Pokemon Diamond / Pearl - hands-on - Day 3

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The final day of coverage is here, where we get down to discussing the new Pokemon you'll meet - and hopefully catch

Basic Pokemon

These Pokemon are neither common nor uncommon, and are likely to form the bulk of your team.

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This electric-type lion Pokemon has high attack power and a variety of shocking physical attacks. In addition to electric-type attacks, it learns the useful dark-type bite and crunch attacks, making it handy for dealing with psychic-type Pokemon in a pinch.

Rioru to Lucario

After invading a Team Galaxy island stronghold with the help of a mysterious trainer, you are given a Pokemon egg. Upon hatching, a fight-type Rioru will be born. If leveled in the daylight, Rioru will evolve into the fighting/steel-type Pokemon Lucario, the star of the most recent movie.

Gregguru

A combative poison dart frog, Gregguru is an unusual combination of the Poison and Fighting Pokemon types, making it doubly weak to Psychic attacks.