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Pokemon Diamond / Pearl


PokeWalkthrough

The Pokemon trainer's definitive guide to the sights and wildlife of Sinnoh

Words: Heidi Kemps, GamesRadar US

ROUTE 203 POKEMON
Starly - Levels 4-6 - Common
Shinx - Levels 4-5 - Common
Bidoof - Levels 4-6 - Uncommon
Abra - Levels 4-5 -Uncommon
Kricketot - Level 4 – Rare (Nocturnal)

ROUTE 204 POKEMON
Budew – Levels 4-5 - Common
Shinx – Levels 4-5 - Uncommon
Bidoof – Levels 4-6 – Common
Kricketot – Level 4 – Rare (Nocturnal)
Starly – Levels 4-6 – Common

ROUTE 204 CAVE POKEMON

Zubat – Levels 4-6 – Abundant
Geodude – Level 5 – Uncommon
Psyduck – Level 5 – Very rare

Above: Behold, a battle in Route 204. This route is blocked off at first because of the horrors you'll find within. Just look at that little green guy. He's so scary  

Route 204, to the north, is a dead end at the moment (you can’t progress past the cave at the end without Rock Smash), but it’s in your best interest to capture and build up a Budew or two. They’ll be extremely useful in the looming Gym battle. You can also try catching a Psyduck in the cave, but they are extremely rare. There’s an area where they’re common not too far ahead, so you’re probably better off waiting until then.

Route 203, to the east, leads to Oreburgh City. You’ll encounter your, uh, “friend” near the entrance to town. He’ll have one of the starter pokemon you didn’t choose, and he wants to challenge you to a fight with it! Fortunately, he’s still pretty inexperienced, so as long as you avoid having him exploit your weaknesses, you’ll be okay. There are several other fights for the picking here, too - they can be avoided by staying out of peoples’ line of sight. Before you enter the cave, swing around north and west to grab a Paralyze Heal from a pokeball on a small outlet. You might also want to try snagging Abra. Since Abras always use teleport as their first battle command, you’ll just have to throw a pokeball and hope luck is on your side. The little guy will be near useless until he hits level 16, so use the method mentioned above for Kricketot to have Abra earn EXP in combat.

CAVE TO OREBURGH
Zubat - Levels 5-7 - Common
Geodude - Levels 5-7 - Common

Inside the cave, you’ll run into an explorer who will bestow upon you HM08, which teaches Rock Smash. Unfortunately, you can’t do anything with it until you’ve got your first Gym Badge, so just hold tight for now. Keep heading right, fighting off misguided souls who may challenge you. You’ll see several Rock-type pokemon amongst their ranks, giving you a clue of what’s soon to come.  Eventually you’ll reach the exit to Oreburgh City.


 
21 Comments
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gooperz109  - 1 year 20 days ago 
Haha
dynomit272  - 10 months 27 days ago 
For Page 27 readers

When trying to catch Mesprit, you may want to try using a move like Mean Look to make sure it cant escape or using a Pokemon like Trapinch from Ruby or Sapphire which has the ability "Arena Trap" so wild Pokemon cant escape from battle without making your Pokemon faint first.
Hope they help!
tommym0133  - 10 months 6 days ago 
I can't figure out how to input codes on the DS for pearl and diamond.
james911  - 9 months 30 days ago 
for tommym0133 you need a action replay sorry
james911  - 9 months 30 days ago 
dude kricketot is not rare
karolab  - 9 months 21 days ago 
can someone tell me where the heck I can find # 65 pokemone, driploom i think is its name, it is the last one I need to see to be able to get my dex. thanks
karolab  - 9 months 21 days ago 
disregard last question, found out how.
123Cask  - 9 months 17 days ago 
How do you type in action replay codes???
tailor414  - 9 months 11 days ago 
To Karolab,
I found the pokemon drifloon on route 205. I was walking towards the valley windworks entrance. and it just appeared in front of me. not on the grass, just in my pathway. i was actually quite shocked. it is the only pokemon that i have seen just appear out of nowhere.hope that helps, i have only seen and captured it once!
jugernut236  - 9 months 9 days ago 
where can u catch darkrai
aesmith1987  - 9 months 7 days ago 
can you make a video showing us how to get through and/or up mount. coronet??? and how did you get a lucario?
MandyGirl  - 8 months 29 days ago 
where can i find pokemon number 114? its the last pokemon i need to complete my pokedex. could there possibly be a trainer i still have yet to vs? because i've searched everywhere, and from what i can see i've vsed them all.
Carpetbomb  - 8 months 19 days ago 
if u take mesprit down to minimal health it wil stay like that and wont recover, so if u get it that far and then use the map in the pokewatch to see it move around on the map moving between routes moves it around the map so if u find a spot where it goes and move between 2 routes u can gradually manuever it to ure area, once its there u can run around the grass and find it usually pretty easily, and since uve already taken its health down u just need to focus on catching it. After using mean look or arena trap effects and can sit a powerful pokemon out front and keep healing it while throwing as many ultra balls as u can if u follow this its pretty easy to capture it only took me a couple o attempts to do this nd not too long using level 50-60's

Gd Luck
zam1993  - 4 months 26 days ago 
I am trying to get to cyrus through mt coronet and there is the galactic grunt with no pokemon blocking me in one spot what do i do to get to cyrus? Please help
someawsomedude  - 4 months 3 days ago 
i cant find #46 #59 #80 #114 or #134 please help. thanks
someawsomedude  - 4 months 3 days ago 
to mandy girl. #114 is unown at solaceon town the ruins in there is the unown.
someawsomedude  - 4 months 3 days ago 
i found a murkrow at lost tower
Death54101  - 4 months 1 day ago 
To awesomedude #80 is barboach its found in a couple places like the water in and around mt coronet
someawsomedude  - 4 months 1 day ago 
where the heck is pal park? (sory for all the questions haha)
halo47  - 3 months 13 days ago 
to someawsomedude you can only go to the pal park when you complete the sinnoh pokedex and get the national dex and its on route 221
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