Platinum Guide

Ok im here to show you the guide to the new Pokemon Platinum if you want to check the information about the game check the Platinum News Page.

Part 1: To Oreburgh Gym

Twinleaf Town
- Leave your house
- Enter your rival’s house (the large one in the top left)
- Leave the town through the north.

Route 201

- Meet Prof. Rowan and pick a starter Pokémon
- Battle rival: <Your anti-starter> Lv. 5 (Your rival will pick the starters whose type is advantageous against yours)

Twinleaf Town
- Receive Running Shoes from mom
- Meet your rival and travel to Lake Verity via west Route 201.

Lake Verity

- Catch a glimpse of Galactic Boss Cyrus

Sandgem Town

- Receive Pokedex ,TM27 from Prof. Rowan
- Head back to Twinleaf via Route 201

Twinleaf Town
- Receive Journal from mom
- Receive parcel
- Return to Sandgem Town and Route 202

Route 202
- Learn how to catch Pokémon from Dawn; receive 5 Poké Balls

- Trainer battle: Starly Lv. 5 (60 EXP) – 80 money
- Trainer battle: Bidoof Lv. 5 (61 EXP) – 80 money
- Trainer battle: Burmy (Plant forme) Lv. 5 (64 EXP) -

Jubilife City
- Receive Battle Recorder from Handsome
- Deliver parcel to Pokemon schoolteacher; receive Town Map
- Collect three coupons from clowns around the city; receive Poketch

Route 203
- Rival battle: Starly Lv. 7 (84 EXP), <Your anti-starter> Lv. 9 (126 EXP) – 900 money
- Trainer battle: Shinx Lv. ?
- Trainer battle: Machop Lv. 8 (127 EXP) – 128 money
- Trainer battle: Psyduck Lv. 8 (136 EXP) – 128 money

Oreburgh Gate
- Receive HM06: Rock Smash from the traveler near the cave’s entrance
- Trainer battle: Starly Lv. 7 (84 EXP), Shinx Lv. 7 (90 EXP) – 112 money
- Trainer battle: Bidoof Lv. 9 (111 EXP) – 144 money

Oreburgh Mine
- Trainer battle: Geodude Lv. 9 – 360 money
- Meet Roark
- Recommendation: Catch a Geodude or Onix here for Rock Smash later

#1 Oreburgh Gym
- Trainer battle: Geodude Lv. 11 (171 EXP) – 176 money
- Trainer battle: Geodude Lv. 9 (139 EXP),  Onix Lv.9 (207 EXP) – 144 money
- Leader Roark: Geodude Lv. 12 (187 EXP), Onix Lv. 12 (277 EXP), Cranidos Lv. 14 (297 EXP) – 1680 money

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Part 2: To Eterna Gym

Jubilife City
- Meet Dawn for Team Galactic double battle: Glameow Lv. 11 (166 EXP), Stunky Lv. 11 (186 EXP) – 880 money
- Receive Accessory Box

Route 204
- Trainer battle: Shinx Lv. 7 (90 EXP) – 112 money
- Trainer battle: Magikarp Lv. 8 (33 EXP) – 128 money
- Trainer battle: Budew Lv. 7 (102 EXP) – 112 yen
- Trainer battle: Budew Lv. 9 (130 EXP), Cherrim Lv. 11 (159 EXP) – 352 money
- Trainer battle: Wurmple (115 EXP), Kricketot (126 EXP) – 176 yen
- Double battle: Pachirisu Lv. 11 (282 EXP), Pachirisu Lv. 11 (282 EXP) – 352 money

Ravaged Path
- Teach HM06: Rock Smash to a Pokemon and break the rocks to pass

Floaroma Town – Valley Windworks
- Gatekeeper battle: Glameow (196 EXP)

Floarama Meadow
- The entrance lies in the NW corner of Floaroma
- Galactic Grunt battle: Stunky Lv. 13 (219 EXP) – 520 money
- Galactic Grunt battle: Zubat Lv. 11 (126 EXP), Zubat Lv. 11 (126 EXP) – 440 money
- Collect Windworks Key

Valley Windworks
- Galactic Grunt battle: Zubat Lv. 13 (150 EXP) – 520 money
- Commander Mars: Zubat Lv. 15 (172 EXP), Purugly Lv. 17 (666 EXP) – 1360 money

Route 205 (Floaroma Side)
- Trainer battle: Ponyta Lv. 14 (456 EXP) - 224 money
- Hiker battle: Geodude Lv. 10 (156 EXP), Geodude Lv. 11 (171 EXP), Geodude Lv. 12 (187 EXP) – 384 money

Eéna Forest
- Team up with Cheryl and escape the forest.

Eéna City

- Receive HM01: Cut from Cynthia afé walking towards the city’s easén exit

#2 Eéna Gym (Redesigned)
- Trainer battle 1: Cherrim Lv. 17 (247 EXP), Roselia Lv. 17 (553 EXP) – 272 yen (The clock will turn to 6:15)
- Trainer battle 2: Budew Lv. 15 (217 EXP), Budew Lv. 16 (232 EXP), Budew Lv. 17 (247 EXP) - 544 yen (The clock will turn to 9:15)
- Trainer battle 3: Roselia Lv. 19 (618 EXP) - 608 yen (The clock will turn to 12:45, and the sprinklers will shut off)
- Leader Gardenia: Turtwig Lv. 20 (273 EXP), Cherrim Lv. 20 (570 EXP), Roserade Lv.22 (961 EXP) – 2640 money
- Receive Forest Badge, TM86 (The clock will turn to 12:30 so you can exit.)

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Part 3: To Hearthome Gym

Team Galactic Building
- This building is now more complex than before, with multiple stairwells per floor arranged in a maze-like fashion.
- Commander Jupiter awaits on the fourth floor.
- Commander Jupiter battle: Zubat Lv. 21, Skuntank Lv. 23 (1029 EXP) – 1840 money (The bike shop owner is saved.)

Eterna City
- Receive Pokemon Egg from Cynthia outside the bike shop. (This egg will hatch into a Togepi after 5,120 steps.)
- Get Bike from Bike Shop
- Pick up Explorer Kit from the house next to the Pokémon Center.

Route 206 (Cycling Road) – Route 207 – Route 208
- These areas are essentially the same as in D/P.
- On Route 207, switch your bike to fourth gear to blast up the hill.

Hearthome City

- Visit the Contest Hall and speak to Fantina, the gym leader.

#3 Hearthome Gym (Redesigned)
- Note: In Diamond/Pearl, this gym was the fifth gym. It is now the third.
- This gym has been redesigned to become a darkened maze filled with trainers carrying flashlights.
- To proceed, find the blue mark on the floor, and go through the red door of the same shape.
- The correct mark required to proceed is random, and is generated every time you (re)enter the room.
- Leader Fantina: Duskull Lv. 24, Haunter Lv. 24, Mismagius Lv. 26 – 3120 money
- Receive Relic Badge, TM65

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Part 4: To Veilstone Gym

Route 209 – Solaceon Town – Solaceon Ruins
- Rival battle: Staravia Lv. 25, Ponyta Lv. 23, <Your anti-starter> Lv. 27, Roselia Lv. 23
- These areas are essentially the same as in D/P.
- If you do not know Route 210B well, head to the Solaceon Ruins to pick up HM05: Defog. (The cave entrance is on the east side of Solaceon.)

Route 210A – Route 215
- You can’t get past the Psyduck yet.

#4 Veilstone Gym (Redesigned)
- New puzzles involve punching sliding sandbags to destroy barriers that block the paths leading to the trainers
- To punch a bag, just walk up to it and push it in the direction you want it to move in.
- Hit the punching bags in the direction of the tire piles.
- Leader Maylene: Meditite Lv. 28, Machamp Lv. 29, Lucario Lv. 32 – 3840 yen
- Receive Cobble Badge, TM 60

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Part 5: To Pastoria Gym

Veilstone City

- Meet with Dawn and battle two Galactic Grunts at their warehouse in the NW corner of Veilstone City
- Pick up HM02: Fly in the warehouse

Route 214 – Route 213
- Note that this is the opposite direction of the usual 212-213-214 route sequence in Diamond/Pearl.

Pastoria City
- Battle rival outside the gym (he should come from nowhere to battle you, not block the gym’s entrance)
- Rival battle: Staravia Lv. 34, Ponyta Lv. 32, <Your anti-starter>Lv. 36, Roselia Lv. 32 – 3600 money

storia Gym
- This gym’s layout is identical to that in Diamond/Pearl.
- Push switches to raise/lower the water level to form bridges to Crasher Wake
- Crasher Wake: Gyarados Lv. 33, Floatzel Lv. 37, Quagsire Lv. 34 – 4400 money
eive Fen Badge. TM 55

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Part 6: To Canalave Gym

Pastoria City
- Talk to Crasher Wake and your rival at the entrance to the Great Marsh
- Follow the Galactic Grunt through the eastern city exit
- Talk to the Galactic Grunt again on Route 213 (near the city gate)
- Talk to the again on the beach of Route 213. Handsome will pop up.
- Enter the Valor Hotel and talk to Handsome.
- Talk to the Galactic Grunt again near the entrance to Lake Valor. He’ll battle you.
- Galactic Grunt battle – Croagunk Lv. 31
- Receive the Secret Potion from Cynthia.

Route 210A
- Use the Secret Potion on the Psyducks.

Route 210B
- Use HM05: Defog to clear the fog if you’re not familiar with this area.

Celestic Town
- Defeat the Galactic Grunt in front of the Dialga/Palkia cave paintings.
- Examine the Uxie/Mesprit/Azelf painting inside the cave.
- Battle Galactic Boss Cyrus: Sneasel Lv. 34, Golbat Lv. 34, Murkrow Lv. 36
- Receive HM03: Surf from Cynthia’s grandmother
- Fly to Jubilife and continue westward to Route 218 and Canalave

Canalave City

- Battle rival on the bridge to the west half of the city
- Rival battle: Staraptor Lv. 36, Heracross Lv. 37, Rapidash Lv. 35, <Your anti-starter> Lv. 38, Roserade Lv. 35

#6 Canalave Gym
- This gym’s layout is identical to that in Diamond/Pearl.
- Leader Byron: Magneton Lv. 37, Onix Lv. 38, Bastiodon Lv. 41 – 4920 money
eive Mine Badge, TM 91

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Part 7: To Snowpoint Gym

Canalave City
- Talk to the sailor in the SW corner Canalave
- Set sail for Iron Island

Iron Island
- Receive HM04: Strength from Riley

Canalave City
- Meet your rival in front of Canalave Library
- Travel to the top floor of the library to meet your rival, Prof. Rowan, and Dawn

Lake Valor
- Fly to Pastoria City, then travel by foot to Lake Valor.
- Defeat the Galactic Grunts in this area, followed by Commander Saturn in the cave.

Lake Verity
- Fly to Twinleaf Town, then travel by foot to Lake Verity.
- Defeat the Galactic Grunts in this area and Commander Mars.

Route 211 – Mt. Coronet – Route 216
- You can enter Mt. Coronet via Route 211′s Jubilife side or Celestic side.
- Use HM04: Strength on the boulders to move them out of the way.
- Exit to Route 216.

Route 216 – Route 217 – Acuity Lakefront
- This area has a very heavy snowstorm blowing; otherwise everything is the same as in D/P.
- Pick up HM08: Rock Climb on Route 217 (it’s one of the Pokeballs lying on the route)
- At Acuity Lakefront, there’s a hill where you have to use Rock Climb. You can’t use it yet, so head east towards Snowpoint City.

#7 Snowpoint Gym
- The snowballs’ positions are slightly different from D/P’s, but the gym’s overall structure is exactly the same.
- Slide down the slippery slopes to gain momentum, crushing the snowballs in your way.
- Leader Candice: Sneasel Lv. 40, Abomasnow Lv. 42, Froslass Lv. 44, Piloswine Lv. 40
- Receive Icicle Badge, TM 72

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Part 8: To Sunyshore Gym

Veilstone City
- Talk to the grunt standing next to the satellite dish outside Galactic HQ
- Receive the Warehouse Key from Handsome
- Enter Galactic Warehouse in NW Veilstone
- Pick up the Galactic Key
- Leave the warehouse, and travel to the main Galactic HQ. Enter through the main door.

Galactic Headquarters

- Right before the rest area that normally precedes the Cyrus battle, there is a new room. Cyrus has been building an army of Galactic Grunts!

- Battle Cyrus atop Team Galactic HQ – Sneasel Lv. 44, Crobat Lv. 44, Honchkrow Lv. 46
- Battle Saturn in HQ dungeons: Golbat Lv. 42, Toxicroak Lv. 44, Bronzor Lv. 42
- Free Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf

Fly to Oreburgh -> Route 207 -> Climb Mt. Coronet

Spear Pillar
- Defeat Galactic Grunts
- Defeat Commanders Mars and Jupiter

The Ruined World
- On the 4th~6th basement levels, there are three round boulders, one for each of {Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf}. Each of these legendaries will be placed next to a whole. You have to use Strength to push these three boulders into the three holes.
- Once this is done, talk to Cynthia to gain access to the elevator leading to the bottommost floor.
- Talk to Cyrus to battle him one last time.
- Giratina Origin Forme appears at Lv. 47
- Select “yes” at the light orb to be warped to Sendoff Spring (Cynthia will block the entrance to Turnback Cave presumably until you’ve defeated her)
- Follow the path to Route 214 and head south

Route 222 – Sunyshore City
- If the guy is still blocking your way, fly to Sandgem Town and check in with Rowan

Sunyshore City
- Talk to Volkner atop the lighthouse

#8 Sunyshore Gym
- This gym’s layout is identical to that in Diamond/Pearl.
- Press the switches until you can get the bridges and gears to form a path to the next platform/room.
- Leader Volkner: Jolteon Lv. 46, Raichu Lv. 46, Electivire Lv. 50, Luxray Lv. 48
- Receive Beacon Badge and TM 57

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Part Final: To Pokémon League

Sunyshore City – Route 223
- Receive HM07: Watefall from Jasmine on the beach before heading off to Route 223
- Route 223 is exactly the same as in Diamond/Pearl.

Victory Road
- Victory Road is exactly the same as in D/P; below is the shortest path through:
- (1F): Cross three bridges, then turn right and use Rock Climb to descend.
- (1F) Walk left and ascend the staircase.
- (1F) Trainer battle
- (1F) Turn left and walk up two staircases.
- (2F) Use rock smash and strength to bypass the boulders. There are two trainer battles in the SW quadrant of the map.
- (2F) Head north upon the sight of the bearded old man and descend the staircase.
- (1F) Cross the bridge. Use Rock Climb to descend, then head up and right towards the staircase. You should bypass a Black Belt.
- (B1F) Descend two staircases and surf across the pool of water. Fight a trainer battle and use HM07: Waterfall.
- (B1F) Turn to the left for another trainer battle. Use surf one last time and ascend the staircase.
- (1F) Go south at the sight of the old man. Use Rock Climb one last time, then fight the trainer and cross the bridge towards the exit.

Pokemon League
- Interior has been redecorated so that the PC and PokeMart counters are clearly distinct from each other.
- Rival battle: Staraptor Lv. 48, Heracross Lv. 48, Snorlax Lv. 49, Rapidash Lv. 47, Roserade Lv. 47, <Your anti-starter> Lv. 51 – 5100 yen
- Elite Four Aaron: Yanmega Lv. 49, Heracross Lv. 51, Vespiquen Lv. 50, Scizor Lv. 49, Drapion Lv. 53 – 6360 yen
- Elite Four Bertha: Whiscash Lv. 50, Gliscor Lv. 53, Hippowdon Lv. 52, Golem Lv. 52, Rhyperior Lv. 55 – 6600 yen
- Elite Four Flint: Houndoom Lv. 52, Infernape Lv. 55, Flareon Lv. 55, Rapidash Lv. 53, Magmortar Lv. 57 – 6840 yen
- Elite Four Lucian: Mr. Mime Lv. 53, Alakazam Lv. 56, Gallade Lv. 59, Bronzong Lv. 54, Espeon Lv. 55 – 7080 yen
- Champion Cynthia: Spiritomb Lv. 58, Lucario Lv. 60, Togekiss Lv. 60, Garchomp Lv. 62, Milotic Lv. 58, Roserade Lv. 58 – 12400 yen
- Enter the Hall of Fame and watch the end credits.

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