Lake Verity

Lake Verity シンジこ Shinji Lake
Location:	West end of Route 201
Region:	Sinnoh
Generations:	IV
Location of Lake Verity in Sinnoh.
Pokémon World Locations

Lake Verity (Japanese: シンジこ Shinji Lake) is a location in the region of Sinnoh.

Early in the story of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the player and their rival come here after watching reports of a Red Gyarados on television in hopes of seeing something similarly amazing. This is also where the player will receive their first Pokémon in Sinnoh after being attacked by Starly. Within the cave in the center of the lake resides the legendary Pokémon, Mesprit.

In Platinum, instead, the player and rival meet Cyrus for the first time.

Halfway through the story, Mars of Team Galactic raids the lake and captures Mesprit.

Items

• TM38 (Fire Blast): Surf required

Pokémon

Mesprit in Verity Cavern.

Pokémon		Games			Location	Levels	Rate
Gift Pokémon
	Turtwig	D	P	Pt	Rowan's briefcase	5	Starter Pokémon
	Chimchar	D	P	Pt	Rowan's briefcase	5	Starter Pokémon
	Piplup	D	P	Pt	Rowan's briefcase	5	Starter Pokémon
All times
	Starly	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	50%
	Bidoof	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	50%
Morning
	Starly	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	50%
	Bidoof	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	50%
Day
	Starly	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	50%
	Bidoof	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	50%
Night
	Starly	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	40%
	Bidoof	D	P	Pt	Grass	2-4	60%
Surfing and Fishing
	Psyduck	D	P	Pt	Surfing	20-30	90%
	Golduck	D	P	Pt	Surfing	20-40	10%
	Magikarp	D	P	Pt	Old Rod	3-15	100%
	Magikarp	D	P	Pt	Good Rod	10-25	65%
	Goldeen	D	P	Pt	Good Rod	10-25	35%
	Gyarados	D	P	Pt	Super Rod	30-55	65%
	Seaking	D	P	Pt	Super Rod	30-55	35%
Special Pokémon
	Surskit	D	P	Pt	Swarms	2-5	40%
	Wobbuffet	D	P	Pt	Poké Radar	3-4	22%
	Lunatone	D	P	Pt	Dongle (Sapphire)	4	8%
	Solrock	D	P	Pt	Dongle (Ruby)	4	8%
	Staravia	D	P	Pt	Dongle (FR, LG or E)	4	4%
	Bibarel	D	P	Pt	Dongle (FR, LG or E)	4	4%
	Mesprit	D	P	Pt	Verity Cavern	50	Only One
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

In Platinum

Trainer	Pokémon
Galactic Grunt Reward: 1460	Glameow♀ Lv.33 No item
	Golbat♀ Lv.33 No item
	Murkrow♀ Lv.36 No item
Galactic Grunt Reward: 1460	Croagunk♂ Lv.37 No item
Galactic Grunt Reward: 1400	Stunky♂ Lv.35 No item
	Houndour♂ Lv.35 No item
Galactic Grunt Reward: 1440	Houndour♀ Lv.34 No item
	Glameow♀ Lv.36 No item

3120 Commander Mars Platinum Lake Verity

Golbat ♀ Lv.38  Poison  Flying  Held item: None Ability: Inner Focus Moves Air Cutter Flying Special Supersonic Normal Status Bite Dark Physical Toxic Poison Status Bronzor Lv.38  Steel  Psychic  Held item: None Ability: Levitate Moves Iron Defense Steel Status Gyro Ball Steel Physical Confuse Ray Ghost Status Extrasensory Psychic Special Purugly ♀ Lv.40  Normal  Held item: Sitrus Berry Ability: Thick Fat Moves Fake Out Normal Physical Slash Normal Physical Faint Attack Dark Physical Hypnosis Psychic Status

Map information

One of the lakes that is symbolic of the water-rich Sinnoh region. There is an odd legend associated with it. It is possible to enter the cave underneath the lake from the island in the middle.

In the anime

Dawn and her Piplup at Lake Verity.

In the anime, Lake Verity is extremely small compared to the games or the other lakes, resembling more of a large pond.

Trivia

• After the battle between the player and the wild Starly in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, a square of tall grass can be seen to have disappeared when the player and his/her friend walk out of the tall grass. It is where the briefcase which was taken away by Dawn/Lucas was originally. The square remains in Pokémon Platinum even though the same event did not occur in the game.
• At each of Sinnoh's lakes, a TM can be found containing a powerful move of a different elemental type. Lake Verity's TM is the Fire-type TM38 (Fire Blast).
• Using the Dongle method, Bibarel and Staravia can be found at level 4, although Bidoof and Starly don't evolve until they reach level 15 and level 14, respectively.

Name origin

Verity means "truth". This is related to Mesprit's status as the Emotion Pokémon, as the truth often conveys strong emotions.

In other languages

• French: Lac Vérité
• Portuguese: Lago da Verdade
• Spanish: Lago Veraz
• Italian: Lago Verità
• German: See der Wahrheit
• Chinese: 心齊湖

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