celebi, Treecko, Grovyle, Sceptile, Torchic, Combusken,
Blaziken,
Mudkip, Marshtomp, Swampert, Latias, Latios, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza,
Jirachi,
Deoxys.
These Pokemon can be found in Diamond OR Pearl but NOT Platinum:

Misdreavus, Mismagius, Murkrow, Honchkrow, Stunky, Skuntank, Glameow,
Purugly,
Trapinch, Vibrava, Flygon, Clamperl, Huntail, Gorebyss.
Keep this in mind for the walkthrough. Now, let us start Pokemon Platinum!
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[001] TWINLEAF TOWN
[MW001]
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YOUR HOUSE
------------
Before starting, you must name yourself and your rival, as always, as well
as
choose your gender. Whatever you choose makes no difference to the
gameplay,
so pick as to your preferences. Get through Rowan's monotonous speeches
(hold
down A to make it go faster) until you reach the end of it and are actually
in your house.
Before you get to start, you will be shown a TV Report about something
which
I currently cannot tell you, but it has a picture of Rowan's lab. You'll be
able to press A after a few seconds.
As soon as you start, press X and go down to options (three down from the
top)
and press right on the first one (Text) to set it to fast. This makes it
much
more bearable if you read at a good speed. The other two are incredibly
slow.
The rest of the options are to your choosing. Battle Style, changed to Set,
can make it so you aren't able to switch when the opponent switches like in
the Battle Frontier, which can make the game a slight bit more of a
challenge.
Battle scene can turn the attack animations on and off. Button mode can
stop
your A button wearing away as fast, perhaps. Frame is always fun to
customize.
You should note that Platinum has new frames from D/P, including a classic
GSC frame (#18). Make sure to exit with the bottom option to save the
settings
you chose, then save your game. Note that if you wanted to start a New Game
then you would have to do B + Select + Up at the Giratina intro screen then
delete your file before you could save a new one.
When you start, move one square in any direction and your rival will come
up
the stairs and start talking to you. Once he stops, go downstairs and your
mother, Johanna, will also come talk to you. She tells you that your rival
asked you to go to his house, so do so. But not before she stops you at the
door and tells you to beware of Pokemon. Pretty typical mother there.
Attempt to enter the rival's house and he will come out and bump into you.
He
starts heading to the lake then stops and goes back inside again. Silly
boy~
Follow him inside the house to end up talking to him again and watch him
leave
and threaten you with a ten million fine, then follow him. Again. This
time,
head out of Twinleaf north to meet up with him. Ugh.
ROUTE 201
----------
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Chimchar | Fire | Level 14 | N/A | Level 5 | Event
|
|Piplup | Water | Level 16 | N/A | Level 5 | Event
|
|Turtwig | Grass | Level 18 | N/A | Level 5 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After your rival talks about something, Rowan makes his first appearance.
Answer yes to his question, then after some more dialogue Dawn will come
along
with Prof. Rowan's briefcase. You can now choose the starter Pokemon of
your
choice from the briefcase - just press A on it. None of them make the game
particuarly hard and they're all worth using. Infernape and Torterra are
probably better than Empoleon but overall it makes little difference. Just
choose who you want to - there are other Pokemon to fill the type gaps. If
you
want to save before you battle, save just before you pick your Pokemon.
Rowan and Dawn will leave, then your rival will ask if you want to battle.
When you say yes, you will be thrown into a battle.
[ RIVAL BATTLE #1 ]
o---------------------------------------o
|- If you chose Chimchar... - |
|---------------------------------------|
| :: Piplup Male Lv. 5 EXP: 70 |
o---------------------------------------o
o---------------------------------------o
|- If you chose Piplup... - |
|---------------------------------------|
| :: Turtwig Male Lv. 5 | EXP: 68 |
o---------------------------------------o
o---------------------------------------o
|- If you chose Turtwig... - |
|---------------------------------------|
| :: Chimchar Male Lv. 5 | EXP: 69 |
o---------------------------------------o
REWARDS: $500
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
With no elemental attacks, this battle is a simple brawl. Just keep
attacking
with your main attacking move and use the secondary move if neccessary. It
can be somewhat luck if the rival attacks a lot since you have no way to
get
your Pokemon's HP to recover. Don't worry if you lose! Piplup users
particuarly
might have a problem because of Turtwig's tendency to Withdraw about six
times,
so you might have to pray for a Critical Hit. Using Growl six times to
reduce
Turtwig's attack power might be worth it, for this will reduce Turtwig to
about
1 or a rare 2 damage per attack, as will you be because of Turtwig's
Withdraws.
You must Growl to win pretty much because you WILL lose a straight-out
attack
fight with Turtwig. If you do lose, you will have to give up $40 and a free
level for your starter, but nothing more.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
YOUR HOUSE
------------
After this INCREDIBLY ANNOYING BATTLE (if you chose Piplup) you will go
back
to your house. Johanna will talk to you a bit and then you will get the
Running
Shoes, meaning you can go faster anywhere just by holding B! Very
convenient.
Head out of the house and go back into Route 201, with double speed.
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[002] ROUTE 201 & LAKE VERITY
[MW002]
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ROUTE 201
----------
Once you are here you will meet up with your rival again, who will persuade
the both of you to go to Lake Verity which is west of Twinleaf. Head left,
then
up to reach the entrance to the lake, and enter.
LAKE VERITY
------------
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Starly | Normal/Flying | Level 14 | 50% | 2, 3, 4 | Grass
|
|Bidoof | Normal | Level 15 | 50% | 2, 3, 4 | Grass
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
When you enter Lake Verity you will quickly catch sight of a blue haired
man
looking over the lake. Those of you who have played Diamond or Pearl will
recognize him already. After he leaves, the two of you will hear a
mysterious
cry. After some more dialogue, the rival will leave and you can then go
too.
If you want to battle some of the Pokemon, feel free to. ~2 battles should
get
your starter to Level 7. Leave when you want.
ROUTE 201
----------
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Kricketot | Bug | Level 10 | 10% | 3 |
Grass |
|Doduo | Flying | Level 31 | 40% | 2, 3 | Swarm
|
|Nidoran F | Poison | Level 16 | 6% | 2, 3 | PokeRadar
|
|Nidoran M | Poison | Level 16 | 6% | 2, 3 | PokeRadar
|
|Growlithe | Fire | Fire Stone | 8% | 2 | Grass FR
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
Grass |
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
We're now able to go through this route properly. You can go into Twinleaf
and
into your house to heal first if you like by talking with Johanna. After
that,
go through this route to the east. Defeat any Wild Pokemon you come across
and enter Sandgem Town.
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[003] SANDGEM TOWN
[MW003]
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o-----------------------------o
| POKE MART LISTING |
o-----------------------------o
| :: Poke Ball $200 |
| :: Potion $300 |
| :: Antidote $100 |
| :: Parlyz Heal $200 |
o-----------------------------o
As soon as you enter Sandgem, Dawn/Lucas will talk to you. They will show
you
to the lab, then your rival will come out, bump into you and run off again.
You'll then be taken inside the lab. Rowan will check your starrter and let
you
nickname it after that. Then a small music switch occurs and Rowan asks you
a
question. Say yes to get the PokeDex! At this point there should be 2 to 5
Pokemon in your PokeDex, depending on whether if you've seen Starly, Bidoof
or
Kricketot or not. Rowan will also appear at the door when you leave and
give you
your first TM of the game, TM27 Return. With a Pokemon that has max
happiness,
this can come in very useful with a base power of 102.
You'll then be given the tour of the town's facilities. Blah blah blah.
Enter
the Pokemart and buy some equipment if you wish, then head back to
Twinleaf.
Route 201
----------
Item: Potion
Talk to the shop guy in the north of the grass to get a free Potion.
Continue
heading back to Twinleaf afterwards.
Twinleaf Town
--------------
Go back to your house, then talk to Johanna. You'll be healed, tell her
you're
going on a trip then receieve the Journal that documents the noteworthy
moments
in your gameplay. After that your rival's mother will come in, looking for
him.
Of course he's gone, so you get given the task to deliver a Parcel to him.
Hm.
Wonder what it is. After that, head back to Sandgem Town.
Route 201
----------
Same old same old.
Sandgem Town
-------------
Heal in the Poke Center if needed, then go down to Route 219.
Route 219
----------
Item: Antidote
Head south, pick up the Antidote then head back into Sandgem.
Sandgem Town
-------------
This time, head north into Route 202.
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[004] ROUTE 202
[MW004]
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Items: Pokeball (x5), Potion
Trainers' Pokemon: Starly L5, Bidoof L5, Burmy L5
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|Bidoof | Normal | Level 15 | 40% | 2, 3 | Grass
|
|Shinx | Electric | Level 15 | 30% | 3, 4 | Grass
|
Grass |
|Zigzagoon | Normal | Level 20 | 40% | 3 | Swarm
|
|Sentret | Normal | Level 16 | 12% | 2, 3, 4 | PokeRadar
|
|Seedot | Grass | Level 14 | 8% | 6 | Grass Ru
|
|Lotad | Water/Grass | Level 14 | 8% | 6 | Grass Sa
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Grass |
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Attempt to enter the grass on Route 202 and Dawn will talk to you and
quickly
give you a tutorial on catching Pokemon, then she will give you 5 Pokeballs
before leaving towards Jubilife. Go through the route, battling the
trainers
for about 60 exp a battle. Once you beat the Burmy trainer, head straight
west,
pick up the Potion in the grass, then turn north into Jubilife City.
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[005] JUBILIFE CITY
[MW005]
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Items: Quick Claw, Battle Recorder
Trainers' Pokemon: N/A
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
| POKE MART LISTING | COUNTER TWO |
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
| :: Poke Ball $200 | :: Air Mail $50 |
| :: Potion $300 | :: Heal Ball $300 |
| :: Antidote $100 | |
| :: Parlyz Heal $200 | |
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
When you enter the city Dawn will talk to you and lead you into the center
of
Jubilife. You will then end up seeing some guy dodging between the
lamposts,
who then ends up talking to you seconds later. This is the Infernational
Police
Officer, Looker (who really should have kept his Japanese codename of
Handsome)
who after talking to you a fair bit will give you the new Key Item called
the
Battle Recorder. This allows you to keep some battles and also download
some
from the GTS. It will also become your Battle Pass later - quite useful.
The building above the market also has a Quick Claw inside if you talk to
one
of the people there.
After that, heal up in the Pokemon Center then head to the building
directly to
the left of it - the Pokemon Trainers' School.
Trainers' School
-----------------
Items: X Attack, Potion
Trainers' Pokemon: Starly L6, Bidoof L6
When you get in, go to the far left, pick up the X Attack then talk to the
rival to give him the Parcel. He'll open it and find it's a Town Map but
also
find there are two in there, so he gives one to you. Excellent. Just look
it up
in the Key Items if you need to know where to go~
The rival will then leave. You can go to the right and battle the two
people
here for some experience. Defeating both of them then talking to the guy
will
yield a Potion. Why they got rid of the TM10 you used to get here is beyond
my understanding ;-;. Once you're done, head back into Jubilife City.
Jubilife City
--------------
Items: Potion
As always, heal if you need to, then head north to talk to a guy, who is in
fact
the president of the Poketch company, who will tell you to find three
clowns for
Poketch coupons. Talk to the one behind the Pokemon Center to get the first
one.
Then head north towards the tall grey building with the TV screen on the
front
and talk to the second clown to get another coupon. Lastly, head further
west
and talk to the clown outside the building with the flags to get the last
one.
(The answer is Yes to all of the questions, by the way.) Then go back to
the
Poketch President and talk to him to get the Poketch! Now the bottom screen
has
a use outside battle. Excellent =O By the way, there is a Potion in an
alley
just below the clown you get Pokecoupon 2 frmo.
Head west from Jubilife into Route 218.
Route 218
-----------
Items: Old Rod, X Accuarcy
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 |100% | 3-15 | Fishing O
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Talk to the fisherman in the gatehouse for the Old Rod. Then head outside
and
across the pier to pick up an X Accuarcy. Fish for a Magikarp if you want.
There
are obviously more Wild Pokemon in this route but for now that is all you
can
get. Turn back into Jubilife when you're done.
Jubilife City
--------------
Head into Route 204, which is the north exit.
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[006] ROUTE 204 SOUTH
[MW006]
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Items: Parlyz Heal, Sea Incense
Trainers' Pokemon: Shinx L7, Budew L7, Magikarp L8
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Starly | Normal/Flying | Level 14 | 25% | 4 | Grass
|
|
|
|Budew | Grass/Poison | Happiness+Day | 15% | 4, 5 | Grass
|
|Wurmple | Bug | Level 7 | 10% | 4, 5 | Grass
|
|Kricketot | Bug | Level 10 | 10% | 4 | Grass
|
|
|Lotad | Water/Grass | Level 14 | 8% | 6 |
Grass Sa |
|Pineco | Bug | Level 31 | 8% | 8 |
Grass Em |
|Caterpie | Bug | Level 7 | 8% | 6 |
Grass FR |
|Weedle | Bug/Poison | Level 7 | 8% | 6 |
Grass LG |
|Psyduck | Water | Level 33 | 90% | 20-30 | Surf
|
|Golduck | Water | N/A | 10% | 20-40 | Surf
|
|Magikarp* | Water | Level 20 | 65% | 3-25 | Fishing
OG |
|Goldeen | Water | Level 33 | 35% | 10-25 | Fishing G
|
|Gyarados | Water/Flying | N/A | 65% | 30-55 | Fishing S
|
|Seaking | Water | N/A | 35% | 30-55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|Wurmple | Bug | Level 7 | 10% | 4, 5 | Grass
|
|
Grass Sa |
Grass Em |
Grass FR |
Grass LG |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 10% | 4 | Grass
|
|
|
Grass Sa |
Grass Em |
Grass FR |
Grass LG |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
* When using the Old Rod, Magikarp appears from 3-15 with a rarity of 100%,
but
with the Good Rod it has a rarity of 65% and can appear from 10-25.
Though we currently cannot explore this route to its fullest, we can still
look
at the southern part of it, which contains EXP and Wild Pokemon. You can
also
get a Budew here, which is the first Grass-type apart from Turtwig you can
get
for a little while. Battle the trainers and head inside the cave.
By the way, much later on when you get Surf, you can Surf across some water
here to pick up a Sea Incense.
Ravaged Path
-------------
Items: Potion
Head in, grab the Potion and go back out. Unless you want to catch a
Psyduck
or something. They're about level 6.
Route 204
----------
Nothing else to do here for now, so head back into Jubilife.
Jubilife City
--------------
Heal your Pokemon, then head for Route 203.
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[007] ROUTE 203 & OREBURGH GATE
[MW007]
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====
Items: Poke Ball, X Defend, Repel
Trainers' Pokemon: [Rival Battle L7, L9] Machop L8, Kricketot L7, Zubat L6,
Starly L4, Abra L4, Bidoof L4, Budew L4, Shinx L8, Psyduck L8
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|Starly | Normal/Flying | Level 14 | 35% | 4 - 7 | Grass
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|Shinx | Electric | Level 15 | 25% | 4 - 5 | Grass
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|Abra | Psychic | Level 16 | 15% | 4 - 5 | Grass
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|Bidoof | Normal | Level 15 | 15% | 5 - 7 | Grass
|
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|Cubone | Ground | Level 28 | 40% | 4 | Swarm
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|Pineco | Bug | Level 31 | 8% | 5 | Grass Em
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|Psyduck | Water | Level 33 | 90% | 20 - 30 | Surf
|
|Golduck | Water | N/A | 10% | 20 - 40 | Surf
|
|Magikarp* | Water | Level 20 | 65% | 3 - 25 | Fishing
OG |
|Goldeen | Water | Level 33 | 35% | 10 - 25 | Fishing G
|
|Gyarados | Water/Flying | N/A | 65% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
|Seaking | Water | N/A | 35% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
* When using the Old Rod, Magikarp appears from 3-15 with a rarity of 100%,
but
with the Good Rod it has a rarity of 65% and can appear from 10-25.
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
As soon as you enter the route, SAVE YOUR GAME. Make sure your team is
ready to
battle, then continue going right on the route.
Nearly straight away, you will see your rival and he will see you,
challenging
you to a battle. No way to get out of this one. Or any of them for that
matter.
I will also show you what my team is at certain points so you can get a
decent
idea of what the average level might be around this point. Granted I got
bored
and started giving Piplup a level or two in Route 201 but there we go.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Starly Lv. 10 |
| :: Piplup Lv. 12 |
o-----------------------o
[ RIVAL BATTLE #2 ]
o----------------------------------------o
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Starly Male Lv. 7 EXP: 84 |
| :: Piplup Male Lv. 9 EXP: 127 |
o----------------------------------------o
o----------------------------------------o
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Turtwig Male Lv. 9 EXP: 123 |
o----------------------------------------o
o----------------------------------------o
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Chimchar Male Lv. 9 EXP: 125 |
o----------------------------------------o
REWARDS: $900
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Your rival has now added a Starly to his team but it is not very
problematic
unless you have a Turtwig. In any case it does not have Wing Attack so
Turtwig
can battle against it but you'll pretty much have to use Tackle. Once
you've
beaten Starly, he will send his starter out.
For Piplup users, having a Starly will make this stage of the battle
easier.
Starly's Wing Attack can pretty sustainably 2HKO it. Chimchar and Piplup
are
fairly frail, so you can take them down with ease no matter your starter.
Be
wary that they DO have the elemental attacks now, meaning they can score a
Super-Effective hit on your own starter. Otherwise it is pretty much a
normal
battle. Finish it, claim your money and the rival will run off.
Weave through the trees, battling the trainers, keep going up the route.
Veer
left at the top through the grass to get the X Defend and Repel if you
wish,
then head into the cave entrance of Oreburgh Gate.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Oreburgh Gate 1st Floor
-------------------------
Items: HM06 Rock Smash
Trainers' Pokemon: Starly L7, Shinx L7, Bidoof L9
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 50% | 5 - 8 | Cave
Floor |
|Geodude | Rock/Ground | Level 25 | 15% | 5 - 7 | Cave
Floor |
|Psyduck | Water | Level 33 | 35% | 5 - 7 | Cave
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Walk forward to get the attention of a Hiker who will give you a free gift
of
HM06. We'll be able to use Rock Smash just as soon as we get our first
badge.
There really isn't much to do here - just go through the cave, defeating
the
two trainers along the way.
===========================================================================
====
[008] OREBURGH CITY
[MW008]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Pal Pad, Dire Hit, Yellow Shard, Super Potion, Heart Scale, Pearl,
Great Ball, Pearl, Dusk Ball
Trainers' Pokemon: n/a
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|Abra | Psychic | Level 16 | --% | -- |InGame
Trade |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
| :: Poke Ball $200 | :: Tunnel Mail $50 |
| :: Potion $300 | :: Heal Ball $300 |
| :: Antidote $100 | :: Net Ball $1000 |
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
Enter and walk forward to get called a noob. I just love the slight
internet
language in these games now. He'll take you automatically to the gym where
your
rival is positioned outside it. Talk to the rival if you wish and he will
tell
you that the Gym Leader has gone to Oreburgh Mine. We'll have to follow
after
him, then. Before we do so, go into the Pokemon Center and heal your
Pokemon
as always. Note that you can now descend to the Wi-Fi level if you wish to
do
so and it will be unlocked in all of the towns you went to previously
(except
Twinleaf because it doesn't have a Pokemon Center). If you do go downstairs
you will get your Pal Pad which allows you to record friend codes and
actually
do something with Wi-Fi. You will be referring to it a lot if you like to
use
Wi-Fi. Simply enter the Wi-Fi room once to get your Friend Code.
If you wish to get an Abra, catch a Machop in Route 207 south (which you
can
find north of Oreburgh) and talk to the young girl in the house in the
north
of the city next to the Pokemart. The level will equal the Machop you trade
to her and it will always be Mild, I think. Or at least I thought it would
be
until Chrome noticed that the nature actually depends on your ID number! I
don't know which nature corresponds to which number but it is definitely
affected by the ID number.
The Pokemart equipment will get better later on - it improves as we get

badges.
It will probably be improved slightly once we get our first badge~ Also,
note
the large building north of the Pokemon Center. This is where you can
revive
fossils that you might pick up in the underground - called the Oreburgh
Mining
Museum. If you go inside and talk to the man at the counter with a fossil
in
your inventory you will be able to revive it into a L20 Pokemon, depending
on
the fossil.
There's little else to do in Oreburgh, so head down to the mining part. If

you
head south then go left past the gap in the barrier and north again you can
pick up two items. Search the slag heap/rock like structure right above
these
items to find a hidden Pearl and Heart Scale in two different tiles (the
Heart
Scale is behind where the builder sometimes walks so you may need to wait
for
him to move). In addition, if you go to the south-east corner and talk to
the
builder there, you will get a Super Potion. Chrome also found a house
around
here somewhere where a man will give you another Pearl. They give you far
too
many of these D:
There's also a Great Ball in the house to the far east of Oreburgh. If you
talk
to the youngster on the second floor you'll get it, but apparently as
kjax32246
reports, only if the lead Pokemon has a high happiness rating.
There is also, as reported by the same person, a Dusk Ball on the second
floor
of the northwest house given by a girl.
Afterwards, head into the mine.
===========================================================================
====
[009] OREBURGH MINE
[MW009]
===========================================================================
====
Floor 1F
----------
Items: Poke Ball
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Floor |
Floor |
|Onix | Rock/Ground |MetalCoat+Trade| 10% | 6 - 8 | Cave
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The first floor of Oreburgh Mine is nothing special. Head down the first
set of
steps, then go right and pass under the rail and head up to the grab the
Poke
Ball. Head down the steps into the basement.
Floor B1F
-----------
Items: Potion, Escape Rope
Trainers' Pokemon: Geodude L9, Geodude L6, Machop L8
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Floor |
Floor |
|Onix | Rock/Ground |MetalCoat+Trade| 10% | 7 - 9 | Cave
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
If you want any of those three Pokemon I would recommend catching them here
due to the increased levels from 1F. Either way, head down the passage and
turn
right. Talk to the builder next to the wall to initiate a battle, finish it
then grab the Potion. From there, head further west and talk to Roark, who
is
positioned between two rocks. He'll tell you about Rock Smash then return
to
his gym, so we can now battle him for the Coal Badge! Before we leave, head
further right and talk to this builder too to initiate another battle. Once
you've finished that battle, head left and pick up the Escape Rope. You can
either leave the mines by using it or just walking out normally. Either
way,
make your way back to Oreburgh City. Note that you can also go through this
room via the left and jump down the ledge to get to Roark.
Oreburgh City
--------------
We're nearly ready to head into the gym. Heal up at the Pokemon Center,
then go
left and enter the gym.
===========================================================================
====
[010] OREBURGH GYM
[MW010]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM76 Stealth Rock, Coal Badge
Trainers' Pokemon: Geodude L11, Geodude L9, Onix L9
Those of you who have picked Piplup or Turtwig will find this gym fairly
easy.
Chimchar users may want to either use a Budew or Psyduck or evolve Chimchar
so
that it learns Mach Punch as a Monferno and loses its Rock weakness. As a
Rock
type gym, you will be facing just a few rock types altogether. Monferno,
Piplup
or Turtwig should be able to hold their own fine. Note that Monferno's
Ember
will still do a fair bit to the Geodude because of their poor special
defense
stat. Once you've beaten the first two trainers, walk up to Roark and save.
Then initiate the battle with him. Some dialogue, then the battle begins.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Staravia Lv. 14 |
| :: Prinplup Lv. 16 |
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER ROARK ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Coal Badge! - |
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Geodude Male Lv. 12 EXP: 187|
| :: Onix Male Lv. 12 EXP: 277|
| :: Cranidos Male Lv. 14 EXP: 297|
o----------------------------------------o
Rewards: $1680, TM76 Stealth Rock, Coal Badge
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
As always, Turtwig's Razor Leaf, Piplup's Bubble or Chimchar's Ember will
be a
large help with these Rock-types (Chimchar's Ember not so much) so just
spam
the elemental attacks on Geodude or Onix, or Mach Punch if you have it.
Water
Gun Psyduck or Absorb Budew will also work.
Cranidos is a bit more durable. It can be taken down with the same method
but
beware of its attacks - with 125 base attack power they are sure to put
some
hurt on your Pokemon! Use Potions if you have to and keep up the battle
until
you win. Geodude and Onix are easy - Cranidos is the only problematic here.
With Pursuit and Headbutt it can certainly cause some damage. Roark will
also
heal it with one Potion as soon as it gets onto yellow health for 20 HP.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you've beaten Roark, you will get some money, TM76 and the Coal Badge,
allowing us to use Rock Smash! We can now explore Oreburgh Gate and Route
204
some more. But first, head back into Oreburgh City and head up north to
Route
207 - the south part of it, anyway.
===========================================================================
====
[MW011]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Poke Ball
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|Machop | Fighting | Level 28 | 35% | 6 - 8 | Grass
|
|Geodude | Rock/Ground | Level 25 | 30% | 5 - 7 | Grass
|
|Ponyta | Fire | Level 40 | 25% | 5 - 7 | Grass
|
|
|Phanpy | Ground | Level 25 | 40% | 18 - 18 | Swarm
|
|Stantler | Normal | M/A | 12% | 6 - 8 | PokeRadar
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
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|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 10% | 5 - 5 | Grass
|
|
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|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Not a whole lot here but there are some new Pokemon to get, including
Ponyta
which can make a good Fire-type for your team (though you will have access
to
Houndour, Flareon and Magmar later on as well.) Pick up the Poke Ball, do
what
you wish, then leave. We'll be able to explore the upper part of this route
later on.
Oreburgh City
--------------
Head for Oreburgh Gate again. Note that the Pokemart has now expanded its
choice
for you due to your Coal Badge - it now contains Super Potions, Repels,
Escape
Ropes and a bunch of status healing items. Just before you enter the gate,
your
rival will meet up with you, spout some nonsense then leave. We must go
too.
===========================================================================
====
[012] OREBURGH GATE
[MW012]
===========================================================================
====
Floor 1F
---------
We've already covered this floor, but there is more to find. If you teach
Rock Smash to a random Bidoof or something, you can then smash the brown
rock
at the top of the cave. Do so and go down to the 2nd floor.
Floor B1F
----------
Items: TM70 Flash, Big Pearl
Trainers' Pokemon: Riolu L34, Staraptor L34
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Golbat | Poison/Flying | Happiness | 5% | 10 | Cave
Floor |
|
|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 30% | 20 - 30 | Surf
|
|Golbat | Poison/Flying | Happiness | 5% | 20 - 40 | Surf
|
|
OG |
|Barboach | Water/Ground | Level 30 | 35% | 10 - 25 | Fishing G
|
|
|Whiscash | Water/Ground | N/A | 35% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
* 100% with Old Rod from 3-15, 65% with Good Rod from 10-25.
B1F holds a few things but at present there is not much we can pick up
apart
from Flash. You cannot face the trainer until you get Surf, either. From
when
you come downstairs, go right, break the rock, go around and pick up the
item.
This is TM70, Flash, allowing you to see fully in dark caves. There are
only
two places in the game where this can be used and both are optional so you
do
not HAVE to teach it if you don't want to.
If you head to the left and break more rocks, you can go around then and
pick
up a Big Pearl which you can sell for cash. That is all it's useful for...
This is as far as you can go without a Bicycle, so we'll have to leave for
now.
Head back to Route 203.
Route 203
----------
Just head through the route as normal back to Jubilife. Nothing has
changed.
===========================================================================
====
[013] JUBILIFE CITY
[MW013]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Memo Pad Poketch App, Fashion Case
As soon as you enter, you will come into contact with Looker who will talk
with you for a few moments. Once he leaves, head into the main part of
Jubilife
and heal your Pokemon if needed. The GTS is now open as well if you want to
use
it.
Go inside the Poketch building (the one with the flags) and talk to the
Poketch
President next to the counter to get your first additional Poketch app, the
Memo Pad. Then try to head up north of Jubilife.
You will come across Rowan, Dawn/Lucas and some mysterious people with
oddly
coloured hair (turquoise?) and uniforms. These are Galactic grunts, and you
will face many of these throughout the game. You will end up going into a
double battle with the Galactic Grunts, with Dawn/Lucas as your partner.
This
lets you now get three new Pokemon in your dex - a starter, Glameow and
Stunky!
Very useful. Anyhow, just... kill them. They're fairly frail, Glameow
moreso
than Stunky. Be warned that Stunky is Poison/Dark so only Ground-type moves
have a Super Effective bonus on it.
Once you've beaten them, they will all leave and you will be invited into
the
TV Centre in Jubilife City. You don't have to enter if you don't want to
but
there is some stuff in there we can get. You will also get a Fashion Case
along
with the invitation to the centre.
Jubilife TV Station
--------------------
Item: [Starter] Mask, Mystery Gift Unlock
If you go up to the second floor and talk to the brown haired man with
glasses,
you will receive a mask of the first form of the starter you chose (ie I
got a
Piplup mask). This mask is a contest accessory and can be used in the Super
Contests. If you head into the room right next to the stairs you just came
up,
you can talk to the hiker and have a go at dressing up your Pokemon. If you
do
you can get a photo of it put up next to the dressing room and you should
also
be able to share it with other people over the GTS. You can also be
interviwed
when you come out of the dressing room if you wish but it has no real
effect.
Just ignore the lady if you don't want to bother.
Up on the third floor, if you talk to the guy next to the blonde girl near
the bottom of the screen you will get the option to input some text. Put in
'EVERYONE HAPPY' for the first one and then after some more dialogue you
will
be asked to input another phrase. This time, choose 'WI-FI CONNECTION' as
your
words and you will unlock Mystery Gift! At times you will be able to
download
some items from Wi-Fi that will allow you to access special things within
the
game that are normally unobtainable. It's about time Nintendo started using
Wi-Fi to distribute things.
The rooms near the stairs when you first come up to this floor contain
records.
Look at them if you like. There is nothing on 4F so head back to the 1st
floor.
Note on the 1st floor that if you talk to the woman at the counter you can
get
a lottery ticket and if it matches with the ID of any of your Pokemon you
can
win some good items, but it is very hard to win unless you have traded with
a
lot of people. That's all for the TV Station, so head out of Jubilife and
into
Route 204 when you're ready.
===========================================================================
====
[014] ROUTE 204 NORTH
[MW014]
===========================================================================
====
Route 204 South
----------------
We have obviously been here already, but head north into Ragged Path.
Ravaged Path
--------------
Items: TM39 Rock Tomb
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Floor |
Floor |
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OG |
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|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Ragaved Path is a very short cave. When you enter, go the left route, break
the
rock and grab the TM39 that is lying there. Then head right, break the
rocks
and exit the cave.
Route 204 North

----------------
Items: Awakening, TM09 Bullet Seed
Trainers' Pokemon: Budew L9, Cherubi L11, Wurmple L10, Kricketot L11,
Pachirisu L11, Pachirisu L11
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
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|Budew | Grass/Poison | Happiness+Day | 15% | 9 - 10 | Grass
|
|Wurmple | Bug | Level 7 | 10% | 9 | Grass
|
|
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|
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|Caterpie | Bug | Level 7 | 8% | 10 | Grass FR
|
|Weedle | Bug/Poison | Level 7 | 8% | 10 | Grass LG
|
|Sunkern | Grass | Sun Stone | 12% | 10 - 11 | PokeRadar
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The North of Route 204 is basically the south but with higher levels
overall
and the addition of Sunkern for the Pokeradar Pokemon. Simply go through
the
route, battle the trainers, pick up the items etc etc. Your starter should
probably have evolved by now, unless you have Turtwig in which case it will
probably be approaching Level 18. You should make sure to pick up the
Bullet
Seed TM in the small clearing over to the left near the top, then head up
into
Floaroma.
===========================================================================
====
[015] FLOAROMA TOWN
[MW015]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Oran Berry, Cheri Berry, [Random] Berry, TM88 Pluck
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
| :: Poke Ball $200 | :: Bloom Mail $50 |
| :: Potion $300 | :: Heal Ball $300 |
| :: Super Potion $700 | :: Net Ball $1000 |
| :: Antidote $100 | |
| :: Awakening $250 | |
| :: Burn Heal $250 | |
| :: Ice Heal $250 | |
| :: Escape Rope $550 | |
| :: Repel $350 | |
o-----------------------------------------------------o
First off, heal and buy anything you need, then head up to the flower shop.
Pluck the trees of their berries and head inside. Talk to the far left girl
to get the Sprayduck which allows you to water berry plants. Talk to the
brown
haired girl on the right to get a random berry. You can also exchange
berries
for some equipment with the blonde haired girl but the more flashy items
are
incredibly costly, requiring about 100 berries of a rare type. Whether its
worth it depends on you.
Next, head into the house with the red roof just north of the Pokemon
Center
and talk to the little girl next to the Clefairy to get TM88, Pluck. This
is a
flying type move of 60 power which can basically steal an opponent's berry
and
use it straight away, kinda like the move Bug Bite. That is all you can do
for
now, so head right into Route 205.
One reader also suggests that using Pluck on a Pokemon that can use it well
(such as Staravia perhaps) can very much help against the many important
Pokemon that hold Sitrus Berries in this game (which recover 25% of HP when
the Pokemon is at low health.)
Route 205
----------
Items: Chesto Berry, Pecha Berry
We cannot explore this route fully yet because of the Galactic Grunts but
we
can head to the right. Part of the way through you will be asked by a girl
to
help save her papa in the Valley Windworks. We must do so, so keep heading
to
the right of the route.
===========================================================================
====
[016] VALLEY WINDWORKS
[MW016]
===========================================================================
====
Valley Windworks Outside
-------------------------
Items: Potion
Trainers' Pokemon: Glameow L13
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Shellos | Water/Ground | Level 30 | 45% | 9 - 12 | Grass
|
|Buizel | Water | Level 26 | 25% | 9 - 11 | Grass
|
|Pachirisu | Electric | N/A | 10% | 9 - 11 | Grass
|
|Shinx | Electric | Level 15 | 20% | 10 | Grass
|
|Electrike | Electric | Level 26 | 40% | 9 - 10 | Swarm
|
|Mareep | Electric | Level 15 | 12% | 9 - 12 | PokeRadar
|
|Drifloon**| Ghost/Flying | Level 28 | --% | 15 | Event
|
|Shellos | Water/Ground | Level 30 | 60% | 20 - 30 | Surfing
|
|Tentacool | Water/Poison | Level 30 | 30% | 20 - 30 | Surfing
|
|Gastrodon | Water/Ground | N/A | 9% | 20 - 40 | Surfing
|
|Tentacruel| Water/Poison | N/A | 1% | 20 - 40 | Surfing
|
OG |
|Finneon | Water | Level 31 | 35% | 10 - 25 | Fishing G
|
|Gyarados | Water | N/A | 60% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
|Lumineon | Water | N/A | 35% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
|Shellder | Water | Water Stone | 5% | 20 - 50 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
* 100% and 3-15 with Old Rod, 65% and 10-25 with Good Rod.
** Drifloon stands outside the Windworks on Fridays only. It will appear
once
every Friday but only after you complete the Valley Windworks quest.
There is little we can do here currently, but notice the yellow honey tree
to
the right. Once we get some honey you'll be able to put some on the tree
and
attract a Pokemon. Refer to the honey tree section in the Aftermain
walkthrough
to see the Pokemon lists and rarity.
If you talk to the Galactic Grunt blocking the door, a fight will start.
Once
you beat him, he will go inside the Windworks and lock himself inside,
meaning
you cannot get in. Great. Head back to Floaroma.
Route 205
----------
Blah.
Floaroma Town
--------------
From here, heal and then head out of the city through the north-west exit.
Floaroma Meadow
----------------
Items: Honey (x10), Works Key
Trainers' Pokemon: Stunky L13, Zubat L11, Zubat L11
When you enter you will see two Galactic Grunts attacking a man in hopes of
getting his honey. Once you beat them they will run off, dropping the Works
Key which you will then get, meaning you can now go into Valley Windworks.
The guy will also give you a BUNCH of Honey. You can now buy Hoeny
infinitely
from him at one piece at a time for $100 each. Giving you 10 honies instead
of
just the 1 like in D/P was quite kind, I must say. Head back to the
Windworks.
Floaroma Town
--------------
Heal, leave.
Route 205
----------
ALONG THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD~
Valley Windworks Outside

-------------------------
Head up to the door, press A, select yes and you're in.
Valley Windworks Inside

------------------------
Items:
Trainers' Pokemon: Zubat L13, Glameow L11, Stunky L11
The Galactic grunt who locked it before will be surprised and run off to
inform
the admin of your arrival, who we will be facing in due time. You must face
at
least one Galactic grunt but you may as well battle both of them. After you
have beaten them, don't be afraid to return to Floaroma and heal if you
need to.
When you're ready, save and walk into Mars for her to notice you. She will
say
a few things, then your first Galactic Admin Battle will start, with its
own
music too. Sounds like the Brawl version =O
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
o-----------------------o
[ GALACTIC ADMIN MARS ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Save the Valley Windworks! - |
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Zubat Female Lv. 15 EXP: 172|
| :: Purugly Female Lv. 17 EXP: 666| - @Oran Berry
o----------------------------------------o
Reward: $1360
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Zubat is not too hard to take down but be wary of its Toxic and Giga Drain
attacks. Thankfully Zubat has rather bad special attack so Giga Drain
shouldn't
do too much and it will normally use Bite which doesn't do a whole lot.
Once
you've beaten it, the real hard part starts.
Purugly is the evolved form of Glameow and at this part of the game it is
very
durable unless you have a good Fighting-type. Staravia can help here
because
of Intimidate and Endeavor will also come in very useful. Use everything
you
need to to beat it - it will usually only use Scratch but it is powerful
and
will probably deal a fair bit of damage to you each time it uses it. It
will
always start with Fake Out too, so don't expect to move the first turn it
comes out. It is also very fast, despite how it looks - BE CAREFUL. It
should
die in a few hits but you may need two Pokemon to do it. Staravia's
Endeavor
can also come in useful here for getting Purugly's HP down. Purugly will
often
use Faint Attack as well, which will probably OHKO Kadabra/Alakazam if you
are
using either of them.
After some more dialogue Galactic will leave, and you can now explore Route
205
to its fullest. Drifloon can also now appear on Fridays.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Outside Valley Windworks

-------------------------
When you go outside, Looker will come up to you and compliment you on your
victory over Galactic. After he leaves, head back to Floaroma to heal, then
go back onto Route 205. This time, we will explore.
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====
[017] ROUTE 205
[MW017]
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====
Items: X Sp.Def, Oran Berry, Pecha Berry, Heal Ball, Super Potion
Trainers' Pokemon: Ponyta L14, Geodude L10, Geodude L11, Geodude L12,
Roselia L14, Bidoof L12, Pachirisu L12, Onix L14, Machop L15, Piplup L14
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Shellos | Water/Ground | Level 30 | 65% | 9 - 12 | Grass
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|Pachirisu | Electric | N/A | 10% | 9 - 11 | Grass
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|Bidoof | Normal | Level 15 | 10% | 10 | Grass
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|Hoppip | Grass/Flying | Level 18 | 12% | 9 - 12 | PokeRadar
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
* 100% and 3-15 with Old Rod, 65% and 10-25 with Good Rod.
We must now head up North towards the border of the Eterna Forest. Head up
and
battle the Picknicker, then head through the grass and further north
(placing
honey on the tree to the south if you want - only put one on there or it
will
probably not work). Head further up north, defeat the hiker then pick up
the
X Sp.Def. Battle the aroma lady, head up further north and battle the girl
here
with a Bidoof. Pick the berries and get the Heal Ball, then go back and
start
heading north over the rock. Battle the Camper now, to add Aipom to your
dex.
Further up, battle the Hiker with an Onix. Further up, grab the Repel,
battle
with the fighter girl. Up again, fight the Picknicker with a Piplup and
that
is all of the trainers done. Go to the far right and down the steps to pick
up a Super Potion then go back up and into the house. Talk to the woman
inside
to heal your Pokemon, exit the house and go north into Eterna Forest.
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[018] ETERNA FOREST
[MW018]
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====
Items: Antidote, Parlyz Heal, Net Ball, Potion, Green Shard
Trainers' Pokemon: Pachirisu L16, Wurmple L11, Silcoon L13, Beautifly L15,
Abra L17, Abra L17, Burmy (Rock) L14, Wurmple L11, Dustox L15, Cascoon L13,
Burmy (Steel) L14, Meditite L17, Psyduck L17
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Buneary | Normal | Happiness | 24% | 11 - 13 | Grass
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|Silcoon | Bug | Level 10 | 5% | 12 | Grass
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|Cascoon | Bug | Level 10 | 5% | 12 | Grass
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|Gastly | Ghost/Poison | Level 25 | 4% | 13 | Grass
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|Beautifly | Bug/Flying | N/A | 1% | 14 | Grass
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|Dustox | Bug/Poison | N/A | 1% | 14 | Grass
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|Slakoth | Normal | Level 18 | 40% | 10 - 11 | Swarm
|
|Nincada | Bug/Ground | Level 20 | 12% | 12 - 14 | PokeRadar
|
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|Metapod | Bug | Level 10 | 4% | 13 | Grass FR
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|
|Kakuna | Bug/Poison | Level 10 | 4% | 13 | Grass LG
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Hoothoot | Normal/Flying | Level 20 | 10% | 12 | Grass
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Eterna Forest is quite large and there are a lot of trainers to face.
Nearly
as soon as you walk forward a woman will talk to you - this is Cheryl, who
will
join you on your journey through Eterna! This means all battles will be
doubles
including both trainer and Wild Battles. Chansey is also added to your Dex.
[ POKEMON TRAINER CHERYL ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Travel through the forest! - |
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Chansey Female Lv. 20 EXP: --- |
o----------------------------------------o
Notice how Platinum has added new graphics to Eterna Forest, making it
appear
as though there are gaps in the trees letting through light. Very nice. To
start, head left and into the grass and pick up the Antidote. Go back out
of
the grass and head north then left again and you should see a mysterious
green
rock. This is the Moss Rock and its power causes Eevee to evolve into
Leafeon
during a level-up. However contary to popular belief you do not have to
level
up Eevee in this exact grass patch - it can be anywhere in the forest, even
right outside the Old Chateau if you want to.
From there, head right through the grass and underneath where the cut trees
are
until you come to a pair of trainers. Also - do not worry about healing for
after every battle, Wild or Trainer, Cheryl will hear both her Chansey and
your Pokemon. However, you should also note that you can only capture Wild
Pokemon when there is only one of the two left and Chansey can and will
attempt
to kill any Wild Pokemon that appear with Egg Bomb, so you need to be
quick.
You can come back later and catch Pokemon without Cheryl being there
though.
Walk right in between the trainers to start a battle. This battle will add
Silcoon and Beautifly to your PokeDex, which is useful. Go further to pick
up a Parlyz Heal, then head further right and battle the Psychics which
will
add Abra to your PokeDex if you've yet to see one. It's also worth noting
that Chansey won't even steal any of your exp - having Cheryl along board
is
very useful, I must say. After the Psychics, continue heading south and
pick
up the Net Ball in the grass. Head further east, and head in between the
Bug
Catchers to battle them too, allowing you to see your first alternate form
Burmy. This is added to the Pokedex under a different form expansion you
will
get later on in the game, but it doesn't count as a seperate dex entry
since
we already have Burmy. However this battle will add Dustox to your PokeDex.
Then keep heading right until you reach another item in a grass patch. Pick
it up to receive a Potion. Head further up then take a left turning and go
up
again to battle two more psychics, to add Meditite to your dex and Psyduck
too
if you haven't seen one yet. Once you've beaten them, go up and then right.
Keep going through the grass and you'll reach a larger section. Go through
the
grass and pick up the item lying there - a Green Shard. Head up out of the
grass and right towards the exit of Eterna Forest. Cheryl will bid you
farewell
giving you the Soothe Bell, then leaving. That is the last you will see of
her
for quite a while. Exit yourself afterwards.
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====
[MW019]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Pecha Berry, Cheri Berry, Oran Berry (x2), Guard Spec.
Trainers' Pokemon: Magikarp L8, Magikarp L10, Magikarp L12 (x2), Magikarp
L14,
Magikarp L16, Magikarp L14, Goldeen L17, Goldeen L17, Magikarp L14
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Slowpoke | Water/Psychic |Level 37/KingRk| 12% | 13 - 15 | PokeRadar
|
|Lotad | Water/Grass | Level 14 | 8% | 13 - 14 | Grass Sa
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OG |
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The northern part of Route 205 has different Wild Pokemon and are also
slightly
stronger. Face the fishermen if you want (mainly to add Goldeen to your
Dex)
but you can save them for later if you plan to get Rotom or something. Grab
the berries up top and the Guard Spec at the bottom you can get if you go
around. Finally, enter Eterna City.
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====
[020] ETERNA CITY
[MW020]
===========================================================================
====
Items: HM01 Cut, Draco Plate, Super Potion, Explorer Kit
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
OG |
|
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|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
o-----------------------------o-----------------------o
| :: Potion $300 | :: Heal Ball $300 |
| :: Super Potion $700 | :: Net Ball $1000 |
| :: Antidote $100 | :: Nest Ball $1000 |
| :: Awakening $250 | |
| :: Burn Heal $250 | |
| :: Ice Heal $250 | |
| :: Repel $350 | |
o-----------------------------------------------------o
Finally, the second gym town. Straight away you will notice the Team
Galactic
grunt, who we will deal with later. Heal up in the Pokemon Center, then go
up
the top of the city and your rival will run into you. He will then lead you
to
a weird statue on a plateau. However, the mysterious blue haired man is
there
again! He will leave shortly after, as will your rival. While we're here,
go
onto the top of the plateau and face towards the statue, positioning
yourself
in the middle of it (so directly north of the statue) and press A to find
the
Draco Plate that increases the power of dragon moves by 20% and also does
somehing else...
After that, head back down the steps the way you came and a blonde haired
woman
in black will see you and talk to you. This is Cynthia, an important person
during the journey. She will give you HM01, Cut and then leave. TM46 was
the
Poke Ball you saw from the place where you got the Draco Plate, but we
cannot
get it until we can use Cut. Next, go into the house directly to the right
of
the Pokemon Center and talk to the old man to get the Explorer Kit.
Then head further south. Note that the blue doored house next to the Poke
Mart
has an old man inside who is the Name Rater of this game and will be happy
to
nickname your Pokemon. Keep going and then go into the gap between the
trees
(pas the first one then go right) to pick up a Super Potion. Lastly, talk
to
the girl blocking the entrance to the gym. This is Gardenia, and after some
dialogue she will go inside. Follow her into the gym.
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====
[021] ETERNA GYM
[MW021]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM86 Grass Knot, Forest Badge
Trainers' Pokemon: Cherubi L17, Roselia L17, Budew L15, Budew L16, Budew
L17,
Roselia L19
The Eterna Gym has changed considerably from D/P but it is actually easier
to
manage - the leaves on the flower clock will turn every time you
successfully
beat a trainer in turn, so you will need to beat all of them to get to
Gardenia
and battle for the gym badge. It is basically a rout the trainers thing.
Start off by battling the first trainer (you will have to actually talk to
her)
and take down her Cherubi and Roselia. After you beat her, you will see the
leaves rotate allowing you to go to the right section of the gym. Talk to
this
next challenger and take down her Budew. The leaves will rotate again
allowing
you access to the left and the water geysers will also go down, letting you
actually exit the gym. Go over to the left and battle the third Aroma Lady,
taking down her Roselia. Finally, the leaves will rotate again, allowing
you
access to Gardenia. Go up to her, save and initiate the battle.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER GARDENIA ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Forest Badge! - |
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Turtwig Male Lv. 20 EXP: 273|
| :: Cherrim Female Lv. 20 EXP: 570|
| :: Roserade Female Lv. 22 EXP: 961| - @Sitrus Berry
o----------------------------------------o
Reward: $2640, TM86 Grass Knot, Forest Badge
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
If you have either a Monferno, Ponyta or Staravia, Gardenia will be fairly
easy
to beat. Spam Fire and Flying whenever you can. If you don't have those
types
then the battle becomes a bit harder - especially Roserade due to its very
high
Special Attack stat. Grotle users can Curse and attack with Bite; those
with
Prinplup are in for a bit of trouble unless they have Staravia or Ponyta -
you may be able to Peck them to death if Prinplup is high enough, though.
There isn't a whole lot else I can advise on this battle, but it shouldn't
be
too hard in the long run. Cherrim can also use Safeguard so statuses may
not
be the best strategy for this battle.
Roserade is also capble of using Stun Spore to paralyze your Pokemon, Grass
Knot to cause heavy damage to your heavier Pokemon and Magical Leaf to deal
great damage to Pokemon weak to Grass attacks such as Prinplup (it will
likely
2HKO them.) The other two are thankfully not much of a threat.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After you win, you will get the Forest Badge which allows all Pokemon up to
Level 30 to obey you always and also the TM for Grass Knot, a Grass-move
that
increases in power as the weight of the opponent increases. The leaves will
rotate one last time - you should now leave the gym. We still have things
to do
in Eterna.
Eterna City
------------
Head up to the Pokemon Center and heal, then teach Cut to something. We are
now going to explore the Old Chateau. Once you're ready, head out of the
city
back into Route 205.
Route 205 & Eterna Forest Outskirts

------------------------------------
Items: Oran Berry (x2), Cheri Berry (x1), Bluk Berry (x2), Razz Berry (x2),
SilverPowder, TM82 Sleep Talk
Head to the far left of the route and then go through the path is under the
entrance to the Eterna Forest. Cut one of the trees you come across and
proceed
through onto the rock platform to get to a clearing. Collect the four
berries
here then conintue through the line of trees and ascend the stairs onto the
rock. Pick up the Silverpowder here (+20% pwr to Bug attacks) and go right
to
pick up TM82, Sleep Talk (when asleep, pick a move at random.) Then head
back
through the passage the way you came and enter Eterna Forest (if you want
to
cut around Eterna Forest than use that passage but follow it through.)
Eterna Forest
--------------
Items: Ether
You'll notice Gardenia by the trees. Talk to her and she will say about the
mansion being haunted, then leave. Cut a tree and go through. Go up the
top,
pick up the Ether on the right, then enter the mansion. I believe you can
find
an Insect Plate if you come back here with an Itemfinder app, too.
On that note, one reader (who I guess I'll credit as latias922, but you
know
who you are. Thanks!) has confirmed that the Insect Plate is indeed there
and
it is located towards the fence outside the mansion at the right side, near
the very back of the area (or top from the game view.) You will need to
take
an educated guess where it is though since the Dowsing App will not give a
specific location.
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====
[022] OLD CHATEAU
[MW022]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Rare Candy, Big Pearl, Dread Plate, Old Gateau, TM90 Substitute
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Gastly | Ghost/Poison | Level 25 | 100%| 14 - 17 | House
Floor |
|Gengar | Ghost/Poison | N/A | 8% | 16 | HsFlr
GBA* |
|Rotom | Electric/Ghost | N/A | --% | 20 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
* With any GBA cartridge inserted, Gengar can be found on the second floor
corridor in the room fourth from the left. It is only after you get the
National Dex like all of the other insert Pokemon, however.
The Old Chateau has a wealth of items to get, as well as a new foggy
palette &
LOTS of Gastly. First off, head straight ahead into the Dining Room. Go to
the
far left and pick up a Rare Candy, then go to the far right and pick up the
Big Pearl lying there. Exit the dining room, then head up the left stairs
and
go through the door on the left. Pick up the Old Gateau lying there on the
floor (heals all status problems but it must taste awful if it is actually
old)
then exit that room. You can check out the right room for some information
if
you like but there is no item in the room. Then go into the upper room -
this
is a corridor. Start from the left; the first room on the far left contains
the
Dread Plate that boosts the power of Dark-type moves by 20%. Leave the
second
room for now and ignore the third and fourth rooms too. In the fifth room,
you
can pick up TM90 Substitute. The room to the left of this one contains a
pic
with weird glowing red eyes - in this room are Wild Gengar if you insert a
Pokemon GBA cartridge after you have the National Dex.
Returning to the 2nd room from the left, if you go inside you will notice a
TV.
If you engage this TV at any time after 8pm (press A on it) then you will
get
a message asking you to 'thump' the TV. If you say yes, Rotom will appear.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| Pokemon Level PossGender Typing |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv.20 Genderless Electric/Ghost |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Rotom is a Pokemon that almost appears to be a legendary because of music
and
setting although it really isn't. However Rotom possesses qualities such as
a
completely unique type, a fairly low catch rate and a special event
required to
encounter it. At this stage in the game your Pokemon are likely to be
around 20
themselves, so adding Rotom to your team might not be a half-bad idea.
Rotom
can also change forms if you can get your hands on the Secret Key item and
activate the event that goes alongside it (either with a proper AR code or
by
using Mystery Gift to get it on Wi-Fi.) You pretty much have to encounter
Rotom
anyway to add it to your PokeDex. Once you're done in the Chateau, leave
and
return back to Eterna City.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Eterna City
-------------
Items: TM46 Thief
See that spiky building at the top? We're going there next. Add Rotom to
your
team if you want to use it, then with your Cut Pokemon head up the top, and
Cut the tree. Before entering the building go right and run down the
passage
to pick up TM46, Thief, which can steal items your opponent is holding.
When
you've got that, head back to the building and enter.
===========================================================================
====
[023] ETERNA GALACTIC HIDEOUT
[MW023]
===========================================================================
====
Items: X Speed, X Special, Blue Shard, Revive, Up-Grade
Trainers' Pokemon: Zubat L17, Zubat L16, Stunky L17, Glameow L18, Croagunk
L19,
Glameow L19, Stunky L16, Croagunk L16, Glameow L16, Kadabra L20
When you enter, a Galactic grunt will talk to you and reveal himself to be
Looker! After some dialogue he returns to his original disguise, leaving
you to
explore the hideout. Start by battling the two grunts positioned in double
battle position (you can take them on singuarly if you desire.) Once you
beat
their incredibly common Pokemon, go up the stairs and battle the grunt
here.
Pick up the X Speed, descend the stairs then go up the stairs on the right.
I should mention this now - if you don't want to battle use the stairs with
a
poster, which one of my readers recommended. It does mean you lose out on
EXP but it's that much faster.
The male grunt here won't fight you, but go across to the female grunt and
battle her Glameow. The female grunt on the far right won't fight you
either.
Once you beat the female grunt, go around and up the stairs to the right.
Defeat the female grunt here with what may as well be Team Galactic's
mascots
then pick up the well-hidden X Special in the corner. Go back downstairs
and
this time take the middle stairs up. Follow the path around and then battle
the scientist on the far right (the grunt won't battle you) and add his
Kadabra
to your PokeDex. Head up the stairs right next to him, pick up the Blue
Shard
and Revive on the floor, then descend the stairs and this time take the
middle
stairs. Wow, this room this pretty! Stars and all that. Yeah.
Take the path around. Run right past the people, grab the Up-Grade on the
far
right of the room, then save. When you're ready, talk to the purple haried
woman, who is Jupiter, the second admin of Team Galactic. After some
dialogue,
a battle will start, admin music and all.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 22 |
o-----------------------o
[ GALACTIC ADMIN JUPITER ]

o------------------------------------------o
|- Clear the Galactic Hideout! - |
|------------------------------------------|
| :: Zubat Female Lv. 21 EXP: 243 |
| :: Skuntank Female Lv. 23 EXP: 1029 | - @Sitrus Berry
o------------------------------------------o
Reward: $1840
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Like Mars, Jupiter has a Zubat of her own which is equally easy to take
out.
Just zap it, slap it, wing it, burn it, whatever. It's incredibly easy to
take
out. Then comes what can be the problem for this battle - Skuntank.
Skuntank is the evolved form of Stunky and like its pre-evolution it has a
Poison/Dark typing, meaning it is only really vulnearable to Ground
attacks.
Being a second stage Pokemon it is also quite durable like Purugly was and
just about as strong. If you have any Ground-moves, abuse them. If not,
just
fight to take it down, using Potions, Super Potions etc if you need them.
Don't
forget you have the option to use the X ___ items as well if you need a
boost!
Skuntank has a powerful Dark-typed Night Slash attack which will take down
any
Psychic or Ghost types incredibly easy, but confusing it may be an option.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you beat Jupiter, all of the Galactic people will leave. The guy who
Jupiter was 'dealing' with thanks you and asks you to come to his Cycle
Shop.
We will go - with pleasure. Head down the stairs, then the stairs on the
left
and then the stairs on the furthest left you can get to to reach the bottom
floor. If you have the Secret Key you can now unlock the Rotom appliance
room;
go to the top left hand corner of the room, stand in the gap between the
wall
and the thing with the black and yellow squares and press A for a large gap
in the wall to appear. Enter and you will be able to choose one of five
items
for Rotom to change into, giving it a move of a specific type depending on
what
it changes into as well as improved stats. Go out of the building when
done.
Eterna City
------------
Items: Bicycle
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Togepi | Normal | Happiness | --% | 1 | Event
(Egg) |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Head towards the Bike Shop and Cynthia will appear and talk to you. If you
have
six Pokemon in your party, she will not do anything but she will stay there
until you talk to her without six in your party. When she talks to you with
a
space in your party, she will give you an Egg that will eventually hatch
into
a Togepi (after roughly 2,500 steps). Then enter the Bike Shop and talk to
the
guy at the counter to receive a free Bicycle! Go to your Key Items and
Register
it straight away so you can pull it out by just pressing Y. That is all for
Eterna City, but first we should quickly go to Route 211 West, which is
east
of Eterna City.
===========================================================================
====
[024] ROUTE 211 WEST
[MW024]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Great Ball, TM12 Taunt, Moon Stone
Trainers' Pokemon: Zubat L14, Zubat L14, Zubat L14, Geodude L14, Onix L18,
Starly L17, Hoothoot L17
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Meditite | Fighting/Psychic| Level 37 | 40% | 13 - 15 | Grass
|
|
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|Chingling | Psychic |Happiness+Night| 15% | 14 - 16 | Grass
|
|Bronzor | Psychic/Steel | Level 33 | 10% | 16 | Grass
|
|Tyrogue | Fighting | Level 20 | 12% | 29 - 30 | PokeRadar
|
|Teddiursa | Normal | Level 28 | 8% | ?? - ?? | Grass Em
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
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|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
There isn't too much to do on this route apart from face a few trainers and
catch some Pokemon if you wish to. You can also explore a tiny section of
Mt. Coronet from here. If you go up when you first enter the route through
the
grass there is a hidden Great Ball in the upper empty square amongst the
grass.
If you have Rock Smash, defeat the Hiker then go further down the valley.
Beat
the bird keeper, and grab the TM12 at the bottom. Then enter Mt. Coronet.
Once you get Surf, come back here and Surf across the lake at the bottom
where
Taunt is and use the Dowsing App to find a hidden Moon Stone! Thank you to
one
reader for finding this (the same one who found the King's Rock later on in
Celestic Town, I might add)
Mt. Coronet Route 211 Entrance

-------------------------------
Items: Ice Heal, Energypowder, Stardust
Morning/Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Geodude | Rock/Ground | Level 25 | 20% | 15 | Cave
Floor |
|Meditite | Psychic/Fighting| Level 37 | 20% | 14 - 16 | Cave
Floor |
|Bronzor | Psychic/Steel | Level 33 | 20% | 14 | Cave
Floor |
|Machop | Fighting | Level 28 | 10% | 16 | Cave
Floor |
|Cleffa | Normal | Happiness | 10% | 13 | Cave
Floor |
|Chingling | Psychic |Happiness+Night| 10% | 13 - 15 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Nosepass | Rock |LevelUpInCronet| 5% | 14 | Cave
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 5% | 15 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Break the rock to the right, grab the Ice Heal. That is all you can really
do
here, but if you want you can catch some Pokemon and if you get a Nosepass
and
level it up here, you can have a Probopass at this stage of the game, which
is
pretty cool. You'll have a huge defensive tank too, but probably hard to
train.
Go out of the mountain and back to Eterna when you're done.
I've also heard reports of there being an Energypowder hidden on the first
rock
when you enter the cave. Apparently there's a Stardust hidden in one of the
rocks too but I don't have a clue which D:
Eterna City
------------
Items: Friendship Checker app
Head back to the Pokemon Center, heal and this time head south. By the way,
you can also get some herbal items in a house to the right of the Galactic
Hideout, but they will make your Pokemon dislike you so be careful. Also,
if
you talk to the lady in the Pokemon Center you will get the Poketch app
called
the 'Friendship Checker', allowing you to check how happy your Pokemon are.
When you've got this, exit the Pokemon Center, get on your bike and head
down
into the Route 206 gatehouse.
===========================================================================
====
[025] ROUTE 206
[MW025]
===========================================================================
====
Items: EXP. Share, Flag, Razz Berry (x2), Burn Heal, Super Repel, Rawst
Berry
(x2), Poison Barb
Trainers' Pokemon: Pikachu L21, Staravia L21, Ponyta L21, Starly L17,
Starly
L18, Starly L19, Starly L18, Staravia L20, Shinx L21, Ponyta L20, Shinx
L18,
Pikachu L21, Onix L18, Onix L20
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|Gligar | Ground/Flying |RzrFngNghtLvlUp| 20% | 16 - 18 | Grass
|
|Kricketune| Bug | N/A | 10% | 17 | Grass
|
|Larvitar | Rock/Ground | Level 30 | 40% | 5 - 7 | Swarm
|
|Baltoy | Psychic/Ground | Level 36 | 12% | 18 - 19 | PokeRadar
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|Kricketune| Bug | N/A | 10% | 18 | Grass
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
In the gatehouse, talk to the scientist nearly directly left of the door
and if
you have seen a certain number of Pokemon (30?) you will get an Exp. Share,
an
item which will allow you to get one Pokemon always get at least half of
the
experience in a battle. Helpful for raising things up for your PokeDex.
Making
sure you are on your bike, head out of the gatehouse into proper Route 206.
Head on the bridge and start fighting the trainers for experience. Also
note
that Cycling Road has been revamped a bit - there are now streetlights and
it's
more colourful overall. Mostly electric types and such.
Once you reach the second gatehouse, talk to the blonde girl to get a Flag,
a
Super Contest accessory. Go outside and pick the two Razz Berries, then
head
to the right and cut down the tree (just head south to Route 207 if you
don't
want to bother with this part of the route.)
Going here allows you access to the grass where you can capture Pokemon
such as
Nosepass and the newly added Gligar. There are some more trainers down
here,
mostly hikers. Go to the left, pick up a Burn Heal and keep going that way
to
come across a hiker. He doesn't battle you, though. Head further north,
pick
the two Rawst Berries, then go back down and then go right under the bridge
to
reach the other side again and go further north to pick up a Super Repel
and
head further north to battle the hiker here. Circle around the tree and
head
under the bridge again to the left and pick up the Poison Barb on the
floor.
Head back over to the right side, and enter the cave here. Note that this
is
entirely optional, and you can simply continue to Route 207 if you wish. If
you
do plan to enter and hate Wild Pokemon Battles, you want to bring some
Repel
for this cave has a particuarly high encounter rate from what I can see.
===========================================================================
====
[026] WAYWARD CAVE
[MW026]
===========================================================================
====
Main Entrance
---------------
Items: Green Shard, Escape Rope, Super Potion, Blue Shard, Great Ball,
Revive,
TM32 Double Team, Yellow Shard
Trainers' Pokemon: Gible L22, Geodude L19, Bronzor L21, Hoothoot L22,
Buizel
L20, Shinx L20, Psyduck L22, Aipom L22, Buneary L22, Staravia L17, Ponyta
L20,
Shellos L20, Geodude L20, Onix L22, Geodude L20
Morning/Day/Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Bronzor | Psychic/Steel | Level 33 | 30% | 18 - 20 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Onix | Rock/Ground |Trade+MetalCoat| 15% | 18 - 20 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Sandshrew | Ground | Level 22 | 8% | 17 - 18 |Cave Floor
LG|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
If you have Flash and have something to teach it to, now is a good time to
use
it. You don't need it per se but it is quite helpful. From the start, head
up
go left (hit the wall, go down one square and then go left if you need
specific
directions) and break the rock here. Head north, then go right and press A
on
the middle rock to find a Green Shard. Go the left, break the rock, go
north
again and then left again and break another rock. Now head north, right,
break
another rock. Go further right, down, pick up the Escape Rope on the floor
and
head right again, then further down and break yet another rock.
At this point I actually found a Shiny Onix while I was writing this :o I
had
five balls left and I caught it on the last one (a Net Ball.) That was
pretty
lucky! But I'm getting sidetracked here. Break the rock, head further down,
press A on the leftmost rock at the bottom in this corridor to get a Super
Potion. Break down this rock, go right, down, break another rock. SO MANY
DAMN
ROCKS. This area would be good if you liked to smash things. Go right, up,
right, up, left, smash the rock. Head up, left and finally you will reach
Mira.
Talk to her and like Cheryl, she will partner up with you. Free healing.
Yay.
[ POKEMON TRAINER MIRA ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Guide Mira out of the cave! - |
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Kadabra Male Lv. 26 EXP: --- |
o----------------------------------------o
If you want to exit the cave now, just take Mira back in reverse.
Alternatively
you can collect the items and face the trainers around the cave, as I will
be
doing in this guide. So if you are going to stay for more, keep following,
otherwise head down to the Secret Entrance part. Note there is a Yellow
Shard
on one of the rocks in the 'room' Mira is in. Use the Dowsing App to find
it.
With Mira in your grasp (kinky), head right and back down, right again and
this
time keep going straight down to enter a double battle with two trainers.
Beat
them and press A on the rock directly below you to get a Blue Shard.
Next, head north, left, down, left, up, left, up and this time go to the
right
instead. Enter the double battle here, and click on the rock to the left in
the middle of this short path to get a Great Ball.
Next, head up out of this corridor and go left, up, left, up, left and this
time keep going to the left until you come to a breakable rock. Smash it,
go
left slightly and then down. Enter the double battle here, win, and pick up
the Revive on the floor. Go back up, right and then down on the next
turning
you come across. Head left, down, then further left (no need to break the
rock
yet.) Once more, go down and enter the double battle. After that is done,
break the rock and pick up the TM32 here (Double Team). Head back up, right
and
this time break the rock. Go through the newly formed gap and go down.
Crush
the hikers here in one last double battle (I love the jolly tune that plays
before you fight a hiker though) and press A on the leftmost rock at the
bottom
to pick up a Red Shard. That is everything in this cave - head up, left
through
the recently formed gap, up, right through the rock gap, then go down,
further
right through the rock gap here, down again, right through the rock gap and
down to finally exit this cave. Mira will leave you now without actually
giving
you any reward, but you will be able to battle with her and against her
later
on. Follow her example, and leave the cave yourself.
Route 206
----------
If you wish to enter the secret part now, head a little down, then left
under
the bridge and then keep trying to go up when you're out of view until you
find
a path up (it is to the left of the underside of the bridge) and you should
enter a cave.
Secret Entrance
-----------------
Items: Dusk Stone, Max Ether, Grip Claw, Rare Candy, TM26 Earthquake
Morning/Day/Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Bronzor | Psychic/Steel | Level 33 | 30% | 18 - 20 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Gible | Ground/Dragon | Level 24 | 20% | 18 - 20 | Cave
Floor |
|Sandshrew | Ground | Level 22 | 8% | 17 - 18 |Cave Floor
LG|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Use Flash again in here if you wish, though you don't really need it this
time
and head down the stairs. Now my Togepi egg is hatching as I write this...
bah.
Cute level one Togepi that I won't be using. Anyway, first, go left then
press
A on the rock furthest to the left in the corner to find a hidden Dusk
Stone.
Then, go up the mud slide, then go up the next one again since there is
nothing
in that gap to the right.
After doing that, jump over the four bike humps and pick up a Max Ether on
the
floor. Head up, around and jump down the ledge. Slow your bike down with B
then
jump over this ledge to get into the part inaccessible with the faster
speed.
Go around following the rock path then head up and left over the bike hump.
Go across the wooden bridge, then on the intersection between the two
mounts
go up and over the bike hump (with a faster speed) and pick up the Grip
Claw
on the floor here (allows you to extend the duration of attacks like Fire
Spin,
Bind, Wrap etc.) Go back over the bike hump and this time head up the mount
and
across the top mounts - going across the wooden bridge - and go over ONE
bike
hump and pick up the Rare Candy. Either jump off the ledge and go around or
manipulate your speed (like moving around and building up speed on your
bike)
and get over the bike hump on this part to get to the other side of the
rocks.
Head around the rocks here and cross over yet another rock hump then head
down
these mounts and head up the stairs to a SECRET CAVE OOOOOOOOOH. Pick up
the
TM26 Earthquake here. Yup, you get Earthquake this early in the game. If
you
don't want to use it for competitive battling later on or something (though
you
can get more TM26s through Pickup and such) then you can teach it to a
Gible or
Gligar to make training them much easier. That is everything for this part
of
the cave, so jump off the ledge halfway through the mounts on the lower
floor
and head out of the cave (or use an Escape Rope if you wish.)
Route 206
----------
Items: PP Up
We've done practically everything for Route 206, so now it is time to head
into
Route 207 - head south. If you need to heal, don't bother going back to
Eterna
for another healing point is coming up incredibly soon. I did actually miss
one
item before - just before you get to the cut point that allows you to leave
206
reverse slightly and you should notice a cut tree in between the mass of
large
trees. Cut it down and you can pick up the PP Up here (it isn't actually
hidden
but you can't see it through the tree.) Then cut one of the exit trees and
head
down into Route 207.
===========================================================================
====
[027] ROUTE 207
[MW027]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Oran Berry (x2), Cheri Berry, Bluk Berry, Revive, Super Potion,
Dowsing
Machine App, VS. Seeker, Great Ball, Rare Candy
Trainers' Pokemon: Buizel L18, Luxio L18, Gligar L21, Machop L21, Meditite
L21,
Geodude L17, Geodude L17, Geodude L19, Onix L19, Chimchar L22, Pachirisu
L22,
Geodude L20, Nosepass L20
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|
|
|
|
|
|Stantler | Normal | N/A | 12% | 6 - 8 | PokeRadar
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|
|
|
|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 10% | 5 - 5 | Grass
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Finally, a new route. You can pick up some berries to the left possibly but
since we have visited Route 207 before from Oreburgh and have seen these
berry
plants it is possible they are growing. Head down the mudslide here and you
can then go into Oreburgh City.
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---\
Oreburgh City
-------------
Heal and replenish your supplies if needed. You can also revive any fossils
you
may have found underground here (it should be Cranidos or Shieldon.) The
Poke
Mart will contain the same items that Eterna had after you got Gardenia's
badge
for the markets in every single town depend on how many badges you own.
When
you're done head back up into Route 207.
\--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---/
Resuming Route 207, head back up the mudslide and go down the lower right
path.
Fight the youngster here (adding Luxio and possibly Gligar to your dex)
then go
up the mount and fight the blonde female fighter (we'll be able to get the
item
on the upper level later.) Head to the upper level of the rock and commence
a
battle with a hiker here. Go across the bridge and pick up a Revive, then
head
around the path again (or jump off the ledge to the right if you want to
skip
some trainers) and now go right on the upper path - go back to Oreburgh to
heal
if need be. Do the double battle with the two campers, pick up the Super
Potion
between the two air vents, and battle the Hiker here, who thankfully lost
his
Bronzor from D/P. Attempt to enter the cave and Dawn or Lucas will see you
and
talk to you. Select the first option to get the VS. Seeker (though it
probably
doesn't even matter) and then you'll get a Dowsing App for your Poketch
after,
otherwise known as the Itemfinder. The VS. Seeker is particuarly useful for
battling trainers on outside routes. After she/he finishes, enter the cave.
One reader has also found a Great Ball just before the entrance to Mt.
Coronet
and a Rare Candy on the ledge after the Hiker that protects the path to the
Revive. Both items are invisible but can be located with the Dowsing App
that
you just obtained.
===========================================================================
====
[028] MT. CORONET [ROUTE 207 ENTRANCE]
[MW028]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Stardust, (Energypowder?)
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Clefairy | Normal | Moon Stone | 10% | 17 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
If you head north when you enter and use the Dowsing App, you might be able
to
find an Energypowder.
We can't explore this part too much now, but head south and into the gap
and
you'll end up seeing Cyrus again. He'll say some stuff about Mt. Coronet's
past
then leave. Head up the upper stairs here and press A on the rock closest
to
the wall (one space away) to get some Stardust. Go around the huge rock in
the
middle, down the stairs and out the cave. You could also take the Rock
Smash
path down the bottom but it yields nothing extra.
===========================================================================
====
[029] ROUTE 208
[MW029]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Great Ball, Ether, Odd Keystone, Nanab Berry (x2), Razz Berry (x2),
Bluk
Berry (x2), Pinap Berry (x2), RANDOM Berry, Berry Searcher App,
Tinymushroom
Trainers' Pokemon: Onix L22, Machop L23, Nosepass L22, Roselia L18, Combee
L22,
Mime Jr. L20, Bonsly L20
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Bibarel | Normal/Water | N/A | 20% | 18 - 20 | Grass
|
|Ralts | Psychic | Level 20 | 15% | 17 - 18 | Grass
|
|
|Roselia | Grass/Poison | Shiny Stone | 15% | 19 - 20 | Grass
|
|
|Dunsparce | Normal | N/A | 40% | 18 | Swarm
|
|Smeargle | Normal | N/A | 12% | 18 - 20 | PokeRadar
|
|Zangoose | Normal | N/A | 8% | 20 | Grass Ru
|
|Seviper | Poison | N/A | 8% | 20 | Grass Sa
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Dunsparce | Normal | N/A | 40% | 18 | Swarm
|
|
|Zangoose | Normal | N/A | 8% | 20 | Grass Ru
|
|Seviper | Poison | N/A | 8% | 20 | Grass Sa
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Ah, Route 208, a new route with delicious Ralts. Go across the bridge and
face
yet another hiker, then go north across the bridge and battle the
Blackbelt.
Go down the steps, pick up the Great Ball. Later on when you get Surf, you
will
be able to fight a Fisherman with Barboach/Gyarados, L31 each and when you
get
Rock Climb you can battle a Hiker with Golbat/Graveler/Onix, all L35 each
but
for now they are out of bounds. Head right across the bridge, battle
ANOTHER
hiker (some hiker soup would be nice, but it would be a bit hairy) and go
up
and break the rocks. Pick up the Ether then go down the steps to the right
to
find the route's first grass. Roselia and Bibarel are also now available,
both
of which can be helpful if you want a Grass-type or a slave for your HMs.
Budew
takes so long to evolve... Battle the Aroma Lady here to see a trainer with
-
surprisingly enough - stickers on their Pokemon! At least on the Roselia.
You
also get Combee in your PokeDex from this battle. Excuse me while I go find
a
Ralts... that doesn't Teleport away from me. Ugh.
Anyway, after the Aroma Lady, battle the Artist. After that head down and
talk
to the fighter hiding in the bushes to get an Odd Keystone, which you can
get
Spiritomb with if you are very patient. Pick up the berries at the top,
then
enter the house and talk to the old man to get a random berry (which I
believe
you can do every day. Also, talk to the little girl to get the BERRY
SEARCHER
app, which keeps track of berry locations around Sinnoh (say Yes when she
asks
you a question.) You can also buy "mulch" from the woman, which is
basically
fertilizer for your berries. It's nothing you need though. Afterwards, head
through the gatehouse into Hearthome. Note that there is a hidden
TinyMushroom
below the Aroma Lady if you pull out the Dowsing App.
===========================================================================
====
[030] HEARTHOME CITY & AMITY SQUARE
[MW030]
===========================================================================
====
Hearthome City
----------------
Items: Glitter Powder, Tuxedo/Dress, Poffin Case
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Eevee | Normal | Various | --% | 20 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
As soon as you get a few steps into the city, a Buneary will run right into
you, causing it to stop in its tracks (might be a female). The trainer
comes to
collect it, thanking you for stopping it and invites you to the Pokemon
Contest
Hall at the top of the city, introducing herself as "Keira" (which I'm sure
is
spelt wrong on the game...) Head up through the city (I'll give a market
list
later after we get 3 badges) and head into the Pokemon Center to heal, also
pulling out any new Pokemon from the PC you may have caught. Go into the
house
next door and talk to Bebe. If you have a spare slot in your party then you
can
get a Level 20 Eevee! Unfortunately you may not get any elemental stones
for a
while (unless you find them undergroun) but if you want a Leafeon you can
go
back to Eterna Forest pretty easily it a level up there. Espeon and Umbreon
are obtainable with the normal happiness + time method and you'll be able
to
get Glaceon much much later on.
Enter the contest hall at the top and you'll enter a conversation with your
mother and Keira. You'll get Glitter Powder (an accessory) as a reward and
your
mother will also give you a tuxedo or a dress depending on the gender you
are
playing as, which you will wear when you take part in Super Contests.
Finally,
talk to the woman wearing purple over to the right. This is Fantina, the
Gym
Leader of Hearthome City, and unlike D/P we can face her right now! But
first
we shall take a trip to Amity Square (unless you would rather go straight
to
the gym, in which case go down to that section.)
In addition, if you visit the house over to the right of the Pokemon Center
with the contest emblem on the front of it and talk to the Gentleman in
there
you will receive a Poffin Case, allowing you to both make and buy poffins.
Afterwards, go to the top left of Hearthome and enter Amity Square.
Amity Square
-------------
Items: TM45 Attract, Amulet Coin, Glitter Boulder, Spooky Plate, TM43
Secret
Power
This is an area that got completely revamped from D/P :o It is quite

pretty.
Thankfully the amount of Pokemon you can now enter Amity Square with has
been
expanded, but there is still a limited amount. However, you can enter Amity
Square with a D/P/P starter Pokemon of any level, so it isn't too hard to
get
in. Once you're in, go straight north and enter the huge rock structure to
find
that it is a teleporter, and you'll end up next to an item. This is TM45 -
pick
it up, then re-enter the teleporter to return to the original one. Go down
and
cross the bridge in the center and pick up the item on the mound here -
this is
TM43, Secret Power. After that, just head back left and go down and exit
Amity
Square, for that is all you can do on this side of it. Instead, go to the
right
side of Hearthome and enter that way, so that you are on the right hand
side of
Amity Square.
From this side, head north and enter the first teleporter you come to.
Collect
the item (Amulet Coin) then go back into the teleporter you came from to go
back to the beginning. This time, head one square into the teleporter then
go left and you will warp somewhere else. Enter the same teleporter again
and
this time take the right teleporter to end up on the same ledge as a large
guy.
Talk to him and say Yes to get the Glitter Boulder accessory. Then go back
into
the teleporter and use the straight path. Head back into this teleporter to
return to the first one, then in this same teleporter, go left to end up on
the ledge with the Happiny woman, then re-enter the teleporter and take the
right path to end up on the ledge with the large guy. Then in the
teleporter on
this ledge, take the left teleporter to end up on a new ledge. Pick up the
Spooky Plate here. That covers all of the items in Amity Square, I believe.
Note that after walking about ~200 steps, talk to the Pokemon you are
walking
with to get a random accessory or berry. You can do this as much as you
want.
When you're ready, exit Amity Square and head into the Hearthome Gym.
===========================================================================
====
[031] HEARTHOME GYM
[MW031]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM65 Shadow Claw, Relic Badge
Trainers' Pokemon: Misdreavus L23, Gastly L20, Drifloon L22, Drifloon L21,
Drifloon L21, Haunter L23, Misdreavus L24, Gastly L21, Gastly L22, Haunter
L24,
Gastly L23
Enter the gym to be greeted by an entirely new revamp. No more of those

stupid
maths puzzles that D/P had - the puzzle is a little harder now. Listen to
the
gym guy talking to you if you wish, telling you what to do, then enter the
gym.
If you have Rotom and it has gotten up to Level 29, then you will probably
be
able to utterly sweep this gym with Ominous Wind. Having any Ghost type can
help (since Gastly/Haunter/Gengar are also available to you at this point.)
Basically you are in a maze of duskull heads, and you are given a torch to
use
to see (though truth be told you don't really need it.) If you come within
the
torch range of any of the trainers you will have to battle them, but you
should
for the experience anyway. To start, battle the female trainer on the left
and
then the male trainer on the right. Then, find the blue shape on the floor
in
the room somewhere, and enter the matching door to the north. The shape on
the
floor is random, though the trainer battles are not, but you will have to
do
the shape puzzle by yourself (though it is incredibly easy.)
The next room has the same puzzle but four trainers and the maze is larger,
as
well as five doors. As usual, battle all of them for the experience, then
find
the matching shape and enter the matching door to get to the next room.
The next room holds Fantina, so now is a good time to go back and heal if
you
need to. When you're ready, go in and talk to Fantina to start the Gym
battle.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Kirlia Lv. 20 |
| :: Rotom Lv. 30 |
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER FANTINA ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Relic Badge! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Duskull Female Lv. 24 EXP: 498 |
| :: Haunter Female Lv. 24 EXP: 648 |
| :: Mismagius Female Lv. 26 EXP: 1041| - @Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $3120, TM65 Shadow Claw, Relic Badge
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
As I've said before, Ghost types will come in quite useful. The levels I
have
at the moment (apart from Kirlia) are a bit overlevelled anyway because I
spent
so long in Wayward Cave gathering info. Be warned that psychic-types are
not
too likely to last long - Duskull knows Shadow Sneak, a Ghost-type Quick
Attack
which can quickly take down Kirlia, Alakazam etcetera. Plus then you have
other
Ghost moves to account for, so all in all it is unlikely a Psychic Pokemon
can
be too much help in this fight. Other types should mostly do fine and on
the
off-chance you have a Dark-type they will perform exceptionally well in
this
fight. Normal-type Pokemon will also be immune to Ghost attacks.
Rotom will completely sweep this battle under the rug if you have a good
one,
as will Haunter/Gengar if they have a good Ghost move (though they don't
necessarily need it considering Hypnosis...). Ominous Wind from Rotom will
do plenty of damage, but be warned that Mismagius does have Shadow Ball
which
is also super effective against your own Ghost-types. Granted Ominous Wind
should kill Mismagius in two hits. Damn, I'm supporting Rotom too much
here.
A Luxio or, if you have one, Luxray, could definitely do good here too with
Bite and such. Luxray in particular, due to the strong 120 base attack that
it sports.
Either way, keep attacking with the strongest attacks you have that are not
Normal or Fighting typed. Mismagius can put the hurt on you if you aren't
careful but it is generally easier than its D/P counterpart. Fantina will
also
use Super Potions if she gets the opportunity.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you beat Fantina, go right and step on the teleporter to return to the
front of the gym. Exit the building, and go heal your Pokemon.
Hearthome City
----------------
Now that you have the Relic Badge, we have three badges total, meaning the
Poke
Mart gets upgraded again! The market now holds the following items; the
second
counter being Hearthome exclusive as usual.
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: Poke Ball $200 | :: Heart Mail $50 |
| :: Great Ball $600 | :: Heal Ball $300 |
| :: Potion $300 | :: Net Ball $1000 |
| :: Super Potion $700 | :: Nest Ball $1000 |
| :: Revive $1500 | |
| :: Antidote $100 | |
| :: Awakening $250 | |
| :: Burn Heal $250 | |
| :: Ice Heal $250 | |
| :: Repel $350 | |
| :: Super Repel $500 | |
o-------------------------------------------------------------o
It's time we leave for Veilstone, but not before a rival battle! When you
enter
the gatehouse to Route 209, your rival will be there! When he notices you,
a
battle will start. This won't be too hard, hopefully.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Kirlia Lv. 21 |
| :: Rotom Lv. 30 |
o-----------------------o
[ RIVAL BATTLE #3 ]
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Staravia Male Lv. 25 EXP: 604 |
| :: Roselia Male Lv. 23 EXP: 748 |
| :: Ponyta Male Lv. 23 EXP: 748 |
| :: Prinplup Male Lv. 27 EXP: 827 |
o-----------------------------------------o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Buizel Male Lv. 23 EXP: 369 |
| :: Grotle Male Lv. 27 EXP: 814 |
o---------------------------------------- o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Monferno Male Lv. 27 EXP: 820 |
o-----------------------------------------o
REWARDS: $2700
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Staravia will start the battle this time - unlike D/P, the rival's Starly
will
evolve much, much sooner. Staravia is mildly powerful but nothing too big -
a
quick jolt of electric will put it out of commison.
The other three shouldn't be too much trouble, despite being dependant on
type (though it seems having Chimchar means you get a fair bit more EXP on
the
whole...) Just match type with type and it should be fine. Roselia, Buizel
and
Ponyta will all go down fairly easily. The starter may take a bit more but
nothing that will take very much effort.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After you beat him, he will run off. Go back and heal if need be, then head
into Route 209 (since entry to Route 212 is unfortunately blocked.) Also,
if
you were wondering about the Happiny egg, it doesn't exist anymore. Most
likely
because of the Togepi egg you get instead. The hiker just stands there
doing
nothing now. Poor, poor hiker.
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====
[032] ROUTE 209
[MW032]
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====
Items: Great Ball, Good Rod, Leppa Berry (x2), Chesto Berry (x2), Hyper
Potion,
Ether, Razz Berry (x2), Calcium, TM47 Steel Wing
Trainers' Pokemon: Budew L20, Pichu L20, Bonsly L20, Eevee L20, Bonsly L22,
Mime Jr. L22, Pichu L22, Budew L20, Cleffa L20, Eevee L20, Mime Jr. L20,
Ponyta L23, Buneary L23, Buizel L23, Luxio L23 (morning), Staravia L23
(morn)
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Staravia | Normal/Flying | Level 34 | 20% | 18 - 19 | Grass
|
|Chansey | Normal | Happiness | 5% | 17 - 19 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|Snubbull | Normal | Level 23 | 40% | 18 - 19 | Swarm
|
|Kirlia | Psychic |DawnStone/Lvl30| 12% | 19 - 20 | PokeRadar
|
|Vulpix | Fire | Fire Stone | 8% | 17 - 20 | Grass LG
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Spiritomb | Ghost | N/A | --% | 25 |
Event |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Duskull | Ghost | Level 37 | 10% | 17 | Grass
|
|Snubbull | Normal | Level 23 | 40% | 18 - 19 | Swarm
|
|Kirlia | Psychic |DawnStone/Lvl30| 12% | 19 - 20 | PokeRadar
|
|Vulpix | Fire | Fire Stone | 8% | 17 - 20 | Grass LG
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Spiritomb | Ghost | N/A | --% | 25 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Ah, Route 209, the route that has music in Super Smash Bros. Brawl also
(though
it doesn't fit _too_ well on the Spear Pillar stage, imo.) Anyway when you
go
forward in Route 209 there is a Pokemon Breeder you can fight. Go through
the
grass and pick up the Great Ball in the corner. Head back through the grass
and
go east of the breeder to the fisherman, and talk to him to get the Good
Rod,
allowing you to catch moderately better Pokemon in water. After that, head
up
to come across the first time-based trainer. These jogging people are
generic,
however - unlike usual, they will only battle you in the mornings! If it is
morning you may as well battle him but otherwise leave it. Head up the
bridge
to pick up some Leppa and Chesto Berries, then go back down and battle the
two
girls in a double battle. Head further right and talk to the 'Pikachu'
looking
out over the bridge to find out it is some stupid cosplayer. WHY IS IT
ALWAYS
PIKACHU? WHY NOT COSPLAY AS A BRONZONG OR SOMETHING. I'D JUST LOVE TO SEE A
FLOATING THING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD WHICH I COULD FIGHT-
Ahem, battle the Pikachu trainer - who, most surprisingly has a member of
the
Pikachu family line (Pichu) then go down the bridge and around and pick up
the
slightly hidden Hyper Potion here. Go back around, battle the jogger if you
wish then go up and fight the female Pokemon Breeder who has another lot of
baby Pokemon to kill - I mean, battle. Collect the Ether in the ditch then
go
right a bit. Here is the well that you can insert the Odd Keystone to - if
you
talk to 32 new visitors in the underground and come back to the well with
the
Odd Keystone inserted before you initated the 32 talks, then you will be
able
to battle Spiritomb here, but it is quite possibly one of the most
difficult
Pokemon to obtain due to the requirement - using the GTS is probably easier
if
you want to get one since we'll be seeing one much later on anyway. The
best
method is to get a friend's DS with D/P/Pt, have them go into the
underground,
talk to them, get them to exit, come back in again, talk to them, rinse and
repeat. The game counts this as a new conversation, so doing this 32 times
will
allow you to get Spiritomb.
Anyway, go further north and pick the two Razz Berries here. Go through the
grass on the left and enter the off-road gap and ride through it to pick up
a
Calcium. Then, go back and fight the cowgirl here, who has changed Pokemon
so
she's no longer an epic source of EVs. Oh well. At least they have the
jolly
intro tune that they share with the hikers. Head up, do the double battle.
These two give some decent money reward as well, so using an Amulet Coin
and
VS Seeker is decent if you need some money though it isn't usually much of
a
problem to obtain it.
Finally, head to the right then down. If you have Cut, cut the tree down
and
take the TM47 Steel Wing on the ground here. You can head into Solaceon
first
to heal - that is probably a good idea and I'm going to do that right now.
When
you're ready, enter the Lost Tower - however, note this is completely
optional
as Strength has changed places now.
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====
[033] LOST TOWER
[MW033]
===========================================================================
====
Floor 1
--------
Items: N/A
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Gastly | Ghost/Poison | Level 25 | 65% | 17 - 21 | Tower
Floor |
|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 35% | 17 - 20 | Tower
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
|Duskull | Ghost | Level 37 | 20% | 18 - 20 | Tower
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The Lost Tower is another area in Platinum that got a revamp, now sporting
a
blue misty look with a blue tile revamp. The first floor holds nothing
except
Wild Pokemon, so head on up to the second floor.
Floor 2
---------
Items:
Trainers' Pokemon: Mothim L20, Chatot L21, Barboach L19
The second floor has exactly the same Wild Pokemon as the first, which
really
isn't a lot of variety. Go to the left, battle the one trainer on this
floor -
the youngster - who has some surprisingly good Pokemon, and pick up the
Oval
Stone next to him - attach this to a Happiny and level it up at day to
evolve
it into a Chansey. Go up to Floor 3.
Floor 3
---------
Items: Revive
Trainers' Pokemon: Cleffa L23, Pichu L19, Pichu L19, Pikachu L22 (@ Sitrus)
Same wild Pokemon, and now there is actually fog so your accuarcy will be
down
but we don't actually have Defog at this point anyway. There are two
trainers
on this floor - fight both of them. The Roughneck is particuarly ironic
because
his only Pokemon is a Cleffa; completely unfitting. Of course his Pokemon
got
stolen and all that, but still... the second trainer's Pikachu also has
some
stickers on the Pokeball. We'll be getting our sticker case pretty soon -
pity
we can't actually buy stickers for a fair while. By the way, after you beat
either both trainers or just the first one, slip past the Roughneck (there
is
a hidden tile right above him) and pick up the Revive. Circling around the
graves doesn't work due to one tombstone blocking you. Head up to the
fourth
floor.
Floor 4
---------
Items: TM27 Return
Trainers' Pokemon: Bonsly L23, Ponyta L23, Ponyta L23, Murkrow L23,
Misdreavus
L23,
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
|Golbat | Poison/Flying | Happiness | 5% | 21 | Tower
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
This floor holds sexy Golbat, and quite a few trainers. Go around and
battle
them, picking up the TM27 Return on the bottom part (yup, a second one.) Go
up
to Floor 5 afterwards.
Floor 5
--------
Items: Cleanse Tag, Spell Tag
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Top floor of the Lost Tower, with a slightly increased chance of finding a
Golbat but no trainers. Unfortunately there isn't anything to get here
anymore
but the EXP is worth it. Exit the Lost Tower to Route 209 and go into
Solaceon
afterwards.
However, once you get Defog and the ability to use it, come back to this
floor
and clear the area of the fog. Talk to the ladies afterwards to get the
Spell
and Cleanse Tags, the former of which increases Ghost attack power by 20%
and
the latter of which reduces the rate of Wild Pokemon.
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====
[034] SOLACEON TOWN
[MW034]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Persim Berry, Nanab Berry (x2), Figy Berry, Daycare Checker App,
Pokemon
History App, Seal Case, PP Up
When you enter Solaceon, your rival will make an appearance all of a
sudden.
Thankfully he doesn't battle you this time and just runs off. Go up and
pick
the berries and heal in the Pokemon Center if you need to. Of note in this
town is the Daycare Centre. Drop off some Pokemon and you may get an egg,
etc.
It's also a decent idea to drop Eevee off here if you want a Vaporeon. What
I
did on my first Platinum playthrough was leave Eevee (though it was a
Vaporeon
for me at this point because I got a Water Stone in a trade) here until I
got
Surf, then I did Iron Island and had Vaporeon sweep it all, getting it up
to
the levels of the rest of my team. Not too bad of a strategy if you ask me,
as
long as you don't mind spending the money on the daycare though it
shouldn't
really be that much. Also, alas, the Pokemart list which stock Dusk Balls
which
are quite possibly the best type of PokeBall in the game, having 4x of a
rate
to capture during night which is the time most people will play the game.
You
should definitely buy some if you want to catch some Pokemon.
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: Great Ball $600 | :: Dusk Ball $1000 |
| :: Potion $300 | :: Net Ball $1000 |
| :: Super Potion $700 | :: Nest Ball $1000 |
| :: Revive $1500 | |
| :: Antidote $100 | |
| :: Awakening $250 | |
| :: Burn Heal $250 | |
| :: Ice Heal $250 | |
| :: Repel $350 | |
o-------------------------------------------------------------o
Go into the Daycare, put in a Pokemon, exit the building and then re-enter.
A
guy will now be sitting on the stool there - talk to him to receive a new
app
entitled the DAYCARE CHECKER. This app allows you to check if an egg has
been
produced at the daycare, should you have left two Pokemon there. Also, talk
to
the Ruin Maniac near the beginning of town to receive yet another app, this
one
being called the POKEMON HISTORY app. It lets you see the last twelve
Pokemon
you have obtained, either by capturing, hatching from an egg, through
evolution
or being traded.
Our most important stop here are the Solaceon Ruins to the east. Go to the
top
of Solaceon, then jump down the second ledges you come across. Enter the
house
here and talk to the mother to get a Seal Case! It contains five seals at
default and we'll be able to buy more later. In addition any Unown you
catch
in the Solaceon Ruins can be shown to the little boy in this house to get a
sticker of that letter. Exit the house, jump down the ledges and go back up
to
the top and this time jump down the third ledge you come across. Take the
left
ledge at the split and pick up the PP Up, then go around and take the
rightmost
ledge again but this time go right and enter the Solaceon Ruins.
By the way, you will be able to access that item through an event later on,
but
to do so you need all 26 Unown letters so it is a challenge to get. The
item
is actually only a Rare Candy... not really worth the effort.
Solaceon Ruins
----------------
Items: Fire Stone, Water Stone, Thunderstone, Nugget, Mind Plate, Odd
Incense,
HM05 Defog
Trainers' Pokemon: Geodude L19, Bronzor L23, Geodude L21
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Unown | Psychic | N/A | 100%| 20 - 30 | Ruins
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The Unown letters are set up in different rooms. All of the dead-end side
rooms
in here contain different Unown letters and the encounter rate is low so it
may
take a while to find them. If you wish to catch many Unown letters then
feel
free to enter the different rooms and take a look; personally I will just
be
leading the walkthrough to go the fastest way through possible while still
battling the trainers around the area.
To begin with, head up and take the left stairs down and press A on the
rock
to pick up a FIRE STONE! This will be very useful if you want to use
Flareon or
something. Head back up the stairs. The Unown message here says something
but
it isn't particuarly important. About treasure I believe. Either way, head
down
the right stairs. Head down the bottom left stairs here and challenge the
Ruin
Maniac to a battle. Then go down the bottom left stairs, press A on the
rock
and you should find a Water Stone!
Then go down the bottom right stairs, then the top left. In this corridor,
go
down the bottom right stairs and press A on the rock to get a
Thunderstone!
Man, they were kind with this. Return to the corridor and go into the upper
left stairs to reach the next corridor. Descend the bottom left stairs to
reach
the treasure room. Pick up the four items here - namely, a Nugget, Mind
Plate,
Odd Incense and HM05, Defog. Make your way out of the ruins afterwards.
MAKE SURE YOU SEE AN UNOWN! No trainers in the game have one, so you will
have
to come back later to see one to get the National Dex otherwise.
By the way, as an interesting fact, the Unown in the main corridors you
explore
are of the letters that combine to spell the word "FRIEND." It's what it
says
in the Unown runes in the ruins too. Quite interesting. Thanks go out to
'JD'
for noticing this fact :o
Solaceon Town
----------------
We're done here, pretty much. Show any Unown you caught to the little guy
to
get some seals if you wish, heal up, buy anything you need etcetera, then
head
up to Route 210.
===========================================================================
====
[MW035]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Aspear Berry (x2), Razz Berry, Pinap Berry, TM51 Roost, Super Repel
Trainers' Pokemon: Ponyta L24, Pikachu L24 (Morning), Ponyta L24, Rapidash
L24,
Pikachu L23, Clefairy L23, Elekid L23, Happiny L23, Magby L23, Togepi L23
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Scyther | Bug/Flying |Trade+MetalCoat| 15% | 19 - 21 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|Staravia | Normal/Flying | Level 34 | 20% | 19 | Grass
|
|Geodude | Rock/Ground | Level 25 | 20% | 18 | Grass
|
|Tauros | Normal | N/A | 6% | 29 - 30 | PokeRadar
|
|Miltank | Normal | N/A | 6% | 29 - 30 | PokeRadar
|
|
|Nuzleaf | Grass/Dark | Leaf Stone | 4% | 20 | Grass Ru
|
|Pineco | Bug | Level 31 | 8% | 18 - 20 | Grass Em
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|Noctowl | Normal/Flying | N/A | 10% | 21 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Currently we can only explore the southern part of Route 210 due to a
rampage
of Psyduck, so no birds so cloudy (Swablu) yet, unfortunately. There is
still
quite a few new things to capture though - most notably Scyther! While it
is
rare it is most certainly possible to find and you are quite likely to come
across one at some point. To begin, head over to the right and pick the
berries
then get on your bike and go up the hill. Another jogger is here who will
only
face you in the morning. Bah. Go over to the right and talk to the woman on
the
north end of the mount to get TM51, Roost. Go down the hill via the
mudslide &
battle the rancher here, with the familiar Ponyta archetype. Go further up
and
face the double battle of Rancher and Cowgirl here, with what is possibly
the
most awkward starting quote. It has so much innuendo in it. Of note is the
fact
that the farmers have a Rapidash; it can be a little tricky to take down
but
it's nothing that hard. Go back into the grass and this time go over the
mud
and battle the twins here (it is practically impossible not to after you
speed
bike over the mudslide...) Also, an interesting tidbit. If you press START
in
a double battle during the choosing an option part, it will swap your
Pokemon's
HP bars for actual numbers. Not too bad but it doesn't look as pretty.
Go around the grass and battle the breeder here to add some new Pokemon to
your
PokeDex. Using the VS Seeker on this breeder isn't a bad idea because you
get
a massive 1255 exp from the Happiny. It caused my Kirlia to evolve into
Gardy.
Took long enough :o Go and pick up the Super Repel on the floor.
Jump off the ledge and battle the second breeder here to add Magby to your
PokeDex, as well as Togepi if it never hatched afterwards. Go inside the
cafe.
The Cafe
---------
Items: Moomoo Milk
Trainers' Pokemon: Clefairy L25, Munchlax L25, Heracross L25
Small building, but with three trainers. Battle the two collectors and also
the
waitress at the top of the bar to add some new stuff to your Dex. You can
also
buy Moo Moo Milk here for $500 a piece. Healing 100 HP and being CHEAPER
than
Super Potions (by $250) is a pretty good bargain. Buy a couple if you wish,
since thankfully Platinum now lets you buy them in dozens, then go and head
to
the right unless you want to slather honey on the tree first.
===========================================================================
====
[036] ROUTE 215
[MW036]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Max Ether, TM66 Payback, Fist Plate, Pecha Berry (x2), Bluk Berry
(x2),
Super Potion, HP Up, Full Heal, Wiki Berry, Mago Berry, Ultra Ball
Trainers' Pokemon: Bronzor L23, Shieldon L23, Staravia L25 (morn), Croagunk
L26
Machop L23, Machop L23, Machop L23, Croagunk L21, Meditite L24, Machop L24,
Luxio L22 (morn) Luxio L24 (morn), Roselia L24, Gligar L24, Ralts L24,
Drifblim
L25, Lickitung L25, Buizel L24
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|Kadabra | Psychic | Trade | 10% | 21 - 22 | Grass
|
|Lickitung | Normal |LevelUpw/Rolout| 10% | 20 | Grass
|
|Abra | Psychic | Level 16 | 10% | 19 | Grass
|
|
|Marill | Water | Level 18 | 25% | 20 - 22 | Grass
|
|Drowzee | Psychic | Level 26 | 40% | 19 - 20 | Swarm
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Lovely heavily raining route. Piplup users will be right in the zone here.
This
is also a good place to get a Kadabra or Abra if you're looking for a
Psychic
type. To begin with go over the bridge structure and battle the Ruin Maniac
to
add Shieldon to your PokeDex then continue over to the right and pick up
the
Max Ether. Battle the jogger if you can, go up the ramps and talk to the
guy
to get TM66, Payback. Go across the bridges, battle the fighter here to add
Croagunk to your dex, then cut the tree to the right and battle the next
guy
here and pick up the Fist Plate afterwards. Jump off the ledge, head
straight
south if you want some berries - otherwise, just go up the ramp - and cut
the
tree here to access some berries. Pick them, then go up the ramp and down
to
pick up a Hyper Potion and go north down the stairs. One reader has said
there
is an Ultra Ball in the large patch of grass just above the berries too. I
was
probably too lazy to go through it or something, so thanks for that :P
Go a bit more to the right (use the Cut path or not, it doesn't matter at
all)
and battle the fighter for a little more exp. Over to the right, take a
trip
through the grass and grab the HP Up if you're feeling up to a possible 1-3
fights. Go down, cut the tree and pick up TM34, Shock Wave in the gap here.
Not
too bad a move for a Kadabra or Alakazam or something. Another jogger here,
fight/ignore. Jump off the ledge to get the Full Heal, go back through the
grass then initiate the battle with the Ace Trainers (you can also do it
seperately, if you prefer.) These Ace Trainers have some pretty good
Pokemon
but they don't have that awful Gyarados they had in D/P anymore (I HATED
THAT
THING). Go down a bit more to pick up some berries. That is all for this
route,
so head through the gatehouse and then into Veilstone City.
===========================================================================
====
[037] VEILSTONE CITY
[MW037]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Counter app, TM63 Embargo, Coin Case
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Porygon | Normal | Trade+UpGrade | --% | 25 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Nothing special happens when you enter the city, so go and head for the
Pokemon
Center. Veilstone is the big city of Sinnoh, like the other three big
cities
(Celadon, Veilstone, Lilycove) are in their respective regions, having a
large
department store instead of a regular Poke Mart meaning you can buy a large
variety of stuff. Go there if you want to shop like I'm directing you to
now...
This particular department store has about six floors in total. The first
floor
is home to battling neccessities such as healing items and Poke Balls, as
well
as random mail. The list is as follows:
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| LEFT CLERK | RIGHT CLERK |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: Poke Ball $200 | :: Potion $300 |
| :: Great Ball $600 | :: Super Potion $750 |
| :: Ultra Ball $1200 | :: Hyper Potion $1200 |
| :: Escape Rope $550 | :: Max Potion $2500 |
| :: Poke Doll $1000 | :: Revive $1500 |
| :: Repel $350 | :: Antidote $100 |
| :: Super Repel $500 | :: Parlyz Heal $200 |
| :: Max Repel $700 | :: Burn Heal $250 |
| :: Grass Mail $50 | :: Ice Heal $250 |
| :: Flame Mail $50 | :: Awakening $250 |
| :: Bubble Mail $50 | :: Full Heal $600 |
| :: Space Mail $50 | |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
The bottom floor (B1F, if you go down the stairs) is a unique addition to
Plat,
selling unique items such as berries. The leftmost clerk has these items:
o-------------------------------o
| LEFT CLERK |
o-------------------------------o
| :: Figy Berry $20 |
| :: Wiki Berry $20 |
| :: Mago Berry $20 |
| :: Aguav Berry $20 |
| :: Iapapa Berry $20 |
o-------------------------------o
The middle cashier will allow you to buy poffins with the Poffin Case you
got
earlier on, costing $6,400 for each poffin. They are all level 32, and they
all
share the same smoothness as well - specifically, 20. It can be quite
useful
for evolving Feebas and such if you're not very good at making poffins.
The right cashier allows you to buy Lava Cookies, items that are usually
from
Hoenn with the same property as a Full Heal. One lava cookie costs $200 and
you
can also buy them in batches of ten costing $2000.
The second floor of the dept store is home to three things. First off, talk
to the bottommost clerk behind the counter to receive the COUNTER Poketch
app,
allowing you to press a button to keep a running count of something. The
other
two clerks sell this floor's specialities - stat boosting items. One has
out-of
battle stat boosters while the other has in-battle stat boosters as
follows:
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| TOP CLERK | MIDDLE CLERK |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: X Speed $350 | :: Protein $9800 |
| :: X Attack $500 | :: Iron $9800 |
| :: X Defend $550 | :: Calcium $9800 |
| :: Guard Spec. $700 | :: Zinc $9800 |
| :: Dire Hit $650 | :: Carbos $9800 |
| :: X Accuarcy $950 | :: HP Up $9800 |
| :: X Special $350 | |
| :: X. Sp. Def $350 | |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
Moving up to the third floor lets you buy some useful TMs. The top clerk
has
many support moves while the bottom holds powerful hitting, lower accuarcy
moves. The list is as follows:
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| TOP CLERK | BOTTOM CLERK |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: TM83 Natural Gift $2000 | :: TM38 Fire Blast $5500 |
| :: TM17 Protect $2000 | :: TM25 Thunder $5500 |
| :: TM54 False Swipe $2000 | :: TM14 Blizzard $5500 |
| :: TM20 Safeguard $2000 | :: TM22 Solarbeam $3000 |
| :: TM33 Reflect $2000 | :: TM52 Focus Blast $5500 |
| :: TM16 Light Screen $2000 | :: TM15 Hyper Beam $7500 |
| :: TM70 Flash $1000 | |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
Buying Focus Blast may not be a bad idea for your Psychic-types, amd the
Fire
Blast/Thunder/Blizzard TMs can also come in useful, especially for those
who
have a Prinplup and are wanting an ice move for it, as unaccurate as
Blizzard
can be... fourth floor time, I think.
The fourth floor contains furniture for your secret base, which is
something
you never actually need in the game. You can buy the following items:
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| TOP CLERK | BOTTOM CLERK |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: Yellow Cushion $500 | :: Munchlax Doll $2000 |
| :: Cupboard $1000 | :: Bonsly Doll $2000 |
| :: TV $4500 | :: Mime Jr. Doll $2000 |
| :: Refrigeratior $1000 | :: Mantyke Doll $3000 |
| :: Pretty Sink $3000 | :: Buizel Doll $3000 |
| | :: Chatot Doll $3000 |
o-------------------------------o-------------------------------o
The fifth floor is the top floor, with the usual vending machines. The
vending
machines allow you to buy Fresh Water, Soda Pop or Lemonade for $200, $300
or
$350 respectively. Lemonade is a good bargain for a very cheap price and a
lot
of HP healing for this point (80 HP recovery is not to be underestimated,
even
though you can also buy Moomoo Milk...)
When you're done shopping you can just use the elevator to return to the
first
floor. Next, head to the bottom row of houses in Veilstone. The furthest
two
right are the Game Corner and the prize building, the former of which has
some
really neat music if you go inside. Head up the stairs for the left side of
houses and talk to the Roughneck standing there to get TM63.
The left house here is the groomer of this game. Enter and talk to her to
get
one of your Pokemon groomed, raising its happiness. When she grooms one of
your
Pokemon, there is also a chance she will find an accessory for Super
Contests
which she will giev to you after the grooming. In the house on the right,
you
can talk to the clown for a Coin Case, allowing you to participate in the
Game
Corner events.
Next, head back to where the Pokemon Center is and enter the house on the
right
side. If you talk to the guy there with a spare slot in your party, you
will
receive a Level 25 Porygon, completely free of charge. This is the only
Porygon
you can get for a long while, so if you want to use a Porygon2 or Porygon-Z
(or
perhaps Porygon itself) in your team then you will have to use this one.
There
is a Dubious Disc obtainable later as well, so don't worry about not being
able
to evolve Porygon2 or anything - and of course, you should already have the
Up-
Grade from the Galactic Hideout in Eterna City.
That is everything for the actual city, for now. Head for the bottom left
of
Veilstone, where the gym is located. Dawn or Lucas will be waiting outside
the gym and will talk to you for a second. Then Crasher Wake will come out
from
the Veilstone gym (he is the fourth Gym Leader, water. We'll be battling
him
soon enough) and after some dialogue, he will leave. After all of the extra
company has gone, gear up and head inside the Veilstone gym. Note that the
Pokeball you can see there is an item that we cannot get until we pick up
Rock
Climb and get the seventh badge of the game, so it won't be for a little
while
yet.
===========================================================================
====
[038] VEILSTONE GYM
[MW038]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM60 Drain Punch, Cobble Badge
Trainers' Pokemon: Machoke L23, Machoke L25, Machoke L27, Machop L25,
Meditite
L25, Machoke L25, Croagunk L26, Machoke L26, Heracross L28
Veilstone Gym is another gym that has been revamped with a new puzzle -
this
time you must now push punching bags instead of the slider things and it
can
get a bit annoying at times. To begin with, head to the left of the orange
punching bag hanging just in front of the raised ring and push against it
to
have it swing over to the right and smash the tyres (?) that are stacked
there
allowing you to go through. Do so, climb onto the stadium, and fight the
gym
trainer here. Once you defeat him, go back down the steps you came up from
and go behind the punching bag here (despite first appearances you can walk
in these tiles - you are actually under the pole thingy) and push it so
that
it clips on to the next orange part on the top pole. Keep doing this until
it will no longer move, then push the punching bag that is now right next
to
it upwards as well to smash some more tyres.
Go onto the second stadium and defeat this gym trainer as well. Go down the
steps on the other end and battle the third gym trainer, who finally uses
something that is not a Machop, Machoke or Meditite. Afterwards, go over
the
left side and battle the fourth and final gym trainer in Veilstone. Then we
can start working on the punching bag puzzle once more.
Push the punching bag next to the fourth trainer down once, then push it to
the right to break another bunch of tyres. Afterwards, go to the bottom
right
bag (the one that is slightly higher than the bottommost one) and push it
once
upwards, then to the left, and then down to give it the force it needs to
hit
the bunch of tyres here enough to break them. Use the newly formed gap to
get
at the now accessible bottom punching bag and push it up and then right
from
where it locks onto the pole. Lastly, go back up the top right stadium and
from
the stairs downwards go north and around (since you can actually go behind
the
punching bag there) and push this northern punching bag to the left to
break
more tyres. Push it to the left once more to break all the tyres, then
cross
back over the top right stadium and go in between the training boards to
the
last punching bag. Push it once to the right to break the tyres in front of
Maylene. Lastly, approach the top right stadium, get on the steps then go
north
to finally arrive on Maylene's platform. Save and begin.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Gardevoir Lv. 32 |
| :: Rotom Lv. 32 |
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER MAYLENE ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Cobble Badge! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Meditite Female Lv. 28 EXP: 546 |
| :: Machoke Male Lv. 29 EXP: 906 |
| :: Lucario Male Lv. 32 EXP: 1398| - @Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $3840, Cobble Badge, TM60 Drain Punch
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Personally this gym battle was an absolute goldmine for me because my team
is
so strong against Fighting-types, but it may not be the same for you.
Having a
Staravia or if you've really been training a Staraptor will help with this
fight considerably as you will be able to deal super effective damage on
both
Meditite and Machoke, the former of which is very frail. Having a Psychic-
type
such as Gardevoir or Kadabra/Alakazam will also help considerably with this
fight, and certainly with the Lucario too if you taught your Psychic the
Focus
Blast TM that you could get in the Veilstone dept store.
Overall it isn't too hard of a battle. Remember to note that Lucario has
Steel
typing alongside its Fighting - this means it is resistant to a plethora of
types and also makes Psychic non-effective (neutral) but it also means that
Lucario is weak to Fire, Fighting and Ground moves, so using some of them
on
Lucario is a possile option. It has Force Palm and Metal Claw attacks which
are
relatively weak (though be warned that Force Palm CAN paralyze your
Pokemon).
Thankfully it doesn't have Aura Sphere so it shouldn't be too hard to take
down. Type matching is always the solution with these matters.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After winning against Maylene you will now have four badges, meaning
Pokemon
from anywhere up to Level 50 will obey you without hestitation. Trading can
actually be pretty useful at this point because you will most likely not be
reaching Level 50s for a long while yet and probably not before you get
your
sixth badge granting you control over Level 70 Pokemon, too.
Anyway, exit the gym once the fight is over and done with. We still have
some
work to do in Veilstone because Dawn/Lucas is an idiot...
Veilstone City
---------------
Items: Star Piece
Trainers' Pokemon: Zubat L24, Stunky L26, Zubat L24, Croagunk L26
As soon as you exit the gym you will find Dawn or Lucas waiting outside and
they will explain how they dropped their PokeDex and now Galactic has it.
Good
going. >:
Head for the very north of Veilstone City where the two Galactic grunts
are.
First, go slightly up and pick up the Star Piece, then back down and talk
to
Dawn or Lucas again there to start an easy double battle fight. Enter the
warehouse afterwards. Looker will drag you in there anyway (that is still a
REALLY bad name, honestly.)
Galactic Warehouse
-------------------
Items: HM02 Fly
In here, wait a minute for Looker to actually let you move, then go over
and
collect Fly. Leave the warehouse afterwards.
Our next step is Route 214, to the south east of Veilstone City
(unfortunately
the way to Route 212 from Hearthome is STILL blocked by Gabby and Ty.) Go
to
the south east and head through the gatehouse to get onto the route.
===========================================================================
====
[039] ROUTE 214
[MW039]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Cheri Berry, Sitrus Berry, Chesto Berry, Pomeg Berry, Max Repel,
Carbos,
Big Root, Red Shard, Magmarizer, Razor Fang
Trainers' Pokemon: Chingling L23, Kirlia L27, Drifloon L25, Goldeen L30,
Skorupi L21, Yanma L21, Tropius L21, Carnivine L21, Croagunk L21, Tangela
L21,
Wormadam-G L24, Wormadam-R L24, Wormadam-S L24, Duskull L26, Kadabra L26,
Jolteon L24, Flareon L24, Vaporeon L24, Shieldon L27, Porygon L27, Bronzor
L24,
Cranidos L26
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Graveler | Rock/Ground | Trade | 35% | 22 - 24 | Grass
|
|Houndour | Fire/Dark | Level 24 | 15% | 22 - 24 | Grass
|
|Rhyhorn | Rock/Ground | Level 42 | 30% | 22 - 24 | Grass
|
|
|Poochyena | Dark | Level 20 | 12% | 20 - 22 | PokeRadar
|
|Spoink | Psychic | Level 32 | 40% | 21 - 23 | Swarm
|
|Vulpix | Fire | Fire Stone | 8% | 24 | Grass LG
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Rhyhorn | Rock/Ground | Level 42 | 20% | 22 - 24 | Grass
|
|
|
|Spoink | Psychic | Level 32 | 40% | 21 - 23 | Swarm
|
|Poochyena | Dark | Level 20 | 12% | 20 - 22 | PokeRadar
|
|Vulpix | Fire | Fire Stone | 8% | 24 | Grass LG
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Ah, Route 214. The one most notable thing here is HOUNDOUR! About time they
let you actually use it in a team apart from on Pokemon XD. Catching one is
a
good idea if you need a Fire type and it will evolve into a Houndoom very
soon
as well due to the low evolution level it has. Yes, I'm a bit of a fan of
it.
Starmie is my favourite but you can't get one >: If you do want to use a
Hound
then you should probably go back to Veilstone and by a TM35 Fire Blast
since
you can't get the Flamethrower TM for a while and the next fire move it
learns
is Fire Fang, and it doesn't even get that until 30/32 (depending on if you
evolve Houndour or not).
Begin by going south and battling the Psychic. We'll go around this route
clockwise; go right and pick the berries then head down (go into the grass
if you want to catch some Wild stuff as well. Rhyhorn is the other notable
addition to Route 214 but it doesn't evolve for aaaaaaaaaaaages.)
Battle the investigator and the fat guy here, and pick up the Max Repel on
the
floor here. You definitely want to battle the collector to add a ton of new
Pokemon to your PokeDex! I'm thinking this guy took a trip to the Great
Marsh
at some point. Six Pokemon and all of them being from the Great Marsh is no
mere coincidence.
Go down and face the beauty to add Wormadam to your dex, one of the most
commonly missed Pokemon in the game from what I know. The beauty now sports
all
three types of Wormadam as well though I'm pretty sure you only need to see
one
of them anyway. Go a bit further down and challenge the Psychic to a duel
(a
bit Yu-Gi-Oh there, much?) and go to the ring of grass on the left and
press
A facing the one tile without grass on it to pick up a Carbos.
Exit the grass ring and go further down. You might notice an indent in the
trees here; this will become the path to the Sendoff Spring later on. Keep
going down until you reach the Collector and as always, battle. These
trainers
are complete goldmines for PokeDex entries. The weird thing was, this
Collector
- when I tried to use Fire Blast on his Jolteon and missed - actually
switched
to Flareon to try and catch me out with Flash Fire. Very weird for a random
trainer on the road. But Fire Blast missed Flareon anyway :D Not to mention
I got two critical hit Bite attacks on the Vaporeon. Woo.
Afterwards, go to the left side of the fence and head up so we can finally
enter the patch of grass by here. Pick up the Big Root on the floor. Then
go
into the southern path of grass and pick up the Red Shard on the floor
here.
Then go to the left and ride up onto the mount. Battle the Ruin Maniac here
then go around, into the grass and battle the Collector that will add
Porygon
to your PokeDex if you haven't already picked it up. Then go to the far
right
and press A on the one patch of ground in this fenced area that doesn't
have
grass on it to get a Razor Fang, allowing you to evolve any Gligar. Go
further
up and battle the second Ruin Maniac here, this one with a Cranidos instead
of
a Shieldon.
Go down and pick up the Magmarizer on the floor here - this will be helpful
if you want to catch the latest Fire Pokemon, Magmar (you'll be able to get
it
after we get Surf.) Go through the grass or smash the rocks, then enter the
cave entrance by here to get into the Ruin Maniac's Cave.
Ruin Maniac's Cave

-------------------
Items: TM28 Dig
With Less than 10 Unown Letters Caught

o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|Hippopotas| Ground | Level 34 | 5% | 22 - 26 | Cave Floor
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
With More than 10 Unown Letters Caught

o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
With All 26 Alphabet Unown Caught

o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Not a whole lot here, but if you ever get twenty-six Unown this cave will
become a tunnel to that upper ledge you got earlier, also allowing you to
catch the ! and ? Unowns that cannot be normally found in Solaceon Ruins.
Talk
to the 'Ruin Maniac' who doesn't even have a Ruin Maniac overworld sprite
to
accept his challenge of sorts, then pick up the Dig TM by the rocks. Leave
the
cave unless you want to catch a Hippopotas or something.
After leaving, head to the far south until you reach Valour Lakefront.
Valour Lakefront
-----------------
Items: Ultra Ball
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Girafarig | Normal/Psychic | N/A | 25% | 26 - 28 | Grass
|
|
|
|Kricketune| Bug | N/A | 10% | 26 - 27 | Grass
|
|
|Nidorina | Poison | Moon Stone | 6% | 26 - 27 | PokeRadar
|
|Nidorino | Poison | Moon Stone | 6% | 28 | PokeRadar
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
This is practically the same as Route 214 but it also contains wild
Girafarig
if you're looking to catch one of those, as well as higher levelled Pokemon
from Route 214. We won't be able to actually enter the lake by here for a
while
due to silly people blocking it for the 'good of humanity' or something,
but
it will become an important plot place later on. Pick up the Ultra Ball in
the
grass here, then keep going south to enter the hotel vicinity.
Grand Lake Hotel

-----------------
Items: PP Up, TM92 Trick Room, Suite Key
Trainers' Pokemon: Various, including Pichu, Quagsire, Pachirisu,
Magnemite,
Kirlia, Mr. Mime, Lickitung, Cleffa, Clefairy, Machoke, Chingling, Buneary,
Bronzor, Finneon and Rhyhorn with levels 24-31, most commonly about 26.
Talk to the beauty waiting outside the house here to learn that she has
lost
her house key. We'll get to that in a minute; the path to the right leads
to
Sunyshore City but we cannot get there for a very long time yet. Head to
the
left and enter the bigger building.
This is the restaurant, comprised of double battle fights that change every
day, so it is hard to really get a proper record of what Pokemon appear
here.
It's alright if you want some experience but personally I usually just
don't
bother with it. I did this for my Houndoom but eh.
If you enter the house to the far left you will find the Game Freak
employee
of this game, and I assume this is the guy who will give you a "diploma" if
you
manage to get 493 Pokemon seen in your PokeDex (though it may well be 490
since
it tends to cut out some of the hard to get Pokemon like Darkrai, Celebi
and
such. In fact, it may actually be even less. If I recall correctly, you got
a diploma in RSE for having a specific 382 out of the 386 Pokemon.
FLameslash
confirms that seeing the guy having your National Dex complete (as in seen
all
of the Pokemon rather than caught) will allow you to view a diploma, saying
you
have made a recognizable achievement in Sinnoh. That's fine and all, but
where
is the actual reward?!
Going down the stairs here will allow you to get a PP Up. It may
technically be
in Route 213 but it is still behind the tree border. Go into the house on
the
lower tier to the left and talk to the clown inside to get a TM92, Trick
Room.
The house to the right contains no items but it does have a refernce to
Johto's
weekly Clefairy dance in it, which is quite nice. That is all we can do in
the
area for now, so head into the Gatehouse. We'll come back and get some
stuff
later once you get Rock Climb.
When you go into the gatehouse, exit it, walk one step forward, then face
left
and press A to pick up the Suite Key. Go back and talk to the girl locked
outside the door, then enter her house and talk to her to get the White
Flute!
This flute basically attacks as a reverse repel of sorts; it increases the
rate
of Pokemon encounters. It will never break either; it could prove quite
useful
if you want to increase the encounters for some reason.
Now we're ready to exit the hotel area. Head down into the gatehouse.
===========================================================================
====
[040] ROUTE 213
[MW040]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Yellow Shard, Pearl, Hyper Potion, TM40 Aerial Ace, Aguav Berry,
Rawst
Berry (x2), Iapapa Berry
Trainers' Pokemon: Marill L28, Shellos L25, Shellos L25, Shellos L26,
Remoraid
L25, Remoraid L25, Gyarados L28, Glameow L29
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Chatot | Normal/Flying | N/A | 20% | 23 - 25 | Grass
|
|Wingull | Water/Flying | Level 25 | 20% | 24 - 26 | Grass
|
|
|Shellos | Water | Level 30 | 35% | 23 - 26 | Grass
|
|Swellow | Normal/Flying | N/A | 12% | 21 - 24 | PokeRadar
|
|Tentacool | Water/Poison | Level 30 | 60% | 20 - 30 | Surf
|
|Wingull | Water/Flying | Level 25 | 30% | 20 - 30 | Surf
|
|Tentacruel| Water/Poison | N/A | 5% | 20 - 40 | Surf
|
|Shellos | Water | Level 30 | 4% | 20 - 30 | Surf
|
|Gastrodon | Water/Ground | N/A | 1% | 20 - 40 | Surf
|
OG |
|Remoraid | Water | Level 25 | 35% | 10 - 25 | Fishing G
|
|
|Octillery | Water | N/A | 35% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|Swellow | Normal/Flying | N/A | 12% | 21 - 24 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
In the gatehouse, you can talk to the guard here to heal your Pokemon like
a
Pokemon Center, except it is much quicker. When you exit the building,
collect
the Yellow Shard over to the left, then head down the steps. Use your
Poketch
and swap to the Dowsing Machine app, because we have a hidden item to find.
There is a hidden Pearl four steps away from the sea on the right hand
side,
and about three down from the raised rock. I thought this was the missing
hotel key when I was writing this, but it's worth mentioning >_>; I only
found
out the key was in the hotel area after I already wrote the stuff about the
Pearl. Heh. I've been told there are actually quite a few Pearls and things
around here if you use the Dowsing App. They're mostly around the beach
near
the entrance to the Resort, with the two swimmers.
Battle the two children here, one of whom has a sticker on their Marill,
the
other having an eastern Shellos which no trainers actually had back in
Diamond
and Pearl. Nice to see some variation now~ The Shellos trainer is also a
good
source for HP EVs later on in the game.
Head a bit to the left and ignore the fisherman by here since all he says
is
some dialogue. Go more left and talk to this fisherman here to enter a
battle.
Afterwards head up and into the house. If you talk to this guy with a max
happiness Pokemon at the front of your party, you will get an utterly
useless
'Footprint Ribbon'. At least it is some sort of reward.
Exit the house, go up and battle the beauty. Afterwards, go over to the
left
and break the rock. This passage contains a honey tree that you can slather
if you want to catch something on it. Also, if you go one step right from
the
right side of the bottom two tiles of the honey tree and press A, you will
get a hidden Hyper Potion on the ground.
Return to the beauty and this time go right and smash the rock. Pick up the
TM40 Aerial Ace here. That is all for now, so head up and left into
Pastoria
(though there are some berries you can pick too.)
===========================================================================
====
[041] PASTORIA CITY
[MW041]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Persim Berry (x2), Nanab Berry (x2), RANDOM Berry, Zinc, Macho Brace
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Head over to the Poke Center to begin with and heal up. Over to the right
of
the Pokemon Center is a billboard that has a Croagunk body you can put your
head into. Real pity you can't take an actual photo of that, heh. Would
be fun to have that in the background of your trainer card or something.
Anyway, if you go a little to the south you will see the Pastoria Gym,
which
we will be visiting in a little bit. Go a bit right and pick the berries.
If you enter the house below the mud patch you will find the Move Tutor's
house
and if you talk to the move tutor (the big guy) with a Heart Scale in your
ivnentory then he will teach one of your Pokemon a move they have
'forgotten'
(ie learned before in a level-up and have since lost it) in exchange for
the
Heart Scale. Once you get the National Dex you will be able to get Heart
Scales
in plenty of quantity and you can also find them in the Underground right
now.
It can be helpful for teaching some moves like Wood Hammer to Torterra and
such.
The Pokemart is a bit further to the south; I'll list the market choices
after
we finish the gym so the badge upgrades it. The shop also has a wooden
carving
of a Croagunk in it, which is quite fitting for the city. The bottom left
house
will give you a random berry. I got a Chilan Berry myself but I think you
can
get different ones too. The woman should give you a new berry every day.
There is also a parting in the fence in the southern end of Pastoria that
you
can enter for a little clearing and a puddle. If you use the Itemfinder you
can
find a Zinc that is pretty much right in the middle of the puddle.
I think in one of the houses to the north-east as well, there is a guy who
wants to see a female and male Combee. If you show him both (I'm not sure
if
they have to be in your party at the same time or not, but go ahead and do
that
just to be safe) he will give you a Macho Brace, a good item if you're into
competitive battling.
That is everything in the main part of Pastoria. Next, we will enter the
Great
Marsh. Head up to the top and enter the building. Ignore the Galactic Grunt
outside for the time being.
===========================================================================
====
[042] GREAT MARSH
[MW042]
===========================================================================
====
Entrance
------------
Items: Matchup Checker App
The entrance to the marsh is a cosy little base with two floors. The first
floor is the one you must go through to get into the marsh while the second
floor contains telescopes that let you see a choice of five Pokemon each,
including one or two of the Pokemon that only appear on a certain day of
the
week. The telescopes cost $100 to use and will show you five Pokemon in the
different areas of the marsh each time.
On the downstairs floor, you will probably notice the cowgirl by the desk.
If
you catch five or more Pokemon in the marsh (same or different), she will
give
you the Matchup Checker App when you come out, that lets you see if two
Pokemon
are breeding compatible. For example, put a Skitty and Wailord in the
breeding
center, touch the button and the Luvdisc should kiss, showing they can
breed.
Lovely HSOWA. It shows three levels - basically you ahve different Pokemon
in
the same breeding group, the same species of Pokemon owned by the same ID,
and two Pokemon of the same species with differing IDs. The latter is the
most
effective and the quickest to produce an egg, usually.
When you're ready, enter the Marsh for the cheap price of $500.
Area 1 & 2
------------
Items: Red Shard, Yellow Shard, Poke Ball, Blue Shard, Toxic Plate
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Wooper | Water/Ground | Level 20 | 45% | 28 - 30 | Marsh
|
|Quagsire | Water/Ground | N/A | 10% | 30 | Marsh
|
|Tropius** | Grass/Flying | N/A | 20% | 28 - 30 | Marsh
|
|Yanma | Bug/Flying |LvlUp+AncintPwr| 5% | 30 - 31 | Marsh
|
|Tangela | Grass |LvlUp+AncintPwr| 5% | 30 - 31 | Marsh
|
|Bibarel | Normal/Water | N/A | 20% | 28 | Marsh
|
|Noctowl** | Normal/Flying | N/A | 20% | 28 - 30 | Marsh
|
|Arbok | Poison | N/A | 8% | 30 | Marsh FR
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
** Tropius is 0% at Night and Noctowl is 0% at Morning/Day.
We've got 30 balls to use and exactly 500 steps to spend. You may need to
come
back in here more than once to pick up all of the items in here. If you
talk
to the green haired Ace Trainer over to the right, then you can get a Red
Shard. First we'll head over into Area 1; go to the train and take it up to
Area 1 which is at the very top of the marsh. Once you get off the train,
head
over to the left. Head into the swampy part on the left side here and
follow
the grass trail. Basically in the marsh, if you step into the part of the
pond
that is not lightly coloured then you will probably get stuck in the mud.
It
isn't quite as fun as the game was, unfortunately :/
Follow the trail up until you get some solid land and pick up the Yellow
Shard on the ground here. Then follow the upper grass trail, get onto the
light path in the swamp water when you get the chance, and keep going until
you get to the right side where a Poke Ball is lying. How lovely.
Follow the grass path over again to the island that the Ruin Maniac is on,
then go across and head back up north to where the train is. Cross the
bridge
on the train track to get into Area 2.
Go over the right to where the parasol lady is. Follow the grass trail
around
and pick up the Blue Shard. That is really all in Areas 1 and 2.
Or at least it would be, but thanks to one reader with an alias of Myrrar,
the
location of the Toxic Plate is now revealed! To quote from the e-mail I was
sent regarding this, with a slight correction regarding the area;
"In Area 2, by the parasol lady. Look for the stump immediately to her
right.
The stump takes up 4 tiles, so stand 2 squares north of the northeast tile
of
the stump and face north. Hit A and use the Dowsing App and you will see
it.
It's in the dark water that is just north of the grass. Stand in the grass
facing north and press A." - Thank you very much for this!
Take the train to Area 4 afterwards.
Area 3 & 4
------------
Items: Poke Ball
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Yanma | Bug/Flying |LvlUp+AncintPwr| 5% | 29 - 30 | Marsh
|
|Tangela** | Grass |LvlUp+AncintPwr| 25% | 27 - 30 | Marsh
|
|Bibarel** | Normal/Water | N/A | 30% | 27 - 28 | Marsh
|
|Noctowl** | Normal/Flying | N/A | 10% | 28 | Marsh
|
|Hoothoot**| Normal/Flying | Level 20 | 10% | 27 | Marsh
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
** Tangela and Bibarel are 15% and 20% respectively at Night and Hoothoot
and
Noctowl are 0% at Morning/Day.
Area 3 doesn't actually have any items, so it's easier to just go into Area
4.
Go to the right and pick up the Poke Ball on the ground. Truth be told that
is
all that is in these two areas. Go on the train and head to Area 6.
Area 5 & 6
------------
Items: Red Shard, Great Ball
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Yanma** | Bug/Flying |LvlUp+AncintPwr| 25% | 29 - 30 | Marsh
|
|Tangela | Grass |LvlUp+AncintPwr| 5% | 27 - 30 | Marsh
|
|Bibarel** | Normal/Water | N/A | 30% | 27 - 28 | Marsh
|
|Hoothoot**| Normal/Flying | Level 20 | 20% | 27 | Marsh
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
** Yanma and Bibarel are 15% and 20% respectively at Night while Hoothoot
is
0% at Morning/Day.
When you get off the train, go past the green Ace Trainer to the right and
across the marsh and pick up the Red Shard. Head back to the train and this
time, go to the left into Area 5.
Follow the path and pick up the Great Ball. That is all for the Great
Marsh.
Leave the marsh when you're ready.
Located in All Areas

---------------------
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Wooper | Water/Ground | Level 20 | 90% | 20 - 30 | Surf
|
|Quagsire | Water/Ground | N/A | 10% | 20 - 40 | Surf
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Carvanha | Water/Dark | Level 30 | 30% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Binocular Pokemon In Areas

----------------------------
One or two of these Pokemon will appear once a day at random in any area.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Roselia | Grass/Poison | Shiny Stone | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Staravia | Normal/Flying | Level 34 | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Skorupi | Poison/Bug | Level 40 | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Drapion | Poison/Dark | N/A | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Croagunk | Poison/Fighting | Level 37 | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Toxicroak | Poison/Fighting | N/A | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Carnivine | Grass | N/A | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
| THESE POKEMON APPEAR IN THE MARSH RANDOMLY AFTER YOU GET THE NATIONAL
DEX |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
|Paras | Grass/Bug | Level 24 | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Exeggcute | Grass/Psychic | Leaf Stone | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Kangaskhan| Normal | N/A | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Shroomish | Grass | Level 23 | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Kecleon | Normal | N/A | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
|Gulpin | Poison | Level 26 | 10% | 20 - 26 | Marsh
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Pastoria City
---------------------
Head for the gym in the western part of Pastoria. However, before you
enter,
your rival will show up again! This time you have to battle.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Houndoom Lv. 31 |
| :: Rotom Lv. 34 |
| :: Staraptor Lv. 34 |
o-----------------------o
[ RIVAL BATTLE #4 ]
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Prinplup Male Lv. 36 EXP: 1103 |
o-----------------------------------------o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Grotle Male Lv. 36 EXP: 1087 |
o---------------------------------------- o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Monferno Male Lv. 36 EXP: 1095 |
o-----------------------------------------o
REWARDS: $3600
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Yeah, the levels have gone up pretty sharply here. Thankfully he hasn't
evolved
his Pokemon yet, depsite having at least three that can (counting the fact
Roselia evolves with a stone.) Strongest attacks, yada yada. Nothing too
hard.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Afterwards, heal if need be and go into the gym.

===========================================================================
====
[043] PASTORIA GYM
[MW043]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM55 Brine, Fen Badge
Trainers' Pokemon: Bibarel L32, Whiscash L33, Wingull L31, Pelipper L31,
Azurill L27, Azumarill L31, Marill L29, Goldeen L28, Gyarados L31, Seaking
L31,
Wingull L29, Shellos L30, Golduck L31
If you wish you can go into Route 212 first to train a bit, but I'll be
writing
this gym as though we're doing it now.
Pastoria's puzzle is the same as it was in Diamond and Pearl and it is

still
a little annoying - not for difficulty, but the water takes ages to drain
out.
Anyway, go down the steps, left etcetera and stand on the first yellow
button
you come across to drain the water. Face the tuber here (optional, though)
Go down, ignore the green button and take the passage through to the next
rised
part. Battle the fisherman (again, optional) and hit the green button to
add
more water to the gym. Go back down the stairs again and follow the now
changed
pathway to another raised part, and battle the sailor here. Now, press the
blue
button to raise the water level even further, and take the new path around,
ignoring the yellow button on the way.
Battle the girl tuber, go further up, battle the fisherman if you wish,
then
press the green button. Take the southern stairs down to the other side,
press
the yellow button at the end rather than the one on the side, then go back
up
the same stairs and this time go down the other stairs and follow the path
around, go up the stairs and fight the compulsory sailor.
Press the last blue button and now you can get to Crasher Wake! Save and
talk
to him to start the fifth gym battle of the game.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 35 |
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER CRASHER WAKE ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Fen Badge! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Gyarados Male Lv. 33 EXP: 1512|
| :: Quagsire Male Lv. 34 EXP: 997 |
| :: Floatzel Male Lv. 37 EXP: 1410| - @Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $4440, Fen Badge, TM55 Brine
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Personally I had the perfect team for this because of Gardevoir's Magical
Leaf and Rotom's Shock Wave, but this gym battle can actually be quite hard
if
you're not prepared. While Crasher Wake has the same Pokemon as in D/P,
they
are several levels higher.
Gyarados actually has Physical attacks now, including Waterfall. Having an

electric type move will make it MUCH easier to take it out, but otherwise
you
shall just have to improvise. If you have a rock-type attack that will also
work, but be warned that Waterfall will likely OHKO any Rock/Ground types
due
to the 4x effective bonus.
Quagsire isn't too much of a threat, but the main thing to be wary of is
that
it is a dual typed Pokemon, being Water and _Ground_. This means it has no
weaknesses apart from Grass, to which it is quadruple weak to. Electric
attacks
have no effect on it whatsoever, and Electric-types that don't avoid Ground
attacks (ie not Rotom) can be killed in an instant by powerful Ground
attacks.
If you have a Grass move such as Magical Leaf or just a
Roselia/Grotle/Torterra
use that. Otherwise beat it down normally.
Floatzel is _fast_. Be warned that it does have Crunch, a physical eighty

power
Dark-type move that can really damage your Ghost and Psychic-types.
Ironically
Floatzel doesn't give as much EXP as Gyarados, but it can be quite the
threat
if you're unprepared, especially considering its high level. It is
relatively
frail and shouldn't kill most of your Pokemon in one hit, but given a type
advantage it may well 2HKO your Pokemon. Hit it fast and hit it hard.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you beat Crasher Wake, you will receive the Fen Bedge, allowing you to
use
Surf. Exit the gym afterwards back into Pastoria.
Pastoria City
---------------
As soon as you exit the gym, your rival will come and tell you of an
occurence
that has happened, and Crasher Wake will come out too. Crasher Wake will
leave
and your rival will follow soon after. Go and heal and head over to the
Great
Marsh. You might notice your rival peeking in throug the Croagunk
billboard,
but he won't budge for the time being. Go and talk to Crasher Wake, then an
explosion will happen in the marsh, and the Galactic Grunt we saw earlier
will
come out of the Marsh and run off. Chase time! Head back towards Route 214,
talking to the grunt if you see him then following. By the way, the market
now sells the following things. Quick Balls are some helpful balls that
have
a very high capture rate when the battle first starts:-
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: Great Ball $600 | :: Dusk Ball $1000 |
| :: Ultra Ball $1200 | :: Quick Ball $1000 |
| :: Potion $300 | :: Nest Ball $1000 |
| :: Super Potion $700 | |
| :: Hyper Potion $1200 | |
| :: Revive $1500 | |
| :: Antidote $100 | |
| :: Awakening $250 | |
| :: Burn Heal $250 | |
| :: Ice Heal $250 | |
| :: Repel $350 | |
| :: Max Repel $700 | |
o-------------------------------------------------------------o
Route 212
-----------
CATCH THE PIGEON. CATCH THE PIGEON! Keep harassing him each time you see
him.
On the third time you talk to him, Looker will show up as well and
practically
join the chase. Thankfully, he stops at the gatehouse to the lake. Keep
going
up to Valour Lakefront.
Valour Lakefront
-----------------
Items: SecretPotion
Trainers' Pokemon: Croagunk L31
Talk to him once more on the hotel part to watch him scurry, then talk to
him
once more below and he will finally fight you (why, I have no idea.
Galactic
grunts are really stupid...) Finish the incredibly easy battle and the
grunt
will go off-screen. Then Cynthia appears. CYNTHIA IS ACTUALLY THE HEAD OF
TEAM
GALACTIC! WHAT A CONSPIRACY!
Nah, not really. Would have been funny though. Cynthia will talk to you a
bit
before you get interrupted by your rival, who dashes off seconds later.
Cynthia
will continue talking to you about the Psyduck on Route 210, and will then
give
you the SecretPotion to help fix the problem. Another Johto reference!
Cynthia
will leave afterwards.
Next in the story we go to Route 210 and then Celestic Town, meaning you
can
completely skip past Route 212. However it contains some very important
PokeDex
entries, as well as a mountain of experience. If you're following that part
of the walkthrough, fly back to Pastoria and exit through the southwest
part.
Otherwise, fly to Solaceon, go north and then go to section #47.
===========================================================================
====
[MW044]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Pinap Berry (x3), Pecha Berry, Dawn Stone, Revive, Hyper Potion,
Elixir,
TM06 Toxic, Big Mushroom, TM62 Silver Wind, Full Heal, Blue Shard
Trainers' Pokemon: Magnemite L30, Kadabra L26, Wooper L26, Quagsire L28,
Goldeen L27, Bibarel L27, Carnivine L28, Luxio L30, Gyarados L29, Goldeen
L27,
Goldeen L27, Barboach L24, Barboach L25, Barboach L25, Gyarados L26,
Umbreon
L27, Espeon L27, Hoothoot L26 (night), Machop L28 (night), Kadabra L30,
Marill
L29, Monferno L31, Leafeon L29
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Croagunk | Poison/Fighting | Level 37 | 10% | 24 - 25 | Grass
|
|
|
|Quagsire | Water/Ground | N/A | 30% | 24 - 26 | Grass
|
|
|Lombre | Water/Grass | Water Stone | 4% | 23 | Grass Sa
|
|Ekans | Poison | Level 22 | 8% | 23 - 26 | Grass FR
|
|Grimer | Poison | Level 38 | 12% | 24 - 26 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Unlike D/P we have to do this route in reverse pretty much. Go forward and
pick
the berries, then go back and up into the mud. Pull out your dowsing
machine,
and go to the very top left of the mud. Head one space to the right, face
downwards and press A to get a Dawn Stone! This will allow you to evolve
any
male Kirlia or later on, female Snorunt.
Go to the left and battle the Ace Trainer here, then pick up the Toxic TM
that you can find in a small square in the south-east of the large mud
square.
Then go under the wooden bridge and follow it to the end, where you can
pick
up a Revive on the floor.
Go back to where the berries were and cut down the tree, cross the bridge
and
pick up the Hyper Potion on the floor here. Battle the scientist with
magnets,
go a bit further west and battle the Parasol Lady, who should really use an
umbrella instead a parasol (though they are probably the same thing <:)
then
pick up the Zinc here. Jump off the ledge. If you haven't got Cut, just go
west through the mud patches.
Battle another parasol lady by the house then go into the mud by her. Pick
up
the Elixir on the land patch then turn back to where the Parasol Lady and
the
house were. Going through the mud was just for an Elixir. Uwee hee hee!
I wonder how many of you will get that reference.
The hiker in the house here is one of the three new Move Tutors in this
game.
For a certain shard price he will teach your Pokemon moves that they may be
able to learn, but you need the shards to pay him. It's worth it for some
of
the moves he can teach to your Pokemon though, most notably the elemental
punches. Lucario is pretty good with Ice Punch, for example.
Exit the house if you went in there and begin to cross the bridge. Fight
the
fisherman here then go north on the bridge and fight the fisherman there.
Go
further up, cut the tree, ascend the mount and take the southern bridge.
Don't
be fooled by this island - you can go behind the trees - do so and get to
an
island that is apparently empty. Hidden item! There is a Big Mushroom in
the
bottom left square by here. Pity it doesn't make your character super-sized
like it does in Mario.
From there head back to the last Fisherman you battled and this time take
the
lower path on the bridge. Battle this fisherman then the collector to the
left.
DO NOT MISS THIS COLLECTOR! This is the only place in the game you can see
Umbreon. The first time I played Platinum I took ages trying to find this
trainer... it is also the first time you get to see an Espeon but there is
a compulsory one much later on.
After that battle, go up the stairs and across the wooden bridge and pick
up
the TM62 Silver Wind on the floor. Go back down, to the left and up and go
around the lake, battling the Policeman if you're able (night only,
though.)
At the other end, take the non cut path and battle the scientist here. Pick
up the Full Heal, go north and pick up the Blue Shard. Then go to the right
and challenge the two trainers here to a double battle. One of the rangers
here has a Leafeon which you will want in your PokeDex for sure.
Afterwards,
go north into the sunny side of the route. Yay for the north.
===========================================================================
====
[MW045]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Elixir, TM11 Sunny Day, Aspear Berry, Sitrus Berry, Green Shard
Trainers' Pokemon: Hoothoot L25, Machop L25, Hoothoot L24, Machop L26,
Roselia L27, Chatot L27, Hoothoot L23, Machop L27, Prinplup L27, Cherubi
L27,
Hoothoot L26, Machop L24
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Kirlia | Psychic |DawnStone/Lvl30| 20% | 22 - 24 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Kirlia | Psychic |DawnStone/Lvl30| 10% | 23 & 24 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Pick up the Elixir behind the signpost then go through the patch of grass.
Go
to the left (we'll come back to the mansion in a minute) and cut the tree
here
then go through and pick up TM11, Sunny Day. Jump off the ledge and battle
the
policeman here if possible, go up further and battle the second policeman
here
if you can. Afterwards, head back down the route (you can go to Hearthome
and
heal if need be) and battle the old couple down here. This is the real
money
goldmine - one battle with either of these people will give you $5400,
meaning
with the VS Seeker and Amulet Coin you can potentially get a massive
$21,600
with each VS. Seeker use. This is the place to come for money.
Pick the berries growing here then head into the mansion walls. Battle the
officer if you can as usual, then go up and challenge the rich kids here to
a double battle (or singular if you would prefer), one of whom has a
sticker
on their Prinplup. Afterwards, enter the mansion, but not before picking up
the Green Shard to the right of the wall.
===========================================================================
====
[046] POKEMON MANSION/TROPHY GARDEN
[MW046]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Luxury Ball, Soothe Bell, Protein, TM87 Swagger, Infinite Rare
Candies
Trainers' Pokemon: Clefairy L25, Clefairy L27, Clefairy L29, Clefairy L31,
Clefairy L33, Blissry L35
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Pichu | Electric | Happiness | 30% | 21 - 22 | Grass
|
|Pikachu | Electric | Thunderstone | 10% | 22 - 24 | Grass
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
* More Pokemon will appear here after the Elite Four. Check the
appropriate *
* section in the aftermain walkthrough for details on this matter.
*
***************************************************************************
****
The mansion holds some important data for us. To begin with, go into the
left
corridor and talk to the maid to begin a series of battles with maids, much
like the Winston family were outside Mauville in R/S/E. There are five
battles
each with a Clefairy of rising level. I believe you can do this challenge
once
every day, though.
When you attempt it, the maid will give you a certain number of turns to do
the challenge in. This is the total turns for ALL five battles, so if she
says
"do it in five turns" then you need to finish off each Clefairy in one
turn.
If you do this, you will get to fight the owner of the mansion who has a
Blissey
he will fight you with. Saving before you attempt this is a good idea
because
the Clefairy tend to have Endure which can screw up the turn amount quite
considerably. You may need to waste extra turns by switching or such too.
As for the Infinite Rare Candies, if you bring a Pokemon with Covet or
Thief
and have it use that move on the Blissey in the battle with the owner, I
believe you get a Rare Candy, and this can be repeated once per day. This
appears to be true from what I've read, but apparently the Blissey also has
Fling, so STEAL THE RARE CANDY BEFORE IT GETS FLUNG AWAY!
Enter the far left room to get a free Luxury Ball, that causes a Pokemon to
get
much higher happiness ratings when it catches something so it is helpful
for
Pokemon that evolve from happiness like Chansey and Golbat, but they are
rare.
Sleep in the bed to recover if you wish, then go into the next room to the
right and talk to the maid in here to receive a second Soothe Bell. In the
third room to the right, check the bin to find a Protein, then leave. Go
across
the hallway to the corridor on the right and enter the only room in here.
Pick up the Swagger TM in the corner, then READ THE BOOK ON THE DESK. Make
sure
you say yes to read it and Manaphy's picture will show up, adding it to
your
PokeDex as seen - this is the only way to get it in there. That is all that
is
in the mansion for now, but if you like you can go outside the back to the
Trophy Garden where some Wild Pokemon are located, most notably Pikachu and
Pichu which so far have been unobtainable - until now.
Afterwards, fly to Solaceon Town, then go north into Route 210. It will be
very helpful if you bring along a Pokemon that knows Defog.
===========================================================================
====
[MW047]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Max Repel, Hyper Potion, Nest Ball, Red Shard, TM30 Shadow Ball,
Smoke
Ball, Sitrus Berry, Chesto Berry, Wiki Berry, Aguav Berry
Trainers' Pokemon: Croagunk L31, Stunky L33, Zubat L30, Skorupi L32, Zubat
L29,
Skorupi L29, Golbat L29, Stunky L29, Aipom L32, Grotle L33, Girafarig L32,
Gyarados L36, Raichu L36, Scyther L32, Luxio L34, Probopass L31, Mothim
L33,
Machoke L34, Stunky L31, Golbat L31, Hoothoot L31, Noctowl L33, Tangela
L32,
Buizel L32, Ponyta L32
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Swablu | Normal/Flying | Level 35 | 20% | 27 | Grass
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|Bibarel | Normal/Water | N/A | 20% | 28 | Grass
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|Machoke | Fighting | Trade | 10% | 29 - 30 | Grass
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|Bagon | Dragon | Level 30 | 12% | 14 - 16 | PokeRadar
|
|Zangoose | Normal | N/A | 8% | 29 - 30 | Grass Ru
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|Seviper | Poison | N/A | 8% | 29 - 30 | Grass Sa
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OG |
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Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
In southern Route 210, just talk to the Psyduck to use the SecretPotion
causing
them to scatter and flee. Go over to the left and go through the grass to
pick
up a Max Repel, then go through the grass by here normally. This part of
the
route is still the southern part, but we will be in the north soon enough.
There are a few ninja boys hiding in the grass; battle them if you wish.
Pick
up the Hyper Potion in the clearing, too. There are three ninja boys - one
in
the center, one to the east of the long grass and one in the west. When
you're
ready, continue upward. Go through the right grass patch here to pick up a
Nest Ball, then go upwards.
You'll know you're in the north when the fog rolls in. If you have Defog on
you
use it now. It isn't required but having Fog in every battle will result in
the
accuarcy of all of your moves being decreased which can really be a pain.
Either way, go up and challenge the ninja boy here. Next, go through the
grass
rather than the cut path to get a Red Shard (note you can catch Swablu in
this
route!) then battle the Ace Trainer here.
Go up the mountain and do the double battle here which adds Raichu to your
PokeDex. Go further up to come into contact with another Ace Trainer here.
Note that the Rock Climb path right next to you leads to the Draco Meteor
house
where you can teach any dragon Pokemon the move Draco Meteor if they're
happy
enough. Finish off the Ace Trainer to add the sexy Probopass to your
PokeDex
then continue to the west. Go across the thin bridge and battle the ninja
boy
at the other end then continue south, break the rocks and pick up your
prize
of TM30, Shadow Ball.
Return to the split road and take the thick bridge this time, having a
forced
battle with the fighter here. Go down, head to the right and battle the
Ninja
Boy then claim the Smoke Ball on the ground, allowing you to run away from
any
Wild Pokemon without problems.
Head back west, battle the Bird Keeper, continue west and battle the
Veteran
here. Head up the northern stairs and pick the berries, then take the
western
stairs up and into Celestic Town.
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====
[048] CELESTIC TOWN
[MW048]
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====
Items: Dragon Fang, King's Rock
Trainers' Pokemon: Houndour L32, Golbat L30
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Magikarp* | Water | Level 20 | 65% | 3 - 15 | Fishing OG
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|Corphish | Water | Level 30 | 30% | 30 - 40 | Fishing S
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|Crawdaunt | Water/Dark | N/A | 5% | 40 - 55 | Fishing S
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
A quiet little village. Go in the Pokemon Center and heal, then exit. If
you
want to do some shopping, visit the top left house in Celestic; the stock
is
identical to what it was in Pastoria with the exception that the Dusk Balls
have been replaced by Timer Balls. When you're ready to battle, head down
the
center and talk to the Galactic grunt blocking the cave entrance to start a
fight when you say Yes to his question. After you beat him, the elder will
come
and talk to you and you'll automatically give her the Old Charm. First, go
over
to the right steps and climb them and pick up the Dragon Fang on the
ground,
then go into the ruins. Note that one reader (Andrew L.) has found a hidden
King's Rock on the ledge directly opposite the Dragon Fang. Use the Dowsing
App
to find it. A second reader known has Shane L. has also found it, so I'm
quite
sure it is there.
Inspect the painting by pressing A on it and the elder will come to you and
comment on it herself. All of a sudden, Cyrus will appear, and after some
more
dialogue he will actually attack you!
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 36 |
| :: Empoleon Lv. 36 |
o-----------------------o
[ GALACTIC BOSS CYRUS ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Protect the Celestic Ruins! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Sneasel Male Lv. 34 EXP: 961 |
| :: Golbat Male Lv. 34 EXP: 1245|
| :: Murkrow Male Lv. 36 EXP: 825 | - @ Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $6480
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Ah, I love the music in the Galactic Boss battles. I wish you got to hear
it
more than three times, really.
Be wary of Sneasel - it has Ice Punch, and running off its high Attack stat
as well as the Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB) it can be quite frail. A
single
super-effective attack should off it however as it is very frail. Using
Close
Combat from Staraptor or something would be a good idea if you have one.
Golbat is just an normal Golbat. Shoot it down with a well placed Electric,
Rock, Ice or Psychic attack, or just attack it normally. It's barely a
threat.
Murkrow rounds off Cyrus' team with a Dark/Flying typing. It is incredily

frail
but also quite fast and it has a Sitrus Berry to use. It is equipped with
Night Shade allowing it to deal 36 HP damage to anything it hits, but at
this
point in the game the majority of your Pokemon will likely have upwards of
100
HP total. Just faint the Murkrow ASAP. Cyrus does have a Hyper Potion as
well
which he will use if his Murkrow ends up in lower yellow or red health.
Murkrow
also has Astonish which can possibly flinch, but it is a very weak Ghost-
type
attack. It shouldn't be much of a problem. It also has Faint Attack as its
main arsenal, working off STAB and it will do plenty to your Psychic-type
Pokemon.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After you finish the battle, Cyrus will disappear and the elder of Celestic
Town will give you HM03 - Surf! Now there are a few more places we can
explore
around Sinnoh to get some extra items and such. But first, go outside, talk
to Cynthia, heal up and then head out of Celestic Town via the west exit.
===========================================================================
====
[049] ROUTE 211 WEST
[MW049]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Pecha Berry, Aspear Berry, Iapapa Berry, Grepa Berry, TM77 Psych Up,
Carbos
Trainers' Pokemon: Croagunk L31, Meditite L31, Machoke L31, Skorupi L32,
Croagunk L30, Bronzor L28, Bronzor L30, Bronzor L32, Noctowl L34
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|Graveler | Rock/Ground | Trade | 20% | 28 | Grass
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Pick the berries near the entrance to the route, then head through the
grass.
Claim the Carbos lying in the grass, then fight the Blackbelt walking
below.
Ascend the mountain and battle the hidden ninja boy here. Next, battle the
Ruin
Maniac, jolly as always. Break the rocks at the top to get around (since we
don't have Strength yet) and battle the Bird Keeper by here.
Talk to the guy looking over the mountaintop to get TM77, Psych Up. After
that,
enter Mt. Coronet.
Mt Coronet Route 211 West Entrance

-----------------------------------
Items: Escape Rope
We cannot actually go too far yet because we still lack Strength, but if
you
go down from the entrance you can get an Escape Rope. That is all that we
can
get in this part for now; exit the mountain.
Item Collection
---------------
Items: Protein, Dawn Stone, TM31 Brick Break, Iron, Rose Incense, TM84
Poison
Jab, Mystic Water, Odd Keystone, Electrizer, TM24 Thunderbolt, Water Stone,
Big Pearl, Max Revive, Rare Candy, TM03 Water Pulse, Luck Incense, TM19
Giga
Drain
Trainers' Pokemon: Riolu L34, Graveler L34, Staraptor L34, Psyduck L31,
Azumarill L35, Tentacool L31, Pelipper L31, Machoke L34, Golduck L32,
Golduck L34, Finneon L31, Pelipper L33, Gyarados L32, Gyarados L32,
Gyarados L32
Now to get some items. First, fly to Oreburgh City. Go up into Route 207
and
enter Mt. Coronet. Surf across the top part and collect a Protein, then
jump
off the ledge and cross the raised rock here. Go atop the other stairs and
Surf across this too and pick up the Dawn Stone, then exit the cave
afterwards.
Go back into Oreburgh and this time head for Oreburgh Gate. Descend to the
bottom floor and go to the far west, using your bike to go over the two
ramps
on the bottom floor. Pick up the TM31 Brick Break on the floor here, then
begin
Surfing on the water. Surf over to the left side and fight the Expert,
adding
Riolu and Staraptor to your PokeDex, then... we have to leave. Damn boulder
needing Strength. Argh.
Exit Oreburgh Gate and fly to Hearthome. Take the south-western exit into
Route
212 and Surf across the water that is in a straight line from the gatehouse
and
collect the Iron on the other side.
Surf across the water near the old couple as well and collect the
previously
unobtainable Rose Incense that is there, allowing you to breed for Budew.
If you go to southern 212, Surf on the water by the Policeman and the
wooden
bridges and get on the small island to pick up TM84, Poison Jab.
Fly to Veilstone, go into Route 214 and Surf across the water on the right
to
reach a Rare Candy.
Fly to Pastoria and Surf across the water to reach an alcove with a Mystic
Water lying on the floor.
Fly to Twinleaf, get your Dowsing Rod out, and Surf on the water. If you go
on the far left side of the water, two squares away from the top and press
A on
the tree, you will get an Odd Keystone.
Fly to Pastoria, and head out to Route 213. Start Surfing on the water.
There
is a way in to the bottom area just south of the part of the sea facing
the southern end of the large cliff in the middle of the route. There's a
few
swimmers to face in here. Get on the shallow land when you come across it
and rather than go through the gap in the rocks and reach a dead end, go up
from where the sailor is and begin to Surf on the upper part of the water.
Battle/evade the swimmers and pick up the Water Stone on the shallow land.
If you Surf a bit further down, you can hop on and off on the shallow
island
below and get to the center of the shallow island. Do so and press a on the
bottom left point of the triangle formed by the rocks to get a Big Pearl.
Afterwards, go back to the left side of the shallow water island, sidle
between
the rock slab and the rock wall that looks impenetrable but really isn't
and
fight the swimmers if need be. Grab the Max Revive on the shallow island
here.
Fly to Floaroma and head south into Route 204 and keep going until you
reach
the Ravaged Path. Break the rocks and go over to the left side of the area
and Surf, then keep following the water path over to the far right. Jump
off,
collect the TM03 Water Pulse, then get back on the water, follow the path
back but this time get off at the left. Go through the passage here,
breaking
any rocks along the way that you need to and collect the Luck Incense at
the
end, allowing you to breed Happiny. Exit the area afterwards.
Fly back to Floaroma again. Go into Route 205, get on the bridge, Surf to
the
right part of the water - behind the Valley Windworks. Pick up the
Electrizer
here, then Surf further onto the very back island and pick up the
Thunderbolt
TM! That is all for now; we will be able to get some more stuff later once
we get Strength and Waterfall.
If you fly to Solaceon and go down into Route 209, you can also Surf across
some water by there to reach TM19, Giga Drain.
Go back onto the bridge you sailed to Valley Windworks from and this time
head
left. Follow the water up until you enter a place called 'Fuego Ironworks'.
By the way, you can actually do Routes 219, 220 and 221 now, if you wish.
For
more information on them, see the section in the second part of the
walkthrough
for they are completely unrequired, honestly.
===========================================================================
====
[050] FUEGO IRONWORKS
[MW050]
===========================================================================
====
Fuego Ironworks Outside
------------------------
Items: Sitrus Berry, Wepear Berry (x4), Kelpsy Berry
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Magmar | Fire |Trade+Magmarizr| 30% | 28 - 29 | Grass
|
|Magnemite | Electric/Steel | Level 30 | 30% | 28 - 30 | Grass
|
|Floatzel | Water | N/A | 25% | 29 - 31 | Grass
|
|Gastrodon | Water/Ground | N/A | 15% | 30 - 31 | Grass
|
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|
OG |
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Magmar | Fire |Trade+Magmarizr| 20% | 29 | Grass
|
|Magnemite | Electric/Steel | Level 30 | 30% | 28 - 30 | Grass
|
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|
OG |
|
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|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Nothing much on the outside, but the most notable thing is your ability to
get
both Magmar and Magnemite, both of which are new Pokemon in Sinnoh for
Plat.
Magnemite users who get a 29 to 30 level Magnemite will be able to evolve
it
into a Magnezone within two levels; one to evolve it into Magneton and
another
level-up in Mt. Coronet somewhere to get it to evolve into a Magnezone.
Magmar
can also be evolved now since we picked up the Magmarizer earlier, so do
not
hestiate to use them if you want to!
Pick up the berries to the left side, then go through the grass and enter
the
Ironworks.
Fuego Ironworks Inside
------------------------
Items: Yellow Shard, Calcium, Blue Shard, Fire Stone, Green Shard, Rock
Incense
TM35 Flamethrower, Star Piece, Red Shard
Trainers' Pokemon: Machop L33, Machoke L33, Magnemite L32, Magnemite L32,
Magnemite L32, Magmar L35
To begin with, head to the left and take the first teleporter. Evade the
one
that you end up right above and go around, entering the gap presented to
you
next to another teleporter. Pick up the Yellow Shard in this alcove, then
exit
the alcove and head around and take the teleporter on the left hand side.
Talk
to the Worker here to initiate a battle. Afterwards, go south-east and take
the
teleporter that goes up, then pick up the Calcium in this square.
Go up and take the teleporter up above that goes to the left, then circle
and
this time take the teleporter going to the right instead of the one going
up.
Battle the Worker in the place you arrive, and then afterwards take the
arrow
going to the right in the top right corner.
Follow this path around then pick up the Blue Shard you arrive next to.
Then
go back up the passage you just came through but go to the right and take
the
right arrow. Pick up the now accessible Fire Stone, then take the left
going
arrow, break out of the corridor and head around up to the dead end where a
Green Shard is located.
Go back around and take the same right arrow and this time take the arrow
going
down over to the right. Take the top arrow of three here and fight the
worker
you end up next to. Go back and navigate around the panels to get to the
Rock
Incense for Bonsly. Pick it up, then go back into the alcove that the
worker
was in and take the arrow on the other end to reach the center of the
factory.
Talk to the guy inside to receive a Star Piece, and pick up the
Flamethrower
TM next to the fire thingy..? Take the teleporter down, then go left, take
that
teleporter, circle around, take the left one, go to the right, take the
panel
going to the right and when you get to the alcove with the worker, take the
path down and collect the Red Shard against the wall. Take the down arrow
right next to it and exit the Ironworks.
Note that apparently there is a Star Piece -> Shard trade going on in here,
but I don't know the exact details. Either way, try to avoid selling your
Star
Pieces since the shards are very useful for the move tutors!
Then go down and Surf across the river into Floaroma Meadow.
Floaroma Meadow
----------------
Items: Miracle Seed, Leaf Stone, Ultra Ball, Honey, Rare Candy, Max Revive
PP Up
Head straight down when you enter and pick up the Leaf Stone in the middle
of
the flowers. Then go over to the top left and pick up the Miracle Seed. The
middle left holds an Ultra Ball to get and there is a Rare Candy in the
bottom
left. There is also a hidden Max Revive right in the center of the meadow;
use your Dowsing Machine App to pinpoint it. In addition, there is a hidden
honey if you stand where the Ultra Ball was, then go five steps right,
three
steps up and press A, as one reader has found.
AND there is a PP Up hidden above the Max Revive, which you can also use
your
Dowsing App to find, as has said one reader.
Afterwards, fly to Jubilife City.
Jubilife City
--------------
Heal if needed, then head to the top left exit of the city. Cross through
to
Route 218.
===========================================================================
====
[051] ROUTE 218
[MW051]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Rare Candy, Rawst Berry, Persim Berry, Figy Berry, Pinap Berry (x2),
Hyper Potion
Trainers' Pokemon: Mantyke L32, Machoke L34, Kricketune L33, Magnemite L33,
Remoraid L29, Remoraid L29, Remoraid L30, Remoraid L31, Gyarados L31,
Gyarados L33, Gyarados L33
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Mr. Mime | Psychic | N/A | 25% | 29 - 31 | Grass
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|Chatot | Normal/Flying | N/A | 25% | 28 - 30 | Grass
|
|Voltorb | Electric | Level 30 | 40% | 28 - 29 | Swarm
|
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OG |
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Mr. Mime | Psychic | N/A | 25% | 29 - 31 | Grass
|
|
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|Voltorb | Electric | Level 30 | 40% | 28 - 29 | Swarm
|
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|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Now that we have Surf, we can explore this route much more fully. Use Surf
to
get on the water then sail over to the right and pick up the Rare Candy on
this
small piece of land. Next, Surf over to the left until you reach land and
battle the sailor by here to add Mantyke to your PokeDex. Go a bit further
down
and battle the Guitarist by here who has a Magnemite with some nice
stickers.
Pick the berries over to the right, then go over to the water and Surf but
do
it below the rocks so that you can reach an island over to the right with
two
Fishermen. Battle them both, then Surf around them and grab the Hyper
Potion
sitting on the island. Go back to the main land, and enter the gatehouse
into
Canalave.
Inside, one of Rowan's assistants will talk to you and give you an upgrade
to your PokeDex, allowing you to see different forms of Pokemon (ie the
three
Burmy and Wormadam forms). It also shows both male and female versions.
Anyway,
go throug the left side of the gatehouse into Canalave City.
===========================================================================
====
[052] CANALAVE CITY
[MW052]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM48 Skill Swap, TM89 U-Turn
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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OG |
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|Staryu | Water | Water Stone | 5% | 20 - 50 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Whew, about time we got here. I love the music in this city so much <3 Pity
the
bike overrides the music. Go into the first house you see and talk to the
green haired woman to receive TM48, Skill Swap. I'll show the PokeMart
later
as usual; the Poke Center is at the top of the right hand side. DO NOT
CROSS
THE BRIDGE BEFORE HEALING, OR YOU WILL REGRET IT.
The third building up on the right side, including the PokeMart, has the
Move
Deleter in it, a person who can remove any move your Pokemon has learned
which
includes HM moves, so it is useful if you want to get rid of a move like
Defog
or something.
Heal in the Pokemon Center, save if you wish, then head across the bridge.
What
a surprise - your rival appears! He'll battle you again, and this time he
does
have evolved Pokemon...
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 38 |
o-----------------------o
[ RIVAL BATTLE #5 ]
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Staraptor Male Lv. 36 EXP: 1326 |
| :: Heracross Male Lv. 37 EXP: 1585 |
| :: Roserade Male Lv. 35 EXP: 1530 |
| :: Rapidash Male Lv. 35 EXP: 1440 |
| :: Empoleon Male Lv. 38 EXP: 1710 |
o-----------------------------------------o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Floatzel Male Lv. 35 EXP: 1335 |
| :: Torterra Male Lv. 38 EXP: 1693 |
o---------------------------------------- o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Infernape Male Lv. 38 EXP: 1701 |
o-----------------------------------------o
REWARDS: $3800
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
While the rival's levels haven't rised much from Pastoria, the actual
Pokemon
have had their stats raised a fair bit because of the evolutionary process
they
have all undergone; even Ponyta, who normally doesn't evolve until Level
40.
I wonder why they made Ponyta evolve so late, anyway... Also, does the
music
that plays when you load the Platinum title screen with Giratina on it
sound
like Metroid music to you? Or is it just me?
Talk about going on a tangent. Anyway, Staraptor is fairly frail but watch
out
for Intimidate which will weaken the first attacker to face it. It doesn't
have
any particuarly strong moves (it may have Close Combat, I'm not sure) and
it is
practically guaranteed to die in two hits at most to any Super-effective

attack
because it has such awful defenses, especially Special Defense with only a
very
small 50 base.
Heracross also dies quite easily. Using a Psychic or Fire attack on

Heracross
will yield good results; using a Flying move on it will practically yield
an
instant kill, because Heracross has a quadruple weakness to Flying moves.
Be
warned that it has high attack power, so you do not want it to be able to
hurt
your Pokemon! Take it out ASAP.
None of Floatzel, Roserade or Rapidash are particuarly troublesome, either.

Floatzel and Rapidash can be quite fast and Roserade has high Special
Attack
power, but all three of them are very frail. Type match or whack them with
a
strong attack to watch them crumple easily.
The starter is probably the hardest one here. It matched my own starter
level
for level, but since I had Empoleon I just used Blizzard. Heh. Infernape is
fairly frail but fast; use a strong attack to take it out quickly. Empoleon
is part Steel, so don't expect a large amount of attacks to pierce it;
however
Electric attacks will work like a charm, as will Ground attacks as well as
Fighting attacks. Pitting Infernape against Empoleon might not be such a
bad
idea as Close Combat will likely OHKO it, and likewise if you use
Earthquake
with Torterra on Infernape or have Empoleon smack Torterra with a Blizzard
(it
has a quadruple ice weak, being Grass/Ground!) It doesn't take much to
kill.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Your rival will leave afterwards. While we can actually do the gym now,
I'll
be taking you to Iron Island. Enjoy?
Heal up at the Pokemon Center, then go down to the port. Rather than
talking
to the sailor, choose to Surf off the wooden part and Surf downwards into a
hidden path with TM89 U-Turn at the end. Then go back to the port, and talk
to the sailor. Choose to set out for Iron Island. By the way, you will want
a
spare slot in your party for this trip. You can leave any HM Slaves in the
PC
because you will not need to use any HM moves to complete Iron Island...
===========================================================================
====
[053] IRON ISLAND
[MW053]
===========================================================================
====
Outside
---------
Items: HM04 Strength
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Wingull | Water/Flying | Level 25 | 30% | 20 - 30 | Surfing
|
|
|Pelipper | Water/Flying | N/A | 9% | 20 - 40 | Surfing
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Qwilfish | Water/Poison | N/A | 5% | 20 - 50 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Welcome to Iron Island. If I were you, I wouldn't catch anything during our
stay here unless it is a shiny or something, since we will be needing the
spare
slot at the end of this dungeon. You can catch stuff afterwards, though.
Ride up the stairs (ignore the house for now) and talk to Riley at the
entrance
of Iron Island to receive HM04, Strength. Riley will go into Iron Island
after
that; follow him.
Floor 1F
---------
Items: N/A
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Floor |
|Graveler | Rock/Ground | Trade | 35% | 31 - 34 | Cave Floor
|
|Zubat | Poison/Flying | Level 22 | 10% | 30 | Cave
Floor |
|Golbat | Poison/Flying | Happiness | 10% | 30 - 33 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Nothing on this floor. Head down the left stairs for the time being.
Floor 1F [Left]
---------------
Items: Yellow Shard, Protector
Trainers' Pokemon: Aipom L34, Floatzel L36
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
Floor |
Floor |
|Mawile | Steel | N/A | 8% | 30 - 31 | CaveFlr Ru
|
|Sableye | Ghost/Dark | N/A | 8% | 30 - 31 | CaveFlr
Sa |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Go around the top way to collect the Yellow Shard in the center of the
room.
Then return to the entrance and go the bottom way, battling the trainer
there
and collecting the Protector off the mound, meaning you can now evolve your
Rhydon! If you have one, anyway. Exit to the main 1F room and this time go
down
the right stairs rather than the left.
Floor 1F [Right]
-----------------
Items: Escape Rope, Max Repel, Revive
Trainers' Pokemon: Raichu L37
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|
Sa |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Go through the barrels and pick up the Escape Rope on the end, then go back
and ascend the raised part. Rather than going down the next stairs you see,
take the right raised path to pick up a Max Repel, then go down the stairs
and
battle the Picknicker. Ascend the upper stairs, follow it around and get
the
Revive, then go back to the Picknicker and take the other stairs, then take
the
elevator down and go down the right staircase.
Floor 2F [Right]
-----------------
Items: Elixir, TM23 Iron Tail, Star Piece
Trainers' Pokemon: Magnemite L34, Magnemite L36, Steelix L37
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Steelix | Steel/Ground | N/A | 10% | 33 - 35 | Cave Floor
|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|
Sa |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Battle the pacing worker just inside, then follow the lower path and claim
the
Elixir on the raised part. Go back, ascend the stairs near the entrance to
this
room and battle the other pacing Worker by here. Grab the Iron Tail TM near
him and if you circle around to the other side of the barrel, go one step
right
and press A you can pick up a hidden Star Piece. Afterwards, exit this part
of
2F and descend the left stairs.
Floor 2F [Left]
----------------
Items: Ultra Ball, Iron Plate, Dusk Ball, Magnet, Max Potion, HP Up, Red
Shard
Trainers' Pokemon: Medicham L38, Toxicroak L38, Graveler L35, Nosepass L35,
Rhyhorn L35, Steelix L33, Magnemite L34, Geodude L33, Machoke L36, Graveler
L34
Machop L34, Geodude L33, Quagsire L35, Lopunny L38, Hippopotas L38,
Medicham
L35, Staraptor L36, Kirlia L36, Zubat L34, Glameow L34, Golbat L34, Stunky
L34,
Croagunk L34, Houndour L34
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|Riolu | Fighting | Happiness+Day | --% | 1 | Event
(Egg) |
|
Sa |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Now this room is the bulk of Iron Island. Nearly as soon as you enter you
will
see Riley, who will talk to you a little and then join up with you! This is
another area with double battling and free healing and everything. Yay!
[ POKEMON TRAINER RILEY ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Team up with Riley against Galactic! -|
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Lucario Male Lv. 41 EXP: --- |
o----------------------------------------o
Yeah, couldn't really think of a short title for this one. Go straight down
and
engage in a double battle with the male/female fighters down here. As is
the
usual, they use Fighting types, but both Medicham and Toxicroak are dual-
typed
fighters so it makes a nice change. Be warned that using Surf in these
battles
will also harm Lucario and will hit everyone for ~75% the usual damage it
would
cause in a normal battle, but with all the Water-weak Pokemon down here it
can
still prove to be very useful. After the battle, head further down and
ascend
the staircase and grab the Ultra Ball here.
Afterwards. go back to the stairs but instead of going down them continue
on
and go into the depression in the rock. Whisk out the Dowsing App if you
want
to and press A in the most bottom left square of this depression to find an
Iron Plate. Then go back to the entrance and this time head west.
Battle the two hikers here then continue west and pick up the Dusk Ball.
Ascend
the rock nearby and follow it down for a Magnet, then descend the raised
rock
and take the open southern path down. You should be able to find a Worker
duo;
challenge them. Afterwards, go over the raised rock to the left and pick up
the Max Potion. Go further south from the Workers and ascend more raised
rock
and follow it around to the HP Up behind the barrel.
Now, go back past the Workers until you pass the raised rock that a
Pokeball
is on, then go down the passage on the right side of this split. Follow it
around to steps, go up them and grab the item sitting there, which is a Red
Shard. Go back down and battle the Ace Trainer duo here.
Then keep going forward until you see the Galactic grunts. A battle will
ensue
as per usual, with really poorly raised Pokemon. After the battle, Riley
will
talk to you some more and if you have a spare slot in your party like I
told
you to get before you went to Iron Island, then you will get a Riolu egg!
This
is the thing that will evolve into Lucario given the right conditions
(happy
and evolved at day.) If you don't have a spare slot in your party now then
you
can get the egg later since Riley will always wait there until you collect
the
egg from him. Descend the elevator and go into the room to the left.
Floor 3F
----------
Items: Metal Coat, Shiny Stone
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
Floor |
|
Sa |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
We're pretty much done with Iron Island. Now is the best time to catch some
Pokemon if you need/want them. Ascend the eleavtor and pick up the Shiny
Stone
lying there, meaning you can now evolve Roselia! Or if you actually raised
it,
Togetic. You may also be wondering about this extra cave part here. This
will
become important later if you're able to procure an event Regigigas, for it
is
the place where Registeel rests. Either way, you can enter and collect the
item
on the floor; namely, a Metal Coat, allowing you to evolve a Scizor or
Onix.
Exit this part of the cave and then go over to the left to leave the
dungeon.
Jump down the ledges, talk to the sailor, and sail back to Canalave City.
Canalave City
--------------
Heal if need be, then head for the gym. You can't miss it.
===========================================================================
====
[054] CANALAVE GYM
[MW054]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM90 Luster Cannon, Mine Badge
Trainers' Pokemon: Steelix L38, Magnemite L37, Magnemite L34, Magnemite
L34,
Magnemite L34, Scizor L40, Magnemite L35, Magnemite L35, Steelix L35,
Steelix
L37, Bronzor L35, Bronzor L36, Bronzor L38
This puzzle is entirely unchanged from D/P. The Pokemon inside are
different
because of the new additions, so expect to see a few Magnemite and such.
When you enter the gym, go and face the Blackbelt. Face the worker a bit to
the
east, then take the leftmost yellow plus up. Battle the Worker you come
across
then reverse because it leads to a dead end. The second one across is
pointless
as is the third so take the fourth one across and follow the paths. You
will
have to fight an Ace Trainer along the way as well.
When you reach the third floor, take the upper slider and then on this
section
go up and battle the Worker. Take the slider next to him and follow that
path
fighting the Blackbelt along the way (why are there Blackbelts in Steel
gyms
anyway..?) and keep following the path, also battling a female Ace Trainer.
You will reach Byron very soon after that. Save and challenge as usual.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 40 |
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER BYRON ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Mine Badge! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Magneton Gndrlss Lv. 37 EXP: 1276|
| :: Steelix Male Lv. 38 EXP: 1596|
| :: Bastiodon Male Lv. 41 EXP: 1747| - @Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $4920, Mine Badge, TM91 Flash Cannon
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Steel is a type with a hell of a lot of resistances, but three main
weaknesses;
Fire, Ground and Fighting. Fire in particular will completely crush this
team
though Ground or Fighting moves are preferred for Bastiodon due to the 4x
weak
it has to them, or better yet a Water move because of Bastiodon's
incredible
168 base defense. It's a pity it has really poor HP...
Magneton is mostly frail and will die to a well placed special attack that
is
neutral or super effective and a decent physical attack will also be enough
to
faint it. Be careful not to attempt to use a Flying-type move against it
for it
has a massive 4x resistance to it meaning it will do near nothing (well,
you
would think that but it probably would still deal like 25% HP...) It is
quite
frail overall. Any Fire Pokemon can knock it out in an instant.
The same kind of holds for Steelix. Steelix is Steel and Ground with a HUGE
200 base defense, but it has a very poor special defense. It is still quite
susceptible to Ground and Fighting attacks but a lot of other Physical
attacks
will fail against it. Fire or Water attacks will shut it down in an instant
and Grass attacks will also be decent against it. Be careful not to end up
using Electric attacks because the part Ground means Steelix is immune to
them.
Bastiodon is Byron's main Pokemon. It has incredible defense but it doesn't

get
too good offense, but be warned it does have Stone Edge to hurt your Fire-
types
really badly (still, it didn't quite OHKO my Houndoom when I battled it...
left
it with a low 3 HP though out of 113.) Its offense is pretty poor - the
only
problem is getting past that 168 defense and 138 special defense. As I said
before, using Ground or Fighting attacks are your best bet, and Water will
work very well too. Honestly, if you chose Infernape as your starter,
consider
this a badge free of charge. It will completely decimate this team. All
three
starters can kill Bastiodon in an instant; Infernape can use Close Combat,
Empoleon can kill it with Surf and Torterra can use Earthquake to quickly
end
it. As intimidating as it might look, it is quite easy to take down. I
swear
I'm contradicting myself here...
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After you complete the battle, take the teleporter to the right of Byron
and
follow the path around to get a free trip to the beginning of the gym. Exit
into Canalave City.
Canalave City
--------------
Your rival will be right in your face when you exit. How lovely. He'll tell
you
to go to the Canalave Library; do so, for we need to so that we can forward
the
events of the story. You could actually just go straight for the 7th gym
badge
now but we may as well sort out the lake problems first... Heal as per
usual
then go to the top floor of the library (the tallest building of the city,
in
the top left of it.) Your rival stays outside it to remind you to come in
until
you talk to him as well. Lovely. Talk to him to get him to go inside, then
follow. Just keep ascending the stairs inside, there's no items or
anything.
When you reach the top floor, your rival will lead you to a table with Dawn
&
Prof. Rowan sitting on it too. The rival makes a move to go but Rowan's
epic
stare causes him to sit down. I like to think Rowan may be able to contend
with Golden Sun's Kraden at some points. Kraden/Rowan pairing. Mmmm...
Hah, anyway, Rowan will talk like a boring history teacher. All of a
sudden,
there will be a large earthquake! Follow the others and exit the library.
Talk
to a few of the people left in there if you like since some of the dialogue
has changed to some funny phrases.Before the rest of them leave, there will
be an image on the TV showing a large explosion coming from somewhere...
could it be one of the lakes?
Exit the library and a sailor will come an inform you about what has
happened.
We have to go to Lake Valour to investigate and it means we can finally go
into
the lake now, since the cameramen will have gone. Fly to Pastoria City. But
if
you want to shop in Canalave first, here are your new options...
...Nah, not really. In this particular case the choice has not changed from
Pastoria City. I'll list it here anyway, with two minor changes...
specifically
the special balls available being the Timer and Repeat balls instead of the
Dusk and Nest balls from before. I'm surprised how many shops sell the Air
Mail, personally.
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
o-----------------------------o-------------------------------o
| :: Great Ball $600 | :: Quick Ball $1000 |
| :: Ultra Ball $1200 | :: Timer Ball $1000 |
| :: Potion $300 | :: Repeat Ball $1000 |
| :: Super Potion $700 | |
| :: Hyper Potion $1200 | |
| :: Revive $1500 | |
| :: Antidote $100 | |
| :: Awakening $250 | |
| :: Burn Heal $250 | |
| :: Ice Heal $250 | |
| :: Repel $350 | |
| :: Max Repel $700 | |
o-------------------------------------------------------------o
Pastoria City
--------------
Exit to the east and keep going until you reach Valour Lakefront. Heal with
the
guard in the gatehouse if you need to and when you get to the Lakefront,
find
the entrance over to the left and enter the lake. It'd be really cool if
this
was a chase scene of sorts with a timer and everything, but that's never
going
to happen in a Pokemon game :(. It'd be fun if there was something like the
time where you have to quickly get to Strut A in Metal Gear Solid 2 before
Fatman's bomb blows and stuff. I wonder how many of you know what I'm
actually
on about x_x Probably some people know, though. Yeah. Enter the lake,
mmkay?
===========================================================================
====
[055] LAKE VALOUR
[MW055]
===========================================================================
====
Items: HP Up
Trainers' Pokemon: Glameow L35, Murkrow L35, Golbat L37, Croagunk L33,
Stunky
L33, Houndour L33, Glameow L33
Team Galactic being the lovely people they are, the water has disappeared
from
the lake due to what I assume was the explosion we saw earlier. Lots of
poor
Magikarp flopping everywhere. Though there are more things in the lake than
Magikarp. WHERE ARE THE REST, HMMMM...? There's a hidden HP Up near the
huge
pile of Magikarp to the left, by the way.
Go down the stairs and battle the female Galactic grunt, then go south and
ascend the stairs again and battle the male grunt here. Travel further to
the right and battle another male Galactic grunt, then enter the cave
after.
Inside is the last of the three Galactic admins, Saturn. Battle him~
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 43 |
o-----------------------o
[ GALACTIC ADMIN SATURN ]

o------------------------------------------o
|- Save Lake Valour from Galactic! - |
|------------------------------------------|
| :: Golbat Female Lv. 38 EXP: 1392 |
| :: Bronzor Gndrlss Lv. 38 EXP: 585 |
| :: Toxicroak Female Lv. 40 EXP: 1551 | - @Sitrus Berry
o------------------------------------------o
Reward: $3200
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Saturn's hair always looks like a hat of some sort. I have no idea why but
it
does. It only looks like hair in the offical art to me... I am interested
to
know why his Pokemon are female, too. Don't they normally match the
trainer's
gender..?
Golbat. lolbat. Just kill it as always, it's nothing special. It has moves
like
Supersonic and Air Cutter at its arsenal. So frail, so weak. Bah.
Bronzor is annoying as always. Smack it with a Fire attack if you have one,
otherwise try to hit it with your strongest attacks. It rarely goes down
with
one hit unless it is type effective but it has little offense. Be warned
that
it may have Hypnosis though.
Toxicroak, unlike Purugly and Skuntank, can actually be quite frail. Smack
it
with a Psychic attack and watch it die a painful death. Alternatively, hit
it
with a Ground or Flying attack to do good damage too. Or just overpower it.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Saturn will leave afterwards. Now we need to go join Rowan and Dawn/Lucas
at
Lake Verity - fly to Twinleaf, and head into Lake Verity to the west. Heal
at your house if you need to.
===========================================================================
====
[056] LAKE VERITY
[MW056]
===========================================================================
====
Items: N/A
Trainers' Pokemon: Glameow L33, Croagunk L37, Golbat L33, Murkrow L36,
Stunky L35, Houndour L34, Houndour L35, Glameow L36
Rowan greets you when you enter, as well as the familiar Galactic music.
Dawn
is at the top (or Lucas) and we need to go join her. To do so we need to
fight
a few easy double battles; just work your way through the two presented.
The
second double battle is not forced since you can fight the trainers
seperately
but you have to battle the first as a double; it's unavoidable. I must say
Murkrow seem to be quite common in Platinum now; compared to D/P where
Cyrus
was practically the only trainer to own one apart from some people in the
Lost
Tower or something. I miss my Murkrow and Misdreavus ;-;
When you reach the other side of the lake, talk to Mars. She'll say some
stuff
nobody cares about, then begin a battle. It isn't a battle with Dawn,
though.

o------------------------------------------o
|- Save Lake Verity from Galactic! - |
|------------------------------------------|
| :: Purugly Female Lv. 40 EXP: 1567 | - @Sitrus Berry
o------------------------------------------o
Reward: $3200
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Golbat is identical to Saturn's. Deal with it in the same method, yadayada.
Bronzor is also identical to Saturn's. KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Purugly is still quite durable but now that you have fully evolved Pokemon
yourself for the most part it should be easy. One or two Fighting attacks
will
cause it go down, otherwise try using strong attacks. It shouldn't do _too_
much damage to your Pokemon anymore. At least it won't 2HKO them with
Scratch
like it used to be able to back in the Valley Windworks all that time ago.
It is very likely to use Fake Out on the first turn, but it's fair play
after
it uses that. It is kinda fast, though.
You even get the same money as a reward. Wow.

o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After some really looong speech about the legendaries in the lakes,
Galactic
will leave from Verity. We now need to check up on your rival at Lake
Acuity
which is far away; it's time to head for Snowpoint City and the seventh
badge
far in the north. Fly to Celestic Town. By the way, you should have seen
about 146 Pokemon up to this point if you've been following this
walkthrough.
Celestic Town
---------------
Heal in the center if you need to, then head into Route 211 to the west.
Enter Mt. Coronet afterwards. Make sure you bring a Strength using Pokemon
with you!
===========================================================================
====
[057] MT. CORONET (ROUTE 211 West Entrance)
[MW057]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM69 Rock Polish, Rare Candy
First of all, head to the left and push the boulder here to allow you to
get
through the gap. Afterwards, push the rock to the north out of the way and
collect TM69 Rock Polish at the end of this passage. Return to the entrance
you came in from after that and this time head north. Push the boulder here
out of the way, then break the rocks and get through this passage and
collect
the Rare Candy at the end of it. Turn back and head north, and go down to
B1F.
Floor B1F
----------
Items: Ultra Ball, Soft Sand, Revive, Full Restore, Elixir, Light Clay,
NeverMeltIce, Nugget, Yellow Shard
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|Nosepass | Rock |LvlUpinMtCornet| 5% | 33 | Cave Floor
|
Floor |
|Machoke | Fighting | Trade | 10% | 35 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Meditite | Fighting/Psychic| Level 37 | 20% | 32 - 35 | Cave
Floor |
|Graveler | Rock/Ground | Trade | 20% | 34 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Feebas** | Water | HighBeauty | --% | 4 - 55 | Fishing
OGS |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
** Feebas is only found in four tiles of the water but with a mostly
guaranteed
rate of finding it. These four tiles change every day.
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
OGS |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
OGS |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Yay, fog. You can also catch Feebas in here but it is so hard to obtain it
may
not be worth bothering, as cool as Milotic is. Get it from a trade perhaps.
We won't be in here long so you don't really need Defog. Break the rock
right
in front of you and collect the Ultra Ball in the gap. I do wish my
Psychics
were not missing three times in a row here >_>
Take the top path up, and when a staircase to go down to the right slightly
presents itself, take it. Get the obstacles out of the way and collect the
Soft Sand at the end of the passage. Go back the way you came, up the steps
and this time continue heading north. Go down a staircase to the right near
the end of the northern path and move the boulder out of the way so you can
collect a Revive. Keep going around, break the rocks, collect the Full
Restore.
Go back around and down the raised rock, then break the smashable rock
right
below the staircase and follow the passage right to a Max Elixir. Get on
the
water with Surf and go around to the bottom, surfing around the large rock
slab and land on the tiny island on the other side, picking up the Light
Clay
on it, meaning a Pokemon equipped with it can boost the durability of
Reflect
and Light Screen to eight turns instead of the usual five. There's nothing
else to collect in this room, so get off the water at the north again, go
left, up and right to the next floor up.
On this floor, enter the cave-inside-the-cave here. This is where Regice

will
be, and you can pick up the NeverMeltIce inside for the time being. You can
also find a hidden Nugget in here if you use your dowsing machine app about
two squares above the NeverMeltIce.
Exit this room, then press A on the rock next to the entrance to the left
to
get a Yellow Shard. That is all, so exit the cave to the left.
===========================================================================
====
[058] ROUTE 216
[MW058]
===========================================================================
====
Items: PP Up, Full Heal, Revive
Trainers' Pokemon: Golduck L38, Sudowoodo L38, Rapidash L39, Tropius L42,
Ambipom L39, Porygon2 L40, Sneasel L39, Mr. Mime L37, Scyther L39, Dusclops
L39
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Sneasel | Dark/Ice |RzrClwLvlUpNght| 35% | 33 - 35 | Grass
|
|Snover | Ice/Grass | Level 40 | 40% | 32 - 35 | Grass
|
|
|
|Ursaring | Normal | N/A | 8% | 35 | Grass Em
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|Snorunt | Ice |Lvl42/DawnStone| 10% | 33 | Grass
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Welcome to the first snowy route of the game. Lovely atmosphere, calming
music
and the slowest walking you will ever see in the history of Pokemon. Bah. I
do
like these routes though. Very nice.
To begin with, ascend the stairs, ignore the bridge and continue to the end
of the snow and in the tile right at the end to the left is a PP Up; press
A
while facing that tile to collect it. Then go across the bridge to the
north
side of the canyon and collect the Full Heal at the end of this snow. Cross
the bridge south and battle the Skier here. Note that the snow routes have
eternal hail weather, so all of your non-Ice types will lose 1/16 of their
HP
for each turn they're in battle. This also applies to opponent Pokemon as
well.
Keep going and collect the Revive, cross the bridge, descend the stairs and
fight the Skier here. Then go to the right so we're going under the bridges
we just crossed and fight the Skier you come across to add Ambipom AND the
elusive Porygon2 to your PokeDex. You may also want to note that being in
Hail
causes Blizzard to get 100% accuarcy, which is soemething that could come
in
useful for Empoleon users because we cannot even get Ice Beam until we
obtain
Rock Climb and get the Icicle Badge in Snowpoint City.
After the battle with the Porygon2, head back to the left and this time
keep
going left until you reach a cabin. If you haven't noticed already, there
are
some pretty neat Ice-types you can get here, including Snorunt at night. If
you still have a Dawn Stone left over and you catch a female Snorunt, you
can
evolve it into a Froslass right off the bat.
On the way to the cabin, you'll need to battle another Skier. Enter the
cabin,
enter the bed and press A to heal your Pokemon. This place is the "Pokemon
Center" of this route. Come back to it anytime you need healing.
Exit the cabin and make your way through the large grass patch to the left.
Battle the Skier/Ace Trainer in the grass (I don't know what type these are
damnit D:) to add the lovely Mr. Mime to your PokeDex, as well as the
creepy
Dusclops. Go back to the cabin now if you need to heal again, then go past
the Ace Trainer and keep going north and you should reach Route 217.
===========================================================================
====
[059] ROUTE 217
[MW059]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Ultra Ball, Rare Candy, Spell Tag, HM08 Rock Climb, TM07 Hail,
Icicle
Plate, Iron, Nugget
Trainers' Pokemon: Electabuzz L40, Magmar L40, Golbat L39, Snover L35,
Snover L36, Snover L37, Swinub L36, Sneasel L38, Piloswine L37, Glaceon
L37,
Skorupi L37, Golbat L37, Snorunt L39, Croagunk L37, Riolu L37, Machoke L37,
Kirlia L38, Seaking L39, Buneary L38
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Swinub | Ice/Ground | Level 33 | 35% | 32 - 34 | Grass
|
|Delibird | Ice/Flying | N/A | 40% | 32 - 33 | Swarm
|
|Piloswine | Ice/Ground |LvlUpAncientpwr| 12% | 30 - 31 | PokeRadar
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Apparently Route 216 didn't have enough snow, so enjoy the deepest snow
ever
as well as a lovely snowstorm! You can find exclusively Ice-types in the
grass
here to the north-east, including Swinub. If you have a Heart Scale on you
and you get a Piloswine, head back to the Move Tutor in Pastoria and teach
Piloswine Ancientpower and watch it evolve upon levelling.
When you head up the route, Maylene will appear and talk to you for a bit.
After she leaves, go north and battle the unavoidable Ace Trainer by here.
He has an Electabuzz, which is pretty likely to start Thunder Waving your
Pokemon. It's pretty fast, so be wary. He also has Magmar, but that isn't
a lot of trouble really. Go back to the cabin if you need to heal
Paralysis.
Going over to the left side of the route near the entrance should allow you
to
find a hidden Revival Herb if you use the Dowsing App (thank you to a
reader
for finding this!)
Afterwards, continue north. Hug the right wall, and go to collect the
item and end up being attacked by a Ninja Boy. Bah. Pick up the Ultra Ball
then battle the Skier to the right. Keep heading north, travelling through
the
incredibly thick snow and hugging the right wall of trees until you come to
a
Rare Candy; pick it up. Battle the skier a little further up and keep going
north until you reach a house. Enter and talk to the creepy woman inside to
receive a Spell Tag, then exit and go to the left. The grass is here if you
wish to catch Pokemon, and also the infamous ice rock. If you level up
Eevee
anywhere on this route, it will promptly evolve into a Glaceon.
Follow the tree path around, battle the female Skier you come across to add
Glaceon and Piloswine to your PokeDex, then keep heading south from there
to
a cabin. Pick up the HM08 Rock Climb outside it (YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS
THIS)
and the TM07 Hail out the front, the enter the cabin. Talk to the hiker
inside
to get an Icicle Plate, then leave. If you keep going south there is a
Ninja
Boy to battle on the left hand side. Keep going down then to the right to
pick
up an Iron then keep heading south-west near the entrance to the route and
you should find a Blue Shard in the snow. Also if from here you head left
and
then up, you will find a small alcove blocked by trees. Press A while
facing
the top left square and you will get a Nugget. You might also want to
battle
the skier by here. Then hug the trees to the right around following the
path
that goes in a sideways U shape and you should end up near the cabin where
you
got the Icicle Plate again.
This time keep heading north, past the Skier to enter a thinner part of the
route where you can battle a Blackbelt. Keep following the path up,
battling
another Ace Trainer on the way and crossing through a large patch of grass
and you should end up at Acuity Lakefront.
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[060] ACUITY LAKEFRONT
[MW060]
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Items: Ultra Ball
Morning/Day
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METHOD |
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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This area is actually quite large, so unlike the other Lakefronts it

definitely
deserves its own section. The grass holds nothing that wasn't in Route 217
though. You'll get a view of your rival but he's up a newly formed Rock
Climb
ledge, which we can't get up yet. Keep heading east, go north in the large
clearing with tons of grass and pick up an Ultra Ball. Keep going east to
enter Snowpoint City at last.
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[061] SNOWPOINT CITY
[MW061]
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====
Items: Ultra Ball, Rare Candy, Everstone
Ah, I love this city. While it is a bit slow to walk through it it has some
lovely music and snow effects. Anyway, head down and pick up the Ultra Ball
on the floor to the right (there's a lot of these...) The boat becomes
useful
later on. For now, head up the stairs here. The gym is right in the center
of the city, but we don't want to go there just yet. Go south-east to reach
the Pokemon Center so you can heal and bring out any new battlers you may
have
caught on your travels through the snow routes. Maylene is also in the
Pokemon
Center but she doesn't give you anything ;-;
Exit the center when you're done. The deep snow part to the direct right of
the Pokemon Gym has a hidden Rare Candy over on the far right which you can
locate with the Dowsing app. The southwest contains the PokeMart. The house
to the north-west has a trade with a Medicham for a Haunter. But
unfortunately
the silly girl has attached an Everstone to the Haunter, so you're not
getting
a free Gengar that way. Pity =/
At the top of the city is Snowpoint Temple, which at present we cannot

actually
enter, but we'll be able to much later on. Finally, the top right house has
the
second move tutor of the game. Enter the gym when you're ready.
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[062] SNOWPOINT GYM
[MW062]
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Items: TM72 Avalanche, Icicle Badge
Trainers' Pokemon: Glalie L44, Snorunt L39, Snorunt L40, Glalie L42, Snover
L41
Sneasel L42, Piloswine L44, Sneasel L40, Snorunt L40, Snover L41, Sneasel
L40,
Sneasel L43
This is probably the most confusing gym puzzle in the game. It is

relatively
unchanged from D/P, but it is still confusing. To begin, go up to the very
top of the snow patch you're on and slide to the right to land on the small
snow circle. Next, slide up to break four snowballs and land on another
snow
thingy. Slide up to the Skier and battle him, on a unique field thingy (you
don't see this sort of shiny ice anywhere else in the game) then slide back
down onto the snow patch and slide to the right and down to the Ace Trainer
to battle her as well.
Next, slide to the left to end up in front of snowballs that you aren't
getting
to break yet, then slide down to return to near the start. Go left to land
on
another snow patch, then slide to the left to get onto another ice patch.
Next, go up to battle an Ace Trainer, then slide left and up to another

snow
patch. Then up and right to reach another one and slide down from there to
reach get another snow patch. Slide to the right to break a snowball and
end up on some stairs. Slide to the right then down to battle another Ace
Trainer, then slide left onto the stairs, right into the wall and down onto
a snow patch.
Next, slide to the left to break another snowball and end up on the stairs.
Go left and up to get another snow patch, then slide right to break a
second
snowball. Go right and down onto the same snowpatch, go left twice into the
opposite wall, then this time go down, left, down, left, up to end up in
front
of the Ace Trainer you battled already. From there, slide left, up and this
time slide to the right down the slope to break five snowballs.
Slide right into the wall, up into the wall, left into the Ace Trainer,
down
into another ice trainer, left onto stairs, right and down onto a snow
part,
left and left into a wall, down left down left onto more snow then slide
down again and then right onto the starting snow.
[We can actually access Candice now, but I'm going to guide you to the
other
trainers for the experience first.]
From there, go to the very top of the safe snow and then slide to the left,
up, up again, right, down and down again to face an Ace Trainer we've yet
to battle. From there, slide to the right to break another snowball, up,
left,
down, left, down, right onto the safe snow. Then go on the top line of
snow,
slide to the right onto the snow patch, then slide up onto the snow patch
on the other side of the gym and slide left to battle the last trainer in
the
gym.
Finally, slide down onto the other side of the gym, right onto the safe
snow,
then position your character in the center of the three squares of snow on
the
top row and keep sliding up until you reach Candice. Save and challenge.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 43 |
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER CANDICE ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Icicle Badge! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Sneasel Female Lv. 40 EXP: 1131|
| :: Piloswine Female Lv. 40 EXP: 1371|
| :: Abomasnow Female Lv. 42 EXP: 1926|
| :: Froslass Female Lv. 44 EXP: 1762| - @Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $5280, Icicle Badge, TM72 Avalanche
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Due to the influx of Ice-types Platinum has had, Candice now sports a fully
ice team rather than the team she had before with Medicham and something
else
that wasn't Ice-typed.
Sneasel is fast and frail as always. Smack it with a strong attack and
watch
it die. I don't recommend trying to use something like a Gardevoir against
it
because Faint Attack will do a _lot_ of damage. Candice does have Hyper
Potions
that she will use on Pokemon in red health as well. AND IT IS POSSIBLE FOR
HER TO SWITCH! She swapped from Sneasel to Abomasnow when I was trying to
use
water attacks, for example.
Piloswine is the same as every other one you've faced. While it does have
some
attack power, it is not too strong overall, but that's probably why it got
an
evolution this generation. It probably has Avalanche, which has a large 180
base power when it attacks last due to STAB and the power being doubled so
watch out for that. A Fire, Water or Fighting move will probably shut it
down
though.
Her sending Abomasnow into the battle will automatically start a Hail in
the
arena because of Snow Warning, so be prepared for your health to be chipped
away. Abomasnow, despite appearances, is actually not all that durable
having
no base stats above 100. A fire attack will completely mutilate it, and
Flying
and Fighting attacks, as well as Rock, Bug etcetera will also be very good.
Ice/Grass is probably one of the worst typings in the game... Be warned
that
Abomasnow does have Focus Blast to try and deal with Steel-types, but it is
rather inaccurate.
Froslass, now being in the Sinnoh Dex, is now Candice's "main" Pokemon
instead
of Abomasnow. Froslass is a new evolution of Snorunt and is quite fast with
a
110 base speed, but it sacrifices some defenses for this new stat
arrangement.
It is Ice/Ghost type but other Ghost types probably won't work too well
against
it because it sports the Shadow Ball move. Using a Fire Pokemon is probably
the
best bet, or a Dark Pokemon. Houndoom is perfect for this. Alternatively
you
can try a Rock move. Don't bother with Fighting because it will not affect
it.
Froslass also has Double Team to raise its evasion, so FINISH IT QUICKLY!
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Just one more badge to get now. But we have a loooooooong chain of events
to
go through before we can get to Sunyshore City. Exit the gym, heal up and
head
out for Acuity Lakefront.
Acuity Lakefront
-----------------
Items: Reaper Cloth
Backtrack to where we saw the rival on the Rock Climb ledge before. Make
sure
one of your Pokemon know the Rock Climb move, and climb up the ledge, now
that we can use Rock Climb. Pick up the Reaper Cloth over to the right,
then
enter the lake.
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[063] LAKE ACUITY
[MW063]
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Items: TM14 Blizzard
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
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|Psyduck | Water | Level 33 | 5% | 38 | Grass
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|Golduck | Water | N/A | 15% | 39 - 40 | Grass
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|Sneasel | Ice/Dark |RzrClwLvlUpNght| 10% | 41 | Grass
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|Solrock | Rock/Psychic | N/A | 8% | 40 - 41 | Grass Ru
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|Lunatone | Rock/Psychic | N/A | 8% | 40 - 41 | Grass Sa
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|Teddiursa | Normal | Level 30 | 12% | 40 - 41 | Grass Em
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
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|Snorunt | Ice |Lvl42/DawnStone| 20% | 39 - 40 | Grass
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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You'll enter to see Jupiter being the crap out of your rival.
Metaphorically.
After some dialogue about being pathetic and all that, she'll leave. So
very
professional, Jupiter is. Rival becomes philosophical, does a soliloquy,
etc,
leaves, and so on. Same as usual. The water level is actually high enough
for us to Surf on the water here. There is nothing in the cavern at present
but Surf to the top right of the area to reach some land. Go through the
grass
and pick up the TM14, Blizzard. That's all we can do here for now, but now
with Rock Climb there's a few more items we can collect. Fly to Pastoria.
Item Collection
------------------
Items: TM05 Roar, HP Up (x2), Coin Toss App, Protein, Sun Stone, Iron, TM85
Dream Eater, TM38 Fire Blast, Zinc, Shiny Stone, Star Piece, Marking Map
App,
Link Searcher App, Move Tester App, TM29 Psychic, Rare Candy, Mental Herb,
TM13
Ice Beam, Max Potion, Full Incense, TM01 Focus Punch
Trainers' Pokemon: Gible L34, Graveler L38, Probopass L40, Machoke L40,
Snorunt L36, Snover L36, Swinub L36, Swinub L36, Snover L38, Snover L39
First, head for Route 213. Use Rock Climb to get up onto the highly raised
platform and collect the TM05 Roar. Also if you use the Dowsing App, you
can
find a HP Up hidden near here. Descend the platform and go around to the
platform where the beach resort is. Surf on the water here over to a small
beach and use Rock Climb to climb up. Rock Climb to the left first and talk
to
the Rich Boy in here to get the Coin Toss app for your Poketch. (Thanks to
MBKilla for the HP Up thing.)
Next, exit the house and Rock Climb down and pick up the Protein by here.
Rock Climb back up, TO THE LEFT, TAKE IT BACK NOW YA'LL ONE HOP THIS TIME-
Ahem, climb back up from where you got the Protein, then climb down to the
right, rock climb upwards north twice and collect the Sun Stone hidden in
the
piece of wall you can press A on here. Go back to the house where you got
the
Coin Toss app and Rock Climb up to reach the main part of the resort.
Bike over to the top left near the house with the Game Freak employee and
go
down the well hidden Rock Climb path two squares from the right of the
house.
Go down the next one, Rock Climb back up the hard to see path to the right,
go across, back down, Rock Climb to the right and pick up the Iron and the
TM85 Dream Eater waiting here.
Lake Valour is still as dry as ever. However, the water level in Lake
Verity
has risen enough to Surf. Travel to the bottom left corner of the lake and
go
through the grass, picking up the TM38 Fire Blast located here.
Next, fly to Solaceon Town. Go up into Route 210 North, and descend down
the
Rock Climb path to the right near the pacing Ace Trainer duo and the
trainer on
the highest part of the route. Rock Climb up the other side and battle the
forced battle with the Dragon Tamer by here.
Just to the north-east of the Dragon Tamer is Grandma Wilma's house. If you
talk to her with a happy Dragon-type Pokemon in your party she can teach it
the move Draco Meteor. This could be helpful if you trained an Altaria...
Collect the Zinc just south of the house, then go over to where the Dragon
Tamer was and find the staircase near the Rock Climb part. Go down there,
press A one step from the end of the path and find a hidden Shiny Stone!
Afterwards, fly to Hearthome City. When you get there, go to Route 208 and
travel to just before the entrance to Mt. Coronet. Go around the bridges
and
descend the stairs and Rock Climb up here to battle a Hiker. Break the rock
up here, get in the space it was in and press A while facing the left wall
to get a Star Piece.
Next, fly to Jubilife City. Go into the Poketch building (the one with the
flags with the top left) and talk to the president next to the counter (the
one wearing purple with brown hair) three different times to receive three
different Poketch apps.
Next, fly to Celestic Town. Go into Route 211, break the rocks on the
raised
platform and climb up. Collect the Psychic TM up here. Afterwards, descend
by
Rock Climbing, enter Mt. Coronet and go to Route 216. On the way, before
you
go up the stairs from the basement in the foggy area, bring out the Dowsing
App just before you go up the stairs to get a hidden Rare Candy. Continue
travelling for Route 216.
In the snowy route, head left through the canyon. Keep going until you see
a Rock Climb path on the canyon's right hand wall. Go up it. Head to the
right,
battle the Blackbelt then the two Skiers. Continue to the right, pick up
the
Mental Herb, keep going to the right and pick up the HP Up by the north
wall.
Fight the Skier then grab the item down south - a Max Potion. Then go and
get
the Ice Beam TM on the far right!
Next, fly to Veilstone. Go around to near the gym and Rock Climb up here
and
get the Full Incense to allow you to breed Munchlax.
Fly to Oreburgh City and descend to B1F of the gate. Surf across the water
again and this time move the boulder out of the way with Strength. Pick up
the
Earth Plate then go north, break the rock, move the boulder and collect
TM01,
Focus Punch. Exit the gate.
Fly back to Veilstone. Heal up, then go to the top right of Veilstone. Talk
to the grunt here to get him to leave, and Looker will appear and come talk
to
you again. He'll tell you to go to the warehouse; do so. It's the place we
got
Fly before, in the top left of the city.
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[064] GALACTIC WAREHOUSE
[MW064]
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====
Items: Dusk Stone, Zinc, TM49 Snatch, Dubious Disc, TM36 Sludge Bomb,
Galactic
Key, TM21 Frustration
Trainers' Pokemon: Golbat L41, Houndour L38, Murkrow L40, Glameow L41,
Glameow L37, Croagunk L39, Murkrow L38, Stunky L41, Murkrow L39, Stunky
L39,
Kirlia L40, Kadabra L40
Looker will come in with you and unlock the door for you. He'll rush in
ahead.
Grab the Dusk Stone by here (which is utterly useless because both Murkrow
and
Misdreavus are not in the game unless you trade...) and then descend the
stairs
to the bottom floor.
The headquarters have some pretty cool music and a shadowy atmosphere of
sorts.
Head to the right and battle the forced grunt. Sally forth, grab the Zinc
in
the alcove when you come across it, then continue heading to the right.
Battle
another grunt (prepare for a lot of these) and ascend the stairs at the
end.
The grunt here won't battle you. Silly fool doesn't even have a Pokemon. Go
up
the stairs and prepare for warp hell. Battle the female grunt here then
take
the right teleporter and grab the Snatch TM in here. Reverse and this time
use
the left teleporter.
Take the other teleporter in this room then go up the stairs. Battle the
grunt
here and then go up the stairs again. I find myself wondering why Mars is
the
only Galactic member to have a Purugly when so many Glameow are capable of
evolving. Hm.
On the upper floor, battle the grunt over to the left and continue around
the
corridor. Battle the dashing grunt on the lower part, then continue to
reach...
a locked door. We'll come back here in a minute.
Go back downstairs and this time take the teleporter. Go downstairs and
battle
the scientist and grab the Dubious Disc, meaning you can get Porygon-Z now!
Descend the stairs by here.
Grab the Sludge Bomb TM and the Galactic Key on the floor. Now, go back to
the
upper floor, go up another floor, take the teleporter, go up again and
around
the corridor to the locked door. Open it with the key and take the TM21
inside
that contains Frustration.
Descend downstairs again and go back to where you found the key. Open the
door
here, go left, down, upstairs and exit the hideout into the main city.
Now, go to the building we saw the Galactic grunt and Looker outside
before.
Go in via the middle door, open the door here with the key and go upstairs.
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[065] GALACTIC HEADQUARTERS
[MW065]
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====
Items: Max Revive, Green Shard, Protein, Max Elixir, Master Ball, Full
Restore
Trainers' Pokemon: Golbat L40, Golbat L38, Golbat L39, Houndour L39,
Porygon2
L42, Stunky L38, Croagunk L38, Croagunk L40, Stunky L38, Glameow L38
Battle the two galactic grunts over to the right either seperately or
together
then continue down the corridor. Enter the boxed area, battle the scientist
with a Porygon2 then jump on the teleporter.
You get to see a little event with Cyrus talking to the galactic members,
with
you and Looker hiding in the corner. They'll all mysteriously leave without
seeing you afterwards and Looker will too.
Go back to the previous room, go out of the box and take the bottom
teleporter.
Go across the corridor to another teleporter, and pick up a Max Revive.
Return
to the original room and this time take the upper teleporter. Grab the
Green
Shard in here, then go back to the conference room.
This time go across the room and take the teleporter. Go in the right bed
and
press A to find a Poke Doll. Seems one of the Galactic members was sleeping
with this...? Press A again to get an option to heal your Pokemon. I
wouldn't
feel safe sleeping in the enemy base personally, but there we go.
Go up the stairs, battle the grunts here, then continue to the left. Take
the
top right teleporter first and grab the hidden Protein behind the box. Then
go
back and use the top left teleporter and get the Max Elixir inside.
Use the bottom left teleporter now and go up the stairs. Welcome to the top
floor. You might notice Cyrus is on the other side of these locked doors.
Save
if you wish, and open the door. Once you go in a bit, he will notice you.
Some
dialogue, and then a battle will commence. With the best music in the game!
Well, one of the best anyway. Battle~
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 44 |
o-----------------------o

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Save the legendary trio! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Sneasel Male Lv. 44 EXP: 1243|
| :: Crobat Male Lv. 44 EXP: 1923|
| :: Honchkrow Male Lv. 46 EXP: 1842| - @ Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $8280
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Sneasel is the same as always. It has Screech to lower your defenses and a
very powerful Ice Punch as well. It should go down fairly easily,
especially
if you have an Empoleon. It has Slash and Ice Punch in its arsenal, neither
of which are particuarly effective aginst Steel-types.
Crobat is an incredibly fast Pokemon. It has Bite to ward off Psychics and
Ghosts, and it is probably capable of confusing your Pokemon as well. It is
fairly frail luckily and will die to one or two Psychic/Electric/Rock
attacks
but be careful with it despite that.
Honchkrow has a sexy hat. You can't beat that. Game over for you. In
reality,
Honchkrow has somewhat weak defenses, but very strong attacking power. I
sent
out Staraptor against it personally for a bit of a Flying battle, but the
best
Pokemon to sent out against it would probably be a Rock type. It has Drill
Peck
as its main attacking move and with 120 base power it can do quite a fair
bit.
It's safe to assume it has a Dark-type attack as well, so do not attempt to
use
a Ghost/Psychic Pokemon against it or it will _not_ end well. Cyrus also
has
one Full Restore to use, completely healing a Pokemon's HP as well as the
status. Luckily he only has one of these. Honchkrow will go down in fair
time.
You know, I thought Weavile was Cyrus' main Pokemon, but I guess not? We'll
see
soon enough anyway.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After the battle Cyrus will surprisingly give you a Master Ball! He'll
leave
afterwards. Go in the direction he left and take the teleporter (the one
that
is behind the desk is just into the conference room. There's nothing of
worth
in there.
I have heard one report that there is in actuality a hidden RAZOR CLAW in
here!
This will allow you to get Weavile much earlier if you're training a
Sneasel
so I would recommend taking the time to find it if you have the
opportunity.
Use the Dowsing App as always.
This is the creepy part of the hideout. Pick up the Full Restore next to
the
yellow boxes then keep going on into the room where the trio are being
kept.
Saturn is in here; talk to him to challenge him one final time. Pluto is
also
in the room with Saturn, but he doesn't battle you like always.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 44 |
o-----------------------o
[ GALACTIC ADMIN SATURN ]

o------------------------------------------o
|- One final hit for the legends! - |
|------------------------------------------|
| :: Toxicroak Female Lv. 44 EXP: 1705 | - @Sitrus Berry
o------------------------------------------o
Reward: $3520
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Saturn is practically the same as last time, just a little higher levelled.
You can use identical tactics to last time and come out of this battle
smelling
like a rose. It is really very easy. Two die to Psychic, the other to fire.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Afterwards you'll be able to push the button, releasing the trio. Saturn
will
leave and we must now follow suit. Exit the creepy part of the hideout,
then
from the yellow teleporter go down into the newly accessible area with the
green teleporter for a free ride down to the exit. Exit the building and
fly
to Orebrugh City.
When you get there, heal your Pokemon, then go into Mt. Coronet from the
Route
207 entrance.
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[066] MT. CORONET
[MW066]
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====
Floor 1F
---------
Items: N/A
We already collected the items in here earlier on if you were following the
item collection parts. There was a stat boosting item and a Dawn Stone in
the
room altogether, I believe. Go up and Surf across the water, then head
right
to the Rock Climbable wall up ahead. Climb up and ascend the stairs to 2F.
Floor 2F
---------
Items: Max Repel, Escape Rope, Timer Ball, Iron, TM80 Rock Slide, Max
Revive
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Bronzong | Psychic/Steel | N/A | 20% | 37 | Cave Floor
|
|Medicham | Psychic/Fighting| N/A | 20% | 37 - 39 | Cave Floor
|
Floor |
|Clefairy | Normal | Moon Stone | 10% | 36 | Cave Floor
|
Floor |
|Nosepass | Rock |LvlUpInMtCornet| 5% | 37 | Cave Floor
|
Floor |
Floor |
|Solrock | Psychic/Rock | N/A | 8% | 38 |Cave Floor
Ru|
|Lunatone | Psychic/Rock | N/A | 8% | 38 |Cave Floor
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
|Graveler | Rock/Ground | Trade | 30% | 36 - 38 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Now we are really exploring Mt. Coronet. Go forward on the path and pick up
the
Max Repel on the platform. I love having infinite item space... get off the
platform, head down and use Strength to get the boulder out of the way.
Pick
up the Escape Rope down south, then go up on the platform and down south
'till
you get outside.
Pick up the Timer Ball by here, then Rock Climb down and get the Iron on
the
ledge. Go back into 2F.
This time go north on the platform and go down the stairs, then go south
and
follow the path to get the Rock Slide TM. Then go north, picking up the Max
Revive on the way, but try and be careful not to slip down the ledges.
When you approach the broken down door, Looker will appear again and after
some dialogue will just stay there. Weird. He will also give you a new
item,
the Black Flute which will decrease the chance of Wild Pokemon appearing.
The
flute never breaks, either, so it will come in useful a lot.
Enter the formed entrance from the wood being broken, and go up the stairs
in
here.
Floor 3F
---------
Items: Star Piece
Trainers' Pokemon: Stunky L43, Murkrow L43,
Wild Pokemon identical to 2F.
First off, go down the stairs to the right. Press A on the rock to get a
Star
Piece, then go back up the stairs. Go up the stairs this time and it will
take
you to the first of many Galactic grunts within Mt. Coronet. Enjoy.
Keep going and battle another Galactic grunt. This is already getting
annoying.
Exit into the outside part of Mt. Coronet.
Mt. Coronet Outside

---------------------
Items: Max Potion, Stardust, Energy Root, Blue Shard, Revival Herb
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Abomasnow | Grass/Ice | N/A | 30% | 38 - 39 |
Grass |
|Medicham | Fighting/Psychic| N/A | 20% | 38 - 40 | Grass
|
|Snover | Grass/Ice | N/A | 20% | 36 | Grass
|
|Machoke | Fighting | Trade | 10% | 40 | Grass
|
|Chingling | Psychic | Happy+Night | 10% | 37 - 39 | Grass
|
|Nosepass | Rock |LvlUpinMtCornet| 5% | 38 | Grass
|
|Absol | Dark | N/A | 5% | 38 - 40 | Grass
|
|Loudred | Normal | Level 40 | 12% | 37 - 40 | PokeRadar
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Abomasnow | Grass/Ice | N/A | 20% | 39 |
Grass |
|Medicham | Fighting/Psychic| N/A | 10% | 40 | Grass
|
|Snover | Grass/Ice | N/A | 20% | 36 | Grass
|
|Machoke | Fighting | Trade | 10% | 40 | Grass
|
|
|Nosepass | Rock |LvlUpinMtCornet| 5% | 38 | Grass
|
|Absol | Dark | N/A | 5% | 38 - 40 | Grass
|
|Golbat | Poison/Flying | Happiness | 10% | 38 | Grass
|
|
|Loudred | Normal | Level 40 | 12% | 37 - 40 | PokeRadar
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Now this part is awesome. Snow again and really good music. Truly amazing.
Go
right and take the grass path and press A on the first gap you see when
you're
travelling through the two tile width grass to get a Max Potion. Rock Climb
up the part at the end and go to the right to enter a small part of 4F. Go
up the stairs and check the rock for a Stardust, then exit this small part.
Now go back left to exactly where you climbed up the rock, and use Rock
Climb
on the wall to go up yet another level. Pick up the hidden Energy Root in
the
gap between the first two grass tiles, then continue right and press A on
the
rock to get a Star Piece (remember you can use the Black Flute to reduce
the
Pokemon encounters!) Descend the rock again and this time head left and
push
the boulder down. Go left and smash the rock and check the rock to get a
Blue
Shard. Use the Dowsing App in the grass to find a Revival Herb then re-
enter
the cave.
Floor 4F
---------
Items: Sun Stone, Full Heal, Max Revive
Trainers' Pokemon: Houndour L40, Golbat L40, Houndour L40, Stunky L42,
Golbat
L40
In addition to the 2F Pokemon...

o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 | 65% | 3 - 25 | Fishing
OG |
|
|
|
|Dratini | Dragon | Level 30 | 30% | 15 - 25 | Fishing S
|
|Dragonair | Dragon | Level 55 | 5% | 20 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Climb up the wall inside and fight the Galactic grunt. Break the topmost
rock
with Rock Smash and check the solid stone now accessible for a Sun Stone.
Keep
going right, use the Dowsing App to find a Full Heal in the middle of this
stretch, then battle the Galactic grunt. Descend the stairs and use the
Dowsing
App again to find a Max Revive, then go right and out of 4F.
Mt. Coronet Peak

-----------------
Items: Moon Stone
Wild Pokemon identical to Mt. Coronet Outside.
Follow the grass trail around then check the rock to get a Moon Stone. Use
Rock Climb and go into the cavern by here.
Top Cavern
-----------
Items: Green Shard (x2), Heal Powder, Stardust, Rare Candy
Trainers' Pokemon: Golbat L43, Croagunk L38, Croagunk L42, Stunky L40,
Murkrow L39, Glameow L42, Murkrow L39
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Medicham | Fighting/Psychic| N/A | 20% | 37 - 39 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
|Medicham | Fighting/Psychic| N/A | 20% | 37 - 39 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Medicham | Fighting/Psychic| N/A | 10% | 37 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
We can't explore this fully yet, but battle the Galactic grunt up the top
then
use Rock Climb to get down. Travel across this part by going right, go up
the
stairs, go left, up again, right and check the rock for a Green Shard.
Go back to where you first Rock Climbed and climb down the well hidden path
that goes down northwards. Go down to the bottommost part and start
breaking
the rocks so that you can get through. Also, break the rock right at the
top
of this rocky passage and check the revealed rock for a Heal Powder (use
the
Dowsing App if you have trouble finding it.) Go down the short stairs and
break
one of the rocks and check the revealed rock for a Stardust.
There is a Rare Candy by the spinning grunt, too, probably hidden. I can't
actually remember where said grunt is at the moment, but it should be
around
there.
Next, use the Rock Climbable platform to go up (the lower passage is

blocked
by a Galactic grunt for the time being.) Go up the stairs then down, break
the rock, take its position and check the wall to get a Green Shard. Then
go
up, around battling the grunts until you reach the Rock Climbable part you
first went down. Use it and exit this cavern.
Mt. Coronet Peak

-----------------
Items: Stardust, Full Restore
Now go up to where the easily visible Rock Climb wall is, turn left and use
that wall to climb up. Go down the stairs, use Strength to push the boulder
out of the way then follow that path down to the very bottom of this part,
and check the rock for a Stardust. You can also find a Full Restore on the
layer of rock above the one with the Stardust on it and no grass by using
the
Dowsing App (it's a bit over to the left.) Enter the cavern on the far
left.
Floor 5F
---------
Items: Max Elixir
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Chimecho | Psychic | N/A | 1% | 39 | Cave Floor
|
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
We're near the top now. There is a hidden Max Elixir about halfway through
if
you bring out the Dowsing App. Go up the stairs.
Floor 6F
---------
Items: Rare Candy, Full Restore
Trainers' Pokemon: Houndour L40, Glameow L42, Glameow L41, Golbat L41
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|Chingling | Psychic |Happiness+Night| 5% | 36 | Cave
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Chimecho | Psychic | N/A | 5% | 39 - 40 | Cave Floor
|
|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Go up the stairs and battle the two grunts. There is also a hidden Rare
Candy
in the space between the two grunts; use the Dowsing App to find it. Go to
the
left and up the stairs to the final floor of Mt. Coronet afterwards. There
is
a Full Restore behind one of the grunts, by the way (thank you, Drew!)
Floor 7F
---------
Items: N/A
Trainers' Pokemon: Golbat L39, Murkrow L41, Croagunk L40
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Ru|
Sa|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The final 'stretch' of sorts. Go up the stairs, battle the grunt, then exit
into Spear Pillar...
===========================================================================
====
[067] SPEAR PILLAR
[MW067]
===========================================================================
====
Items: n/a
Trainers' Pokemon: Croagunk L39, Stunky L41, Croagunk L43, Glameow L41
You might want to save first. Move forward in between the two grunts to get
sent into a fairly easy double battle. Now, DEFINITELY save, and put a
Pokemon
that can deal with Bronzor to the front of your party. Walk forward in
between
Mars and Jupiter for them to start attacking you. But your rival comes to
the
rescue! Kinda. You now have You & Rival vs. Mars & Jupiter. This can
actually
be one of the most annoying battles in the game at some points...
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 45 |
o-----------------------o
[ GALACTIC ADMINS MARS & JUPITER ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Prevent the camality at Spear Pillar! -|
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Bronzor Male Lv. 44 EXP: 678 |
| :: Golbat Female Lv. 44 EXP: 1611|
| :: Purugly Female Lv. 46 EXP: 1803| - @ Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
| :: Golbat Female Lv. 44 EXP: 1611|
| :: Skuntank Female Lv. 46 EXP: 2059| - @ Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $7360
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Two Bronzor come out to start the battle. If you want the rival to be
useful
you may actually want to kill the Munchlax because it does nearly nothing
apart
from adding itself to your PokeDex if you didn't see the one back in the
cafe
on Route 210. TAKE CARE OF THE BRONZOR FAST, or they WILL start confusing
and
sleeping your Pokemon. Fire is the best method as always. The Bronzor will
also
put Reflect and Light Screen up, meaning your attacks will have half the
usual
power which is _not_ good for this fight. It is nearly unavoidable to not
have
one defense up, however.
Skuntank and Purugly are the real annoyances, for their attacks are pretty
damn powerful. Purugly is also quite fast and has Aerial Ace to deal with
any
Fighting-types that you might pit against it. Skuntank's only weakness is a
Ground-type attack as well and it is quite durable to anything else.
Coupled
with the Sitrus berries they both have, it can be a difficult battle.
Taking
Purugly out with a Staraptor's Close Combat may not be a bad idea, because
the
ability Staraptor has (Intimidate) will cut their attack strength. Munchlax
also tends to Screech a lot so you will get a better advantage physically.
Screech will help tremendously in taking down Skuntank, so having the rival
use
it is not a bad thing whatseoever. Note that Skuntank also has Flamethrower
for Steel-types and such.
The Golbat aren't much of a problem in comparison though they are armed
with
powerful attacks such as Sludge Bomb. They'll die to Psychic, Ice, Electric
etcetera as per usual.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After the battle, the rival will heal your Pokemon and leave. Time for a
fancy
cutscene! Cyrus will use the Red Chain and cause both Dialga and Palkia to
appear atop Spear Pillar, causing an earthquake as they appear.
However, the legendary trio come to save the day! Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf
make
a special cut-scene appearance and begin to fly over Mt. Coronet with their
respective colours, calming Dialga and Palkia down and preventing the world
from being harmed.
Then all of a sudden it gets dark and black puddles appear in the floor. A
creepy red Pokemon comes out of the ground - Giratina! Spilling shadow, it
gets ready to strike Cyrus, and swoops towards him! The screen blacks out
and when it comes back, a mysterious portal is left behind.
Cynthia will come now and talk to you, noting the distortion in the ground.
You'll see Uxie and Azelf go in and Mesprit will come out of its light and
show you to come inside. Say yes to Cynthia, and you two will follow suit.
And thus, we enter the Distortion World.
===========================================================================
====
[068] DISTORTION WORLD
[MW068]
===========================================================================
====
Items: N/A
Trainers' Pokemon: See guide.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Giratina | Ghost/Dragon | N/A | --% | 47 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Now if this isn't just the most funky thing. Lovely colours, serene music
for
the most part, and a very weird atmosphere. Except plenty of physic
defiance
here, for we shall be walking in all directions. There are no Wild Pokemon
here
but there is one battle, and Giratina is waiting for you right at the end
of
the Torn World - but be warned, it isn't as short as you may be thinking.
It
can easily last about half an hour at the very least. It is basically
complete
platforming in a Pokemon game. I reckon it's been done very well.
Giratina will fly across the 'sky', shocking both the player and Cynthia.
Cynthia will leave after a bit. Follow her to where she goes (you can
actually
jump over the gap here) and go in the center to find out it is actually an
elevator. It'll go down and now you can jump across the floating platforms.
Once you reach proper land and go forward a bit, Mesprit will appear, and
go
off. It wants you to follow it - walk to the left, push left and watch as
you
defy physics for the first time! The controls are the same otherwise; walk
to
the other side where the depression is, and press down to return to the
normal
direction. The isometric feel is pretty cool though.
Follow the path here and jump across more platforms to get to an elevator
and
stand in the depression in the center to go down. Jump to the square ahead.
This is an elevator with four choices of direction. Step on the top one to
get
sent forward, then on this new platform go to the left depression and press
left to get onto a sideways platform that Cynthia is waiting on.
Talk to her and she'll move, letting you through. Go to the other side and
jump off the sideways part then send the elevator to the right. Send the
new
one to the right again, then send the next one south. Send this one to the
left, then jump north to the next platform and stand on the top one to get
sent down slightly.
Now, go to the right with this platform, and you will arrive on an
elevator.
Stand in the center to go down. Then stand on the depression on the bottom
side and platforms will appear; jump on them and keep going and Cyrus will
appear! He will talk to you a little bit, then leave. Keep going south
until
you come to a crossroads, then head to the right and directly up. Standing
on
a depression with the platform already there causes it to disappear, so
many
paths are in reality unaccessible. The top right one does not already have
a platform so you will be able to cross. Do so, and on the new platform go
forward slightly and then go down on the shorter path, standing on the hole
to
make a platform appear.
Cross this one to the other side, then on this T shaped one jump off the
base
to another elevator and stand in the middle to make it go down. Jump onto
the
obvious floating platforms to more land with weird plants, then go down and
try
to jump off the ledge to have Uxie to appear. It will move up to the
boulder
and then disappear again.
Jump off the ledge, activate Strength and move the boulder into the hole.
Then jump off the bottom end onto an elevator and step into the depression
to make it go down. Jump off the ledge on the left side to the main
platform
and get to the boulder on the north side. Push it into the hole that Uxie
is
hovering next to. Pushing it into the wrong one means you will have to
cycle
around again to get the boulder. So, make sure to PUSH IT INTO THE HOLE
UXIE
IS NEXT TO, and it should stick. Uxie will be happy and fly away. Go over
to
the far left and follow the thin path in a right angle to find Cynthia
again.
Talk to her, but she won't move this time. Go back to the elevator and take
it
back up again.
Now, jump off the left, go around to the boulder and push it down the hole,
but not before Mesprit makes an appearance and dances for joy. It'll guide
you
to where to put the boulder and as I said, it is to push it down the hole.
Do so, then take the path around to another elevator and take it up.
Jump off to the left, follow the path up north (some of the obstacles will
vanish when you get near them, allowing you access) and Giratina will make
an
appearance again as you keep going. Remember that you can go behind some of
the plants, even if it looks like you might not be able to until you
actually
do it. Eventually, you'll reach another elevator. Take it up again.
Jump off to the left, then go down to make a platform appear and cross it
to
the other side. Go over to the right to make another one appear, cross it,
then on this T shaped one jump off the base and activate the elevator to go
down. You'll see Cyrus walking; but he leaves soon afterwards. Surf across
the
water, begin to walk forward and Giratina will appear again. Keep going
forward
to find that a sideways platform has presented itself.
Go onto it, cross it to the top then cross onto the platform on the ceiling
-
you're now completely upside-down! Go around and Surf on the water, then
descend the sideways waterfall. It's quite long but you get a nice view of
the
Distortion World as you go (Torn World was such a better name...) Once
you're
able to Surf again, go north and left onto dry land. Azelf will appear now,
directing you with the last boulder.
Follow its wishes and push the boulder down this gap. Go around the
platform
and jump off the end to end up on the original elevator we were on. Jump
over
the first ledge and activating it (be careful you don't jump over the other
ledge as well, or you'll have to do all of that again!) Descend the
elevator,
then go over to the west and push the boulder into the westernmost hole
that
Mesprit is hovering by. Mesprit will be happy and fly away.
Next, head over to the east. Push this boulder into the westernmost one too
-
namely, the one Azelf is hovering by and the one the boulder starts right
next
to. Once you push it down, Azelf will also disappear. Go back to where
Cynthia
is now and talk to her.
A new elevator will reveal itself. Now is a very good time to save your
game.
Do so, then get on the elevator and descend. You'll be able to see Cyrus
from
a distance - Cynthia will notice him and jump off. This is your last chance
to
save before a battle now, so do so if you haven't already.
Then, jump off the elevator. Walk forward behind Cynthia, then Cyrus will
push
her out of the way, blocking her access forward. Okay, I lied, THIS is your
last chance to save before the battle now.
When you're ready, talk to Cyrus. Your Pokemon should be fully healed from
when your rival healed them, luckily. Talk to Cyrus to begin the final
battle
with him in the game. This is also the last time we get to hear the music.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 46 |
o-----------------------o

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Defeat Cyrus once and for all! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Houndoom Male Lv. 45 EXP: 1966|
| :: Gyarados Male Lv. 46 EXP: 2109|
| :: Crobat Male Lv. 46 EXP: 2010|
| :: Honchkrow Male Lv. 47 EXP: 1882|
| :: Weavile Male Lv. 48 EXP: 2046|- @ Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $8640
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Wow, funky background. Lovely mix of blues there with a special platform
like
there was in Snowpoint Gym. Pity this is the only time we get to see this.
Houndoom is frail. However, it does have Will-O-Wisp to burn your Pokemon,

so be careful if you choose to send slow Physical attackers against it
because
burn will half the attack power of a Pokemon.
Gyarados is as annoying as always. Annoyingly hard to take down if you

don't
have an Electric or Rock attack to use. Hopefully you have an Electric
attack
to use, but if you don't then whack it with your strongest attacks
possible.
It gives a massive amount of EXP when you finish it off, which is nice.
Gyarados is equipped with Waterfall, which makes use of its high attack
stat
and Water-typing. That will be its main offense. Cyrus also has a Full
Restore
which he will use on any particuarly weakened Pokemon, Gyarados included.
Crobat is pretty much the same as last time. Fast and loves to status. It
has
Toxic to badly poison your Pokemon as well, so be wary. Luckily it is quite
frail and will die quite easy to its weaknesses as per usual. It also has
the
incredibly annoying Confuse Ray. It isn't really tough, just VERY annoying.
Honchkrow will fall to similar attacks as it did last time. Be warned that
it
has HEAT WAVE! Apparently he went to see the Move Tutor at some point.
Either
way it means it will easily kill any Steel-types you have apart from
Empoleon
who negates the Fire weakness with its Water-typing. I'll also take this
chance
to mention that Cyrus has two Full Restores rather than one. Honchkrow is
also
capable of using Night Slash and is quite fast, so don't expect any non-
Abra
line psychics to outspeed it before immiment death, or near to. Well, I
would
say that, but my L46 Gardevoir outsped it... Come to think of it, it is
slower
than Murkrow. Murkrow has 97 base and Honchkrow only has 79 I think. Bah.
Weavile, like Sneasel before it, will go down to a fairly strong attack. It
has a huge weakness against Fighting-type moves and it also has little it
can
do to pierce Steel. Weavile has Fake Out as well, meaning it will very
likely
just flinch your Pokemon on the first turn it comes out. Its arsenal
consists
of Night Slash and Ice Punch, both of which are very strong moves off its
129 base attack. Luckily it doesn't seem to have Brick Break. Houndoom will
also do quite well against it for the most part, but be warned Weavile is
VERY
fast. Not Electrode fast, but faster than Alakazam, Sceptile and such.
Weavile
has also been upgraded to Cyrus' main Pokemon now. I thought it would be...
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Cyrus will leave after you defeat him and Cynthia will heal your Pokemon.
Now
we face another challenge - Cynthia will take you forward and tell you to
go
forward. Do so, and the screen will zoom in again. Giratina will fly below;
take another step and a bunch of platforms will appear. On the second one,
Giratina will fly under you quickly. Jumping on the third one causes the
screen
to get much darker and Giratina will come up right next to you. Save now,
and engage it in a fight.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Giratina Lv.47 Genderless Dragon/Ghost |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Giratina enters the battle by flying down rather than coming from a
Pokeball,
as per what should happen. It has no platform either; they were pretty good
at
making sense with this. Giratina also has some of the best battle music in
the
whole of the Pokemon series if you ask me, tied with like Pokemon Stadium
1's
Mewtwo battle, the Emerald Frontier Brain music, the RSE Elite Four and
such.
Regi music was also really good too - they even have a remix of that in
Pokemon
Platinum! But it's event only, so bleh.
Anyway, Giratina in Origin Forme has reduced defenses than it did as the
normal
forme we're used to (Another Forme) but it has increased offenses in
return.
Giratina sports the move Shadow Force causing it to disappear for a turn
and
you cannot throw a Pokeball at it during the turn it disappears - or you
will
get the message: "It's no good! It's impossible to aim at a Pokémon that's
not
in sight!" Try it yourself and see. It works fine for Dig and Fly though.
Hm...
Giratina has weaknesses to Ghost, Ice and Dark attacks. No attacks will
cause a
whole lot of damage to it but you need to work at chipping away its health.
Empoleon is decent for this because it resists all of Giratina's moves and
it
can cause a fair bit of damage with Ice Beam. At least it resists Shadow
Force
and Ancientpower for sure. If you're lucky enough you may even get to
freeze
it like I did! /brag
The best balls to use for this are Dusk Balls. The Master Ball isn't really
worth using on Giratina unless you're capable of importing more Master
Balls
later via Pal Park, because Giratina is one of the only three legends you
have
to capture before the National Dex. Uxie and Azelf are the other two.
Mesprit
does need to be seen but not captured since it runs around Sinnoh.
Dusk Balls are most certainly your best bet. Normal-types also resist two
of
Giratina's moves (Ominous Wind and Shadow Force) so they will be quite
useful
stallers. Get Giratina to as low health as possible, status it if possible
and
start throwing the Dusk Balls. Giratina has a very low capture rate (3) so
it
will take a fair bit of effort. Giratina also has Dragon Claw which affects
everything and will deal a fair bit of damage. Only use the Master Ball if
you
absolutely _have_ to.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you finally catch it, a portal will appear in place of it. Cyrus will
make
one more appearance, announcing his intentions to stay in the Torn World.
We
won't be hearing from him again after this. Cynthia blocks your way back,
so the only way to go is out through the portal... Inspect it and click
yes.
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====
[069] DISCOVER THE PSYCHIC TRIO
[MW069]
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====
Sendoff Spring
---------------
Items: N/A
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Dusclops | Ghost |Trade+ReapCloth| 5% | 39 - 40 | Grass
|
|
|Bibarel | Normal | N/A | 30% | 37 - 38 | Grass
|
|
|
|Golduck | Water | N/A |100% | 20 - 40 | Surf
|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 | 65% | 3 - 25 | Fishing OG
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|Dusclops | Ghost |Trade+ReapCloth| 15% | 39 - 40 | Grass
|
|
|Bibarel | Normal | N/A | 30% | 37 - 38 | Grass
|
|
|
|Golduck | Water | N/A |100% | 20 - 40 | Surf
|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 | 65% | 3 - 25 | Fishing OG
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
You will appear outside Turnback Cave, Giratina's old lair in Diamond and
Pearl
- so you are in the Sendoff Spring. Cynthia prevents you going through
though
and will continue to do so until we get the National Dex. Use Rock Climb
and
get up the wall and start making your way through the grass to get back to
Route 214. You might find some nice Pokemon on your way. Alternatively, you
can just fly back to Sandgem Town now since there are no items in the
spring.
Sandgem Town
-------------
Go into the Pokemon Center and heal as you will very likely need to.
Afterwards
go into Rowan's lab and talk to him. Well actually, he's waiting at the
door
for you. You get no reward but after some dialogue you can leave. We're now
capable of going to Sunyshore, but first we need to catch some legendaries
for your PokeDex, unless you use one other method... Anyway, fly to
Twinleaf
and make your way into Lake Verity.
You don't actually have to get the legendaries _now_, but you have to go
see
them sometime to get the National Dex. Despite the numerous times we've
seen
them, they're not in our PokeDex. Yet we went to Spear Pillar and saw
Dialga
and Palkia once, and they are. Hmm.
With the exception of Mesprit, instead of catching them you can black out
when
you're battling them. This will keep Azelf/Uxie in their cavern with it in
your
PokeDex allowing you to transport Master Balls across for them, but it
requires
you to lose some money in exchange. Do whatever floats your boat.
Mesprit we have to release at some point though.
Lake Verity
------------
Items: N/A
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Wobbuffet | Psychic | N/A | 12% | 4 | PokeRadar
|
|Solrock | Rock/Psychic | N/A | 8% | 4 | Grass Ruby
|
|Lunatone | Rock/Psychic | N/A | 8% | 4 | Grass Saph
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Mesprit | Psychic | Level 50 | --% | 50 | Chase
Event |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Fly to the center of the lake and enter Verity Cavern. Talk to Mesprit to
have
it disappear, and Rowan will come and start annoying you. Before Mesprit
leaves
you will get a view of its sprite, officially adding it to your PokeDex as
seen
so that you don't actually need to capture it.
If you want to try for a good natured Mesprit, be prepared to make it

disappear
and sit through Rowan's talk, then get it into a good place around Sinnoh
(as
it actually runs around the region) and capture it with a Master Ball and
if
you aren't happy, restart it all again. It's quite a lot of effort to go to
unfortunately.
If you wish to catch Mesprit now, take out the Marking Map App we got
earlier
from the Poketch President and after you move you shold see a black figure
on
the map. This is where Mesprit is and once you're in the same area as it,
go
in the grass and there is a chance it could appear. If you want to narrow
it
down, go into the area it is in with a Pokemon at Level 49 or below but
higher
than the Wild Pokemon in the area and use a Repel. Mesprit will be the only
thing able to appear. I'll leave this here anyway.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Mesprit Lv.50 Genderless Psychic |
o--------------------------------------------------o
Also, consider using your Master Ball on Mesprit. Running Pokemon tend to
be
the best choice to use them on. Mesprit can actually run even when slept
now
so the only way to keep it in battle is to use a move like Mean Look or
Block.
After you do or don't catch Mesprit, fly to Pastoria City. Here, you may
want
to buy a ton of Dusk Balls because you will be needing them for the last
two
of this legendary trio. Seeing as they're both in caves, Dusk Balls will
have
a 4x capture rate on them, but they are still a bit hard to catch.
Head for Valour Lakefront afterwards and enter the lake.
Lake Valour
------------
Items: TM25 Thunder
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Psyduck | Water | Level 33 | 15% | 38 - 39 | Grass
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Azelf | Psychic | Level 50 | --% | 50 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
About time there's water in this lake. Get on Surf and go straight south,
to
the south-east platform in the lake. Grab the TM25 Thunder in the grass,
then
Surf to the cavern in the center and enter.
In the cavern, go up to Azelf, save and engage it in a fight.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Azelf Lv.50 Genderless Psychic |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Azelf is a Psychic Pokemon with low defenses but incredibly high attacking
power. Its attacks consist of Swift, Uproar, Future Sight and Nasty Plot.
Both
Swift and Uproar are Normal attacks while Future Sight is a Psychic attack
that attacks two turns later and ignores type resistances or weaknesses. Be
warned that Nasty Plot will boost Azelf's Special Attack up by two levels
each time it uses it, possibly making for a total of 4x the usual attack
power
if it uses it three times. If you have a Ghost Pokemon here like Rotom,
Gengar
and such then you are completely safe apart from Future Sight. Azelf is
quite
frail so be careful with it. False Swipe is useful if you have it but meh.
Use the usual low HP, status, Dusk Ball strat.
I did actually catch it on the first ball when I did it somehow. Guess I
got
reaaaaaally lucky.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you catch Azelf, or make yourself faint against it, head to Snowpoint
City
and then towards Lake Acuity to the west.
Lake Acuity
------------
Items: N/A
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Snorunt | Ice |Lvl42/DawnStone| 20% | 39 - 40 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you arrive at the lake, surf to the center of the lake, enter the
cavern
and approach Uxie, then save and fight it.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Uxie Lv.50 Genderless Psychic |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Uxie is the opposite of Azelf; offensively it is quite weak but it has much
better defenses than its blue counterpart. Use exactly the same tactics as
you
did with Azelf. Chip away, status if possible, let loose the Dusk Balls.
There
isn't really a lot I can say here...
Be warned Uxie has Yawn meaning it can put your own Pokemon to sleep. It
can
also raise its Special Defense sharply with Amnesia. Honestly, it isn't
that
dangerous though. You get the lovely Egyptian themed music the whole time
too.
It's only offense is practically swift and off 75 special attack that is
not
going to do much at all. Keep throwing balls until you get it, anyway.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Afterwards, go back to Pastoria or Veilstone, heal up, head for the resort
part
near the lake and this time head right onto Route 222. That guy isn't
stopping
us from going there anymore!
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====
[070] ROUTE 222
[MW070]
===========================================================================
====
Items: PP Up, Wiki Berry (x2), Mago Berry (x2), Aguav Berry (x2), Qualot
Berry,
Full Restore (x3), Ultra Ball, Carbos, TM56 Fling, Quick Ball, Net Ball
(pos.),
Pearl, Big Mushroom, PP Up, Tiny Mushroom
Trainers' Pokemon: Luxray L45, Lopunny L45, Noctowl L43 (night), Machoke
L43
(night), Remoraid L44, Mantyke L45, Wingull L41, Gastrodon L43, Machoke
L42,
Remoraid L44, Gyarados L43, Gyarados L43, Remoraid L40, Magikarp L43,
Finneon
L42, Feebas L42, Magikarp L41, Remoraid L41, Gyarados L42, Finneon L41,
Magikarp L42, Gyarados L45, Pikachu L42, Pikachu L42
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Electabuzz| Electric |Trade+Electrizr| 30% | 39 - 41 | Grass
|
|Luxio | Electric | Level 30 | 10% | 38 - 40 | Grass
|
|Magneton | Electric |LvlUpinMtCornet| 5% | 41 | Grass
|
|Pelipper | Water/Flying | N/A | 5% | 40 | Grass
|
|
|Chatot | Normal/Flying | N/A | 10% | 38 | Grass
|
|Wingull | Water/Flying | Level 25 | 10% | 38 | Grass
|
|Magnemite | Electric | Level 30 | 10% | 39 | Grass
|
|Skitty | Normal | Moon Stone | 40% | 40 | Swarm
|
|Flaaffy | Electric | Level 30 | 12% | 41 - 42 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Sharpedo | Water/Dark | N/A | 5% | 40 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Electabuzz| Electric |Trade+Electrizr| 20% | 39 - 41 | Grass
|
|Luxio | Electric | Level 30 | 10% | 38 - 40 | Grass
|
|Magneton | Electric |LvlUpinMtCornet| 5% | 41 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|Magnemite | Electric | Level 30 | 10% | 39 | Grass
|
|Skitty | Normal | Moon Stone | 40% | 40 | Swarm
|
|Flaaffy | Electric | Level 30 | 12% | 41 - 42 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
|Sharpedo | Water/Dark | N/A | 5% | 40 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Delicious new route. The most notable thing this area has to offer is the
fact
that you can catch Electabuzz here. If you're looking to get an Electivire,
now
is a very good time to get one, since we picked up the Electrizer already.
We'll take care of the top half first. Go into the grass and head for the
top
left and go into the grass-free corridor below the very top one. Press A on
the
top left square in here to get a PP Up.
Return through the grass and battle the Rich Boy to the right of it with
some
nice stickers. Pick up the berries to the north here then head down under
the
trees but above the ledge and go right to pick up a Full Restore. Return
back
to the top and go right, battling the Beauty here.
Descend the stairs, go north, right, up the stairs, into the grass and
press A
at the end to pick up an Ultra Ball. Head to the far right, cut the tree
and
go down to pick up a Carbos. Return back and down the stairs to the main
path
then continue to the right and talk to the Rich Boy to get TM56, Fling. Go
to the right, battle the guard if possible, continue right and battle with
the
tube boy and the sailor. Battle the sailor just south-east of there, then
go
west onto the beach.
The beach has most of the water Pokemon trainers so it will be helpful for
any
Pokemon with Electric or Electric-type moves. Start by going down and
smashing
the rock, ascending the stairs and collecting the Quick Ball. Then, press A
while facing the gap in the bottom left to get yet another Full Restore.
Master_Kenobi_7 has also found a Tiny Mushroom right next to the Full
Restore
as well, or at least definitely in the immediate vicinity.
Head back up here and past the rock that was here and ignore the fisherman
for
he does not battle (though you can talk to him to hear his tale of woe) and
enter the top right house. The guy here will give you a Net Ball if you
show
him a big... Remoraid? The left house contains a crazy guy who wants to win
the league with only Pikachu. How nice. There is a PP Up in between the
houses, I think. Also, if you talk to the Pikachu in the top left of the
house with a dozen Pikachu in (it's the one that doesn't move around) then
you will find that it's one of those crazy Pikachu fans with two Level 42
Pikachu.
Go left, battle the female tuber, then proceed to battle the two fishermen
on
the coast. Note the fisherman on the right has two Level 43 Gyarados which
can
give 2000 exp a kill, so using Vs. Seeker to train any Pokemon who can
easily
kill Gyarados (see: electric) could be a good idea. The fisherman on the
left
has so such quality, but he does have a Finneon which you need to see. He
also
appears to switch - I brought Rotom out against his Magikarp, he swapped it
for
Finneon weirdly. This guy also has Feebas, so you need to battle him
really.
Battle another fisherman a little more to the left. There is a Pearl under
the
right side of the rock to the left of him you can pick up (hidden as usual)
and one last fisherman to face on the left, with a high level Gyarados and
a
stupidly weak Magikarp. Needs more double Gyarados.
Afterwards, activate Surf and jump on the water then head to the far far
right.
You'll have to land on the island we got to from Rock Smashing before, but
jump
off to the right and continue onto the piece of land you normally cannot
get to
and pick up the Big Mushroom in the gap by here.
That is all for this route. Return to the mainland by Surf, then go
straight
right and through the gatehouse into Sunyshore City.
===========================================================================
====
[071] SUNYSHORE CITY
[MW071]
===========================================================================
====
Items: [Various Stickers], Thunderstone, Calendar, Dot Artist & Roulette
Maps,
Zap Plate
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
As soon as you enter the town, McDonalds will attempt to give you a
bargain.
Or as it is in this game, a red-haired afro character named Flint will come
to
you and ask you to revitalize Volkner's spirit or something, then he will
go
and block the gym until we go to the lighthouse. We'll get to that very
soon.
I must say, I do quite like Sunyshore's music. Very upbeat and such.
Continue
to the right and enter the Pokemon Center and heal up.
The market is a little to the north with the same inventory as always now,
but
you can also get Steel Mail and LUXURY BALLS (!) in the market. I'm
surprised
they're buyable now, since they were incredibly hard to get in R/S/E (you
had
to get them by winning Master contests, I believe.) North of there is a
white
building which is where you can finally buy stickers. The selection in here
will change every day.
The woman on the first counter you see will give your Pokemon an Effort
Ribbon
if their EVs are maxed, so this is a good indication of checking whether
they
are filled or not when you're training an actual competitive Pokemon. The
guy
in the counter on the right does nothing and the top left person will sell
you
stickers. If you want to apply them to your Pokemon, use the PC in a
Pokemon
Center to select the option and apply them to the Pokeballs. Note that once
you apply them, you cannot deposit that Pokemon until you remove the
stickers.
The option is in [YourName]'s PC.
Outside the sticker house, head north to find Jasmine on the beach! We'll
need
to go see her again after you beat Volkner. Now, head right and up the
stairs.
The left house on the top right has some background information about
Cyrus,
while there is little of worth in the top right house. To the left is the
gym but we can't go there yet. Head down, right and down the stairs and
pick
up the Thunderstone here. If you have a Pokemon with a Serious, Quirky or
Naive
nature in your party, Rock Climb up the wall and talk to the guy to receive
a
Calendar App, Roulette App or Dot Artist App respectively. Without the
nature
in your party somewhere, you cannot get these.
Go to the bottom right of the second floor to enter the lighthouse. Enter
to
automatically be taken up by an elevator, then talk to Volkner who is
looking
through the telescope. He'll head back to the gym, so we are able to fight
him
now. If you like, take a look through the telescope yourself to see the
Pokemon
League in a lovely 3D view. Very foggy though.
Exit the lighthouse and head for the top left to where the gym is (make
sure
your team is healed.) Talk to Flint and since Volkner has returned he will
now
leave his position in front of the gym, allowing us entry. We'll see him
later,
anyway. Enter the gym when you're ready.
By the way, the Zap Plate is in the lower right corner just outside of the
Lighthouse Volkner was in. I can attest to this myself; feel free to use
the
Dowsing App if you want but the plate is pretty easy to find. Note that if
you
use the App the plate will 'show' up but it will be displayed as a sort of
pulsing circle instead.
===========================================================================
====
[072] SUNYSHORE GYM
[MW072]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Beacon Badge, TM57 Charge Beam
Trainers' Pokemon: Pachirisu L47, Magneton L47, Magnemite L44, Luxio L44,
Luxio L44, Pikachu L42, Pikachu L42, Pikachu L42, Pikachu L42, Raichu L47,
Electabuzz L47, Raichu L48, Luxio L45, Luxio L45, Electabuzz L47, Magneton
L48
This has also remained unchanged from D/P, but the pathway puzzles can
still be
a bit annoying anyway. If you have a Ground Pokemon with you, this gym will
be
a whole lot easier. I don't have one in my team myself. Bah.
Go forward and press the green button once, then exit back down onto the
main
part and head to the left and across the bridge to where another bridge
will
now form to the northern part. Go there, beat the trainer with a Pachirisu
who
has an annoying tendency of paralyzing you and go through the door.
Hit the blue spot in plain sight three times to reconnect the bridges. Go
back
onto the main part and up the stairs across the gear bridge to the other
side.
Beat the guy with a Magneton here, then down and hit the blue button to
change
the bridges, then the green button to the right to create a new T-bridge.
Use
it and get onto the land on the right and once you beat the forced battle,
go
oer the gear bridge at the top. Battle the Pikachu impersonator with about
4
Pikachu, then enter into the third and last room.
Battle the guy to the right, then go on the bridge and press the red button
once to change direction, get off the bridge and follow the one on the left
to
another red button and press that for a new bridge. Go down and battle the
Ace
Trainer then cross the gear bridge. Ascend the stairs, finish off the
guitarist
and press the green button twice. Follow the new path created around (don't
worry, the electric doesn't stop you) and hit the blue button once. Go down
the stairs and beat the Ace Trainer, then continue across the gear bridge,
down
the stairs and press the button down to flip the platforms in the room
around
again, creating a path to Volkner.
If you have to go back and heal, do it now. This will reset all of the
puzzles
in the gyms but you won't have trainers to deal with the next time. I had
to
since that Ace Trainer just then decimated me >_O. Once you're ready to
face
Volkner and have solved all of the puzzle up to this point, go through the
new
paths until you reach Volker, save and fight him.
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 48 |
o-----------------------o
[ GYM LEADER VOLKER ]

o-----------------------------------------o
|- Battle for the Beacon Badge! - |
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Jolteon Male Lv. 46 EXP: 1941|
| :: Luxray Male Lv. 48 EXP: 1991|
| :: Raichu Male Lv. 46 EXP: 1201|
| :: Electivire Male Lv. 50 EXP: 2131| - @Sitrus Berry
o-----------------------------------------o
Reward: $6000, Beacon Badge, TM57 Charge Beam
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Volkner starts off the battle with the incredibly fast but also frail
Jolteon.
If you have a Ground Pokemon this battle will be easy for the majority, but
it
maypose some problems otherwise. Volker has Hyper Potions too. Jolteon
weirdly
has Iron Tail, which doesn't do a lot but eh. Probably to try and hit
Ground
types. I cannot see it doing much at all though. Jolteon's main attacking
move
is Charge Beam which has a massive 70% chance of raising Jolteon's special
atk,
and about 67% or so factored in with accuarcy. It will probably kill
Pokemon
like Staraptor in two hits. Using other Electric-types may not be a bad
idea
either if they can do sufficient damage to Jolteon. Jolteon does also have
Thunder Wave to paralyze your Pokemon, slowing them down a quarter and
having
a 25% to make them completely immoble for a turn. Volkner does also have a
Full Restore and he _will_ use it if one of his Pokemon get really low in
their
health.
[Also, that damn Jolteon hit Iron Tail three times in a row and CRITICALLED
MY
GARDEVOIR, fainting it. Why does this game hate me so much?]
Once Jolteon's gone, Volker may sent out Luxray. Luxray used to be
Volkner's
main Pokemon but now it is simply a strong team member, having its main
offense
in the 75 powered Thunder Fang topped with a 120 base attack and STAB,
along
with a fairly diverse moveset (I think?) I'm not completely sure of
Luxray's
complete set, but be careful. I can also say for sure it has Crunch, so be
careful with your Psychic and Ghost types! Rotom will not block this baby.
Despite being Electric Luxray is actually quite slow, so at least you will
usually go first against it, unlike Jolteon.
Raichu is the other member of Volkner's team that also appeared in D/P. At
Lvl
46 it is a fair bit weaker but it has Charge Beam as well which can raise
its
Special Attack pretty quickly. Charge Beam has quite a nice animation too.
Whacking it with a strong physical attack will take off most of its health,
so
you can probably kill it in two hits. I used a Staraptor Return + Empoleon
Aqua
Jet after Staraptor died, myself.
Electivire is the real powerhouse, complete with stickers and a very high
level
as far as this stage of the game is concerned. Electivire is also quite
slow
but it has 95 Special Attack and a massive 123 Attack and coupled with its
main
ThunderPunch move it can cause quite a bit of damage, 2HKOing most of the
more
frail Pokemon you have. Luckily Electivire itself isn't that durable,
despite
having the appearance of such. Nice choice for Volkner's main Pokemon
though.
It gives a lovely bunch of EXP too. Exit the gym after you get the rewards.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Item Collection
----------------
Items: HM07 Waterfall, Carbos, Meadow Plate, Wave Incense
Trainers' Pokemon: Barboach L33, Gyarados L33
Go back and heal, then talk to Jasmine at the top of the city. She will now
give us HM07 for we have the Beacon Badge, meaning we can go to the Pokemon
League! But we have to go through Victory Road, of course. Except a lot of
trainers, with a lot of PokeDex entries. A LOT. Note that for Route 223,
you
only need Surf and Waterfall and you will be able to get your HM slave back
before we enter Victory Road if you only have one spot for one, like me. If
you have a team of six then somebody will have to learn Waterfall. We can't
get
to the league without it.
I would recommend stocking up on supplies a bit at Sunyshore so you're

capable
of healing in Victory Road and such. Buying about 10 Hyper Potions may be a
worthwhile deal, and maybe a Revive or two if you feel you need them. We'll
have plenty of Full Restores due to all the hidden ones, but you can also
buy
some Full Heals incase of unlucky status effects.
When you head up to get Waterfall your rival will come and talk to you for
a
bit as well. We'll be battling him again fairly soon, after we're done with
Victory Road. Jasmine will talk to you afterwards and give you Waterfall.
After your rival talks, fly to Hearthome and go to the very beginning of
Route
208, where we went earlier for the Rock Climb hiker. This time, go down the
stairs and start Surfing. Go up to the fisherman and battle him if you
wish,
then ascend the Waterfall on the top side. Manuever your Surfing path and
pick up the Carbos on the upper bank.
Fly to Celestic Town, and head right back through Route 210 near where the
North starts by the Ace Trainer and Ace Trainer duo. Surf on the water to
the
left here, and go up the Waterfall on the right. Jump on the land, get
right
in the top left corner, face up and push A to inspect the wall and pick up
the
Meadow Plate. Descend down the Waterfall afterwards and this time go up the
Waterfall to the left, going left and descending the Waterfall. Pick up the
Wave Incense on the land here, so you can breed Mantyke. Fly back to
Sunyshore
City afterwards.
Once you have a Pokemon taught with Waterfall and you're fully healed, set
out
for Route 223 by Surfing upwards.
===========================================================================
====
[073] ROUTE 223
[MW073]
===========================================================================
====
Items: TM18 Rain Dance, Ultra Ball, Dive Ball, Rare Candy
Trainers' Pokemon: Lumineon L45, Bibarel L43, Azumarill L43, Mantyke L41,
Remoraid L42, Mantine L43, Wingull L40, Marill L41, Golduck L43, Octillery
L44,
Wingull L42, Pelipper L44, Tentacruel L45, Wingull L42, Seaking L44,
Floatzel
L43, Tentacruel L43, Pelipper L40, Machoke L42, Gastrodon L44, Golduck L45,
Lumineon L44, Pelipper L42, Gyarados L45, Tentacool L41, Golduck L45
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METHOD |
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|Mantyke | Water/Flying |RemoraidinParty| 10% | 30 - 40 | Surfing
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OG |
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---o
Normally the only trainers I actually battle here are the forced ones and
two
trainers on this route, the one with a Lumineon at the beginning and a
swimmer
with an Octillery later on. Unfortunately since I'm writing the
walkthrough,
I have to battle them all this time. Plus I'm _still_ going to be
underlevelled
for the Elite Four, like always. Sigh ;_;
Right ahead is a female swimmer. Make sure you battle this one to add
Lumineon
to your PokeDex. There is another (useless) swimmer north. By the way, if
you
want to use a Tentacruel, now might not be too bad a time to get one,
seeing as
they appear at incredibly high levels on occasion.
If you keep heading north there is a male swimmer to the left. This guy has
a Mantine which we haven't seen before so you definitely want to face him,
though he's forced anyway. Keep going forward and there is a double battle
you can enter here, but you can also swim around them by taking the right
path around the male swimmer. You _need_ to face the male swimmer though,
since he is the sole wielder of Octillery.
Once you finish that skirmish or avoid it at the cost of your life, head up
and face the swimmer on the left here. Finish off his Tentacruel, then go
back.
Mwahahaha. Go back to the male swimmer which had a Mantine and directly
south-
west of him is a gap in the rocks. Take it and follow it around onto
shallow
land and pick up the TM18 on the shallow. Go back to the place where the
swimmer I hopefully just tricked you into battling was and now continue
heading
north. There are female and male swmimers near here, both of which have
nothing
of worth except sweet, sweet EXP. Things like Wingull are STILL appearing
in
trainer's teams at this stage of the game though. Quite weird.
Once you evade/battle these swimmers, and possibly get your Houndoom killed
by a CH Poison Jab from a Tentacruel -grumble-, go up onto the shallow
land.
Pick up the Ultra Ball in plain view first, then walk in front of the
sailor
and fight him since you have to unfortunately. Keep going to the left, Surf
around to the shallow land on the other side of the rock and continue
north.
Surf out of this alcove, battling the swimmers near here if you wish and
pick
up the one-of-a-kind Dive Ball which is utterly useless since there is no
HM08
Dive in this game. Pick up the Rare Candy on the island to the right, then
go
further north. Battle this last swimmer here, then continue north to reach
the
ever so famous waterfall and the Pokemon League site. Apparently there is
also
one more trainer near the Rare Candy with a Tentacool and Golduck, too.
Pokemon League
---------------
Items: N/A
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Pelipper | Water/Flying | N/A | 35% | 30 - 50 | Surf
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|Luvdisc | Water | N/A | 5% | 20 - 30 | Fishing S
|
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|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Go up to the Waterfall and press A to begin your climbing. Jump off the
water
and enter the very conveniently placed Pokemon Center here. Go in and heal,
then take out the HM slave you may have left in the PC with Rock Climb and
so
forth. We will be needing Rock Climb, Rock Smash and Strength to complete
this.
Once you're ready, exit the Pokemon Center and enter the gaping hole that
is
the entrance to Victory Road on the right. Also, we will unfortunately also
require Waterfall to finish it...
===========================================================================
====
[074] VICTORY ROAD
[MW074]
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====
Floor 1F
---------
Items: TM41 Torment, Max Repel, Nugget
Trainers' Pokemon: Haunter L43, Gengar L46, Gardevoir L46, Noctowl L45,
Togetic
L47, Blissey L45, Magnezone L48, Glalie L46
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Floor |
Floor |
|Rhyhorn | Rock/Ground | Level 42 | 20% | 41 | Cave
Floor |
|Rhydon | Rock/Ground |Trade+Protector| 15% | 41 - 43 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Steelix | Steel/Ground | N/A | 5% | 42 | Cave Floor
|
|Gabite | Ground/Dragon | Level 48 | 5% | 41 | Cave
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
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Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Rhydon | Rock/Ground |Trade+Protector| 15% | 41 - 43 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Get used to this music because we are probably gonna be here in a while. If
you
for some reason want a very late Garchomp, now is the time to get a good
Gabite
at Level 41 - 43, depending on where you are in the cave.
To begin with go forward over the bridge and Rock Climb down, then battle
the
Psychic to the left, which will add Gardevoir to your PokeDex if you aren't
using it yourself. I do recommend battling all the trainers in here, for
both
the PokeDex entries and the large EXP amounts they give.
Go up and collect TM41 Torment, then go back and climb up the rock again
(there
is nothing on the bottom part on this side of the floor.) Go right across
the
bridge and then descend the stairs, going around and battling the Bird
Keeper
to get Togetic in your PokeDex. Go north and collect the Max Repel, then go
back and ascend the stairs and take the northern bridge across.
Descend the rock here and head left. Keep going being careful to not jump
down
the ledge, then ascend the stairs when you get to them. Keep going to face
the
only trainer with a Blissey in the game; though she is also forced. Blissey
has insane defense against special attacks, so try to use physical attacks
against it. Even a weak physical attack will do a lot. Note that Blissey
gives
a _LOT_ of experience (~2400). It is a real pity you can't fight it more
than
once or raising for the E4 would be easy. Damn VS. Seeker not working
indoors
;__; This Ace Trainer is also the only one with a Magnezone, which is the
Magneton evo and weak to the same things as its predecessors. She has a
Glalie
too, but we've seen those before in Snowpoint Gym. Afterwards, go right
north
and check the rock for a Nugget. Finally, head up the stairs to 2F.
Floor 2F
---------
Items: Max Elixir, Full Restore, TM71 Stone Edge
Trainers' Pokemon: Mamoswine L45, Rampardos L48, Mothim L46, Clefable L47,
Torterra L48, Staraptor L47, Lickilicky L47, Staraptor L50, Ambipom L50
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Floor |
|Onix | Rock/Ground |Trade+MetalCoat| 5% | 42 | Cave
Floor |
|Magneton | Electric/Steel |LvlUpinMtCornet| 30% | 41 - 43 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
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Floor |
Floor |
|Magneton | Electric/Steel |LvlUpinMtCornet| 30% | 41 - 43 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
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---o
Break the rock straight ahead of you and push the boulder to get through.
Push
the one by the bike ramp back a bit then get on your bike and jump over it
by
building up a little speed. Go around, break the rock and jump over the
second
bike ramp with the _slower_ bike setting. Pick up the Max Elixir then go
over
the same bike ramp on a higher speed setting. Jump off the ledge to return
to the original starting place of this room.
Break the rock below and arrange the boulders in a fashion that allows you
to
get through. Do so, then go left and battle the Ace Trainer here. Absorb
his
Mamoswine into your PokeDex (or add) and the Rampardos too. There's also a
Mothim but we've seen those before.
After the battle, push the left boulder down, go around, break the rock and
then push the same boulder back up. Go right and down and break the rock,
then
fight the Ace Trainer here with a Clefable and a new addition, Torterra
unless
your rival had it or you have Torterra. So it's only really a new entry if
you
chose Infernape. Remember it has a 4x weakness to Ice to abuse! 2139 exp is
a good reward for defeating it too.
Go right and push the top boulder in this triangular formation to the
right.
Battle the Veteran, go down the stairs back to 1F and then _come back up_.
We've yet some stuff to do on 2F. Also the Veteran has a Lickilicky which
has
the weirdest cry ever.
When you come back up, go back to the triangular rock formation and this
time
push the top rock down, allowing you access to all three ways. Head to the
right and push the first boulder you come to right into the corner. Push
the
second one into the left corner, then break the rock and push the boulder
below
it down, allowing you access through. Go through it and manuever yourself
so
that you go around the bike ramps then get on the faster bike and jump over
them to reach a Full Restore. They sure like to plant these around. Go back
to
the right around the bike ramps again and double battle with the Ace
Trainers
by here. Be warned the Ambipom has Water Pulse and Staraptor Close Combat,
so
don't except Fire/Dark types to survive the assault ;-; Use the bike ramps
again but only jump over the first two and collect TM71 Stone Edge as your
prize. It's basically a Rock version of Cross Chop and a very good move.
Make your way back to the stairs and descend. This time we're actually
going
to explore the first floor again.
Floor 1F (II)
-------------
Items: Ultra Ball
Trainers' Pokemon: Machamp L48
Go right, descend the mountain and go around. Fight the Blackbelt to add
the
lovely Machamp to your PokeDex, then continue right and down the stairs.
That
sure didn't last long. Note that there is a hidden Ultra Ball due six
spaces
to the right of the Blackbelt.
Floor B1F
----------
Items: Heart Scale, Calcium, Rare Candy, Ultra Ball, TM59 Dragon Pulse,
Max Elixir
Trainers' Pokemon: Chimecho L44, Absol L45, Dusknoir L46, Lumineon L50,
Rapidash L50, Rhydon L47, Carnivine L48, Altaria L45, Gabite L47
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Azumarill | Water | N/A | 30% | 41 - 43 | Cave Floor
|
|Floatzel | Water | N/A | 30% | 42 - 44 | Cave Floor
|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
|Floatzel | Water | N/A | 90% | 30 - 50 | Surfing
|
|Golbat | Poison/Flying | Happiness | 10% | 30 - 50 | Surfing
|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 |100% | 3 - 25 | Fishing
OG |
|Gyarados | Water/Flying | N/A |100% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
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|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
This floor likes water. Surf across to the center platform and battle the
Psychic here to add Chimecho to your PokeDex if you've yet to see it, as
well
as the Absol that you definitely haven't seen unless you were lucky enough
to
find one atop Mt. Coronet. This woman is also the sole wielder of Dusknoir
as
well. Damn her for having a Pokemon that can be so annoying to take down at
the
worst times. Ghost-type, so Dark/Ghost works best. It has Will-O-Wisp to
burn,
by the way. Afterwards, swim around the Psychic to the right hand side, and
then Surf across the southern water and inspect the rock for a Heart Scale.
Pick up the Calcium atop the stairs then challenge the Ace Trainer team to
a
battle. Surf across the river here, then go up the stairs and collect the
Rare Candy by here.
Go back and return to the right side of the Psychic that had the Dusknoir
and follow the path north to an Ultra Ball and another Ace Trainer to
fight,
this one having Rhydon, which you won't have seen before unless it showed
up
in the Wild during one of the other floors.
Now is the time to use Waterfall. Get on the water, and go up the
Waterfall.
Go left and go down the other Waterfall and collect the TM59 Dragon Pulse
by
here. Go back on the water behind you and Waterfall up it again, then jump
off and battle the Dragon Tamer to the left. This will add Altaria and
Gabite
to your PokeDex if you haven't seen them already.
Surf to the left once more and near the stairs, use the Dowsing App to find
a Max Elixir (it's on the square DIRECTLY top-right of the top rock of the
two rocks next to eachother on the left wall.) Go up the stairs afterwards.
Floor 1F (III)
---------------
Items: Razor Claw, Zinc, TM79 Dark Pulse
Trainers' Pokemon: Porygon-Z L46, Empoleon L46, Tangrowth L46, Gible L43,
Gabite L47, Swablu L45
Head directly left for now, ignoring the veteran and following the path to
get
a Razor Claw, allowing you to evolve Sneasel. Go back to the veteran and
this
time challenge him, adding Porygon-Z, Tangrowth and possibly Empoleon to
your
PokeDex. Go up the stairs next to the Veteran and follow the bridge across
to
get a Zinc. We'll be able to enter the blocked area later; go back to where
the
Veteran is and this time go in the gap between the two raised parts, go
left
and climb the rock here. Go up the stairs, move the boulders and grab the
TM79, Dark Pulse by here. Very useful to teach to a Houndoom or something.
Go back down, descend the rock, go to the right raised part and ascend the
rock. Battle the dragon tamer, who has a... Swablu? Oh well. After you
finish
him, continue north across the bridge and exit out the huge white space to
the
left.
===========================================================================
====
[075] POKEMON LEAGUE
[MW075]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Sky Plate
Trainers' Pokemon: See walkthrough.
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
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o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Welcome to the Pokemon League, home of utter underlevelledness all the

time.
At least for me, anyway. If you press A on the tile to the left side of the
left statue three tiles away, you will get a Sky Plate to use. Go up and
use
Waterfall to get up this waterfall, then Surf off the water and enter the
huge
building you might have seen looking out the telescope earlier. The league
is
situated in a very high place; you can see fog and everything if you look
over
the edges. It's a pretty nice effect.
The inside has been remodeled from D/P, giving it a nice futuristic look.
GO
TO THE POKEMON CENTER ON THE LEFT BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. When you approach
the
guy blocking the entrance to the Pokemon League, your rival will come
running
in and challenge you to a battle on the spot. You might want to save before
that happens. This is the last _forced_ rival battle in the game, but you
do
get an opportunity to battle him again later on.
Go up to the guy when you're ready. Just stepping on the tile in front of
him
causes the rival to appear. Enjoy your battle..?
o-----------------------o
| MY CURRENT TEAM |
o-----------------------o
| :: Rotom Lv. 51 | - @ Magnet
| :: Houndoom Lv. 51 | - @ Dread Plate
| :: Gardevoir Lv. 51 | - @ Mind Plate
| :: Staraptor Lv. 51 | - @ Sky Plate
| :: Empoleon Lv. 51 | - @ Mystic Water
o-----------------------o
[ RIVAL BATTLE #6 ]
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Snorlax Male Lv. 49 EXP: 1617 |
| :: Empoleon Male Lv. 51 EXP: 2295 |
o-----------------------------------------o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Torterra Male Lv. 51 EXP: 2272 |
o---------------------------------------- o
o-----------------------------------------o
|-----------------------------------------|
| :: Infernape Male Lv. 51 EXP: 2284 |
o-----------------------------------------o
REWARDS: $5100
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
I outfitted my team with the stat boosting items beforehand. While they may
not be much use in competitive games they are decent items for in-game
since
they don't get used up by berries and it adds some extra oomph to your
attacks.
Staraptor is the same as always. Fierce, slightly frail, decently fast,
very
strong. A quick jolt of electricity or ice should stop it as usual, as will
a good Rock attack such as the Stone Edge technique you picked up before.
Heracross is particuarly strong with hard hitting attacks like Megahorn,

but it completely flops against Flying attacks. Excluding that, Fire and
Psychic are decent bets. Heracross does have Close Combat, which is capable
of dealing a huge amount of damage to your units. Be careful!
Snorlax is a new addition. It is quite bulky, with high HP and special

defense
as well as strong attack. It is incredibly slow but it can possibly be
quite
hard to take it down. However, Fighting attacks are its bane. A Close
Combat
from a Fighting Pokemon, Staraptor etcetera will probably do either a LOT
of
damage or possibly kill it in one.
The elemental substitutes for the starters are also quite similar to
before.
Still somewhat frail, still somewhat strong. Floatzel has crazy speed while
Roserade has large elemental power and Rapidash is a mix of both. Floatzel
has Crunch for Psychics and such but it was no match for my own Gardevoir -
one Thunderbolt shut it down completely. Rapidash also knows the Sunny Day
technique, allowing it to reduce water's power upon it. My Empoleon still
nearly killed it in one hit though, even with the Sunny Day active.
Rapidash
also has Will-O-Wisp to burn and reduce attack. I have no idea what
Roserade
has since I haven't fought it while actually recording data...
The starter's level is, as you can see, completely equal to my team's
levels
at the moment. Unfortunately the Elite Four's levels rise very quickly
between
the five challenges, so be prepared to use a _lot_ of healing items when we
get to that. For the time being, just use type weaknesses against your
starter.
As a reminder, Infernape dies to Water/Psychic/Ground, Empoleon to
Electric/
Ground/Fighting and Torterra to Ice/Fire/Flying. Flying may not hit it as
hard
due to its high defence so Flying is probably the way to go. Basically all
of
the starters can learn one move to defeat their counterpart quite easily,
so
a Starter vs Starter battle is a decent way of doing it. Personally I just
used Houndoom and Fire Blasted Torterra, but eh.
After you beat him, he'll run out. Talk to the Ace Trainer blocking the
doorway
now and after announcing the eight badges a fanfare will play and he moves
out of the way, allowing you access to the league.
Heal up again and go to the right; we need to do some shopping. Buy as many
Hyper Potions, Full Restore, Full Heal etcetera as you think you'll need.
I usually buy about 30 Hyper Potions, 10 Full Restores and 10 Full Heals,
as well as about 20 Revives. I don't usually use all of them but it's nice
to
have some backup. The right side is also a Pokeball counter with a good
list,
selling nearly every type of Pokeball in the game.
I should mention that the Elite Four have lower levels than they did in
Diamond
and Pearl, but their AI and teams overall have been improved, so don't
expect
any less of a challenge than you usually get. They also mostly have better
movesets overall.
When you're ready, save and enter the league. The real challenge begins
now!
::::: ELITE FOUR #1 :::::
When you enter, you'll be in a room with an elevator. Take it up and enter
the
room ahead.
Welcome to the room of bugs. In a lovely twist from D/P, all of the Elite
Four
rooms have been COMPLETELY REVAMPED! They're now decorated according to
type
and this one has grass, rocks, a trunk that you can walk through and such
to
decorate that this room belongs to the Bug-type.
Our first challenge lies with the trainer in the center. Master of Bug-
types,
Aaron is the first challenge. He's upgraded from D/P, now having useful
bugs
instead of the cool but useless Beautifly and Dustox he had before. Talk to
him, read his chat etcetera, then the battle begins. You get a nice VS.
block
when he first appears too. I love those things. By the way, it's in your
best
interest to have a Pokemon with a Flying, Fire or Rock move at your lead.
Most
preferably, one of the latter two since Rock is very effective against the
starter and it also has 30 less SDef than Def, but in the long run it
doesn't
really matter. Flying still works fine.
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR AARON::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| POKEMON | TYPE | ABILITY | LEVEL | GENDER | EXPERIENCE |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| Yanmega | Bug/Flying | Speed Boost | Lvl49 | Male | 2079 |
| Heracross | Bug/Fighting | Swarm | Lvl51 | Male | 2185 |
| Vespiquen | Bug/Flying | Pressure | Lvl50 | Female | 2013 |
| Scizor | Bug/Steel | Swarm | Lvl49 | Male | 2100 |
| Drapion* | Poison/Dark | Battle Armor | Lvl53 | Male | 2316 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $6360 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| * Equipped with a Sitrus Berry. |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The backgrounds on these Elite Four matches are amazing. They all match
with
their respective types, so Aaron has a green abstract, while the others
have
beige/brown, red/orange/yellow, purple/pink and the champion's... just wait
and
see. It looks amazing though.
Yanmega starts off this battle. It is equipped with both Double Team and
Speed
Boost and can become quite a threat if it isn't dealt with quickly. Yanmega
is
a wielder of Bug Buzz, a powerful Bug special attack that off Yanmega's
rather
aamzing 116 Special Attack will hurt if it starts using it but it will
likely
go for the Double Teams first. Take it out ASAP. Rock is particuarly
effective
due to the 4x weakness and Fire will attack its low Special Defense. Or you
can
smack it around with Flying moves, also dealing plenty of damage.
Heracross is the same as the rival's, practically. This is one Pokemon that
you
definitely want to use Flying attacks on. However, be warned it has STONE
EDGE!
While it is somewhat slow, if your Flying Pokemon gets hit with that and
does
have a weakness to it it is not likely to survive, or if it is then with
little
health. Attack it quick and fast. Alternatively you can use Fire and
Psychic
as usual, but if Heracross doesn't die expect a HARD retaliation back.
Vespiquen is highly defensive but doesn't have too much in the way of
offense.
However depsite having 102 base defense and special defense, it has a 4x
rock
weak which completely kills it. Attack it with a Rock attack to practically
kill it instantly, or with a very strong Fire/Flying attack. You should be
able
to 2HKO it at the very least.
Scizor is a new addition, like Yanmega. It got a new sprite too which I
quite
like. But enough of that; Scizor is Bug/Steel. It has a lot more power than
its pre-evolution - Scyther - did, but it is much slower. Get a Fire attack
in
before it moves and you've got yourself a winning tactic. Seriously, it
dies
instantly to Fire. Low special defense and a quadruple Fire weakness do not
mix
well at all.
Drapion is Aaron's main Pokemon and while it isn't actually Bug, Skorupi
was.
Drapion's typing is annoying for it means that Ground is the ONLY type that
it
is possible to hit it with double strength with. If you have a good Steel-
type
SEND IT OUT NOW. For me my Empoleon did the job with Surf and Drapion just
kept
X-Scissoring me, doing like 10 damage a hit. Alternatively, just hit it
with
strong special attacks, but be wary of its strong X-Scissor and Cross
Poison
attacks all the while.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you beat Aaron, the door at the top will open up. Prepare yourself for
the
next battle, then enter. This time, you'll be wanting a Pokemon that has a
move
that is Grass-type at the beginning of your party. Something like Magical
Leaf
Gardevoir, a Roserade, Torterra and such will work brilliantly. Otherwise
you
will just have to beat on the starting Pokemon, for it is quite durable.
Enter the door when you're ready.
::::: ELITE FOUR #2 :::::
Once again, you're met with an elevator. Ride up and enter the next room.
This
battle is based on Ground and for that reason there are tons of arid
mountains
in the room, giving a sandy feel to the place. The person we must beat this
time is Bertha, a cheery old woman who is very strongly implied to be
Agatha's
sister, despite it not being explicitly said. Talk to her when you're
ready,
and begin fight number two.
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|:::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR BERTHA::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| Whiscash | Water/Ground | Oblivious | Lvl50 | Female | 1692 |
| Hippowdon | Ground | Sand Stream | Lvl52 | Female | 2205 |
| Gliscor | Ground/Flying| Hyper Cutter | Lvl53 | Female | 2179 |
| Golem | Rock/Ground | Rock Head | Lvl52 | Female | 1971 |
| Rhyperior* | Rock/Ground | Lightningrod | Lvl55 | Female | 2557 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $6600 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
This battle has a lovely dark background with brown shades. It really does
look
quite nice, especially with the Pokemon that Bertha has.
Whiscash begins this battle and its Oblivious ability means that it cannot
be
attracted. Such a lot of trouble. If you have a Grass move, USE IT.
Whiscash
has a quadruple weakness to it, so it will die. Or come very close to, at
the
very least. If you do not have a Grass attack, then beat on it with the
best
attacks you have. Remember to not use Electric attacks or be met with a
very,
very bad fate at the hands of Ground moves.
Hippowdon is no longer Bertha's main, but is still an important part of her

party and for good reason. Hippowdon has the Sand Stream ability and when
Sandstorm is active on the field in D/P/Pt, it gives an automatic +1 SDef
bonus to ALL rock-types on the field. This means that Bertha's Rhyperior
and Golem both get a boost in their special defense, making them very
slightly
harder to kill. Hippowdon is also very durable, but a good Water attack
will
put it out. Grass works as well, as does Ice. Personally I used Rotom and
used
Blizzard on it (since I had it in fridge form) and got a critical, but it
is
possible to take it down with strong elemental attacks.
Gliscor is annoying. It is decently fast and it is armed with Earthquake

which
is hell for opposing Rock, Steel, Fire etcetera types (see: Empoleon).
Gliscor
dies incredibly easily to Ice attacks, so if you can muster an Ice Beam or
Blizzard attack to strike Gliscor, it should go down very quickly. I had
Empoleon Ice Beam it, but I survived Earthquake with about 3 HP remaining.
Golem is classic Golem, having very high defenses but weak special defense.
Be warned that Sandstorm's boost means it may survive unSTABed Water and
Grass attacks such as Gardevoir's Magical Leaf but with little HP, meaning
Bertha will use a Full Restore on it. It has good moves such as Earthquake
and whatnot but a good Water or Grass attack will take it out in due time.
Rhyperior is Bertha's new main. It is very slow and also has a 4x weakness
to
Water and Grass like Golem, but it is also incredibly powerful with a
massive
140 base attack strength. It will cause plenty of damage to your Pokemon so
be careful around it. Luckily Rock Armour is a Slot 2 ability, so it
doesn't
apply to this Rhyperior - if it was there then the damage of Surf,
Solarbeam
and such (though I would not use Solarbeam here, honestly) would get cut
to about a 1/3 of the usual strength. Deal with it similarly to Golem - use
a strong, preferably STABed Water or Grass attack to make it fall.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Next up, you want to have a Water Pokemon at the front, for we will be
seeing
a familiar face in the next room. Recover your Pokemon as needed, save if
you
want to (but be wary you will only be able to escape from the E4 by losing
money afterwards) and head into the next room.
::::: ELITE FOUR #3 :::::

Take the elevator up and enter the room. Flint will be at the center of
room
with flames dancing below the stage. Definitely Fire based, I would say.
I have no real backstory for this, so talk to Flint and begin the battle.
By
the way, did I mention the small elemental effect that takes place when the
VS hits between the two pictures?
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|:::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR FLINT:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| Houndoom | Fire/Dark | Early Bird | Lvl52 | Male | 2272 |
| Infernape | Fire/Fighting| Blaze | Lvl55 | Male | 2463 |
| Flareon | Fire | Flash Fire | Lvl55 | Male | 2332 |
| Rapidash | Fire | Early Bird | Lvl53 | Male | 2179 |
| Magmortar* | Fire | Flame Body | Lvl57 | Male | 2430 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $6840 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Houndoom is basic. It's loaded with Flamethrower and Sunny Day, that much
is
certain. As usual it is quite frail and will die to any Water, Ground, Rock
etcetera attack. Oddly it kept Flamethrowering my Empoleon instead of using
Sunny Day, but it can break out the sun sometimes. Kill it ASAP. I should
mention it also has Sludge Bomb as an extra move for dealing with opposing
Fire
types and such. It's safe to assume it also has a Dark attack, most likely
Dark
Pulse; so don't try Psychic-types against it.
Infernape has been shifted as Flint's main Pokemon, but it is still part of
the
team. Infernape has been outfitted with the powerful Flare Blitz attack, as
well as Earthquake. Use a Water type if possible, but a Flying type may
also be
a good bet in this particular case. Infernape is also weak to Psychic-type
Pokemon, so there's another option in that. It has a high 108 base speed so
you
may not be able to attack before it, unfortunately. I don't recommend using
Empoleon against it if you have it for Earthquake will kill it after
Houndoom's
Flamethrower. It will still take off quite a bit of health regardless.
Rapidash has Sunny Day as well as Flare Blitz, meaning it has the
capabilities
for a VERY powerful attack. It is quite likely to set up Sunny Day ASAP,
and
it will have a Full Restore used on it once it becomes too weak.
Unfortunately
there aren't too many fast Water Pokemon, but if you can go before Rapidash
then try to get it out with a Surf as soon as possible.
Flareon is the second of three new additions to Flint's team, making it
fully
fire whereas before it was actually quite diversed. Flareon, while having
130
base attack, was not given the moves to properly use it, so it isn't too
much
of a threat and it is quite frail too. It does have Will-O-Wisp to burn,
though
so be careful of that.
Magmortar is outfitted with a sticker! Makes it look like it shoots fire

when
it comes out, which looks pretty good. Don't let its appearance fool you;
it is
actually quite frail. My Level 54 Staraptor OHKOed it with Brave Bird on my
game (said Staraptor is Hardy) and Surf will also probably kill it in one
hit
unless sunlight is on the field. Be warned it has some powerful attacks
such as
Flamethrower, Thunderbolt and such.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The last Elite Four battle is probably the hardest going, though it can
really
depend on your team. You want someone with a Dark or Ghost move at the top
of
your team preferably, or a hard hitting Physical attacker. Enter the door
etc.
::::: ELITE FOUR #4 :::::
Going up the elevator and entering the room will lead you into a purple
field
with lamps in several places. Lucian is a master of Psychic-type Pokemon
which
can be somewhat hard to take down if you don't have the correct Pokemon. If
you
have a Houndoom it will help MAJORLY in this battle for it can score
effective
hits on all of Lucian's Pokemon, with the exception of his main Pokemon. Be
warned that this can become pretty hard, if only because of the very high
SAtk
ratings of some of his Pokemon. Challenge Lucian when you're ready to go.
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR LUCIAN:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| Mr. Mime | Psychic | Soundproof | Lvl53 | Male | 1543 |
| Alakazam | Psychic | Synchronize | Lvl56 | Male | 2232 |
| Espeon | Psychic | Synchronize | Lvl55 | Male | 2320 |
| Bronzong | Psychc/Steel | Levitate | Lvl54 | NoGd | 2175 |
| Gallade* | Psychc/Fight | Steadfast | Lvl59 | Male | 2629 |
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|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $7080 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Starting off this battle is Mr. Mime, who is decently fast and fond of
setting
up Reflect. Having Dark Pulse or Shadow Ball will help with this. Mr. Mime,
in addition to having Psychic also has Thunderbolt as a main offense. It
has
very poor normal defense, so you want to kill it quickly.
Alakazam is a very frail Pokemon, with low HP and Def. However, it is a

HUGE
Special Attack base of 135 and is outfitted with Psychic, Focus Blast and
Energy Ball to cover a range of type. If Focus Blast misses the Dark-type
then that will work, but otherwise Alakazam can prove to be a real problem.
It
is quite fast too with 120 base speed, so it will probably outspeed most of
your powerful physical attackers. Personally I used Calm Mind with
Gardevoir
for a few turns then killed it with Thunderbolt. You want to hit it as hard
as
you can. If Focus Blast misses then you'll have much less problems.
Lucian joined the Eeveelution fad and has an Espeon now. Espeon is similar
to
Alakazam with 130 special attack base but is slightly better defensively.
It
has Psychic and Shadow Ball in an attempt to deal with Psychic and Ghost-
types
but due to my Gardevoir's Calm Minds it screwed that strategy up. :] Dark
Pokemon work for this too, but my Houndoom got incapacitated by a critical
hit
Thunderbolt vs Mr. Mime - while it didn't kill it, it did paralyze it which
practically took it out of the game since I was too lazy to use a Full
Restore.
Lovely. Espeon is also quite fast, but a strong attack will take it out.
Bronzong is MUCH, MUCH easier than it was to take out in D/P. First of all
it
has dropped from Level 63 to Level 54, and it is also more open to damage
on
the whole. If you have a Fire attack that is the best thing to use for it
is
immune to Ground due to Levitate. Otherwise hit it with your strongest
attacks,
preferably like Water or Electric. Bronzong is armed with attacks like
Psychic
and Earthquake but it doesn't have too high attack power.
Gallade is Lucian's new main Pokemon, though if you ask me it isn't

really...
fitting. I suppose it's a new DP Pokemon and all that but Lucian really
does
not seem like the type to have a Fighting-type Pokemon. But nevertheless,
he
has it. Gallade is Psychic/Fighting, which has so many characters it
wouldn't
fit in the table ¬¬; While defensively it is quite weak it actually has
very
good Special Defense. Note that it is not weak to Dark, but it is to Ghost.
I'd recommend using a good Flying attack to be honest. Gallade does have
Stone
Edge but luckily it isn't actually too fast.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
We're nearly done now, but we've still got one more person to defeat - the
current reigning Champion. This will probably be the hardest battle in the
league since like the likes of Green back in R/B/Y, the champion has a very
diverse team. Go up the corridor when you're ready.
::::: CHAMPION BATTLE :::::
Head up the elevator and the incredibly long corridor. Save before you
enter
the next room if you wish, then enter.
Cynthia is the champion! Which anyone who has played D/P, which is probably
every single one of you, would have known already. It is nice to have a
female
champion for a change though. The piano music that plays as she talks to
you is
funny to an extent as well. So very dramatic.
The champion's room has changed to a lit up Pokeball with blocks around,
almost
creating a digital feel. It reminds me of Digimon World's Mt. Infinity
almost,
despite looking near nothing alike. The elevator ruins it though. Really
ugly
blue with all the black and such.
Continue the conversation and soon enough, the battle will start!
o-----------------------o
| My Team At This Point |
o-----------------------o
| - Staraptor Lv. 55 |
| - Empoleon Lv. 54 |
| - Houndoom Lv. 52 |
| - Gardevoir Lv. 52 |
| - Rotom Lv. 52 |
o-----------------------o
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|:::::::::::::::::::::::::::CHAMPION CYNTHIA:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| Spiritomb | Ghost/Dark | Pressure | Lvl58 | Female | 2088 |
| Togekiss | Normal/Flying| Hustle | Lvl60 | Male | 2827 |
| Lucario | Fight/Steel | Steadfast | Lvl60 | Male | 2622 |
| Milotic | Water | Marvel Scale | Lvl58 | Female | 2646 |
| Roserade | Grass/Poison | Natural Cure | Lvl58 | Female | 2535 |
| Garchomp* | Dragon/Ground| Sand Veil | Lvl62 | Female | 2895 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $12400 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
I love the intro to this battle. The purple crosshatch background looks
amazing
with the white and Cynthia has one of the best battle intros in the game
with
the hair in the wind and everything. Definitely one of my favourites.
Yup, I seem to be quite underlevelled for this fight. But with all of the
healing items you can use, it is still possible to win. I have no idea
where
people get their Pokemon to Level 60 and such levels, honestly. I always
end
up in the very early 50s on every Elite Four (except GSC where I end up
about
~45 or so sometimes.) Using Max Revives here can be a good idea, for there
isn't really anywhere else you need them in the game.
Starting off this battle is Spiritomb. Spiritomb is a Dark and Ghost dual
type
with 108 in each defensive stat. Offensively it isn't too good, but it
isn't
the easiest Pokemon to take down. Unfortunately the typing leaves it with
no
weaknesses unless you have a Foresight + Fighting user, so your best bet is
hitting it with incredibly strong attacks such as Brave Bird.
Togekiss is the only change in Cynthia's team, replacing Gastrodon.

Togekiss'
main offense is Air Slash, a special Flying move with a very high chance of
Flinching. Thankfully, Togekiss doesn't have Serene Grace, otherwise
Togekiss
would be able to flinch you 60% of the time. Togekiss is notable for having
some of the highest base stat totals of any non-legendary Pokemon, reaching
about 545 in total. With the exception of legendaries, Arcanine is the only
Pokemon that beats Togekiss out in this (well, Slaking too.) The Togekiss
here
is probably most weak to Rock attacks, but Electric and Ice will be decent
as
well, albeit not as good. I used a CM/Thunderbolt strat to take it down.
You
just need to beat it down, really.
Lucario we've seen before in Maylene's gym and as Riley's Pokemon. It has
quite
a wide variety of attacks, including Stone Edge and Aura Sphere. This can
make
it a VERY tough foe to take out, so try and hit it with attacks of a
Ground,
Fire or Fighting type. Alternatively you can use stuff like water, but it
may
not have the utmost effect. Luckily it is quite frail, but Lucario is also
pretty fast with the 90 base speed and high level it has. Lucario also has
Extremespeed to take out fairly weakened Pokemon and this can be VERY
DANGEROUS
if left unchecked. Try not to leave it alive too long, or the whole battle
will
go wrong. I might mention it also has Shadow Ball, so Ghost-types will also
be
taking a fair about of damage.
Of course, no hard battle with a female trainer is complete without
Milotic.
Milotic isn't too fast but it is a very bulky Pokemon with high defense and
special defense. It sports Dragon Pulse, Ice Beam and Surf. Milotic also
has
Mirror Coat which will reflect your special attacks right back at you.
Watch
out for it! She is very likely to use it when it seems obvious a special
attack
is coming. Be warned that inflicting Milotic with a status will also cause
Marvel Scale to activate, which means Milotic's defense will rise a level.
Of
course if you have Toxic then it might not be so bad giving that a try.
Rotom
users may also want to use Substitute before using an Electric attack, so
that
you are protected from Mirror Coat. It is not easy to take down by any
means,
but a strong super effective attack can quite possibly down it within two
hits.
If you get it down really close to 0 HP then it may get Full Restored but
it's
somewhat hard to avoid.
Roserade is almost laughable compared to the rest. However it is armed with

Energy Ball, a strong 80 power Grass attack that Roserade can use with
gusto.
Thankfully it is quite slow, so a good Fire, Flying, etcetera move will
take
it out fairly easily. Fire may take about two hits depending on the level
of
your Pokemon for it has high special defense, but Flying should crush it.
It
does also have Toxic, but you're armed with Full Restores and Full Heals.
It
does also have Sludge Bomb, which is an incredibly powerful attack off STAB
and
125 special attack.
Garchomp is the real powerhouse here. It has truly massive stats and
incredibly
powerful moves such as Earthquake. Luckily it is four levels lower than
before
but it still has incredible speed and offense as well as decent durability.
You want to hit it with an Ice attack if possible. Empoleon isn't the best
Pokemon to use for this because Earthquake will one shot it. Be warned
Garchomp
also has the move Dragon Rush which, while inaccurate, will do a lot of
damage.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you win, Cynthia will allow you access to the Hall of Fame. Rowan will
make an appearance and all three of you will enter the Hall of Fame
together;
after some more dialogue, your Pokemon will be officially entered into the
Hall
of Fame, which you can now see on the PC.
Once the credits begin, you can either keep watching them or simply reset
the
game to continue. The credits are a bit different from D/P though and I
think
the music is quite nice, personally. Keep it in mind that you can reset the
game after your Hall of Fame thing together with your Pokemon is officially
recorded, however, since it saves in that place.
Once you do whatever and want to continue, reload the game. That's the main
story done for now.
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[6] POKEMON PLATINUM AFTERMAIN WALKTHROUGH [S006]
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====
The rest of this walkthrough will explore sections only available after the
National Dex is obtained from Professor Rowan in Sandgem Town.
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[000] NATIONAL DEX
[WE000]
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Twinleaf Town
--------------
After finishing the Pokemon League, you will start the game again in your
hometown, as usual. Assuming you have seen all 210 Pokemon, head to Sandgem
Town. If not, refer to the Sinnoh Dex See Pokemon Locations section until
you
have seen all 210, then go to Sandgem Town.
Sandgem Town
-------------
Items: PokeDex Upgrade, PokeRadar
Go into the lab and if you have seen all of the Pokemon, Professor Rowan
will
congratulate you and in comes Professor Oak. Professor Oak will then give
you
the upgrade to your PokeDex, the National Pokedex, allowing you to record
data
on all 493 Pokemon in the game, as well as access some totally new areas.
After Oak leaves, Rowan will also give you the PokeRadar, allowing you to
find
some Pokemon in areas that you could not find before such as Bagon. Also,
you
can now go to Dawn/Lucas' house (southeast house in Sandgem Town) and talk
to her/his sister to find out where a swarm is in the Sinnoh region - in
one
specific area a new Pokemon will be there for the day. You can also visit
the
Pokemon Mansion on Route 212 and discover a new Pokemon there every day. If
you
want to continue on with the story, the Stark Mountain quest is the next
thing.
However, note that you can do plenty of things now, including the extra
Victory
Road part or catching Dialga/Palkia on Spear Pillar, for which you can see
the
respective sections for. We may as well head to Stark Mountain first though
for
it continues the 'story' canonically.
Fly to Snowpoint City.
Snowpoint City
---------------
Items: n/a
Here, go south and talk to the boatman. Cynthia will come and get him to
allow
you access, then leave. You'll go in the boat and sail off to the Fight
Area,
amid all the ice floes.
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[001] FIGHT AREA
[WE001]
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Items: Hondew Berry (x4), Pomeg Berry (x2)
Trainers' Pokemon: See walkthrough.
As soon as you enter the area, your rival will notice you and talk to you.
He
will take you to the entrance of the Battle Park where several trainers are
waiting, with Volkner and Flint in the entrance! Some dialogue will be
passed
and if you select Yes, you will end up in a double battle with the two of
them.
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|:::::::::::::::::::::::::::VOLKNER & FLINT::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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| Houndoom | Fire /Dark | Early Bird | Lvl56 | Male | 2488 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
| Luxray | Eletctric | Rivalry | Lvl56 | Male | 2328 |
| Jolteon | Electric | Volt Absorb | Lvl56 | Male | 2364 |
| Electivire*| Electric | Motor Drive | Lvl58 | Male | 2472 |
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|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $13920 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Just decided to use the E4 box for fun. There's not a lot to say about this
battle; Volkner uses Electric and Flint uses Fire, so Ground will wipe the
whole team out pretty much. Your rival also supports you with some decent
Level
50ish Pokemon, meaning you also get all of the experience. Flint's Houndoom
is likely to start Sunny Day (the top three are Flint's, the bottom three
Volkner's.) Unfortunately those who have a rival with Torterra will not
have
quite the advantage they may have thought since Fire will beat it very
quickly.
The movesets are quite similar to their respective battles really,
including
the use of Charge Beam and such. Electivire and Magmortar are still quite
frail
too... it isn't really too hard, considering what trainers you're up
against.
Flareon will pick off your low HP Pokemon with Quick Attack, by the way.
I'm
fairly sure you have to do this battle before we can explore the island
more,
so do so. Note that Magmortar has Solarbeam, which will fire immediately if
Sunny Day is up at the time. The battle gives a nice money payout, I must
say.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
After you beat them they'll disappear, Galactic style, as will all of the
trainers nearby except for one.
The leader of the Battle Tower also makes an appearance - Palmer - who is,
most
certainly canonically, your rival's father. They'll talk for a bit, then go
their seperate ways. The remaining trainer comes to talk to you afterwards;
his name is Buck and he comments on Stark Mountain to the north. We will be
going there in due course.
Enter the Battle Park quickly. You'll get a 'Frontier Pass' of sorts that
is
added to your Battle Recorder rather than the Trainer Card this time and
you
can also ask for information. Head up into the main park, which is now the
Battle Frontier. There isn't actually anything here to get for free like
items
on the ground and such, but it's nice for a bit of sightseeing. There are
five
facilties instead of seven like Emerald in each of the directional points
of a
star. I'll cover them in more depth later on.
Exit the Battle Frontier when you're ready (though you can listen to some
music
in the facilities if you wish) and pick the berries over by the Pokemon
Center.
Go over to the far left and talk to the Fisherman to get the Super Rod,
letting
you get powerful Pokemon that aren't just in the Sinnoh Dex too. Go heal up
from the double battle we just had, then go through the gatehouse that is
just
above the Fisherman to get into Route 225.
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[002] ROUTE 225
[WE002]
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Items: Razor Fang, Rare Candy, HP Up, Big Mushroom, Revive, Leaf Stone,
Fresh
Water, Lax Incense, Green Shard, Kelpsy Berry (x2), Tamato Berry (x2), Dawn
Stone, Dubious Disc
Trainers' Pokemon: Linoone L55, Taillow L51, Arbok L55, Farfetch'd L53,
Pidgeot L55, Slowpoke L52, Slowbro L56, Skarmory L54, Donphan L54, Golduck
L54,
Starmie L55, Vibrava L56, Pinsir L55, Lanturn L56, Flaaffy L55, Tropius
L56,
Gabite L53, Altaria L55
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Rattata | Normal | Level 20 | 5% | 47 | Grass
|
|Raticate | Normal | N/A | 15% | 49 - 50 | Grass
|
|Spearow | Normal/Flying | Level 20 | 5% | 47 | Grass
|
|Fearow | Normal/Flying | N/A | 30% | 48 - 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|Makuhita | Fighting | Level 24 | 40% | 48 - 49 | Swarm
|
|Mankey | Fighting | Level 28 | 2% | 47 | PokeRadar
|
|Primeape | Fighting | N/A | 10% | 49 - 50 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
|Spearow | Normal/Flying | Level 20 | 5% | 47 | Grass
|
|
|Banette | Ghost | N/A | 20% | 48 - 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|Makuhita | Fighting | Level 24 | 40% | 48 - 49 | Swarm
|
|Mankey | Fighting | Level 28 | 2% | 47 | PokeRadar
|
|Primeape | Fighting | N/A | 10% | 49 - 50 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Ah, nice music. If you haven't noticed it already, look at how the complete
island has been revamped with palm trees rather than the usual trees. Go
over
to the left and use Rock Climb to get onto a darker higher rock and collect
the Razor Fang, allowing you to evolve another Gligar. Note that if you
want
a Shuppet, you'll have to either breed a Banette from this place or use Pal
Park to transfer one. /random fact
Descend and this time go north. Do the battles by here then cut the tree to
the
right and pick up the Rare Candy. Go west past the trainers, following the
path
and up the stairs when the chance presents itself. Pick up the HP Up, then
go
back and to the right and go up this part here. Follow the bridges across
and
picking up the Big Mushroom in the obvious gap you will come across and
soon
you will reach a pacing Ace Trainer. Do what you wish with him then
continue
on, pick up the random Revive and battle another Ace Trainer on the hill.
Go
down the stairs, pick up the Leaf Stone hidden in the bottom left tile of
this
grass, then enter the house and talk to the guy for a random Fresh Water.
Go out, cut the tree, get the Lax Incense for Wynaut and the shared Bright-
powder effect, then up the stairs and across the water to get a second
Dubious
Disc on the other side (you can get an Up-Grade after you do the routes
leading
to Pal Park) then Surf back across. Battle another Ace Trainer by here,
then
go down and even further north and pick up the Green Shard, then go a bit
west
to battle a slightly hidden Ace Trainer. Cut the tree and pick some berries
to the left then go back and north through the grass and climb up the wall.
Fight the Dragon Tamer then collect the Dawn Stone to the right. Go down
the
rock, to the right and into the Survival Area.
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[003] SURVIVAL AREA
[WE003]
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Items: PP Up, TM42 Facade, Rare Candy
Nothing too much to do here. The first house you come to in grey will
actually
be locked but it will become quite important later. Heal your Pokemon in
the
center, then go to the left, jump down the two ledges and pick up the PP Up
hidden in the right angle space between the trees (use the Dowsing App if
you
need it.) Head right, enter the house and talk to the guy for TM42. That is
honestly all there is to do here now, so head right into 226.
By the way, Devilmo666 found a Rare Candy behind the Pokemon Center, too.
The
more candies, the better!
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[004] ROUTE 226
[WE004]
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Items: Red Shard, Qualot Berry (x2), Pomeg Berry (x2), Carbos, Lagging
Tail,
TM53 Energy Ball, TinyMushroom, PP Max, Big Mushroom, Heart Scale, Rare
Candy
Trainers' Pokemon: Tyrogue L55, Hitmonchan L59, Dratini L55, Altaria L57,
Fearow L55, Xatu L57, Marill L54, Wailmer L54, Spheal L54, Carvanha L53,
Carvanha L53, Sharpedo L56
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|Horsea | Water | Level 32 | 35% | 10 - 25 | Fishing G
|
|Seadra | Water |Trade+DragScale| 35% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
|
|Relicanth | Water/Rock | N/A | 5% | 20 - 50 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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|
|
|Banette | Ghost | N/A | 20% | 48 - 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|Horsea | Water | Level 32 | 35% | 10 - 25 | Fishing G
|
|Seadra | Water |Trade+DragScale| 35% | 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
|
|Relicanth | Water/Rock | N/A | 5% | 20 - 50 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Straight away go north and up the rocks and then left. Follow the path to
get
a Red Shard. The house here contains the third move tutor of the game, by
the
way. Go back and descend the rock then down and right and up the wall here.
Fight the Ace Trainer, go up again for more berries (I don't even bother to
get
these normally, but being a Walkthrough writer I have to find out what they
are :/) then down and down again on the right one, further right and down
again
then to the left. So many directions D: Pick up the Carbos, go back up and
go
up again and get the Lagging Tail on the left. Battle the Ace Trainers and
go
down the right side of the wall.
Go right and pick up TM53, then back up the rock and down the left one. Go
further right onto the beach then up the rock here and using the Dowsing
App
pick up the three items here, then get on the water and Surf down and
around
the rocks onto the mini beach and pick up the Heart Scale hidden on this
island
and go back around. Battle the swimmer if you wish then go right and enter
the
house and talk to the hiker to let you view foreign PokeDex entries, which
in
Platinum exist for all Pokemon in the PokeDex. Exit the house and go into
the
northern section into a small gap in the trees and pick up a hidden Rare
Candy
thatr is by here. Surf back to the island with the house and this time Surf
to the right off that island to go the correct way. By the way, jumping off
the
Hiker's island south then swimming right will get you into another fight.
When you take the right path off the hiker's island you will reach more
land.
To the north is Route 227, but we don't want to go there yet. Head to the
east
and through the gatehouse into Route 228.
===========================================================================
====
[005] ROUTE 228
[WE005]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Protector, Hard Stone, Nugget, TM37 Sandstorm, Star Piece, Shed
Shell,
Iron, Hondew Berry (x2), Tamato Berry (x2)
Trainers' Pokemon: Golduck L56, Manectric L57, Sandslash L56, Tyrogue L54,
Makuhita L54, Machamp L57, Trapinch L55, Vibrava L57, Exeggcute L55, Lairon
L57
Empoleon L58, Marowak L57, Zangoose L55, Sandslash L56, Gastrodon L56,
Claydol
L57, Delcatty L57, Abomasnow L58, Xatu L56, Gallade L56
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Cacnea | Grass | Level 32 | 5% | 50 | Grass
|
|Diglett | Ground | Level 26 | 5% | 49 | Grass
|
|Dugtrio | Ground | N/A | 30% | 50 - 52 | Grass
|
|Cacturne | Grass/Dark | N/A | 20% | 52 | Grass
|
|Hippowdon | Ground | N/A | 20% | 50 - 51 | Grass
|
|Rhydon | Rock/Ground |Trade+Protector| 20% | 50 - 52 | Grass
|
|Poliwag | Water | Level 25 | 30% | 35 - 45 | Surf
|
|Poliwhirl | Water | Water Stone | 70% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|
|
|
|
|Beldum | Steel/Psychic | Level 20 | 40% | 51 - 52 | Swarm
|
|Sandslash | Ground | N/A | 8% | 49 - 50 | Grass LG
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Cacnea | Grass | Level 32 | 5% | 50 | Grass
|
|Diglett | Ground | Level 26 | 5% | 49 | Grass
|
|Dugtrio | Ground | N/A | 30% | 50 - 52 | Grass
|
|Cacturne | Grass/Dark | N/A | 40% | 50 - 52 | Grass
|
|Hippowdon | Ground | N/A | 10% | 51 | Grass
|
|Rhydon | Rock/Ground |Trade+Protector| 10% | 52 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Beldum | Steel/Psychic | Level 20 | 40% | 51 - 52 | Swarm
|
|Sandslash | Ground | N/A | 8% | 49 - 50 | Grass LG
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
A somewhat confusing Sandstorm route. Just great. The sand comes down as
bad
as the snowstorm on Route 217... head up and battle the Ace Trainer right
by
here who I daresay can have quite an annoying Sandslash if you have bad
luck
because of Sand Veil. Go down the slope next to him and pick up the
Protector,
then back up, south and fight the Blackbelt hidden in the sand.
Go down the slide here and enter the cave. This is where Regirock will show
up
if you have the event Regigigas in your party; enter and collect the Hard
Stone
in the center and collect the hidden Nugget in the north-east corner. Exit
the
cave and go back up the slope to the right, then up another slope the right
and fight the trainer here. Keep going up the slope then across the thin
wood
bridge and down another slope and keep going across the wooden pieces until
you reach a Shiny Stone. Go back and descend the slope by here, then up and
pick up the TM37 in the corner. Go up further and battle the two rangers
here,
then further up and inspect the small rock by the mound for a Star Piece.
If
you enter the house here you can teach Starter Pokemon the moves Hydro
Cannon,
Frenzy Plant or Blast Burn but honestly they aren't very good because of
the
wait-for-a-turn-afterwards requirement. Go up, break the rocks, pick up the
Shed Shell by here. Go through the grass north-west and fight the Ace
Trainer
here. Going further north will take us right back into Route 226, so go
right
down through the grass. Afterwards go north-east under where the wooden
bridge
is and pick up the Iron lying on the floor by here. Go south, passing the
two
rangers along the way and you will get attacked by another Ace Trainer.
After you beat her, go up the slope to the left. Pick the berries and
battle
the Psychic (there doesn't appear to be anything in the house.) Go down the
same slope you came up from then head south into Route 229.
===========================================================================
====
[006] ROUTE 229
[WE006]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Reaper Cloth, Full Restore, Protein, Thunderstone, Grepa Berry (x2),
Qualot Berry (x2), Nugget (x2?)
Trainers' Pokemon: Dugtrio L55, Raichu L54, Ninetales L54, Spinda L54,
Granbull
L54, Kecleon L54, Dusclops L55, Salamence L56, Mightyena L55, Kirlia L56
Morning
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Pidgey | Normal/Flying | Level 18 | 5% | 47 | Grass
|
|Ledian | Bug/Flying | N/A | 20% | 50 | Grass
|
|Volbeat | Bug | N/A | 10% | 49 | Grass
|
|Illumise | Bug | N/A | 10% | 49 | Grass
|
|
|Dustox | Bug/Poison | N/A | 5% | 48 |
Grass |
|
|Surskit | Bug/Water | Level 22 | 95% | 35 - 45 | Surf
|
|Masquerain| Bug/Flying | N/A | 5% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|
|
|
|
|Pinsir | Bug | N/A | 40% | 48 - 49 | Swarm
|
|Venonat | Bug/Poison | Level 31 | 2% | 48 |
PokeRadar |
|Venomoth | Bug/Poison | N/A | 10% | 47 - 50 | PokeRadar
|
|Nuzleaf | Grass/Dark | Leaf Stone | 8% | 48 |
Grass Ru |
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Pidgey | Normal/Flying | Level 18 | 25% | 47 - 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|
Grass |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PokeRadar |
|
Grass Ru |
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Pidgey | Normal/Flying | Level 18 | 5% | 47 | Grass
|
|Ariados | Bug/Poison | N/A | 20% | 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|
Grass |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PokeRadar |
|
Grass Ru |
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Yay, no more desert. If you need to heal do a quick break to the Resort
Area
and heal in the Pokemon Center in the south-west, then return to Route 229
in
the position you were in just after you finished 228.
From where you should be now, go through the grass east and enter the long
part
then cut the tree slightly south. Collect the Reaper Cloth at the end, then
go
back into the grass and around the north to bump into an Ace Trainer. Once
you
beat her, grab the Full Restore to the right then go south, taking the
straight
path rather than the one to the left. Battle the guy on the right here
hiding
by a tree, then cut the tree below him and pick up the Protein. Surf across
the water and pick up the hidden Thunderstone on the bottom left square
too.
Go back up into the grass and this time take the left path. Going left a
little
more will get you some useless berries. You can't get into the Resort Area
due
to a fence, so go back into the grass. Go back up to where the crosspath
was
and take the very far left path into a small alcove with a guy who will
give
you what I think are two Nuggets for finding him. Go back to the thin grass
which was where we first came out from Route 228 then head south and battle
the two Ace Trainers here, either double or single. Note the male one on
the
left has a Dusclops and Salamence which give a ton of experience each time
they're fainted and they're VS. Seekerable too!
After these sets of battles, head down to enter the Resort Area.
===========================================================================
====
[007] RESORT AREA
[WE007]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Nugget, Grepa Berry (x2), Lum Berry, Qualot Berry (x2), Leppa Berry
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 | 100%| 1 - 100 | Fishing
OGS |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Yes, I kid you not. You can actually get Level 100 Magikarp here with the
Super
Rod. I've yet to find one myself but I have come across a Level 87
Magikarp,
so I'm fairly sure they are there.
Go down to the Pokemon Center and heal up. Exit afterwards, go to the
bridge,
Surf to the right and pick up the Nugget. To the top right of the Resort
Area
is The Ribbon Society mansion, where you can get some special ribbons for
your
Pokemon and also a massage for one Pokemon in your party once a day. The
only
problem is, you need a Pokemon with 10 ribbons on it to get in. It can't be
spread through your party - you need all 10 on _one_ Pokemon.
Back to where we picked up the Nugget, Surf back across and head to the
bottom
right of the area. A guy will ask you something; if you select Yes, he will
take you to a Resort House. It's yours! Buy the table for $0 right off the
bat
and your rival will come in and talk to you before leaving. If you want to
order more items, check the book on the table. There is a bit more detail
on
this in the respective section in the aftermain walkthrough.
Exit the resort house and pick the berries, including a useful Lum Berry.
That
is all we can do here, so head north-west when you're ready into Route 230
(you
will have to pass through a section of Route 229 first but it isn't the
grassy
part).
===========================================================================
====
[008] ROUTE 230
[WE008]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Ultra Ball, Blue Shard, Rare Candy, Grepa Berry (x2), Kelpsy Berry
(x4),
Water Stone
Trainers' Pokemon: Luvdisc L52, Lapras L54, Krabby L51, Corphish L51,
Kingler
L54, Surskit L52, Lombre L54, Octillery L53, Poliwhirl L53, Delibird L53,
Sealeo L53, Mantine L53, Gastrodon L53
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Pelipper | Water/Flying | N/A | 30% | 48 - 50 | Grass
|
|
|Roselia | Grass/Poison | Shiny Stone | 10% | 49 | Grass
|
|
|Gloom | Grass/Poison | Leaf Stone | 5% | 49 | Grass
|
|Weepinbell| Grass/Poison | Leaf Stone | 5% | 49 | Grass
|
|Bellsprout| Grass/Poison | Level 21 | 20% | 47 | Grass
|
|Togepi | Normal | Happiness | 12% | 48 - 50 | PokeRadar
|
|Corsola | Water/Rock | N/A | 40% | 48 | Swarm
|
|Sealeo | Water/Ice | Level 44 | 60% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|
|
|
|
|Wailmer | Water | Level 40 | 30% | 30 - 40 | Fishing S
|
|Wailord | Water | N/A | 5% | 40 - 55 | Fishing S
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Pelipper | Water/Flying | N/A | 30% | 48 - 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Oddish | Grass/Poison | Level 21 | 20% | 47 | Grass
|
|Togepi | Normal | Happiness | 12% | 48 - 50 | PokeRadar
|
|Corsola | Water/Rock | N/A | 40% | 48 | Swarm
|
|Sealeo | Water/Ice | Level 44 | 60% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|
|
|
|
|Wailmer | Water | Level 40 | 30% | 30 - 40 | Fishing S
|
|Wailord | Water | N/A | 5% | 40 - 55 | Fishing S
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Bah, a water route. Bust out the repel if you want to keep your society
then
start Surfing. Black Flute works too, I suppose. There are quite a few
swimmers
in the immediate vicinity - three, in fact - battle them if you wish but it
is
not that important. Keep going west, possibly fighting another swimmer then
go onto the island. Go up to the top, break the rock and check the obvious
space for an Ultra Ball. Break the rock to the south-west of there and pick
up
the Blue Shard, then the far right side and break a rock and grab the
lovely
Rare Candy.
On this island over to the right somewhere there is also a Water Stone
located
in the wall but I don't know the exact location.
Get off the island to the south and start Surfing, heading further to the
west.
Battle some more swimmers if you wish. Those are the last swimmers on the
route
so if you keep going west you will reach the Fight Area again. Note that
when
you get off the water, if you go north you can also get some berries.
Heal up in the Pokemon Center, then make your way to Route 227. It's
probably
easier to Fly to the Resort Area and head up north that way.
===========================================================================
====
[009] ROUTE 227
[WE009]
===========================================================================
====
Items: Yellow Shard, Charcoal, Max Repel, Zinc, Star Piece
Trainers' Pokemon: Tauros L61, Skiploom L59, Lopunny L59, Seviper L56,
Persian
L56, Absol L56, Breloom L58, Medicham L58
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Rhyhorn | Rock/Ground | Level 42 | 5% | 52 | Grass
|
|
|Weezing | Poison | N/A | 10% | 52 | Grass
|
|Skarmory | Steel/Flying | N/A | 5% | 53 | Grass
|
|Numel | Fire/Ground | Level 33 | 5% | 51 | Grass
|
|Camerupt | Fire/Ground | N/A | 20% | 53 | Grass
|
|Spinda | Normal | N/A | 40% | 53 - 54 | Swarm
|
|Torkoal | Fire | N/A | 12% | 51 - 53 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Fearow | Normal/Flying | N/A | 10% | 53 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Spinda | Normal | N/A | 40% | 53 - 54 | Swarm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Go up the grass and enter the route properly to have ash start falling on
the
area, which is pretty nice. Jump over the bike hump to the left and battle
the
two trainers on the paths through these ledges and head around. You'll end
up
coming across Crasher Wake and your rival here, because of some disturbance
in
Stark Mountain. After they leave, enter the house and talk to the old woman
to
heal, but only answer Yes the first time and No after that, or you'll end
up
in an infinite loop of sleep. Creepy woman.
Go out the house and continue to the right. You'll meet up with Buck along
the
way. Once you finish talking to him, go left and pick up the Yellow Shard,
then
jump off the ledge and climb down the wall. Follow the path for a Charcoal.
There's also a hidden Max Repel you can find with the Dowsing App near the
climbable wall. Climb back up it, then go down the thin bridge and pick up
the
Zinc in this part. Jump off the ledge after fighting the trainer and go
back
around to where Buck was.
This time, go in the grass and head north. Go to the west first and check
the
rock for a Star Piece. Then go to the north-east of the grass, jump down
the
gap and battle the Blackbelt. Head north and you'll end up in the outside
area
of Stark Mountain.
Stark Mountain (Outside)

-------------------------
Items: Life Orb, Max Elixir
Trainers' Pokemon: Dragonite L60
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Fearow | Normal/Flying | N/A | 10% | 53 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Go over to the left and climb up. Fight the Dragon Tamer to the left (note
the
nice lava effects) with a Dragonite that killed two of my Pokemon when I
did
it, then descend, go left, ascend and pick up the Life Orb. Go back up the
right one, then start heading through the grass. Pick up the Max Elixir on
the
lower level, then keep following the path to watch Team Galactic storm the
mountain. It actually has more of a storyline now! Keep going along the
path
until you get to the entrance. DO NOT ENTER UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO BATTLE!
===========================================================================
====
[010] STARK MOUNTAIN
[WE010]
===========================================================================
====
Entrance Room
---------------
Items: Escape Rope, PP Up
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|Slugma | Fire | Level 38 | 5% | 52 | Cave Floor
|
|
Floor |
|Rhydon | Rock/Ground |Trade+Protector| 20% | 54 | Cave
Floor |
|Weezing | Poison | N/A | 15% | 51 - 53 | Cave Floor
|
|Magcargo | Fire/Rock | N/A | 20% | 54 | Cave Floor
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
As soon as you enter, you will be noticed by Team Galactic, most notably a
surprise reappearance from Mars and Jupiter. I wonder what they're working
for
now considering Cyrus is still in the Distortion World..? Doesn't matter.
You
will be treated to a battle with Mars in due course.

o------------------------------------------o
|------------------------------------------|
| :: Bronzong Gndrlss Lv. 58 EXP: 2335 |
| :: Purugly Female Lv. 60 EXP: 2352 | - @Sitrus Berry
o------------------------------------------o
Reward: $4800
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Yes, she actually evolved her Pokemon. Amazing! Defeat them in the same way
as
normal. They'll take a bit more effort to beat than usual, but not much.
She
doesn't even have recovery items on her. She still has a Golbat, though.
The
Golbat really must not be very happy. It gives some delicious EXP, though.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Right after that battle, Jupiter attacks you as well. Lovely.

[ GALACTIC ADMIN JUPITER ]
o------------------------------------------o
|------------------------------------------|
| :: Bronzong Gndrlss Lv. 58 EXP: 2335 |
| :: Skuntank Female Lv. 60 EXP: 2686 | - @Sitrus Berry
o------------------------------------------o
Reward: $4800
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
This one is slightly tougher because the more bulky Pokemon Jupiter has,
but
it is still not really that bad. Remember Skuntank is weak to Ground
primarily
but you may need to just smack it around a bit. The other two are identical
to
Mars', except Bronzong uses Reflect and such instead of Light Screen.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Afterwards, Mars and Jupiter up and leave Team Galactic, leaving Charon and
the
two Galactic grunts by themselves. They'll flee and we will deal with them
in
due course. Go down the stairs (I love the redesign and the red hue now)
then
left and push the boulder out of the way. Follow the path to get an Escape
Rope
and then head back and go right. Do the whole top/forward bottom/forward
and
middle/side thing with the boulders and go on the raised platform to get a
PP
Up. Go back north then head up the stairs, moving obstacles out of the way
when
you need to. Collect the Full Heal, Full Restore, Star Piece hidden in the
back wall behind the Full Restore and keep heading up until you enter the
main
room of Stark Mountain.
Main Room
-----------
Items: Iron Ball, Stardust, Star Piece, Calcium, Rare Candy, Flame Plate,
TM50 Overheat, Iron, Max Revive
Trainers' Pokemon: Solrock L57, Lunatone L57, Gardevoir L59, Gallade L59,
Luxray L58, Glalie L59, Gliscor L58, Ursaring L59, Crobat L60, Staravia
L55,
Breloom L58, Fearow L57, Toxicroak L58, Noctowl L59, Jumpluff L58, Primeape
L58
Banette L59, Electabuzz L58, Ampharos L59, Onix L58, Drapion L61, Pupitar
L58,
Torterra L61, Raticate L57, Bagon L57, Shelgon L57, Shifry L59, Vibrava
L57,
Drifblim L58, Loudred L58, Wigglytuff L58, Pelipper L58, Rampardos L59,
Gardevoir L59, Medicham L58, Gible L57, Machamp L60, Dragonair L57, Gabite
L57
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
|Slugma | Fire | Level 38 | 5% | 52 - 53 | Cave Floor
|
|
Floor |
|Rhydon | Rock/Ground |Trade+Protector| 10% | 55 | Cave
Floor |
|Weezing | Poison | N/A | 15% | 52 - 54 | Cave Floor
|
|Magcargo | Fire/Rock | N/A | 40% | 53 - 55 | Cave Floor
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Now this is a large room. Sally forth and descend the stairs to have Buck
come
up behind you and join up with you as a huge liability, for we can no
longer
use Rock Climb because of him tagging along.
[ POKEMON TRAINER BUCK ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Get Galactic out of Stark Mountain! - |
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Claydol Gndrlss Lv. 63 EXP: --- |
o----------------------------------------o
Start by going right, down the stairs and right again and battle two
Psychics
by here. Once you've beaten their lovely themed team - and I think Claydol
is
an awful partner, being OHKOed by Surf and all - go down the indent and get
the Iron Ball. Head back to the Psychics and keep going north ignoring the
stairs for now and inspect the rock for a Stardust. Then double back and go
up the stairs to battle the Ace Trainers, who have a Glalie that actually
hit
me with Sheer Cold >( Afterwards go to the left and up the path and go down
the first stairs to the left. Inspect the rock above for a Star Piece, then
go down and push the boulder out of the way. Battle the trainers.
Go left, up and around to get a Calcium in the ditch, then reverse and
return
to the most recent trainers. Continue to the left, ignore the first stairs
then ascend the second stairs. Go south to more stairs, go down them then
take
the long way around for the short way around is blocked by rocks. Battle
the
Ace Trainers here then collect the Rare Candy. Go back the way you came and
back up the stairs, then up again and take the next stairs down that go to
the left. Press A right on the wall for a hidden Flame Plate. Go back up
and
descend the stairs on the right now and head up, left and fight a couple
more
Ace Trainers by here. Pick up the Overheat TM, then go back up, right,
down,
right, up the stairs, far right past the Ace Trainers, down the stairs, far
north, up the stairs on a smaller raised part and pick up the hidden Iron,
back
down, around it and do the trainer double battle here. Go up the stairs, to
the
left and pick up the Max Revive.
Go back down the stairs, down from the two trainers and right, then go up
the
stairs to the left and follow the path to the left and up, going down even
more
stairs by here. Head north and fight the two Ace Trainers, then go down the
left path and break the rock. Go up the stairs and fight more trainers,
then
follow the path left, up, right, down the stairs, push the boulder through
the
trench, then go up the stairs and Buck will say stuff and go inside the
place.
Follow him in.
Back Room
-----------
Items: n/a
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Heatran | Fire/Steel | N/A | --% | 50 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The thing I called this sounds like the Back Dimension :P Inside here you
will
find the Galactic grunts and Charon from earlier and a bunch of dialogue
will
follow. Looker will make one last appearance and then you'll be returned to
the outside of the entrance of Stark Mountain. Buck and Looker will leave
after
more dialogue. To get Heatran we need to do some stuff first. Fly back to
the
Survival Area.
Survival Area
---------------
Go to the left and talk to Buck to get him to enter the previously
unopenable
house. Enter inside (you can also battle your rival if he's standing
outside
because it's a weekend) and the barman will talk to you, welcoming you to
the
Top Trainer Cafe! This place has random trainers, having 3 to 4 a day and
the
battles consist of either the eight Gym Leaders or the five people you
travel
with (the fifth being the one in the extra Victory Roadpart.) Regular
trainers
do not exist in this area, but you will get plenty of special battles.
Talk to Buck who is next to the counter to get him to leave. That means
Heatran
is now available in Stark Mountain; head back to Stark Mountain and keep
going
until you enter the Main Room.
Stark Mountain - Main Room

---------------------------
Items: Ultra Ball, Max Elixir, Nugget
Bike forward, then go left and down the stairs here. Climb up the rock to
the
right to get an Ultra Ball, then go straight ahead and Rock Climb back down
this part. Ignore the wall here and break the rock, then head south and up
the
stairs here. Go right and take the path up here, breaking the rock along
the
way and ignoring the stairs. Go right when you get the chance and Rock
Climb
down and follow the passage to the end to get a Max Elixir. Go back and
Rock
Climb up the wall, then down the stairs to the right. Go straight north and
climb up the rock here and get a Nugget.
Descend the rock, go straight south and left past the Psychics and then go
up
the stairs. Take the middle path up and go down the left stairs right at
the
end, then climb the wall past the Ace Trainers. Enter the hole.
Stark Mountain - Back Room

----------------------------
The ever so lovely Heatran should now be waiting here for you. Prepare
yourself
and engage it when you're ready.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Heatran Lv.50 Male/Female Fire/Steel |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Heatran is quite unique in that it can actually be either Male or Female,
with
a 50% chance for both. Heatran's level has also dropped from the Diamond
and
Pearl games, now being only Level 50 instead of Level 70 like it was
before.
Heatran's typing means it resists a fair few things, but leaves it
primarily
open to Water, Fighting and especially Ground attacks. Its Flash Fire
ability
makes Fire attacks utterly useless and likewise with Poison attacks and the
Steel-typing it has. It has an arsenal of Crunch, Metal Sound, Scary Face
and
Lava Plume. Lava Plume has a 30% chance of burn and Metal Sound decreases
your
Special Defense, so you want to be careful of that combination. Crunch is
the
only other move it has to attack and its a Physical Dark attack off
Heatran's
weaker but still somewhat capable 90 attack (it has 130 SAtk, though.)
Using the whole chip, status etcetera thing should work as per usual. Being
in
a mountain means the Heatran battlefield is always dark, so Dusk Balls are
your
best bet for this if you don't have a Master Ball available.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you've caught Heatran, that is the entire Stark Mountain storyline
over!
Whatever you want to do next is up to you; the next few sections are really
in
no particular order at all. By the way, if you want to use an Escape Rope
to
get out of Stark Mountain, exit Heatran's room and then try.
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[011] THE BATTLE FRONTIER
[WE011]
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====
The Battle Frontier is an expanded Battle Park, located in the Fight Area.
The
place encompasses five facilities, each with their own theme. There are
also
places to use your Battle Points in the center of the park. The store with
the
blue striped roof sells the following:
o--------------------o
| ITEM | BP |
o--------------------o
| Protein | 1 |
| Calcium | 1 |
| Iron | 1 |
| Zinc | 1 |
| Carbos | 1 |
| HP Up | 1 |
| Power Bracer | 16 |
| Power Belt | 16 |
| Power Lens | 16 |
| Power Band | 16 |
| Power Anklet | 16 |
| Power Weight | 16 |
| Toxic Orb | 16 |
| Flame Orb | 16 |
| White Herb | 32 |
| Power Herb | 32 |
| BrightPowder | 48 |
| Choice Band | 48 |
| Choice Band | 48 |
| Focus Band | 48 |
| Scope Lens | 48 |
| Muscle Band | 48 |
| Focus Sash | 48 |
| Choice Scarf | 48 |
| Razor Claw | 48 |
| Razor Fang | 48 |
| Rare Candy | 48 |
o--------------------o
Yup, it sure sells a lot. BP is like the currency of the Battle Frontier
and
you can obtain it by partaking and winning in the different facilities. The
market on the right with the red roof also sells TMs for BP:
o----------------------------o
| ITEM | BP |
o----------------------------o
| TM06 Toxic | 32 |
| TM73 Thunder Wave | 32 |
| TM61 Will-O-Wisp | 32 |
| TM45 Attract | 32 |
| TM40 Aerial Ace | 40 |
| TM31 Brick Break | 40 |
| TM08 Bulk Up | 48 |
| TM04 Calm Mind | 48 |
| TM81 X-Scissor | 64 |
| TM30 Shadow Ball | 64 |
| TM53 Energy Ball | 80 |
| TM36 Sludge Bomb | 80 |
| TM59 Dragon Pulse | 80 |
| TM71 Stone Edge | 80 |
| TM26 Earthquake | 80 |
o----------------------------o
The green roofed store also sells scratchccards for BP, in which you can
win
certain items if you're lucky.
Basically in the Battle Frontier, you can take part in the five facilities
with
Pokemon and build streaks, each one having its own 'theme' of sorts. The
main
aim you have is to obtain Silver and Colour Prints of each facility which
can
be done by building up a streak. Doing this will also gain you Battle
Points as
you go along too. Note that you cannot use the following Pokemon in any of
the
five facilities:
Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-oh, Celebi, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Jirachi,

Deoxys*,
Dialga, Palkia, Giratina*, Phione, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin*, Arceus
* All forms of this Pokemon are disallowed.
In addition, any of Rotom's alternate Platinum forms are not allowed to

partake
in the facilities, but the basic Rotom can. You can also use Latias and
Latios
but the Soul Dew will have no effect in the Battle Frontier.
All facilities have Lv.50 and Open Level options. Open Level will set all
of
the opponent's Pokemon to the level of your highest level Pokemon, while
Lv.50
reduces all Pokemon levels to 50, changing stats accordingly. This applies
for
Pokemon over Level 50, but Pokemon under level 50 will actually stay at
their
current levels, meaning you'll need them at 50+ for maximum power.
Talking to the green man in each facility will get you the single and
double
battle options while the pink woman will give you the wireless options.
If at any time you want to quit a round in a battle, choose to Run. By the
way,
the Frontier Brains will not always start with the first Pokemon in the
lists
that follow. They seem to choose a random one.
The Battle Tower is to the north, the Battle Hall to the north-west and the
Battle Castle to the south-west. There is also the Battle Arcade to the
south-east and the Battle Factory to the north-east.
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====
[012] BATTLE TOWER
[WE012]
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====
The Battle Tower returns from D/P, located in the north of the Battle
Frontier.
It is a tall glass building and it has no particular theme; rather, you
must
fight straight streaks of battles of seven without exiting the tower though
you
do get healed in between battles and you can suspend and such. Keeping up
the
streak is your main priority here.
As well as single battles, you can also partake in double battles, a

wireless
double with a friend or downloading teams with the Wi-Fi connection. In the
double battles you get to pair up with one of the trainers you travelled
with
in the game - Riley, Marley, Cheryl, Buck or Mira. The wireless corner lets
you
do the same but with your actual friends. The Wi-Fi connection has you
download
teams from the Battle Tower to fight in streaks of seven and these
downloaded
teams can actually be quite difficult!
In all rounds, you have seven straight battles with three vs three Pokemon
in
each. You are healed after each battle and given the options to suspend,
fight
or quit. That's really all there is to it.
To get the Silver Print in the Tower, you need to get a streak of 21
battles.
The Frontier Brain will battle you on the 21st battle, which is the last
battle
on the third consecutive streak. After that, if you get a streak of 49
battles,
then he will battle you again on Battle 49 and winning will net the
Coloured
Print of the Battle Tower for you. His teams are as follows:
o--------------------------o
| - TOWER TYCOON PALMER - |
o--------------------------o
| - Dragonite |
| - Milotic | SILVER PRINT.
| - Rhyperior |
o--------------------------o
| - Regigigas |
| - Heatran | COLOURED PRINT.
| - Cresselia |
o--------------------------o
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====
[013] BATTLE HALL
[WE013]
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====
The Battle Hall is a new addition to the Battle Frontier. This one is a new
concept. This place allows you to take part in Single Battles, Double
Battles
or wirelessly with a friend's DS.
The hall has you go against different 'ranks' of Pokemon. In every round
you
challenge ten battles rather than seven and for each battle you must pick
one
type to battle. The type is shown with its rank and the rank depends on if
you
have beaten the previous rounds in the streak. You don't have to stick to
one
specific type through the whole round, but personally I find it easier to
just
do like the ten streaks of Dragon, then the ten streaks of Ice, then the
ten
streaks of ... I'm sure you get the idea. It makes more sense in practice.
While this may sound easy, there is a catch - the Battle Hall only allows
you
to enter _ONE_ Pokemon! Or if you're doing Double Battles, two. This means
that
you must keep one Pokemon to battle all types, including every single rank
of
each type. You can't switch the Pokemon in between rounds either, or your
rank
is automatically erased and you have to start over. You need a strong
Pokemon
that can handle many different Pokemon. It's better to start with the types
you
are weak to first, as the longer streak you get the harder the opponents
will
be. Saving the weaknesses until last is a decent bet.
Luckily you are only against one Pokemon each round too, but they will
quickly
become fully evolved Pokemon. Be prepared. Personally, I used a Specsmence
to
do this, with the moveset something as follows:
Salamence @ Choice Specs

Trait: Intimidate
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Spd / 252 SAtk
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Draco Meteor
- Dragon Pulse
- Flamethrower
- Hydro Pump
I may have had something over Dragon Pulse since Draco Meteor will OHKO
almost
anything it hits that doesn't resist Dragon but Draco Meteor does have 90%
acc
which can pretty easily screw you over in the Battle Hall. Do what you
will.
To get the Silver Print in the Stage, you need to get a streak of 60
battles.
The Frontier Brain will battle you on the 60th battle, which is the last
battle
on the sixth consecutive streak. After that, if you get a streak of 170
battles
then she will battle you again on Battle 170 and winning will net the
Coloured
Print of the Battle Hall for you.
The worst part of this Frontier Brain is that her Pokemon is completely
random.
It could be a Pokemon you could take down easily or it could be your
downfall.
The Silver Print requires six consecutive rounds while the Coloured Print
needs
you to clear every single type from rank 1 - 10, so losing will really set
you
back a lot! Unfortunately it is quite up to luck.
o--------------------------o
| - HALL MATRON ARGENTA - |
o--------------------------o
| - Utterly Random | SILVER PRINT.
o--------------------------o
| - Utterly Random | COLOURED PRINT.
o--------------------------o
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====
[014] BATTLE ARCADE
[WE014]
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====
The Battle Arcade is another new invention to the Battle Frontier. This
also
offers the standard Single Battle, Double Battle and Friend Wireless modes
with
the Single Battle being needed to get the Printes as with all facilities.
This
place also has some pretty good music.
The Battle Arcade's "gimmick" is that before each battle a roulette is

shown
and you get to choose where it stops. The place where it stops gives an
effect
to one team. Landing on a red panel will give the opponent the effect of
that
panel and vice-versa for the blue panels. There are also grey panels that
have
an effect on both sides, such as weather, or Trick Room or just plain no
effect
(shown by a grey panel with a bunch of rectangles in a circle formation or
something; I can't remember if there's a name for it x.x). You will want to
get
the blue ones primarily. What the panels actually do is quite obvious most
of
the time. Some possible effects are having one team completely paralyzed,
slept
or burned, level raising, Pokemon given berries (the Battle Roulette
disables
all items - they disappear from your Pokemon temporarily) and other
effects.
The effect itself will be explained after the panel is chosen. To stop the
roulette you need to use the button at the bottom. It will stop on the
exact
panel you push the button on so it is quite easily to manipulate it to a
panel
that you want specifically.
Note that the red and blue panel rule applies to both beneficial and
harmful
effects. For example, hitting a red poison icon will poison all three of
the
opponent's Pokemon, but hitting a red berry icon will give the opponent the
berries and not you. Hit blue panels to benefit yourself and red panels to
hinder the opponent!
Apart from the roulette it is basic seven rounds, 3 vs 3 battles with a

nice
background. The roulette is what makes this particuarly different.
Thankfully
it isn't as bad as the roulette in Pokemon Battle Revolution's Neon
Colosseum
where you could end up with the most awful Pokemon... the roulette is quite
forgiving in comparison, healing you after every battle too.
To get the Silver Print in the Arcade you need to get a streak of 21
battles.
battle
battles,
then she will battle you again on Battle 49 and winning will net the
Coloured
Print of the Battle Arcade for you.
o-------------------------o
| - ARCADE STAR DAHLIA - |
o-------------------------o
| - Dusknoir |
| - Medicham | SILVER PRINT.
| - Ludicolo |
o-------------------------o
| - Zapdos |
| - Blaziken | COLOURED PRINT.
| - Togekiss |
o-------------------------o
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====
[015] BATTLE CASTLE
[WE015]
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====
The Battle Castle is a favourite of mine. It is actually somewhat similar
to
the Battle Pyramid in Emerald in that you actually need to do stuff to get
healed, obtain items and whatnot. There is no exploring or anything,
though.
The Battle Castle also allows for singles, doubles and wireless activity.
The
castle is different because you get something called "Castle Points" inside
it.
Each battle can harvest up to about 30 C.P., depending on how well you
perform
in the battle. The Castle Points can be used in the Battle Castle to do
things
such as heal your Pokemon's HP, buy items to use in that round, recover PP
and
'rank up' features to get better options. The Castle Points do carry on
through
streaks so you won't lose it all after the seventh battle of a round.
Castle Points also allow you to affect your opponent. You can actually view
what a Pokemon is on their side for just 1 CP, as well as other things
which
actually includes reducing a Pokemon's level on the opponent's side by 5!
It
costs 15 C.P. so it's best to use it on the Frontier Brain battle or
something.
Finally you can also actually skip battles eventually, but it costs a
massive
50 Castle Points to do, so use it sparingly.
Apart from all of these extra menus, the Battle Castle also follows the
same
format of seven battles in a row, three vs. three each.
To get the Silver Print in the Castle, you need to get a streak of 21
battles.
battle
battles,
then they will battle you again on Battle 49 and winning will net the
Coloured
Print of the Battle Castle for you.
o----------------------------------------o
| - CASTLE VALET DARACH & LADY CAITLIN - |
o----------------------------------------o
| - Staraptor |
| - Empoleon | SILVER PRINT.
| - Houndoom |
o----------------------------------------o
| - Empoleon |
| - Gallade | COLOURED PRINT.
| - Entei |
o----------------------------------------o
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[016] BATTLE FACTORY
[WE016]
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====
Lastly, we have the factory. This is pretty much exactly the same as it was
in
Pokemon Emerald, except you get 4th Gen Pokemon and moves and such -
basically
an updated version. The Battle Factory also offers the single, double and
wireless mix.
The main thing here is that you get random Pokemon to choose; you get to
choose
from six at the start and then you can trade one Pokemon every battle with
your
beaten opponent if you want to. You get three at a time. The Pokemon you
begin
with will depend on the level you pick; Lv. 50 will give you weaker Pokemon
than the Open Level - Level 100 - will give you but the Pokemon in Lv. 50
will
become stronger in a few rounds. The Level 50 is _possibly_ easier, but
there
is very little difference in the long run. 100 is funner, really.
There's not a lot else to say. Doing more trades may increase the quality
of
Pokemon you get and you can quite easily get luck screwed. There's little
advice I can give, otherwise. The Frontier Brain's three Pokemon are also
totally random so this facility relies much on luck as well as skill.
To get the Silver Print in the Factory, you need to get a streak of 21
battles.
battle
battles,
then they will battle you again on Battle 49 and winning will net the
Coloured
Print of the Battle Factory for you.
o--------------------------o
| - FACTORY HEAD THORTON - |
o--------------------------o
| - Utterly Random | SILVER PRINT.
o--------------------------o
| - Utterly Random | COLOURED PRINT.
o--------------------------o
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[017] SINNOH'S HONEY TREES
[WE017]
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====
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Wurmple | Bug | Level 7 | 30% | 5 - 15 | Honey Tree
|
|Combee | Bug/Flying |Level 21+Female| 20% | 5 - 15 | Honey
Tree |
|Aipom | Normal |LvlUpwithDblHit| 15% | 5 - 15 | Honey Tree
|
|Burmy | Grass | Level 20 | 15% | 5 - 15 | Honey Tree
|
|Cherubi | Grass | Level 25 | 15% | 5 - 15 | Honey Tree
|
|Heracross | Bug/Fighting | N/A | 4% | 5 - 15 | Honey Tree
|
|Munchlax | Normal | Happiness | 1% | 5 - 15 | Honey Tree
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
All over Sinnoh you will see awakward golden trees in open places in plain
walking access. These are honey trees and if you have a Honey item in your
inventory, which you can buy from the guy in Floaroma Meadow, you can
slather
the bark with honey and in about six hours you will one Pokemon from the
seven
listed at the top. The encounter rates are the same for every single tree
in
the Sinnoh region. Be sure to only slather a tree with one piece of honey
or
a Pokemon may not even visit it. You can find Honey Trees in the following
places in the Sinnoh region:
- Routes 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 18, 221,
222
- Eterna Forest
- Floaroma Meadow
- Fuego Ironworks
- Valley Windworks
Be warned that if you leave it too long the Pokemon will leave! You will
know
a Pokemon is there when you see the tree shaking and generally if a tree is
shaking more wildly than usual it is a rarer Pokemon.
Just remember - you cannot swap the time to get honey trees to shake. It
just
doesn't work!
Chrome has found some interesting information regarding the honey trees. It
appears that this is yet another thing your ID number effects and the
rarities
of the Pokemon actually depend on which honey tree you use in the region!
More
information will probably come about this when I can actually understand it
:x
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[018] VICTORY ROAD & ROUTE 224
[WE018]
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====
Pokemon League
-------------------
Fly to here from wherever you are (the top half). Go down into Victory Road
and
inside head south, making sure you bring something that can use Rock Climb,
Rock Smash and Strength (Defog is recommended too.) Climb down the rock
next
to the Dragon Tamer, ascend the stairs next to the Veteran and cross the
bridge
and enter the now unblocked path.
Basement Entrance
-------------------
Items: N/A
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Graveler | Rock/Ground | Trade | 20% | 47 | Cave Floor
|
|
Floor |
|
Floor |
Floor |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Nothing in here. Go down and enter the next room.
Basement Area
--------------
Items: Dusk Stone, Heart Scale, Nugget, Full Restore, Leftovers
Trainers' Pokemon: Marowak L54, Metang L55, Kangaskhan L57, Ludicolo L56,
Mr. Mime L54, Shuppet L53, Alakazam L55, Mismagius L54, Parasect L53,
Mankey
L51, Infernape L55, Rhydon L54, Machoke L53, Magmar L55, Murkrow L54,
Dratini
L52, Xatu L54, Gabite L56, Chimecho L52, Dusknoir L56, Haunter L52, Gengar
L55,
Forretress L54, Heracross L54, Machamp L54, Hippowdon L54, Gyarados L54,
Gastrodon L54, Swalot L53, Beedrill L54, Electrode L55, Magnezone L56,
Ninetales L54
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|Dewgong | Water/Ice | N/A | 15% | 48 - 50 | Cave Floor
|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|Dewgong | Water/Ice | N/A | 30% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|Lapras | Water/Ice | N/A | 10% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|Floatzel | Water | N/A | 60% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 | 100%| 3 - 25 | Fishing OG
|
|Gyarados | Water/Flying | N/A | 100%| 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Graveler | Rock/Ground | Trade | 5% | 49 | Cave Floor
|
|
|Dewgong | Water/Ice | N/A | 15% | 48 - 50 | Cave Floor
|
|
Floor |
Floor |
|Dewgong | Water/Ice | N/A | 30% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|Lapras | Water/Ice | N/A | 10% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|Floatzel | Water | N/A | 60% | 35 - 55 | Surf
|
|Magikarp | Water | Level 20 | 100%| 3 - 25 | Fishing OG
|
|Gyarados | Water/Flying | N/A | 100%| 30 - 55 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
This is where we'll be exploring. Use Defog if you have it, then move
forward
to get Marley to talk to you and join your team, stopping you from using
Surf.
I swear these partners are a liability sometimes :/
[ POKEMON TRAINER MARLEY ]

o----------------------------------------o
|- Go through to Route 224! - |
|----------------------------------------|
| :: Arcanine Female Lv. 59 EXP: --- |
o----------------------------------------o
Go up, move the boulder and battle the trainers. Don't expect Arcanine to
do
more than a constant Helping Hand, though. Go up and ignore the stairs,
moving
the boulders out of the way and battling the two Psychics here. Keep going
up
and move the boulders in a way that you can get the top item - we'll come
back
for the bottom one later - and collect the Dusk Stone. Go back out of this
rock "maze" and battle the trainers to the right. Move the boulder, pick up
the Heart Scale on the middle rock of the three on the top row, then battle
some more trainers. Go down the stairs and right for EVEN MORE TRAINERS!
Go down more stairs for a rock maze. Head around and get down some stairs
and
face some more trainers. A bit more to the right and up the stairs will get
Marley to leave you. Good riddance.
We still have more to do. Go into the next tunnel then come back into the
main
room to reset boulder positions. Head left up the stairs for a Nugget, then
Surf across the water. Go up the next stairs, Surf left across the water to
save you some boulder moving and go left more. This time, move the boulders
in
a way that you can reach the item on the right and pick up the Full
Restore.
Go right back south to the entrance, and Surf across for Leftovers! Sail to
the
north-east, down the stairs and around to reach some more trainers to
fight.
Go up further north and down the stairs, follow the path around and go down
more stairs. Surf across, down the stairs and across more water. That's
really
all for this room, so go up the stairs and exit into the next room.
Basement Exit
--------------
Items: N/A
Wild Pokemon identical to 'Basement Entrance.'
Go up the stairs and out into Route 224.
Route 224
----------
Items: Zinc, Up-Grade, Sitrus Berry (x2), Bluk Berry (x3), Nanab Berry
(x3),
Wepear Berry (x3), Ultra Ball (x2), PP Max, Pearl, Razor Claw, Heart Scale,
Repeat Ball, Destiny Knot
Trainers' Pokemon: Nuzleaf L56, Gyarados L57, Drowzee L55, Alakazam L57,
Misdreavus L58, Haunter L54, Muk L53, Mightyena L53, Lickitung L56, Tyrogue
L55
Hitmonlee L59, Aerodactyl L57, Metagross L60, Altaria L56, Seadra L56
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|Floatzel | Water | N/A | 20% | 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|Bellsprout| Grass/Poison | Level 21 | 20% | 49 | Grass
|
|Gastrodon | Water/Ground | N/A | 10% | 49 | Grass
|
|
Grass |
|Natu | Psychic/Flying | Level 25 | 40% | 50 | Swarm
|
|Shuckle | Bug/Rock | N/A | 8% | 52 | Grass Em
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|Floatzel | Water | N/A | 20% | 50 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|Oddish | Grass/Poison | Level 21 | 20% | 49 | Grass
|
|Gastrodon | Water/Ground | N/A | 10% | 49 | Grass
|
|
Grass |
|Natu | Psychic/Flying | Level 25 | 40% | 50 | Swarm
|
|Shuckle | Bug/Rock | N/A | 8% | 52 | Grass Em
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
An outside route that is really out of the way. Use the Dowsing App to find
a
Zinc on the area you start on, then go down the steps. Battle the trainer
if
you want and go down again, pick up the Up-Grade in the grass then go into
the
gap in the trees on the left side and fight the Psychic. Follow the path
around
and battle a second Psychic and keep going for some berries. There's also a
hidden Ultra Ball in the grass right below it. Go back to the left, down
the
steps then Surf across the water and pick up the PP Max.
Return back around the trees to the grass, then head north-east onto a
beach
area, fighting the Veteran if you want. There is a hidden Pearl on the left
side of the beach and if you Surf off the sea here and follow it down left
you can reach a small island with a Razor Claw. There's also a hidden Heart
Scale on the right side of the beach. Head north after that, fight the Ruin
Maniac with an Aerodactyl if you wish, then go north east and Surf off to
the
shallow land and pick up the Repeat and Ultra Balls on either side.
Return to the main land, go back to the Ruin Maniac and this time go
straight
ahead. You can fight an Ace Trainer with a Metagross hiding behind the
tree,
by the way. Going further up will net you a Dragon Tamer fight, as well as
a
Destiny Knot. Go up and ignore the steps since they lead to nothing
important
and go up to find a white rock. This is to do with Shaymin, but it requires
an
event to be enabled to do anymore with it. That's all for this quest.
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====
[019] RETURN TO THE LEAGUE
[WE019]
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====
Anytime after you obtain the National Dex and beat the Volkner/Flint double
battle in the Fight Area, you can challenge the Elite Four and they will
have
stronger Pokemon. The Pokemon themselves are the same, so the strategies
remain
the same, but they are about sixteen levels higher so they give more EXP.
Each
Elite Four also gives you more money. I'll put the lists here but without
the
strategies since they're identical to the first round:
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR AARON::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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| Yanmega | Bug/Flying | Speed Boost | Lvl65 | Male | 2757 |
| Heracross | Bug/Fighting | Swarm | Lvl67 | Male | 2871 |
| Vespiquen | Bug/Flying | Pressure | Lvl66 | Female | 2658 |
| Scizor | Bug/Steel | Swarm | Lvl65 | Male | 2785 |
| Drapion* | Poison/Dark | Battle Armor | Lvl69 | Male | 3015 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $8280 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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|:::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR BERTHA::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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| Whiscash | Water/Ground | Oblivious | Lvl66 | Female | 2233 |
| Hippowdon | Ground | Sand Stream | Lvl68 | Female | 2884 |
| Gliscor | Ground/Flying| Hyper Cutter | Lvl69 | Female | 2838 |
| Golem | Rock/Ground | Rock Head | Lvl68 | Female | 2578 |
| Rhyperior* | Rock/Ground | Lightningrod | Lvl71 | Female | 3301 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $8520 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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|:::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR FLINT:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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| Houndoom | Fire/Dark | Early Bird | Lvl68 | Male | 2971 |
| Infernape | Fire/Fighting| Blaze | Lvl71 | Male | 3178 |
| Rapidash | Fire | Early Bird | Lvl69 | Male | 2838 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $8760 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
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|::::::::::::::::::::::::::ELITE FOUR LUCIAN:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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| Mr. Mime | Psychic | Soundproof | Lvl69 | Male | 2010 |
| Alakazam | Psychic | Synchronize | Lvl72 | Male | 2869 |
| Espeon | Psychic | Synchronize | Lvl71 | Male | 2997 |
| Bronzong | Psychc/Steel | Levitate | Lvl70 | NoGd | 2820 |
| Gallade* | Psychc/Fight | Steadfast | Lvl75 | Male | 3342 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $9000 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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|:::::::::::::::::::::::::::CHAMPION CYNTHIA:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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| Spiritomb | Ghost/Dark | Pressure | Lvl74 | Female | 2664 |
| Togekiss | Normal/Flying| Hustle | Lvl76 | Male | 3582 |
| Lucario | Fight/Steel | Steadfast | Lvl76 | Male | 3321 |
| Milotic | Water | Marvel Scale | Lvl74 | Female | 3376 |
| Roserade | Grass/Poison | Natural Cure | Lvl74 | Female | 3234 |
| Garchomp* | Dragon/Ground| Sand Veil | Lvl78 | Female | 3643 |
o------------------------------------------------------------------------o
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PRIZE: $15600 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
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[020] THE TOP TRAINER CAFE
[WE020]
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The Top Trainer Cafe is a new area in Sinnoh, located in the Survival Area.
It
is Buck's house in D/P but revamped considerably. The Top Trainer Cafe is,
as
the name suggests, a Cafe for 'Top Trainers'. These Top Trainers include
all
of the gym leaders of the game, as well as the five partner trainers you
have
travelled with in the different places of Sinnoh, meaning they get actual
front
battle sprites at last! Each day there will be a random 3-4 of the trainers
and
you can fight them once in the day. They will disappear the next day to be
replaced by different Pokemon, but it is possible for the same trainers to
appear twice or more. If they didn't then there'd be none left..!
The Gym Leaders have their usual Gym music while the others have the normal
trainer music. They only have one team to use. Their Pokemon are as
follows:
Gym Leader Roark:
Aerodactyl L62 | Probopass L61 | Golem L61 | Rampardos L63 | Tyranitar L65
Gym Leader Gardenia:

Jumpluff L61 | Cherrim L62 | Bellossom L61 | Torterra L63 | Roserade L65
Gym Leader Maylene:

Hitmontop L62 | Breloom L62 | Medicham L63 | Machamp L64 | Lucario L66
Gym Leader Crasher Wake:

Sharpedo L61 | Floatzel L63 | Quagsire L63 | Ludicolo L65 | Gyarados L66
Gym Leader Fantina:

Banette L62 | Mismagius L62 | Gengar L63 | Dusknoir L62 | Drifblim L66
Gym Leader Bryon:

Skarmory L61 | Magnezone L62 | Steelix L61 | Bastiodon L63 | Aggron L65
Gym Leader Candice:

Weavile L62 | Abomasnow L61 | Mamoswine L61 | Froslass L63 | Glaceon L65
Gym Leader Volkner:

Jolteon L61 | Raichu L61 | Luxray L62 | Lanturn L63 | Electivire L65
PKMN Trainer Cheryl:

Wobbuffet L61 | Hariyama L62 | Drifblim L61 | Wailord L63 | Blissey L65
PKMN Trainer Mira:

Porygon-Z L61 | Gengar L61 | Magnezone L62 | Togekiss L63 | Alakazam L65
PKMN Trainer Riley:

Absol L61 | Salamence L63 | Metagross L62 | Ursaring L61 | Lucario L65
PKMN Trainer Marley:

Ninjask L61 | Crobat L62 | Electrode L61 | Weavile L63 | Arcanine L65
PKMN Trainer Buck:

Shuckle L61 | Torkoal L61 | Dusknoir L63 | Umbreon L63 | Claydol L65
You can also battle your rival outside the Top Trainer Cafe every Saturday
and
Sunday. His Pokemon will be up to Level 65 to begin with and as you beat
the
Elite Four more and more his Pokemon will eventually rise to about Level 85
max, making him the highest levelled trainer in all of Pokemon. His Pokemon
are
the same as they are in the Pokemon League, but several levels higher.
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[021] POKEMON CENTER BATTLES
[WE021]
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During the course of the game, you will notice trainers next to the Pokemon
Center counters throughout the region. These are people who will battle you
if you say Yes to their question and provide some extra experience. They
become available sometime after you get the first badge and their Pokemon
levels will scale in accordance to the amount of badges you have.
The teams listed below are what they have when you get the National Dex and
are their final teams, however the locations are concrete for the duration
of
the game.
Reporter:
Drifblim L57 | Luxray L57
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: Jubilife City
- Tuesday, Friday: Hearthome City
- Saturday, Sunday: Battle Area
Cameraman:
Magneton L54 | Magneton L54 | Mr. Mime L55 | Alakazam L57
- Same locations as above Reporter.
Reporter & Cameraman Duo

Gardevoir L59 | Magnezone L59
- Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday: Eterna City
- Wednesday, Friday: Veilstone City
- Thursday: ???
Idol:
Clefairy L53 (x6)
- Monday, Friday: Pastoria City
- Tuesday, Thursday: Oreburgh City
- Saturday, Sunday: Snowpoint City
- Wednesday: ???
Guitarist
Kricketune L53
- Monday, Tuesday: Canalave City
- Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday: Pastoria City
- Thursday, Friday: Sunyshore City
PokeKid
Pichu L53 | Pikachu L53 | Raichu L53
- Monday, Thursday, Sunday: Floaroma Town
- Tuesday, Friday: Solaceon Town
- Wednesday, Saturday: Resort Area
Clown
Mr. Mime L56 | Alakazam L56 | Ambipom L56
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday: Celestic Town
- Tuesday, Thursday: Pastoria City
- Saturday, Sunday: Hearthome City
However, it appears that you may actually be able to battle some of these
BEFORE you get the National Dex - at least this is what one reader has
reported
- but they will have much weaker Pokemon than what is shown here.
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[022] SWARMS IN THE SINNOH REGION
[WE022]
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After obtaining the National Dex, there will be a 'swarm' in one area of
Sinnoh
every day. You can find out where this swarm is by talking to the little
girl
in the south-east corner of Sandgem; this is Lucas or Dawn's sister who
will
tell you the exact route or area that the Pokemon is in. The swarm adds a
new
Pokemon to an area for one day with an encounter rate of 40%.
If you want to abuse it, change the time on your DS to 11:59pm and let it
run
into 12:00am naturally. Just swapping the date by itself will not work.
The Pokemon that appear in each area are as follows; the Pokemon that will
appear each time a new day rolls over is completely random.
o-------------------------------o
| POKEMON | NAME OF AREA |
o-------------------------------o
| Doduo | Route 201 |
| Zigzagoon | Route 202 |
| Cubone | Route 203 |
| Larvitar | Route 206 |
| Phanpy | Route 207 |
| Dunsparce | Route 208 |
| Snubbull | Route 209 |
| Spoink | Route 214 |
| Drowzee | Route 215 |
| Delibird | Route 217 |
| Voltorb | Route 218 |
| Farfetch'd | Route 221 |
| Skitty | Route 222 |
| Natu | Route 224 |
| Makuhita | Route 225 |
| Krabby | Route 226 |
| Spinda | Route 227 |
| Beldum | Route 228 |
| Pinsir | Route 229 |
| Corsola | Route 230 |
| Electrike | Valley Windworks |
| Slakoth | Eterna Forest |
o-------------------------------o
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[023] EXPLORING WITH THE RADAR
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After obtaining the PokeRadar, you can also get new Pokemon in all of the
areas
you have visited previously, or most of them. The Pokeradar allows you to
view
certain shaking spots in grass. If you use the PokeRadar in grass you will
see
shaking patches and going into these patches will guarantee you a Wild
Pokemon
encounter. Finding a specific Pokemon will also increase the chances of
finding
it again and creating 'chains' which can be seen with the Chaining App
Prof.
Oak gives you in the Pal Park.
There are three types of shaking grass. The first is normal, shaking grass
that
contains common Pokemon. The second is slightly sparkling grass which
sometimes
contains common Pokemon but usually has the rarer ones; these are probably
the
ones you are aiming for. The third is, in a VERY rare case (about 1/8192)
you
will get a grass patch that sparkles incredibly wildly. This patch of grass
contains a Shiny and it is a guaranteed Shiny encounter if you step into
it.
Be warned that encountering a Pokemon outside the PokeRadar shaking grass

tiles
will cause the chain to be immediately broken, meaning you'll have to use
it
again to get started (it takes 50 steps to charge up.) This could be
especially
nasty if you find a Shiny patch of grass and then have it broken, meaning
you
lose the shiny. You'll probably want to use PokeRadar hunting in tandem
with
repels. Buy many.
On that note, the chains you get by constantly encountering a single

Pokemon
with the PokeRadar will actually increase the chance of getting a shiny.
For
example, constantly finding a Starly in the PokeRadar grass will keep
chaining.
You find 19 Starly in 19 different patches of moving grass, you get a chain
of
19, etc. As you keep chaining the chance of you getting a Shiny spot
increases.
Once you get to about 40 it is fairly likely; at that point you might want
to
stop chaining and just constantly use the PokeRadar, walking the 50 steps
if
needed until you get a Shiny square. It's helpful if you have patience, but
it
is rather easy for the chain to be broken by a Bidoof appearing instead or
a
similar thing to that. There are better guides for this method elsewhere.
The PokeRadar can find the usual Pokemon but also new Pokemon in the grass.
There is a full chance of 12% which is shared between the PokeRadar
exclusive
Pokemon in the area. If there is only one it will have 12% of appearing
while
two different Pokemon may have 6% each or one has 2% and the other 10% for
example. They usually aren't too hard to find. This is the list of
PokeRadar
Pokemon available in Sinnoh:
o-------------------------------o
| POKEMON | NAME OF AREA |
o-------------------------------o
| Nidoran F | Route 201 |
| Nidoran M | Route 201 |
| Sentret | Route 202 |
| Sunkern | Route 204 North |
| Hoppip | Route 205 South |
| Slowpoke | Route 205 North |
| Baltoy | Route 206 |
| Stantler | Route 207 |
| Smeargle | Route 208 |
| Kirlia | Route 209 |
| Tauros | Route 210 South |
| Miltank | Route 210 South |
| Bagon | Route 210 North |
| Tyrogue | Route 211 West |
| Smeargle | Route 212 North |
| Grimer | Route 212 South |
| Swellow | Route 213 |
| Poochyena | Route 214 |
| Piloswine | Route 217 |
| Nidorina | Route 221 |
| Nidorino | Route 221 |
| Flaaffy | Route 222 |
| Mankey | Routes 225 & 226 |
| Primeape | Routes 225 & 226 |
| Torkoal | Route 227 |
| " | Stark Mt. Outsde |
| Venonat | Route 229 |
| Venomoth | Route 229 |
| Togepi | Route 230 |
| Wobbuffet | L. Verity&Valour |
| Aron | Fuego Ironworks |
| Nincada | Eterna Forest |
| Mareep | Valley Windworks |
| Loudred | Mt. Coronet Snow |
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[024] THE TROPHY GARDEN
[WE024]
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The Trophy Garden outside Mr. Backlot's Pokemon Mansion on Route 212 North
is
also home to exotic Pokemon. Every day a new Pokemon will appear in the
Trophy
Garden with an encounter rate of 5% and levels of 16 to 18. The next day
after
a Pokemon appears it will actually still be there and a new Pokemon will
also
enter the Trophy Garden with the same details. This keeps happening and the
first Pokemon of the two who appeared will be erased, leaving the second
one
there for a second day and so on. You can activate a Pokemon in the Trophy
Garden by talking to Mr. Backlot in the furthest right room in the Pokemon
Mansion; they may appear without talking to him but it's worth talking to
him
since he also tells you what Pokemon is actually in the Trophy Garden. It's
notable that this is now the only place to get Ditto in Platinum.
The following Pokemon can appear in the Trophy Mansion on any given day:
- Clefairy
- Jigglypuff
- Meowth
- Chansey
- Ditto
- Eevee
- Cleffa
- Igglybuff
- Bonsly
- Mime Jr.
- Azurill
- Marill
- Minun
- Plusle
- Castform
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[025] GAMEBOY ADVANCE DONGLING
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After the National Dex you can input a Ruby, Sapphire, Fire Red, Leaf Green
or
Emerald game into the GBA slot on the DS and it will have effects on the
Plat
game in your DS too. Specifically it causes extra Pokemon to appear in
certain
locations. Their levels depend on the area but they always have an
encounter of
8% unless there are two that appear in one area, meaning they have 4% each.
The Pokemon that appear with each game are as follows:
:: POKEMON RUBY VERSION

- Seedot: Routes 203, 204, 205 North, 212 South
- Nuzleaf: Routes 212 South, 229
- Mawile: Iron Island
- Zangoose: Routes 208, 210 South
- Solrock: Lake Verity/Valour/Acuity, Mt. Coronet, Spring Path, Turnback
Cave
- Gengar: Old Chateau (only one room, see Old Chateau section in
walkthrough.)
:: POKEMON SAPPHIRE VERSION

- Lotad: Routes 203, 204, 210 South, Eterna Forest
- Lombre: Routes 210 South, 229
- Sableye: Iron Island
- Seviper: Routes 208, 210 South
- Lunatone: Lake Verity/Valour/Acuity, Mt. Coronet, Spring Path, Turnback
Cave
walkthrough.)
:: POKEMON FIRE RED VERSION

- Caterpie: Route 204, Eterna Forest
- Metapod: Eterna Forest
- Ekans: Route 212 South
- Arbok: Great Marsh
- Growlithe: Routes 201, 202
walkthrough.)
:: POKEMON LEAF GREEN VERSION

- Weedle: Route 204, Eterna Forest
- Kakuna: Eterna Forest
- Sandshrew: Wayward Cave
- Sandslash: Route 228
- Vulpix: Routes 209, 214
walkthrough.)
:: POKEMON EMERALD VERSION

- Pineco: Routes 203, 204, 210 South, 229, Eterna Forest
- Shuckle: Route 224
- Teddiursa: Route 211 West, Lake Acuity
- Ursaring: Routes 216, 217, Acuity Lakefront
walkthrough.)
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[026] SINNOH'S MOVE TUTORS
[WE026]
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A new induction to Pokemon Platinum is the presence of Move Tutors in three
places around the region. These Move Tutors are similar to the ones in
Pokemon
XD or the ones in the Battle Frontier in Pokemon Emerald; they can be used
an
infinite amount of times and teach a plethora of moves, but you must pay to
use
their services. Previously it was in Battle Points, but in Pokemon Platinum
you
must pay these move tutors with shards.
Each move that can be taught costs a different amount of shards. Come to
the
move tutor with the shards and he'll teach you the move, taking away the
shards
afterwards. Some require blue, some require yellow, some red, some green
and
some need combinations or even some of all of them. All moves require eight
shards of different combinations of colours.
The moves that can be taught by the move tutor in the house in the rainy
part
of Route 212 (near the muddy part by the end of the route) are as follows:
(The R/B/G/Y sections refer to how many shards of that colour you need to
buy
the move. Red/Blue/Green/Yellow Shards respectively.)
ROUTE 212 MOVE TUTOR

o-----------------------------------------o
| MOVE NAME | R | B | G | Y |
o-----------------------------------------o
| Air Cutter | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Dive | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| Fire Punch | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Fury Cutter | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Ice Punch | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Icy Wind | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Knock Off | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Ominous Wind | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Sucker Punch | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| Trick | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Thunderpunch | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacuum Wave | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Zen Headbutt | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
o-----------------------------------------o
There is also a tutor in the top right house of Snowpoint City...
SNOWPOINT CITY MOVE TUTOR

o-----------------------------------------o
o-----------------------------------------o
| Helping Hand | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Last Resort | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Magnet Rise | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Snore | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Spite | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Swift | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Synthesis | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| Uproar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
O-----------------------------------------o
...and in the house if you Rock Climb up Route 226 directly north from the
path
into it from the Survival Area.
ROUTE 226 MOVE TUTOR

o-----------------------------------------o
o-----------------------------------------o
| Ancientpower | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Aqua Tail | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Bounce | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Earth Power | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Endeavor | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gastro Acid | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Gunk Shot | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Heat Wave | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Iron Defense | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Iron Head | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mud-Slap | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Outrage | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Rollout | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Seed Bomb | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Signal Beam | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Superpower | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Twister | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
o-----------------------------------------o
That's all of the Move Tutors in Sinnoh.

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[027] HUNT FOR THE BIRDS
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Anytime after you obtain the National Dex, do the Pal Park quest. Once you
go
into the building, Prof. Oak will talk to you then leave for Eterna. Fly to
Eterna afterwards and talk to him in the bottom left house to get Up-Grade
and
also release Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres into Sinnoh.
Like Cresselia and Mesprit, these are running Pokemon. You can actually get
five Pokemon running around the map at once! But that aside, you catch them
in the same way as any other runner. Either get a Master Ball, or use a
sturdy
Mean Look strategy or something, for example. Sleeping does not stop them
from
running in D/P/Pt, despite it making nearly no sense. Importing Master
Balls
are your best bet.
If you wish to get a specific IVs and nature for a bird, you must save
before
you talk to Oak, then activate the event, catch the bird, check its IVs and
nature and restart if you're not happy with it. Since all three birds end
up
getting into the wild at the same time, it is not a good idea to try for
all
three good birds or you will be waiting for years because the chances are
just
so low.
A good place to catch them would be Route 205-Valley Windworks or Route

214-
Valour Lakefront. Both of these areas have grass in both so interchanging
in
between them is safe for whichever side a legendary appears on, they will
be
in the grass on that side.
That's really all there is to it. But, I'll leave the event battle thing
here.
Note that can be seen on the Poketch Map like Mesprit and Cresselia. Though
it
is implied I forgot to actually state it explicitly :x
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Articuno Lv.60 Genderless Ice/Flying |
o--------------------------------------------------o
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Zapdos Lv.60 Genderless Electric/Flying|
o--------------------------------------------------o
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Moltres Lv.60 Genderless Fire/Flying |
o--------------------------------------------------o
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[028] QUEST TO FULLMOON ISLE
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After collecting the National Dex, go to Canalave City. Here, go into the
house
next to the port to see a child in bed. Talk to both child and mother, then
exit and talk to the sailor, who is said boy's father. He'll plead for your
help, then take you to Fullmoon Island.
Here, go around and enter the clearing. Cresselia will be waiting on the
puddle
and will fly away when you talk to it, becoming a running Pokemon. It'll
leave
a Lunar Wing behind which you want to take back to the boy, but Cresselia
is
now in the Wild.
Same tactics as the birds will work. Master Ball or Mean Look etcetera. If
you
want to reset for Cresselia's IVs and nature, you will have to save before
you
release it then keep releasing and catching it until it is satisfactory.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Cresselia Lv.50 Genderless Psychic |
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[029] SNOWPOINT TEMPLE
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Snowpoint City
----------------
Fly here, then head directly north. If you're looking to catch a legendary,
bring any Regirock, Regice and Registeel with you. You need one of each,
but it
doesn't matter where they come from. Without them you cannot catch the
special
Pokemon in this temple.
Head to the top of the town and attempt to enter the temple. Candice will
come
and allow you entry. Go inside.
Floor 1F
-----------
Items: N/A
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Golbat | Poison/Flying | Happiness | 80% | 47 - 50 | Temple
Flr |
|Sneasel | Dark/Ice |RzrClwLvlUpNght| 10% | 49 | Temple Flr
|
|Smoochum | Ice/Psychic | Level 30 | 10% | 47 - 49 | Temple
Flr |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Nothing on this floor. Go downstairs.
Floor B1F
-----------
Items: Calcium
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Flr |
|
|Jynx | Ice/Psychic | Level 30 | 10% | 47 - 49 | Temple
Flr |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Bit of an ice puzzle, but honestly it is really easy. Just go down on the
first
ice square you can get to, go to the right and grab the Calcium, then slide
to
the other side of the rocks and go down the stairs.
Floor B2F
-----------
Items: Calcium
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Flr |
|
Flr |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Take the left ice square down, go around the rocks and on the second one
tile
ice square slide up then go around to the left and slide to the right. Go
down
the stairs at the top.
Floor B3F
-----------
Items:
Trainers' Pokemon:
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Flr |
|
Flr |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Slightly harder of an ice puzzle this time. Go down the left tile to hit a
rock
straight away, then slide right, down, left, down, right, up, left, up,
left,
down, left, up, right and up. Down the stairs.
Floor B4F
-----------
Items: Full Heal
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Flr |
|
Flr |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Slight maze. If you have Strength, go down and move the boulder. You want
it
so that it is in one of the tiles either directly north or south of the ice
square, then enter the square in the unblocked side and you will be blocked
from going right across. Slide right, collect the Full Heal then simply go
through the maze and down.
Floor B5F
-----------
Items: N/A
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Flr |
|
Flr |
|Regigigas | Normal | N/A | --% | 1 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Take the middle tile of the upper three ice tiles and go down on it, then
from there go down, right, up, left, down, right and up to get onto the
main
island. This is Regigigas and if you have Regirock, Regice and Registeel in
your party and you press A on it, it will attack!
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Regigigas Lv. 1 Genderless Normal |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--o
Not the most threatening, is it? Regigigas in Platinum really cannot do a
lot
even if Slow Start removes itself. Just use False Swipe, inflict a status
and
start throwing Dusk Balls. Alternatively just start with the Dusk Balls
from
the top but be warned that the catch rate isn't much lower just because of
the
very low level Regigigas now possesses.
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--o
That finishes this section.
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[030] THE SPEAR PILLAR QUEST
[WE030]
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???
----
From wherever you are currently, fly to Celestic Town. This quest will
allow us
to catch Dialga and Palkia. The requirements for this are beating the Elite
Four, two items we will obtain inside the mountain and a quick conversation
that
we will have now. You do NOT need the National Dex!
Celestic Town
--------------
Go into the house at the top (the large one) and talk to the old woman
inside,
who is the Celestic Elder. She'll tell you some stuff and this will unlock
the
event for us, once we get the orbs. Now, fly to Oreburgh City.
Oreburgh City
--------------
From here, go into Mt. Coronet.
Mt. Coronet
-------------
Items: Adamant Orb, Lustrous Orb, Stone Plate, TM02 Dragon Claw, Nugget
Surf across the northern water and Rock Climb up to the second floor. Make
your
way around the room to the stairs to the third floor and go up them. Then
head
around the first floor to the outside area.
Admist all the snow and the great music, head to the right on either level
of
the snow. When you get to the Rock Climb patch, go up it, then go right and
enter the cavern on the right. This is a part of 4F which we did enter very
briefly before if you were following the walkthrough at that point. Go
left,
Surf on the water, then go up the Waterfall. Note that if you have the
Super
Rod and you fish in the water here, there is a chance you may come across a
Dratini or Dragonair.
Get off the water on the north side and enter the inner cave. Check the
rock to
get the Stone Plate, then pick up the Adamant and Lustrous Orbs on either
side
of the rock.
Now, head back out of the room and back to the outside part and follow the
path
through until you get to the next outside area. As a reminder, it's left
and
through the grass, into the cave, up and through the upper part of 4F to
end up
on the outdoors again.
On the outside, go down the steps and enter the cave on the right. Descend
the
rock climb platforms and break the rocks to get to the other end of the
room &
enter the cave that the Galactic grunt was blocking oh so long ago. Pick up
the TM02 Dragon Claw to the left here and check the upper rock for a
Nugget.
Nothing else of worth is here, so reverse and go back outside.
Now we need to head for Spear Pillar. Rock Climb up the left once you get
out
and follow the path around to 5F. Climb the stairs to 6F and go around once
more to 7F. Then head up into Spear Pillar at last.
Spear Pillar
-------------
Items: N/A
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
| Dialga | Dragon/Steel | N/A | --% | 70 | Event
|
| Palkia | Dragon/Water | N/A | --% | 70 | Event
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
When you reach the top, if you have met the three requirements and advance
up
to where the triangular point is at the top, you should see a blue portal.
Save
and interact with it. Choose Yes to check it and Dialga will attack!
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Dialga Lv.70 Genderless Dragon/Steel |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Dialga is the first legendary of two we'll face atop Spear Pillar, complete
with the Spear Pillar remix that constitutes its music. Dialga is
incredibly
strong being of Level 70, having a moveset consisting of Slash, Earth
Power,
Heal Block and the incredibly powerful Roar of Time. A hit from Roar of
Time
will deal a LOT of damage, for it is a Dragon Hyper Beam - unless your
Pokemon
are a similar level or higher, don't expect to survive a blast of it. The
other
moves aren't too much trouble and I don't think Heal Block blocks healing
items
but I don't know for sure...
Unfortunately Dialga has no specific ball effective against it, since there
are
no balls fit for Dragon or Steel types and it's not always night where
Dialga
is, either. Your best bet is loading up the Ultra Balls and using Quick
Balls
at the beginning possibly, or waiting until night falls and trying to catch
Dialga then with Dusk Balls (though it's not like it changes into night
during
the battle or anything, as cool as that would be.) Do the usual chip HP,
cause
a status if possible, throw balls tactic. Or just throw a Master Ball if
you
have a Pal Park connection and the clone glitch on Emerald, or Pokesav or
some
sort of way to get your file to have more than one Master Ball. As a side
note,
it is weak to Ground and Fighting moves and resistant to many different
types.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Once you catch Dialga, the portal will remain but Dialga itself will not be
in
it, instead having moved to your PC. Go back down and enter back into 7F,
then
go back atop Spear Pillar and move up. There should now be a purple portal,
containing Palkia. Save, interact, say Yes and Palkia will attack.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Palkia Lv.70 Genderless Dragon/Water |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
There is little that applies to Palkia that doesn't apply to Dialga, so
there
is little I can say that isn't redundant. What I will say is that Palkia
has
the same moves as Dialga with the exception of Spacial Rend, which is
basically
a Dragon version of the Cross Chop move, except with 95% accuarcy instead
of
the usual 80% it has. Palkia is also Water type rather than Steel and
because
of this, Net Balls will also have quadruple effectiveness on Palkia, all of
the
time, so if you're trying to catch it in the daytime then Net Balls are
easily
your best bet. Use the same tactics as Dialga with chipping its HP down
etc.
Be warned Palkia is only weak to Dragon-type moves, but doesn't have
anywhere
near as many resistances as Dialga does.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
You've now got Dialga and Palkia! That's all for this section.
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[031] IN-DEPTH POKETCH
[WE031]
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====
Across Pokemon Platinum you can collect a total of twenty-five Apps for
your
Poketch in the game. Some are a little well hidden. The list below has the
locations of all twenty-five in the game. There is only one place to get
each
one. The apps and locations are as follows...
(PS: From the start means when you first get the Poketch in Jubilife.)
(The Poketch Building is the one with the flags in Jubilife, north-west.)
#1: Digital Clock - From the start.

#2: Calculator - From the start.
#3: Memo Pad - President of Poketch Company after having one badge.
#4: Pedometer - From the start. (counts steps, not paedophiles.)
#5: Pokemon List - From the start.
#6: Friendship Checker - A woman in Eterna City's Pokemon Center.
#7: Dowsing Rod - Automatically from Dawn or Lucas on Route 207.
#8: Berry Searcher - Girl in the berry master house, far east of Route 208.
#9: Day-Care Checker - Man in Solaceon Daycare Center after leaving a
Pokemon.
#10: Pokemon History - Ruin Maniac near the entrance of Solaceon Town.
#11: Counter - Veilstone Dept Store Clerk, 2F.
#12: Analogue Clock - Celestic Town citizen.
#13: Marking Map - President of Poketch Company after having three badges.
#14: Link Searcher - President of Poketch Company after having five badges.
#15: Coin Flip - Person in the Valour Lake Resort; Rock Climb & Surf
needed.
#16: Move Tester - President of Poketch Company after having seven badges.
#17: Calendar - Show Sunyshore City scientist a Pokemon that is "Serious."
#18: Dot Artist - Show Sunyshore City scientist a Pokemon that is "Naive."
#19: Roulette - Show Sunyshore City scientist a Pokemon that is "Quirky."
#20: Trainer Counter - Go to Pal Park after obtaining the PokeRadar.
#21: Kitchen Timer - Show the girl in Pal Park a Snorlax.
#22: Colour Changer - After the above, show her a Kecleon.
#23: Matchup Checker - Catch five Pokemon (any five) in the Great Marsh.
#24: Stopwatch - Nintendo Events only.
#25: Alarm Clock - Nintendo Events only.
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[032] THE GLOBAL TRADE STATION
[WE032]
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====
The Global Trade Station contains many new features, which I unfortunately
cannot actually read yet. This section will be filled in later on.
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[033] YOUR OWN RESORT HOUSE
[WE033]
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====
When you go the south-east corner in the Resort Area, a guy will take you
to a
house and it will be made your own. For certain prices, you can furnish it
and
have certain people visit. It's really for decoration since you reap no
real
rewards from it. Having a new house is kinda nice though.
You can buy the following items for your house:
Item Price Requirement

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---
Table $free Automatically from the start.
Big Sofa $120,000 Can be bought from the start.
Small Sofa $ 90,000 Can be bought from the start.
Bed $187,000 Can be bought from the start.
Night Table $140,000 Can be bought from the
start.
TV $220,000 Can be bought from the
start.
Audioset $160,000 Can be bought from the
start.
Shelves $150,000 Can be bought from the start.
Bookcase $127,000 Can be bought from the
start.
House Plant $120,000 Can be bought from the start.
PC Desk $168,000 Can be bought from the start.
Music Box $ 25,300 Buy the bookcase first.
Pokemon Statue 1 $150,000 Obtain any one Silver Print.
Pokemon Statue 2 $150,000 Obtain all ten frontier
prints.
Piano $146,700 Defeat Elite Four ten times.
Reception Set $208,000 Defeat fifty trainers in the
Cafe.
Wall Clock $ 52,000 Plant a total of fifty berries.
Great Painting $140,000 Hatch a total of thirty
eggs.
Tea Set $108,000 Buy the Reception Set first.
Chandelier $108,000 Walk at least 300,000
steps.
Buying specific items causes some people to visit, such as buying the House
Plant causes Gardenia to make an appearance. Once you buy the activating
item
they will appear once randomly and continue appearing randomly from there.
The following items activate certain people:
Table - Johanna/Mum/Mom
Small Sofa - Lucas/Dawn
Shelves - Professor Rowan
House Plant - Gardenia
Piano - Cynthia
That's really all there is to the house.

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[034] ROUTES 219, 220, 221 & PAL PARK
[WE034]
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====
These routes are south of Sandgem Town and you need Surf to access them.
They
can actually be done as soon as you get Surf but they aren't needed really.
Route 219
-----------
Items: Zinc
Trainers' Pokemon: Shellos L31, Marill L31, Shellos L33, Marill L33
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
|Lumineon**| Water | N/A | 35% | 25 - 55 | Fishing
GS |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
** 5% with Good Rod.
Water route. I hate water routes... I'm glad there aren't too many water
routes
in Sinnoh. It's really just 219, 220 and 230. 218 barely counts because it
is
really short and the majority is land anyway.
Directly south is some land with tubers. I hate writing the walkthrough for
219
already. There's a hidden Zinc on the island. Go south to Route 220.
Already.
Route 220
-----------
Items: Max Repel, Splash Part, Carbos
Trainers' Pokemon: Goldeen L30, Goldeen L30, Goldeen L31, Seaking L33,
Finneon L35, Remoraid L32, Tentacool L30, Octillery L34, Pelipper L33,
Gastrodon L33, Tentacruel L35, Floatzel L35, Buizel L32, Seaking L32,
Medicham L32 (yes, on the sea ?_?)
All Times
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
GS |
|Chinchou | Water/Electric | Level 28 | 5% | 20 - 50 | Fishing S
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Straight south are some female swimmers. Jump onto the island to get a Max
Repel, as well as the Splash Plate on the southern part. From the Splash
Plate
area go right to come in contact with a swimmer, then keep going right to
some
shallow water. Pick up the Carbos, then fight the swimmer to the north-
west.
Go east and fight more swimmers, then head east to Route 221. There's
another
swimmer up the top too - if you go to Route 221 then Surf around the rocks
and
head west you can fight her.
Route 221
-----------
Items: Protein, Ultra Ball, Hyper Potion, Leppa Berry, Pecha Berry, Mago
Berry,
Hondew Berry, TM81 X-Scissor, Carbos, Pure Incense, poss: Focus Sash,
Blackbelt
and Expert Belt, Big Mushroom
Trainers' Pokemon: Remoraid L33, Floatzel L33, Finneon L30, Finneon L32,
Finneon L34, Cherrim L34, Azumarill L34, Lopunny L35, Staraptor L35,
Girafarig
L36, Togetic L35
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Sudowoodo | Rock | N/A | 25% | 29 - 31 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|Farfetch'd| Normal/Flying | N/A | 40% | 28 - 29 | Swarm
|
|
|Nidorino | Poison | Moon Stone | 6% | 30 - 31 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
GS |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Sudowoodo | Rock | N/A | 25% | 29 - 31 | Grass
|
|
|
|
|Farfetch'd| Normal/Flying | N/A | 40% | 28 - 29 | Swarm
|
|
|Nidorino | Poison | Moon Stone | 6% | 30 - 31 | PokeRadar
|
|
|
|
|
OG |
|
|
GS |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Swimmer directly to the right, and a Protein in plain view. Go onto the
land
and fight the fisher on the shore, then get the Ultra Ball to the right.
Follow
this bottom path across (there's a Hyper Potion hidden in the big patch in
the
middle) and battling a trainer on the way to some berries. Get TM81 X-
Scissor
in a clearing as well as a hidden Carbos in the next patch of grass then
fight the Ace Trainer.
Straight up is Pal Park but we have more exploring to do first. Head

directly
west fighting a Collector and go up into the northern grass reaches. Pick
up
the Pure Incense in the top left and enter the house at the top. The guy
here
will request to see a Pokemon of a specific level. The first time you
satisfy
him he will give you a Blackbelt, the second time an Expert Belt and the
third
time a Focus Sash. It'll keep going in a loop but the guy can ask for any
level
from 1 to 100. There's also a hidden Big Mushroom in the top row of trees
at
the east of the house.
Now, if you've obtained the National Dex, go into Pal Park. If you haven't
then
this is as far as you can go for the time being.
Pal Park
-----------
Items: Trainer Counter App, poss: Kitchen Timer App, Colour Changer App
Inside Oak will talk to you and leave shortly after. We'll go see him in a
bit.
The brunette on the left will give you a Kitchen Timer App if you show her
a
Snorlax and a Colour Changer App after that if you show her Kecleon.
If you want to participate in Pal Park, put a cartridge in your DS that is

the
same language as the Platinum game you're transferring to and choose to
import
Pokemon from the main menu (use Soft Reset (L+R+Start+Select) to get there
if
you need/want to get out of the main game and keep your DS on) and they
shall
appear in Pal Park in a location depending on their type. Most are obvious
but
note that there are some oddities like a few legendaries appearing in the
mountains and the Lati twins in the grass and such.
Fly to Eterna City afterwards to pay Oak a quick visit.
Eterna City
------------
Items: Up-Grade
Go into the house in the very south-west of Eterna near the Route 206
gatehouse
to find Oak. Talk to him to get an Up-Grade. Talking to Oak also does
something
else... it releases the three birds into Sinnoh! If you want to soft reset
for
a nature/IVs for one of the birds, save before you talk to Oak for the
stats of
the birds are decided as soon as you talk to him.
That's it.
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[035] CHANGING DEOXYS' FORM
[WE035]
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====
Should you import a Deoxys from an ADV game to Pokemon Plaitnum, you will
be
able to change its form at will. Simply go to Veilstone and press A on the
respective meteors to the right for it to automatically change into the
desired
form. The very top rock changes Deoxys into the speed form, the middle one
is
the normal form of Deoxys and the left meteor in the bottom part changes
Deoxys
into the Attack form and the Defense form for the one on the right.
...That's all.
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[036] RETURN TO THE DISTORTION WORLD
[WE036]
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====
???
-----
Fly to Veilstone City, then head south into Route 214.
Route 214/Spring Path

-----------------------
Go down on the right wall to about the middle and you should be able to
find
a path into Sendoff Spring called Spring Path. Follow it through.
Sendoff Spring
---------------
Go around and head back to the cave entrance Cynthia was blocking so far.
Now
that we have beaten the Elite Four, Cynthia has gone, so enter Turnback
Cave.
============================
Turnback Cave
============================
Turnback Cave is a maze cave pretty much, with a rather odd puzzle.
Turnback
Cave contains about twenty-five different possible rooms and the paths to
each different room are _randomized!_ The random number generator will
decide
the paths that each different direction leads to (since you have a choice
of
four paths in each room). The main rule to remember is DO NOT go back
through
the same door that you just went through, or you will be returned to the
start.
Only go into a door and back into the same door if you want to return to
the
beginning of Turnback Cave.
inviso87 in particular noticed a lot of factors about the cave which are
pretty important. Thank you for this info!
"Hello there, I was reading your walkthrough to get some tips about where
to go
in Turnback Cave after Cynthia moves out of the way and noticed you
yourself
weren't too sure either and said to just head north and things should be
fine.
Well, I tried it and it didn't work out too well. There are a lot of things
I
did notice though:
1) The paths are RNG'd. Yep, they are random. Going north and then north
again
may work once but, unless you're lucky, won't work again. Everytime you
leave
the cave the path is reset and a new randomly generated path is created
when
you enter the cave.
2) Going back through a door you entered will lead you back to the first
room,
no matter what room you are in. This is very good if you're in the last
room
and wish to go back out of the cave. Just recall which door you came in and
voila, you're home free.
3) Example: If going north does not work initially, try west, if that
fails,
try south, if that fails, try east. Make sure not to go east and then west
though (as that would mean you go back through a door you entered) and
don't go
east and then east, this does nothing for you except ride you around in
circles.
In order to minimize your amount of steps, don't go in same/opposite
directions
of a door you went through, only adjacent. If you go through a south door
and
it doesn't lead to the pillar, go through the east or west doors, not the
north
or south doors. You could also always go back the way you came (to start
over)
and pray that you go through each door once but that requires a good amount
of
luck! To get the Reaper Cloth, you cannot be wrong even once (which is
where
the luck factor comes in).
Odds of being right:

To Pillar 1 -- 25% chance *
To Pillar 2 -- 33% chance **
To Pillar 3 -- 33% chance ***
To Distortion World room -- ??
* (4 doors in initial room)

** (only 3 choices since the 4th choice is the door you came through)
*** (I am going to assume 33% chance though....I got it right on my first
try
so I don't want to say for sure)
So yea, adjacent doors are the ones you go through if you are
wrong...that's
the key point of this 3rd and last point."
To simplify, rather than going straight in one direction you should

alternate
between the doors - for example, at first enter the north door then go
through
the west or east door, then the north or south door, etc and try to avoid
opposites. If you want the Reaper Cloth you will have to get the first door
right, so if you get the incorrect door just exit Turnback Cave then try
again. Overall you have a 0.25 x 0.33 x 0.33 = 0.027225 or a 2.7% chance of
getting the Reaper Cloth to 2 dp, so you may only get one every one in
fifty
tries if you want one!
-----------------------------
Between Entrance & Pillar 1
-----------------------------
Items: N/A
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Gastly | Poison/Ghost | Level 25 | 40% | 15 - 17 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Bronzor | Steel/Psychic | Level 33 | 20% | 15 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Duskull | Ghost | Level 37 | 5% | 18 | Cave Floor
|
|Solrock | Rock/Psychic | N/A | 8% | 18 | Cave Flr Ru
|
|Lunatone | Rock/Psychic | N/A | 8% | 18 | Cave Flr Sa
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|Duskull | Ghost | Level 37 | 15% | 16 - 18 | Cave Floor
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The objective here is to find the pillars within Turnback Cave. Once you
find the first pillar and cross into the main area again - assuming you
don't
get lucky and end up at another pillar - and that will give you the wild
list
shown below between the first and second pillar.
Between Pillars 1 & 2

------------------------
Items: N/A
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Haunter | Poison/Ghost | Trade | 40% | 25 - 27 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Bronzong | Steel/Psychic | N/A | 20% | 25 | Cave
Floor |
|Chimecho | Psychic |Happiness+Night| 10% | 26 - 28 | Cave
Floor |
|Dusclops | Ghost |Trade/SprtCloth| 5% | 28 | Cave Floor
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
The Pokemon are now stronger and evolved. Keep trying to find the pillars.
By the way the information on the pillar you come up to it has two numbers.
The
top number is how many pillars you've found so far, while the bottom is the
number of rooms you have gone through to get to the pillar.
Between Pillars 2 & 3

------------------------
Items: N/A
Morning/Day
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
|Haunter | Poison/Ghost | Trade | 40% | 35 - 37 | Cave
Floor |
Floor |
|Bronzong | Steel/Psychic | N/A | 20% | 35 | Cave
Floor |
|Chimecho | Psychic |Happiness+Night| 10% | 36 - 38 | Cave
Floor |
|Dusclops | Ghost |Tradew/SprtClth| 5% | 38 | Cave Floor
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Night
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
METHOD |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---|
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
Floor |
|
|
|
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Last Room
------------
Items: Spirit Cloth, Rare Bone or Stardust (only one, depending on data)
When you enter, there will be a platform, a portal and an item. The item
will
depend on how many rooms it took you to get to this room. If it was three
then
you get a Spirit Cloth. If it was four to fifteen then you get a Rare Bone
and
if it was sixteen to thirty then you get a Stardust. If you took longer
than 30
rooms to get here, then you probably got kicked out of the cave. Note that
this also includes the room with the third pillar as a room to the total.
Enter the portal afterwards to be taken to a new area of the Distortion

World.
NOTE: If previously you defeated Giratina in order to get out of the

Distortion
World rather than catch it, Giratina will actually be in here! It has
exactly
the same level and moves as it did before, but it is in its Altered Forme -
the form it shows up in in DP - rather than the Origin Forme. I'm afraid I
do
not know if the stats are reset from the last encounter, though. (Thank you
to
Trueblade_Kai for noticing this!)
Distortion World
-----------------
Items: Griseous Orb
There isn't a whole lot to explore here and the distortion world we did
before
has been completely cut off now. Start by going left and up through some
things
that vanish then onto a side platform and off the other side. Continue to
the
west, jump off the platform onto the floating platforms then head south and
take the path. Just keep following it from here and you will reach an item
to
pick up. This is the Griseous Orb, which when attached to Giratina will
cause
it to be in Origin Forme, even outside the Distortion World.
That's all there is, so make your way back to Turnback Cave, then enter any
room around this room to get to the entrance room, and exit the cave.
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[037] THE UNDERGROUND
[WE037]
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To be expanded upon.
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[038] DISCOVER THE SECRET OF ROTOM
[WE038]
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Eterna City
------------
Once you obtain the Secret Key somehow (if you use an AR code you need to
use
the code that activates the actual event rather than just giving yourself
the
item!) fly to Eterna City. Go to the Galactic Hideout in the north and on
the
bottom floor, go to the very top left of the room and press A. If you have
activated the event successfully, the wall will move back and an entrance
will
appear! Go through.
In here is a room with five appliances and a book on the table. Reading
said
book will give you some background inforamtion on Charon, as well as making
Rowan appear randomly and talk to you.
As for the appliances, if you have a Rotom in your party, you can engage
one
of the appliances by pressing A and Rotom will possess it, changing its
stats
and giving it a new move. The five applicanes and their moves are as
follows:
o-----------------------------------------------o
| APPLIANCE | TECHNIQUE | OFFICIAL NAME |
o-----------------------------------------------o
| Fridge | Blizzard | Frost Rotom |
| Washing Machine | Hydro Pump | Wash Rotom |
| Lawnmower | Leaf Storm | Mow Rotom |
| Oven | Overheat | Heat Rotom |
| Fan | Air Slash | Fan Rotom |
o-----------------------------------------------o
The Rotom will automatically try to learn the move when you change its
form.
You can't keep the move in between forms; say your Rotom knows Blizzard as
a
fridge and you change it to an oven, it will automatically learn Overheat
over
it. Likewise, getting your Rotom out of an appliance by pressing A on the
empty
slot will cause it to revert to Normal form and also lose the gained move
by
itself, without confirmation or anything.
Unfortunately you can't use any of the alternate Rotom forms on Wi-Fi -
it'll
just switch back to the regular form. Real pity if you ask me.
There is nothing else to this room.
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[039] DEITIES OF ROCK, ICE AND STEEL
[WE039]
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Those of you lucky enough to obtain an Event Regigigas can catch the three
Regi
Pokemon in Platinum, complete with the Regi music with the Regigigas in the
Snowpoint Temple doesn't have ;_; I'm unsure what on the Regigigas causes
the
event to proceed exactly, but the Regigigas has these details:
OT: Translates to Eigakan, meaning 'Movie Theater'.

ID: 07198
Caught on September 9, 2008
Pokemon Movie 08
A Fateful Encounter at Level 100
Iron Head | Rock Slide | Icy Wind | Crush Grip
Custap Berry
Keep this Regigigas in your party and fly to the Resort Area. By the way, I
think that Regigigas obtained in the Toys R' Us events in March 2009 will
be
able to activate this event in the American version of Pokemon Platinum.
Rock Peak Ruins

----------------
From the Resort Area, go north into Route 228 and go down the mud slide
into
the lower part near the top of the route by the really long thin wood
bridge.
On the wall by here is an entrance.
Going in here with the event Regigigas will cause the room to be a
different
room with seven orange glowing dots instead of the Hard Stone room we came
into
earlier on. Walk across all of the dots for an earthquake to happen. Save
and
talk to the statue at the top of the room for Regirock to appear!
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Regirock Lv.30 Genderless Rock |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Quite a low level, I must say. There is little to say here; just use the
usual
tactics and try Dusk Balls.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Next, fly to Celestic Town.
Ice Peak Ruins

---------------
Enter Mt. Coronet and make your way like you're going to the snow routes
but
go into the cave entrance on the final stretch of rock.
Same setup as Regirock, but a different formation of seven dots and this
time
they're light blue. Walk across all of them again, get an earthquake, check
the statue for a lovely Regice.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Regice Lv.30 Genderless Ice |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
usual
tactics and try Dusk Balls.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Now fly to Canalave City.
Steel Peak Ruins

-----------------
Go to the sailor at the port and sail to Iron Island. Now work your way
through
it back to 3F (it is actually quite short) and enter the cave entrance
here.
No more Metal Coat, now it is seven grey dots. Walk across them all as
usual,
talk to the statue, you get the picture.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Registeel Lv.30 Genderless Steel |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
usual
tactics and try Dusk Balls. I JUST LOVE COPY AND PASTE! Registeel got a new
Platinum sprite too. No more salute :(
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
That's all.
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[040] A NIGHTMARE TO NEWMOON ISLAND
[WE040]
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If you're lucky enough to get the Member Card from a Wi-Fi event or from a
code of some sort by activating the event and not hacking the item in, fly
to
Canalave City.
Just note that you must have cured the boy in Canalave with the Lunar Wing
for
this event to work, so it means that you must have at least released
Cresselia
into the wild. Otherwise you will be unable to get into the inn to get
Darkrai.
Canalave City
----------------
Go to the house at the very top of the right side above the Pokemon Center
and
with the Member's Card you will enter. Some dialogue occurs and then you
will
end up sleeping... (P.S.: Buy any balls you need before you do this.)
Newmoon Island
---------------
You've ended up on some mysterious island in the middle of nowhere. Follow
the
path around and enter the deeper part of the island.
Inside is a clearing with a large puddle and a floating figure in the
center.
This is Darkrai - go up and save then talk to it to begin a battle.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Darkrai Lv.50 Genderless Dark |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Darkrai has had a level boost since Diamond and Pearl, now reaching Level
50
instead of the 40 it was before. Darkrai is a Dark Pokemon with incredibly
high
Special Attack and Speed but it is a little frail. It has a moveset of
Double
Team, Nightmare, Faint Attack and Hypnosis. Be warned that Darkrai has the
Bad
Dreams ability, which causes your Pokemon to lose 1/16 of its HP a turn
when it
is asleep which Darkrai's Hypnosis. This coupled with the incredibly
damaging
Nightmare when asleep can drain your Pokemon's HP very fast, even if you're
a
dozen or more levels above it. Double Team can also increase evade and
such.
Catching Darkrai at night with Dusk Balls is probably the best bet. Do I
ever
recommend anything BUT Dusk Balls?
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Enjoy your Darkrai.

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[041] JOURNEY THROUGH THE FLOWERS
[WE041]
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Those who can get an 'Oak's Letter' can do this event. If you get one of
these
by activating the event, take yourself to the Pokemon League and then make
your
way through Victory Road to Route 224.
Route 224
-----------
Head for the very top of the route where the white rock is. Some dialogue
will
occur with Shaymin appearing and such. Afterwards a large path in the sea
will
appear - the Seabreak Path. Head north across it.
Seabreak Path
--------------
This is a long area, the longest in any Pokemon game ever actually. However
it
contains no Wild Pokemon, so all you will find here is a bunch of flowers
to
bike through. Keep going and eventually you'll reach the next area.
Flower Paradise
----------------
A small area with a few hills and such. It's covered with flowers and in
the
very center is Shaymin. Go up to it, save and fight it.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Shaymin Lv.30 Genderless Grass |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
No real change from Platinum here apart from a new sprite. It's easier to
catch
than the majority of legendaries with a catch rate of 45 - which is
actually
lower than Pokemon such as Mantyke and Chatot - so it shouldn't be too hard
to
get it. Dusk Balls at night are the best as usual but Ultra Balls can work
well
here as well. Weaken, status etc as much as possible and bring up the
assault.
There's little it can do to you so don't worry about that.
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
More to Shaymin in the Gracidea Flower section, but that's all for this
part.
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[042] HALLS OF ORIGIN
[WE042]
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Getting the Azure Flute means you can go after Arceus, the last Pokemon in
the
PokeDex thus far. As always you must obtain it with the help of an event or
a
code that activates said event. When you get it, go to Oreburgh, enter the
mountain and head for the very top - Spear Pillar.
Spear Pillar
-------------
Stand on the flute and it will ask if you want to play. Say yes and some
stairs
will appear! Go up them but SAVE BEFORE YOU STEP OFF THE STAIRS. Once
you've
saved, go forward and the game will automatically drag you to Arceus.
Arceus
makes a stupid noise, then the battle starts.
Hall of Origin
---------------
This is the area where you actually battle Arceus.
o----------------o
| EVENT BATTLE! |
o----------------o---------------------------------o
o----------------o---------------------------------o
| :: Arceus Lv.80 Genderless Normal |
o--------------------------------------------------o
STRATEGY
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---o
Like Deoxys, Arceus also gets its own music but unfortunately it is really
not
very good. It never gets upbeat and it's just deovted to being scary and
such.
Maybe next time.
Arceus is unique in that it has an ability called Multitype and when you
attach
the numerous plate items you found throughout the game to it, it will
actually
change type according to the plate, changing the sprite to different
colours.
Arceus' signature move called Judgment that it learns at Level 100 also
changes
type to match the plate. Arceus also has 120 base in every single stat
across
the board. It's quite the Pokemon, at least variety wise.
Arceus is at a humongous Level 80, meaning it is quite strong. It's armed

with
Refresh, Future Sight, Recover and Hyper Beam. Refresh and Recover are both
adept at removing anything you might try to use to capture Arceus like
status
and damage and Hyper Beam will deal a LOT of damage off Arceus' high SAtk
and
the high 225 power of Hyper Beam due to STAB.
Using a Master Ball here may not be a half bad idea. You can try the
standard
strategy but it won't work too well here, honestly. Just Master Ball if
you're
able to. If you even got to Arceus then you probably have Master Balls to
use,
anyway. Seriously, you should use it unless you have none left!
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---o
Congratulations on catching the deity of Pokemon.

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[043] THE GRACIDEA FLOWER
[WE043]
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If you have a Shaymin from the movie, then you can get this Key Item. The
movie
Shaymin has information as follows:
OT: Translates to Eigakan, meaning 'Movie Theater'.

ID: 07198
Caught on September 9, 2008
Pokemon Movie 08
A Fateful Encounter at Level 50
Seed Flare | Aromatherapy | Substitute | Energy Ball
Micle Berry
In addition to this Shaymin, you can get the Gracidea Flower if you got one
of the Shaymin from Toys R' Us in America or if you captured the Shaymin
located in the Flower Paradise ON A POKEMON PLATINUM GAME! If you try to
use
a Shaymin from D/P, it won't work.
Floaroma Town
---------------
Items: Gracidea Flower
Talk to the blonde woman a little north frmo the town entrance with the
Shaymin
in your party and you will get the Gracidea Flower. Using this Key Item on
a
Shaymin in the daytime will cause it to transform into its 'Sky Forme',
giving
it a Flying-type, different level up moves and improved stats across the
board.
Unfortunately it automatically changes back into normal Shaymin at night
and
you can't use this on Wi-Fi, either. That's really all to say.
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[7] ITEM AND TM/HM LISTS [S007]
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This section contains the effects and locations of all of the Items
(including
berries, evolution items etcetera) and all Technical and Hidden Machines.
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[001] REGULAR ITEMS (+mail)
[IL001]
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Adamant Orb - Mt. Coronet 4F
Air Mail - Canalave, Jubilife, Solaceon, Eterna and Celestic Town stores.
Amulet Coin - Amity Square in Hearthome
Big Root - Route 214
Black Belt - Route 221, given by guy in north house.
Black Sludge - Held by Wild Croagunk & Toxicroak randomly.
Blackglasses - Celestic Town
Bloom Mail - Floaroma Town store.
Blue Scarf - Pastoria City
Bright Powder - Battle Frontier for 48 BP
Bubble Mail - Veilstone Dept. Store.
Charcoal - Route 227
Choice Band - Battle Frontier for 48 BP
Choice Scarf - Battle Frontier for 48 BP
Choice Specs - Celestic Town
Cleanse Tag - Lost Tower 5F, clear room with Defog then talk to lady
Damp Rock - Underground
Dawn Stone - Mt. Coronet, Route 212 South, Route 225, Pickup
Deepseascale - Trade or Pokemon Battle Revolution
Deepseatooth - Trade or Pokemon Battle Revolution
Destiny Knot - Route 224
Draco Plate - Eterna City, Underground.
Dragon Fang - Held by Wild Bagon randomly.
Dragon Scale - Held by Wild Horsea, Seadra, Dratini and Dragonair randomly.
Dread Plate - Old Chateau / Underground
Dubious Disc - Galactic Warehouse, Route 225
Dusk Stone - Galactic Warehouse, Victory Road, Pickup, Wayward Cave Secret
Area
Earth Plate - Orebrugh Gate / Underground
Electrizer - Vally Windworks, held by Wild Electabuzz randomly.
Escape Rope - Various stores.
Everstone - Snowpoint City Trade or held randomly by Geodude and Graveler.
Exp. Share - Aide in Route 206 northern gatehouse.
Expert Belt - Route 221, given by guy in north house.
Fire Stone - Solaceon Ruins, Fuego Ironworks, Pal Park Transfer
Fist Plate - Route 215, Underground.
Flame Mail - Veilstone Dept. Store.
Flame Orb - Battle Frontier for 16 BP
Flame Plate - Stark Mountain
Focus Band - Battle Frontier for 48 BP
Focus Sash - Route 221, given by guy in north house / Battle Frontier for
48 BP
Full Incense - Veilstone City
Grass Mail - Veilstone Dept. Store.
Green Scarf - Pastoria City
Grip Claw - Wayward Cave
Griseous Orb - Distortion World (after NDex)
Heart Mail - Hearthome City Store.
Heat Rock - Underground
Icicle Plate - Route 217
Icy Rock - Underground
Insect Plate - Eterna Forest, near Old Chateau / Underground
Iron Ball - Iron Island
Iron Plate - Iron Island 2F Left, Underground
King's Rock - Held by Wild Poliwhirl randomly, hidden in Celestic Town
Lagging Tail - Route 226
Lax Incense - Route 225
Leaf Stone - Floaroma Meadow, Route 225, Pal Park Transfer
Leftovers - Victory Road
Life Orb - Route 227-Stark Mountain Outside / Battle Frontier for 48 BP
Light Ball - Held by Wild Pikachu randomly.
Light Clay - Mt. Coronet B1F
Luck Incense - Ravaged Path
Lucky Egg - Held by Wild Chansey randomly.
Lucky Punch - Held by Wild Happiny randomly.
Lustrous Orb - Mt. Coronet 4F
Macho Brace - Pastoria City
Magmarizer - Route 214, held by Wild Magmar randomly.
Magnet - Iron Island
Max Repel - Various stores.
Meadow Plate - Route 210 North / Underground
Mental Herb - Route 216
Metal Coat - Iron Island / held by Beldum/Magnets/Bronzor/ngs/Steelix
randomly.
Metal Powder - Held by Wild Ditto randomly.
Metronome - Held by Wild Kricketot/tune/Chatot randomly + 1000C at Game
Corner.
Mind Plate - Solaceon Ruins / Underground
Miracle Seed - Floaroma Meadow
Moon Stone - Mt. Coronet Peak, held by Wild Cleffa/Clefairy/Lunatone
randomly.
Muscle Band - Battle Frontier for 48 BP.
Mystic Water - Pastoria City.
Nevermeltice - Snowpoint Temple
Odd Incense - Solaceon Ruins
Odd Keystone - Route 208, Twinleaf Town
Oval Stone - Lost Tower, held by Wild Chansey and Happiny randomly.
Pink Scarf - Pastoria City
Poison Barb - Route 206/Held by Wild Tenta/Roselia/Skorupi lines &
Qwilfish.
Power Anklet - Battle Frontier for 16 BP.
Power Band - Battle Frontier for 16 BP.
Power Belt - Battle Frontier for 16 BP.
Power Bracer - Battle Frontier for 16 BP.
Power Herb - Battle Frontier for 32 BP.
Power Lens - Battle Frontier for 16 BP.
Power Weight - Battle Frontier for 16 BP.
Protector - Iron Island 1F Left, Route 228
Pure Incense - Route 221
Quick Claw - Jubilife City
Quick Powder - Held by Wild Ditto randomly.
Razor Claw - Victory Road, Route 224, Battle Frontier for 48 BP.
Razor Fang - Route 214, Route 225, Battle Frontier for 48 BP.
Reaper Cloth - Acuity Lakefront, Route 229, Turnback Cave (final in 3
rooms)
Red Scarf - Pastoria City.
Repel - Various stores.
Rock Incense - Fuego Ironworks
Rose Incense - Route 212
Scope Lens - Battle Frontier for 48 BP.
Sea Incense - Route 204
Sharp Beak - Held by wild Fearow and Doduo randomly.
Shed Shell - Route 228
Shiny Stone - Iron Island 3F, Route 210, Route 228
Shoal Salt - Held by a Pokemon transferred into Pal Park (from Shoal Cave)
Shoal Shell - as above.
Shoal Shell - Veilstone City.
Silk Scarf - Veilstone Game Corner for 1000 coins.
SilverPowder - Eterna Forest
Sky Plate - Pokemon League North
Smoke Ball - Route 210 North
Smooth Rock - Underground
Snow Mail - Snowpoint City Store.
Soft Sand - Mt. Coronet, held by Wild Diglett/Dugtrio randomly.
Soothe Bell - Cheryl in Eterna Forest & Pokemon Mansion.
Soul Dew - Transfer from ADV.
Space Mail - Veilstone Dept. Store.
Spell Tag - Route 217
Splash Plate - Route 219
Spooky Plate - Amity Square
Steel Mail - Sunyshore City Store.
Stick - Held randomly by Wild Farfetch'd.
Sticky Barb - Veilstone Store 5F, held randomly by Wild Cacnea/Cacturne.
Stone Plate - Mt. Coronet / Underground
Sun Stone - Lake Resort, Mt. Coronet 4F, held by Wild Solrock randomly.
Super Repel - Various stores.
Thick Club - Held randomly by Wild Cubone.
Thunderstone - Solaceon Ruins, Sunyshore City, Route 229, Pal Park
transfer.
Toxic Orb - Battle Frontier for 16 BP.
Toxic Plate - Great Marsh Area 1, Underground
Tunnel Mail - Oreburgh City Store.
Twistedspoon - Held randomly by Wild Abra and Kadabra.
Up-Grade - Eterna Galactic Hideout, Route 224, Professor Oak after Pal
Park.
Water Stone - Solaceon Ruins, Route 213, Pal Park transfer.
Wave Incense - Route 210
White Herb - Battle Fronteir for 32 BP, Pickup.
Wide Lens - 1000C from Game Corner, held randomly by Wild Yanma.
Wise Glasses - Celestic Town
Yellow Scarf - Pastoria City
Zap Plate - Sunyshore City / Underground
Zoom Lens - 1000C from Game Corner.
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[002] MEDICINAL ITEMS
[IL002]
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====
Antidote - Various stores.
Awakening - Various stores.
Burn Heal - Various stores.
Calcium - Various places, Veilstone Dept. Store 2F, 1 BP in Battle
Frontier.
Carbos - Various places, Veilstone Dept. Store 2F, 1 BP in Battle Frontier.
Elixir - Many places, search Walkthrough with Ctrl+F.
Energy Root - Mt. Coronet Outside, Eterna Herb Shop.
Energypowder - Eterna Herb Shop.
Ether - Many places, search walkthrough with Ctrl+F.
Fresh Water - Route 225, Veilstone Dept. Store Vendor 5F
Full Heal - Various stores.
Full Restore - Various stores.
Heal Powder - Mt. Coronet Top Cavern, Eterna Herb Shop.
HP Up - Various places, Veilstone Dept. Store 2F, 1 BP in Battle Frontier.
Hyper Potion - Various stores.
Ice Heal - Various stores.
Iron - Various places, Veilstone Dept. Store 2F, 1 BP in Battle Frontier.
Lava Cookie - Lake Resort, Veilstone Dept. Store B1F.
Lemonade - Veilstone Dept. Store Vendor 5F
Max Elixir - Many places, search Walkthrough with Ctrl+F.
Max Ether - Many places, search Walkthrough with Ctrl+F.
Max Potion - Various stores.
Max Revive - Several places, search Walkthrough with Ctrl+F.
MooMooMilk - Route 210 Cafe, held by Wild Miltank randomly.
Old Gateau - Old Chateau, top left room.
Paralyze Heal - Variou stores.
Potion - Various stores.
PP Max - Route 226, Route 224
PP Up - Route 206/Stark Mountain/Survival Area/Solaceon Town/others.
Protein - Various places, Veilstone Dept. Store 2F, 1 BP in Battle
Frontier.
Rare Candy - Various places, search Walkthrough with Ctrl + F.
Revival Herb - Mt. Coronet Outside, Eterna Herb Shop.
Revive - Various stores.
Sacred Ash - Pal Park transfer; found with Itemfinder near Ho-oh in FR/LG)
Soda Pop - Veilstone Dept. Store Vendor 5F
Super Potion - Various stores.
Zinc - Various places, Veilstone Dept. Store 2F, 1 BP in Battle Frontier.
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[003] POKE BALLS
[IL003]
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Cherish Ball - Unobtainable, but holds event Pokemon.
Dive Ball - Route 223, Solaceon Town.
Dusk Ball - Some stores, notably Pastoria and Solaceon Town.
Great Ball - Stores after badge #3.
Heal Ball - Some stores, notably Jublife, Oreburgh and Floaroma.
Luxury Ball - Some stores, notably Sunyshore.
Master Ball - Galactic Headquarters, Six Numbers in Lottery, Pal Park
Transfer.
Nest Ball - Some stores, notably Eterna.
Park Ball - Inside Pal Park only.
Poke Ball - All stores.
Premier Ball - Buy Pokeball >= x10.
Quick Ball - Some stores, notably Pastoria and Canalave.
Repeat Ball - Some stores, notably Canalave.
Safari Ball - Inside the Great Marsh only.
Timer Ball - Some stores, notably Canalave City.
Ultra Ball - Stores after badge #6, many hidden around the region.
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[004] TMs & HMs
[IL004]
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TM01 Focus Punch - Oreburgh Gate
TM02 Dragon Claw - Mt. Coronet Top Cavern
TM03 Water Pulse - Ravaged Path
TM04 Calm Mind - Battle Frontier Shop
TM05 Roar - Route 213
TM06 Toxic - Route 212, Battle Frontier Shop
TM07 Hail - Route 217
TM08 Bulk Up - Battle Frontier Shop
TM09 Bullet Seed - Route 204
TM10 Hidden Power - Game Corner
TM11 Sunny Day - Route 212 North
TM12 Taunt - Route 211 West
TM13 Ice Beam - Route 216, Game Corner
TM14 Blizzard - Lake Acuity, Veilstone Dept. Store
TM15 Hyper Beam - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM16 Light Screen - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM17 Protect - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM18 Rain Dance - Route 223
TM19 Giga Drain - Route 209 - Surf Required
TM20 Safeguard - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM21 Frustration - Galactic Warehouse
TM22 Solarbeam - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM23 Iron Tail - Iron Island 2F Right
TM24 Thunderbolt - Valley Windworks, Game Corner
TM25 Thunder - Lake Valour, Veilstone Dept. Store
TM26 Earthquake - Wayward Cave Secret Entrance, Battle Frontier,
Pickup
TM27 Return - Sandgem Town, Lost Tower
TM28 Dig - Route 214 - Ruin Maniac's Cave
TM29 Psychic - Route 211 East
TM30 Shadow Ball - Route 210 North, Battle Frontier
TM31 Brick Break - Oreburgh Gate, Battle Frontier
TM32 Double Team - Wayward Cave
TM33 Reflect - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM34 Shock Wave - Route 215
TM35 Flamethrower - Fuego Ironworks, Game Corner
TM36 Sludge Bomb - Galactic Warehouse, Battle Frontier
TM37 Sandstorm - Route 228
TM38 Fire Blast - Lake Verity, Veilstone Dept. Store
TM39 Rock Tomb - Ravaged Path
TM40 Aerial Ace - Route 213
TM41 Torment - Victory Road 1F
TM42 Facade - Survival Area
TM43 Secret Power - Amity Square
TM44 Rest - Game Corner
TM45 Attract - Amity Square
TM46 Thief - Eterna City
TM47 Steel Wing - Route 209
TM48 Skill Swap - Canalave City
TM49 Snatch - Galactic Warehouse
TM50 Overheat - Stark Mountain
TM51 Roost - Route 210 South
TM52 Focus Blast - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM53 Energy Ball - Route 226, Battle Frontier
TM54 False Swipe - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM55 Brine - Pastoria Gym
TM56 Fling - Route 222
TM57 Charge Beam - Sunyshore Gym
TM58 Endure - Game Corner
TM59 Dragon Pulse - Victory Road B1F
TM60 Drain Punch - Veilstone Gym
TM61 Will-O-Wisp - Battle Frontier
TM62 Silver Wind - Route 212 South
TM63 Embargo - Veilstone City
TM64 Explosion - Game Corner (10 Bonus Rounds on the slots)
TM65 Shadow Claw - Hearthome Gym
TM66 Payback - Route 215
TM67 Recycle - Eterna City, 2F of building next to PokeMart
TM68 Giga Impact - Game Corner
TM69 Rock Polish - Mt. Coronet Route 211 Entrance
TM70 Flash - Oreburgh Gate, Veilstone Dept. Store
TM71 Stone Edge - Victory Road 2F
TM72 Avalanche - Snowpoint Gym
TM73 Thunder Wave - Battle Frontier
TM74 Gyro Ball - Game Corner
TM75 Swords Dance - Game Corner
TM76 Stealth Rock - Oreburgh Gym
TM77 Psych Up - Route 211 West
TM78 Captivate - Route 204, cut the tree then proceed through
TM79 Dark Pulse - Victory Road 1F -> 2F
TM80 Rock Slide - Mt. Coronet 2F
TM81 X-Scissor - Route 221, Battle Frontier
TM82 Sleep Talk - Route 205
TM83 Natural Gift - Veilstone Dept. Store
TM84 Poison Jab - Route 212 South
TM85 Dream Eater - Lake Resort
TM86 Grass Knot - Eterna Gym
TM87 Swagger - Pokemon Mansion
TM88 Pluck - Floaroma Town
TM89 U-turn - Canalave City
TM90 Substitute - Old Chateau
TM91 Luster Cannon - Canalave Gym
TM92 Trick Room - Lake Resort
HM01 Cut - Eterna City
HM02 Fly - Galactic Warehouse
HM03 Surf - Celestic Town
HM04 Strength - Iron Island
HM05 Defog - Solaceon Ruins
HM06 Rock Smash - Oreburgh Gate
HM07 Waterfall - Sunyshore City
HM08 Rock Climb - Route 217
Thank you to some readers for adding to this where items were missing!
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[005] KEY ITEMS
[IL005]
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Azure Flute - Events
Battle Recorder - Jubilife City
Bicycle - Eterna City
Coin Case - Veilstone City
Coupons 1, 2, 3 - Jubilife City
Explorer Kit - Eterna City
Fashion Case - Hearthome City
Galactic Key - Galactic Warehouse
Gracidea Flower - Events (Floaroma City)
Good Rod - Route 209
Journal - Twinleaf Town
Lunar Wing - Fullmoon Island
Member Card - Events
Oak's Letter - Events
Old Charm - Cynthia (Route 210 South)
Old Rod - Jubilife City-Route 218 Gatehouse
Pal Pad - Pokemon Center B1F
Parcel - Twinleaf Town
Poffin Case - Hearthome City
Poke Radar - Sandgem Town
Seal Case - Solaceon Town
Secret Key - Events
SecretPotion - Cynthia (Route 214)
Sprayduck - Floaroma Town
Suite Key - Lake Resort (hidden near the gatehouse)
Super Rod - Fight Area
Town Map - Jubilife City
VS. Seeker - Route 207
Works Key - Floaroma Meadow
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[8] BREEDING POKEMON [S008]
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The eighth section analyzes the practice of breeding in the Pokemon games.
This
section will explain the system in general, egg moves, etcetera.
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[001] THE BREEDING SYSTEM
[BP001]
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The Daycare Center in Solaceon Town holds a useful feature; if you put a
male
and female Pokemon together and they are compatible, there is a chance for
an
egg to be produced! The same also applies if you put any Pokemon together
with
a Ditto, except for some Pokemon that plain don't breed.
The compatibility of two Pokemon depends on their Egg Groups. Every Pokemon
has
one or two egg groups and they will be able to breed with any opposite
gender
Pokemon in their group, along with Ditto. This creates for some interesting
combinations such as WailordXSkitty since they're both in the Ground group,
for example.
There is also a 'No Egg' group and these Pokemon plain cannot breed. The No
Egg
group contains mostly legendaries, baby Pokemon as well as
Nidorina/Nidoqueen
oddly. Perhaps they lost their fertility or something. Anyway, Pokemon in
the
No Egg group cannot breed unless you use a code to force an egg like a
"Press
L to produce egg" code.
Having Pokemon come from an egg gives you several bonuses. Note that
anything
that hatches from an egg will start at Level 1, contary to the previous
Level 5
they hatched at. In Platinum you get one egg from Cynthia, one egg from
Riley
and any more eggs come from the Daycare Center by your own intervention.
The exception is the Manaphy egg. The Manaphy egg can only be obtained from
specific link events such as through Pokemon Ranger or Pokemon Ranger:
Shadows
of Almia. It has a differing egg design based off the appearance of its egg
in the ninth movie and the animation of the hatching also differs from
usual.
Manaphy is notable for being the only legendary Pokemon to also breed but
it
must be paired with a Ditto to achieve this. Breeding Manaphy will give you
Phione, a Pokemon that is unobtainable unless you breed Manaphy. Phione is
basically a weaker Manaphy, with 80 stats across the board and lacking a
few of
Manaphy's moves such as Tail Glow and Heart Swap due to undeveloped
antenna.
Unfortunately it's quite useless compared to Manaphy.
Egg group listings can be found in resources about the internet. You can
also
use the Matchup Checker app. If you put the two Pokemon you want to breed
at
the front two slots of your party then check the app, it will tell you if
they
are able to breed or not. If the Luvdisc kiss and at least one thing
appears
on the bar then they are able to breed.
The time for an egg to be formed differs on the Pokemon being bred. You can
wait for years for two incompatible Pokemon and they will never breed. Two
compatible Pokemon with the same ID will breed but slow. Two compatible
Pokemon
with different IDs or two Pokemon that are the same species and ID will
breed
with a medium speed and two of the same species of Pokemon with differing
IDs
will breed the fastest. Ditto + Pokemon is usually the preferred way of
doing
breeding however for the easy compatibility reasons as well as some other
reasons which will be explored.
Note that a produced egg will always contain the lowest evolutionary stage
of
the female parent, or the parent that is not a Ditto if a Ditto is in said
relationship. Genderless Pokemon such as Metagross, Starmie, Electrode etc
that
can actually breed can only breed with Ditto.
There are two differing parts to this rule. If you breed Nidoran F or
Illumise
then there is a 50% chance of the egg to be the male form
(NidoranM/Volbeat)
rather than the female. Unfortunately this does not apply to a
Miltank/Tauros
pairing. Breeding Volbeat/NidoranM with Ditto will result in only the male
version of both being formed, but I think breeding Ditto with the female
counterpart can produce either gender.
Also, breeding a Shiny Pokemon together with another Shiny or a non-Shiny

will
not produce a higher chance of a shiny. Back in GSC, Shinyness was
dependant
on the DVs and when a certain combination was reached the Pokemon would end
up
shiny. Breeding a Shiny Pokemon with a non-Shiny Pokemon would result in
the
baby having a 1/64 chance of being shiny rather than the usual 1/8192
chance.
Breeding two Shiny Pokemon just plain wouldn't work because they had the
exact
same IV combination, resulting in the 'brimming with energy' comment.
However
in third and fourth generation games, shinyness is dependant on a
completely
different value which isn't affected by breeding, so the chance of a shiny
offspring is not affected in any way.
It's also notable that incest is possible between two Pokemon, for example
you
_can_ breed a mother and a son or a father and a daughter. Back in GSC this
resulted in the 'brimming with energy' comment as well, but third and
fourth
generaiton games don't seem to care about it.
Every 256 steps you take, there is a chance for two compatible Pokemon to
produce an egg.
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[002] PARENT INFLUENCES
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Like with real life genetics, features of the mother and father of the
Pokemon
(or the duplicate) will have effects on the baby Pokemon. Notably you can
get
different moves passed down, as well as some stats. The stat part is the
main
reason for Breeding but the moves definitely help.
Specifically there are four different tiers to move. When a Pokemon Egg is
made, the moves will be set as follows:
- Any moves it learns at Level 1 by default.

- Any moves it learns by level up if _both_ parents have that move.
- Any TM/HM moves that the father knows and the child can also learn.
- Any Egg Moves that the father of the Pokemon knows.
The level 1 default moves are simply what they would already have at Level
1.
The level up moves are things like how Ledyba learns Mach Punch at Level
17,
Silver Wind at Level 25 and Marill learns Aqua Ring at Level 23 etcetera.
Using Marill as an example; if both the mother Marill/Azumarill and the
father
know Aqua Ring (doesn't have to be a male Marill/Azumarill, it can be any
father in the group ie Milotic as a father who gets Aqua Ring at Level 49)
then
the baby Marill will be born with Aqua Ring. However if you breed an
Azurill
instead with the exact same parents, it will not inherit Aqua Ring because
it
cannot learn it by level. (Which Pokemon comes out depends on an item,
which
I'll say more about later.)
TM/HM moves are any moves taught by TM 1-92 and HM 1-8 that the baby
Pokemon
can learn. For example if Marill's father knows HM04 Strength and TM82
Sleep
Talk, then the baby Marill will have both of those moves when it's born.
If the baby is an Azurill then it will be born with Sleep Talk since it
does
learn that by TM but not Strength since it cannot learn it by HM. If you
breed
Ditto with a male parent, then the child will still inherit the TM/HM moves
of
the male parent.
Finally, egg moves are a whole different thing altogether, giving Pokemon
moves
that they cannot learn without breeding. The next section is about them.
The moves are listed in the opposite order of priority. For example if you
have
four level up moves that both parents know, then the Level 1 moves will be
overwritten to make room for them and so on. You'll have to maniuplate it
carefully to get the moveset you want.
Stats are also passed down during breeding. Diamond, Pearl and Platinum
follow
the same process as Pokemon Emerald with stat pass downs. The process is as
follows, in this order:
1: A random IV is passed from either parent to the baby. This can be any of
the
six stats a Pokemon has.
2: A second random IV is passed from either parent to the baby, but the HP
IV
cannot be passed down this time leaving only the other five stats to be
passed
down to the baby. If the IV passed down is the same stat as the first
random IV
that was passed down, then the first IV will be overwritten for the second.
3: A third random IV is passed down from either parent to the baby but this
time you cannot have the HP or the Defense IV passed down from the parents.
The
IV can once again be the same as the second IV, first IV or even both IVs.
In
the case that it matches the stat of one of the other random IVs then it
will
overwrite that stat for the third passed down IV. It is possible for the
first,
second and third IVs to all be the same stat, in which case only one stat
will
be passed down from the parent.
4: The remaining stats, which can be anywhere from three to five stats are
generated randomly by the game. It is possible for the stats to coincide
with
the parents' IVs but they aren't actually being passed down.
If you don't know what IVs are, check the next section down.
The last effect of the parent is nature. If the female or Ditto parent in
the
relationship is holding an Everstone (Ditto takes priority over the female
if
you have DittoXFemale) then there is a 50% chance for the nature of the
parent
holding the Everstone to be passed down to the child. This is helpful to
get a
specific nature for your child Pokemon in the case of competitive breeding.
However, please note that the Everstone nature pass only works if you are
breeding two Pokemon of the _SAME_ original language. It will fail if they
are not the same!
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[003] EGG MOVES
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Egg moves are moves that a Pokemon cannot normally obtain, however if you
breed
a female species with a different male in the same egg group that has one
of
the possible egg moves for a child, then the child will be born with that
egg
move. For example, Vulpix learns the move Energy Ball as an egg move, which
is
a move it cannot normally learn (even by TM53.) Breeding a female Ninetales
with a parent such as a Male Shiftry who has learned Energy Ball by TM will
result in the baby Vulpix having Energy Ball as part of its moveset.
Another example is Bulbasaur, who learns the move Petal Dance as an egg
move.
Normally it cannot learn Petal Dance at all, but pairing a female
Bulbasaur,
Ivysaur or Venusaur with a male Oddish, Gloom or Vileplume that knows the
move
Petal Dance will result in the baby Bulbasaur having Petal Dance.
Egg moves can be passed from a Ditto/father relationship, but only egg
moves
that the father knows will be passed to the child and the child is the same
but
pre-evolved species as the father. It's useful if you want to breed Energy
Ball
Vulpix with good natures and stuff with a DittoXEnergy Ball!Ninetales
relation
since it will constnatly produce Vulpix with Energy Ball as a starting
move.
There is one case where Egg Moves can be passed down from father to child
via
a Ditto relationship that is the only way it can be done. This is when you
pair Ditto with any of the three Tyrogue evolutions. For example, Tyrogue
has
Rapid Spin as an egg move. Normally Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan and Tyrogue do
not
learn Rapid Spin, but Hitmontop does. Breed Ditto with a Rapid Spin!
Hitmontop
and it will result in the baby Tyrogue having Rapid Spin which can then be
evolved into a Hitmonlee or Hitmonchan, giving them the Rapid Spin move
which
they cannot normally learn. It lets you take moves across the three Tyrogue
evolutions, basically.
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[004] HOW MANY STEPS?
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Every species of Pokemon has a specific number of steps that must be taken
for
the egg to hatch. The egg steps are not exact; rather the next group of 255
steps that exceeds the total of the amount of steps the egg needs to hatch
will
cause it to hatch, so don't expect the egg to hatch immediately as soon as
you
reach the required steps. These steps can be referred to as 'egg cycles'
which
are how many bunches of 255 steps you must take for that egg to hatch. For
example Charmander is a Pokemon that takes 21 egg cycles to hatch and each
egg
cycle is 255 steps, so it takes a total of 255 x 21 = 5355 steps to hatch
in
general. The number can differ depending on how far are you into 255 steps
at
the beginning, though.
The number of cycles a Pokemon will take to hatch generally depends on how
rare
it is. Pokemon such as Togepi, Cleffa and other such babies will take about
2550 steps to hatch, which equates to 10 egg cycles. Rarer babies such as
Magby
and Elekid may take about 6630 steps to hatch, resulting in 26 cycles. The
most steps you will have to take to hatch a Pokemon is 10,455 steps which
is 41
egg cycles and this only applies to very large, rare Pokemon such as
Chansey,
Snorlax and Lapras. The least you'll have to walk is 1,530 steps which is 6
egg cycles and this only applies to Magikarp.
Lastly, the number of steps and relative egg cycles can be halved if you
have
a Pokemon with either the Flame Body or Magma Armor anywhere in your party.
The
ability does not stack but for intensive breeding having a Pokemon with
this
ability at the front of your party along with five eggs will result in the
most
efficiency on your game. Magcargo or Slugma is the best Pokemon for this
since
both of their possible abilities have the half-step effect.
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[005] SPECIAL OCCURENCES
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There are a few special occurences involving items within Pokemon Breeding
in
addition to the Everstone one I have mentioned already. These are as
follows:
- Female/Ditto holding Everstone has 50% chance of passing nature down.

- Marill/Azumarill parent holding Sea Incense results in a baby Azurill.
- Sudowoodo parent holding Rock Incense results in a baby Bonsly.
- Mr. Mime parent holding an Odd Incense results in a baby Mime Jr.
- Chansey/Blissey parent holding a Luck Incense results in a baby Happiny.
- Wobbuffet parent holding a Lax Incense results in a baby Wynaut.
- Snorlax parent holding a Full Incense results in a baby Munchlax.
- Chimecho parent holding a Pure Incense results in a baby Chingling.
- Roselia/Roserade parent holding a Rose Incense results in a baby Budew.
- Mantine parent holding a Wave Incense results in a baby Mantyke.
- Pikachu/Raichu parent holding a Light Ball results in a Volt Tackle
Pichu.
The incense conditions only occur if the Pokemon Egg would usually be the
stage
that the evolutionary line can go the lowest without it dropping into baby
range (ie if the egg is a Marill usually and there is a Sea Incense parent
then
you will get a baby Azurill, but if the egg is a baby Lapras then you will
not
get an Azurill from said egg.) The incense does not need to be on a
particular
gendered parent but the baby must actually be from that evolutionary line.
Lastly, if you have a male or female Pikachu or Raichu parent holding a

Light
Ball and the baby is going to be a Pichu (either by a female Pikachu/Raichu
or
a Ditto) then the baby Pichu will be guaranteed to be born with the Volt
Tackle
move which it cannot normally learn by level.
The baby Pokemon formed by incense have different egg moves, which is
useful
in cases that you want specific moves, for example.
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[006] THE USEFULNESS OF BREEDING
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Breeding is overall the best method for capturing a new Pokemon. It starts
them
off with a completely fresh slate allowing you to EV them to your will, you
can
to an extent control their IVs and you can also influence their moves to
give
them a better moveset than normal. It's the best way of obtaining good
Pokemon
to battle unless it's a Pokemon that doesn't breed like Heatran.
Doing replacing with the parents is also helpful, since you can replace a
Ditto
with a poor natured but good IVed parent for example to get better babies
as
you continue breednig. Methods like these are why breeding Pokemon is
helpful.
IV calculators around the internet can also help to tell what the IVs are
even
at very low levels, but you generally need a few Rare Candies to get a good
idea of the IVs since the ranges shown will have a huge deviation compared
to
later levelled Pokemon.
That's really why you should use breeding; you don't _HAVE_ to but it is
the
best method. Plus, it's the only way you're getting into Little Cup modes
with
good Pokemon :o.
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[9] THE POKEMON STAT PICTURE [S009]
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This section expands upon Pokemon Stats, explaining the in-depth parts of
them
such as Individual Values, Effort Values, Natures etcetera.
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[001] AN INTRODUCTION
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Every Pokemon has his, her or its own stats. These are comprised of HP,
Attack,
Defense, Speed, Special Attack and Special Defense. However, have you ever
wondered how these numbers are actually calculated? (inb4 nope)
Stats are calculated with three specific pieces of data; individual values,
effort values and natures. The first two directly add or subtract points
from
a stat while natures provide a 10% increase or decrease to specific stats
but
they only affect two stats out of the six at once and there are just plain
no
HP natures. These three factors are explained below...
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[002] INDIVIDUAL VALUES
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Individual Values are, as the name suggests, values that are individual to
each
Pokemon. They are comprised of six values, each one relating to one of the
six
stats. For each IV you have, you get one more point in that stat at Level
100.
You get a range of 0 - 31. 0 gives you no extra stat points, while 31 gives
you
a total of 31 extra stat points at Level 100, which is quite a boost so
aiming
for high IV levels is always the best bet.
Individual values are determined when a Pokemon is first created and cannot
be
changed by any means other than direct hacking with programs such as
Pokesav
or devices such as Action Replay. They are totally random with the
exception
of IVs passed down by parents in breeding.
Usually its best to have IVs of around 27-31 except in stats that you do
not
need. Lower attack IVs in Pokemon that don't use attack power are preferred
as
well Individual values are also what decide Hidden Power type and power;
the
higher IVs in general the higher the power and the type depends on the
actual
combination of the numbers. For example, a setup of 30 HP, 30 Atk, 30 Def,
31 Spd, 31 SAtk and 31 SDef will result in a Hidden Power of an Ice type,
with
a 70 power. You can find out what combinations of IVs do and what IVs give
some
Hidden Powers with Metalkid's Hidden Power calculator (just search it on
Google
and it should show up.)
Hidden Power and stat totals are the only effects of Individual Values.
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[003] EFFORT VALUES
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Effort Values are similar to Individual Values and yet entirely different.
EVs
as they are referred to are values that can be applied to a stat, reaching
a
maximum of 255 per stat. Unlike Individual Values, you control these
yourself.
For each four EVs you have in a stat, an extra point gets added to it at
Level
100. This means that for the maximum effect in a stat you need 252 EVs in a
stat; you cannot get 256 and 255 isn't a multiple of 4 so you can't get an
effect from that. Basic EV spreads include 252/252/4, where you have two
stats
full and an extra point in one of the other stats. However, the best EV
spreads
are usually more complicated than that, but I'm not the person to give you
recommended spreads.
When you first obtain a Pokemon, it has no Effort Values at all. Whenever
it
gets EXP from a Pokemon, it also obtains the Effort Values of that Pokemon.
This includes things such as the EXP Share and unlike EXP, effort values
are
not divided between the Pokemon. For example, killing a Staraptor after
having
switched six Pokemon in against it will give every Pokemon that has been in
the
battle 3 Atk EVs. Every Pokemon gives a specific amount of EVs which can be
seen in Pokedexes and such around the internet.
There are other ways to boost the amount of EVs you get, as well. The main
way
is the PokeRus virus, which doubles all EV gains the Pokemon receives. It
is
quite rare to have but if you do manage to get it somehow it will come in
very
useful. It directly doubles ie Staraptor would give six EVs instead of
three.
The other way is through items. The Macho Brace is an item that doubles any
EVs received. For example, gaining EXP from a Staraptor with the Macho
Brace
equipped will give that Pokemon a total of 6 Atk EVs rather than 3. Macho
Brace
also stacks with PokeRus, allowing for a total of 12 EVs of a stat from any
Pokemon that gives out 3 EVs for a certain stat!
However, there are even more efficient ways. If you attach one of the Power
...
items to your Pokemon (ie Power Anklet, Bracelet) etc then you get 4 EVs in
the
stat it boosts each time your Pokemon gains EXP. It's best to match this
with
the stat you are currently trying to gain. For example, the standard 3 Atk
EVs
Staraptor gives as well as the Power Bracer [which adds +4 Atk EVs to a
Pokemon
when it gains EVs] equipped would result in 7 Atk EVs for that Pokemon when
it
gains EXP! Add Pokerus to that equation and you get a massive 14 Atk EVs
each
time you kill Staraptor, making EV training very fast! The same applies to
any
Pokemon with a setup like that ie killing a Blissey with Pokerus and the
Power
Weight equipped would give you 14 HP EVs and so on. The formula goes like
this:
1 EV + Pokerus + Macho Brace = 4 EVs

2 EVs + Pokerus + Macho Brace = 8 EVs
3 EVs + Pokerus + Macho Brace = 12 EVs
1 EV + Pokerus + Power (...*) = 6 EVs

2 EVs + Pokerus + Power (...) = 10 EVs
3 EVs + Pokerus + Power (...) = 14 EVs
* The respective Power item for the stat.
You definitely want to EV train your Pokemon to give them the maximum
power.
There is no point doing it for Pokemon you use in the main game since
nearly
anything works in that scenario but for actual Competitive Battling or in
the
Battle Frontier facilities etceterae EV Training is recommended. PokeDexes
on
the internet generally have EV information and such. Also, the only
drawback to
the Power items and the Macho Brace is that they also half the speed of the
Pokemon holding it (ie a Staraptor with 300 speed holding the Macho Brace
would
have 150 speed in battle.) It's a useful item to combine with Switcheroo or
Trick and it might work well with Klutz + Lopunny or perhaps something that
can
use Gyro Ball. There aren't too many uses for it in actual competitive
battling
but they are invaluable for EV training.
The Macho Brace is obtainable in Pastoria City by showing a guy a male and
female Combee, found on honey trees and the Power items are found by buying
them at the Battle Frontier for 16 BP apiece. For the Macho Brace, you can
also
import one from R/S/FR/LG/E.
If you want to know when your Pokemon has full EVs, go to the sticker shop
in
Sunyshore City. The woman in the shop will give the Pokemon in the first
slot
of your party an Effort Ribbon if its EVs are maxed totally (510 total.)
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[004] NATURES
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Natures are the last factor that affect a Pokemon. Whenever a Pokemon is
formed
it has one of twenty-five possible natures. Each nature both increases and
decreases a stat, giving a 10% boost in that direction. For example, a
Jolteon
which normally gets 359 Speed max will get 394 Speed with a nature that
boosts
Speed with a 10% increase, while having a usual 359 max speed with a nature
that decreases it by 10% will result in a possible max of only 323, meaning
it
completely underachives in battle. When going for natures you want to get
the
nature that will benefit a stat you need.
There are twenty-five natures, each with different combinations. Four

increase
attack, four decrease attack, five increase defense, four decrease defense
and
so on and so forth. HP is the only stat unaffected by nature. There are
also
five 'neutral' natures. These neutral natures do actually still rise and
drop
a stat but they perform the 10% increase/decrease on the same stat, so it
cancels out to 0% so there is no effect on any stats.
The twenty-five natures and their effects have a list below. + means that
it
increases that stat by 10% and - means it decreases it by 10%.
Attack Boosters
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Adamant: +Attack, -Sp. Attack
Brave: +Attack, -Speed
Lonely: +Attack, -Defense
Naughty: +Attack, -Special Defense
Defense Boosters
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Bold: +Defense, -Attack
Impish: +Defense, -Sp. Attack
Lax: +Defense, -Sp. Defense
Relaxed: +Defense, -Speed
Speed Boosters
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Naive: +Speed, -Sp. Defense
Hasty: +Speed, -Defense
Jolly: +Speed, -Sp. Attack
Timid: +Speed, -Attack
Sp. Atk Boosters

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Modest: +Sp. Attack, -Attack
Quiet: +Sp. Attack, -Speed
Mild: +Sp. Attack, -Defense
Rash: +Sp. Attack, -Sp. Defense
Sp. Def Boosters

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Careful: +Sp. Defense, -Sp. Attack
Calm: +Sp. Defense, -Attack
Gentle: +Sp. Defense, -Defense
Sassy: +Sp. Defense, -Speed
Neutral Natures
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Quirky
Hardy
Serious
Docile
Bashful
The only real way to influence nature is through breeding, where attaching
an
Everstone to the female or Ditto parent will result in a 50% chance of that
nature being passed down to the child Pokemon.
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[10] SINNOH DEX SEE POKEMON LOCATIONS [S010]
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This section shows you where to see every Sinnoh Dex Pokemon and record
them
in your PokeDex.
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[001] A QUICK INTRODUCTION
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To get the National Dex upgrade in Pokemon Platinum, you must have 210
Pokemon
seen in your PokeDex. The game pracaitcally has a trainer with at least one
of
every Pokemon Sinnoh Dex species in the game, with the exception of Unown
that
you have to see in the wild. The list below has a mix of possible trainer
and
wild locations to find the Pokemon, but for the most part they are owned by
the
trainers around the Sinnoh Region. Following the walkthrough normally will
get
you to see all 210 Pokemon, but if you're missing some and need to check
where
to go, use the list below.
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[002] WHERE TO SEE THEM ALL
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#001 Turtwig: Route 201 Event / Rival / Dawn/Lucas
#002 Grotle: Evolve Turtwig / Rival / Route 210 North
#003 Torterra: Evolve Grotle / Rival / Victory Road Trainer
#004 Chimchar: Route 201 Event / Rival / Dawn/Lucas
#005 Monferno: Evolve Chimchar / Rival / Route 212 South Trainer (Male
Ranger)
#006 Infernape: Evolve Monferno / Rival / Elite Four Flint
#007 Piplup: Route 201 Event / Rival / Dawn/Lucas
#008 Prinplup: Evolve Piplup / Rival / Route 212 North
#009 Empoleon: Evolve Prinplup / Rival / Victory Road Trainer
#010 Starly: Route 201
#011 Staravia: Rival
#012 Staraptor: Rival
#013 Bidoof: Route 201
#014 Bibarel: Route 208 / Route 209
#015 Kricketot: Route 202 Trainer
#016 Kricketune: Route 215
#017 Shinx: Route 202
#018 Luxio: Route 207 (Youngster)
#019 Luxray: Leader Volkner
#020 Abra: Eterna Forest Trainer (Psychic)
#021 Kadabra: Galactic Admin Saturn
#022 Alakazam: Elite Four Lucian
#023 Magikarp: Old Rod
#024 Gyarados: Leader Crasher Wake
#025 Budew: Route 204
#026 Roselia: Eterna Gym
#027 Roserade: Leader Gardenia
#028 Zubat: Ragged Path
#029 Golbat: Iron Island
#030 Crobat: Galactic Leader Cyrus
#031 Geodude: Ragged Path
#032 Graveler: Iron Island
#033 Golem: Elite Four Bertha
#034 Onix: Leader Roark
#035 Steelix: Leader Byron
#036 Cranidos: Leader Roark
#037 Rampardos: Victory Road
#038 Shieldon: Route 215 Trainer (Fossil Maniac)
#039 Bastiodon: Leader Byron
#040 Machop: Route 207
#041 Machoke: Leader Maylene
#042 Machamp: Victory Road
#043 Psyduck: Oreburgh Gate
#044 Golduck: Pastoria Gym
#045 Burmy: Route 202 Trainer
#046 Wormadam: Route 214 Trainer (Beauty)
#047 Mothim: Route 210 North Trainer
#048 Wurmple: Eterna Forest Trainer
#049 Silcoon: Eterna Forest Trainer
#050 Beautifly: Eterna Forest Trainer
#051 Cascoon: Eterna Forest Trainer
#052 Dustox: Eterna Forest Trainer (Bug Catcher)
#053 Combee: Route 208 Trainer (Aroma Lady)
#054 Vespiquen: Elite Four Aaron
#055 Pachirisu: Valley Windworks
#056 Buizel: Valley Windworks
#057 Floatzel: Leader Crasher Wake
#058 Cherubi: Eterna Gym
#059 Cherrim: Leader Gardenia
#060 Shellos: Valley Windworks
#061 Gastrodon: Route 218
#062 Heracross: Elite Four Aaron
#063 Aipom: Route 205 Trainer
#064 Ambipom: Route 216 Trainer
#065 Drifloon: Valley Windworks Friday Night / Hearthome Gym
#066 Drifblim: Leader Fantina
#067 Buneary: Eterna Forest
#068 Lopunny: Route 216 Trainer
#069 Gastly: Old Chateau
#070 Haunter: Hearthome Gym
#071 Gengar: Victory Road; Route 223 Entrance, Rock Climb down; Psychic
#072 Misdreavus: Lost Tower
#073 Mismagius: Leader Fantina
#074 Murkrow: Galactic Leader Cyrus
#075 Honchkrow: Galactic Leader Cyrus
#076 Glameow: Galactic Grunts
#077 Purugly: Galactic Admin Mars
#078 Goldeen: Route 205 Trainer
#079 Seaking: Route 217 (north tree corridor)
#080 Barboach: Route 212 South Trainer (Fisherman)
#081 Whiscash: Elite Four Bertha
#082 Chingling: Victory Road Trainer
#083 Chimecho: Victory Road Trainer
#084 Stunky: Galactic Grunts
#085 Skuntank: Galactic Admin Jupiter
#086 Meditite: Leader Maylene
#087 Medicham: Iron Island (Trainer), Mt. Coronet Upper Floors (Wild)
#088 Bronzor: Route 207 Trainer
#089 Bronzong: Elite Four Lucian
#090 Ponyta: Route 207
#091 Rapidash: Elite Four Flint
#092 Bonsly: Route 208
#093 Sudowoodo: Route 216
#094 Mime Jr.: Route 208
#095 Mr. Mime: Elite Four Lucian
#096 Happiny: Route 210 South Trainer
#097 Chansey: Route 210
#098 Blissey: Victory Road Trainer
#099 Cleffa: Mt. Coronet
#100 Clefairy: Mt. Coronet
#101 Clefable: Victory Road
#102 Chatot: Route 212 North Trainer
#103 Pichu: Route 209
#104 Pikachu: Route 206 (Cycling Road)
#105 Raichu: Leader Volkner
#106 Hoothoot: Route 212 South Trainer (Scientist)
#107 Noctowl: Route 210 North
#108 Spiritomb: Champion Cynthia
#109 Gible: Victory Road Trainer
#110 Gabite: Victory Road Trainer
#111 Garchomp: Champion Cynthia
#112 Munchlax: Rival
#113 Snorlax: Rival
#114 Unown: Solaceon Ruins
#115 Riolu: Iron Island (Egg Event) / Oreburgh Gate Basement Trainer
#116 Lucario: Leader Maylene
#117 Wooper: Route 212 South
#118 Quagsire: Leader Crasher Wake
#119 Wingull: Route 222 Trainer
#120 Pelipper: Route 223
#121 Girafarig: Valour Lakefront
#122 Hippopotas: Route 216 Trainer
#123 Hippowdon: Elite Four Bertha
#124 Azurill: Pastoria Gym
#125 Marill: Pastoria Gym
#126 Azumarill: Pastoria Gym
#127 Skorupi: Route 210 North
#128 Drapion: Elite Four Aaron
#129 Croagunk: Galactic Grunts
#130 Toxicroak: Galactic Admin Saturn
#131 Carnivine: Route 214 Trainer
#132 Remoraid: Route 222
#133 Octillery: Route 223 Trainer
#134 Finneon: Route 222 Trainer
#135 Lumineon: Route 223 Trainer
#136 Tentacool: Route 218 / Valley Windworks [Surf]
#137 Tentacruel: Route 223
#138 Feebas: Route 222 Trainer
#139 Milotic: Champion Cynthia
#140 Mantyke: Route 218 Trainer
#141 Mantine: Route 223 Trainer
#142 Snover: Route 216 / Route 217
#143 Abomasnow: Leader Candice
#144 Sneasel: Leader Candice
#145 Weavile: Galactic Admin Cyrus
#146 Uxie: Lake Acuity Cavern
#147 Mesprit: Lake Verity Cavern
#148 Azelf: Lake Valour Cavern
#149 Dialga: Atop Spear Pillar [Event]
#150 Palkia: Atop Spear Pillar [Event]
#151 Manaphy: Pokemon Mansion on Route 212 (Picture in a book)
#152 Rotom: Old Chateau
#153 Gligar: Route 207 Trainer
#154 Gliscor: Elite Four Bertha
#155 Nosepass: Route 207 Trainer
#156 Probopass: Route 210 North
#157 Ralts: Route 209
#158 Kirlia: Route 217
#159 Gardevoir: Victory Road Trainer
#160 Gallade: Elite Four Lucian
#161 Lickitung: Route 215
#162 Lickilicky: Victory Road
#163 Eevee: Hearthome City [Event]
#164 Vaporeon: Route 214 Trainer (Collector)
#165 Jolteon: Leader Volkner
#166 Flareon: Route 214 Trainer (Collector)
#167 Espeon: Elite Four Lucian
#168 Umbreon: Route 212 South Trainer (Collector)
#169 Leafeon: Route 212 South Trainer (Female Ranger)
#170 Glaceon: Route 217 (north-west trainer?)
#171 Swablu: Route 210 North
#172 Altaria: Victory Road
#173 Togepi: Eterna City (Egg)
#174 Togetic: Victory Road
#175 Togekiss: Champion Cynthia
#176 Houndour: Route 214
#177 Houndoom: Elite Four Flint
#178 Magnemite: Fuego Ironworks
#179 Magneton: Leader Byron
#180 Magnezone: Victory Road
#181 Tangela: Route 210 North
#182 Tangrowth: Victory Road
#183 Yanma: Route 214
#184 Yanmega: Elite Four Aaron
#185 Tropius: Route 214
#186 Rhyhorn: Route 214
#187 Rhydon: Victory Road (trainer or wild)
#188 Rhyperior: Elite Four Bertha
#189 Duskull: Leader Fantina
#190 Dusclops: Route 216
#191 Dusknoir: Victory Road
#192 Porygon: Route 214 (Collector)
#193 Porygon2: Route 216
#194 Porygon-Z: Victory Road
#195 Scyther: Route 210 North
#196 Scizor: Elite Four Aaron
#197 Elekid: Route 210 South
#198 Electabuzz: Sunyshore Gym
#199 Electivire: Leader Volkner
#200 Magby: Route 210 South
#201 Magmar: Route 217
#202 Magmortar: Elite Four Flint
#203 Swinub: Route 216
#204 Piloswine: Route 217
#205 Mamoswine: Victory Road
#206 Snorunt: Acuity Lakefront
#207 Glalie: Snowpoint Gym, Victory Road
#208 Froslass: Leader Candice
#209 Absol: Victory Road
#210 Giratina: Distortion World
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[11] POKEMON LEGENDARIES [S011]
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This section compiles all Legendary Pokemon information into one section.
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[001] INTRODUCTION TO THE SECTION
[LP001]
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This is just a quick summary of the location of Pokemon, how to get to
them,
information like that.
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[002] ARTICUNO, ZAPDOS, MOLTRES
[LP002]
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NATIONAL DEX NUMBER: #144, #145, #146
LOCATION: Grass around Sinnoh region (runners)
TYPE: Ice/Flying, Electric/Flying, Fire/Flying respectively.
LEVEL FOUND: 60
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM02 Fly recommended
ABILITY: Pressure (all three)
CATCH RATE: 3
SIGNATURE MOVE: None for any
BASE STAT TOTAL: 580 for all
BASE STATS:
Articuno - 90 HP / 85 Atk / 100 Def / 95 SAtk / 125 SDef / 85 Spd
Zapdos - 90 HP / 90 Atk / 85 Def / 125 SAtk / 90 SDef / 100 Spd
Moltres - 90 HP / 100 Atk / 90 Def / 125 SAtk / 85 SDef / 90 Spd
MOVES WHEN CAUGHT

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ARTICUNO:
NAME TYPE CATEGORY POWER EXTRA EFFECTS
Agility Psychic Other -- Raises speed level by 2.
Ice Beam Ice Special 90 10% chance of freezing target.
Reflect Psychic Other -- x2 defense for player, 5 turns.
Roost Flying Other -- 50% Healing; drop Fly type for
turn
ZAPDOS:
Charge Electric Other -- Electric atk x2 power next
turn.
Agility Psychic Other -- Raises speed level by 2.
Discharge Electric Special 80 30% chance of paralyzing
target.
turn
MOLTRES:
Flamethrower Fire Special 95 10% chance of burning target.
Safeguard Normal Other -- Block status for five turns.
Air Slash Flying Special 75 30% chance of flinching target.
turn
These three birds are caught by obtaining the National Dex, then going to
Pal
Park on Route 221 and getting Oak to leave. From there, fly to Eterna City,
go to the south-west house, talk to Oak to get an Up-Grade and they will
now
be romaning the land. If you want to reset for a good IV/Nature for one or
more
of the birds, save before you talk to Oak since data is decided for the
birds
when you talk to him.
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[003] REGIROCK, REGICE, REGISTEEL
[LP003]
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LOCATION: Rock Peak Ruins, Ice Peak Ruins, Iron Peak Ruins respectively
TYPE: Rock, Ice, Steel respectively.
LEVEL FOUND: 30
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM02 Fly recommended, HM04 for Regice (route dependent)
ABILITY: Clear Body (all three)
CATCH RATE: 3
BASE STATS:
Regirock - 80 HP / 100 Atk / 200 Def / 50 SAtk / 100 SDef / 50 Spd
Regice - 80 HP / 50 Atk / 100 Def / 100 SAtk / 200 SDef / 50 Spd
Registeel- 80 HP / 75 Atk / 150 Def / 75 SAtk / 150 SDef / 50 Spd
MOVES WHEN CAUGHT

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REGIROCK:
Explosion Normal Physical 250 kamikaze; half defense of
opponent*
Rock Throw Rock Physical 50 Basic rock attack.
Curse ??? Other -- Atk/Def +1 level, Spd -1 level
Superpower Fighting Physical 120 Powerful; Atk/Def -1 after use.
REGICE:
opponent*
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 100% of reducing target's
speed.
REGISTEEL:
opponent*
Metal Claw Steel Physical 50 100% of raising user's attack.
As said before in the walkthrough, these three kings are only available if
you
have an Event Regigigas. This is either a Regigigas from the movie theater
in
Japan to celebrate the release of the 12th movie, or a Regigigas from the
Toys R' Us events in America that took place in March '09.
If you have one of these Regigigas, put it in your party. Fly to Route 228,
head near the top and descend down a mud slide into a depression in the
ground
and enter the cave here. If the Regigigas is in your party, the room will
be
a room with seven orange coloured dots on the ground. Walk over all of them
and the room will shake. Then press A on the statue at the top and Regirock
will attack at Level 30.
Regice and Registeel have exactly the same method except with different dot
combinations and the like. To get Regice, take Mt. Coronet through the
Route
211 West entrance (by Celestic Town) and follow it through to the corridor
with
the exit to Route 216 and enter the cave here to find Regice's room. You
need
HM04 Strength to get Regice unless you backtrack all the way from Snowpoint
City to Mt. Coronet through all of the snow.
Registeel is a short trip through Iron Island to the third floor where you
found the Shiny Stone before. Entering that room will get you to Registeel.
It
is actually very fast to go through Iron Island with Repel and no trainers
as
you don't need any HMs for it.
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[004] UXIE, MESPRIT, AZELF
[LP004]
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LOCATION: Acuity Cavern, Verity Cavern, Valour Cavern respectively
TYPE: Psychic (all)
LEVEL FOUND: 50
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM02 Fly recommended, HM03 Surf
ABILITY: Levitate (all three)
CATCH RATE: 3
BASE STATS:
Uxie - 75 HP / 75 Atk / 130 Def / 75 SAtk / 130 SDef / 95 Spd
Mesprit - 80 HP / 105 Atk / 105 Def / 105 SAtk / 105 SDef / 80 Spd
Azelf - 75 HP / 125 Atk / 70 Def / 125 SAtk / 70 SDef / 115 Spd
MOVES WHEN CAUGHT

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UXIE:
Swift Normal Special 60 100% accuarcy always.
Yawn Normal Other -- 1st turn drowsy, 2nd turn sleep
Future Sight Psychic Other 80 Strikes two turns after
activation.
Amnesia Psychic Other -- User's Sp. Def +2
MESPRIT:
Confusion Psychic Special 50 10% chance of confusion.
Lucky Chant Normal Other -- No foe criticals for five
turns.
activation.
Charm Normal Other -- Target's Attack -2
AZELF:
Swift Normal Special 60 100% accuarcy always.
Uproar Normal Special 50 2-5 turns; no sleep while
active.
activation.
Nasty Plot Dark Other -- User's Sp. Atk +2
The lake trio are, as the group name suggests, found in the lakes. They are
in
the caverns in the center of each lake and can be accessed with Surf. Uxie
and
Azelf are basic standard catching Pokemon, while Mesprit is a runner.
Talking to Mesprit will add a sprite to your Pokedex as well as set its
Nature
and IVs. From where it will be running around Sinnoh in random patches of
grass and when you are in the same area as it (as you can see if you use
your
map on your Poketch) there is a chance of you encountering it at Level 50,
lake trio music included. Good spots to hunt it down would be between Route
205 and Valley Windworks or Valour Lakefront and Route 214 for both areas
in
both combinations have grass so you have a chance of finding Mesprit
whichever
one it ends up in. Just keep going back and forth until it gets into the
one
you want.
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[005] DIALGA, PALKIA
[LP005]
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NATIONAL DEX NUMBER: #483, #484
LOCATION: Spear Pillar
TYPE: Steel/Dragon, Water/Dragon respectively
LEVEL FOUND: 70
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM04 Strength, HM08 Rock Climb
ABILITY: Pressure (both)
CATCH RATE: 30
SIGNATURE MOVE: Roar of Time {Dialga}, Spacial Rend {Palkia}
BASE STAT TOTAL: 680 for both
BASE STATS:
Dialga - 100 HP / 120 Atk / 120 Def / 150 SAtk / 100 SDef / 90 Spd
Palkia - 90 HP / 120 Atk / 100 Def / 150 SAtk / 120 SDef / 100 Spd
MOVES WHEN CAUGHT

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DIALGA:
Roar of Time Dragon Special 150 User must rest the turn after
using
Heal Block Psychic Other -- Opponent cannot recover HP; 5
turns
Earth Power Ground Special 90 10% of lowering target's Sp.
Def.
Slash Normal Physical 70 High critical chance (12.5%?)
PALKIA:
Spacial Rend Dragon Special 100 High critical chance (12.5%?)
Heal Block Psychic Other -- Opponent cannot recover HP; 5
turns
Earth Power Ground Special 90 10% of lowering target's Sp.
Def.
Slash Normal Physical 70 High critical chance (12.5%?)
Dialga and Palkia can be a little tricky because some conditions need to be
fulfilled. You must do the following:-
- Defeat the Elite Four and get yourself recorded into the Hall of Fame.
The
National Dex is unneeded; but make sure you fulfil these conditions.
- Talk to the Celestic Elder in the biggest house in Celestic Town.

- Collect the Adamant and Lustrous Orbs from Mt. Coronet. They are on the
lower section of 4F, accessible from going right when you go up the first
Rock
Climb path on the snowy peaks. This can be done while traveling up Mt.
Coronet.
Once all of those conditions have been fulfilled and you go to the top of
Spear Pillar, there will be a blue portal at the far north. Talk to this
portal
to get Dialga to appear.
Exit Spear Pillar into Mt. Coronet and come back onto Spear Pillar and now
you
will find a pink/purple portal instead, containing Palkia.
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[006] GIRATINA
[LP006]
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NATIONAL DEX NUMBER: #487
LOCATION: Distortion World
TYPE: Ghost/Dragon
LEVEL FOUND: 47
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM04 Strength, HM08 Rock Climb (for Mt. Coronet)
ABILITY: Pressure {Another Forme}, Levitate {Origin Forme}
CATCH RATE: 3
SIGNATURE MOVE: Shadow Force
BASE STAT TOTAL: 680 for both
BASE STATS:
{Another Forme} - 150 HP / 100 Atk / 120 Def / 100 SAtk / 120 SDef / 90 Spd
{Origin Forme} - 150 HP / 120 Atk / 100 Def / 120 SAtk / 100 SDef / 90 Spd
MOVES WHEN CAUGHT

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Ominous Wind Ghost Special 60 10% of raising
HP/Atk/Def/SAtk/SDef
Ancientpower Rock Physical 60 10% of raising
HP/Atk/Def/SAtk/SDef
Dragon Claw Dragon Physical 80 n/a
Shadow Force Ghost Physical 120 First turn hide; second turn
strike
Giratina will be caught just by going through the game normally; it is

utterly
impossible to miss as you need to catch or defeat it to get through the
game.
Just note that Pokeballs won't work on the turn where it is hiding when it
uses Shadow Force.
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[007] HEATRAN
[LP007]
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LOCATION: Stark Mountain
TYPE: Fire/Steel
LEVEL FOUND: 50
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM04 Strength, HM06 Rock Smash, HM08 Rock Climb
{Optional}
ABILITY: Flash Fire
CATCH RATE: 3
SIGNATURE MOVE: Magma Storm
BASE STAT TOTAL: 600
BASE STATS: 91 HP / 90 Atk / 106 Def / 130 SAtk / 106 SDef / 77 Spd
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Metal Sound Steel Other -- Target's Sp. Def -2
Crunch Dark Physical 80 20% chance of lowering target's
def
Scary Face Normal Other -- Target's Speed -2
Lava Plume Fire Special 80 30% chance of burning targets
Heatran is fairly easy to get. It is in Stark Mountain within the furthest

room to the back. To get it to appear you must complete the quest of Stark
Mountain to get Team Galactic out of there, then fly to the Survival Area
and
talk to Buck to get him to take you inside the Top Trainer Cafe. Talk to
him
again inside the cafe to get him to leave and then Heatran will be in Stark
Mountain. Just interact with it to battle.
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[008] CRESSELIA
[LP008]
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LOCATION: Around Sinnoh's grass.
TYPE: Psychic
LEVEL FOUND: 50
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM02 Fly {Optional, Recommended}
ABILITY: Levitate
CATCH RATE: 3
SIGNATURE MOVE: Lunar Dance
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Mist Ice Other -- Prevents stat reduction for 5
turns
Aurora Beam Ice Special 65 10% of lowering target's attack
activation.
Slash Normal Physical 70 Higher critical chance (12.5%)
Cresselia is another runner. When you get the National Dex, go to Canalave
City
and enter the house to the left of the sailor. Talk to the woman and the
boy
then go outside and talk to the sailor to get to Fullmoon Island. Follow
the
island through to a clearing and talk to Cresselia to release it into the
wild
where you can keep track of it via your Poketch's map. It also drops a
Lunar
Wing which you can use to cure the child in the house.
Cresselia's IVs and nature are set as soon as you release it, by the way.
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[009] MANAPHY & PHIONE
[LP009]
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NATIONAL DEX NUMBER: #490 & #489
LOCATION: Eggs {Both}
TYPE: Water {Both}
LEVEL FOUND: 1 {Both}
HM MOVES REQUIRED: None {Both}
ABILITY: Hydration {Both}
CATCH RATE: 30 {Phione}, 3 {Manaphy}; you do not catch either though.
SIGNATURE MOVE: Heart Swap {Manaphy}
BASE STAT TOTAL: 600 {Manaphy}, 480 {Phione}
BASE STATS:
{Phione} - 80 HP / 80 Atk / 80 Def / 80 SAtk / 80 SDef / 80 Spd
{Manaphy} - 100 HP / 100 Atk / 100 Def / 100 SAtk / 100 SDef / 100 Spd
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{Phione}
Bubble Water Special 20 10% of lowering targets' speed.
Water Sport Water Other -- Doubles resistance to Fire.
{Manaphy}
Tail Glow Bug Other -- User's SAtk +2 levels.
Bubble Water Special 20 10% of lowering targets' speed.
Water Sport Water Other -- Doubles resistance to Fire.
Manaphy is a little difficult to obtain. To actually get ahold of this

Pokemon
you need to either transfer an egg from the Pokemon Ranger or Pokemon
Ranger
Shadows of Almia games through the events those games have, or via an event
such as the Toys R' Us one that took place a while ago. Or, you can use a
hacking device. Every method counts. If you get it in an egg, then it will
be
an egg with a special design that will hatch after about ~2650 steps. It
has
a slightly different hatching animation and a Manaphy will be released once
it hatches.
To get Phione, which is basically a weaker version of Manaphy, you must

breed
Manaphy with a Ditto. The egg produced will be a normal one and when it
hatches
you will get a Phione, which is pretty much useless. Hydration is good
though,
as is a new entry for your PokeDex.
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[010] DARKRAI
[LP010]
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LOCATION: Newmoon Isle
TYPE: Dark
LEVEL FOUND: 50
HM MOVES REQUIRED: None
ABILITY: Bad Dreams
CATCH RATE: 3
SIGNATURE MOVE: Dark Void
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Hypnosis Psychic Other -- 70% acc; puts opponent to
sleep.
Faint Attack Dark Physical 60 Never misses except
Fly/Dig/SForce
Nightmare Ghost Other -- 1/4 damage on sleeping foes a
turn
Double Team Normal Other -- User's evasion +1 level
Darkrai is one of the harder legendaries to get with impressively spread

base
stats and an incredibly movepool. To get Darkrai one must get the Member's
Card off either an event or through a cheat code that activates the event
and
the said event only comes every so often.
If you do manage to get your hands on a Member's Card, then go to the top
house
in Canalave and you'll be able to enter. After some scene stuff, you will
be on
Newmoon Isle. Just go around the island into the clearing and Darkrai will
be
in the center. Engage it in battle blah blah blah. After you defeat it you
will
automatically be returned to Canalave City.
Just note that you must have cured the boy in Canalave with the Lunar Wing
for
this event to work, so it means that you must have at least released
Cresselia
into the wild. Otherwise you will be unable to get into the inn to get
Darkrai.
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[011] SHAYMIN
[LP011]
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LOCATION: Flower Paradise
TYPE: Grass {Normal Forme}, Grass/Flying {Sky Forme}
LEVEL FOUND: 30
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM04 Strength, HM06 Rock Smash or HM03 Surf (for V.
Road)
ABILITY: Natural Cure {Normal}, Serene Grace {Sky}
CATCH RATE: 45
SIGNATURE MOVE: Seed Flare
BASE STAT TOTAL: 600 {Both}
BASE STATS:
{Normal Forme} - 100 HP / 100 Atk / 100 Def / 100 SAtk / 100 SDef / 100 Spd
{Sky Forme} - 100 HP / 103 Atk / 75 Def / 120 SAtk / 75 SDef / 127 Spd
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Defense Curl Normal Other -- User's defense +1 level.
Magical Leaf Grass Special 60 Never misses.
Leech Seed Grass Other -- Saps 1/8 of foe's HP each turn
Synthesis Grass Other -- 50% recovery; changes with
weather
Shaymin is harder to get than Darkrai. To get it you need to get the item
Oak's
Letter somehow, then travel to Route 224. At Route 224 there is a white
rock at
the top; interact with it with the Oak's Letter event activated and
dialogue
will occur with Shaymin and the Fissure Path making an appearance. Go north
through the Fissure Path which is the longest area in all Pokemon games and
you will eventually reach the Flower Paradise. Here, Shaymin is located in
the
center on the top. It's easier to catch than the majority of legendaries
but
also a bit underlevelled in comparison.
Sky Forme Shaymin is a vast improvement over the normal one. In order to
obtain
it you need to get a movie Shaymin from the same events as Regigigas, then
talk to the blonde woman in Floaroma Town to get the Gracidea Flower which
can
be used on Normal Forme Shaymin at daytime to change it into Sky Forme
Shaymin.
However, Sky Forme changes back whenever you try to enter Wi-Fi with it or
whenever you put it in the PC/it becomes nighttime. I'm unaware of a way to
get the Gracidea Flower without a cheating device in English versions as of
the current time. The Jppanese
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[012] ARCEUS
[LP012]
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LOCATION: Hall of Origin
TYPE: Normal
LEVEL FOUND: 80
HM MOVES REQUIRED: HM04 Strength, HM08 Rock Climb
ABILITY: Multitype
CATCH RATE: 3
SIGNATURE MOVE: Judgment
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Refresh Normal Other -- Cures user of PRZ, BRN or PSN.
activation.
Recover Normal Other -- 50% recovery on use.
Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 Must rest second turn.
Arceus is quite possibly the hardest Pokemon to get apart from Celebi since
no
events have been given out to capture it yet, nor has the movie with Arceus
been released as of 10/3/09.
If you do get your hands on the Arceus event and hence the Azure Flute,
whether
legitimately or through a cheating device, then make your way to Spear
Pillar.
When you're there, stand on the flute icon to get an option to play the
flute.
Do so and a staircase will appear. Save then go up to the top and once you
reach the floating platform you will be dragged forward to Arceus. It will
make a sound completely unbefitting of a deity and then fight you.
Master Ball might be a good idea here if you have one. Arceus gets its own
{not very upbeat} music, too. I liked the Deoxys one more :/
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[013] THE REST OF THEM
[LP013]
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Any legendaries not listed in this section otherwise are unobtainable in
Plat.
To get the rest you must either hack them in or use the Pal Park utility
and
transfer them from older versions ie you must transfer Mewtwo from FR/LG
and
Lati@s from RSE. There are some events that give out legendaries on DPP and
some things like My Pokemon Ranch can also give you a Mew for getting a
certain
number of Pokemon into the ranch and such.
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[12] WI-FI CONNECTIVITY [S012]
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This section explores the gameplay of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
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[001] WHAT CAN YOU DO?
[WF001]
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The addition of the Nintendo Wi-Fi to Pokemon games was a dream come true.
Now
it was possible to do many things with people other the internet, rather
than
go to the trouble of using wireless adaptors or link cables, wireless
internet
connections could be used along with friend codes to communicate with
Pokemon
games all over the world.
Diamond and Pearl introduced basic Trading and Battling to the Wi-Fi part.
The
battling was different in that you could battle with the same levels as
your
Pokemon had or you could set them all to Level 50 or Level 100, their stats
changing accordingly which was very helpful for people who couldn't be
bothered
to train their Pokemon to Level 100 or 50 which is quite a lot of people.
Wi-Fi
was also used in one or two other areas such as the Battle Tower.
There was also the Global Trade Station in Jubilife City allowing you to
make
anonymous trades with people; you could put a Pokemon up and request for a
specific Pokemon and attach a level range if you wished; sometimes it
worked
but the flaw was that you had to see that Pokemon in your PokeDex
beforehand
so for some Pokemon people might want to request such as Celebi, they would
have to actually get one before they could request making it kind of
pointless.
For things like Spiritomb, the GTS was a godsend.
Platinum doesn't add too much in the way of Wi-Fi but along with the trades
and
battles and the GTS, it also lets you participate in the Wi-Fi Square, an
area
with many mini-games and such to play with your friends with over the
internet
connection. Pokemon Platinum also featured a revamped code entering system;
no more pressing buttons and waiting for that red cover to vanish making it
incredibly slow; it's now a simple block number format making the actual FC
entering process much quicker.
Platinum is also the first game to utilize the ability to distribute events
and
such over the Wi-Fi Connection. So far in the Japanese Platinum it has been
used to distribute the Secret Key as well as the Mmeber's Card as of
10/3/09.
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[002] POKEMON TRADING
[WF002]
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This is basic. It's just general one on one trading, where you trade one of
your Pokemon for one of theirs and such. Having a friend who can trade most
times is helpful because Wi-Fi trading does activate trade evolutions such
as
Kadabra, DragonScale!Seadra, MetalCoat!Scizor and such. There isn't really
anything special to this.
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[003] POKEMON BATTLING
[WF003]
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This is quite regular too. When you battle you have the options of single
or
double battles, as well as the option to set the level to either the levels
of
the actual Pokemon, all Level 50 or all Level 100. I believe you can also
store
a Wi-Fi battle in your Battle Recorder if you wish. There isn't a whole lot
else to this; it's simple but very helpful for Pokemon tournaments are that
much easier to set up nowadays.
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[004] WI-FI SQUARE
[WF004]
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To be done after March 22nd 2009.
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[005] THE GLOBAL TRADE STATION
[WF005]
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To be done after March 22nd 2009.
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[006] WI-FI EVENTS AND MYSTERY GIFT
[WF006]
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So far in Japan, there have been events given out via the Mystery Gift
feature,
mainly the Secret Key for Rotom's forms and Darkrai's Member Card, the
former
having being given out twice to date and the latter only once. It is known
that
events will be distributed for North American gamers and it can be hoped
that
European gamers will also receive the same benefits.
More to be added to this section later on.
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[007] WI-FI LIMITATIONS
[WF007]
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The main disadvantage to Wi-Fi on Platinum is that it compeltely disallows
alternate Platinum exclusive forms; these are the new Rotom forms, the
Origin
Forme of Giratina and Shaymin's Sky Forme. Whenever any of these three
attempt
to enter Wi-Fi in their normal forms, they will automatically change back
to
their normal forms. Rotom will lose the move it gained from the appliance
and
Giratina will put the Griseous Orb back in the item pack. I don't know if
the
form change is permanent or just while you're in the Wi-Fi room, though.
Either
way you cannot use alternate forms in Wi-Fi unless you use a specific code
that disables the change.
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[13] OTHER INFORMATION [S013]
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This explains some of the other features in Pokemon Platinum.
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[001] POKERUS
[OI001]
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PokeRus is a helpful thing. PokeRus is short for Pokemon Virus and any
Pokemon
that obtain this virus will receive double the effort values that they
normally
get for gaining EXP from a Pokemon. This double EV effect continues even
after
the virus wears off and is replaced by a smiley face of sorts to mark it as
having been infected and cured. As soon as a Pokemon is infected by
Pokerus,
it will have double EVs for life.
PokeRus cannot be removed forcibly but it will wear off naturally after
about
two days. You do _not_ want this to happen. To keep Pokerus on at least one
Pokemon, infect a Pokemon with it (usually by using physical attacks in
battles
and such) and then leave that Pokemon in your PC, only taking it out to
infect
other Pokemon when neccessary. Do not have it out with you when midnight
passes
because this is when it checks for Pokerus and possibly cures it. It is
very
valuable to have so you do not want to lose it.
The actual chance of encountering PokeRus in your game is 1/21,845 which is

under half the chance to get a Shiny Pokemon. PokeRus is found on Wild
Pokemon
with that chance and battling or capturing the Pokemon could help you give
your
own PokeRus. When your Pokemon actually have PokeRus for the first time,
the
first Pokemon Center you heal at will have some extra dialogue concerning
it.
Despite the incredibly low chance, it isn't too hard to get PokeRus. Many
Pokemon on the GTS may be infected by it and Wi-Fi allows you to trade with
a
person who has PokeRus fairly easy. Cheating devices will also allow you to
get
the virus with ease. It shows up on your Pokemon as a purple status while
it is
still active and after it cures it gets replaced by a smiley face.
Note that turning off your game with the PokeRus Pokemon in your party
while
midnight rolls over will not stop it; the game still detects the
immunization
process even if it's switched off so they may still be cured. You need to
store
it somewhere to avoid the process; the PC is best but other places such as
the
Daycare, My Pokemon Ranch etcetera also work.
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[002] SHINY POKEMON
[OI002]
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Shiny Pokemon are part of a roaring trade in the fanbase. Shiny Pokemon are
Pokemon that actually have a different colour scheme to normal. The chance
of
a Pokemon having these alternate colours is a very rare 1/8192 and it is
rare
you will even find one in a playthrough. Personally I've only ever found
about
four in my whole Pokemon playing career and I've been playing it for over
10
years now, since I was a wee little 5 year old. Scary.
Some of them aren't too different while some are particuarly nice such as a
golden Altaria or a black Rayquaza. Soft resetting for shiny legendaries is
common as well as hatching many eggs. Usually, most shinies turn up by just
being lucky. I was really surprised when that Shiny Onix showed up in
Wayward
Cave while I was just writing the walkthrough for it. Bronzeish colour, and
if I ever bother to evolve it I'll have a golden Steelix. I really love
golden
Shiny Pokemon. But I'm going on a tangent here.
The easiest way to find Shiny Pokemon is probably through the PokeRadar. If
you
build up a chain of about ~40 of a certain Pokemon then the chance of
getting a
shiny piece of grass actually becomes quite likely. For each higher up
number
in the chain you get the chance decreases, but 40 is about the reliable
number.
You may also find some on the GTS but they often charge ridiculous trades
in
return so they aren't the most reliable. Putting a Shiny Pokemon on the GTS
will likely get it snapped up in an instant though.
They are quite valuable in general trading. Lots of people might want
things
such as a blue Porygon-Z, black Charizard etcetera so you might be able to
get
good deals for them. Shiny competitive Pokemon are worth much more. People
trading for strong competitive Pokemon won't bother with shinies unless
they
are also good for battling which a lot of shinies aren't due to the very
random occurence. They're more of a prized possesion than a battler. You
could
always use them in contests, I guess..?
If you do find a Shiny Pokemon, consider yourself lucky. Some people find
tons
of them, while some barely get any. I never found a shiny Pokemon in ADV...
the only four I found apart from the Gyarados in GSC was a Shiny Cleffa
from
the Odd Egg, a Shiny Hoppip I fished up one day when I was cheating to fish
up Hoppip with the Super Rod for Level 40 Hoppips for an easy evolution
level,
a Wild Graveler I found in Iron Island on the japanese version of Pokemon
Diamond and the Onix in Wayward Cave. Personally I'd like something like a
Shiny Altaria or Gardevoir since I like their colours...
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[003] HAPPINESS
[OI003]
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Happiness is a hidden value for all Pokemon that affects a few factors. The
main thing you will be focusing on it for is for specific evolutions. A lot
of
the babies evolve when they are sufficiently happy, as well as Golbat and
Chansey which must be happy to evolve into their Crobat and Blissey forms.
Happiness goes from 0 - 255. 220 or more is the point at which Pokemon who
evolve with happiness will evolve, assuming time conditions are set for
those
Pokemon who need them (ie Budew's day or Chingling's night.) There are many
things that can raise or decrease happiness.
There are also two things that affect the happiness gaining rate. Catching
a
Pokemon in a Luxury Ball {available from Sunyshore City} will cause it to
gain
happiness faster through the methods it rises with varying additions of
levels.
Having a Soothe Bell attached to a Pokemon will also cause it to get an
extra
+1 point whenever it gains a point of happiness. This stacks with the
Luxury
Ball effect as well, meaning happiness can rise quite fast with those two
combined. The starting happiness of a Pokemon depends on the species; the
majority of Pokemon start on 70 happiness but a few have different
happiness
values. For example, Buneary's happiness always starts at 0, meaning it is
quite annoying to get it to evolve into Lopunny due to the happiness
evolution
it has.
Speaking of that, the Pokemon that evolve by happiness are Golbat, Chansey,
Eevee, Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Azurill, Togepi, Budew, Buneary,
Chingling,
Munchlax and Riolu. For Budew and Riolu to evolve it must be Morning or Day
along with >=220 happiness and for Chingling it is the same but it has to
be
night rather than day.
The list of actions that affect happiness and how many points they add or
subtract is as follows, showing it alone, with a Soothe Bell, with a Luxury
Ball or with the two boosts combined...
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| ACTION | Happiness Change | w/Soothe | w/Lux |
w/Both |
o--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--o
| Walking 256 steps | +1 | +2 | +2 | +3
|
| Massage @ Veilstone City | +3 | +4 | +5 | +6
|
| Massage @ Ribbon Syndicate | +5 | +6 | +6 | +7
|
| Using vitamins (ie HP Up) | +2 | +3 | +6 | +7
|
| Having a level-up | +2 | +3 | +6 | +7
|
| Using an EV Berry (ie Grepa)| +2 | +3 | +6 | +7
|
| Using a healing item | +1 | +2 | +2 | +3
|
| Fainting | -1 | -1 | -1 | -1
|
| Using EnergyPowder | -5 | -5 | -5 | -5
|
| Using Heal Powder | -5 | -5 | -5 | -5
|
| Using Energy Root | -10 | -10 | -10 | -10
|
| Using Revival Herb | -15 | -15 | -15 | -15
|
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--o
As you can see, it is not recommended that you use the herb items to
recover
a Pokemon because they taste horrible and have strong negative effects on a
Pokemon's happiness. It's helpful if you want to get the happiness lower,
though. Also, if you trade a Pokemon to another game or import it from Pal
Park it automatically resets to the basic 70 happiness level.
If you get the Happiness Checker from the Eterna City Pokemon Center then
you
can have rough estimates of a Pokemon's happiness. Max happiness is shown
by
two large hearts or at least near max happiness; happiness evolving Pokemon
will evolve roughly a long time into after two little hearts are displayed
with them.
There is also Dr. Footstep who is in a house on Route 213 who, if you show
him
a Pokemon with maximum happiness, will give them a Footprint Ribbon. This
is
another way of checking for max happiness.
Note that happiness also affects the move power of the moves Frustration
and
Return. The base power of these moves can be between 0 - 102. For
Frustration
the further away the happiness value is from 255, the stronger it will be
and
the further way from 0 the happiness value is, the stronger Return will be.
The actual base power is calculated by the formula Happiness / 2.5; the 102
base power occurs when your Pokemon has max/min happiness depending on the
move and the 0 base power when they're at the complete opposite end of the
spectrum of the move. Return is usually the easiest to maintain since
Pokemon
naturally become happier but if you want to use Frustration, feed them a
lot
of herbs.
By the way, the massager at Veilstone City is a blonde woman in one of the
houses near the gym. The Ribbon Syndicate massage is located in the large
building in the Resort Area but you need a Pokemon with 10 ribbons alone on
its personage to get in there. The six EV berries are the Grepa, Kelpsy,
Tamato, Pomeg, Qualot and Hondew berries.
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[004] SECRET ABILITY EFFECTS
[OI004]
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While all effects have some sort of effect in battle, there are actually
many
that also have an effect outside battle, in the field. Though this doesn't
apply to all abilities, there are quite a few that follow this extra rule.
The list with names and effects of these are as follows:
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| NAME | EFFECT
|
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| Arena Trap | The chance of encountering a Pokemon in an area is
doubled.|
| Compoundeyes | If lead, Wild Pokemon have a higher chance to hold
items. |
| Cute Charm* | If lead, opposite gender to wielder has 66.6% of
appearing.|
| Flame Body | Eggs hatch in half the normal egg cycles.
|
| Hustle | If lead, chance of high level Wild Pokemon is halved.
|
| Hyper Cutter | If Cut is used in grass, a wider range of grass is cut.
|
| Illuminate | The chance of encountering a Pokemon in an area is
doubled.|
| Intimidate | If lead, chance of low level Wild Pokemon is halved.
|
| Keen Eye | If lead, chance of low level Wild Pokemon is halved.
|
| Magma Armor | Eggs hatch in half the normal egg cycles.
|
| Magnet Pull | Multiplies chance of seeing Wild Steel Pokemon by x1.5.
|
| Pressure | If lead, chance of high level Wild Pokemon is halved.
|
| Sand Veil | If lead, drops chance of Pokemon in a sandstorm by half.
|
| Static | Multiplies chance of seeing WIld Electric Pokemon by
x1.5. |
| Sticky Hold | Makes hooking Pokemon with the rod easier when fishing.
|
| Suction Cups | Makes hooking Pokemon with the rod easier when fishing.
|
| Synchronize* | If lead 50% chance that encounters have same nature as
user|
| Vital Spirit | If lead, chance of high level Wild Pokemon is halved.
|
| White Smoke | If lead, chance of encountering a Pokemon is halved.
|
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* Cute Charm does not affect swarming Pokemon. Synchronize does not affect
running Pokemon but all other wild encounters are effected.
As well as these, Pickup is also another ability that works kind of field
wise.
After any battle, a Pokemon who doesn't have an item equipped and has this
ability has a 10% chance of picking an item. The quality of items depends
on
the level of the Pokemon, the best quality being available to Pokemon that
are
Level 91 or over. The possible items and chances are as follows:
Level 1 - 10
30%: Potion
10%: Antidote, Super Potion, Great Ball, Repel, Escape Rope, Full Heal
5%: Hyper Potion
3%: Ultra Ball
1%: Hyper Potion, Nugget
Level 11 - 20
30%: Antidote
10%: Super Potion, Great Ball, Repel, Escape Rope, Full Heal, Hyper Potion
5%: Ultra Ball
3%: Revive
1%: Nugget, King's Rock
Level 21 - 30
30%: Super Potion
10%: Great Ball, Repel, Escape Rope, Full Heal, Hyper Potion, Ultra Ball
5%: Revive
3%: Rare Candy
1%: King's Rock, Full Restore
Level 31 - 40
30%: Great Ball
10%: Repel, Escape Rope, Full Heal, Hyper Potion, Ultra Ball, Revive
5%: Rare Candy
3%: Dusk Stone
1%: Full Restore, Ether
Level 41 - 50
30%: Repel
10%: Escape Rope, Full Heal, Hyper Potion, Ultra Ball, Revive, Rare Candy
5%: Dusk Stone
3%: Shiny Stone
1%: Ether, White Herb
Level 51 - 60
30%: Escape Rope
10%: Full Heal, Hyper Potion, Ultra Ball, Revive, Rare Candy, Dusk Stone
5%: Shiny Stone
3%: Dawn Stone
1%: White Herb, TM44 Rest
Level 61 - 70
30%: Full Heal
10%: Hyper Potion, Ultra Ball, Revive, Rare Candy, Dusk Stone, Shiny Stone
5%: Dawn Stone
3%: Full Restore
1%: TM44 Rest, Elixir
Level 71 - 80
30%: Hyper Potion
10%: Ultra Ball, Revive, Rare Candy, Dusk Stone, Shiny Stone, Dawn Stone
5%: Full Restore
3%: Max Revive
1%: Elixir, TM01 Focus Punch
Level 81 - 90
30%: Ultra Ball
10%: Revive, Rare Candy, Dusk Stone, Shiny Stone, Dawn Stone, Full Restore
5%: Max Revive
3%: PP Up
1%: TM01 Focus Punch, Leftovers
Level 91 - 100
30%: Revive
10%: Rare Candy, Dusk Stone, Shiny Stone, Dawn Stone, Full Restore, Max
Revive
5%: PP Up
3%: Max Elixir
1%: Leftovers, TM26 Earthquake
1% items are particuarly valuable in the later levels, but each 1% item
only
has a 1/100 chance of being obtained. You basically have 2% to obtain a
prized item but only 1% of it being the one you actually want, which is
pretty
annoying. At least in the later levels, you get 10% for the Dawn, Dusk and
Shiny Stones, making them a bit easier to get. I had some crazy maths here
before that I can't remember how I worked out (incorrectly, I might add)
but
I decided to rewrite this part. e_e Thank you to SaiyanShadow for pointing
out
the mathematical errors that were here previously.
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[005] THE SPECIFICS OF FEEBAS
[OI005]
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Feebas is quite possibly the hardest Pokemon to ever encounter in the
Pokemon
games. Excluding event Pokemon such as Arceus, Celebi, Darkrai etcetera it
is
point blank one of the hardest ever. This is because Feebas only appears in
one
place in the whole of Sinnoh; the basement of Mt. Coronet {B1F} with the
lake
and in that lake Feebas is only found in a total of four fishing spots in
the
entire lake. The four tiles can be any four tiles in the lake and to make
matters worse, the four tiles change around EVERY DAY!
If you have a good, long time then you'll be able to do this. Using the Old
Rod
is probably best for this since if you encounter it as opposed to a
Magikarp
you have found one of the tiles. The tiles aren't neccessarily next to
eachother either. You'll have to search each one individually to do a
thorough
search of the area. It's probably best to start from the very top tiles and
from there search each tile like so;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>V
V<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>V
V<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
...and so on and so forth. You'll eventually find a tile. You may want to
try
about twice every tile, if not 3-4 times if you're especially cautious. If
you
do find Feebas, be sure to catch at least one before midnight where the
tiles
will change! You practically need Surf to get Feebas since it's unlikely
the
four tiles will be on the coast of the lake. I suppose it isn't as bad as
RSE since Route 119 had an absolute ton of water though and there was even
a section that required the use of Waterfall to get up.
As an alternative to these methods, you can Pal Park one from your ADV
games
if you were lucky enough to get one (they never gave you a Shadow Feebas or
Milotic in Colosseum or XD, unfortunately...) or you can try the GTS or
just
trading in general.
Once you actually get a Feebas, you then have to evolve it into a Milotic
and
this is also difficult. Feebas has a unique evolution condition; to get it
to evolve into Milotic you must gave its beauty amount to a sufficent value
(~180) and then level it up for it to evolve. You will want strong beauty
poffins for this; using berries such as the Pamtre Berry is your best bet
and you can also buy Poffins from the basement of Veilstone Dept. Store. It
is
easier if Feebas has a nature that likes the flavour of the beauty Poffins
but
it isn't completely required.
If you succeed in getting a Milotic, congratulations! You've overcome one
of
the most annoying things to ever grace the Pokemon series so far.
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[006] MECHANICS OF CATCHING POKEMON
[OI006]
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Catching Pokemon is something you need to do in every game, unless you are
trying to do a game with just Pokemon that are given to you or something,
which
is a possible challenge. Anyway, Catching Pokemon does have mathematics
behind
it. You don't really need to know them, but it's interesting to know, I
guess.
Basically, the formula for this is as follows:
Catch = PokeballEffect (((( 4 * Max HP - 2 * HP ) * Catch Rate ) / Max HP )

+ Status + 1 ) / 256
Pokeball Effect - The multipler of the Pokeball. All of the equations in

the
bracket are completed, then the whole thing is multiplied by the bonus that
the
Pokeball you are using provides. I'll list what each one does below.
Max HP is the Pokemon's max HP and HP by itself is how much HP it has at

the
current time (but as in Max HP - Current HP, not just Current HP by itself
or
Pokemon would get harder to catch with damage...)
Catch Rate is the catch rate for each individual Pokemon. For example, the
majority of legendaries are 3, Mantyke and Chatot are 25, Caterpie is 255,
etc. Catch rates can be found in PokeDex resources.
Status are the statuses ie freeze, sleep etcetera. Each status has a value
that affects the capture chance. +1 is just an additional +1 value onto the
value otherwise.
After all of these are calculated, the bracketed number is multiplied by

the
PokeBallEffect and then divided by 256 to give the final number. The final
number is in decimal form as a percentage; the closer it is to 1, the
higher
chance of capture and the closer it is to 0, the lower the chance. If the
formula works out as a number that is more than 1, then the Pokemon should
capture immediately, without any breaking out or anything.
There is one exception; if the HP value for a Pokemon exceeds 255, then the
HP parts in the formula have the HP divided by four before placing it into
the Pokeball equation... I think.
The Pokeball multiplers are as follows:
Pokeball - *1
Great Ball - *1.5
Ultra Ball - *2
Master Ball - *255?
Safari Ball - *1.5
Net Ball - *1 but if Pokemon is Water/Bug type, change to *3
Dive Ball - *1 but if Pokemon is underwater, change to *3.5 (n/a in DPP)
Nest Ball - *1 to a poss *3. Formula (40 - OppoLv)/10 used. Higher no =
better.
Repeat Ball - *1 but if Pokemon has been captured previously, *3.
Timer Ball - *1 to *4. Formula (Turn + 10) / 10. Chance max at > 40 turns.
Luxury Ball - *1
Premium Ball - *1
Dusk Ball - *1 but *4 if in a dark place (ie caves) or night.
Heal Bell - *1
Quick Ball - *4 to *1. *4 for first five, *3 for next five etc until *1.
Cherish Ball - *1; cannot actually obtain it to catch Pokemon with.
Remember, 1 or more is a guaranteed capture and under is a percentage. If

by
some chance you get 0 or lower, then the Pokemon won't be captured. I don't
think that's actually possible though.
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[007] EVOLUTIONARY METHODS
[OI007]
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Within the Pokemon games, there are many methods of evolving Pokemon. The
way
to evolve Pokemon can be found in PokeDex resources. I'll just list
possible
methods of evolution here. This section is a bit useless, really.
POSSIBLE WAYS OF EVOLUTION:

- Reach a certain level
- Use an elemental stone
- Trade a Pokemon
- Trade a Pokemon with an item attached
- Reach a certain level with a happiness rating of 220 or over
- Reach a certain level at a certain time with an item attached
- Reach a certain level with Atk and Def different/same to decide the evo
- Have a Remoraid in your party
- Learn a specific move then grow a level
- Have a Beauty value of 180 or more
- Grow a level in a specific area (Eterna Forest, Route 217, Mt. Coronet)
- Use a stone with a Pokemon that is a specific gender
- Reach a certain level with happiness 220 or over with a specific time of
day
- Reach a certain level with a specific gender
- Evolve a Pokemon with a spare slot in your party + a Pokeball to get a
second
- Reach a certain level with a specific palette to get a specific form
- Reach a certain level with a personality value deciding the evolution
path
At their core, all of these evolution methods branch from the original
three
methods in RBY; getting to a certain level, using a stone on the Pokemon or
trading it with another person. Later generations have kept to these
methods,
but added extra conditions to it.
Note that for those with level based evolutions, you can press B when they
try
to evolve to cancel it which lets you get most moves earlier or you can
attach
an Everstone to prevent the evolution sequence from happening at all.
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[14] OTHER GAME CONNECTIVITY [S014]
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A section devoted to the other Pokemon games that Platinum can connect
with.
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[001] POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION
[CE001]
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Pokemon Battle Revolution contains a shop that you can buy items from with
PokeCoupons you obtain in the colosseums in the game. Unfortunately the
items
are incredibly expensive... you can also get a Surf Pikachu, Electivire and
Magmortar which have set natures and moves.
Platinum also connects to it allowing you to build a team to use on the

game
or on the Wi-Fi mode, I believe.
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[002] MY POKEMON RANCH
[CE002]
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My Pokemon Ranch is the new Pokemon Box for DPPt. It will be updated for
the
release of Pokemon Platinum, featuring a total of 1,500 storage slots as
well
as more toys, the ability to have Pokemon in different forms and such.
Pokemon
Ranch's only actual gifts include a Phione and a Mew for putting certain
levels
of Pokemon into the ranch. When you reach these numbers (250 for Phione and
999 for Mew) and get to certain levels in the Ranch, Hayley will offer a
trade.
For Phione you need to give her a Leafeon and give her any one Pokemon Egg
for
a Mew. There are also other Pokemon you may be able to trade for, all
attached
with an item with varying moves and levels. Natures and the actual
Pokemon's
level are set in stone though, as is the item it holds and the moves it
comes
with and the ID number.
The upgrade to the ranch also includes a background music option, an

expansion
to the Look-See Club members allowing you to see more different ranches and
more scenes like the Totem Pole one, adding new scenes such as Cresselia vs
Darkrai, Water Races and such.
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[003] POKEMON RANGER: SHADOWS OF ALMIA
[CE003]
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The sequel to Pokemon Ranger contains three things that can be transferred
to
Pokemon Platinum. These things are a Riolu that knows Aura Sphere, a
Manaphy
egg and a special Darkrai. Riolu and Darkrai have an ID that states it is
from
Almia while Manaphy cannot hatch until you send it across to DPPt. However
to
get these Pokemon you need to activate the events through Wi-Fi and they
have
had their run already... it may be impossible to send them across now
unless
you saved one or something.
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[004] THE GBA GAMES AND DIAMOND/PEARL
[CE004]
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The only transfer here is the Pal Park option where you can send your GBA
Pokemon up to DPPt but only if the games are matching language (so UK GBA
games
will work with US DPPt for example, but German GBA games won't.) Putting a
Pokemon GBA game in slot 2 will also add a chance of finding some extra
Pokemon
in some specific areas, which is explained earlier on in the walkthrough.
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[15] OTHER POSSIBLE CHALLENGES [S015]
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This section just loves to increase the replay value.
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[001] CHALLENGES, YOU SAY?
[CH001]
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Generally, Pokemon games are not on the whole very hard. There may be the
very
occasional hard moment, or the E4 might overshadow you completely in levels
but
on the whole you are fighting a game that is hard to lose. So, you may want
to spice it up a little.
Challenges generally revolve around a theme of sorts. You basically set

certain
conditions for yourself and you must follow those conditions up to a point
that
you set; usually after the main storyline is completely finished (so for
DPPt
up to the end of Stark Mountain perhaps.) Of course if you're doing
something
like a competition and they set rules, you need to follow them instead.
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[002] MONO TYPE CHALLENGES
[CH002]
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These are probably one of the most common forms. Mono Type Challenge videos
are
found in abundance on YouTube (I swear I started the whole craze since I
don't
think there were any mono challenge videos before I put my Mono Grass
Pokemon
Crystal up..?) and since then people who have greater popularity have also
recorded these such as Redfilipe, with fans raving about how it is SUCH A
GOOD
IDEA I WANT YOUR BABIES LOL and completely ignoring the person who might
have
originally started the craze. -grumble- Ignore me; it's not like I can take
credit for actually coming up with the idea of the challenges; I just
actually
put it up to YouTube. I'm sure being immodest here. -ahem-
I haven't even explained what they are yet. Mono Type Challenges basically
revolve around having a team that just has one type in common for the whole
game; every battle. This can make some specific battles quite difficult.
For
example, the Mono Grass run I did in Pokemon Crystal resulted in Lance
being
incredibly difficult because I had no easy way to take down the Pokemon in
that
battle; real pity I didn't bring a Jumpluff along for that. They're quite
fun
sometimes, too. The six or less Pokemon in the team must all share a type
but
they _can_ involve dual-typed Pokemon too, just as long as it has at least
one type in common with all of the other Pokemon.
Of course some mono challenges are a bit hard to do, such as a mono Fire in
DP, mono Ghost in RBY and such. Platinum isn't too bad for this since there
are quite a few Pokemon for every type thanks to the expanded Sinnoh dex.
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[003] MONO COLOUR CHALLENGES
[CH003]
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A lesser known challenge, Mono Colour challenges involve having a team of
six
or less Pokemon that all have the same colour. You can either use the
PokeDex
combination or your own eyesight to decide what Pokemon are allowed or not.
Generally it's probably better to determine colour based on the most common
one on the body; for example Exeggutor, while having plenty of green, has
more brown and would probably count as that. Green Pokemon would be things
like Treecko and its evolutions, Bulbasaur and its evolutions, possibly
things
like Oddish, Breloom and such.
This may be too easy since you still get a wide variety of Pokemon to use,
however. It might be decent for a bit of fun but it isn't usually a real
challenge to do, especially if you pick a particuarly common colour.
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[004] SOLO POKEMON CHALLENGES
[CH004]
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Now these are quite fun in some cases. A solo Pokemon challenge is just
playing
the game through with only one Pokemon, which can be any Pokemon. You can
use
a starter, a random Wild Pokemon, etcetera. You can attach extra conditions
to it too, like no evolving, no HM slaves and such. Personally, I've done a
Mono Pidgey on Pokemon Crystal before; no evolving at all. Jasmine was
pretty
hard, I can tell you. Only X items and Mud-Slap saved me from that.
These are also helpful for speeding through a game quickly ie just using
your
starter to kill everything in sight instead of raising a team.
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[005] OTHER SUGGESTIONS
[CH005]
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Of course there are a wealth of possible challenges. Basically you can
apply
any conditions to a game, or use a certain theme. You could do things like
Pokemon with Levitate only, Pokemon that have claws, no using Pokemon
Centers,
battling the least trainers possible, being intentionally underlevelled...
things like that. Send in your suggestions by e-mail if you wish! The
crazier
the better, but not too crazy.
Some suggestions I have received include;
:: EVOLUTION CHALLENGE
- "For this challenge, you cannot catch a pokemon until you evolve one of
your
own pokemon. For example, let's say you start out with a chimchar. You want
to
catch a Shinx, so you have to evolve little Chimmy here to get it. Then you
can
catch Shinx and then so on and so forth."
:: BABY POKEMON CHALLENGE

"For this one, you can only use the first evolution of a Pokemon. NO
EVOLVING!
You can't have pokemon that don't evolve either, or legendaries, unless
they
evolve (i.e. Riolu.)"
:: MAGIKARP CHALLENGE
"As the name states, you must use only Magikarp." - As a seperate note,
this
is just a Solo Pokemon Challenge, but using Pokemon such as Magikarp,
Weedle
etcetera make this a fair bit harder than stuff like Pidgey and whatnot.
For
cases like these where the Pokemon starts with no attacking moves of its
own,
it is probably worthwhile to use a bait and switch method to train the
Pokemon
until it can at least fight on its own, even if badly.
:: SUICIDE CHALLENGE
"The name means NO SAVING! You must keep the DS on the cord and never turn
it
off. The only time you can save it is when you beat the Elite Four. After
that,
you can do it whenever you want to."
I also just recalled another thing I've heard of while I was writing this,
so
I may as well put that down here to;
:: NIGHTMARE CHALLENGE
- Basically, no Pokemon Center use is allowed. If a Pokemon faints then you
are unable to revive it, whether by Pokemon Center, Revive, Max Revive
etcetera
and you are not allowed to use that Pokemon the whole game. For the patient
Pokemon player; this could become very hard if your strongest Pokemon gets
KOed by a critical hit or something. Of course, healing items are allowed
and
things such as Leppa Berries and Ethers are essential for healing your PP
since
you can't use Pokemon Centers!
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[16] FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS [S016]
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These are questions that I've been asked in e-mails. If you're looking for
a
quick answer to a question, it may well be here.
Q: How do I gain access to Stark Mountain?

A: You will actually be able to sail from Snowpoint the island before you
get
the National Dex but your movement out of the Fight Area will be blocked by
several trainers, both on Route 225 and Route 230. To get rid of them you
need
the National Dex. Once you have that then you have free access to the
mountain.
Q: With Platinum's new features, can it still battle with Diamond and
Pearl?
A: Yes, it'll work perfectly. No newly introduced alternate forms on
Platinum
will be in play but you can't do that even with Platinum vs Platinum
anyway.
The only thing I'm unsure of is what Hypnosis' accuarcy will be because
they
changed it between D/P and Platinum...
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[17] ACTION REPLAY AND OTHER DEVICES [S017]
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A section about the prize to some and bane to others. These devices are
capable
of making things happen in your game that could not normally happen...
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[001] WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A CHEAT DEVICE?
[CD001]
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Cheat devices/codes basically let you edit the game's coding by itself,
forcing
it to do certain things such as supplying yourself with rare items, making
specific Pokemon appear, forcing events to happen, making legendaries
appear
once more and such. The most common way to use one of these is to either
hack
in Rare Candies or Master Balls, or use codes that activate the secret
events
in the game that are normally only available for those who have Wi-Fi
access
and are active at the correct time.
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[002] CODES FOR POKEMON PLATINUM
[CD002]
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====
The following codes are compatible with an Action Replay DS or something
that
supports ARDS codes such as the R4 flashcard and whatnot.
These codes are courtesy of 'Cory Brown', who noted that it is very easy to
change Japanese Platinum codes into English (you take a line like B2101140
00000000 and change the third 1 in that like to a D, for example). The
codes
that follow are for the North American version of Platinum.
The five shorter codes that require you to press L+R are the event codes.
These are the codes you need to use to correctly activate an event. The
item
that you've selected (or the Manaphy egg) will be held by a green man in
any
PokeMart once you activate the code.
The sixth long code causes Regigigas and Shaymin to appear in Box 18 of
your
PC. Be sure to have nothing in the first two slots of that box when using
the
code and pressing L + R or they will be replaced! By the way, those two are
the movie versions, allowing you to activate their respective events (the
Regis and the Gracidea Flower).
Pokemon Platinum Master Code

CPUE-D074D1B3
Member's Pass (Press L+R)

94000130 FCFF0000
B2101D40 00000000
0000B5D4 00000008
D2000000 00000000
Azure Flute (Press L+R)

94000130 FCFF0000
B2101D40 00000000
0000B5D4 0000000A
D2000000 00000000
Secret Key (Rotom) (Press L+R)

94000130 FCFF0000
B2101D40 00000000
0000B5D4 0000000C
D2000000 00000000
Oak's Letter (Press L+R)

94000130 FCFF0000
B2101D40 00000000
0000B5D4 00000009
D2000000 00000000
Manaphy Egg (Press L+R)

94000130 FCFF0000
B2101D40 00000000
0000B5D4 00000007
D2000000 00000000
Put MOVIE Shaymin and Regigigas in Box 18 (Press L + R)

[This code might be bugged, but I dunno. Use at your own risk.]
94000130 FCFF0000
B2101D40 00000000
0001DE34 87391D8C
0001DE38 FCB80000
0001DE3C DEC17A06
0001DE40 AABE7257
0001DE44 0ACBA745
0001DE48 36F8BBD2
0001DE4C 90C9C5D3
0001DE50 1300E5F9
0001DE54 551A7A3E
0001DE58 179CC6A1
0001DE5C D0DEEC41
0001DE60 F4B0C59C
0001DE64 38AF793E
0001DE68 BA383B94
0001DE6C 2DA4A04A
0001DE70 22944555
0001DE74 666E2E8F
0001DE78 827740D1
0001DE7C 05EB50DA
0001DE80 22756BC5
0001DE84 C6903DAA
0001DE88 AD4E7520
0001DE8C 8076B23A
0001DE90 63F11576
0001DE94 0C1E41B6
0001DE98 50119B01
0001DE9C 719190BE
0001DEA0 C5153B5A
0001DEA4 0729C930
0001DEA8 36D3616A
0001DEAC 64FAEED9
0001DEB0 ECC80737
0001DEB4 17C483B0
0001DEB8 F22DE13C
0001DEBC AF35FCA0
0001DEC0 C7870000
0001DEC4 F31DD6E2
0001DEC8 C374D225
0001DECC 1B9ED089
0001DED0 81B00392
0001DED4 EB60353B
0001DED8 223A3506
0001DEDC 799572FD
0001DEE0 B35885B4
0001DEE4 FC6ECADD
0001DEE8 FDF49A91
0001DEEC 60EE16FA
0001DEF0 8ECAA172
0001DEF4 A6D50326
0001DEF8 0D545764
0001DEFC 598DA3D8
0001DF00 546668EA
0001DF04 AAE9A2F7
0001DF08 A9303BE3
0001DF0C 85B95CE8
0001DF10 757CEA39
0001DF14 C7D41C0E
0001DF18 F62D5EDC
0001DF1C 1FB8FE44
0001DF20 38892A3D
0001DF24 F12C0D15
0001DF28 5EED4242
0001DF2C B4FF42BC
0001DF30 7476355D
0001DF34 4F3B467B
0001DF38 A9922E40
0001DF3C 782A849D
0001DF40 425CE594
D2000000 00000000
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[18] CONTACT INFORMATION [S018]
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These are my contact details, if you need to ask or inform me about
something.
E-mail me at:
drayfaqs [at] googlemail [dot] com
Again, just about the walkthrough and stuff. I don't mind a friendly chat
now
and again, but I would prefer to avoid any trade/battle offers and such.
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[19] COPYRIGHT & CREDITS [S019]
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This guide is copyright to myself, Andrew "Drayano" Brooks, 2009. You may
not
reproduce this guide for the purpose of selling it to others; you may use
it
for personal use only. Plagiarism of this document is illegal.
I have the following people/sites to credit:
GameFAQs - For hosting this FAQ, letting people actually see it.
Serebii.net - This was incredibly helpful as an information resource for

the
information in this walkthrough. Combining elements on the site with my own
knowledge helped to really flesh out a lot of sections. The PokeEarth part
of the site was incredibly helpful for if I missed a trainer's Pokemon,
checking different floors and such, etcetera.
Bulbapedia - Bulbapedia was also helpful for information such as checking

the
factors like breeding, PokeRus etcetera for it has a wealth of information
on
such topics.
Donald - The Pokemon Location FAQ on his on GameFAQs for Platinum was
really
helpful for gaining information such as percentages and whatnot in an easy
to
read format. Thank you~
You - The usual thank you for reading stuff. You get the picture '~'
Especially
to those who sent in e-mails with corrections and whatnot.
Myself - I wrote the whole thing by myself. I have so much time. :D
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[ Contained in Pokemon Platinum Main Walkthrough ] [REF.]

[ CONTAINED IN POKEMON AFTERMAIN WALKTHROUGH ]

STARK MOUNTAIN QUEST

THE BATTLE FRONTIER

QUESTS FROM EVENTS

* These can be accessed before the National Dex also.

[ CONTAINED IN ITEM AND TM/HM LISTS ]

[ CONTAINED IN BREEDING POKEMON ]

[ CONTAINED IN THE POKEMON STAT PICTURE ]

[ CONTAINED IN SINNOH DEX SEE POKEMON LOCATIONS ]

[ CONTAINED IN POKEMON LEGENDARIES ]

[ CONTAINED IN WI-FI CONNECTIVITY ]

[ CONTAINED IN OTHER INFORMATION ]

[ CONTAINED IN OTHER GAME CONNECTIVITY ]

[ CONTAINED IN OTHER POSSIBLE CHALLENGES ]

[ CONTAINED IN ACTION REPLAY AND OTHER DEVICES ]

1.50 :: 23rd April 2009

1.40 :: 8th April 2009

1.20 :: 26th March 2009

1.10 :: 19th March 2009

1.05 :: 14th March 2009

1.00 :: 11th March 2009

Then in 2006-07, the fourth generation of Pokemon was released on the

15. One of the previously secret Poketch applications in DP can now be

21. Platinum gives new forms, or as Nintendo spells it 'formes', to a total

41. Battles as a whole are speedier than D/P.

48. Platinum possesses an entirely new game intro movie.

49. The cutscene at Spear Pillar is totally different.

52. Giratina, if missed in the Distortion World, can be caught in a totally

53. Honey can be bought in batches of ten, as well as singuarly.

** E-MAIL ME IF YOU KNOW ANY NOT IN THIS LIST!

:: Grass - Walking in the grass.

In addition, the following Pokemon are now in the Sinnoh Dex:

In addition, these Pokemon CANNOT be found in Diamond, Pearl or Platinum:

These Pokemon can be found in Diamond OR Pearl but NOT Platinum:

Head west from Jubilife into Route 218.

The Pokemart equipment will get better later on - it improves as we get

There's little else to do in Oreburgh, so head down to the mining part. If

Afterwards, head into the mine.

[ GYM LEADER ROARK ]

Route 204 North

Valley Windworks Outside

Valley Windworks Inside

[ GALACTIC ADMIN MARS ]

Outside Valley Windworks

[ POKEMON TRAINER CHERYL ]

[ GYM LEADER GARDENIA ]

Route 205 & Eterna Forest Outskirts

[ GALACTIC ADMIN JUPITER ]

Mt. Coronet Route 211 Entrance

[ POKEMON TRAINER MIRA ]

Afterwards, go to the top left of Hearthome and enter Amity Square.

This is an area that got completely revamped from D/P :o It is quite

Enter the gym to be greeted by an entirely new revamp. No more of those

[ GYM LEADER FANTINA ]