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4.0.0 - Pastoria City

5.0.0 - Route 213

5.0.1 - Route 210

5.0.2 - Celestic Town

5.0.3 - Hearthome Revisited

6.0.0 - Valor Lakefront

6.0.1 - Celestic Cave6.0.2 - Snowpoint City

7.0.0 - Galactic End

7.0.1 - Galactic Warehouse

7.0.2 - Galactic HQ

7.0.3 - Mt. Coronet

7.0.4 - Legendary Round-Up

7.0.5 - Sunyshore City

7.0.6 - Fuego Ironworks

8.0.0 - Route 224

8.0.1 - Victory Road

8.0.2 - Elite Four

9.0.0 - Done?9.0.1 - National Dex

9.0.2 - Pal Park

9.0.3 - Cresselia

9.0.4 - Island Area

9.0.5 - Stark Mountain

9.0.6 - Regigigas

9.0.7 - Giratina

9.0.8 - Rotom

9.0.9 - Event Pokemon

Extra Content

E.0.1 - EVs & IVs

E.0.2 - Team Building Help

E.0.3 - Moveset Help

E.0.4 - Natures

E.0.5 - Types of team members

E.0.6 - EV Training

E.0.7 - Training Areas

E.0.8 - Battle Items

E.0.9 - Attacks Help

E.1.0 - Movesets

Appendix

A.0.1 - Sweet Honey Pokemon

A.0.2 - HM List

A.0.3 - Key Items List

A.0.4 - Sinnoh Underground

A.0.5 - HTF Sinnoh Pokemon

A.0.6 - National Dex Pokemon

A.0.7 - Sinnoh Pokedex

A.0.8 - Stone Evolutions

A.0.9 - Cheats

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The Basics

Evolution: Evolution is when your pokemon changes into a new type of pokemon.

Evolution usually increases your stats and can change the type of the pokemon.

You can evolve pokemon by reaching a certain level, using a stone or by

raising the happiness of a pokemon and then gaining a level. Each pokemon is

different. Some pokemon only evolve by trading or trading with a certain itemattached.

Evolve by Stone: To evolve a pokemon by stone, you just use the stone on the

pokemon. It will evolve immediately. This is good because that means you can

evolve it whenever you want and evolution = stat gain. The downside is that

most pokemon will not learn anymore moves once you evolve it by stone. They can

still learn TMs but they will not learn any level-up moves. You have to be sure

that you have all the moves you want because once you evolve it, it's done. The

move relearner can show you new moves for your pokemon but any of the pre-

evolution moves will not be listed.

Evolve by Happiness: You raise your pokemon's happiness, then you level up andit evolves. You raise its happiness by putting it in your party and walking

around with it, making it win battles, giving vitamins and by giving it the

soothe bell. Do not let it faint as this will lower its happiness. Any traded

pokemon have their happiness reset so you will have to go through the process

again if you need to after a trade.

Evolve by Level: Once your pokemon reaches a certain level, it will evolve. You

can delay the evolution by pressing B. You may want to delay the evolution to

wait for a specific move as all non-evolved pokemon learn the moves faster than

the evolved forms. Sometimes though, the non-evolved form will not learn a move

so it isn't always good to delay. Any moves you miss on pokemon that you didn't

evolve can always be learned from the move relearner once you finally do evolve

it so don't worry. Attaching the everstone to a pokemon stops it from even

trying to evolve.

Evolve by Trade: These pokemon evolve once they are traded to another trainer.

You will have to trade it to someone for it to evolve and hopefully, they will

give it back. Sometimes a certain item has to be attached to a pokemon to make

it evolve by trading. These items always say "It is loved by a certain pokemon"

Capturing: You can capture pokemon and train them which makes them your own. In

order to capture a pokemon, you should lower it's health and then use a

pokeball on it. Status changes and stat changes help to catch it as well. There

are also many types of balls you can use to get the best chance at a capture.

Caves: I will not be telling you how to get to every spot in a cave. My cave

instructions will only get you through the cave as fast as possible. You should

check other parts of the cave AFTER you have already gone through it. That is

the best way to explore. If you get to the end and there is a battle you are

under leveled for, then that would be a good time to go exploring.

Battles: Battle, battle, battle. Trainers give XP, money and they help fill

your pokedex. In order to get the national dex, you need to see all 150 pokes.

By battling you see more and it helps fill your dex. When I beat the E4, I had


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all 150 pokes in my dex. I didn't capture them all but I saw them so I got the

national dex immediately.

Attacks: Pick attacks according to your stats. Attacks have 3 types, other,

physical and special. This is different from past pokemon games where you knew

what kind of attack it was by it's type. For example, Prinplup has a good

special attack and a terrible attack. You should use moves that are specialtypes. Physical attacks (like peck) use the bad attack stat prinplup has. This

is the same for when you are battling. If you fight an onix, then you would

want to use a special attack against it to combat it's high regular defense.

You do not pick attacks just because they are water anymore. HM waterfall is

physical, HM surf is special so surf is going to do MUCH more damage.

Type Attacks: If you use an electric attack on a water pokemon, you are going

to get "It's Super Effective!" This means that your attack did 2-4x damage to

the opposing pokemon. If the pokemon is only a single type then you would do 2x

damage to it. So, a Shinx using spark against a Buizel would do 2x damage. If

the opposing pokemon is a dual type and both types are weak to electric, then

you would do 4x damage to it. If that same Shinx uses spark against a Wingull,it is going to do 4x damage because Wingull is water/flying and both are weak

to electric. KNOW YOUR TYPES! This is the same for "It's not very effective..."

The damage you do is going to be halved or worse.

Pokedex Seen Count: Look for this to keep track of how well your pokedex is

coming along. Your numbers will probably never be exactly the same as mine

except at the beginning so do not worry about it. Just be sure that you are

really close to mine as you go through the game. If you need a certain pokemon

in your pokedex, do a search through this guide and you will probably find it

as I usually write out the full name of the pokemon when it is your first

encounter with it.

Recommendations: These are my recommendations for pokes you can use. Of course,

you should pick whatever you want as there are tons of choices but here is a

very small list for someone who has no idea what are good pokes. These are

good for IN-GAME battling and may or may not be good outside of that.

Starly, Gyarados, Shinx, Abra, Bronzor, Ponyta, Gastly, Machop, Geodude, Budew.

I named these because they are easy to get and still good. Mix and match for

types.

Diamond Version Exclusives: Dialga, Stunky, Honchkrow, Cranidos

Pearl Version Exclusives: Glameow, Palkia, Shieldon, Misdreavus

These are pokedex exclusives and not national dex exclusives. The evolutions

of these pokes are also exclusive to each version. National exclusives will be

discussed later in the guide.

Shiny Pokemon: Shiny pokemon are different colored pokemon than the normal.

Shiny pokemon are super rare (1/8192 chance of seeing one) and you should never

pass up on one. If you see it, be sure to capture it. Even if it is one you

dont wan't, you can trade it for one you do. Beware of Shiny pokemon on GTS as

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has stars around it when it is sent out. Examples include a red Gyarados and a

black Charizard.

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The Adventure

We start our adventure in Twinleaf Town. I am not going to tell you how to getthrough the games first start up as if you are reading this FAQ, you probably

have already done it. I am also not going to try and guess at names you may

have chosen for you and your "friend" so I will refer to the friend as RIVAL.

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1.0.0 Twinleaf

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Go down the stairs and speak to your mother. Walk outside and there is 4 houses

in twinleaf. Your house is the bottom right and you can revisit your dear

mother whenever for a free pokemon refresh. Your rival's house is the top left

and you need to go there now so make haste. He will interrupt you and begin toleave when you near his door. He will forget something and return back into the

house. Enter the house and go up to the second floor.

Talk to him and he will run off again. Go down the stairs and out. Head north

to enter Route 201. Your RIVAL is waiting for you there. He will talk to you

when you approach him. He will follow you now. Head west, because you cannot

enter the grass without a pokemon. Follow the path west and then north to enter

the lakefront. Save before you enter if you want to ensure you get a female

pokemon. Pick your pokemon and when you enter the battle, if it is not female,

restart.

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1.0.1 - Verity Lakefront

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Time to get a pokekmon. You will encounter two people chatting. They will leave

and forget something. Your rival will notice and you two will head into the the

grass. ATTACK! Now pick your pokemon:

Turtwig - You get Defense and Attack at the cost of speed. Turns into a

grass/ground poke and will make a better choice for an easier

adventure.

Chimchar - High attack, involves into a Fire/Fighting type poke. Rough first

gym but gets easier after that.

Piplup - Pretty easy first gym with this poke, turns into a water/metal

poke which is strong late in the game.

Defeat the Starly with your newfound pokemon. Now you are busted. You transport

back to your house and your mother will give you the running shoes. Hooray! Now

the fun begins. Head north (Route 201) and east through the grass. You can gain

some levels here but you cannot catch any of the pokemon yet. Follow Route 201

to Sandgem Town. The man in the grass will give you a potion if you speak with


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him and it restores 20HP.

Pokemon found on Route 201: Bidoof, Starly

Pokedex seen count: 3

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Your RIVAL will take you to the professor's lab. Talk to the professor and say

yes to his adventure and you will get the Pokedex. After you have the pokedex,

leave and you will be escorted around town. Your escort will head north a bit

to Route 202 and if you try to pass, she will tell you to visit your mother.

You can head south and get the Antidote and can also buy pokeballs at the mart.

So, head back to your house. Talk to your mom and your RIVAL's mom will enter

and give you a package to deliver. Go back to Sandgem and head north to Route

202. The person in the grass will show you how to catch pokemon and give you 5free pokeballs.

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Route 202

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Route 202 has your first trainer battle. Hopefully you raised your starter poke

some levels to deal with the trainers. The battles aren't hard so you shouldn't

have much trouble. There are some new pokes in the grass and another potion on

this route.

Route 202 pokes: Shinx, Bidoof, Starly, Kricketot


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1.0.3 - Jubilife City

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Route 202 leads to Jubilife Town. Your RIVAL is located at the trainer school

and it has a big pokeball logo above the door. Enter the school and deliver

the package to get the town map. Battle the two trainers on the right side of

the school to get TM10. They both have abras which is Psychic type. This will

add another pokemon to our seen count.

When you leave the school, head north to be approached by a man who is doing a

promotion on watches. Find the clowns, answer yes to all of them and then get a

watch. There are clowns in the town and they are very easy to find.

Locations: 1) Near the pokemon center, north

2) In front of the TV station

3) In front of the watch company, Poketch

Talk to the man with your three coupons in hand and you will get the watch.

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give you the quick claw. Exit Jubilife using the west exit. Once you enter the

building exit, talk to the fisherman inside to get the Old Rod. You can now

catch magikarps. Who doesn't love gyarados? You cannot do anything else on

Route 218 until later. Head back into Jubilife.

Leave town through the northern exit.


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Route 204

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There is a new pokemon up here, Budew. The second trainer here will show you a

magikarp. The third trainer will show Budew if you didn't find one in the grass

already. Enter the cave and you can find Psyduck, Geodude and Zubat. Exit the

cave once you have at least found Geodude and Zubat.

Head back into Jubilife when you are finished catching pokes and battlingtrainers. The east exit is the way to go but be ready for a battle with your

RIVAL. He will have a Starly at level 7 and his starter at level 9.


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Route 203

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Your RIVAL will show another pokemon, his starter. Quite a few trainers here.

Make your way through the route getting some XP. Abra is available in the

grass. If you want one, you have to throw the pokeball immediately as it will

run away if you try to battle it. When you get to the end, there is a cave

entrance. The trainer south of the cave entrance has a Machop for your pokedex.

The cave has a couple trainers inside and also nets you an HM. It is a small

cave and exits in Oreburgh City. The last trainer shows you a Psyduck if you

didn't find one earlier.


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1.0.4 - Oreburgh City

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Finally, a badge city. However, the gym leader is not around. He is in the

mines and you will have to go get him out. The first house in town has a dusk

ball on the second floor. The 2nd house offers an Abra for a Machop which is a

great way to get an Abra that will grow fast. Upstairs is a man looking to see

a Zubat. You will get a TM if you bring him one. Enter the pokemon center and

go down the stairs. Wi-fi is now open to you. The house below the mining museum

has a great ball.

The mine is located in the Southern most part of town. You can get a super

potion from one of the workers east of the mine entrance. Enter the mine. Onix


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is the new poke available here. The mine has some trainers and a worker

located between two rocks. Talk to him, he is the gym leader, and he will show

you rock smash and leave. Defeat the trainers and collect the items. When done,

head out and off to the gym.


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Oreburgh Gym

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This gym is all geodude and onix. Make sure you have a poke that can handle

these two (water/grass is best). The leader has a lvl 12 of each and a lvl 14

Cranidos who is very tough. It's huge attack stat will knock most of your

pokes out with one hit. If you have trouble, raise your levels. Winning nets

you a TM that is very similar to spikes but for a rock pokemon and your first

badge!!


NOTE: The GTS is now open in Jubilife which enables you to trade pokemon online

without knowing friend codes. If you get a pokemon that is a much higher level

than the pokes you are using, it probably will not obey you. Keep that in mind.

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2.0.0 - Forest Badge

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Now the quest for the 2nd badge begins. If you go north of Oreburgh, you can

catch a Machop on Route 207. You can't do anything else until you have the bike

so you need to go back through the tunnel to Jubilife. Once you reach Jubilife,

head north for a double battle. After the battle, you will get the Fashion

Case. You can now buy dress-up items to use on your pokemon inside the tv

station, pointless IMO. The grunts showed some more pokes so that is nice.

Enter the TV station before going on Route 204.

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TV Station

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On the first floor, talk to the Pikachu. It will battle you and will be added

to your Dex. The girl at the counter does a lottery. Bring all traded pokemon

here and draw a number. If it matches, you can get a good item like a master

ball. There is a turtwig mask on the second floor if you want it. Leave. Talk

to the president of the poketch company. He is by the counter on the first

floor of the poketch building. You get the app Memo Pad. Leave.

North to Route 209.


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You can now get through the cave with rock smash. Inside the cave, left gets

you an item but dead ends and right exits the cave. Once outside, keep trekking

north. The first trainer shows Cherubi. The double battle up ahead shows

Pachirisu. Return here with cut to get TM78. No new pokes in the grass, TM09 is

on the west side of this route. Floaroma town is just ahead.


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2.0.1 - Floaroma Town

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Flowers, flowers, flowers. The flower shop has the watering can and some

berries. There is TM88 in the house next to the flower shop. Nothing else to

see here, make your way east (Route 205).

The bridge is impassable so keep going east. The grunt guarding the buildinghas a lvl11 Glameow which is new to the dex. Fight the goon and he will lock

himself inside the Windworks. He will also tell you about the goons in

Floaroma town so you need to go back there. The grass has some new pokes,

Pachirisu, Shellos and Buizel.

Once you are back in Floaroma, move to the top left corner of the town and the

goons will be gone. Now there is a secret entrance. Defeat the goons inside the

garden to get the key from the old man. Grunt 1 will show a Silcoon. After the

battle,

the old man will give you some honey that can be put on the orange /

brown trees. See the Appendix to find out which pokemon can only be caught this

way. Once again, back to the Valley Windworks. Leave the garden with key in

hand and take Route 205 east. Open the door the grunt hid behind earlier.

Inside, be ready for battle. The grunts will be easy but the boss is a little

tough. The first grunt you encounter has a lvl11 Cascoon for the dex. The boss

is one of Team Galactics commanders. She has a lvl 14 Zubat and a lvl 16

Purugly. I ended up beating Purugly with a lvl 10 onix but I lost everything

else. Use potions and defeat her.

Once she is defeated, you can cross the bridge from earlier. The papa and the

little girl will tell you about a special balloon poke but you cannot get that

one yet so ignore it for now. Heal in Floaroma and cross the bridge.


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Route 205

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The first trainer over the bridge has a lvl14 Ponyta. There are no new pokes in

the grass. There are some items here along the route but nothing fancy. There

is a house near the end of the route that will heal your pokemon. Just west of

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Do not worry if it doesn't. The rest of the trainers can be skipped if you do

not want the XP.


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When you enter the forest, you get approached by someone looking for help with

getting out. She will follow you and fight alongside you during your trek. One

really cool thing about her following you is that after every battle, your

pokemon are fully healed. The forest isn't hard to get through, just keep

fighting trainers and you know you are going the right way. There are some

items in the grass and also some new pokes. Going through the grass with your

new friend nets two pokemon per battle as well.

The first double battle shows Beautifly and Silcoon to your pokedex. The third

double battle has Burmy, Kricketune and Dustox. The fourth one has a Meditite.

FAST ROUTE:

1) East, north, double battle, follow route to double battle.

2) South, east, double battle, east, north, double battle, north, east into

grass.

3) North, west, north, east, EXIT.

NEW Pokemon roundup: Murkrow(D), Wurmple, Silcoon(D), Cascoon(P),Beautifly(D),

Buneary, Dustox(P), Misdreavus(P)

Misdreavus and Murkrow can be hard to find so if you don't, you will get to see

them later in the game. Exit the forest and cross the bridge, fight the

fisherman to get some lousy XP because they mostly have magikarps. From left to

right, the 1st fisherman doesn't battle, the 2nd one has a goldeen for the dex,

the 3rd fisherman has only Magikarp so skip him entirely and the last fisherman

also has a goldeen with a bunch of Magikarp.

Keep going east and you will enter Eterna City.


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2.0.3 - Eterna City

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Talk to everyone in the town and you should net a TM from an old lady, an

explorer kit and HM Cut. If you head south right away there is a professor's

aid that will give you EXP share. The condos have an in-game trade, Buizel for

a Chatot. They also have the name rater who lets you nickname your pokemon. You

cannot change the name of traded pokemon however. The old lady with TM67 is on

the 2nd floor here.

The explorer kit can be found in the house next to the pokemon center. Talk to

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complete so you can learn how to use the kit. See the Appendix for pokemon that

can be caught this way and what you can do underground. You get HM cut when you

take the northern route in the city. There is a poketch app inside the pokemon

center, talk to the girl near the counter to get it.

The second badge is here and you do not need to do anything special to get it.

Just go to the gym and fight for it. The gym in town is a grass gym so you willneed a flying or fire move for it. There are a couple new pokemon available to

see in the gym.

When you get to the gym, the leader will be waiting for you. She will hide her

trainers inside the gym and you will need to find them and defeat them to be

able to battle her. Enter the main room after she goes in and start searching.

Go north 90% of the way then head west. The first trainer is here. Follow the

path west, then south and you will find the second trainer after the 2 rocks.

Go back to the door and you can see three small trees in the top right of your

screen, behind them is a trainer. To get to the last one, go back to the door

and follow the first path east and then north. The trainer is in the area with

the four flowers.

Now you can fight the gym leader. Her highest level poke is a lvl 22 Roserade.

I demolished all her pokes and everyone in the gym with a lvl19 Staravia. So

long as you have a super effective move for this gym, you should breeze through

it.


After you defeat the gym leader, you have a couple options. From here, you can

head east to route 211 where there is some tall grass and a cave. This way has

Ponyta, Chingling and Meditite in the grass. Inside the cave there is Cleffa

but the cave dead ends until later in the game. If you can't find ponyta, give

up until later one where it will be a lot more common. The two trainers you can

fight along the way have nothing new.

Pokedex seen count: 39 (not counting ponyta or cleffa)

In the northern part of town, there are some grass trees that you can cut down.

Cut them and enter the building. This is the galactic grunts building and you

need to go through it in order to get the bike. You can avoid most of the

trainers in here or talk to the people on the computers to get more XP. The

hardest poke in here is a lvl 20 Skuntank with most of the pokes averaging lvl

15 and they are mostly bugs. You get two new pokemon for the pokedex even if

you skip the trainers on the computers.


Once you defeat all the trainers, the bike shop owner is released and you can

enter the bike shop and get a bike. The bike shop is located just south of the

pokemon center. You get a bike that is the mach bike and acro bike mixed

together. You change between bikes by pressing the B button. Go back to where

you got the exp share and now you can get past the guards as you have a bike.

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Cycling Road

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There are some trainers along here you can fight for some more XP. The first

trainer you can battle has a Staravia for the pokedex. The third trainer has a

Ponyta if you didn't catch one earlier. You will be able to catch one soon. The

rest can be skipped if you so choose. At the end of cycling road is a girl whowill give you an accessory. Exit cycling road and you are at Route 206, up the

ledge that we couldn't go up earlier. There are two small trees that you can

cut here. Cut them to gain access to some new pokemon. On route 206, you can

find Bronzor, Stunky(D), Kricketune and Ponyta. This Ponyta is a lot more

abundant than the one earlier.


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3.0.1 - Cave of Doubt

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There is a cave at the end of Route 206 called the Cave of Doubt. You can use

the TM flash to light up the cave but Bidoof cannot learn it. If you do not

want to use your TM(and who would), I have the way to go here as it is quite a

maze. Enter the cave and follow these directions: SMR stands for Smash the Rock

1) North, SMR.

2) North again, SMR.

3) North, then west, SMR.

*) West, South, West, South leads to two trainers and an item, TM32

*) West, South, SMR, South leads to a Hiker and a dead end

4) North, SMR

5) North, then West, SMR

*) North, West, South leads to two trainers and an item (Rare Candy)

6) North, East, SMR, continue East, South, Escape Rope.

7) East, South, SMR

8) South, SMR, Follow path and keeping SMRs. When you get to north or south

intersection, go North. You will get Mira who heals your pokes after battles

South from Mira goes to two trainers. Pokemon encounters now show two pokes

9) Leave with Mira. Follow directions backwards. You can go back and fight the

trainers now as they will be easier with healing afterwards.

I honestly do not know what saving Mira does for the main game. Since I don't,

I am not going to count the above section in the Pokedex seen count.

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Route 207

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Thank god that is over, head back to where you cut the trees and go down. You

are on Route 207. You can now go down the ledge and back up so long as your

bike is set to fast. Down the ledge is a town so you can heal your pokes. You

should be OK though since you had Mira. On your way to the town, your friend

will stop you and ask you to pick a hand. It does not matter which hand you

pick because you get the same item anyway, the VS SEEKER and a poketch app.


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You want to go East on Route 207 when you are ready. Some trainers and items

throughout here or you can just skip a lot of the trainers and go to the cave.

The hiker before the cave has a Bronzor if you didn't see one earlier. The cave

is very short and requires no HMs. Go through the cave.

Same situation as before. You can fight everyone and get items or run through

this part. After the grass is the berry masters house. He will give you aberry everyday. The little girl gives you a poketch app so get that from her.

The girl trainer before the house has a Combee for the pokedex. The fellow

south of the house has a Mime Jr and a Bonsly. There is a Karate guy south of

the house that will give you the Odd Keystone that you need to capture the

pokemon Spiritomb. East arrives in Hearthome City.


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OPTIONAL FOR NOW

-----------------------Old Chateau

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Now that you have done cycling road and have the ability to use cut, you can

return to the forest and cut down the trees near the exit. There is an Old

Chateau here. Now is your chance to get a Gastly. Inside here lies TM90 and

some items. It is not worth checking this place out unless you really want a

Gastly or TM90.

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3.0.2 - Hearthome City

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Do like you always do when you enter a town. Talk to everyone and get stuff.

The Shell Bell is available on the second floor of the house right next to the

Fan Club. The Poffin Case is given to you by the Fan Club president. You need

this to evolve a pokemon like Feebas. The hiker in the Southeat corner of town

has an egg for you. To hatch an egg, carry the egg with you and walk a certain

amount of steps with the egg. It will hatch when you reach the right amount of

steps. It is usually somewhere between 3,000 and 7,000 steps and depends on the

pokemon.

Ensure your pokemon are healed because you are going to have to battle your

RIVAL in the town. After you battle, the Southeast exit opens up. There is no

gym battle here but you can talk to the gym leader outside the contest hall.

You need to do this in order to get your RIVAL to battle you. Enter the contest

hall after the gym leader moves and talk to your mom. You can leave now and you

will be able to battle.

In the Northeast and Northwest corner of the city is a cute pokemon stroll

area. Only certain pokemon are permitted here and it has some TMs and other

useful items in it. The Southeast corner exit leads to Route 209 and you can

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the TV reporter. Go to Route 209. Your RIVAL has evolved his starter and you

should have evolved yours by now as well.


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Route 209-----------------------

More same old pokemon formula here. Walk through the route collecting items and

battling trainers. The Pikachu is actually a trainer you can battle. The first

trainer you encounter has a Pichu for the pokedex. You can now fish for better

fish with the Good Rod here. Place the Odd Keystone inside the large rock and

it turns into the Hallowed Tower. This serves no purpose until you have talked

to 32 people in the underground, more on that later. The girl trainer west of

the Tower has a Cleffa if you missed it earlier. Route 209 leads to Solaceon

Town and the Lost Tower.

NEW pokemon round up: Chansey, Mime JR, Bibarel, Good Rod pokes

Pokedex seen count: 51 (with Chansey)

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The Lost Tower

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The Lost Tower is a tower of pokemon graves. You can be attacked while walking

around the tower. There are some more trainers and items scattered here. The

first trainer has a Stunky(D) which is good for Pearl players. There are some

Gastly here if you didn't go back to Old chateau. On the third floor, there is

a double battle you can skip, don't. The trainers have Misdreavus and Murkow so

that is good for both Diamond and Pearl players. You get the cleanse tag and HM

Strength at the top of the tower. Leave.


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3.0.3 - Solaceon Town

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To the Pokemon Center to heal. Everyone around town is wearing a hat. Talk to

everyone in town to get some new items. The first cowboy you see gives you a

poketch app. The furthest house east has the seal case for you. If you bring

the newspaper guy what he wants, he will give you an item. Nothing spectacular.

We have finally reached the Day Care! You can breed two pokemon by putting a

male and female from the same egg group into the day care. Once you have put

two pokemon in the day care, the man inside will give you a poketch app. The

day care is also good for raising pokemon you don't want to battle with. Every

step you take is 1 XP for a day care pokemon. Talk to the day care man outside

when you have two pokemon in the day care to see how long an egg will take to

arrive. If the old man says, "The two prefer to play with other pokemon" then

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Solaceon Ruins

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Located in the east side of town in a cave. The ruins has Unown and trainers.

Press A on the rocks to get items. It doesn't work for all of the rocks though.There is only one right way to go through the ruins. When you first enter the

ruins, there is text on the wall and it is directions on how to get to through

the maze.

"Top Right, Lower Left, Top Right, Top left, Top Left, Lower Left."

When you get to the room with the 4 pokeballs, there is text on the wall. It is

written in Unown and it possibly says:

"Friendship all lives touch other lives to create something anew and alive."

Leave the ruins once you have everything. Go north of town to Route 210.

Unown are all different letters but only count as 1 entry in the pokedex.


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Route 210

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The first trainer in the tall grass has an Aipom and a Girafarig for the dex.

You get TM51 along the way here but you have to talk a the girl on the right

side of the route to get it. The second double battle has a Clefairy for the

pokedex. The trainer north of the second double battle has a Happiny so if you

dont want to hatch the egg from the hiker, battle him or the girl at the end of

the tall grass.

As you travel, you will find the Milk store and lots of people inside. If you

talk to them, most of them will engage in battle. You can battle the two

trainers at the same table for Sudowoodo and Mr. Mime. You cannot get past the

Psyducks right now so go east to Route 215.


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Route 215

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More trainers and more pokes. You can catch a Kadabra in the grass. Keep going

and you will reach Veilstone City. The first trainer battle has a Shieldon

which we haven't seen yet. TM66 is available from a Karate guy. The 2nd Karate

guy has a Croagunk and the third one is right next to a Fist Plate but has no

new pokemon. TM43 is available by way of cut along the route. The double battle

at the end of the route has a Monferno so that may or may not help you but the

Gyarados should.


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3.0.4 - Veilstone City

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Enter town, walk around, talk to everyone. Dawn is outside the gym as well asan old man who will give you TM63. There is a house with a girl who massages

your pokemon once a day and gives you an accessory afterwards. Next to her

is a house with a jester in it. Just keep picking the same hand over and over

and eventually you will win. You get a coin case. You can get the coins from

the Game Corner now and exchange them for FABULOUS PRIZES!!! WOOOT!

Ultra Balls and Great balls are finally available at the Department Store First

Floor. There is also a new Poketch app in here and lots of TMs for sale. The

Sticky Barb hold item is located on the roof. The app is on the second floor

and you have to talk to the girl behind the counter to get it.

Now we can get another badge. The gym is not too hard. Machokes and Medititesat lvl 25 and 26 until you get to the gym leader, Flying/Psychic is best. This

was another gym where I could own with Staravia. The gym leader has a lvl 30

Lucario that is fighting/steel so psychic will do normal damage. You get the

ability to use HM fly outside which is good because it is in the galactic

warehouse. If you get stuck, try to line up all the gaps in the boards with the

stairs. Walk outside of the gym to have Dawn ask you for help. Defeat the

thugs, enter the warehouse and Fly is in plain sight.

Fly to Hearthome and you can now leave through the Southwest exit of the town.

When you exit, you will be on Route 212.


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Route 212

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This route has a honey tree you can smear which is good since it is so close

to town. There are also some police patrolling here. TM11 is here but requires

cut, some other items as well that require surf. There is the Pokemon Mansion

here as well.

The first double battle has a Chatot you want to see for the pokedex. You can

acquire one by utilizing the in-game trade mentioned earlier in the guide. The

double battle before the Pokemon Mansion has a Buneary.


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Pokemon Mansion

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If you enter the mansion and go left, there is a Great Ball, Soothe Bell and a

Burn heal in the trash can. If you go right, TM Swagger is in the office. Go


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to the garden to catch some new pokes. Roselia and Pikachu are available here

as well as Pichu.

After you are done, back to Route 212.

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Route 212-----------------------

Head south out of the Mansion through the grass. No new pokes here but there

are Wooper in the rainy grass coming up. There are some trainers along here

that average lvl20. There is a girl in a house here who will trade shards for

TMs. You can get shards in the underground. The first double battle in the

rainy area has a Prinplup which, again, may or may not help you. It helped me

so I am going to include it in the count. You will catch up soon if it didn't

help you.

The first fisherman has Barboach, the 2nd one has nothing new and the third

fisherman has a Gyarados. The bog here is kind of a pain. You cannot use yourbike on the bog. When you fall into the bog, just keep trying to move and

eventually you will. At the end of the bog is TM06 so you want to be sure to

get that. You can skip the bike path if you want. There are two trainers and a

zinc at the end of it. Route 212 leads to Pastoria City.


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4.0.0 - Pastoria City

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The first house is a berry lady house who will give you a berry everyday. The

pokemon move tutor is here as well as the Safari Zone. The move tutor is very

helpful if you transfer a lot of pokes from pal park or if you want to get a

move back that you deleted. The move tutor will ask for a heart scale and you

can get them in the underground. The gym in town is all water pokemon with

hardly any barboach so you can do just fine with electric type attacks. The

highest level pokemon in here is a lvl 30 Floatzel. You gain the Fen badge and

the ability to use the HM you get in the Safari Zone outside.

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Safari Zone

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The first guy on the right when you enter the Safari Zone gives you HM05. The

Safari Zone has two new pokes and the best way to get them, is to use the

binoculars on the 2nd floor to see where they are. Go to the area that they

show up in and stand in the grass. Move the character around but don't actually

take a step. You will get encounters without increasing your step count. So

long as you do not run out of balls you can stay forever. I am not going to

count the Safari Zone in the seen count.

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Pastoria City


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You should always battle all the trainers in a gym because they show you new

pokemon and give you more XP. After you beat the gym, talk to the Grunt in the

northern most part of town. He will run off and he tells you not to follow him,

you should. Your rival will show up when you try to follow the grunt so be

ready for a battle. The gym had Azurill, Marill, Wingull and Floatzel.

Pokedex seen count: 76 (Halfway there!)

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5.0.0 - Route 213

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Follow the route fighting trainers. Everytime you see the grunt, talk to him

and make him run off again. Floatzel and Wingull are new pokes in the grass.

There is a man on the route who will give you a footprint ribbon for your

lead pokemon. The first fisherman has a Remoraid and the second one doesn't

battle.


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Hotel

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The hotel area has a lot of trainers you can battle, mostly in the restaurant.

Lots of double battles in here and you get a lot of money afterwards. The pokes

average lvl 20-23. The hotel clerk at the front desk will heal your pokes for

you. There is a TM available on the hotel property as well. You will find the

grunt here and he will finally battle you. He has a lvl 25 Glameow. Follow him

again and Cynthia will meet you and give you a potion to remove the psyducks

from Route 210. Continue heading north on Route 214 and take the eastern path.

There is a girl trainer along the way who has a Haunter. The girl right after

her, has a Wormadon.

You can keep heading North to find a cave on the east path that has a man

asking you to catch Unowns. If you catch all 26 types of Unowns, one for each

letter of the alphabet, the ruin maniac finishes the cave. The cave then leads

to another area that has two more unowns. The two extra unowns are the question

mark and the exclamation point. If you keep walking around the cave, you will

eventually get attacked by a rare Hippopotas. In 25 attacks, I got 24 geodudes

and 1 hippo. I have been told the more unowns you catch, the higher the

encounter rate for Hippopotas. Eventually, you will end up in Veilstone City.

If you do not care about catching Hippopotas, fly to Solaceon right away. If

you go to Veilstone, take Route 215 West to the Psyducks.

New Poke Round-Up: Hippopotas, Graveler

Pokedex seen count: 79 (not counting Hippopotas and Graveler)

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5.0.1 - Route 210


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Once you reach the Psyduck, heal them with the secret potion. Afterwards,

Cynthia will show and ask you to deliver an Old Charm to someone in Celestic

Town. As you travel along the route, a thick fog will show up blocking your

view. Use HM05 Defog to remove the fog. There are some lvl25-27 trainers here.

Follow route 210 until you reach Celestic Town.

There are three ninja trainers hidden in the tall grass. The one hidden on the

east side of the tall grass has a Skorupi. The rest have pokemon we have

already seen. The ninja boy above the karate man after you use Defog has a

Golbat. There is a girl trainer along the route that has a Grotle. Keep

following the path and you will keep getting in battles. You see Mothim, Luxio

and Raichu before you end up at a bike path. The bike path leads to TM30 and a

trainer.

After you get the TM, head back onto the normal route. After the karate guy,

you can go right for a battle and an item or left. The item is the Smoke Ball

and it lets you run from any wild encounter. East dead ends so turn around andhead west. The first trainer this way has a Hoothoot and its evolved form,

Noctowl. That is two more for the pokedex. Take the bridge and you will be

stopped by an old man for a battle. He has nothing new but you cannot avoid the

battle. Celestic town is just ahead.


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5.0.2 - Celestic Town

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You can net a poketch app and a great ball by talking to the residents of this

town. The Great Ball is in the pokemon center and the app is in the house in

the southwest corner of town.

A galactic grunt is blocking the cave and he needs to be disposed of. He

has a lvl25 beautifly and a lvl27 Croagunk. After you defeat him, the old

woman will come up to you and thank you. Enter the cave and press A on the

pictures of the pokemon on the wall. The old woman will enter again and give

you HM03 Surf.

Now the gym in Hearthome is open! You can fly there now or you can go west to

Route 211 and get a TM and fight some trainers for XP. No new pokes that way

though. The TM is Psych Up.

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5.0.3 - Hearthome Revisited

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The gym here is all Ghost which means a dark pokemon will own it. The puzzles

are ridiculously easy but you should go in the wrong doors on purpose to get

more battles in before the leader. A lot of the trainers in here have Drifloon

who does a lot of damage to you after a physical attack is done to it. Be sure

to fight the girl on the 2nd floor, far right door before you go straight to


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the gym leader.

The boss has:

Lvl 32 Drifblim

Lvl 36 Mismagius

Lvl 34 Gengar

You get TM65, a new badge and the ability to use Surf outside. This opens up a

lot of pathways that you could not utilize before. You should take some time

and travel to these places:

Route 209 has TM19

Route 204 and the cave here


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6.0.0 - Canalave City

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Fly to Jubilife City and head west. You can surf near the fisherman that gave

you the old rod. Keep heading west and there are 2 fisherman here you can

battle. There is a lot of new pokemon this way. The sailor when you reach land

has a Mantyke. The grass along the way has Gastrodons, Mr. Mimes and Glameows

(P) in it and when you are surfing, you will be attacked by Pelipper. When you

arrive at the city entrance, you will get a new app for your poketch.

The move deleter is here as well as TM48. Be ready for a battle so straight to

the pokemon center as your RIVAL will catch up to you soon enough. Your RIVAL's

team is up in the lower 30s now and his main pokemon is at lvl35. Cross the

bridge to have your RIVAL challenge you. Your RIVAL has a lvl30 Heracross which

is new and it has a high attack stat.

Pokedex seen count: 93 (not counting Mr. Mime)

After the battle, head south once you cross the bridge and there is a sailor

near a boat. You can take this boat to IRON ISLAND. For now, surf south on the

water and you will find TM89. Take the boat to IRON ISLAND for a rare pokemon.

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IRON ISLAND

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Iron Island is the home of a very rare pokemon. You get the pokemon in egg form

so you are going to need an empty spot in your party. No HMs are needed so

that opens up your HM slave spot. Exit the boat and go up the stairs into the

cave.

Steelix and Golbat are new here. You can get some good XP inside the cave. You

will be attacked by a lot of Graveler and that is new to the pokedex. Ice and

water attacks will help throughout the cave. There are quite a few trainers and

items here.


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Fast Route:

1) Go down the east set of stairs.

2) Up stairs, east, down stairs, south, up east set of stairs, down elevator.

3) Go down west set of stairs, get partner.

4) Take first path south, fight trainers, south, stay on path, up stairs, south

fight trainers, down stairs, up stairs, down elevator.

5) This gets you the Riolu egg. Go through cave door, up elevator, out cave.

Cherrim is found in step 2 in a trainer battle. Medicham is found in step 4.

You should see Steelix at some point throughout the cave as well. If you miss

Steelix, it will be in the gym so do not worry about it.

Riolu turns into the pokemon your partner was using in the cave.


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Canalave Gym

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This gym is mostly steel and rock pokemon. Surf takes care of a lot of the

enemies so you should probably have a poke that can do it well. One of the

trainers before the boss has a Azuremarill

The boss has a

lvl39 Bastiodon. The Bastiodon can be a pain but luckily for me, it did not use

Rest. It may use it against you so be ready for it. It is a rock/steel pokemon

so ground moves will really hurt it. Winning nets you the Mind badge and the

ability to use Strength outside.

Strength will let you move the gray boulders around. Evolve your bidoof to be

able to teach it Strength if you have been using one. Now you want to hit the

caves. There is a cave near Oreburgh that will give you a TM and a cave near

Celestic Town.

After you have beaten the gym, your RIVAL will talk to you again. Go inside the

library and meet him on the 3rd floor. The library is in the northwest corner

of the city. Your mission if you choose to accept it, is to go to Valor

Lakefront and enter where the two guards would not let you pass before.


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6.0.0 - Valor Lakefront

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Walk through the magikarps fighting trainers until you get to the cave. Enter

the cave and be ready for a battle. The highest lvl poke in here is a lvl37

Toxicroak. It is fighting so flying works well. Afer you defeat him, fly to

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Twinleaf Town

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Go north and then west to where you first got your pokemon. The lake is now

filled with grunts so take them out. Another battle with Mars awaits and she

still has her Purugly. The double battles before show no new pokemon. One lakeleft, fly to Celestic Town.

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6.0.1 - Celestic Cave

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Head West of Celestic Town and enter the cave. Part of the cave is foggy but

you do not need fog clear unless you want to get Light Clay. Otherwise, your

new HM and rock smash should do just fine. Enter the cave and start heading

north. you need to move the boulder. Follow the path north and then west.

The fog room is coming up and you can use fog clear or you can make your waythrough the fog without it. Run from the battles as you will have a lot lower

accuracy with the fog. Stay to the left if you just want to run through the

area. Take the stairs and you will be in the room with the exit, no obstacles

here. Exit the cave.

NEW poke round-up: Clefairy

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Route 216

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Snowing here turns into hail in your battles. I didn't have an ICE pokemon so

this was frustrating. If you take the high road, a girl trainer along the way

has a Lopunny. The low road has an Ambipom and grass with new pokes. Follow the

path until you get to a house and fight all the trainers. Each of the trainers

will show you a new pokemon. You can heal your pokes inside the house by taking

a nap in the bed. After the house, go North to Route 217. The first girl in the

grass after the house has a Mr. Mime if you missed it earlier.


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Route 217

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The snow really starts coming down here. You fall down into heavy snow and

barely move but just keep trudging along. The first trainer you battle has a

Hippopotas which is good if you didn't search the cave for it.

Stay close to the west wall until

you get to a house. Grab the pokeball behind the house and it is HM06. Enter

the house and talk to the Hiker to get an item. Back outside, The northeast

corner of the route has some grass and another house. The spell tag is inside

that house and in the grass are Snover, Sneasel and Medicham. The exit to the


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route is north of the Hiker's house. There is a trainer battle you can't avoid

and he has a Seaking.


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6.0.1 - Snowpoint City-----------------------

You first come across Acuity Lakefront but the Galactic Grunts are keeping you

out. Head east from here through the grass. You will end up in Snowpoint City.

This city is pretty much just a gym city. Walk around and talk to everyone and

then take on the gym. You may get stuck in the gym for a few minutes.

The gym has snowballs inside. You can slam into the snowballs and break them.

However, if you touch stairs while you are heading towards the snowball, you

will slow down too much to break the snowball. This is very similar to the

Zelda ice puzzles in Twilight Princess except instead of pushing blocks, you

are using youself. You need to break all the snowballs in the very middle andand the ones that are blocking the stairs to the gym leader. If you see a

snowball can only be hit from the east or west and the east path has stairs,

then you know you HAVE to hit it from the west.

The leader has pokes ranging from lvl38-42. The Abomasnow is new and is tough.

Steel and Fire will do best in this gym and the leader is no exception. Win and

get the ability to use Rock Climb outside of battle and TM72. If you fought all

the trainers before the gym leader you got Tentacruel, if not, it will show up

again later.

Rock Climb is useful, like surf, in getting places you couldn't before. I am

sure you have seen the parts around Sinnoh that can be scaled. You can choose

to go scale these places and gain items and TMs or you can continue the

adventure.


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Acuity Lakefront

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Now that the gym is beaten, you can enter the lakefront, do that. No battles

here just more story. They tell you not to go to galactic HQ but that is

exactly where we are going. Fly to Veilstone.

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7.0.0 - Galactic End

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Go to HQ and not the warehouse, outside of HQ, there is a grunt you can talk to

who will run off and leave a key. Pick up the key and head to the warehouse.

You can open the first door in the warehouse but they key will break inside

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7.0.1 - Galactic Warehouse

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Not a very difficult area to scale, there is a bed inside the warehouse you can

use to heal your pokes. You are looking for the galactic key inside the

warehouse. Once you find the key, you can now get more access inside HQ.Whenyou go down the stairs, you can go North or East. North leads to the door we

need the key for so go East. Keep following East and there will be a couple

trainer battles and you will have to go up two sets of stairs. Eventually you

reach two warp panels.

The east panel leads to a TM so take that one real quick. Then go back through

and take the west warp panel. Follow the path and you end up in a room with a

set of stairs in the east and a warp panel in the western part of the room. The

trainer in this room has 3 bug pokemon. Take the warp and follow it and you

will have to fight a scientist. This way leads to the key. Once you have the

key, go back to the room you took the warp previously and take the stairs this

time if you want TM21. If you do not want the TM, then just leave the warehouseand go next door to HQ.

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7.0.2 - Galactic HQ

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The goal here is to get to the end and fight the boss. It is pretty straight

forward. You can go slightly off the beaten path for items but you do not get

far. At the end, you fight the galactic boss and get a masterball. The boss

has 2 pokes weak to electric and 1 Sneasel which is dark/ice. They are between

lvl40 and lvl43. Once you beat him, he tells you to go east. You will end up

in another room now. There is another battle up ahead but it is easier than the

one you just had.

The Galactic Admin has a Kadabra, Bronzor and Toxicroak. They are lvl38 and 40.

Once you defeat her, she will move out of the way and you can press the red

button. This lets three legendary pokemon free.

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7.0.3 - Mt. Coronet

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To get to Mt. Coronet, you are going to need your HM slave with strength. Fly

to Hearthome city and head west, Route 208. Enter the cave and once inside, you

will need to go north. At the very top of Mt. Coronet is Dialga so be ready for

a legendary battle. Bring about 30 Ultra Balls,4 Quick Balls and 6 Timer balls.

Dialga will be lvl47 and is a steel/dragon type. If you are playing Pearl, you

will not get Dialga but instead will see Palkia. Palkia is a lvl47 water /

dragon type.

When you first enter the cave, you need to head west to the opposite side. Once

you reach the west entrance, head north and surf across the pond. Use rock

climb to reach the stairs up. You should seen Bronzong somewhere along the way.

It is the evolved form of Bronzor and is new to the pokedex. In the next room:


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North, West, South, Upstairs, North, West over bridge, down stairs, up north

stairs,up stairs, cross bridge, down stairs, down stairs, upstairs and in cave

door.

Next room: Up stairs, up stairs

Next room: up stairs, trainer battle, west, south, trainer battle, Out.

Now you are outside. Follow the path and use rock climb when you get there. Now

instead of using rock climb again, head west and through the grass until you

reach another cave. Inside, use rock climb, follow the path, down the stairs

then east out of the cave.

Outside again. Through the grass, down the stairs, rock climb west. Down the

stairs, through the grass, keep going west and you find another cave. Enter.

There is only one way to go through here so keep following the path, eventually

you emerge at the very top. Inside the cave, there is also Chimecho.


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Spear Pillar

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Ok, 2 galactic battles and 1 legendary pokemon coming up. You can't avoid the

double battle so you need to try and reach the boss. They will converge on you

but your RIVAL will show up and help. The big boys here are Purugly lvl 45 and

Skuntank lvl46. Once you defeat them, you rival heals your pokes for the boss

battle.

The boss fight is going to go pretty similar to the way it was last time. He

has upped his levels some and has a new Gyarados. Whatever worked last time is

still going to work this time so as long as you gained some levels, you should

be fine. He has some evolved pokemon you haven't seen before so that will help

out with the pokedex. Defeat him and get access to Dialga / Palkia. SAVE!! You

only get one chance at legendaries so if you knock them out, you will never be

able to catch them again.

The best way to catch legendaries is to use a pokemon that has stat upping

moves and just sit there with it out taking damage. For example, anything that

is rock/steel and has iron defense would work really well here. Get Dialga in

the red, use potions when you get low, throw lots of pokeballs. Throw the 4

quick balls right away and hope for the best, probably not going to work though

Use Ultra Balls when Dialga gets in the red and make the battle last a long

time. If you go through your ultra balls and you still do not have it, now you

move onto your timer balls. If by some miracle you still do not have Dialga

and you are out of timer balls, restart.

Palkia is pretty much the same as Dialga except it is a water type so rock

would be a bad choice to go up against it. I would suggest you use a water

type. Palkia does not have have a powerhouse attack like Dialga's Roar of Time.

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7.0.4 - Legendary Round-Up

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Three legendary pokemon have been unleashed now that you have helped Dialga. We

need to go back to all three lakes and at each one is a legendary pokemon.

Lake Valor - Azelf

Lake Acuity - Uxie

Lake Verity - Mesprit (runs away)

The first two can be battled in the lake. Surf to the cave and battle them. All

the pokes are lvl 50 and Psychic. Use the same tactic as you did on Dialga and

it should go pretty smoothly. You can use the dusk ball now and it has a 4x

capture rate on pokes in caves. I used Luxray with charge to keep raising my

special D since they are psychic types. When you try and fight Mesprit, it runsaway and shows up on your poketch marking map. If you do not have this yet, go

to Jubilife City and get it from the poketch company. Talk to the president

near the front desk to get it. Keep talking to him and you will get two more if

you didn't have the marking map. If you want to take a break from trying to

catch the legendaries, you can skip to section 7.0.5

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Catching Mesprit

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Mesprit gets it's own section because it is quite a pain in the butt to get. It

shows up on the map as a flashing symbol but every time you fly to it, it moves

somewhere else. Also, it runs away in battle so you are going to need mean look

or use your masterball. The problem with the masterball is that there is

another pokemon later on that runs away so you might want to use it on that one

I suggest Crobat with Mean Look to stop it from running away. But first, we

need to encounter it...Here is a trick I figured out that helps battle it.

1) Go to a main city that it goes near (Jubilife works fine).

2) Park yourself near the exit of the town and look in the top left corner of

your screen.

3) Walk out of the town and when the top left shows the route name, that makes

Mesprit change it's location.

4) Walk back into the town and it changes again.

5) Keep doing this over and over until Mesprit shows up on the Route you are on

Once it is on your route, search the grass for a battle. It may not be the

first battle you encounter but it will show up eventually. Good luck! Mesprit

shows up in your pokedex as seen when it shows you the picture.


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We can get here now. Fly to Veilstone City and head south to the hotel on Route

214. When you reach Valor Lakefront, the path east is now open. East leads to

Route 222. This is the way to Sunyshore. Follow the path, battle trainers, get

items and eventually you end up in Sunyshore. The third fisherman has a

Finneon and a Feebas so be sure to battle him.

Enter the town and you get inspiration to battle the gym leader. If you go to

the gym though, it is blocked. You need to go to the lighthouse and talk to

the gym leader and he will return to the gym. Once he returns, you will be

able to enter the electric type gym. Do not forget to talk with everyone in

town to get items. Note the woman near the shore because you will need to talk

to her again after you defeat the gym.

Hopefully you have some sort of ground/rock pokemon that has ground moves. If

not, any ground type move should work. The battles before the boss change it up

as there are some other pokes thrown in that aren't electric including Mr. Mime

and Bibarel (to name a few). The boss has lvl46-49. He has 2 electrics, 1 waterand 1 normal Ambipom. Rock/Ground wins them all except the water pokemon, a

lvl47 Octillery.

We finally have all 8 badges and can gain access to the E4. You need waterfall

and to get it, head to the northeast section of town and talk to the girl on

the beach again. She will give you HM Waterfall now that you have beat the gym.

Your starter should have evolved by now so I am adding it to the count. You

should also consider taking the egg you got from Iron Island with you now as

you are going to need to hatch it to get the national dex.


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7.0.6 - Fuego Ironworks

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Now is a real good time to visit this place. It is hidden pretty well so to get

here, fly to Floaroma town and head east out of town. At the first bridge you

get to, surf west and follow the water. Eventually you will reach this area.

You should see a Tentacool on your swim and we needed that for the pokedex. All

the trainers in here are going to have pokemon about 10-15 levels lower than

yours but that is fine because there really is no reason to rush to get here.

This area has a lot of the tiles that move your character along so it really is

just trial and error to get where you want.

There are two fire stones in here which you may need to evolve one of your

pokemon. The trainer east of the entrance has a Rapidash so you want to fight

him. There is also Rock Incense and TM35. There is nothing else to do here so

fly back to Sunyshore City.


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8.0.0 - Route 224


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Once you have waterfall, surf north on the route. There is a trainer here that

has a Finneon evolution so you are going to want to fight the swimmer so it is

in your dex. Just keep heading north if you want to skip the items. There

aren't many here but there is TM18. You can catch Mantyke along the way. The

third swimmer on the route has a Mantyke and a Mantine so you should battlehim. At the very end of the route is a big waterfall. Use your new HM here and

you will be taken to Victory Road entrance and a pokemon center.


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8.0.1 - Victory Road

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Lots of trainers, lots of items and lots of time, this cave is very large. The

pokes in here are in the lower 50s. There are no new pokes except during

trainer battles. You should battle as much as possible as you will need thelevels. The pokemon league is right after the cave.

Route:

1) Cross bridge, cross bridge, cross bridge, Rock climb, west, up stairs, north

trainer battle (Blissey), up stairs, up stairs.

2) Smash the south rock, head south. Use strength. Move northeast boulder down,

move north boulder west and last boulder south 2x. Head west, trainer battle

(Carnivine and Rampardos).

3) Move west most boulder down once. Run around and smash rock. Move boulder

again north 2x. East, follow path. Smash the rock, trainer battle (Clefable

and Torterra). Move northern most boulder east, head north, trainer battle,

(Staraptor and Hippowdon), down stairs.

4) Cross bridge, rock climb, west, north, follow path, trainer battle (Machamp)

down stairs.

5) Down stairs, down stairs, surf east, surf north, waterfall, follow water

path, trainer battle (Gabite), surf again, follow water path, up stairs.

6) West, take first path south, trainer battle (Golem and Empoleon), south,

east, rock climb, north, trainer battle (Gible), north, cave exit.

You made it to the pokemon league. That is the very quick way through. You can

search around the cave and find all the items and gain XP for the E4.


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8.0.2 - Elite Four

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pokemon center here as well as a mart. The game gives you tons of money

especially if you fought everyone and reset when you lose. Buy lots of potions

and revives. The best items are Full Restore, Hyper Potion and Revive. I bought

30 of each and used just about all of them. My levels were far too low for the

E4 but my dragon dancing gyarados did a number on them. I will recap each

person so you can be ready for them. Your RIVAL thinks he is better than you

so he will make you fight him first. Dispose of him. Onto the E4! Remember:Use your potions. You don't need extras after the fights so use them if you got

them. Hopefully your Riolu egg hatched by now as you need it for the dex.

Pokedex seen count: 142 (with Riolu egg)

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E4 Aaron - Bug

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Aaron is a bug guy so fire/flying works well. They range from lvl 53 to lvl 57.

Heracross is 4x weak to flying and the only one that isn't weak to flying is

the LVL57 Drapion. It is dark/poison so psychic will not work out either. Usefighting/ground against him if you got it.


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E4 Bertha - Rock/Ground

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Bertha has pokes between lvl55 and lvl59. All her pokes are weak to water save

Quagsire. It will double team and use sandstorm. Water will raise it's HP so do

not use a water attack against it. She isn't hard at all if you took Prinplup.


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E4 Flint - Fire

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Flint is not all fire and it even has an onix. Water still does well here

against 3 of the 5 pokes. They range from lvl57 to lvl61. He isn't hard but be

careful of Lopunny as it knows mirror coat. Mirror coat will hurt special

attackers so use physical attacks.

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E4 Lucian - Psychic

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Hopefully, you took my hints and have a Gyarados by now but if not, any dark

type will do. All his pokes are psychic so dark hurts them. Bronzong has steel

though so it will not be super effective. Gyarados will die quick against Mr.

Mime if he cannot strike first as Mime knows thunderbolt. His pokes are lvl59

to lvl60. The champion awaits...



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Champion Battle

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She has a lvl66 garchomp and all her pokes are lvl60 or greater. Spiritomb is

probably new to you and it is like sableye, it has no weakness. Garchomp willfall to ICE (guess who knows ice? Gyarados!). I didn't have much trouble with

her, I used Dragon Dance a few times with Gyarados and swept everyone else in

one hit. Milotic will take an electric attack as it regenerates HP and has a

good special D. Do not inflict it with any kind of status problem as it's

ability will make it stronger. Grass will work well too against Milotic.

Beat her and get in the record books. You are now the pokemon champion. woot!


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9.0.0 - Done?-----------------------

Not quite. There is still plenty of pokemon to play. You can try and fill your

dex with captures instead of seen, you still have places you haven't explored

and Pal Park will let you bring your pokemon up from older GBA games. Bottom

line: If you quit now, you are still missing a lot of the game. So, keep on

keepin' on.

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9.0.1 - National Dex

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To get the National Dex, fly to Celestic town and go north in town. The center

house has an old woman you can talk to and she will show you a picture of

Palkia or Dialga depending on your version. Once you have the picture, your dex

should be full of seen pokes. If it isn't, you haven't fought all the trainers

so you will need to either raise the missing pokes, or go find the trainers you

missed. If you have all 150, go to Sandgem town and talk to the professor. He

will give you the National Dex.

Pearl Exclusives: Slowpoke, Pinsir,Houndour, Stantler, Spheal, Bagon

Diamond Exclusives: Seel, Scyther, Murkrow. Larvitar, Poochyena, Aaron, Kecleon

Again, all the pokes evolutions are also exclusives to each game.

Another advantage to the National Dex is now you can get swarm pokemon. Every

day there is a new pokemon swarm in Sinnoh. Fly to Sandgem town and talk to the

little girl watching TV in the house just below the pokemon center. She will

tell you where to go to catch a rare pokemon.

Pokedex seen count: 150!!

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9.0.2 - Pal Park

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Pal Park is closed up until you have beaten the Elite Four and have the

National Dex. You can transfer your old pokes from the GBA games to Pal Park.

To get to Pal Park, fly to your house and surf South. The route turns east so

follow it until you reach land. Pal Park is at the very end of the route. Thereare trainers along the way so you might have to fight some people.

Pal Park has to be stocked in order for you to catch your old pokes. You have

to stock it before you start up your save file. To stock Pal Park, place your

GBA game in the GBA slot. Any pokemon that you want to transfer will need to be

in boxes on your GBA game. Start up diamond and get to the screen where you can

pick New Game or your save file. You will have another option there that says

Migrate Pokemon.. You want to pick this option and then use the touch screen to

select the six pokemon you want to migrate. The pokemon will be moved from the

GBA game and not cloned.

Now, load up your diamond save and enter Pal Park. You have to catch your oldpokemon again but you get Pal Park balls which never miss. Your old pokes will

be exactly the same as they were on the GBA game. You may have to re-think

their movesets now under the new diamond attack scheme. You can take the pokes

to the Move Relearner in Pastoria City and he can teach them a move they

didn't learn because they were not leveled up in Diamond. This is very useful.

One thing to note about Pal Park is that you can only transfer pokemon from a

game pak once a day. You can transfer pokemon from multiple game paks but

still only once a day per game pak.

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9.0.3 - Cresselia

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Fly to Canalave City and head towards the boat that takes you to Iron Island.

Enter the house right next to the boat on the west coast and there will be a

woman and a sick child. Talk to them both and then go back outside. Talk to

the sailor and he will ask you to save his sick boy. He will take you to a new

island. This island is empty besides the legendary pokemon. It is a quick walk

to it and it will run away just like Mesprit did. Cresselia is a Psychic type

pokemon at lvl50. Use the same strategy you did on Mesprit. You will have to

use the marking map again to find it. If you haven't used the masterball, now

is the time.

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9.0.4 - Island Area

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This area becomes available after you have beaten the E4. Fly to Snowpoint

City and move to the southern port. You can now take the boat to the island

area. This area has a lot of new pokes that will help fill your national dex.

It also is the home of legendary pokemon Heatran, a lvl70 monster.

Upon arriving, you will be greeted by your RIVAL. Afer the discussion, move


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north and talk to the fisherman. He will give you the Super Rod. If you keep

going north, you will arrive in the battle zone where the battle tower is

located. You can fight in offline mode or wi-fi battle tower here. The Wi-Fi

tower downloads data and you fight against teams based off of internet teams.

The trainer is a cpu however and not a person.

You can move north or east from this area. I went east so I will tell you alsoto go east, Route 230.

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Route 230 & 229

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Route 230 is a surf route so you need a pokemon who has surf. There are some

swimmer battles along the way and some grass to catch old pokemon in. You will

need rock smash to get the item on the grass island. Every trainer in the

island area uses old pokes so it will help you fill your dex if you fight them.

Keep heading east and you will reach route 229. When you reach land, go eastand then south.

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Resort Area

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You can now fly here. There isn't much here but grass and a special area that

you can only enter once your pokemon has enough ribbons. From here, you want

go head to the northwest part of town to access Route 228.

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Route 228

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All battles here will be in a sandstorm. If you want to rush through the route

ignoring items and such, stay off the bike slides. Keep heading north and when

you reach a dead end, head west through the grass. Move north and west again to

Route 226.

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Route 226

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There are two ways to go here. You can surf through the water and there is a

gentleman in a house who will give you a foreign language poketch app. It

doesn't really help much unless you want your pokedex in a foreign language.

Instead of that, head north and use your bike to jump the two ramps. Jump down

the cliff and then head west then north. Then east, up the stairs, use bike to

cross, through the grass, east, south then through the grass again. Go up the

stairs, up the stairs, through the grass, west, enter Stark Mountain.

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9.0.5 - Stark Mountain

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This area has a lot of double battles and you are going to need Rock Smash,

Strength and Rock Climb to get through it. Quick way through is up ahead...

1) Use rock smash and then Strength. Push the boulder down the stairs

2) East, move north and south rock east, push middle block north

3) North, up the stairs, push boulder, down the stairs, up the stairs, east4) Rock smash, up the stairs, push boulder, up stairs, up stairs, door.

5) North and you will get a partner. You know how it works now.

6) East, north, down the second set of stairs, north, west, up stairs, trainer

battle.

7) West, north, east, down stairs, push boulder east, up stairs, door.

8) Your "friend" takes your item. Escape Rope.

When you are heading back for Heatran, you can use the bottom steps if you wish

since you will be able to use rock climb now.

6) East, down the stairs, west, north after trainers, rock smash, rock climb

7) East, rock climb down, east, north, rock climb between trainers, door.

Of course, you can go through this area and get the items if you choose. The

iron ball and TM50 is in here. Thesurvival area of the island has a TM but

nothing else. You can get there by either heading north from the battle area or

keep heading west and surf from Route 226. Buck is here waiting inside a house.

Talk to him and he will return the stone to Stark Mountain.

You need to return to where you last brought him. This time, there will be a

lvl70 pokemon there. It is a legendary so you are going to need lots of

pokeballs. Dusk balls work good as well as timer balls and ultra balls. It will

take awhile to catch. Heatran is a fire/steel pokemon so use a water attack to

do 2x damage to it. It will usually take more balls than Dialga/Palkia. I

highly recommend Dusk Balls for any pokes inside a cave. They are available at

the pokemon league mart.

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9.0.6 - Regigigas

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You will need to use Pal Park to have access to this lvl70 beast. In order for

this Regi to show up, you need to first transfer Regirock, Registeel and Regice

from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire to Diamond/Pearl. With these three pokes in your

party, head to the temple north of Snowpoint City. You will be blocked at first

but Cynthia will show up and tell you it is OK to enter. Regigigas is in there

and is a normal type.

1) Enter, go down stairs. Calcium is here and another staircase. Go down.

2) This next room isn't hard. Follow the path and go down the stairs again.

3) Now the ice puzzle. Go down the ice that is between the two rocks. East,

north, west, north, west, south. You should stop now. West, north, east,

north, stairs. Walk through the rocks and go down the stairs.

4) We can now see Regigigas but first, ice puzzle. Stand by the 3 rocks so that

you make a square. Head east onto the ice.

5) South, stop, south,east, north, stop, west, south, east, North.


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Press A on Regigigas and as long as you have the 3 REGIs in your party, the

statue will come alive. Ghost type works really well here. Make sure you have a

lot of Dusk and Timer balls.

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9.0.7 - Giratina-----------------------

A new path has opened up near Veilstone city. You can get their by flying to

Veilstone and heading south. Stick to the east side while heading south and you

will see a new opening. This is the spring path. The spring path leads to the

Sendoff Spring. Walk around the spring until you get to a cave entrance. You

will need to use Rock Climb to enter Turnback Cave.

The cave is very difficult to navigate through and if you return through a door

from which you came, you will back at the beginning. I was able to get to

Giratina in six rooms but when I tried to duplicate it, it wasn't the right

route. It seems that the cave is random. You need to get past 3 pillars perthe writings instructions. The first room is easy as you can just turnback if

you pick a room that does not have a pillar. Also, do not forget that you can

also go south.

When you do encounter Giratina, it will be lvl70 and is a ghost/dragon type. A

normal pokemon works very well here as 2 of the 3 attacking moves Giratina has

do not effect normal types. It will be only using slash on your normal pokemon

so a pokemon with Intimidate is going to work out even moreso. Dusk balls catch

it.

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9.0.8 - Rotom

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Rotom is available in the Old Chateau once you beat the elite four. Return to

the chateau and head upstairs. There is a tv in one of the rooms up there so

press A on the tv. You will be attacked by Rotom. Rotom is an electric ghost

and is at lvl15 so do not bring your legendary capture team. If you do not

encounter Rotom on the tv, try again later until you finally do. Keep trying,

it is there. Rotom comes out at night so do not look for him during the day.

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9.0.9 - Event Pokemon

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Manaphy - You need to beat Pokemon Ranger and transfer the Manaphy egg from

Ranger

Arceus - Requires an event

Darkrai - Requires an event

Shaymin - Requires an event


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None of the events for the USA have been planned yet. WAIT AND SEE.

FROM STEPHEN E.

"I was looking at the area near the end and noticed that you had the event

Pokemon, and that the events are not in the US. Well, people don't have to wait

for an event. Put this in your FAQ: Go to the Jubilife TV Station and find areporter. He will then ask what you think of TV or something. Put

"EVE

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