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I began my PokeQuest with Chimchar, the fire monkey, and soon added a Geodude, Shinx and Shellos to my crew. Geodude, who evolves into Graveler and then Golem, is a rock/ground Pokemon who is impervious to electric attacks and stands up well against flying and fire Pokemon. His Magnitude attack wipes out all kinds of opponents, but he is useless against water and plant enemies.
Chimchar, the Diamond and Pearl answer to Charizard, is a cute monkey with a flaming tail. When he evolves into Infernape, his hairdo goes flaming, too. |
Hence, I also have Chimchar, who burns through plants. For fighting water Pokemon, I captured a Shinx, which evolved into a Luxio who evolved into a Luxray—a relatively competent electric Pokemon.
You should always strive to have the basics—fire, water, ground and electric—in your party. You can combine elements (Gyrados has fire and water, Infernape has fire and fight) but you need to cover your bases.
I generally do not carry ghost or psychic Pokemon. I know, there are a lot of you out there who will swear by Alakazam and Mewtwo. But you can teach Luxray Bite—a dark attack that wipes out psychic and ghost Pokemon in a hurry.
Get your water, electric, ground and fire attacks down pat, and you will have an answer for any situation.
Tips from Nintendo
In Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, the way Moves affect opponents have changed. Physical Moves strike the opponent up close and use the Attack stat, where as Special Moves strike from afar and use the Special Attack stat. Knowing the difference between the two greatly improves your battle strategy.
Have your Pokemon learn moves that cover its weaknesses. For example, have a Fighting-type Pokemon learn a Ice-type or Dark-type move.
Pay attention to a Pokemon’s ability. Quite a few Pokemon have more than one available to them. A Pokemon’s ability like Levitate can make the difference in a battle.
If you have taught your Pokemon the wrong move, don’t fret! There are people in the Sinnoh that can help. Try looking for the Move Deleter or a Move Tutor. These are people who can help you with your troubles.
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For the Mystery Gift for the event items to obtain the event pokemon at a pokemon event go to Jubilife enter the Jubilife T.v. station go to the 3rd floor talk to a guy that says he’s a t.v producer for the first two blanks pick (Everyone) (Happy) and when he asks again the next two blanks will be (Wi-Fi) (Connection) you must save, turn off and back on for mystery gift to work.
If anyone needs a certain pokemon I may help them out. I have every version game pak. Might not be able to help you on getting a certain lvl for them. But I will gladly trade some of my Standard and Legendaries. Rayquaza lvl 100, Groudon lvl 100, Swampert lvl 100, Blaziken lvl 100, Kyogre lvl 100, Sceptile lvl 100, Regice lvl 100, Charizard lvl 100, Blastoise lvl 100, Suicune lvl 100, Raikou lvl 100, Zapdos lvl 100, Articuno lvl 100, Mewtwo lvl 100, Moltres lvl 100, Dialga lvl 100, Palkia lvl 100, Giratina lvl 100, Heatran lvl 100, Empoleon lvl 100, Infernape lvl 100, Torterra lvl 100. Typholsion lvl 100, Feraligatr lvl 100. and so on… If you need any of these pokemon or some others I have just ask. I would be glad to trade these away and restart a new game for fun. ( Any pokemon from Firered , Leafgreen and Emerald ( Finished Dex for all three and have them in pc). Diamond and Pearl I have not finished though and do not have the event pokemon in them, although I could get them by cheating if I wanted to.
Another post for the honey trees… I would recommend these places: Pastoria City and Canalave city. The trees in Pastoria (South west) has a high appearance rate of Heracrosses and Burmys I have studied over months. I always find one everytime I tap on it… and Canalave (Entrance) i’ve been getting mainly aipoms and Munchlaxes. other than those Florama town, Valley windworks (Next to and north), Hearthome (South), Route 221, Veilstone (South) Sunyshore (Entrance) Solaceon (South) (North of the sandy slope) ( East of the tree where you passed the slope) are the places for honey trees… and I forgot to mention that you need an odd key stone for Spiritomb (Post for the other two)
Pokemon Manshion south of Hearthrome rare pokemon : Porygon, Chansey, Igglypuff, Clefairy and more… Its also identical to the old chateu the old manshion where you catch rotom at night from 10pm – 4am by watching the t.v. Spooky place… Gengar following you … watching you from a gargoyle statue… ghost butler… little ghost girl.. Gengar in the painting… gah that place is awesome. Except for the Gengar
The game pak with the most event pokemon I would say is Emerald.. It has Latios and Latias (Like in Ruby and Sapphire) and the choice for southern island. It has Deoxys like firered and leafgreen which ruby and sapphire does not have. It has Lugia and Ho-oh like firered and leafgreen too. However they added mew to Emerald which cannot be obtained in neither of the other game paks mentioned.. Jirachi from pokemon colosseum bonus disk, Celebi.. but thats only from an event and is not a obtained from a place in the game at all. Well… thats it I guess.
Yeah I agree Piplup was the best choice for a starter. It was strong against your rivals Turtwig once it evolved into prinplup and obtained a secondary type : Steel. ( Grass attacks are no longer super effective). It helped on the first two gyms ( Water attacks and the 2nd gym with flying attacks). The only trouble though was the 8th gym. Thats pretty much it. ( Dont know why but… the water starters for every pokemon game has always pulled for me. Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip and Piplup were pretty awesome.
If there is any questions I have an answer for it. And… Action replay… actually makes the game dull and boring dont brag about getting every 400 so pokemon (shiny lv.100’s)
because you would know you did not obtain them fairly =) and that pokemon just got boring for you..
Spiritomb is obtained by using your explorer kit in your Key items to go underground Sinnoh. ( You can dig for Unlimited pokemon fossils –> Aerodactyl, Omantye, Kabuto, Lileep, Anorith, Cranidos ( Diamond only) and Shieldon (Pearl only). Spirittomb is obtained by talking to 32 people under there. ( Also note that there is an old man who lives in a house next to the pokemon center in Eterna City that gives you missions and items as rewards for completing his tasks. (Basically for Spiritomb have some friends play with you and talk to each other 32 times by chatting with the other person and going into your secret base and back out ( Due to the reason that talking to the same person twice or more will only count once to your (talked to another person limit). Treasures are the yellow specks on the map, traps are the white. Dont forget if you have fossils dont forget to use the option to put it in your items bag.
Here are the tree pokemon ( Burmy, Wurmple, Silcoon, Heracross, Munchlax, Cherubi, and Aipom. They are only obtainable in the honey trees for diamond and pearl. (Other than pal park for some of them) Honey can be bought for 100z in Florama town from the guy you saved from galactic. The honey trees are yellowish / brownish colored. When you slather honey on the trees you must leave it alone for apporximately 6 hours -10. Leaving it too long would result in losing the pokemon ( If you wait over the limit you may notice the trees wont shake). When a honey tree is shaking you will know there is a pokemon there. If you slather a tree and accidentaly tapped a on the tree too soon, the honey will be taken off the tree and you must reapply more.(If you notice that you remembered you slathered that tree but you come back 8 hours later and its not shaking).
Action Replay is basically used for cheating, like Gameshark for any particular games. They are sold in particular stores (Walmart , Gamestop (sometimes). for $20.00
It basically tricks the game, from knowing that its hacked (Especially for pokemon). When your catching an event pokemon, the game thinks your actually doing an event.
It is sold for both Gba and Ds games. Although it is not recommended that you cheat but… thats the owners choice I guess…