As usual, there’s a long scene at the start of the game. Pick your name, then save after by pressing select, going down to the bottom, then hitting A twice. Press Select again, go down to save again, then press Right. Hit A to open the options menu, then go right to set the speed to fast. Go down 5 to save and hit A to save your options. Save your game again if you want.
Go to the bottom left corner of the room. Move all the way right until you hit something, then go up until you can go right. Push down to be up against something and press A. If nothing happens, move right one step and press A again until you talk to someone. Keep pressing A until you hear a little jingle sound that goes on for a little while. You now have your three starter options presented to you. If you want Snivy (grass type), just press A. If you want Tepig (fire type), hit right once then hit A. Lastly, if you’d prefer Aushawott (water type), press right Twice and hit A. This decision cannot be changed later unless you start all over. Press A a few times and you’ll hear a little jingle to tell you you’ve picked it.
Keep pressing A or B until the fight starts. The first is Bianca, so keep using your first attack (probably Tackle) until you win. Next you fight Cheren so do the same thing. Okay, so you won both fights, which means your starter is now at level 6 (it started at 5)
Go all the way: Left, up, right, up, right. You’ll find some steps to go down which is represented by a little bouncing sound. This throws you into a scene with your mom. After this, go down all the way, then tap right and down until you leave the house (same sound as going down stairs). This is usually how you find exits of buildings. Leaving will throw you into another quick scene. To reach the southwest corner of town, keep going left, then down, until you cannot move in either direction anymore. Then take 3 or 4 steps right and go up to hit either the door of Bianca’s house, or the side of the building. Search around for the door if you have to, but don’t let yourself run north or you won’t be near the house anymore. Yet another little scene is in this house. There’s just one more little scene in the lab, which is a bit tricky to get into because Cheren blocks the entrance until you talk with him. We’re stuck, right? Well not if you: Go to the northwest corner, Go right so you hit the side of the building, then go south and try to move right until you’ve gone around to the front of it. The person directly right is not Cheren, so go right to go around them and then talk to the next one you come to while moving right (keep clicking A). You’ll go through a scene; answer No (B) to the professor’s first question (you don’t likely want to nickname your pokemon), then Yes (A) to her second question (you want to help her). Leave afterwards (south as usual). Another scene runs as you leave and you’ll receive a map, but more importantly the way out of town, which is the northeast exit, is no longer obstructed. Go there now. A scene occurs as you leave, and afterwards sit back and listen to the how to catch a pokemon tutorial movie. Basically, attack the pokemon so it’s health is lowered to make it easier to catch. Then on the battle screen go left to items and press A, then right to pokeballs and press A several times until you throw one (if you have them). Hopefully you catch it and hear the jingle you heard in this scene, if not press A a few times on the next turn to try again.
Now just press A or B a few times to get through the rest of the scene; you’ll receive some pokeballs from the professor. Now would be an excelent time to save your game as we’re now about to go through a route where there are pokemon to fight. There are Patrit and lillipup on this path; catch them if you want, but I’m just going to snag a lillipup along the way so later I can evolve it into a low level Watchog and teach it strength to move big rocks out of the way.
To cross Route 1 and reach Acumula town, just go north. You’ll hear when you are walking in grass, which is important because this is when wild pokemon attacks happen. Fight your way north until you reach the end of the first patch, then: Go up 8 or so steps or until you can go right several steps. Now Go one step left, then up until you go through grass and hit someone. Talk to them to get a potion which heals pokemon when they are hurt. After this, just take a step left to go around this person, then run north for a while and you’ll reach your next scene and the entrance to your next town. Press A instead of B at the start of the scene or you’ll cancel it and have to press up to enter again. After the scene continue north until the new music starts.
Save. Pokemon centers are where you heal your pokemon, and in this town it’s about 4 steps to the right of the entrance, and then up. Now search along this building for the door, but in this case you’ll run into the professer so talk to her for a scene. Note: sometimes when searching for doors, you’ll hit an object and have to tap down a time or two in order to continue right or left to go around it, then you can push up to hit it and continue your search. This will probably happen in this case too. After the scene, the pokemon center music starts so run forward to the nurse and press A several times. You will hear your pokemon being healed. Make sure you do this as you cannot continue otherwise. Go south and search left for the exit. After a bit of diologue go up to enter again. Go right all the way, then 3 steps up and right all the way to reach the mart’s top counter. The lower counter, which you could have reached by only doing one step up instead of 3, sells useless things like mail which you don’t need. Press A. After a few presses you’ll hear the unusual beep that means you selected something, in this case it’s buy. You start on poke balls, and pushing down will take you to potions. These are the only items available. Pressing A on one of them will ask you how many you want and you start on 1. Going up adds one each time, so go up 4 times if you want 5 pokeballs, for example. After the ching sound which tells you that you bought something, pressing A until 2 more beeps brings you back to the item select screen and you’ll start on whatever you just bought. Go down to the next item if you want to buy something else, otherwise just keep hitting B until you are out. Personally, I won’t be buying anything at this time as I feel I can get through the next couple of areas on just the free items found on the map. Go south and search left for the exit. Right after leaving, just run streight left for your first scene with Ghetsis and a battle against N. This is like a little mini boss, but use your starter’s 3rd move (one down), as long as you fought a couple of pokemon on route 1 you’ll have this, and with the potions you just bought he’ll be easy. If the music changes to beeping, instead of attacking hit left to go to items, then A a bunch of times to drink a potion and heal. You’ll have to manually navigate back to items on the next turn though. Save after the fight. You can save any time as when you start again you’ll be in exactly the same spot. Move about 7 steps left then go up. You’ll hit a house so search for the door. Inside, find a staircase in the top right. After the stairs, go 2 steps down, 1 step left and down until you hit someone who gives you a free pokeball. Find the stairs again in the top left (all the way up, right, up then left should work) then find the exit of the house. Now just go far left to enter a little gatehouse and then further left to enter a new route. This is the far west point of the town if you need to find it again. The entrance of Acumula where you came in is the south of town in case you want to come back and heal or something. Anyway, time to explore route 2 and go to Striaton city. This route has the same pokemon as last time as well as Purrloin. Just go left and you will find a scene with your mom almost right away. Now go Left, up, right 2 grass steps and then down to hit a potion on the ground. A to pick it up. If you didn’t hear 2 grass steps and a pokemon appeared, then the step didn’t count so after the fight continue right until you do reach the 2 steps. After picking it up, go up all the way and then right until you start a trainer fight. Your first trainer only has Patrit and is an easy win. Now go right, up, a step down, and right. This is the next trainer. This one just has a purrloin but is still easy enough. If you need to heal at this point (I did), hit select, then go down 2 to bag and press A. You start on the Items pocket or whichever pocket you last accessed. Move right to reach Medicin then hit A a few times and you’ll hear a sound who’s pitch quickly goes up to tell you your health has been restored. You probably don’t have enough HP to require 2 at this point, but later in the game you might have to keep pressing A until it happens again. Now hit B until you are out of it. Keep track of how many of each item you have, in the order you received them. Right now you should only have poke balls in the items pocket and potions in the medicin pocket. Each time you use one, you should document this; when you have zero of an item, remove it from the list entirely, or just don’t let it reach 0 by going to buy more before this happens. This prevents you from looking for an item later and saying: “Hmm, I wonder which spot it’s in?” This is more important in the items pocket. If you forget which pocket you accessed last, save your game, then turn it off and back on. This resets your position in your bag entirely.
Continuing, go up, then right until your 3rd grass step, then up until your next trainer fight, acknowledging that wild battles may happen along the way. Before your next fight, there are 2 free items to get: a pokeball and a potion. To get them, Take a step down and then go right, down, left, press A to get one. Take 3 steps left, go up, and press A for the other. Go right, then up, then left. Go down until you can go left and then go north. Keep tapping left and up until you move north and encounter Bianca who will battle you. She starts with a lilipup and then uses her starter (she chose the one that is week to your own, so use your elemental move to knock it out quickly. Head streight north to enter Striaton city. This is the first gym city, but we cannot go to the gym just yet. Even if we could, we couldn’t win at this point, because the gym leader always has the elemental type that is week to your own; grass if you have water, water if you have fire and fire if you have grass. Not only that, but there are events which must be completed all over town before we’ll even be allowed passage into the gym.
First thing’s first: head 4 steps up from the very beginning, right, then up until you hit a building. You have to enter this one through the left hand side, so tap left and then up until up doesn’t result in you bumping into it, then hold right to enter (staircase sound). If you don’t enter, tap up again and then try right. There are lots of these kind of buildings throughout this game.
Once inside, just go east, then north, then east 2 steps, then south. You’ll hit someone. Talk to get a free great ball, a pokeball with a better catch rate. Search south and west for the exit, which you press down to go through instead of left, in spite of you having to press right to enter. Odd, I know. Back outside, take 4 steps south, then go west until you crash, then south and press A to pick up an X speed, a one time use item which you can use during a battle to increase a pokemon’s speed. It expires either when the fight ends, when the pokemon is knocked out, or when you switch to a different pokemon. If you’re a real strategist, you might be able to use this during a tough trainer battle before the trainer sends out their toughist pokemon just to give you that extra advantage to pull off the win. Head north, east, and north again. You are now hitting a building which you need to go around. You are facing it, and you want to put it behind you, so head left until you can move north, hit right to bump into it, north until you can go right (if you enter the building doing this, hit down to exit, take a step left and then continue this paturn). If you hit something to the north, take a step left to go around it. Once you don’t hit something going right, push down to hit the back of it. Now move right until you can move down, past the building. You’ll hit something. If it’s a person and you can talk to them, that’s good; you’ll receive a dusk ball, which is another type of pokeball which has a better catch rate at night or in dark places. Use this if you are playing at night or if you want to catch something while inside a cave. If you just hit a wall, tap right and you’ll hit this person right away. Talk to them to receive the item. From here, go left to hit something, then tap up until you can move left and don’t hit it (it’s more than 8 steps so you can safely tap up this many times, then start doing this paturn). After this, take 2 more steps up, 12 steps left, then head up to enter the pokemon center. Otherwise search for the door. Run up and heal, then run down to exit. If you need to buy more items (there are still only the pokeballs and potions available), use the same steps as last time.; up to re-enter, right, up 3, right, press A. I suggest that you buy only what you really need, as you’ll want your cash available to spend on better items later. After you win a gym badge, the mart’s invintory will be upgraded so you’ll be able to buy new items, in this case super potions, which heal your pokemon more than regular potions do. Either way, leave afterwards. Head to the east tip of the city; you’ll have to tap up a couple of times on the way. The music will change; this is the entrance to the dreamyard.
Head streight east to encounter 2 trainers. The first has 2 purrloin, the second has 2 patrit and a lilipup; more easy battles to get your pokemon up a few levels. After the fights, go east and try to talk to someone. If she’s not there go west a few steps, then go east again. Do this until you talk with this person. She’s moving around so you might have to take some time to try and catch her. A step up might help as well. Keep pressing A so you say yes when she asks a question, and you’ll receive a pokemon which has an advantage against the gym leader. If you chose Snivy as your starter, the gym leader will have the fire type monkey Pansear, so you will receive the water type monkey Panpour to counter this. If you chose Oshawott as your starter, the gym leader will have the grass type monkey Pansage, so you will receive the fire type monkey Pansear to counter this. If you chose Tepig as your starter, the gym leader will have the water type monkey Panpour, so you will receive the grass type monkey Pansage to counter this.
Go around this person and get to the far east. Now go north as far as you can and move left until you can move north further. Go north all the way, then east, then 3 steps back to the west, then south until you hit an item; an X defend. Pick this item up; it works the same as the X speed item, except it razes a pokemon’s defence stat. It’s now time to leave the dreamyard for now, but there’s a quest coming up here soon. Go west, south, east until you can go further south, south all the way, west, a step north, west to exit.
Now we need to collect a couple of random items placed around the city before moving on. Go west, south, take a step east to avoid a person, south, go west, you’ll run into another NPC. go north one step, go west, one step east, go south, go 2 steps east, south, West, 2 steps north, west, south, east to pick up another great ball; we now have two of these. We now need to get out of this area. Go north, east until you can go north, North, East and you’ll hit something right away, South until you can go east, East (if you hit someone, take a step north and continue east), south, west and you’ll hit right away, north until you can move west, west until you can move south to find the exit of the city. When you re-enter, moving up will actually cause you to run into the gym, but it’s obstructed for now because the event at the school isn’t done. From here, just tap north and west until you can’t go either way. Go around the building to your left and enter it, this is how you can reach the pokemon center if you need to. Later the gym will be opened so you will enter that, but just leave and push left to hit the side of the pokemon center again.
From the center, take a step west and go south, west, north until you can go west, north. Search to the left for the door to the school. Inside, go right, up until you can go right, right, up, left until you can go up, up until you hit. This is a kid who asks you three questions, and if you answer correctly you’ll receive a full heal from him, an item which can be used only once and heals any status condition. There’s a moving NPC in the way who will block your way to this guy. Wait for them to get away or you won’t get through.
For the first question select the first answer (out of 2), the first answer for the second question, and the 3rd answer for the 3rd question. Head south and search left for the door just to give yourself a reference. Head back in, go north all the way then east to hit your rival Cheren. Talk, answer yes (so don’t press B) to his questions to start a fight. He’ll open with his starter and then send out a Purrloin after you knock his starter out. If you’ve trained your own starter well up until now it could actually outlast his, especially since you have some potions at your disposal. Win, and you’ll receive 3 Oran berries, which just restore a bit of HP. More importantly,you’ll earn access to the gym! Leave the school. Go right until you hit something, go around to face it. Take 6 steps right and head up into the pokemon center, otherwise search for the door. Heal your pokemon, because it’s time to enter the gym! The gym is 7 steps to the right of the pokemon center. After taking 7 steps right, push up and talk to the person blocking the way (or search for him on this building’s outside if you didn’t reach him). He’ll allow you passage after the conversation, so just walk in!
This is an easy gym. Just run forward until you hit a switch. If you hear a buzzer sound to tell you that you selected the wrong one, move right or left to try one of the other 2 (they’re all in a row, and you are in the middle of the 3). Once you hit the correct one, the path will be opened so you can run forward and fight a trainer who has pokemon you’ve seen many times. After the fight, do this all again; switches, run forward, fight the trainer. Do this once more, except running forward this time will throw you into a short scene and then further running forward will take you to the gym leader. Heal up with potions if you want and prepare for the fight!
My status at this point: Playtime: 34 min 11 sec. Money: 7616 Items pocket: X defend (1), Dusk Ball (1), X speed (1), Great Ball (2) and Pokeball (6). Medicin pocket: Fresh water (1), Full Heal (1) and Potion (2). Berries pocket: Oran Berry (3) The key items pocket just contains the map and the phone. Your invintory may deviate somewhat depending on what you’ve used so far and what you bought at the mart.
Pokemon: Oshawott (Level 14), Pansear (Level 10), Lilipup (untrained). Pansear is not a pokemon that I will be using later in the game. It’s just fine early on, but it lacks strong moves later in the game so I’m not going to bother training it. The only reason I have it is so I can beat this gym leader, as your starter is weak against his monkey. His Purrloin should be easy to take down with your starter. His monkey however, will use Work Up a couple of times and then use his elemental move, which would knock your starter out just like that. Switch to your monkey and use it’s elemental move until you knock his monkey out; heal if your health gets low. If you win you’ll receive the badge and the TM for work up; leave the gym through the south exit to enter another scene. Fennyl will take you to her house and give you the Cut HM, which lets you cut down trees.
Go up and then left to go down the steps and then south to leave her house. Outside, take a step up and you’re actually in front of the gym. The exit back to route 2 is directly behind you. Take 7 steps left and go up to enter the pokemon center. Heal your pokemon. The PC is just to the left of the nurse if you ever need to put some pokemon away or take some out, but don’t put your monkey away just yet as you’ll want to teach it cut. The mart now has new items available, so you should buy some stuff that you couldn’t get before. Personally, I’m only going to get the super potions (3 down from the top, stronger potions), and repels (1 up from the bottom, they prevent wild pokemon from attacking you). The rest of the items at the mart are the old stuff from before, as well as items that heal status conditions; something you don’t have to worry about for a little while anyway. With my current amount of money, I could potentially buy 5 repels and 5 super potions. You might want these repels for times when you are trying to grab an item and the wild pokemon are just really throwing you off. Leave and head back into the dreamyard. At this point, a pokemon on your team needs to learn cut to remove a bush that blocks your path forward. Cut is not a particularely useful move in battle, so teach it to a pokemon that you are not using (Patrit is good, so is your monkey if you aren’t going to use it in battle, but sadly Lilipup cannot learn it). The TM pocket is to the right of the medicin pocket. Place your slave pokemon at the front of your team, then go to the TM pocket and go down one. When you select a TM or HM you hear 2 beeps. Keep pressing A until you hear the little jingle that tells you that you’ve acquired something. Now place your slave pokemon at the bottom of the list again.
Go up, then right to hit the tree. Press A and confirm that you want to cut it down. Your pokemon will make it’s cry and then cut the tree, giving you access to the next area. Go right for a scene with Bianca. Go up and then right for a short little scene with Munna. Go right until you can go up and you’ll start another scene and 2 team Plasma grunt battles. The first grunt just has a Patrit and the second just has a purrloin.
After this, there are a few items to get before leaving. Go up, then left, then down until you can go left, then left all the way, tap down and left (pressing A after each tap) until you grab another pokeball. Go up, right, up, right, down, then tap down and left, pressing A after each tap, until you grab a Parallize heal; removes the parallized status condition, usually caused from attacks by electric type pokemon. From here, go up, left, down, right until you can move down a ways, down all the way and press A to pick up an item, a potion. After getting this one, go up, right, down until you can move right, up to hit the wall, right until you hit the last item, a repel.
To exit, go left, up, left, take 6 steps right to avoid a passageway which you don’t need, go down, tap down and right until you can’t go right any further, go up until you can go right, right until you can go down, down all the way, up until you can go just a tad right, then up to get out of the area where the items were. Continuing on exiting the dreamyard, head left through the grass, then down, right, 5 steps up, 4 steps right, down, right until you can go down, down, left until you can go down, down, left, up until you can go left, left to finally be out of here!
Now, go west, take a step back to the east, go south, west until you can go south, south, west until you can go south again, then south again to reach the entrance of Striaton city so you can either go to the pokemon center, or to your next destination. Your next objective is to go back to Fennyl’s house and talk to her now that you’ve saved Munna in the dreamyard. To do this, head up and enter the gym so you can use it as a point of reference. Leave, and then take 7 steps south, then go east to enter the house through the side. Up, then right to go up the stairs. Head directly south to bump into her, then talk. After receiving the first item she gives you, make sure you are pressing A instead of B so you answer Yes to her first 2 questions. You will receive a second item as well. These are the items that allow you to access the wi-fi system and store friend codes so you can battle against and trade pokemon with other live players over the internet. Go back downstairs and leave the house. You are now directly south of the gym and directly north of the city’s entrance, so head back to the pokemon center and heal before moving on.
If you want to get some items, head back down to route 2 instead. Head all the way left, go down until you can go left, then just tap down, then left, then press A. Keep doing this until you reach a cut tree and remove it. If you instead hit something going down, go right until you can go down and around it, then down until you can go left, then continue searching for the tree. There are 2 items here; a great ball and a super potion. Go left until you can go down twice (the first down will be very short but the second will be a good distance), then go left all the way, then up, press A to grab the first item. Getting the second one is a simple matter of: Up, left, up, left, take it. Now go right, down, right, up, right, up, left until you can go up, and up to enter Striaton city again. At last, we’re done with Striaton city, so our next goal is to leave town through the northwest exit. From the pokemon center, go left, down until you can go left, left, down until you can go left, left, up until you can go left, left, up, right until you can go up, up until the music changes. This is a totally new area, route 3- the path to Wellspring Cave and to Nacrene city! Note: the directions to leave Striaton city work from the gym as well, but if you start from the gym you’ll have to “go down until you can go left” 3 times instead of twice, so just add one more in there and you’re golden.
The pokemon here are the same, just with the addition of Pidove (flying type ) and Blitzel (electric type). I’ll be catching a blitzel and training it up as it’ll be useful for me later on.
Now, you need to go up, left, up, and left again to fight a trainer with Lilipup and Munna. From here, go 3 steps left, then down, press A to battle a trainer with a Panpour. Now take just 1 step left, go down and press A to fight a trainer with Pansear. From here, go 4 steps left, then up to fight a trainer with Pansage. Go all the way down, then left until you hear your 3rd sand step. Now tap up very gently (don’t take a step, just face north), and press A. You should pick up an ultra ball, which is even better than a great ball. If you did take a step, just push down and then try facing up again. If you can’t find it, search around in this sandbox. As long as you stay in the sand you can’t get lost.
After this, go up, right, down until you can go right, right until you can go up, up, right, down, then go around to the front of what you just hit and find the door to enter the school. From here, go left, down, right, up until you can go right, right until you can go down a short distance (less than a second), right until you can go down for a bit longer, then left to another trainer fight. Both of these trainers have Purrloin, and if you have at least 2 pokemon you’ll fight both of them at once. If in a normal battle you have to press A twice to select an attack, you must do it 3 times in double battles, because after picking your move you must choose your target. Just press A here in you want to attack the first trainer’s pokemon, push right and press A if you want to attack the second trainer’s pokemon. Before anything will happen, you must go through the same process for your own second pokemon. Continue going left. You’ll start a fight against your rival Cheren. As usual, Cheren opens the fight with his starter, then brings out a weak Purrloin. He’s still no threat as long as your pokemon isn’t weakened already, and if it is you can go back to the school to heal. After the match, you will see a little scene where Team Plasma steals a little girl’s pokemon. After the scene go 3 steps left, then go up and grab a super potion in the grass. Stick around here and move up and down if you want the chance to catch a pidove or a blitzel. Otherwise, go down until you are out of the grass, then go left, then go 6 steps up (press B until the scene is over if you enter it, but you probably won’t), then go right, up one step, then right until you run into a trainer with Patrit, Lilipup and Pidove. You will also win another oran berry. From here, take 3 steps down (or until your first non grass step), then face left and press A to pick up a repel. Do this with care though, as there is a risk of falling off a ledge. From here, just go up, then left. You’ll enter a scene where Cheren asks if you want to enter the Wellspring Cave. Say yes, then push left to enter.
Continue left and you will fight a Team Plasma grunt with a Patrit. After this, 2 more grunts each with a patrit; Cheren also helps you in this fight. Now that this is done there are a couple of quick items to grab before we leave. Feel free to catch a Wubat (flying type) or a Roggenrola (Rock type) if you want. Go up, left, down, left, down, right, up until you can go right, right, up until you can go right, right, up until you can go right once more, go down to hit something, go right just until you can go down and then tap A, down, A, down etc until you pick up a hidden full heal. From here, take exactly 4 steps right and move up. Grab this item, it’s the TM for the move Thief. Be careful while grabbing this, it’s also right on an edge which you’ll fall off if you aren’t positioned correctly. After getting it, you want to jump off the aforementioned ledge, so just run forward until you hear yourself fall. This ledge is just a one-way shortcut back to the entrance of the cave, so head right, then a step up and right to exit.
Back on Route 3, go right, then down. You’ll jump off a ledge. Take one more step down and then go right until you get into a scene with Bianca and the girl you just helped. You will receive 3 heal balls, which are pokeballs which restore a pokemon’s health when captured. From here, go streight south and you’ll fight a trainer with a Blitzel.
After the fight, take a step up so that you can go right around the trainer. Move right until you here 4 grass steps, then move south and pick up an item, an antidote (cures poisoned status). After this, go left until you’ve taken 2 non-grass steps, then go down, and right. You’ll run into Cheren who tells you that the grass he’s standing in contains wild double battles, where 2 pokemon come out to attack you at the same time. These work just like the double battle you fought before entering Wellspring Cave. After this scene, it’s a step right and then down until you get into a fight. This is a trainer with a Wubat. After the battle, go down, then go left until you can go down and through some grass. After going all the way down through the grass, just go left all the way, then up and grab a great ball. Now, go right, then up, then left to encounter a trainer with Patrit (This one tried to use Bide on me! Watch out!) and a Purrloin with the annoying Sand Attack. After the fight, take 11 steps to the left, then go down, through a little bit of grass to reach an awakening on the ground, an item which removes sleeping status. After getting this, go up until your first non grass step, then head left to encounter the final trainer. This one has Pidove and Roggenrola. After this it’s: Left, down until you can go left, left, down until you can go left to enter the gatehouse. Keep going left until you enter Nacrene city!
Head left. You’ll enter a scene with Cheren, who will give you 3 chesto berries (same as awakening, except your pokemon holds one and will use it as soon as it is put to sleep). After this scene, take 8 steps left and then push up to enter the pokemon center. If you were to exit this pokemon center and go streight right, you would head right out of the city the same way you came in. The pokemon center is exactly 34 steps to the left of the entrance, so if you take 34 steps left from this eastern entrance and then push up you’ll be right at the door of the pokemon center.
From the center, take 16 steps left and then go up all the way. You’ve actually entered a house here, but you don’t hear any door opening. If you can’t go up, try a step right or left to get in the doorway. Once you reach the top, go 6 steps down, then go left. Try to talk to this person; if you can’t, take one step up, then face left and talk to this person. This girl asks which starter you selected. You can tell her anything you want, and you’ll receive an item which boosts the power of attacks of the given type. The first option is Snivy, and so you’d receive a miracle seed which boosts grass type attacks. The second option is Oshawott, so you’d receive a mystic water which boosts water type attacks. Lastly, the 3rd option is Tepig, so you’d receive a Charcoal which boosts fire attacks. Whichever you choose, you should attach it to the appropriate pokemon (doesn’t have to be your starter, it can be attached to your monkey or any other pokemon with appropriate attacks) right away so you don’t lose track of it in your bag. Press down to leave the house. From here, go left, right one step, down 2 steps and press A to pick up a hidden revive, an item that brings a pokemon back when it has been knocked out. If you don’t pick it up, then try moving up and down in this area while pressing A after every up or down step. Now, take one step down, then 24 steps right. Now go up, left, down until you can go left, left until you can go up, up, then right. Now tap down and press A, tap down and press A, repeat until you pick up a hidden ultra ball. If you don’t, then begin tapping up and pressing A until you do get it. You’re actually just off to the write of the entrance to the cafe which is north of the pokemon center. We should now explore the outer section of Pinwheel forest as there are many more trainers to fight there. Though that is supposed to be done after the Nacrene gym, we’re able to explore a portion of it before just in case our pokemon are not strong enough to take on the gym, which is actually quite tough. Go left, down, right until you can go down, down and left. You’re now out of the city.
You can catch Timburr, Throh and Sawk here (all fighting types), as well as Tympole (Water type).
Now, go left, up and left. Talk to this person to receive the TM for Rock Smash. If you don’t have a better fighting type move by the time you reach the gym leader, this weak fighting type move might prove useful against her.
From here, go down, left until you can go down, left, down, tap A, then tap right, down and A, keep doing this until you get into a battle with a trainer who hasMunna. She will heal your pokemon when you win. Go right, down until you can go right a very small distance, then up, then right. Pick this item up; it’s an Ether; an item which restores PP to an attack. Don’t use this unless you are in a long series of fights, can’t get out to heal and can’t survive without a sertain attack; these items are very uncommon and cannot be bought at any location. There are a few others scattered around throughout the game, but I’d save them for the elite four or something else that’s long and hard.
Go down, left until you can go down, down, left until you can go down, down until you can go right. You’ll encounter a trainer streight away with Petilil and Cottonee. After this, take 2 steps right, then move up and down until the next trainer sees you. This one is moving so you need to move up a few steps, then down a few steps (but not too far down unless you want wild grass battles). This one has a Roggenrola. After this fight, take one step down, 11 steps right, then go up and pick up a great ball. Take 11 steps back to the left, go down, go right until you can go down, then go down to your next trainer fight. This one has Tympole (not one, not two, but three! Ridiculous!). After the battle, go down, right five steps, and up. Pick up an antidote. For another antidote (hidden), go 2 steps left from here, 5 steps down, and press A. If you don’t get it, as usual tap up and down here while pressing A. Now go down, left, right one step, then up. This is a super potion. Now go right, up until you can go right, right, up until you can go right, and right to face your next trainer (Venepede and Lilipup). Go right, up a step, then right. You might encounter a trainer with Timburr, who is moving. If you don’t get spotted along your way, then take a step left and move up and down until you find them. Either way, go up (right and around the trainer if you run into them), right, up, one step left, press A for a hidden Ether. If you miss it, push right to hit the wall, tap left and try pressing A again or try another tap to the left. One way or the other will work. Go down, left until you can go down, down, then slowly tap left until you either hit something or get into a trainer match. If you hit something, then slowly tap right until you get into a trainer match; this one as well has timburr and is moving, so just keep going left and right. After this fight, go past the trainer and reach the left side. It’s likely that a step up, and if not a step down will get you around them. Once you are all the way left go Up, Left, Up, left 5 steps, down to reach an item: Net Ball. It’s now time to head back to the city. Go left (keep going even after you jump off a ledge), up, left, 3 steps right, up, right, down until you can go right, right, down until you can go right, right to exit.
Back in Nacrene City, go down, then right until you can go down for a couple of seconds. It’s a long way right; but you’ll hear the guy playing music outside the cafe just before you’ll reach it. Now take 6 steps right, then go up to enter the pokemon center. After leaving the center, go 5 steps left, 7 steps up, 12 steps right and then up to approach the gym and get into a battle with N. N just has a pidove, a tympole and a timburr. The Tympole will try to confuse you. After the battle and scenes, push up to enter some more scenes. Afterwards head up to enter your second gym!
Push up and you’ll get into a scene and receive your fresh water for this gym. Continue up to fight a trainer with Patrit. After the fight, go down 1 step, left 2 steps, then up to reach the first book. Read it. For the next book, go right one step, up 5, left 3, then up to hit the book. Next, go down, left, up, right until you can go up, up (it’s a very short distance), right, fight this trainer. This one has Herdier. For the next book, go up, right, down 1 step, right one step, up. The directions to the next one are: Down, right, down, left 3, up. To reach the last trainer, go right until you can go up, up until you can go left, one more step left, then up. To reach the final book, go up, right, down one step, right one step, then up. Reading this book will open the path to the gym leader for you.
To reach the leader, go down a step, then left, then up. Now continue tapping right until you can go up, and going up all the way. Do this until you cannot go either up or right, then go down until you can go right, then continue going right and up. Keep doing this until you cannot go down or right, then go left until you can go down, then down until you can go right and reach a staircase. Move up to reach the gym leader.
My status at this point: Playtime: 1H 45 M 44S. Items pocket invintory: Net ball (1), Heal ball (3), Ultra ball (2), Repel (2), X Defend (1), X speed (1), Great ball (5), Pokeball (7)
Medicin pocket: Fresh water(1), Ether (2), Revive (1), Ice heal (3), Burn heal (3), Awakening (4), Antidote(6), Super potion (4), Parallize heal (4), Full Heal (2). TM pocket: Thief, Work up, Rock Smash and Cut. Berries: Chesto Berry (3), Oran Berry (4) The key items pocket has the pal pad, the town map and the phone. Pokemon: Dewott (Level 20), Blitzel (level 18), Lilipup (Untrained), Pansear (Level 10, not used).
If you want, you can leave your oshawottt unevolved until it learns water pulse and revenge. It would help against Lenora, but only if you plan on doing a lot of extra training to get it up to level 25. Lenora is quite difficult. She has Herdier which has Intimidate to lower your attack power right away. I suggest starting with an HM pokemon that you are not using. It’ll be knocked out right away, but then you can switch to another pokemon to nullify Intimidate. If you have a fighting type pokemon, send that out and put on the pressure with your strongest fighting move. If you don’t have a fighting pokemon, then the next best thing is probably to teach Rock Smash to anyone who can learn it. This is a weak fighting move but it may do more damage than any of your stronger but less effective moves at this point. After you knock out Herdier she’ll send out Watchog, which is really fast and has Retaliate which will do more damage if she uses it on the next turn after you knocked out her Herdier. Again, switch to a pokemon that you can afford to lose here, both to take the retaliate and to remove the affects of Lear. Just keep up using your strongest fighting move or rock smash, heal if you have to, and you should win; may take a couple of tries.
After the fight, go down, right until you can go down, down, then left to go back downstairs. Go down, left until you can go down, then down to exit the gym section of the museum. Go down until you see a long scene; then go down, left until you can go down, down, right until you can go down, then down to exit. To return to the pokemon center, first take 9 steps left, then go down. Now, going left, go around the building to the front and enter. Note: there’s a part sticking out as you go right around the side of it. Market inventory after second gym badge: Pokeball, Great ball, Potion, Super potion, Antidote, parallize heal, awakening, burn heal, ice heal, escape rope, repel. The lower counter has: Heal ball, net ball, the rest are just mail.
You should buy some super potions, a few antidotes, and a few parallize heals and awakenings before heading to the Pinwheel forest especially since you’ll encounter bug and poison type pokemon. A few repels might also be a good idea if you can afford them; the wild pokemon can be pretty relentless. I already have some healing items, so I just bought a few supers. Leave Nacrene City and go to the outer pinwheel forest, the place where we went out training before we took on the gym. The directions to do this are: Left 5 steps, up, down one step, left.
Go left, up until you can go left, then go left until you run into a scene. You will meet Burgh and he’ll take you to the main part of Pinwheel Forest. Since we already explored the outer part, this is okay. After this, go left, down until you can go left, then left to enter. We’re now officially in; get ready for a long, challenging treck through the woods!
The pokemon here include Pidove, Sewaddle (bug and grass type), Venipede (bug and poison type), Cottonee (Grass type, black version only), Petilil (Grass type, White version only)
From the start, go left, then up. Burgh will talk to you here. Take a step up from here and then go left to fight a double battle (Sewaddle) Go down, left until you can go down, then down to fight a Plasma grunt with a Sandile. To get an item (Big Root), go left, down, left until you hear 5 grass steps, down 3, left, right one, up, pick up the item; it increases the health gained from draining moves. For the next grunt fight, take 7 steps right (or until you’re standing on the first non grass square), then go up, then left. She uses the familiar Purrloin. For your next trainer, take one step down, 2 left, then go up. This one has Herdier. Next, go down, left, up 5, left 2, then up to reach a super potion. From here, go down 8 steps and press A to get a tiny mushroom (hidden). Take the 8 steps back up, then go west to encounter another trainer with Venipede and Timburr. Next, take a step right, then go down, left, up, right 2, up 2, then left. Pick up this antidote. Now just take 2 steps right, then go up and you’ll get into a battle. This trainer has Pansage. You’ll receive chesto berries for winning this battle. From here, go up (it’s a long way, if you ran into the trainer you just fought you didn’t make it). left, down until you can go left, left, down, right 3, up until you get into another fight. This trainer has Panpour. You’ll receive Pecha berries for this. After this, go down, right 3 and down 2. Press A for another one of those mushrooms. From here, just go up, then right. You’ll face another Grunt, this one with Patrit. After the fight, take a step down and go right, then up. Go left until you can go up, then up until you can go right, then right, then up to receive a parallize heal. After picking this up, take a step down and go right to fight your next trainer. This one has Pansear and will give you more Pecha berries. From here, just go streight up. This final grunt has Patrit and Sandile. Some scenes follow and you’ll receive a moon stone. Afterwards, take a step right and then go down, right, down, right, 2 steps up, 5 steps right, then up to get an item: Miracle seed. Continue right until you jump off a ledge. There are three more trainers to take care of before leaving. First, go down, then go right 6 steps, down, and press A to fight a trainer with Pidove and Purrloin. Next, just take a step right and then go down to reach the next one; this one with Wubat X3. Now, simply continue down to encounter the last one; he just has a Munna. After this is done, just go up to leave the forest; you’ll hear the familiar route music. This is the last location with this music. Just go up 3 and then right to enter a gatehouse. As soon as you enter take 2 steps right, then go up. Talk to a person to receive a quick claw; this item, when held, gives your pokemon the chance to attack first. Now go down, right, up, right, up. You’ve now entered Skyarrow bridge. It’s a long bridge, but just run streight up for nearly a minute and you’ll reach another gatehouse; inside, just go up then left to enter Castelia City!
There’s a ton to do here. We’ll be catching a Darumaka for your next gym, as well as collecting EXP share by battling a bunch of trainers, as well as the amulet coin by tracking a group of trainers down who are hiding all over this massive city.
To start, get on the pier which is south of the entrance. On the pier, go down, right, up one step, right 2 steps, down, then right. Talk to this person. He will ask you if you have Pansage, Pansear or Panpour, and he’ll give you a stone that will evolve the one you picked. After talking to him, take a step up and then go left until you get back on the main street. Even though this city is massive, it’s not too hard to navigate and the pokemon center is pretty easy to get to. Once on Main Street, go up and then move left along the top. You will have to go around things by going down and left a couple of times. Eventually you’ll reach the entrance to Mode Street; come back out and push streight left to hit the side of the pokemon center! The mart still sports the same old invintory so don’t bother with it unless you are running low on something.
At this point we’ll leave town to go catch a pokemon. Head streight west, then up to enter gym street. Take a step left and Go north to enter the plaza. Go up, right, up, 7 steps right, then up to enter another street. Now just go north for a long time, through a gatehouse and then out of the city! Route 4
We’re here for Darumaka, a great fire type pokemon that’ll help you to no end with the upcoming bug-type gym. The other pokemon here are Sandile and Scraggy. To start, go left until you hear 6 steps in deep sand. This is where wild pokemon appear, so you may encounter some pokemon including Darumaka. If you encounter a Darumaka you should catch it now, as you’ll want this for the rest of the game. At this point, go 6 steps down, then go left. If you want to battle or catch pokemon here, just move left and right. Otherwise, go all the way left and then lightly tap up until you can go left. Keep doing this. When you cannot go left or up, then lightly tap right until you can go up. Keep repeating this process until your steps are silant as this means you’ve found a little staircase leading to 2 fishermen. Once you reach it at last, go left all the way, one step right, then go down and press A to battle a fishermen with some basculin. Now go right one step, down, right 2 steps and down. Press A to fight another fishermen with 4 more Basculin.
Next, go up, left until you can go up, then up. Now go right until you hear 2 steps in packed sand. Then go up. The ground will change to deep sand, then back to packed sand. After it does this you need to walk for 3 steps in packed sand. Then go left, then up, then right to fight another trainer who owns 2 tympole. Next, go left, then down. Pick up a great ball. From here go right, up, right, left one, face down and pick up a hidden ultra ball. Next, go left, down until you can go left, left until you can go up, up until you can go right, right 3 steps, then go up and pick up a hyper potion. After this, go down 3, left 3, then up to fight a trainer with 2 Roggenrola and a tymburr. Now, go up, then go right until you can go up, up, right until you can go up, and then up again to fight your next trainer; this one with just Timburr. Go left, up until you can go left, then left, then up to reach the TM for Torment. Next, go right 3 steps, then go down until the ground changes to deep sand, then back to packed sand and you hear 3 packed sand steps. Now go left, right one, down, face up and pick up a hidden Ethor. For the final item here (for now), go right, up one, right, up 7. Press A for a hidden burn heal. There’s nothing left to do here until we get through the upcoming gym so it’s time to leave. Go down, up one step, right until you can go down a bit, down, right until you can go down further, down, left, up until you can go left, left until you can go down, down, up until you can go right, right, up until you can go right again, right, down until you can go right, right until you reach a short patch where there’s no sand, then down to exit.
When you get back into the city, go streight down to enter the plaza again. Now go right, down, right then down to enter the next street. Continue down to get back to main street. Now just push left and you’ll hit the side of the pokemon center.
Go right until you can go up to enter Castelia Street. Here, go up until you can go right; keep doing this until you cannot move in either direction. Then go left until you can go up, then up until you can go right to enter a house from the side. Go up, then left, then down. Talk to this person to add a pokemon to your dex. Go down, take a step right, go down to exit. To reach the next building, go 3 steps left, then 13 up, then go left to enter. Go streight up the elevator, keep pressing A to go up. Go down, then left. Do this three more times. Then go right, then down. Now go right 3 steps and go up. Talk to a person to receive the TM for Rest. To get out go left, up, left, up, right, up, down 3, right 4, up. Take the elevator back down and then head streight down to exit.
Now go up, right until you can go up, and up to enter the plaza.
We’re now in search of the amulet coin. The goal here is to locate a dancer and take him on in a fight; at which time he’ll ask that you go find his other two pals and fight them as well. To find the first one, from the entrance of the central plaza go up 13 steps, then go left. Talk to him and say yes. He uses Pansage, and so the other two will use the other elemental monkeys. Go down, left, right one step, then down to enter Narrow Street. Take 8 steps down and then go left. This is one of the dancer’s pals; talk to him to fight his Panpour. After winning, go 9 steps down, then right until you enter a cafe. Inside go left, up until you can go left, left, right 2, up. This person will give you a lemonade. After getting this, go down, then right until you can go down to exit. After this go down, then go left until you can go down. Going down, a guy jumps out of a dumpster and gives you flash. Go down until you leave the streat, continue and hit a wall. Go left until you can go down to enter unity pier, where the last of the dancer’s friends are. Go right two steps and then go down, talk to him to battle his pansear. Now just go up to leave the pier and be back on the main drag. Now go up 5 steps and then go right to leave the city the way you first came in. Go back in and head to the pokemon center. Now return to the plaza where you battled the first person and you’ll finally get the amulet coin. The new directions here are: up 14, left, down 2, left 3, up. Talk and you’ll finally get the coin. It’s an item that doubles the money earned by fighting trainers if a pokemon holding it took part in the battle. Now go right and down to reenter Castelia Street, then continue down to get back on Main Street. Now you can just go left to hit the side of the pokemon center. Go in if you need.
Go left until you can go up. Keep doing this, going down to go around when you can’t move in either direction; eventually it’ll lead to the entrance to another street. Leave the new street and then go streight left to hit the side of the building. Go around and enter.
Go streight up to the elevator and pick the first option to go up. Head streight down to battle a trainer with a Roggenrola. Go down, right, up a step, right. Press A to fight a trainer with three Basculin. Next go up, left one, up too, then left. You’ll battle a trainer with a Timburr. After this fight just go right, you’ll fight another trainer, this one with Herdier. Continue right to reach a guy who will give you 3 quick balls and 3 timer tballs. Now go 4 steps left and 4 steps down. Go right and talk to this person to get a scope lense. Next, just go left to fight the last trainer for this flore; this one has Petilil and Cottonee. For the last item (revive), go up one step, left, down, right 1, down 2, then left and pick it up. Now go up, right, up, right 2, then up to reach the elevator. Pick the second option this time. After taking the elevator, go left 2 steps, then go down and pick up a hyper potion. Next, go left to fight a trainer with Wubat. Go right, then down to fight a trainer with a sewaddle. Go 3 steps right and then up to fight a trainer with Pansear, pansage and Panpour Next go down, left, then up. You’ll battle someone with a Munna. To reach the boss, go down, right, up, left one, up, left one, up 2, then right. Talk to him to battle; he has Trubbish (poison type) and Minccino (normal type). To return to the elevator, go left, down 9, left, up, left until you can go up (2 small amounts and then one larger one), and this should put you at the elevator. Pick the first option, then go streight down to finally be out. Now take a step down, then go right so you can be at the entrance and find the pokemon center again. From the pokemon center, just go left all the way, then up to enter Gym Street. Take 7 steps up, go right, then up, left one step, up, left one step, up three steps and then right to activate a scene. We now have to go to prime pier for some more scenes, so head down until you exit Gym Street. Next, go down, left one step, down three, right 53 steps and then down. You’ll enter the pier and have some more scenes. Afterwards, go up to leave the pier. Then go 4 steps up, then left all the way (there’s a short piece of dialogue near the end), then up to be back on Gym Street. Take one step left to avoid a person who is moving around. Now take 27 steps up and then go left to get into a scene. Make sure you say yes at the prompt; you’ll fight a grunt with 2 Sandile. After the fight and the following scenes go left, you’ll enter the Plasma building. Then go up to get into more scenes with Ghetsis and the sages. After all this is done go left 2 steps, then up. Pick up a smoke ball- an item that garontees escape from wild battles. Now go 2 steps right and then push down to leave the building. Now go 2 right, 15 down, and then right should put you in the gym! If not you are really close, so search for an entrance which you have to go right to enter.
For your fresh water, go right, up one, right one, then up and talk to him. After getting it, take 2 steps left and then run forward. You’ll run for a while, go through a wall of honey and then hit a switch. When you hear yourself going through the honey, don’t stop moving or you’ll just be bounced back out. From here, take 2 steps down, go right and press A to fight a trainer with Sewaddle and Venipede. From here, go a step down, 2 steps right, up, and right to hit another switch. Go down, left, down, left 3 steps, then up until you cross some honey and step on a trap switch. A trainer will battle you here with Sewaddle and Dwebble. Go up, left, up, and left again to hit a switch. Now go right, down, right, up and right to hit a second one. Now go down, left, right one step, and down to hit a 3rd switch. Now go up 2, right 12, then up to go through some more honey and hit another switch. Go down until you get back through the honey. Go left, right one step, and down until you get through some more honey. Go down, left, one up, left, one up, left, up, then left to hit another switch trap. You’ll fight another trainer with a Sewaddle. This trainer has a line of text after the fight. After this, take a step left, 2 up, one right, then go up until you cross through some more honey and hit another switch. Go back down, through the honey. Go left one step, down, right, left one, up until you go through 2 walls of honey and end up fighting another trainer, with Venipede and Sewaddle. After the fight just push up to hit the final switch! Go back down through the honey; stop when you reach the end of it. Now take 6 steps right, then run forward until you cross the last wall of honey and bump into burgh!
My status at this point: Money: 40542 Main pocket: Smoke ball (1), X accuracy (1), EXP share (1), Scope lens (1), Timer ball (3), Quick ball (3), Fire stone (1), Quick Claw (1), Miracle Seed (1), Moon Stone (1), Tiny mushroom (2), Big root (1), Heal ball (2), Bug Juel (1), Ultra ball (3), Repel (2), X defend (1), Dusk ball (1), X speed (1), Great ball (6) and Pokeball (14) Medicin pocket: Burn heal (1), Hyper potion (1), Ether (2), Revive (2), Awakening (4), Antidote (6), Parallize heal (5), Super potion (13), Full heal (1) and Potion (3). TM pocket: Torment, Rest, Thief, Retaliate, Flash, Work up, Rock smash and Cut. Berries: Chesto Berry (4), Pecha Berry (2), Oran Berry (2) and Yache Berry (1) Pokemon: Darumaka (Level 24 with Amulet Coin), Blitzel (24), Dewott (25), Lilipup (untrained) and Pansear (still level 10) Burgh has three pokemon: Venipede, Dwebble and Leavanny. He’s pretty easy if you have a fire type pokemon like Darumaka to take out Venipede; then he’ll send out Dwebble, which you’ll want a water attack to deal with quickly; then he’ll send out Leavanny which a fire type move will make short work of. Burgh shouldn’t be much of a threat whatsoever.
To get out, go streight down to get through a wall of honey. Go down all the way, right 7, down until you try to go through honey but can’t, left one step, down through the honey, left, right one step, down, through the honey and out.
Right after you leave the gym, Bianca calls you because she wants a match. Go down, left 2 steps, then down to get back on Main Street. Go down, left until you can go down, then down until you can go right. Go right all the way and you’ll be back at the entrance of the city so you can go heal. One final time, go back to the entrance of the last street before the exit to the desert. Go up 19 steps and then go right into a house. Go up and talk to someone who blocks the elevator. Say yes and then go up and click on the elevator. Go up to the next level. Take a step right, then move down. Move up and down until you can talk to a moving person who will give you the TM for Attract. Take a step back to the left and then move up and activate the elevator. Go back down the elevator and exit the building. Next, go 2 steps left, 7 up, then right until you enter a house. Push up, then right. Move left and right until you can talk to a person who will give you an item which increases defence for pokemon that are able to evolve. Leave once you have this. From here, just go 2 steps left and up until you go through some gates and encounter Bianca. She starts with Herdier, then uses Munna and then her starter, then her monkey which will be strong against your starter.
After this, heal and then head streight north. You’ll enter the desert area; keep going north to encounter Cheren.
Cheren opens with Pidove, then uses his starter, then his monkey, then Liaperd. After you fight your rivals, head north until you battle a trainer with a Darumaka. Next, take a step down and go right. Pick up a burn heal. Now take 2 steps up, then go left until you hear 7 deep sand steps. Wait here for a battle with a Trainer using Cottonee. Win this fight, then go left until your first packed sand step, then up. Pick up an ethor. For the next trainer, go down, right, left 4, then up until you battle. This one has Petilil. Next, go down 2, right 2, then up. Grab a super potion. Next, take a step left and wait here for a battle. This trainer uses Blitzel. Next go right, up, right a step, face down and grab a hidden hyper potion. Next, take 5 steps left, then go up. You’ll hear yourself going up a sand hill and then you’ll get into a battle with a trainer. This one has Pidove. From here, just keep going north to enter a gatehouse. You will have a scene with the professor and receive some ultra balls. Now continue north to enter Nimbasa city.
When you enter, go north and you’ll encounter Team Plasma. You’ll face one grunt who has Watchog and Trubbish. Win this fight and some more scenes will play. You can now explore the city. First, go left and then head up. You’ll encounter a scene and receive an item; a battle recorder.
Now go down, then take 16 steps left, then up. This is the pokemon center. Go around the pokemon center (put it behind you), then take 10 steps left, then up to enter a house. Go up, left, down, right 3, then up. Talk to this person to receive strength. Then go left, up, then right to climb the stairs. Go down, left 4, then up to get a Suthe bell.
Then, right, up, left to go back downstairs, then down to leave. Go right until you can go up to enter the next house.
Go up, then right to climb the stairs. Go streight down and talk to a person to receive a sun stone. This person is moving, so it might take a minute to get it.
Up then left to go downstairs, then down to leave. Next, go down, then go right trying to go down. Keep doing this until you leave the city again. Time to check out the desert! The old pokemon from before are here, as well as Maractus (Grass), and dwebble (Burgh had this). Once you are out of the gatehouse and back on the route, Hit the left wall, then go down, left 1, down 3, left 12, then down. Press A for a fight; this trainer has Roggenrola and a Timburr. This one also moves so you’ll have to be patient. Now go up, then left. You’ll fight a trainer with Timburr. Go streight left; then go down and around the house to enter. Inside, take a step up, go right, then up. Talk to this person to receive Dig. Take a step left and go down to exit.
Go 5 steps right, then go up all the way. Go left, down one step, left, down one step, left again, down one step again, left all the way again, right one step, then up to enter a gatehouse. Inside, there’s a new pokemon for you: Sigilyph, flying psychic type. All of the other pokemon are the same.
To start, go up, then left. Talk to this doctor to battle his Solosis. He will heal your pokemon after. For your first trainer, go down one, left 2, up 3, then walk left and right until you get into a battle. This trainer has a Tranquill. After this fight, go down, left, up 5, left 8 (or until you can go down a long ways), then down. You might run into the trainer on the way, but if you don’t then continue down, go left, then move up and down a little until you do. This one has Solosis and Wubat. For an item, go down (make sure you didn’t bump into the trainer, go around if you did), right (again make sure you’re not running into this moving trainer), left one step, then face up and pick up a hidden rare candy (a single use item that levels a pokemon up one level). Next, go up 7, then left, then up and pick up an item (fire stone, evolves sspecific fire type pokemon). Next, take 3 steps right and go up. Eventually you’ll reach a trainer with a ducklett. You will win a Rawst Berry (heal’s burn). Next, go 2 steps up, then go left, down, face up and pick up a hidden stardust. For another stardust, go 3 steps right, 2 steps up, then go right and pick it up. These are items which you can sell for cash. For your next trainer, go left, up 5, left, down, left, then down. This trainer has Darumaka and Blitzel. This next item is a little hard to get. Go up 5, right 12, down 10, left 8, down, left, right 1, down and pick up the TM for Rock Tume. Now go up, left until you can go up, up, right until you can go up, up, right, then up to get out of this area full of obstacles. Now go right until you hear 10 deep sand steps, then walk up to encounter a trainer with Yamask (ghost type) and a munna. For your next item (heart scale), go left one, up 25, left, right one, then go up and pick it up. For the next item (super potion), go right 27, then go down and pick it up. From this spot, go 6 steps right, then 5 down. Press A and you should get a battle here. This trainer has Maractus. After this, take 10 steps right, then go down. Pick up this item, it’s a fresh water. Now take 1 step left, then 4 steps down to fight a trainer. This one has Gothita. Take 2 steps left, then go down. Press A to fight a trainer with Dwebble. Take 15 steps right, then go up and pick up black glasses- an item that boosts dark type attacks. From here, take 3 steps right, then go down. Fight this trainer with Watchog. Go streight up and talk to this person to receive soft sand. Next, take a step right and go up, right, down 2, right, down 2, press A to pick up a hidden hyper potion. Go down, then take 20 steps left (or until 2 non-sand steps), then go up to enter the castle.
Take 4 steps up, then go left to reach a trainer with Sigilyph. This part is a little hard because there are pits that you can fal through. Take 6 steps left, then go up. Press A to fight a trainer with Wubat and Munna. While doing this next part, you have to walk instead of running, or you’ll fall through a pit. Go left, up 1, left 3, then down. Talk to this person. You have a choice between the lid fossil (Tirtouga), or the plume fossil (Archen). Now just run up to intentionally fall in the pit. From here, take 9 steps right, then go down and pick up an item (Revive) Next go down, left, right 2, up 3. Press A to pick up a hidden Elixir. That’s everything to get here, so it’s time to head out. Go right, up, right, left 3, up, down one, right to go upstairs. Now just go down. You’ll jump a ledge and then go back out. You’re now back in Desert Resort and it’s time to head back to Nimbasa City. To leave the resort go down, right 21, then down to exit. Continue down to pass back through the gate. Going back to Nimbasa
Go down until you hear 3 sand steps, then go right, then down (you’ll hear yourself go off this path partway down, but continue), right, down one, right 8 then up. You’ll go back on the other path back to the city. When you can’t go any further, go right until you can go up to enter the Nimbasa gatehouse. You might have to do this last step twice if a moving trainer blocks you.
Nimbasa city (second time) To get to the pokemon center from the entrance, go up, then left. Go around the building and enter. At this point, there are some extras on route 16 (to the east of Nimbasa) which you might want to take care of before your gym battle. Go right, left 2, up, down 2, then right to enter the gate. In this gatehouse go right and talk to a person. You will receive the macho brace. Though not useful right now, this will be useful later when you finish the game and decide to train a team for competitive battles online, as it doubles the speed at which your pokemon’s stats grow, making it easier to train pokemon in specific stats. Next, go down, right, up 2, then right to enter route 16.
This doesn’t lead anywhere important right now, but there are a few trainers to fight for battle experience. You can also catch Liepard, Trubbish, Minccino, Gothita in black and Solosis in white. Catch these if you want. Upon entering, go right until you battle a trainer with herdier (this actually gives a lot of battle exp). Next go down, right 3, then move up and down until you encounter a trainer with Ducklett and Liepard. This one is biking around, so you might have to be patient. After this fight, take 5 steps right, then go up to battle a trainer with Drilbur (ground type). After this, take 3 steps right, then go up until your first non grass step after a bunch of grass. Face left and cut down this tree. If you do get stuck on something along the way, then take another step right to avoid it. After the tree, go left, up, right, up. Press A for a rare candy. Now go down, left, down, then right to get back out. Go down 3 steps, then go right, up, right, up, left, then up to enter Lostlorn Forest. This area has basically the same pokemon that Pinwheel did, except some of them are now their evolved forms. You cannot do much here right now, but you can go up and pick up a big mushroom, then go back down to leave.
After getting out, go down, right, down, left, down, left, down, 7 steps right, then up. You’ll face a trainer with Scraggy. There is a big bolder here, with some items behind it. Currently, we cannot do this yet as strength is not enabled until after the next badge, so we’ll come back for that then. There is however, one more trainer we can fight. Go all the way right, then move up and down until you are spotted by a trainer with 2 Whirlipede.
We’ll head back into town now, and check out the west exit. Go left, down, left, up, then left to reenter the gatehouse. Just keep going left to reach the city. When you arive back in Nymbasa, just head left to reach bianca. She’ll drag you to the musical hall where she will make you explore it just a little bit. Say yes, otherwise you can’t move on. If you are playing on a real DS, this part is easy. Take your stylus and click on the bottom of the bottom screen right in the center. You’ll hit one of the pieces of clothing and hear a beep. Then click near the bottom left corner. You’ll hear a chime and will be out of this for good. If you are playing on a computer, things might be a bit more complicated. You have to hit these two buttons with your mouse, which is difficult because it’s possible to click outside the game and activate something else on your computer. An automation script might work if you can get someone to point the mouse for you and you collect it’s positions, otherwise just ask someone to click on the two okay buttons on the screen.
After this, go through the text. For a TM for echoed voice, go up, right, down, left 2, up and talk to someone. Go left, down, left 7, then hit down to leave. You’ll now see the sad seen between bianca, her father, the gym leader and you. After this, go down, left until you can go down, then down to reach the entrance. You can reach the pokemon center from here. After leaving the center, go right, up, left one, up, left one, up 16 and left to exit the city through it’s west gatehouse.
You can find Liepard, trubbish, Minccino, Gothita and Solosis on this route. To start, go 5 left, then down, left, right one, up, then left. Pick up a hyper potion. After getting this, go down, right, left 7, then up. You’ll battle a trainer with Munna. After the fight, go up, then right. Pick up a great ball. For your next battle go left, right 2, then down. This one has Palpitoad. After the fight, take a step left, then go down. Pick up this revive. Next go up, left, right 2, then down to pick up a zinc. Now take 8 steps back to the right and go down to jump off a ledge. As soon as you fall go right. You’ll bump into a trainer with Blitzel who you’ll need to fight, but you might also be stopped by one with 2 darumaka on the way. If not, move left and right until you fight that one before taking on the blitzel trainer. From here, take a step down and go right. Press A to fight, if that doesn’t work move left and right pressing A. This one has Whirlipede. For the next one, go all the way right, around the trainer if you have to. Go down, then right 3, then up. Press A to fight this one. Pansear, pansage and panper. Now just head streight left to fight your last one with Cigilyph. From there go down and right. Soon you’ll pass back through the gatepost and be back in Nimbasa city. To get back to the entrance go 27 right, down, 15 right, down, then go right until you can go down until you exit. Head back to the PC from here. After the pokemon center go right, up 4, then right to enter the amuzement park. Go right for a scene and a battle with N (Sandile, Darumaka, Scraggy and cigilyph). There are a couple of items to grab before the gym. Go left 4, down, left, down, right, pick up an X attack. From here go up, right, down, then mash A as you move right to pick up a hidden super repel. To access the gym go up, left, up, left 15, then up to enter.
The gym will be added later.
After leaving the gym, take a step down and then go left to leave the amuzement park. For the entrance, go left one step, down, right one step then down. Go to the PC from here. Go back to route 16
On route 16, go right, down, right 14, then up. Teach somebody strength (for me it’s herdier), and activate it. Push the bolder up twice and it will fall, opening a new path for you. Now, time to weave your way through the path. Go up, right, down, right, up, right, up, right, up then right. You’ll fight someone at this spot. This one has Swadloon. After the fight take a step left and go up. Pick up the TM for payback. Afterwards take 5 steps down or until your first non-grass step. Head right and pick this charcoal item. We’re done here. To get out: Left, down, right 1, down, Left, down, left, down, right 2, down. Now head left, all the way back across the route. Go up 4, then left to re-enter the nimbasa gate once more. The nice thing is, if you don’t need to heal you can run streight left. You’ll go through the city and out through the western gate. Otherwise head back and heal, then go out to route 5. Route 5
Head left and you’ll fight your rival. He starts with Liepard, then his monkey, then his starter, and finally tranquill. After you win you’ll have a seen with elesa and Alder, and you’ll end up battling 2 kids with Herdiers. Your rival heals you but you cannot move or save between these fights. After this fight, go left, then up. Elesa will ask the bridge operators to lower it so you can pass. Now continue left to be on the driftveil drawbridge. Go streight left to cross it and enter Driftveil city.
Go left, then up for a scene. There are team plasma members in town, and Clay won’t battle you until you rid the city of them. Go all the way left, then up to reach the biker who will fight you in a tripple battle or rotation battle depending on version. It’s possible he won’t be right there, just keep moving up, perhaps up and down a bit and you’ll reach him. His team consists of Basculin, crokorok and Zebstrica. We won’t explore the market too much now, because you might not have a pokemon that is over level 30. This is a requirement for getting one of the optional items there. We’ll save that for after the gym, but there is a section of it which we can take care of right away because we’re so close as it is. To enter the market’s west entrance go left, then down, then right. Inside, go right 2 steps and down to pick up a big pearl. Up then left to get out. Note: there is an item to get inside the pokemon center, so don’t leave after healing. To reach the pokemon center, go 9 steps up from here, then right to hit the side of it. From the nurse, go left then up. This person gives you 3 repeat balls. Go down, right 6, then down to leave. We’ll explore route 6 first and then return to go through the cold storage and the gym. Go 4 steps left, then go up, then left. Route 6 Walk left until you hear 6 grass steps, then go up to battle a trainer with deerling. Go up, right, up, left 2, then up. You’ll fight a pokemon ranger with Emolga and deerling. Take a step left and go up, then left. Go down until you can go left, then face up to hit the wall and go left to hit a person. Press A to battle. This one has 4 tympole. Take a step down, then 7 left, then up to fight another scientist with a deerling. Take a step up, then run left until you reach another deerling trainer. Take 4 steps right, go up, 1 left, go down and pick up a hyper potion. Go up, right, down, left 2, down, right and down. Pick up an elixir. Go down, left, up, left 1, up 2, left. Fight this trainer. This one has vannilite and frillish. Take a step up and then go a little bit left to find a leaf stone. To find one last trainer, head left until you go through some more grass and reach the next water. Move a couple steps right and left here. Minccino and Imolga. To reach a house go right one, up 5, right, left 2, then up to enter. Go up, left 2, then down and talk to this person to heal your team. Now go right, down, left 3, then up. Talk to this person for a shiny stone. Now, left 2, then down to leave. To get out, go left, down, right until you can go down, down, right, up until you can go right, right, down until you can go right, right, down until you can go right, right, down until you jump 2 ledges. Go down one more step and head right to reenter driftveil city. Go down, right, up one, right 1, go right until you can go down 4 steps (you might reach one earlier where you can only go down one or two), then go right. Go around the PC and enter it. Now we’ll enter the cold storage. Down, left 3, down, left, up 1, left 2, down across a bridge, then right to reach a trainer with whirlipede and karoblast (bug types). Take a step left after this match and go down. Talk to this guy to receive a rugget helmet. After, go up, right 7, then down. Move up and down here for a fight. This one has joltik and dwebble. For your next item go up, left, down, right, up, face right and pick it up. This item is a PP up; it increases your max PP for an attack. After this, go down until you hear 3 grass steps, then go right. Pick up an ether. Now go right until you go through grass and then hear 5 non-grass steps. Go up to battle a trainer. This one has pansage and timburr. From there, go down, up 1, right 8, face down and pick up a hidden dive ball. If you can’t then go all the way right and back 5 to the left. Go down, left, down, then left. You’ll have a brief seen with Cheren. For one final item (heart scale), go 5 left, then up, then right. You are now behind the cold storage building and so you need to go down to hit it, and go around it to the left to enter. To get out of the outside part: Go right, up 4, right, up, left, down until you go left (one step), left, down until left, left, down until left, left until up (short distance), left until up again, finally right until up and up all the way. There’s no music change but the walk up is long.
From here you should be one step right of the market’s main entrance, so go in. If not you’re close. Here, go up 5, left, up, then left. This person sells moomoo milk, a healing item. The first option is to buy 1, the second option is to buy 12. I’m going to buy several packs of 12. Next, go down 3, right 8, then up and talk. Assuming you now have a pokemon over level 30, this guy should give you the expert belt. Go left, down, then right 2, then down to exit, but we’ll come right back in for one last thing. As soon as you reenter go left. Take a step up then go left all the way. Then tap up, left, up, left etc and each time you tap one hit A until you pick up a heart scale. If you instead talk with someone or reach the top, go down and then try it again. Right, up 4, then right to exit the market via the east. Take 15 steps right and go up to enter a house. Inside go up, down 2, then right. Talk to this person for a shell bell, assuming you’ve seen at least 50 pokemon which you probably have. The exit is streight down. Go streight left to reenter the market then right to leave. Go up 9 from there and head right to hit the side of the pokemon center. Go in and heal. After leaving go 5 left, 7 up, then right until you reach a plasma scene. It’s about 24 steps right, but you’ll be stopped by the scene. This is where the gym is. After the scene head up to enter Clay’s gym.
Go right. Go up 6, face right and talk. This is the fresh water guy. After getting your water take a step up, then go right, then up. Press A to activate the button and take the lift down. Go down, then right for a trainer with Palpitoad and Drillbur. Okay, these guys actually have decent attacks. Right, then up to take the next lift. Left, up 2, left 3, then up to take another lift. Go streight right for a trainer with Sandile and drillbur. Go right, then up and activate the lift to go back to the previous room. Left 1, up, left, down, right for a trainer with Krokorok. Down, right and up for a lift. Right 1 step and up for another lift. Right for a trainer with Sandile X2 and Palpitoad. 2 right and up to lift back to the previous room. Left 7, up, down 2, left 2, up to reach that almighty lift which has become so very frustrating over the last few minutes. Right, left 1, up, then right to reach the final trainer for this gym. This one just has Drillbur. Down 2, right, then up to get on the lift to Clay’s area. Left 1, then up to reach Clay.
This guy isn’t too hard. If you have a water pokemon you can teach it Scald, the move you just picked up in the cold storage via TM. It will likely kill his krokorok and excadrill in one hit. Grass attacks for Palpitoad, but in my case I didn’t have any so I just kept the pressure on with water and it went down after a few shots. Down, up 1, left, then up to reach the lift. Down, right 1, down, left, then up to reach the last one to return to the first room of the gym. Down, right 1, then down to leave. Go down 3, left 22 then down. You’re on the back of the PC so go around and enter. Bianca fights you once again just as you try to leave the city via route 6. She started with Herdier, then her monkey, then her starter, then Musharna (Munna’s evolution). The prize for winning this fight is a great one; the ability to fly! Kinda sad that it comes so late in this game; whereas in Diamond and Pearl you get it streight away after gym number 3. This lets you return to previous locations instantly. Better yet, you never need to know where pokemon centers are because fly lands you right in front of it. Just walk into a city and then fly to the same city and you’re right there! Teach this to Cigilyph if you want. On route 6, go left, up, right until you can go up a small amount, up, right, down until you can go right, right until you can go up, up until you can go left (it’s a long way up), up until you can go left again, left, up, right until you can go up, up, down until you can go right (it’s likely just 1 step down), right 5, then up. Press A. You’ll realize that a spider’s web blocks your way. Clay then shows up and with the help of his pokemon, removes the web. He also gives you the TM that you didn’t get before. Press up to enter Chargestone cave afterwards. This place is long, and the encounter rate is ridiculous. Come prepared with repel spray if you don’t want to fight something after every couple of steps.
Go up and Plasma’s people will warp in and take you to N. After a scene you can move again. Go up, then right, then up for a scene with Bianca and the professor. Go up, then left until you hear yourself push a rock to the left. Go left one step, then up. Go left, down, left, up, then right to move another stone. Take a step right, then go up. Pick up a parallize heal. Go right, then up, then right to fight your first trainer, with Clink. Take 2 steps right, then go down, then right to move another rock. Now go right, then down. Pick up a revive. Go up, left, down until you can go left, left until you can go up, then up. Go right until you can go up, then up, right, down, left 3, up. Move up and down pressing A here to catch this moving trainer with Archen (rock / flying). For an elixir go right, up, left one, down one, pick it up. Go down, then left to push the rock. Take one step left and go down to push another rock. Go down, right, down, up one, right. This is a seen with Bianca and the professor. Go right, up 6, right, then down for a trainer with Boldore and Gurdur. Go left, up until you can go left, left until you can go down twice (the second is long), right, then up for a seen. The teleporting guys from Plasma will take you across a bridge for a scene. Take one step right, then go up for a hyper potion. Take a step right, then push down to move another magnetic rock. Go down, then right, then down, then right again. Here’s another trainer with Clink. Note: pushing the wrong rock here spells trouble as it’ll block your path. After the match take a step up, then go right, down, then left until you can go down. Go streight down, up one, left to move a rock. To get the iron, left, up, left, up, left, down, left, pick it up. Right, up, right, down, right to get out. Go down, take 2 steps right and go up. Go right until you can go up, then up until you can go left down some stairs. After the stairs go left, down, left, right 4, then up. Talk to receive 2 nuggets from the nugget brothers. Go right, up, right until you can go up, up a short way. Right until you can go up, up until you can go left, go left and pick this timer ball up. If you can’t pick it up here, push up and grab it. To fight a doctor, go right, down, left 1, then up. He has Swadloon.
Go left, down, right, up until you can go right, right 2 steps then up. Pick up a hidden revive. Right, up, left then up. Fight this grunt with Sandile and Scraggy and Watchog. Go streight up for the next one. Just a scraggy here. Take a step right and go up for the 3rd one (trubbish and Liapard). Go up, right, then up to fight the next one with Trubbish X3 For the last one for now, go left, up, then left. This one has Watchog and Sandile. Once this is done, go left 1, down 2, then left until you push a rock. Go left, down, left, down, left 4, down, left 1, then up. Pick this up, it’s a thunder stone. Go up, right, up, right, up, right until you can go up and push a rock. Continue up to fight a grunt with Liapard. Go up, then right to fight another with Sandile and watchog. Go left to go further downstairs. Take one step left, then go down to fight a trainer with Drillbur and Zebstrica. Go down 2, then push right to move the rock. Take a step right. Go down, right, left 1, then up. Pick up a bright powder. Go down, up 4, left 7, then down to fight a trainer (Gothita, Lilligant and Ducklett). There are 3 items to get now; rare candy, parallize heal and star piece. For one, go down 1, left, up 7, then left to get it. For another (hidden), 2 right, up, pick it up. For the 3rd, right, up 7, right, down 2, press A to pick it up. To get out of this section: 2 up, left, up, right until you can go up, up until you can go left, left, up, down 1, right to go back upstairs. Right, then up until you can go right up the final stairs. Down, right 3, down 7, left to fight another trainer with Clink. After your victory, take 7 steps right, then go down for one last trainer. This one has Whimsicott and Tirtouga. Go 2 down, then right. If you can’t pick up a magnet here, face down and pick it up. Go left, up, then right for your final match in this cave, N. He has Boldore, Ferroseed, Joltik and Klink. After N, go right 1, up, right 7, then up to leave the cave!
Head up for a scene with Skyla, who is this city’s gym leader, and the professor’s dad. He’ll give you a pokedex upgrade, and Skyla will ask for your help in the celestial tower, another dungeon which we have to explore before we can take the gym on. You can use fly to reach the pokemon center automatically. The next thing to do is collect an item from the cargo service. The best way to find it is to go left until you can go up. You’ll reach a house, so leave, take 12 steps left, then go up to enter. Go left, up 1, left 2, then up and talk. You’ll receive an item: sharp beek. 2 right, then down to exit. We’ll now explore the massive runway for 4 items: the TM for sky drop, a repel, a max eathor and a parallize heal. For the first, down, left 5, down forever, right, left 5, up and take it. For the next one: Go left, down, right 2, up and you’ll bump into a wall right away. Go left until you can go up, up until you can go right. Go right 2, and go up so you bump right away into another wall. Go left until you can go up, up until you can go right, then tap right and press A to get it (should be 2 steps). Head right, up 26, right. You should go through a little passageway. Go left 3, then up. Pick up the TM for sky drop.
We now have to leave the city via the northeast to explore the tower. Fly to the pokemon center. Go left until you can go up a short way. Again go left until you can go up. Go up until you can go right, then go right. Now go up, left until you can go up, up, right, and up to leave. Route 7 Go up, then left. Talk to this person for the charge beem TM. She’s moving so move left and right.
For your first trainer, it’s up 2, left, then up. This one has Simisear. For your next match go right, up, then right, through the grass until you’re stopped. This one has Palpitoad, Shelmet and scolipede. Right, down, Left 1, then up for the next one (Dwebble and Simisage). For the ultra ball, left 2, then up. Finding the next trainer is a bit difficult. Go left, right until you can go up, up, right until you can go up (you’ll go through some grass before you reach it), Do not go up, instead go right 2 more steps, then go down for a tripple battle (Watchog, Swoobat and Liepard). Go left until you jump off a ledge. Go down 3, right 11, then up to fight a trainer (minccino). For your next trainer, take a step up, then go left. This one has Swadloon, Simipour and Tranquill. Another item, go left, right 1, then up for a PP up. Go right 8, then up for your last trainer (Solosis and Axew). For your next item (max eathor), up 1, right, left 1, up and tak it. Go left, up, right until you can go up, up, down until you can go right, right until you go up to enter.
Take 3 steps up, then go left until you go upstairs. Second floor Go up, left 3, then up for a trainer (Elgyem, Solosis and Sigilyph). Go right for your next trainer (Deerling and Gothita). Go up 3, right 6, then down to pick up a hyper potion. After this, go left to your next trainer (Emolga and Herdier). For the last trainer, go up, left, down until you can go left, left until you fight. This one has Swadloon. Take 3 steps left then go down. Pick up the Will-o-wisp TM. To reach the next floor, go up, right 5, up, down 1, right until you climb stairs. 3rd floor Right, down, right. Press A to battle (Musharna). This match might happen on the way down. Next, go 4 steps left, then wait for a fight (Yamask and Golett). Continue left for another one (Litwick and Swoobat). go down, then right for the last required trainer for this floor (duosion). Go right, then go up and pick up a spell tag. Go down, left, up one step to go around a person, left until you can go down, down, left, right 1, down and talk. This is a nurse with a Gothita and Alomomola. This one has healing items at her disposal, so try to use a somewhat weak move to get her pokemon’s health down a bit and then use a stronger move to take the rest of it.
To go up to the next floor, take a step right and go down. Then take a step up and go left.
4th floor Go up 2, left, up, right until you can go up, up until you can go left, then left for the shadow claw TM. Go right for a trainer. Go right, down 3, right 3, up, right until you can go up, up 3 to approach the trainer you just fought from the other side. You’d hit them going left but you don’t need to. Head right to reach either the revive or the trainer. If it’s the trainer first then go right for the revive. If it’s the revive first then go south for the trainer. For the final floor: Up, make sure you didn’t hit a person, left to hit a person, up, right, down until you can go right, right until yiou can go up, then up and right to reach the stairs. To reach Skyla it’s: down, left, down, left, right 2, up. Going right and around, put her directly behind you and go up to reach the bell. Ring it. Fly back to the city and heal.
For the gym: Go left until you can go up. Go up until you reach that house from before, then leave. Go left, down, left, up, Go down 7, then right until you hit the side of it. Go around and enter.
Start by going right, up 1, right, then up. Freshwater guy. Take 2 steps left, then go up to be shot from the first cannon. Go streight left for the next one. For the next one go down, right, up, right, down 2, then right. Head north to fight a trainer with 2 Tranquill. For the next trainer, Up, right, down, left, up 1, left, up, right 3, up 2, left, right 1, up to fight. Possibly move up and down if not. This one has Ducklet and Wubat. Down, right 4, down, up 2, left to enter a cannon. It’s left then up to reach the next trainer (ducklet and Cigilyph). For the next one, right 1, up, right, down, right 2, up. Right for next cannon, afterwards left for trainer (unfezant). Streight left for next cannon. Left, then up for the final trainer with Swoobat. The gym leader can be accessed by traveling in 4 more cannons. First go right, left 2, then down to go in the first one. Down, up 2, right for the second. Streight up for the next one. Finally, down 2, then left to reach the leader. Push up and talk. This one is pretty easy if you have an electric pokemon like Zebstrica. Take a step left and go up. You’ll bump into a cannon. Going left, go around it so you enter from above to go back to the entrance and leave. A scene with N follows and then you can go heal. Go back to route 7 to continue. Route 7 again
Up, left until you can go up, left until you can go up again, left, up, right, up, left until you can go up, up, left until you can go up again, up until you jump off a ledge and then go east. You get a call from your mother at this point. After the scene take 6 steps left, then go up to enter a house. Go up 1, right 3, then up and talk to a woman who will heal your team. Take 3 steps left and go down to exit. After this, go down, right, up until you can go right, right, down until you can go right, right until you fall. Now go down, right, then up for the X-Scissor TM. Go left until your first grass step, then go up. Go left until you can go up, then go up. Go left, up, right until you can go up, up 4, wait for a fight. Tynamo, Ducklett and Tranquill. Go up until you fall and hit a wall. Go about 10 steps right and then go up for a long time. Go left, down until you can go left, left until you can go up to get in a rival battle. Go down 4, then right until your 3rd water step. Face down and press A for an ultra ball. 6 steps left, up. Right until you can go up a good distance, up. Left to run into a trainer with boldore and gurdur. Go left to go around the hiker, then go left until you can go up to enter. Go up for a scene with Cheren and clay. Take a step up and go right to go outside. Go up, left until you can go up and then up twice, right until you can go up, up, right, up, right. Grab this revive. We’re now going back the way we came. Left, down, left, down, left until you can go down, down, right until you can go down and then go down twice, Right, down until you can go right, right, then up for a full heal. Next go down, left 8, then down to enter the caves again. Go down, then right for a match. Woobad, Boldore and Gurdur.
Right 1, up for hyper potion. Go right, down until you can go right, right until you can go up a few steps, left one, up, left one, up, right until you can go up, up to go outside again. Go up for a battle with Vanillish, Gothorita and Duosion. Go streight down to go back in the cave.
Left, down, right one, down, left, down, right until you can go down, down, right, up for a battle with Sawk. Left one, up, down one, left to go outside. Go down, then left. Press A for a fight with boldore and excadrill. The next path is simple. Up, left until you can go up and then up twice, right to enter the next area. Now right, down, right, pick up a stardust. Up one, then right to a worker with swoobat. Up one, right, down, right, down, right, up for moon stone. Down, left, up, left, up, down one, left, down, left one, down to enter new area. Down, then right, then down for another stardust. From there, go west to fight a worker with 3 boldore. Go up one step, then left. Go up until you can go left, then left. Keep doing this until you’re out. Go up, right 5, then up for a max potion. There is a hidden candy above but it’s only available during what the game considers to be winter. Left, down 2, left, down 5, left, down 2, left, up, left, up, left, up, right for an eathor. To get in the cave again it’s down, right until you can go down, down until you can go left to enter. Go left, right 2, face left and pick up a hidden ilixir. Right 13, up, left, up, left for a nugget. Go streight left, then press A for a hidden revive. Right, down, left one, down, right one, down, left, up, right until you can go up, up, left until you can go up, up to have the trainer fight (excadrill) From that point head streight left for the PP up. To go out again, go right, down one, then right to leave. Go down and press A for a doctor with Duosion and Musharna.
The following section applies only if it is not winter:
Up 5, right, up, right until you can go up to reenter. Up to fight a trainer with Wubat and Bolder. Continue up to enter another new area. Up 3, left, right one, up for an ultra ball. From the ball, move right and left to battle a trainer with Sawk. Put yourself in a position where you are 8 steps to the right of the left wall. Go down, right, then down for a protein. From there, left one step, then down for a trainer. This one has Gurdur, then boldore. Go down, then left until you can go down to exit again. Go down, up 6, right. Go up until you can go right, then go right. Then go up, then right until you can go up to enter the final area. To get out: Up, right, down until you can go right, right for some scenes. Head right, down one, then right to leave twist mountain.
After the scene upon entering, fly to the PC and there is an item for you inside. heal, then go left, right one, then up and down to talk to a person who gives the brick break TM. Then it’s 4 right then down to leave.
Next, we’ll go find an ultra ball and a timer ball. For the first go right, up, face down and take it. For the other take 1 step left and take it. After getting these, go left, down until your 4th water step, left 13, face up and grab a hidden max revive. Fly back to the PC and we’ll head to the gym. From the center go left until you can go up, then go 20 up. Go left, then up, down until you can go right, right until you can go up to enter.
After healing at the PC and buying anything you might need, it’s time to explore Dragonspiral tower. From the PC go left until you can go up, then go up for a long time. You’ll leave the city, travel through a bit of grass and reach a scene. You’ll receive a piece of old cake. Go up, left one, then up to enter. Start by going up 8, then go right. Activate surf. Go right, up one, then right until you reach land and enter into a fight right away (Vanillish and Galvantula). After winning, down one, right until 3 grass steps, up to reach the TM for embargo. Up 2, right, then up for the other trainer with Cubchoo, Darmanitan and Leavanny. After this fight, go down one, then left to reach the water. Put surf on.
Go left 2, then up and get a heart scale. After you get this, go down, then left, down, then left again to get out of the water, then up to enter the tower. Go right, up, right then up for a scene. After that it’s left one, then up. Go up for a little scene with cheren. Now go left, up until you can go left, left, Go right until you can go up 3 times, but on the 3rd time don’t go up all the way. Instead go up until you can go left and activate strength. Move the bolder left until it falls. After the bolder, left one, down, left to go upstairs.
We now have a puzzle where you have to jump one-way ramps in the correct order. Start with left, up, left, right one, then down to jump the only possible ramp. Go down, then left until you jump 3 ramps. Take a step left and go up to jump 3 more and hit a wall. Go right to jump another. Go streight up to jump the next one, keep going until you hit the wall. Go right to jump another one and reach a shiny stone. Go left, then down to jump twice. Go right to jump and you’re at the start again. Right one more step and down to jump in again. Down, left to jump twice.
Down, left, up one, left to jump again. Left, up to jump one last time. Left, Up, down one, left to go upstairs.
Go left for a quick scene. Go left for some more scenes. Left one, then down for plasma fight (just Watchog here). Down further for the next one, with Liaperd. The next one is down, left, right one, up. This one with Scraggy. Up, left, up for the next one with 2 Liaperd. Right, up, then right for the last one (Watchog, Scraggy and Krokorok). Go right, left one, up and pick up the dragon fang. Up, left, down until you can go left, up until you can go right. Tap up and right until you can’t go in either direction anymore. Then tap left and go up to enter the next area.
This is the spiral room. Go right, left 2, up. Go left, right 2, up, right. Pick up a star piece. Next, go down, right, left 2, down, left. Pick up a stardust. Go down, right, left 1, up. Go 10 left, then up, then right until you jump. Go 3 right, then go down. Go left, right 2, down. Head right for the revive. Down, 15 left, down, then left. Go up for a scene. Go right, left one, then up for a max ilixir. Go down 2, then left for a scene and battle. This one has Watchog and Krokorok. After some more scenes it’s another with just a Krokorok. The next one has Trubbish and Liepard. The last just has watchog. Then a short scene and it’s done.
Up, left, down, right until you can go down, down, right, up until you can go right and upstairs. Up, right 4, up for a scene. It’s now time to go to the relic castle, so fly to nimbasa. To do this, in fly go down until 4 beeps, right until 2 beeps then down for one more beep and press A.
Head out of the city via the south gate just like before.
Go down until you hear yourself go down the sand. Left, right 3, up until you hear that noise again. Go up, left, down one, left, down one, left, down one, left, right one, up. Go through the gate house and enter the desert resort again. To access relic castle, go left 21, then up. There’s a scene at the entrance though.
Go up until 4 sand steps, then walk left (don’t run). Go left all the way, Up 2, walk left. Right one, down, up one, right. Go right for a very short scene. Go down, then right, then up for a grunt with a watchog and 2 krokorok. Take a step left, then go up to fall in a pit. Go streight down and pick up a max potion. Go 5 steps up, then left for a grunt with Scraggy and Watchog. Walk left, then go down for a grunt with Garbodor. Take a step right, go down. Walk right (past a pit) until you hear 3 sand steps, then go up for the shadow ball tm. Go down, then left for a pit. go down for another pit. Go down one step then face up and take a hidden super potion. Go left, up 4, left 3, up to get a sun stone. Since we had to go the wrong way to get these items, we now have to climb several stairs to get back to where the TM was. Left, up, right, down, left until down, down until right to go upstairs. Go right until you jump and go up another set of stairs. Go down to jump again and later fall in a pit. Go left and you’ll fight a grunt with a krokorok. After the fight go left one, down, left one, up. Pick up the max revive. Take 4 steps up, then walk left to fight a grunt. She has Liepard and 2 trubbish. walk down, walk left, go right a step, then up. Pick up the PP up. Go right until your first non sand step, then run up to get caught in the pit. Go down, then left for a grunt with Watchog and Scraggy. Left for the next one, she has trubbish and liepard. Run left so you go in the pit for a scene. You now have to fly to Nacrene city. It’s streight east on the fly map. Take 5 steps left, 7 up, 12 right, then up to reach the museum for some scenes. Say yes at the prompts.
Heal, then when you leave: go 20 right, down, up one, right, up, left 5, up to enter route 8
Go left, right 2, then up for the first trainer (Cubchoo, Palpitoad and Maractus).
Go left one, then up for the poison barb. Go down 5, right, up, right 3, up, right for the sludge bomp TM. Now go right, then down. Do some surfing. Go right until you bump, then down until you’re back on land. After that, go down, right, up 2, right 3 or until a non water step, then up for a trainer with Frillish and Ducklett. From there go right, then up for a full heal. Go 4 steps left, down, right until 5 water steps, then up and talk to this person for the Facade TM. After the TM go down, right, up until you can go right. Face down and head right, press A for a fisherman with several Basculin. Take a step up and then 6 right. Go up and press A for a fight with a trainer using Alomomola. Go right, then down to battle bianca again. She opened this fight with Stoutland, then her starter, then her monkey, then Musharna. If it’s winter, head east to enter a gatehouse and then continue east to tubeline bridge. Otherwise we’ll explore the moor of icirrus. From here it’s left, down, left, up and surf. Surf up, then right to get back on land and fight a trainer with sinccino. Go left 5, up 3, pick up a hidden full restore. After this, go down 1, right, up, then right and pick up an ultra ball. Go left, down until you can go left, left until you can go up to enter the moor of icirrus.
Take a step right, then go down. Go right until you can go down, then down twice. After that, take 3 steps right and go down. Fight a trainer with Basculin and Stunfisk.
For an item, 2 up, 4 right, go up and snag the max revive. Go down to your first water step, then right, then up for a trainer with Emolga, maractus and olomomola. This one starts with Emolga but will next send out whatever might be advantaged against the one you have out, so be expecting that here. Next, go left one then go up, left, up, left, down, left, down, left 5, up, right, then up for a trainer with vanillish and fraxure. Go up, right, up, then right for a max ilixir. From there, Left, down, left, up one, left, down, right until you can go down and jump, down, left, down, left, down, left, up, left. Use strength and push the rock left as far as it will go. Go left all the way, surfing when needed. Go down to get an ultra ball. Go down, right, down, right one, down for a carbos. Up, down one, right, down, right one, up for a trainer with frillish X2. From there, head left, up 2, pick up a hidden max ilixir. Go up, left 3, up, surf left. Go up, right, down until you can go right, right, down, left until you can go down, down, right until you can go down to exit. Go down, left, down, left, right until you can go down twice, right, up until you can go right, right, down until you can go right, down until you can go right, right, up until you can go right then right twice to enter the gate to tubeline bridge. Keep going right to get on the bridge. Head up for a long time for a scene with Ghetsis and the shadow triad. Continue up to enter another gatehouse. Go up, then right to go through to route 9
As soon as you enter you’ll receive the fling TM. Go down, right, up 3, right 5, then move up and down until you get a battle with krokorok and scraggy.
Go down, right 2, up to battle Krokorok and Garbodor. For the next one, go down, right5, then move up and down until you’re stopped (double battle with Scraggy).
Go down, right 4, then move up and down until you’re stopped by the Pawniard trainer. Next, down, right 15, then up for the trainer with Scraggy. Next, go down, left, up until you can go left then left twice, up, down one, press A for a max ether. Go up, right until 3 grass steps, then down. Pick up an HP-up. Go down, right until your first grass step, down, right then up for a full restore.
Now we’ll head to the mall: Left, up, left, up, right, down until you can go right then right twice, up, left until up, up, left, right one, up to enter shopping mall 9. Go up until you can go right, then right, left 5, up and down to fight a trainer with Minccino and Lilligant. After the match go right, left 2, up to enter a storage room. Go up, right, then up. Pick up this PP-up. Left 4, down to exit. Go left, down until you can go left, left until you can go up, up, then right for a trainer with liepard. Go down, left, up one, left, up, right. Battle her Stoutland. Go left 5, then move up and down to battle someone with minccino and lampent. Go left one, up, left 2, down. Talk to this person and answer yes to receive a thunder stone. To leave, go left one, down, right 2, down, left 2, down, right 2, down to leave. Go down, right, up one, right to enter the gate. Keep going to reach Apelucid city.
Keep going right for a scene with Ghetsis. Go up for more scenes. Go up for even more scenes. Take a step right and go up to enter the house for more scenes. Go up, then right for some stairs. Go down, then left and talk to this person for the ring target. Go right 3, down 2, then left and talk, saying yes to receive the float stone. Right, up, then left to go downstairs. Streight down to leave. Go to the pokemon center. After leaving go down, right 2, press A for a hidden max repel. Go left, up until you can go left, left, up, right until you can go up (at least 12 steps), 5 steps right to avoid a pointless house, up, right, down until you can go right, right until you can go up twice to enter a house.
The person who gives you destiny knot is not always in the same position. Sometimes she can be found by taking 4 steps up and going left, but search in this general area. Now find the exit. After leaving, go right, down until you can go right, right until you can go up twice to enter the battle house. Go up for your first set of the battle house trainers.
After that, left, up, right to climb stairs. Down, then left for the other set. Up, then left to go downstairs. Down, left one, then down to leave. Go down, left 5, up one for hidden ultra ball. After this, fly to PC and heal, because it’s time for your final gym! To enter the gym go left, right until you go up (it’s 12 or so right like last time), up, right 5 to avoid that useless house again, up, right until you can go up to enter.
Go 2 up, then right. Talk to that guy for your final drink of water ever!
Head up to fight a trainer with Fraxure. Go right, down 5, right, up 24, right until you jump a ledge. 2 right, 6 up, left for trainer with deino. Go up, then left. You’ll jump down and press a switch. Next it’s left 5, up, left, down, right. This trainer has 2 Fraxure. 2 steps right, then down. You’ll move the dragon again. Go right 5, up, right, then down for another trainer. Man, these gym underlings sure love to use Fraxures. Take a step down, then go left, down, then left to jump down on another dragon moving switch. Take 5 steps left, then go down. You’ll jump down a ledge (but you won’t hit a switch this time). Further down is a trainer with a Druddigon. This one uses the move revenge, so do try to OHKO it.
Left, up 7, right for next ledge and switch. Go right 5 and then up, right, up, left, down. Press A for a fight with deino, fraxure and druddigon. Right 4, down, left for another ledge and switch. 5 left, then up to jump. No switch this time. Up, then right for a jump with no switch. Right 5, down, right, down, left for ledge and switch. The usual 5 steps left, down, left, up, right, down for Deino and Druddigon trainer. Left one, down, right for ledge and switch. Right 5, down, right, up, right, up 12, right for the final trainer with 2 Fraxure. Go up, right one, up until you jump, then left until you jump and hit the last switch. Take 5 steps left and go up to reach the gym leader!
After you win it’s right one, up, left one, up to teleport. Then down to leave the gym and have a scene.
After healing, go right 5, up, right 2, then up to enter the gate to route 10. Go up for a short scene. Go up, right one, up, left one to enter route 10 Go up, then right for a battle with Scrafty and Mienfoo. After the match go left 2, up, right, pick up a full heal. Afterwards go right, down until you can go right out of the grass, right until you can go up, up until you can go left, up, left, head right one move and press A for a max potion. For your next trainer go right, down, right, down, right 7 then up. This one has Fraxure, Eelektrik and Accelgor. Go down, then right for your next trainer with Maractus, Cryogonal and Alomomola. Go right, up 3, and right to encounter your rival Cheren again. He opens with Unfezant, then his starter, then his monkey, then Liepard. After the match take a step right and go up, left, up, left. Press A on this item, but it’s actually a wild pokemon. After, go 2 steps left, then wait there to battle a trainer with Sawk. From there, go streight left for a hyper potion. 4 steps left, up for a dawn stone. Take 7 steps left, go down for a battle with Gurdur and Boldore. Take a step left, then go down, then left. Talk to this person to get a dusk stone. Take 13 steps right here and then go down for the Rore TM. Be careful of the ledge here. Continue down to jump a ledge. Go right, down 2, then right for a battle with Sawsbuck (normal / grass type) and Jellicent (water / ghost type). Keep going right for a battle with Beartic (ice, evolution of cubchoo), Seismitoad and Escavalier (bug steel type). Take 3 steps left, then do down until you jump a ledge and hit the wall, then left. Pick up a full restore. After that it’s 7 left, up, right 5, up, right, down until you can go right, right until you can go up twice to enter the badge check gates.
Go up for the first 2 gates. Someone talks to you, asking if you have the badge, and then the gate opens. Up, right, up for the 3rd. Streight up for the 4th. Streight up again for the 5th. Up for the 6th. Up for the 7th. Up, right, up, right, left one, up, right for the last one. After all of these, go up to enter victory rode.
Continue up to enter a cave. Left, then up and surf. Up, left one, up, left to get on land. Left, right one, down to pick up a max revive. Go right to get back on the water. Down, right, down, right, down to be on land again. Down 3, right to climb stairs. Go right, then down for a trainer with Whimsicott and Zebstrika. Now, left one, down, left, right one, down, right one, down to go outside. Go down, then right for a scene. Go right, then down to go off a cliff. Go right 16, then up to enter a cave.
Take 2 steps right, then go up and surf. Surf up, and when you reach land keep going up and surf again. Go all the way up until you bump, take a step down, go right for a candy. Go down and surf again. Left, then down to reach land. Left, down until you can go left to enter a new area. For an item, go left, right one, up, left one, down, up 2 and pick up an ultra ball. Go down, right, down, right, up, left one, up, down one, left for stairs. Go left, down, then right for a battle with Stoutland and scolipede. Go down one, right, left one, then down to go outside. Go 8 steps left, then up to enter a new area. Up, then right for hyper potion. Go down 2, then left, then up for a match with Beheeyem, Heatmor and Lilligant. Go up one, right, down one, then right for a staircase. Go down, right, down, then left to reach a bolder. Push it to the left twice to open a shortcut. Nothing else to do there so: go right, up, left, up, down one, left to go upstairs again. Go down, left, up, left, up, down one, then right to go upstairs again. Go right, then down for a trainer with Simisage, Simiper and Simisear. From there go down, right one, down to leave. Go down, right 2, up for a full restore. Left one, then up to reenter. Left, up, left, up, down one then left to go back downstairs. Left one, down, right 2, down to be back outside in the area from before. 8 left, then up to enter the other side. Up, left, up for moving trainer with Scrafty, Mienfoo and Conkeldurr. Go left one, up, right, down until you can go right to go upstairs. Go right, then up for a doctor with Gothorita and Leavanny. Left, up, left, up, left, up, right, up, right, left until you can go down, down until you can go right to go upstairs. Right 2, up, down one, left for more stairs. Left, down 4, wait here for a fight with Clang, Darmanitan and Seismitoad. Down one, left, right 2, then down one to go outside again. Down, right one, up for a full heal. Left one, then up to reenter. Right, left 2, down to exit. Go right, down, left 6, then down to slide down a cliff. From this spot it’s right 6, then up to enter a cave. Up, right, up for a trainer with gigalith and electross. Up for item (unknown). down one, left, up, right, up, left, down until you can go Left to go upstairs. 3 left, then down to exit. 4 left, then up to reach the pokemon league!
Fly to the pokemon center. It’s not a normal one and so the music doesn’t change. Going in, it has one of those odd doorways which you can’t hear. The directions to reach the counter and the marts are the same as they are at a normal PC.
You are about to take on the elite four. If there are any items you would like your party members to be holding, equip them now. If there are any moves you would like your party to know, teach them now. After leaving the pokemon center, go streight right. You reach a scene and you have to say Yes when you’re asked if you’re ready. If you go up now, you’re locked in here until you win or lose, so don’t do it until you’re sure you’re ready. Once in, go left, up one, left, up one, left, up. You’ll enter the room with the dark type elite. Walk up until you hear a laugh; you’re in a little scene. When it’s over walk up to encounter the person. When it’s over, go right, up, left, down until you can go left, left until you can go up to hit the teleporter. Go up one, then left, then up to enter the next one. Go up for the entrance scene. Push up for the fight. Go down, right, left one, then up to get out. Right, left 2, up for the next room. Up to get in the entrance scene, then up and talk to fight. Streight right to get out of this one. Right, then up to enter the last one. Go right, left one, then up to be out of this one.
Go up and press A for a scene. Take 2 steps right, then go up for a very long time. You’ll enter a new area and a scene. Go up, left, down until left, left until up, up until a new area and music change. Go through the scene.
To start, go 12 left, then up. go 2 left, 4 up, then right for some steps. Go east for a shadow triad scene. After this, go up to enter a room. Go up, then left. Talk to this person to heal. Go back down to exit. Go down, 12 right, then up for next room. Go right, up, right, up, left 3, up, left. Pick up a max potion. Go down, left, down, left 2, down to leave. Go down, right, up, then left to go upstairs. Go down, 15 left, then up to enter another room. Go left, up, left, up, right. Pick up the max revive. Go down, right, down, right 2, down to leave. Go down, left, then up for another triad scene. Go up, then right for the stairs and another triad scene. Go right 3 steps, then up to enter N’s playroom. For the item in here: up, left 2, up, right 4, up for candy. down, left 4, down, right 2, down to leave. Go down, right 12, up to enter next room. up, right, left one, up for full restore. Down, left 5, down to leave the room. Down, right, up, left for stairs. Go down, left 16, up for Ghetsis scene. Go up to enter the room and have a scene. Go up further for another scene. After this, press A to start the true final boss! Capture your legendary, then face off against N and Ghetsis!
Go downstairs (you start at home). Looker will ask for your help in capturing Plasma’s sages- say yes. Leave the house and the professor’s dad will give you the nassional dex. Go back to the lab and talk to her for several TMs.
##Volcarona:
Make your way to the final room of the relic castle.
Once you find your way to the very bottom by falling in the pits,
Go right, up, left until you can go up to enter the room. Go up for a little scene. Go up, left, down until you can go left, left to go downstairs. Beet the grunt’s Crookodile. The pokemon down here are Krokorok, Sandslash, Cofagrigus and onix. After the fight go down, then left until you can go down to enter new area. Left, down, up 3, left to take stairs again. Down, left until you can go down to take south stairs again. Left, down, up until left to take stairs. Keep going left to take another set. Take 5 steps left and go up to talk to one of the Plasma sages. He’ll give you the calm mind TM, and looker will take him away. After the sage event, just go up. You’ll enter Volcarona’s chambers, where the only wild pokemon is Claydol. Keep going up and press A to battle Volcarona. After catching it:
Go down to leave the room. Go left, down until left, left, down, left, up until left for 2 flights of stairs. Go left, up, right until up, up to enter new room. Up, left, down until left for stairs. Left, up, right until up for room. Up, left, down until left for stairs. Left, up, right until up for doorway. Go left until up, then left. Keep doing that until you can’t move in either of those directions. Then go down 4, then right for stairs. Go down, left, up 5 for the next stairs. Do that again. Be very careful with this next bit, falling means being back at the beginning of the castle. Go down, left, 3 right, up one. Pick up a PP max. Now, 3 more times, repeat the down, left, up 5, right for stairs paturn to reach the TM. Go down one, right, up, left 5, then up for the earthquake TM! Go left 2, then down to fall. Continue down to be out. For the cold storage sage:
One step left Seven steps up two steps left Up, then right.
Up, left, up, right, 7 steps up. Right, down, left, up, right, up, left, down Straight down, straight left. Straight down, straight right, straight down, 11 steps left.
Slowly go up 17 steps (about one every 1.5 to 2 seconds). straight left, down, 3 steps left then up to enter the container. It’s close but not quite. To exit:
straight right, up, left straight down, right, down two steps. straight left, down, six steps right and down to exit.
We’ll start from the entrance of the dreamyard.
Go right, up, right, left until up, up until right, right until up, up, right, down 2, right, down, left until down, then streight left to go downstairs. For your first trainer, go down, left, up until left, left, up until left, left again, down, right to battle. This one has Drowzee, Hypno and musharna. Move up and down to catch this trainer, but she might escape which sounds like you jumping off a ledge. Don’t be fooled by that as you’re not actually lost, just keep doing it. This one has Poliwhirl, Parasect (grass and bug).
Now run left and right mashing A to try and catch the next one (Beldum (steel and psychic), Metang (steel), beheeyem and Reuniclus.
Take a step right and go down to battle a trainer with Jigglypuff and Musharna.
Go down 2, then go right and left mashing A for a battle with Natu (psychic and flying), Banette (ghost) and Zatu. Go left, down, press A for hidden awakening. Take a step right and go down for a battle with Starmie and wobbuffet. Go right, up one, then run right and left mashing A for a match with Musharna and Stantler (normal). Go left, down, left, right one, up for twisted spoon. To go upstairs go right, down, up one, right (be aware of moving people here, they’re not what you’re supposed to stop at), up 3, right, down until right for stairs. Next go down, left 2, down for a scene. You’ve captured another sage.
We’ll start with route 1.
Once on route 1, go up to hit a person, then go left. Go up until you go through grass and then experience 6 non grass steps. Now go left and activate surf. On the water, swim left, down, left, then down to reach land. Keep going down, then left, then up. Pick up a max eethor. Go down, right, then up to fight a trainer with Swubat and Simisear. Go down, left, then up for a battle with 2 frillish. Now go down, right, up one, then right to battle sinccino and Zebstrica. After that match just go left, through a gate and onto route 17. Once on route 17, go left and put surf on. While surfing, go down, left, then up one step to reach the land. Go three steps left, then go up to fight a fisherman with 2 Basculin. Go right, up, left and surf. Surf left, then up. Go up until you hit, then right 4 and down to get the toxic TM. After the TM go left and surf. Go left, then down to fight a trainer with Alomamola. After winning, go left until you’re stopped by current. Then go down until you can go left to take a current. After this one, go down, right one, down to take another. Next, go down, right 3, down for a trainer with 4 Basculin. After that fight surf up, then right. Stop as soon as you get on land and push up. Grab a deep sea tooth. After picking that up, go down and surf. Go left, then up to take the current back in the direction you came from. Go down, then left to take a different one. Go left until you’re on land to be on route 18.
As soon as you enter go up, left, down one, left 12, up. You’ll fight a hiker with Boldore and Crustle. After winning go up, left, up, then left to hit the side of a house. Go around and enter. Take a step right and go up. Talk to this person to heal your team. From there, go left, right one, then up. Talk to this person and say yes to receive the egg. Go down to exit. After leaving, go streight left for a battle with Emolga. After this match it’s 3 right, then down. Activate strength and push the rock twice down. Afterwards go down, then 10 steps right and pick up a max ilixir. Go left, up, right one, up 12, left until your second sand step, then down and talk to the sage.
Afterwards go right, up, left one, up, right until you push the rock. Go right, then up for the trainer with Whimsicott. After that, left one, up, left for the dragon’s scale.
Next go left, down, right one, down, left, up 2, left, up until second non sand step, left; it’s a short way, down, right, down and pick up waterfall.
After waterfall, go up, right, up 10, right 9, up, right for a battle with Basculin, Darmanitan and Simisage. After this, go right, down, right, up, right, down and activate surf. While surfing go down, right, then up for a current. When it’s done go right to get on land. Go right, up, then left until up to enter the P2 lab. P2 lab
Take a step right, then go up for the dubious disk. Left one step, down to leave. After leaving, go down, left, right one, down for a trainer with Garbodor. One step up, left, then down for the thunderbolt TM. Next, right, up, right, up, left, down until left, left and surf. These next parts are really hard. You need to avoid the currents at all costs. Go down, left one, down 6, left 2, down 2, left one, down just until you reach land. Go left and surf again.
Go up one, right 4, up 10, left until you reach land. Continue left and surf again. Go down, then up one. Go left, then up one. Go 5 left on water and wait here for a battle with Frillish and Simiper. Continuing with that puzzle, go right one, down 2, right 4, down 2, left, down one, left to battle ducklett and frillish.
Now just go down, left, up one, and left to land on the final beech. Go down, right, surf. You’ll go surfing down just a step or so before you’ll land. Go down, right 4, down, left, up for heart scale. Go right, up, surf. Go up, then left until you land back on that beech. Go up, left, down one, left 13 for a battle with scraggy and gurdur. From there, right 11, down one, pick up a hidden pearl. Go right one step, down 4 steps and pick up another pearl. For the last item, 3 up, 10 left, up, then left for the Telekinesis TM.
Go to route 6.
Go up, left, down until left, left and up until you can press A to surf. When surfing, it’s up one, then left. Continue left on land, then go up and pick up the poison jab TM. Go right and surf again. Surf right, then up, continuing even once on land as far as you can. Go right until you can go up, up, left, down until left, left and up until you can surf. While surfing, go up 2, then right. Keep going as far as you can even once on land. Now go up and pick up a silk scarf. Go down, left, then surf. Go left until you’re on land. Go left, down, left, up and surf again. Just go up one step or so to be on land. Then go right, then down and surf again. Surf right, down, then right. Continue on land until you hit, then take a step up and go right to enter the Mistralton cave!
Go down, then right. Activate strength and push the rock twice to the right. Continue right to hit the rock, then go up one, right one, then down to push it twice more into a pit. Continue down, then right to battle Drillbur and Gurdurr. Go right, 2 steps down, then right to push a bolder into a pit. Go right, up one, right, up, left to battle boldore. For an item, left one, up, right, up, right, down 3, face right and pick up max repel. Take 3 steps up, go left and pick up a hyper potion. From there, go 4 down, then left. Go down until left, left until you push a bolder twice. Go down, right until you can go down, down, left until you can go down, down, up one, right for stairs. Go down, right until down, down, left, down, right, down for ultra ball. Go up, right, down, right and activate strength. Push the bolder right twice to put it in the pit. Go right, down until right, right, down and pick up hyper potion. Next it’s left, up, left until you can go up, up, right, down until right, right until up once, up, right, down, left, down, left, up, left and up for hard stone. Next go right, down, right, up 3, right, up 11, left to push a bolder in a pit. Next go up, left, down, then left for the rock slide TM. For the next item: right, up, right 19, down, right 2, down 4, left, up until left, right 3, down 5, right and pick up iron. Go left, up three, left, down 2, pick up a PP up. Next it’s up, right, up, right, down, right, down 7, left, down one, left to push a rock into a pit. If it doesn’t work continue down until you can go left to do it. Go up, then right until you can go up to enter guidance chamber. Go up one step, left, down one step, left, right 2 steps, down and pick up the revive. Go up one, right, down until right, right until up for a scene. Go right, up, left until you can go 3 steps up (don’t go more), right, Go up for a hidden item (unknown). Go left, up 2, left one, up for dusk stone.
Go down, right, down, right, down, left, up, right, down until you can go right twice, right until you can go up, up and you’ll hit the person you talked to earlier, right until up, up, left until up, up for at least a full second running, left, up until left, left, up until left, left, up until left, left to pick up a candy. If stuck try down until left.
Take a step left, press A for carbos. Right until down, down and turn on strength. Push the bolder down into the pit. Go down, then left to hit next bolder. Go around it and push it south into the pit as well. Now go left, up one, left, up, down one, right to encounter Cobalion! Catch it, then the man will talk to you again. Now you can use an escape rope to leave. Now head to pinwheel forest.
Left, up, right, up 15, right, down until you can go right, right, up until you can go right, right, down, right until 7 non-grass steps, up, right, down until you can go right, right until you can go up, up, left, down until left, left, down, right until down, down, right one, down for hyper potion. Go up to enter Rumination field. Go up to encounter Virizion. Go back down to exit. Go down, up until you can go right, right until you can go down, down, up until right, right until down, down, left, up until left twice, left until down, then down twice, right, down until right, right, down until right, right, do this two more times to reach the Soler Beem TM. From there it’s left, up, down one, left, down, left, up, right and surf. Surf up, then a long way left to be on land again. Go left, down, left and pick up silver powder.