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Anonymous asked in Games & RecreationVideo & Online Games · 1 decade ago

Where do you find the 2nd badge for pearl pokemon HELP?

THANKS FOR YOUR IDEAS

WHAT ABOUT ANY SHORT CUTS FOR PEARL POKEMON

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I know this is going to be a really long answer and I am ONLY trying to help you and I have gotten ALL of this information from the Pokemon Diamond FAQ. Just copy and paste into Microsoft Word to understand it better. Please don't report me for plagerism, I really only want to help.

    Pokémon Diamond FAQ/Walkthrough

    Author: TheResidentEvil

    Email: public0slots0free [at] Gmail [dot] com

    Disclaimer: Please do not use this FAQ on any other site besides the ones that

    I have listed below without emailing me for permission.

    ALLOWED:

    GameFAQs, IGN, SuperCheats, GamersTemple, TheGenie, Neoseeker, AbsolsPlayground

    HonestGamers, Advance-Gamers.

    If you are not listed, you do NOT have permission.

    Anyone can email me anything about Pokémon and my guide. If you want to email

    me for something else, don't. If you want credit for your submission, please

    provide a name. I also want to say thanks to anyone that e-mailed updates and

    help with the guide.

    __________________________________________

    VERSION 1.01

    -fixed stone evolution chart

    -added more moves to Extra Content

    -added some movesets

    __________________________________________

    "The first DS chapter of the continuing saga of Nintendo's "collect 'em all"

    RPG series. Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl offer a number of exciting new

    features to please both experienced and new Pokémon fans alike. Set in an

    entirely new region called "Sinnoh," players can choose to begin their

    adventure as either a boy or girl Pokemon trainer on a path to becoming

    Pokemon League Champion. The adventure continues as players can bring Pokémon

    from their Game Boy Advance Pokemon games to Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl

    using the GBA game slot on their Nintendo DS. As players trade and collect

    Pokemon to complete their Pokedex in this new challenge, for the first time

    they'll have the chance to catch new Pokemon, Munchlax and Weavile. They also

    can play via local wireless with up to eight other trainers while new moves and

    abilities deepen strategy."

    Introduction:

    This is my first published guide. I wrote another one a long time ago but never

    submitted it. It is a work in progress and I will update it as often as I can.

    I am going through the game for the first time as well so it may not have

    everything. This guide will be a constant work in progress.

    Off to Sinnoh!

    Early Tips before we start:

    *Catch a Bidoof. They are available early and can learn a lot of HMs.

    *Caves can be revisited later with more HMs to reach more areas.

    *Battle every possible trainer you can. They give double the XP of wild pokes.

    *Lower opposing Pokémon stats for higher capture chance i.e. growl, screech.

    *Check the poketch company often, the president gives out new apps.

    *Save before legendaries, restart if needed.

    ____________________________

    Word Find Codes:

    1.0.0 - Twinleaf Town

    1.0.1 - Verity Lakefront

    1.0.2 - Sandgem Town

    1.0.3 - Jubilife City

    1.0.4 - Oreburgh City

    2.0.0 - Forest Badge

    2.0.1 - Floaroma Town

    2.0.2 - Eterna Forest

    2.0.3 - Eterna City

    3.0.1 - Cave of Doubt

    3.0.2 - Hearthome City

    3.0.3 - Solaceon Town

    3.0.4 - Veilstone City

    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 Cave

    6.0.2 - 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 Pokémon

    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

    _____________________________

    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 item

    attached.

    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 and

    it 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

    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 special

    types. 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

    they are probably hacked. It is very easy to tell a shiny pokemon because it

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

    black Charizard.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    The Adventure

    We start our adventure in Twinleaf Town. I am not going to tell you how to get

    through 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.

    -----------------------

    1.0.0 Twinleaf

    -----------------------

    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 to

    leave 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

    -----------------------

    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

    him and it restores 20HP.

    Pokemon found on Route 201: Bidoof, Starly

    Pokedex seen count: 3

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    1.0.2 - Sandgem Town

    -----------------------

    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 5

    free pokeballs.

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    Route 202

    -----------------------

    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

    Pokedex seen count: 5

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    1.0.3 - Jubilife City

    -----------------------

    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.

    Before you leave town, enter the condos and the girl on the first floor will

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 6

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    Route 204

    ------------------------

    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 battling

    trainers. 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 11

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 13

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    1.0.4 - Oreburgh City

    -----------------------

    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

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 14

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    Oreburgh Gym

    -----------------------

    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!!

    Pokedex seen count: 15

    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

    -----------------------

    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

    -----------------------

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 18

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    Ravaged Path

    -----------------------

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 20

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    2.0.1 - Floaroma Town

    -----------------------

    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 building

    has 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 26

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    Route 205

    -----------------------

    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

    the house is a trainer that has Piplup which may or may not help with your dex.

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

    not want the XP.

    Pokedex seen count: 27

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    2.0.2 - Eterna Forest

    -----------------------

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 36

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    2.0.3 - Eterna City

    -----------------------

    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

    the old man and he will give you the kit and also some tests he wants you to

    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 will

    need 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 38

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 41

    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 who

    will 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 43

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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.

    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 a

    berry 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 46

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    OPTIONAL FOR NOW

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    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

    get a Good Rod from the fisherman here. The Southwest exit is still blocked by

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

    should have evolved yours by now as well.

    Pokedex seen count: 48

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    Route 209

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    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 55

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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

    you will never get an egg. No gym here, darn.

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 56

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 62

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 65

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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 as

    an 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 Meditites

    at 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 67

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 69

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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

    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

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    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 your

    bike 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 72

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 77

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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 and

    head 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 85

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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

    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

    Pokedex seen count: 89

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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.

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 97

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 99

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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

    Twinleaf town.

    Pokedex seen count: 100

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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 lake

    left, 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 way

    through 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 105

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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

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

    and he has a Seaking.

    Pokedex seen count: 107

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    6.0.1 - Snowpoint City

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    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 and

    and 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 109

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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

    the lock. Better find another key then...

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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. When

    you 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 warehouse

    and 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:

    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.

    Pokedex seen count: 111

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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.

    After the battle, head north to get a special item for your new legendary.

    Pokedex seen count: 116

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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 runs

    away 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 119

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    7.0.5 - Sunyshore City

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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 water

    and 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 124

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 126

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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 battle

    him. 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 128

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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 the

    levels. 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.

    Pokedex seen count: 140

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    8.0.2 - Elite Four

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    Dun dun dun! We are here. The final battles to mark you as champion. There is a

    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. Use

    fighting/ground against him if you got it.

    Pokedex seen count: 145

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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.

    Pokedex seen count: 146

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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...

    Pokedex seen count: 147

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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 will

    fall 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!

    Pokedex seen count: 149

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    9.0.0 - Done?

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    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. There

    are 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 old

    pokemon 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

    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 also

    to 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 east

    and 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, east

    4) 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.

    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

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    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 per

    the 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

    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 a

    reporter. He will then ask what you think of TV or something. Put

    "EVERYONE HAPPY". Then he will ask for feedback. Put "WI-FI CONNECTION". This

    unlocks the "Mystery Gift" option at the main menu. Save your game and restart

    the DS. Then select "Mystery Gift" on the main menu. You will have 3 options:

    Obtain via Friend, Obtain via Wireless or Obtain via WFC. When you beat the

    Elite 4 and obtain the National Dex, go to the Obtain via WFC. The mystery gift

    will be downloaded from the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (Nintendo WFC). That is

    another way to get the event Pokemon without cheating."

    This enables the mystery gift option on startup but you still need to wait for

    the event to happen to get the event pokemon. The following sections only apply

    if you obtained the event via hacking or mystery gift.

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    Darkrai

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    Enter any pokemart to see a man in green standing next to the counter. Talk to

    him and he will give you the Members Card. Fly to Canalave city and head north

    of the pokemon center. There is a Harbor Inn that you can now enter. Once

    inside, you will be put in a bed and taken to an island that just has Darkrai

    waiting. Darkrai is level 40 and you cannot leave the island unless you capture

    or defeat Darkrai so be sure to bring a party that can handle it.

    NOTE: You cannot get into the Inn if you have not cured the sick boy with the

    Lunar Wing. See the Cresselia section of the guide if you have not taken care

    of the sick boy.

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    Shaymin

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    Enter any pokemart to see a man in green standing next to the counter. Talk to

    him and he will give you the Oak's Letter. The letter is a request for you to

    go to Route 224 so go there now. Fly to the Pokemon League and head south back

    into Victory Road. There is a cave that goes east in the first room of the

    Victory Road cave and it is open now. You need to take that cave. Why going

    through the cave, you will meet up with Marley and she will ask to follow you

    through the cave. The cave gets foggy here as well. You are definetly going to

    want to have Defog in here as the cave is long and tedious. The cave's exit is

    in the northwest corner and you end up outside.

    There is grass here and some trainers. Make your way north through the grass.

    Keep heading north and you will reach a white rock with Oak standing in front

    of it. He will ask you to thank someone and put what you want and suddenly,

    flowers eveywhere. Shaymin will appear and run away so follow it! Run along the

    new path for a while and you will eventually reach Flower Paradise. Shaymin is

    just ahead.

    Shaymin is lvl30 and has a recover move. It isn't hard to catch and I caught it

    full health with a great ball. Once you have caught Shaymin, fly away. Shaymin

    comes attached with a Lum Berry.

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    Arceus

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    Enter any pokemart to see a man in green standing next to the counter. Talk to

    him and he will give you the Azure Flute. You need to go to the Spear Pillar

    again, to where you faught Dialga/Palkia. When you get to the top, the flute

    will play and a staircase will appear. Go up the stairsway and as soon as you

    reach the top, you fight Arceus. Arceus is lvl80 and changes forms depending on

    which plate you attach to it.

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    CONCLUSION

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    That concludes the main section of the walkthrough. Your job now is to fill

    your dex, trade online and battle online.

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    Extra Content

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    Extra content is meant to be helpful for online battling and not so much for

    in-game help.

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    E.0.1 - EVs & IVs(Overview)

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    All pokemon are different, even ones of the same type. EVs and IVs help ensure

    that all pokemon stay different. EVs are effort points and IVs are Individual

    Values. Every pokemon you catch or hatch, has a predetermined set of IVs. They

    are random in the wild but can be somewhat controlled while breeding. At lvl

    100, the IVs will add however many points they are worth to that particular

    stat. It is best to show by example so I will.

    When you first catch a pokemon, you can calculate it's IVs. The higher the

    level, the more accurate you can calculate. So, if you have a lvl100 Kadabra

    with a Sp. Attack IV of 15 and another one with a Sp. Attack IV of 27. The

    latter Kadabra is going to have an Attack stat that is 12 points higher than

    the former Kadabra. IVs for each stat are random and calculated when you

    encounter the pokemon.

    EVs are effort values and they are hidden stats gained from battling. They

    have an impact on a particular stat and you can gain more of one stat by

    fighting certain types of pokemon. For example, if you wanted to raise your

    attack stat, you would fight a lot of machokes and machops. You can have up to

    510 EV points but only 255 per stat.

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    E.0.2 - Team Building Help

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    So, you finished the main game, you went online and got totally stomped. What

    do you do now? How can you get better pokemon? I am going to assume you already

    have a semi-diverse team because that is a pretty basic concept. You need to

    either pick better pokemon or raise your pokemon better.

    Each pokemon has a focus area in their stats. For example, the Abra evolutions

    have a very high special attack and speed. This does not mean that all abras

    are good. If you get a pokemon that has low IVs in it's focus area, then that

    is a perfect example of a bad pokemon. Kadabra is meant to hit hard and fast so

    if it cannot do that because of bad IVs, it will die quickly due to lack of

    defense.

    How can I change IVs? Well, you can't. You cannot change IVs ever(in-game). You

    can affect IVs however. When you breed two pokes, the IVs of the spawn are

    directly affected by the parents. I have crunched a lot of numbers and this is

    what I have come up with. The IVs of the spawn pokemon is somewhere in between

    or the same as the IVs of the parents. To clarify, if you breed 2 Kadabras and

    one parent Kadabra has a speed IV of 20 and the other has a speed IV of 25, 9

    out of 10 times the spawn will have a speed IV of at least 20. About half of

    the time the IVs will be in between the two and about 1/3 of the time, the IVs

    will be higher than the two.

    You can calculate IVs at any level but it has to be a pokemon that has not had

    any battles and it should be at about lvl15. The best way to do this is to

    breed two pokes, save right before you get the egg, get the egg and hatch it.

    Use rare candies to level it up to about 15, then check IVs. If you get crap,

    reset the game and get the egg again. You cannot take the egg and then save

    because the pokemon will be the same if you reset.

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    E.0.3 - Moveset Help

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    Ok, so we should already know that we use attacks depending on what type of

    pokemon we have. We do not want to use physical attacks with our Kadabra

    because it has a garbage attack stat. So, we want to make sure we are only

    using special attacks on our Kadabra. Also, any moves that are the same type as

    the pokemon using them, get STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus). Our Kadabra using

    a psychic move does 1.5x more damage than our kadabra using any other type of

    move. This doesn't mean we should have only psychic moves on our Kadabra though

    because you shouldn't need more than one type of the same move on your pokes.

    Pick one move of a certain type and use that. IN-GAME you might want the extra

    PP and that is why you leave multiple types but online battling is a different

    ball game. Kadabra should have psychic because it is the most powerful psychic

    move and not anything else like psybeam or confusion. The rest of it's moves

    should vary so you can do the most damage to the most types of pokemon.

    Remember to check the icon to see if it is physical or special before you put a

    new move on a pokemon.

    Dusclops with Shadow Ball is ok in R/S/E/FR/LF but Dusclops with Shadow Ball in

    D/P = not good.

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    Egg Moves

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    Egg moves are moves that a pokemon can learn through breeding. When the pokemon

    is hatched, it will be hatched knowing these moves. The male parent has to know

    the move in order for the spawn pokemon to learn it. Egg moves allow you to

    choose from more moves than the ones you get from leveling up. You should look

    into egg moves when deciding on the pokemon for your team to see if there is

    one you want before you start breeding.

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    E.0.4 - Natures

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    Natures are very helpful in raising your pokemon. They raise one statistic by

    1.1x and lower another one by .9x. The nature determines which stats get raised

    and which get lowered. You want to be sure that the pokemon you are raising

    has the correct nature for what you want it to be. The following natures do not

    affect stats: Hardy, Docile, Bashful, Serious and Quirky. You may want a

    pokemon like this but this is usually not the case. You should once again pick

    a nature that is beneficial to what you are raising. Adamant is a great nature

    for a physical pokemon because it does not affect defense or speed and raises

    physical attack. Below is a chart for natures that does not include the ones I

    mentioned above:

    NATURE.............UP......................DOWN

    Lonely.............Attack..................Defense

    Brave..............Attack..................Speed

    Adamant............Attack..................Special Attack

    Naughty............Attack..................Special Defense

    Bold...............Defense.................Attack

    Relaxed............Defense.................Speed

    Impish.............Defense.................Special Attack

    Lax................Defense.................Special Defense

    Timid..............Speed...................Attack

    Hasty..............Speed...................Defense

    Jolly..............Speed...................Special Attack

    Naive..............Speed...................Special Defense

    Modest.............Special Attack..........Attack

    Mild...............Special Attack..........Defense

    Quiet..............Special Attack..........Speed

    Rash...............Special Attack..........Special Defense

    Calm...............Special Defense.........Attack

    Gentle.............Special Defense.........Defense

    Sassy..............Special Defense.........Speed

    Careful............Special Defense.........Special Attack

    If you are breeding and the mother pokemon has a nature you want then attach an

    everstone to it. You then have a 50% chance of getting the same nature as the

    parent.

    Examples of good natured pokemon:

    Alakazam = Modest

    Dragonite = Adamant

    Crobat = Jolly

    Pick a nature that works for your moveset. Sometimes it is hard to get the

    nature you want so do not pass up on a high IV pokemon unless the nature is

    really bad. For example, I have an all-around 31 IV Alakazam that is Rash. That

    works fine because it raises what I want and does not affect it's speed. Modest

    would have been better but you take what you can get. Do not sacrifice nature

    for IVs though. A perfect IV pokemon with a bad nature is usually worse than a

    mediocre IV pokemon with a helpful nature.

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    E.0.5 - Team Member types

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    These are terms you might see online and also you should use them to see how

    well your team is balanced. If your team is filled with all pokemon of one type

    then you should consider changing it up some.

    Special Sweeper - A pokemon that uses Special Attack and Speed to hit hard and

    fast. The goal of this pokemon is to wipe out the opposing

    pokemon in one hit. Sometimes a stat raising move is required

    like Nasty Plot or Calm Mind.

    Examples of special sweepers: Alakazam, Porygon-z

    Physical Sweeper - Same as a special sweeper but uses the Attack stat. Moves

    like Dragon Dance and Swords Dance are VERY helpful on

    physical sweepers.

    Examples of physical sweepers: Dragonite, Garchomp, Gyarados, Metagross

    Annoyer - A pokemon that inflicts status changes and weather condition

    to slowly drain the opponents HP. Moves like Toxic, Confuse

    Ray and Will-o-Wisp are found on these pokemon.

    Examples of annoyer pokemon: Crobat

    Tank/Wall - A very sturdy pokemon that is hard to take out. Pokemon that

    have high defense or special defense fall into this category

    Amnesia, Cosmic Power and Iron Defense can usually be found

    on these pokemon. They also usually have a move like Rest so

    when you lower them enough, they will get HP back.

    Examples of tank pokemon: Torkoal, Snorlax, Claydol

    Mixed annoyer and tank - I think you know what this is.

    Examples of mixed annoyers: Dusknoir, Umbreon

    Mixed Sweeper - A pokemon that uses both physical and special attacks to do

    a lot of damage. It is meant to get the most chances at SE

    attacks. Mixed sweepers need to be trained carefully.

    Examples of possible mixed sweepers: Dragonite, Salamance

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    E.0.6 - EV Training

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    Ok so, after 26416418419 eggs, you have finally bred the perfect pokemon. Or,

    you are satisfied with whatever pokemon you got but now you want to really

    maximize it's abilities. You have decided that this pokemon has to be on your

    team and you know what it's role is. Now it is number crunching time. The first

    thing you have to do is to decide what EVs you are going to give this pokemon.

    To decide correctly, you need to understand how EVs turn into stat gains. Put

    the game down now because it is time to put your thinking cap on.

    You already know that the most EVs you can have is 510 and each stat can only

    take a maximum of 255 EVs. At level 100, every 4 EVs = 1 stat point. This means

    that if you put 255 EVs into a stat, you are going to gain 63 points in that

    area. The extra 3 get thrown out. So, you shouldn't put 255 you should only put

    252 because if two stats have 255 then you gain 126 stat points. However, if

    two stats have 252 EVs and one stat has 6, that is 127 stat points you have

    added to your pokemon. One stat point I know but this game is truly a game of

    numbers and every little bit counts. If you are going to put the time in anyway

    you might as well maximize your effort.

    This means when you are trying to figure out what EVs to give your pokemon, you

    should always make them multiples of 4 when possible to have the least amount

    thrown out. You also need to consider your pokemon's role in your team. Here

    are some EV spreads that are not completely thought out but will definetely get

    your pokemon where they need to be to at least win.

    Alakazam - 252 Speed, 252 Special Att., 6 HP

    Dusknoir - 252 HP, 129 DEF, 129 Sp. DEF

    Gyarados - 252 Att, 252 Speed, 6 HP

    You can pretty much follow this formula. Any sweeper is going to get 252 speed

    and 252 attack (either physical or special). Tanks/Walls should get the

    Dusknoir spread listed above. Mixed sweepers should get EVs that even out the

    attack / special attack. Remember, you have ~127 points you can mix and match

    on your pokemon so the more thought you put into it, the better. More advanced

    spreads will be talked about in the next section of the guide.

    Now, that you have written down all kinds of numbers while plugging them into

    your Windows calculator and have figured out exactly what EVs you want to put

    where, you can start playing the game again. Take your freshly hatched pokemon

    and start pumping it full of vitamins. Vitamins help to raise your EV points to

    100. This is a huge time saver so be sure to start with vitamins. Your new

    pokemon is a physical sweeper and you have decided to go with the Gyarados

    spread listed above so buy 10 proteins and 10 carbos. Each vitamin = 10 EVs.

    Once your EVs in a stat go over 100, you cannot use vitamins anymore. If you

    fought some battles by accident and have given your new pokemon 4 attack EVs,

    you can still give 10 proteins and your pokemon will have 104 EVs in attack.

    Lets assume you have listened explicitly and have a physical sweeper with 100

    EVs in both attack and speed. 510-200 = 300 EVs left. You need to battle

    pokemon to get the rest. Certain pokemon give off specific EVs so you want to

    fight machops for attack and zubats for speed. Each one of those pokemon are

    going to give 1 EV. The macho brace is a very helpful item to shorten EV

    training. Attach the macho brace to a pokemon to decrease it's speed but double

    the EVs it gets. The speed decrease is removed once you remove the macho brace.

    You should use the counter app on your poketch to keep track of how many

    battles you have had with a pokemon.

    Pokerus is a very rare pokemon virus you can get. If a pokemon in your party

    gets it, it will infect everyone else in the party as well. Pokerus fades away

    after midnight so if you want to keep it around, take an infected pokemon and

    put it in your PC. Take it out only to infect your party pokemon and then put

    it back. Pokerus doubles the EVs like the macho brace. They stack together also

    so if you fight a machop with the macho brace and pokerus then you will gain 4

    EVs in attack. Pokerus is rare and you get it from defeating wild pokemon.

    The last scenario is if you switch out pokemon while battling, where do the EVs

    go? In general, any pokemon that gets XP from the battle, gets EVs too. For

    example, if your lead pokemon has Macho Brace and a party pokemon has EXP SHARE

    and your lead pokemon knocks out a Machop, both pokemon get EVs. The EVs are

    not split up either so Machop gives off 1 Att. EV and both pokemon get 1 Att.

    EV. The only difference is the lead pokemon wearing Macho Brace doubles the 1

    EV to 2 so it really gets 2 Att. EVs. If you have a team of six pokemon and you

    put them all into battle against Machop and none of them are wearing EXP SHARE

    or the Macho Brace, then every pokemon will get 1 Att. EV.

    That concludes basic EV training. You will see major stat increases when you

    level up in the areas you've EV trained. You can get the macho brace from a bug

    guy in Pastoria City. You need to show him the three forms of burmy to get it.

    See the next section of the FAQ for more info on EV training and where to you

    can do it.

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    E.0.7 - Training Areas

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    This section of the FAQ was contributed by Icegoten.

    HP:

    ~Shellos at Valley Windworks north of ignore the Buizel (+1 each)

    ~Gastrodons at Fuego Ironworks or Route 213 ignore Floatzel (+2 each)

    ~Gastrodons outside of Pal Park (+2 each)

    Attack:

    ~Kricketune and Bibarel at route 212 (rainy route) (+2 each)

    Defense:

    ~Cave with Geodudes and Hippos off route 214 (+1 each)

    ~Onix and Gravelers on Iron Island in the second room ignore Golbats(+1 Onix)

    (+2 Gravelers)

    Special Attack:

    ~Gastly at the Old Chateau in Eterna Forest (+1 each) (Haunters +2)(Gengars +3)

    *Need GBA Game in GBA slot and National Pokedex for Haunters and Gengars*

    ~Golducks surfing in the water at the Resort Area (+2 each)

    Special Defense:

    ~Surfing any ocean/sea area for Tentacools (+1each)

    *North of 8th gym town has been good ignore Pellipers* (Mantykes +1)

    Speed:

    ~Raticates and Fearows Northwest of the Fight Area (+2 each)

    ~Zubats in a cave (+1 each)

    *Vs Seeker Trainers*

    HP:

    ~Route 209 - Cowgirl - L14, 15, 15, 15, and 16 Bidoof (5 HP)

    Attack:

    ~Route 203 - Lass - L38 Staraptor, L38 Bibarel (5 Attack)

    Defence:

    ~N/A

    Special Attack:

    ~Route 214 - Collector - L20, 22, and 24 Roselia (6 Sp. Attack)

    Special Defence:

    ~N/A

    Speed:

    ~Route 205 (on the water bridge) - Fisherman - L10, 10, 10, 10, 10, and

    10 Magikarp (6 Speed)

    *Power Items and Pokerus*

    Power Items:

    These items boost the number of EVs gained per battle with a pokemon in their

    respective stat.

    Power Ankle: Boosts Speed EVs

    Power Band: Boosts Special Defense Evs

    Power Belt: Boosts Defense EVs

    Power Bracer: Boosts Attack EVs

    Power Lens: Boosts Special Attack EVs

    Power Weight: Boosts HP EVs

    Equation goes like this:

    x + y = t

    x = EV's from pokemon

    y = EVs boosted from Power Items (+4)

    t = Total EVs

    Now with Pokerus we multiply the whole left side of the equation by 2 so...

    2(x + y) = t

    Now assume we have a pokemon that grants 2 points per battle...

    2(2 + 4) = 12

    Speeding up EV Training

    Reducing EVs

    In Pokemon Emerald version, there are 6 berries that can reduce EVs. Each one

    reduces 10 EVs from their respective stat.

    - Pomeg Berry - HP

    - Kelpsy Berry - Attack

    - Qualot Berry - Defense

    - Hondew Berry - Special Attack

    - Grepa Berry - Special Defense

    - Tamato Berry - Speed

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    E.0.8 - Battle Items

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    Battle items can transform a pokemon from a threat to a powerhouse. The right

    items are very important for online battling. This section lists some very

    important items and tells the reason why you would consider using it, what type

    of pokemon benefit from it and where to get it.

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    LEFTOVERS

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    Leftovers is an item that restores 1/16th of your health at the end of every

    turn. This item is used on most tanks and annoyers as a means of staying alive

    longer. Leftovers helps return health lost to weather and status conditions as

    well. You should try and get a few of these items but there is only one

    available in the game. You can transfer the item from older games though. You

    have a 1% chance of getting leftovers from a pokemon who has the pickup ability

    and is level 81 or higher. Leftovers can also be found on wild Munchlax and in

    the Victory Road Cave.

    Pokemon: Snorlax, Blissey, Dusknoir, Rhyperior, Steelix, Skarmory

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    FOCUS SASH

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    This item keeps your pokemon from being knocked out after one hit. This will

    help immensely if you let your opponent get a couple Dragon Dances or a Swords

    Attack in and they are sweeping through your team. If you have focus sash on a

    pokemon it is weak too, you can survive the hit and finish them instead. It is

    quite a surprise for some players when this happens. Another use for this item

    is if you put it on a pokemon that has a stat raising attack. So long as your

    pokemon is faster than the opponent, you can Calm Mind or Nasty Plot without

    worrying about dying because you will have at least 1 HP left. This item is

    good for weaker pokemon that can die in one hit otherwise. You can get the

    Focus Sash from a man west of the Pal Park. He will ask to see a pokemon of a

    certain level and by showing him, you have a 33% chance of getting the sash.

    Pokemon: Alakazam, Porygon-Z, Ninjask

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    LUM BERRY

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    The Lum berry cures all status problems including confusion. It is good on

    sweeper pokemon because sometimes an annoyer will come in and try to stall you

    by using confusion or toxic. The lum berry will cure your problem and give you

    a free hit on the opposing pokemon. If you know a confuse ray or a status

    problem is forthcoming and you have the lum berry attached, you can Calm Mind

    or Dragon Dance and take out the opposing pokemon in one hit on the next turn.

    You can get berries from the Berry master and also from soil.

    Pokemon: Gyarados, any pokemon

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    SALAC BERRY

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    The Salac Berry activates when your pokemon's health drops below or equal to

    25% of your total health. This berry increases your speed in hopes of getting a

    final blow in. Some pokemon use this with moves like Endure and Belly Drum.

    Endure gets you another final move and the Salac Berry lets you go first. The

    Salac Berry is not available in D/P and must be transferred in via Pal Park.

    Pokemon: Blaziken, Charizard

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    LIFE ORB

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    This item raises your attack by about 1.3x but will take off 10% of your health

    if you attack. Moves that do not do damage do not cause you to lose health.

    Strong pokemon can really benefit from the Life Orb. The point of this item is

    to do as much damage to as many pokemon as you can before the Life Orb takes

    you out. You can get the life orb near Stark Mountain.

    Pokemon: Dragonite, Any high attack stat pokemon

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    CHOICE BAND

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    Choice Band increases your attack by 1.5x but only lets you use the same attack

    over and over. Fast pokemon will be able to hit harder but you will have to

    take them out if the opponent switches in a pokemon who can take the damage or

    is not affected. This item is a battle tower prize and costs 48BP.

    Pokemon: Flygon, Slaking, Aerodactyl

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    CHOICE SCARF

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    This item raises your speed but will only let you use the first attack you

    choose. It helps with slower pokemon because it is completely unexpected. The

    only problem with this item is that after you use your first attack, you have

    to keep using it over and over or switch out. You do not want your last pokemon

    to have this item held. I once got stuck EQ'ing a flying type because I had no

    one else left. I did take out 2 pokemon before that though so it can help when

    speed is an issue. Slow moving rock types do well with this item. You get the

    scarf from the Battle Tower and you need 48BP.

    Pokemon: Metagross, Dragonite, Heracross, Golem

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    QUICK CLAW

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    The quick claw has a chance of making your pokemon attack first no matter it's

    speed. Some people will not allow you to use the quick claw in a battle so you

    may want to find out before hand. You can get the quick claw in Jubilife City.

    Pokemon: Any slow moving pokemon you want to sometimes go first.

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    CONCENTRATION BAND

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    All your physical attacks will do 10% more damage than normal. A better item

    than things like the Spell Tag or Twistedspoon which only affect a certain

    type of move. Use this if you have nothing else to use on a pokemon and it is a

    physical sweeper. You can get it in the Battle Tower.

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    THICK CLUB

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    If you have Marowak on your team, you have to give it this. It doubles it's

    attack. It will only work on Cubone or Marowak.

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    E.0.9 - Attacks Help

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    In this section of the guide, I will mention specific moves that you can use to

    help out your team online. These are battle moves that you may not have used in

    the story mode that will come in handy during the battles.

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    DRAGON DANCE(DD)

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    A move that raises speed and attack by 1.5 Most of the pokemon that have this

    ability already have a high attack and decent speed so this move can mean total

    devastation for your team. Here is a good example of when you should use a move

    like this. You lose your current pokemon to a Blaziken so you send out Gyarados

    Gyarados cuts Blazikens attack so now you choose Dragon Dance as your first

    move. The opponent is either going to attack you with a rock attack that will

    not kill you because of Intimidate or they will switch out Blaziken. Either way

    you get the Dragon Dance in and are going to be faster and stronger than

    anything sent out.

    The next few move are going to be very similar to Dragon Dance and should be

    used the same way. I will just mention them briefly. You should use these moves

    over moves like Screech and Growl because if you lower your opponents pokemon,

    they can just switch it out but all your stat gains will stay until you faint

    no matter who the opponenet sends out.

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    SWORDS DANCE

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    This move is the same type of move as DD except it doubles attack and does

    nothing for speed.

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    CALM MIND

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    Raises Sp. DEF and Special attack by 1.5

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    AGILITY / ROCK POLISH

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    Doubles your pokemon's speed.

    *********************

    COSMIC POWER

    *********************

    Raises your DEF and Sp. DEF by 1.5 A total tank move. You are going to take

    some damage doing your power ups so you will need a move like rest to get your

    health back.

    *********************

    NASTY PLOT

    *********************

    Doubles your pokemon's special attack.

    *********************

    IRON DEFENSE

    *********************

    Doubles your pokemon's defense.

    *********************

    AMNESIA

    *********************

    Doubles your pokemon's Sp. DEF.

    Your pokemon can raise its stats 6 times. You can use moves that double your

    stats 3 times. After that, the moves are maxed out and they will not work

    anymore. The next moves are going to be completely different than the ones

    listed above.

    =============

    BATON PASS (BP)

    =============

    This move must be used in conjuction with other moves. If you just use Baton

    Pass, it will not do anything except change your pokemon. If you use Swords

    Dance and then use Baton Pass, the swords dance will be passed onto the pokemon

    you switch into battle. If you are able to get a couple good stat uppers and

    then BP them onto someone else on your team, you could win the entire match

    after that. I have swept a few teams doing this. Imagine BP'ing a doubled

    attack and a speed boost to a Metagross. It isn't pretty for your opposition.

    =============

    HAZE

    =============

    This move can be important if you let the opponent get in some stat changes and

    there looks to be no end in sight. Haze resets all pokemon's stats back to

    normal. That is of course if you can get a move in (focus sash).

    =============

    BELLY DRUM

    =============

    Cuts your HP in half but makes your attack stat 400% more than usual. It can be

    hard to find the right time to use this move. Also, it needs to be a semi-fast

    pokemon otherwise you will die on the next hit. Using this in conjuction with

    a speed boost can finish your opponent.

    =============

    SUBSTITUTE

    =============

    A nifty little move that makes a doll out of 25% of your HP. The doll takes

    damage instead of you. The doll cannot be confused or have any status change

    inflicted upon it and it has the same resistance and weakness that you do. A

    great move to use if you sense a Confuse Ray or Toxic coming on. It also

    ensures you aren't going to take extra damage. You can only lose 25% of your

    health. Roar and Whirlwind will take you and your sub away. Substitute can be

    BP'd to another pokemon in your party.

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    SPIKES

    =============

    This is a ground move that lays spikes around the opponents team. You can lay

    spikes up to three times. When the opponent switches pokemon, they will take

    ground damage from the spikes. If the pokemon is flying or levitating, the

    spikes will not harm the opponent. This move works well in conjunction with

    Stealth Rock, Roar and Whirlwind.

    =============

    TOXIC SPIKES

    =============

    Toxic spikes are very similar to regular spikes but the 1st set of spikes will

    inflict regular poison and the 2nd set of spikes will inflict toxic poison.

    Steel types are immune to toxic spikes and if you send out a poison type, the

    toxic spikes are removed.

    =============

    STEALTH ROCK

    =============

    Stealth rock is the rock version of spikes. It can only be used once however

    put it can do a lot of damage depending on the type of pokemon that comes out.

    Stealth Rock will do 50% damage to a Charizard. It will do little damage to

    grass type pokemon. This move stacks with spikes and Skarmory can learn this,

    spikes and Roar. If you get them all down, your opponent start with much lower

    health as soon as they switch in. It makes 1-HIT KO's easy.

    =============

    RAPID SPIN

    =============

    An attack that does little damage but can save your team. Rapid Spin removes

    any spikes or rocks around your team. It is especially nice if you let your

    opponenet place everything while you attack it and then you rapid spin all

    their hard work away. Of course you would want the pokemon you have out to have

    Rapid Spin because you dont want to be switching into all that. As soon as your

    opponenet starts placing any spikes or rocks down, switch to your rapid spinner

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    E.1.0 - Movesets

    -----------------------

    This section will be for any movesets that I have come up with will be. If you

    email me and ask me for a moveset and I respond with an answer, I will put a

    copy of it in this section of the guide. Movesets are not always pass or fail.

    You need to use one that benefits the pokemon and your team. Do not be afraid

    to change things up and try out new things. These movesets are meant to be

    helpful if you've no idea what to do. Please remember, many of these movesets

    I may not have tried myself so if you choose one and it's not working out,

    change it up and also consider changing your pokemon.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Torterra

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Careful

    -Curse

    -Earthquake

    -Wood Hammer

    -Leech Seed/Synthesis/Crunch

    Curse helps with Attack and Defense so the Nature helps with Sp.Def.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Infernape

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Adamant

    -Close Combat

    -Earthquake

    -Stone Edge

    -Fire Punch/Blaze Kick

    Meant to hit hard and fast not last.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Empoleon

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Empoleon @ Physical

    -Swords Dance

    -Drill Peck

    -Earthquake (EQ)

    -Brick Break/Steel Wing/Shadow Claw/Rock Slide

    Empoleon @ Special

    -Surf/Brine

    -Ice Beam

    -Aqua Ring

    -Flash Cannon/Grass Knot

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Spiritomb

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    -Nasty Plot/Calm Mind

    -Shadow Ball/Ominous Wind/Dark Pulse

    -Confuse Ray/Will-o-Wisp

    -Psychic/Hypnosis/Pain Split

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Lucario

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    -Swords Dance

    -ExtremeSpeed

    -Close combat

    -EQ/Brick Break/Drain punch/Poison jab/Blaze Kick/Crunch

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Garchomp

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    -Dragon Rush / Dragon Claw

    -Swords Dance

    -Fire Fang

    -Crunch/EQ/Brick Break/Shadow Claw/Stone Edge/Double-Edge

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Dragonite

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Dragonite has tons of moves to choose from and you can have all different

    variations of it. Dragonite even has a decent SP. ATTACK so you could consider

    using it as a special sweeper. I do not condone that though as you should use

    what the pokemon's abilities are. So, I will make a couple movesets with

    physical attacks in mind.

    Dragonite @ Choice Scarf

    Adamant

    - Fire Fang

    - Thunder Fang

    - Earthquake/Aerial Ace/

    - Dragon Claw/Dragon Rush/Outrage

    Fire and Thunder Fang help with any Ice Beamers that will take out

    Dragonite. Choice Scarf ensures you go first against said Ice Beamers.

    Pick one of the Dragon Moves for STAB. AA is also on there for STAB.

    Dragonite @ Life Orb/

    Adamant

    - Dragon Dance

    - Brick Break/Earthquake

    - Fire Fang/Thunder Fang

    - Aerial Ace/Dragon Claw

    Dragon Dance here because you no longer have the scarf on. Life orb adds damage

    and 1 DD is going to add more damage. If you get your DD in, this is one nasty

    dragon. If you pick EQ, then take Thunder Fang and if you pick Brick Break,

    take Fire Fang.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Salamence

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Salamence @ Choice Band

    Adamant

    - Double-Edge

    - Outrage/Dragon Claw

    - Crunch

    - Brick Break

    The Choice Band is going to make you use the same attack over and over so you

    do not need a range of Super Effective attacks as you need to attack with this

    pokemon and then switch it out. This makes Outrage even more effective. I

    picked these moves because if you are stuck using any of them, you have a

    pretty good chance that you will not get "it doesn't affect" the opponent. The

    only attack that will not damage an opponent is Brick Break against Ghost.

    Salamence @ Life Orb/Concentration Band

    Adamant

    - Fire Fang

    - Thunder Fang

    - Dragon Dance/Earthquake

    - Outrage/Dragon Claw

    A more standard one that will cover the most types of pokemon. You can get rid

    of Dragon Dance if you are going for a poke that does the most Super Effective

    attacks. Life Orb to add more damage to all your attacks. Concentration Band

    does less damage than Life Orb but you keep your HP so you decide.

    Salamence @ Focus Sash

    Adamant

    - Dragon Dance

    - Fire Fang/Earthquake

    - Thunder Fang/Brick Break

    - Dragon Claw

    You use Dragon Dance on the first turn to get your stats raised. The Focus Sash

    ensures you stay alive unless confusion or weather affects. After the DD, you

    sweep as much as you can. I put EQ and BB there because they will do more

    damage on pokemon that you do not have an SE attack for. The two fangs are only

    65 power but EQ is 100 and BB is 75.

    ___________________________________________________________________________

    APPENDIX

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    A.0.1 - Sweet Honey Pokes

    -----------------------

    These Pokémon can be caught from attaching sweet honey to a yellow tree. If you

    Are looking for a specific Pokémon, save before you press A on the shaking

    Tree. If you do not get what you want, restart your game and try again. This

    Worked for me as I was looking for a female combee. One thing to note though,

    Restarting does NOT change the Pokémon you are going to encounter. It will

    Change its stats, gender, nature and ability but it will not change a combee

    Into a Munchlax. Whichever Pokémon you encounter first is the one you are

    Going to encounter again and again.

    Combee M/F - Only female evolves to Vespiquen (about 85% chance it is male)

    Cherubi - Grass

    Munchlax - Only on the tree by the Valley Windworks

    Burmy - Bug

    Heracross - Bug/Fight

    Aipom - Normal

    Other pokemon can also be caught by using sweet honey but the above pokemon are

    ONLY available by way of sweet honey. Burmy evolves into either Wormadon or

    Mothim and it depends on the gender.

    Male = Mothim

    Female = Wormadon

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    A.0.2 - HM List

    -----------------------

    HM01 - Cut - Received in Eterna City, walk near Galactic Warehouse.

    HM02 - Fly - Found in Galactic Warehouse. Visible when you first enter.

    HM03 - Surf - Received in Celestic town. Defeat the grunt guarding the

    cave and then enter the cave. An old woman will enter and

    give you Surf.

    HM04 - Strength - Found in the Lost Tower on Route 209. Get to the top of

    the tower and talk to the woman. She will give you it.

    HM05 - DeFog - Received in Great Marsh. Enter and talk to the first guy

    on the right side. He will give you this HM.

    HM06 - Rock Smash - Received from Hiker in the Oreburgh Gate.

    HM07 - Waterfall - Received in Sunyshore City in the northeast section of

    town AFTER you beat the gym. Talk to girl near the beach.

    HM08 - Rock Climb - Found on west side of Route 217 behind the Hiker's house.

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    A.0.3 - Key Items List

    -----------------------

    Journal - Received from your mother after you get pokedex.

    Town Map - Received from your RIVAL after you deliver the package.

    Old Rod - Received from Fisherman in Route 218 entrance building.

    Pal Pad - Received in Oreburgh City pokemon center (downstairs).

    Fashion Case - Received after defeating grunts in Jubilife City.

    Sprayduck Can - Received in Floaroma Town flower shop.

    Works Key - Defeat the grunts in the secret garden and they leave the key.

    Explorer Kit - Received in Eterna City, in building next to pokemon center.

    Bicycle - Get from the Bike Shop in Eterna City after you release owner.

    Vs. Seeker - Received after cycling road on Route 206.

    Poffin Case - Received at the pokemon fan club in Hearthome City.

    Good Rod - Received from Fisherman on Route 209.

    Seal Case - Received in Solaceon Town in a house, east side of town.

    Coin Case - Guess the right hand from the Jester in Veilstone City house.

    SecretPotion - Received from Cynthia after the Hotel area.

    Old Charm - Received from Cynthia after you heal the Psyducks.

    Storage Key - Found outside the Galactic HQ in Veilstone City.

    Galactic Key - Found in the Galactic Warehouse.

    Poke Radar - Given to you from Prof. Oak after you fill Sinnoh Dex.

    Super Rod - Received from fisherman at the Battle Zone.

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    A.0.4 - The Underground

    -----------------------

    The undergound runs underneath most of the map of Sinnoh. You can get to the

    underground from anywhere once you have the Explorer Kit. The tasks the old man

    gives you are easy and pretty self-explanatory so I will not go into much

    detail about them. The main reason you want to go underground is to collect

    the items in the walls. When you get underground, touch the touch screen to

    make yellow items appear on your map. Go to the yellow items and touch the

    touch screen again. You should be able to see glittering spots in the walls.

    Walk up to the spot and press A to dig into it.

    FOSSIL........................POKEMON

    Armor.........................Shieldon(P)

    Claw..........................Anorith

    Dome..........................Kabuto

    Helix.........................Omanyte

    Root..........................Lileep

    Skull.........................Cranidos(D)

    Old Amber.....................Aerodactyl

    These fossils can be transformed into their respective pokemon at the Mining

    Museum in Oreburgh City. The scientist at the counter will do it for you. Most

    fossils are rare and take a lot of searching to find. Do not give up! If you

    get a fossil, save before you give it to the scientist and keep restarting to

    get a female. Breed it and put the fossil spawn on GTS for another fossil.

    There is also a ton of items you can get this way like heart scale, plates,

    evolution stones and many many more.

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    A.0.5 - HTF Sinnoh Pokes

    -----------------------

    This section is for the harder to find pokemon you want to catch. It does not

    include the National Dex pokemon.

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    DRIFLIM

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Go to the Valley Windworks on Fridays to see this pokemon waiting for you

    outside. Press A on it to battle it and this event occurs once every Friday. If

    you want this pokemon now and it is not Friday, change the day of your DS clock

    to Friday and it will be there waiting when you load up your game.

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    GIBLE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Gible is found in the Wayward Cave. There is a secret entrance under the bridge

    of Cycling Road and you can enter it by pressing Up while standing under the

    bridge. If you press up and dont enter, take a step over and try again. The

    entrance is more towards the left side of the bridge. You will have to use

    Strength here. You will encounter Gible while walking around the cave and it

    turns into Garchomp. It is a dragon/ground type pokemon. The Wayward cave leads

    to the Earthquake TM.

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    VESPIQUEN

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Catch a female combee from a honey tree and raise it. Males will not evolve

    into this pokemon. Female Combee will evolve into Vespiqueen at level 21.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    SPIRITOMB

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Spiritomb is a Ghost/Dark pokemon so it has no weakness. It's stats aren't

    stellar so it wont last that long anyway. It is pretty much the D/P version of

    Sableye. In order to catch Spiritomb, you have to take the Odd Keystone to the

    rock formation south of the Lost Tower. Put the Odd Keystone in it to make it

    be the Hollowed Tower. Now, you have to talk to 32 people in the Sinnoh

    Underground. The catch is, Hikers do not count. You have to be by someone who

    has a DS and you can connect to in the underground. The good thing is, you can

    talk to the same person 32 times. So, you enter the underground, talk to your

    friend, go up go back down and talk to him again. Once you have done this 32

    times, this pokemon will be waiting for you inside the Hollowed Tower.

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    WEAVILE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Attach the Razor Claw to Sneasel and gain a level at night. It will evolve into

    Weavile. Sneasel is available outside Snowpoint City. Weavile has a high attack

    and speed but cannot take a hit. It is like Alakazam but physical.

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    A.0.6 - Nat'l Dex Pokes

    -----------------------

    This section is for the pokemon you may have seen but didn't catch and now you

    want to obtain them. Also, it is for pokemon that you can only get after you

    get the National Pokedex. Any of the more obscure or harder to find pokemon

    will show up in this section of the guide.

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    EEVEE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Fly to Hearthome City and enter the house right next to the pokemon center.

    Talk to the girl in the house and she will ask you if you want this pokemon.

    Eevee is a very special type of pokemon and you are going to need several if

    you want to completely fill your pokedex. You may want to save and keep

    restarting to try and get a female if you don't have a ditto. Eevee can evolve

    into seven different pokemon.

    Vaporeon - Water stone - WATER

    Jolteon - Thunder stone - ELECTRIC

    Flareon - Fire stone - FIRE

    Umbreon - Happiness during the night time hours - DARK

    Espeon - Happiness during the day time hours - PSYCHIC

    Leafeon - Gain a level near Moss Rock - GRASS

    Glaceon - Gain a level near Ice Rock - ICE

    Moss Rock is found in Eterna Forest. Ice Rock is on Route 217 on the right

    side. You have to evolve Eevee early so that the new form will learn its moves.

    If you are trying to get a certain move from Eevee or if you miss a move you

    want, do not forget about the move relearner. He can help recover missed moves

    on the new form.

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    DUSKNOIR

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Dusknoir is a new evolution for the Duskull pokemon. First, you need to evolve

    your Duskull into a Dusclops. Duskull is rare and can only be found using the

    Pokeradar on Route 224. It is a ghost pokemon with a high defense and special

    defense. Evolve Duskull by raising it to level 37. You need an item called the

    Reaper Cloth to evolve Duskull into it's final form, Dusknoir. You can find the

    reaper cloth on Route 229 and you need cut to get it. Attach it to a Dusclops

    and trade the Dusclops to make it evolve.

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    DITTO

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Ditto is a very special pokemon because it only knows one move, transform. It

    will turn itself into the pokemon it is fighting. It is not recommended for

    battle but it is definitely a must have pokemon because it will breed with just

    about ANY pokemon. You need ditto to breed genderless pokemon like Beldum,

    Manaphy and Rotom. Breed Ditto with Manaphy to get a special pokemon that isn't

    obtainable any other way, Phione. Phione looks like Manaphy but does not have

    the stats that Manaphy does. Ditto is a rare pokeradar pokemon that can be

    found east of Canalave City on Route 218.

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    PHIONE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Breed Manaphy with Ditto. This pokemon will be in the egg that comes from it.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    ELECTIVIRE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    You need Fire Red inserted into the GBA slot of the DS to obtain this pokemon.

    With Fire Red inserted, head to the Valley Windworks grass and run around for

    wild encounters. Elekids are available in the grass and they are not too hard

    to find. However, some Elekids have an item, the Electrizer, attached and they

    are the hard ones to find. You need that item to transform Electabuzz into an

    Electivire. Raise Elekid to lvl30 and it evolves into Electabuzz. Trade

    Electabuzz with Electrizer attached and it evolves into Electivire.

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    MAGMORTAR

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    You can catch Magbys inside Stark Mountain if you have Leaf Green inserted in

    your DS. Magbys sometimes come with Magmarizers and you need one in order to

    get this pokemon. Raise a Magby to lvl30 and it will evolve into Magmar. Attach

    the Magmarizer to the Magmar and trade it. It will evolve into Magmortar.

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    TOGEKISS

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Fly to the Battle Area and head east until you reach the water. Surf on the

    water until you reach the landmass island with a lot of grass on it. Use your

    pokeradar here to find Togepi in the grass. Raise Togepi's happiness to get it

    to evolve into Togetic. Now you can use the shiny stone on Togetic to make it

    evolve into Togekiss. Togekiss does not learn any moves when you evolve it so

    do not evolve it until you are ready. You can go to the move relearner and get

    some new moves for your Togekiss like Extremespeed and Sky Attack.

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    RHYPERIOR

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    You can catch Rhydon on Route 227 and Route 228. Rhydon is the evolved form of

    Rhyhorn. You need an item called Protector to evolve Rhydon into the stronger

    Rhyperior. Protector can be found on Route 228. Attach it to Rhydon and trade

    our Rhydon to have it evolve to Rhyperior. Rhyperior has a very high attack

    and Defense.

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    LICKILICKY

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    This is the evolved form of Lickitung. Lickitung is a swarm pokemon. Capture a

    Lickitung and it will learn the move Rollout at level 33. Keep this move on

    Lickitung and raise it to level 34. Lickitung evolves into this pokemon. This

    is a totally average pokemon

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    GALLADE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Ralts now turns into two different pokemon. The female Ralts will evolve into

    Gardevoir and is a psychic type. The male Ralts needs to be evolved with a Dawn

    Stone to turn into Gallade. First evolve Ralts into Kirlia at level 20 and then

    you can use the stone to evolve Kirlia into Gallade. Gallade is a Psychic /

    Fighting type pokemon and you have to evolve Kirlia before level 30. Gallade

    completely changes Ralts from a Special attacker into a Physical attacker.

    Gallade will still learn moves after you have used the stone to get it.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    FROSLASS

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    A female evolution of Snorunt. Snorunt can be found with the Pokeradar west of

    Snowpoint city. Snorunt evolves into level Glalie at level 42 but if you give a

    female Snorunt the Dawn stone then it turns into Froslass. Froslass will learn

    moves after you used a stone to get it.

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    PROBOPASS

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Nosepass is a swarm pokemon so you need to get one of them first. Get it's XP

    close to leveling up and then enter Mt. Coronet. Level up nosepass inside Mt.

    Coronet and it will evolve into Probopass. Probopass has a high Defense and a

    nice Sp. DEF to go along with it.

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    MAMOSWINE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Mamoswine is the third evolution of Swinub. Swinub is another swarm pokemon.

    Swinub evolves into Piloswine at level 33. After it evolves, go to the Move

    Relearner and learn the move Ancient Power. Now, level up your pokemon 1 level

    and it will evolve into Mamoswine.

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    PORYGON-Z

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    You first need to start with Porygon. You can get Porygon behind the pokemon

    mansion on the days that the owner says there are Porygon back there. Porygon

    evolves two times and both times require you to trade. You first need to trade

    Porygon with the Up-grade item attached to it. This item is given to you by

    Professor Oak once you have the National Dex. Go to his house in Eterna City

    and speak to him to get this item.

    After you have Porygon2 attach the Dubious Disc to it and trade it to evolve it

    to Porygon-Z. You can get the Dubious Disc on Route 225. You have to use surf

    to get it. Porygon-Z has the highest special attack in the game (tied with

    Alakazam).

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    GLISCOR

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Gligar is available in Stark Mountain if you have Emerald inserted into the DS.

    You can also get Gligar on Routes 206, 207, 214, 215 and 227. Once you catch

    Gligar, give it the Razor Fang and level it up one level at night. You can get

    the Razor Fang outside the Battle Tower on the left side.

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    YANMEGA

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Catch a Yanma in the Great Marsh or transfer one in via Pal Park. Level it up

    to lvl33 and teach it Ancientpower. Raise it one more level with Ancientpower

    and it will evolve into Yanmega. Yanmega is a fast pokemon with a good special

    attack. It can also have the Speed Boost ability like Ninjask.

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    TANGROWTH

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Tangela is a swarm pokemon. Catch a tangela and level it up to lvl33. Teach it

    Ancientpower and then level it again. It will evolve into Tangrowth. Tangrowth

    gets a huge attack stat increase and a slight defense increase.

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    MAGNEZONE

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Catch Magnemite in a swarm and raise it to lvl 30 and it will evolve into

    Magneton. Take Magneton into Mt. Coronet and raise it one level and it will

    evolve into Magnezone. Magnezone is a strong pokemon with a high special

    attack good defense and special defense to go with it.

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    A.0.7 - Sinnoh Pokedex

    -----------------------

    1 Turtwig 50 Beautifly 99 Cleffa

    2 Grotle 51 Cascoon 100 Clefairy

    3 Torterra 52 Dustox 101 Clefable

    4 Chimchar 53 Combee 102 Chatot

    5 Monferno 54 Vespiquen 103 Pichu

    6 Infernape 55 Pachirisu 104 Pikachu

    7 Piplup 56 Buizel 105 Raichu

    8 Prinplup 57 Floatzel 106 Hoothoot

    9 Empoleon 58 Cherubi 107 Noctowl

    10 Starly 59 Cherrim 108 Spiritomb

    11 Staravia 60 Shellos 109 Gible

    12 Staraptor 61 Gastrodon 110 Gabite

    13 Bidoof 62 Heracross 111 Garchomp

    14 Bibarel 63 Aipom 112 Munchlax

    15 Kricketot 64 Ambipom 113 Snorlax

    16 Kricketune 65 Drifloon 114 Unown

    17 Shinx 66 Drifblim 115 Riolu

    18 Luxio 67 Buneary 116 Lucario

    19 Luxray 68 Lopunny 117 Wooper

    20 Abra 69 Gastly 118 Quagsire

    21 Kadabra 70 Haunter 119 Wingull

    22 Alakazam 71 Gengar 120 Pelipper

    23 Magikarp 72 Misdreavus 121 Girafarig

    24 Gyarados 73 Mismagius 122 Hippopotas

    25 Budew 74 Murkrow 123 Hippowdon

    26 Roselia 75 Honchkrow 124 Azurill

    27 Roserade 76 Glameow 125 Marill

    28 Zubat 77 Purugly 126 Azumarill

    29 Golbat 78 Goldeen 127 Skorupi

    30 Crobat 79 Seaking 128 Drapion

    31 Geodude 80 Barboach 129 Croagunk

    32 Graveler 81 Whiscash 130 Toxicroak

    33 Golem 82 Chingling 131 Carnivine

    34 Onix 83 Chimecho 132 Remoraid

    35 Steelix 84 Stunky 133 Octillery

    36 Cranidos 85 Skuntank 134 Finneon

    37 Rampardos 86 Meditite 135 Lumineon

    38 Shieldon 87 Medicham 136 Tentacool

    39 Bastiodon 88 Bronzor 137 Tentacruel

    40 Machop 89 Bronzong 138 Feebas

    41 Machoke 90 Ponyta 139 Milotic

    42 Machamp 91 Rapidash 140 Mantyke

    43 Psyduck 92 Bonsly 141 Mantine

    44 Golduck 93 Sudowoodo 142 Snover

    45 Burmy 94 Mime Jr. 143 Abomasnow

    46 Wormadon 95 Mr. Mime 144 Sneasel

    47 Mothim 96 Happiny 145 Weavile

    48 Wurmple 97 Chansey 146 Uxie

    49 Silcoon 98 Blissey 147 Mesprit

    148 Azelf

    149 Dialga

    150 Palkia

    151 Manaphy

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    A.0.8 - Stone Evolutions

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    *****************************************

    FIRE STONE:

    Eeevee -------------> Flareon

    Growlithe -------------> Arcanine

    Vulpix -------------> Ninetales

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    LEAF STONE:

    Weepinbell -------------> Victreebel

    Exeggcute -------------> Exeggutor

    Nuzleaf -------------> Shiftry

    Gloom -------------> Vileplume

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    THUNDER STONE:

    Eevee -------------> Jolteon

    Pikachu -------------> Raichu

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    WATER STONE:

    Poliwhirl -------------> Poliwrath

    Shellder -------------> Cloyster

    Staryu -------------> Starmie

    Lombre -------------> Ludicolo

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    MOON STONE:

    Jigglypuff -------------> Wigglytuff

    Nidorina -------------> Nidoqueen

    Nidorino -------------> Nidoking

    Clefairy -------------> Clefable

    Skitty -------------> Delcatty

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    DUSK STONE:

    Murkrow -------------> Honchkrow

    Misdreavus -------------> Mismagius

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    SHINY STONE:

    Togetic -------------> Togekiss

    Roselia -------------> Roserade

    Give to pokemon and then gain a level.

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    OVAL STONE:

    Happiny -------------> Chansey

    Give to pokemon and then gain a level in the morning.

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    SUN STONE:

    Gloom -------------> Bellossom

    Sunkern -------------> Sunflora

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    A.0.9 - Cheats

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    Evolve Pokemon that need to be traded via GTS. Submitted by Tomas T.

    "A little tip I found accidently, to do with the pokemon who only evolve when

    traded. I have a lot of traded pokemon, but am gradually getting rid of them

    when I get my own ones, either by capturing or breeding. Ideally breeding, I

    want as many as I can at level 1. Problem is, with Steelix, I couldn't do that.

    But, thanks to my fickleness, and then some experimenting, I found an excellent

    way to evolve your own pokemon via trades.

    Go to Deposit Pokemon and offer up your pokemon for trade, for something that

    no one will trade for, ie, a level 100 female Piplup. When that's done, use the

    Seek Pokemon to find a pokemon, any pokemon, that you can complete the trade

    with. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as you have what they want.

    Once this trade is completed, go to Summary and take back your pokemon. It will

    then evolve as if someone else had sent it to you."

    Source(s): Pokemon Diamond FAQ
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