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
Pokémon
Mesprit in Verity Cavern.
Trainers
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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.
- Lake Verity's Japanese name shares the same Japanese name of Paul.
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
- Polish: Jezioro Prawdy
- Chinese: 心齊湖
