Appendix:Diamond and Pearl walkthrough/Section 16: Difference between revisions

Before proceeding......

Make sure that you are fully prepared! A tough and long journey is up ahead.

Routes 216-217 are very long(longer than Route 212). The weather condition will be very bad. On Route 216, Acuity Lakefront and Snowpoint City, the weather will be snowy. The situation on Route 217 will be even worse -- there is a blizzard!

When a battle is triggered in the above-mentioned places, the weather condition will immediately switch from snowing/blizzard condition to hailing for unknown reasons. The hail will damage all Pokemon except Template:Type2 Pokemon.

Make sure that you have done the following things before going on:

• Buy a lot of healing items.
  • Buy at least 15 for each necessary healing items. (excluding different versions of Potions because these are expensive)
    • Buying 20 to 25 for each is recommended.
  • To save money, don't buy Super Potions. Also, buy as few Potions and Hyper Potions as possible.
    • Buy the cheaper Drinks such as bottles of Fresh Water, Soda Pop, Moomoo Milk and cans of Lemonade instead of different versions of Potions, which are more expensive (especially Super Potions).
      • You can buy bottles of Fresh Water, Soda Pop and cans of Lemonade on 5/F in Veilstone Department Store.
      • You can buy bottles of Moomoo Milk in Cafe Cabin on Route 210, near Route 215 entrance.
• Buy some Poke Balls if you want to catch some new Pokemon.
  • Buying 10 Great Balls are recommended.
  • If you are playing at night, you may consider about buying Dusk Balls instead.
• Heal your Pokemon.
• Bring Pokemon with the following HM moves.
  • Surf
  • Strength
  • Defog
  • Rock Smash
• Train your Pokemon until they are at above Level 35.
  • Having your Pokemon at around Level 40 is recommended.
  • If your Pokemon are at or below Level 35, don't even dare to proceed!
    • Iron Island is a good training place.

Eterna City/Celestic Town - Route 211

Proceed from either Celestic Town or Eterna City when you are ready. Head west from Celestic Town or head east from Eterna City. Enter Mt. Coronet from either west or east side of Route 211.

Mt. Coronet (Northern Area Part 2)

There are some items for you to get before you head deeper if you didn't check out this area after getting the sixth Gym badge.

Available Pokémon (Northern Cavern)

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Meditite D P Pt Cave 14-20 10% Machop D P Pt Cave 13-20 20% Chingling D P Pt Cave 14-19 10% Geodude D P Pt Cave 12-19 15% Zubat D P Pt Cave 14-19 10% Cleffa D P Pt Cave 12-14 25% 5% 5% Clefairy D P Pt Cave 17 10% 0% 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

There is a boulder for you to push to the south, but that is a one-way road from the summit. You cannot proceed further. Go north and push that boulder, collect the items if you haven't, then go down the stairs.

You'll be suddenly surrounded by deep fog again. Can't believe that it's foggy in the basement of a mountain, huh? Use Defog just like how you did on Route 210. There are many items to collect if you fully explore the basement.

In the water, you can find an extremely-hard-to-find Pokemon that is unfortunately weak at first but can evolve into a strong Pokemon. If you played Pokemon Ruby, Sappire or Emerald, you should know what it is -- Feebas, the Hoenn counterpart of Magikarp. Similar to that of Hoenn Route 119, instead of fishing in any location as customary with most Pokémon, Feebas is located in only 4 water blocks. There is no easy method to determine which block contains Feebas, as the only way is to drop a line into each and every water block in the lake. Finding Feebas here is much harder that in Hoenn as Feebas is not guaranteed to take the bait even if the right water block is found. Also, the locations of the 4 blocks changes every day. Once hooked, however, Feebas is an easy catch. Like Magikarp evoving into Gyarados, Feebas can evolve into Milotic, which is a powerful Template:Type2 Pokemon, but the evolving method is very different.

Available Pokémon (Basement)

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Golbat D P Pt Cave 31-32 20% Meditite D P Pt Cave 31-32 25% Graveler D P Pt Cave 34 20% Chingling D P Pt Cave 30 10% Clefairy D P Pt Cave 30-32 15% Machoke D P Pt Cave 31 10% Surfing and Fishing Zubat D P Pt Surfing 20 90% Golbat D P Pt Surfing 20-40 10% Magikarp D P Pt Fishing Old Rod 3-10 100% Magikarp D P Pt Fishing Good Rod 10-25 65% Barboach D P Pt Fishing Good Rod 10-25 35% Gyarados D P Pt Fishing Super Rod 30-55 65% Whiscash D P Pt Fishing Super Rod 20-55 35% 4 Random Squares Feebas D P Pt Fishing Good Rod 10-25 35% Feebas D P Pt Fishing Super Rod 20-50 35% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Collect all the items, then proceed.

Available Pokémon (Rt. 216 Exit)
Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Golbat D P Pt Cave 31-32 20% Meditite D P Pt Cave 31-32 25% Graveler D P Pt Cave 34 20% Chingling D P Pt Cave 30 10% Clefairy D P Pt Cave 30-32 15% Machoke D P Pt Cave 31 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

There is a hidden HP Up. Get it, then go through the exit. You'll need to brace yourself against the snow, so get ready. Get off your Bicycle now if you're riding, because the route is covered in snow and your bicycle will get stuck.

Route 216

After getting out of Mt. Coronet, you are on Route 216. The route is always snowing and is covered in snow. Bicycle cannot be used. In some places, the snow is deep that you cannot run through.

There are 2 paths -- one is in the "valley" and the other is elevated. Go through both paths to collect all items and fight all trainers. Both paths are bringing you to the west.

Available Pokémon

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Graveler D P Pt Grass 33 10% Sneasel D P Pt Grass 32-34 25% Snover D P Pt Grass 33 25% Machoke D P Pt Grass 33-34 20% 20% 10% Meditite D P Pt Grass 33-34 20% 20% 10% Zubat D P Pt Grass 33 0% 0% 10% Noctowl D P Pt Grass 33 0% 0% 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainers

Trainer Pokémon Ace Trainer Blake Ace Trainer Blake ユウマ Yūma Reward: $2100 Ambipom♂ Lv.35 No item Kadabra♂ Lv.35 No item Ace Trainer Maria Ace Trainer Maria マドカ Madoka Reward: $1980 Golduck♀ Lv.34 No item Ponyta♀ Lv.35 No item Sudowoodo♀ Lv.33 No item Ace Trainer Laura Ace Trainer Laura ナオコ Naoko Reward: $2220 Lopunny♀ Lv.37 No item Skier Edward Skier Edward タカヒコ Takahiko Reward: $1120 Sneasel♂ Lv.35 No item Ace Trainer Garrett Ace Trainer Garrett ヒロユキ Hiroyuki Reward: $2100 Mr. Mime♂ Lv.33 No item Machoke♂ Lv.34 No item Sneasel♂ Lv.35 No item Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

There is a house named Snowbound Lodge near the western end of this route. Go inside and sleep on the bed (go into the middle of the bed, press down and answer "Yes"), then your Pokemon will be fully healed. Make good use of Snowbound Lodge, especially if you are running out of items.

In the grass, there are 2 new Pokemon for you to catch -- Sneasel and Snover. Both of them are dual-typed Pokemon with Template:Type2 as their secondary type. Sneasel is Dark/Ice-type Pokemon, while Snover is Grass/Ice-type Pokemon. Sneasel has high Attack and Speed (it is very fast). Starting from this generation, leveling it up at night with it holding Razor Claw will make it to evolve into Weavile. Snover's stats are not too awesome, and it is slow (has low speed). It will evolve into Abomasnow starting from Level 40.

Fight Ace Trainer Garrett in the grass, then go back to Snowbound Lodge and heal again. After that, go north from Ace Trainer Garrett and enter Route 217.

Later......

Return here when you can use HM08 (Rock Climb) on the field. Head east from Snowbound Lodge and stop near the stairs. Use Rock Climb to climb up. You can fight some more trainers and collect some decent items, especially TM13 (Ice Beam).

Route 217

Make sure that you heal your Pokemon at Snowbound Lodge before proceeding! The snow will become an extremely harsh, extremely crazy and ceaseless blizzard (don't even think about waiting the blizzard to stop -- it just never stops). The description of Town Map is written,

"Be prepared for the worst."

Your visibillity is seriously reduced (Defog has no use this time). The snow is very deep that prevents you from running. Sometimes the snow is extremely deep that you can't even walk normally -- you can only "crawl" slowly.

This route is long and hard to get through. You will get lost in the blizzard, so be sure to check the Town Map constantly. Registering your Town Map for instant use is recommended in this route.

Available Pokémon

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Sneasel D P Pt Grass 34-35 25% Meditite D P Pt Grass 35 10% 10% 0% Medicham D P Pt Grass 35-36 20% Snover D P Pt Grass 34-35 25% Machoke D P Pt Grass 35-36 20% 20% 10% Zubat D P Pt Grass 35 0% 0% 10% Noctowl D P Pt Grass 35 0% 0% 10% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainers

Trainer Pokémon Ace Trainer Dalton Ace Trainer Dalton ミキト Mikito Reward: $2280 Raichu♂ Lv.34 No item Pelipper♂ Lv.36 No item Hippopotas♂ Lv.38 No item Skier Shawn Skier Shawn センタロウ Sentarō Reward: $1120 Snover♂ Lv.34 No item Snover♂ Lv.33 No item Golduck♂ Lv.34 No item Snover♂ Lv.35 No item Ninja Boy Antonio Ninja Boy Antonio ヒロノブ Hironobu Reward: $288 Zubat♂ Lv.33 No item Golbat♂ Lv.33 No item Zubat♂ Lv.34 No item Croagunk♂ Lv.36 No item Skier Madison Skier Madison ヒヅキ Hizuki Reward: $1184 Snover♀ Lv.37 No item Ninja Boy Ethan Ninja Boy Ethan カズヒト Kazuhito Reward: $280 Skorupi♂ Lv.35 No item Golbat♂ Lv.35 No item Skier Bjorn Skier Bjorn ノブオ Nobuo Reward: $1216 Mantyke♂ Lv.36 No item Sneasel♂ Lv.38 No item Skier Lexie Skier Lexie ユウコ Yūko Reward: $1120 Marill♀ Lv.35 No item Clefairy♀ Lv.35 No item Black Belt Luke Black Belt Luke トウシ Tōshi Reward: $888 Croagunk♂ Lv.36 No item Onix♂ Lv.35 No item Machoke♂ Lv.37 No item Ace Trainer Olivia Ace Trainer Olivia シズル Shizuru Reward: $2220 Roselia♀ Lv.37 No item Seaking♀ Lv.37 No item Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

If you don't want to get lost and only wants to go through this route, just remember that you are heading north, then approximately NW (northwest) to NNW (north-northwest) after getting past the trees on the west side on the route, and north again after getting past the house on the west side of the route.

But if you want to collect all items, fight all trainers and are not afraid of getting lost, you can go back and forth between the west and east sides of the route. Using Poketch App Dowsing Machine constantly is also recommended because there are a lot of hidden items in the deep snow.

Extremely Improtant! When you find the house on the west side of this route, don't just ignore it and get past. Instead, go inside. A Hiker will say that he lost an HM when fighting through the blizzard. Go outside and search around the house. At northeast of the house, you must can up HM08 (Rock Climb). You must pick this up because you need this HM to proceed further! After that, go back into the house again and speak to the hiker. He will appreciate your honesty, say that he no longer needs this lost HM and allow you to keep it. He will then give you the Icicle Plate.

There is another house at the northeast part of this route. Go inside and a woman will give you a Spell Tag.

North of the northeast house is an Ice Rock, which means that Eevee will evolve into Glaceon if leveled up on this route. But you probably don't have an Eevee at this stage of the game, so ignore it for now.

At the northwest part, i.e. NNW of the western house where you get HM08 and Icicle Plate, or north of Skier Lexie, is the road leading towards Acuity Lakefront. Fight the last 2 trainers and proceed.

Acuity Lakefront

The blizzard will revert back to the snowfall on Route 216. Head north. If you have beaten the Snowpoint Gym already, you can go through the entrance to Lake Acuity. But you should have probably not. 2 Galactic Grunts will be blocking that entrance, so head east instead. Go to the northeast corner and collect the Ultra Ball, then go to Snowpoint City from the southeast corner.

Available Pokémon

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Zubat D P Pt Grass 35 0% 0% 10% Machoke D P Pt Grass 35-36 20% 20% 10% Noctowl D P Pt Grass 35 0% 0% 10% Sneasel D P Pt Grass 34-35 25% Meditite D P Pt Grass 35 10% 10% 0% Medicham D P Pt Grass 35-36 20% Snover D P Pt Grass 34-35 25% A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

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