Tips for Pokemon Diamond and Pearl
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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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it might mess it up ok guys/girls
were can i find the 5th gym leader?
To el Mike:
He’s in Sunnyshore.
~pokemongirl
where can I find the 8 gym leader at?
To infernape, on a normal circumstance the action replay will not glitch or mess up your game. However, i have some friends who did glitch his game because he used thirty codes at one time when it said USE ONE ONLY. It is really helpful though.
Hey, infernape,
Some say that Action Replays glitch your game and alter the screen color, some people say they don’t. If you use one, dont use too many cheats at a time, just to be safe, but a friend of mine who has one says that if the screen DOES get weird-looking, wlking in and then out of a pokecenter fixes it. I’ve used an action replay a couple times and nothing happened to my game. Sorry, i can’t answer the second question–i’m an American.
~pokemongirl
where could i buy them in ireland
does action replay glitch your game?
Nice tips. Heres one more to beat polkea or dialga. First get a pokemon with a super powerful ground move. (I used earthquake) i faced a level 51 polkea so i got lucky beating it with a lvl 53 tortera. How ever heres a move that polkea has (i dont know about dialga) Its called spacial rend watch out for this move for it is ultra powerful. This is the way you should beat it. It is probalbly faster then your pokemon like it was faster then mine. It will probably start by using spacial rend. Then i used earthquake. spacial rend took around a few less HP then half of mine thats why you need higher level. Then my earthquake took around half of polkeas thats why you need an ultra strong groung move like earthquake. Then Polkea used scacial rend i had like 3hp left then i used earthquake and took away the last half of polkea’s HP. Oh ya and your tips were awsome!
If you want to cacth all 150 pokemon in Diamond or Pearl, you want to cacth Comee and Burmy. You need honey. Go to Floaroroma Town by that place you got the Works Key. Slather honey on the tree by his house. Come Back 12 or 24 hours later and it MIGHT be there.