4th Gen 4th Generation Travel Journal

I'm officially playing through Sun at the moment; however, I've popped Platinum onto my phone and am playing on an Android emulator when I'm bored and not at home.

I will be taking advantage of the fact that I'm running it on an emulator and using a shiny encounter hack (all wild encounters are shinies - because, why not?), but otherwise will be playing through the game normally.

I might consider not letting Piplup evolve and keeping him with me until the very end. He's too cute ♥


• Chose Piplup as my starter pokemon (the cutest, obviously..).
• Caught Shinx on route 201 to Sandgem Town.
• Caught Starly on route 202.
• Defeated my rival on route 203; however, this was actually a pretty close battle! His Turtwig spammed Withdraw which made knocking off his HP pretty tedious.

• Made my way through route 203 to Oreburgh City, no new pokemon were caught.
• Defeated Oreburgh Gym leader Roark.

This was a pretty tough battle, as Piplup was really the only pokemon who made much of an impact on the rock-type opponents. I just managed to scrape through with a victory, but only just! Piplup was hanging on by a thread (and a potion or two) by the end of the battle.


• Caught Budew on route 204.
• Starly evolved into Staravia!
• Piplup evolved int-... Oh? Piplup stopped evolving (Decided to keep this little cutie!).
• Shinx evolved into Luxio!

Commander Mars absolutely obliterated me during my first encounter with her at the Windworks. I was totally unprepared for the level 17 Purugly, and my team order wasn't very good. I originally challenged her with Shinx, but after training the team up a few levels I went back to face her with my newly evolved Luxio and the rest of the team.

Absolutely blazed through this battle, it was a piece of cake. With both Piplup's Peck and Staravia's Wing Attack, the opposing pokemon were KO'd pretty quickly.


• After blasting through Eterna Gym I made my way back to the Old Chateau.
• Caught Rotom!
• Battled through the Team Galactic Eterna Building.

Holy jeez. These Team Galactic Commanders really know how to pack a punch! It took me three attempts to beat her - that Skuntank was a real pain in the ass. In the end I just scraped through with Staravia hanging on by a thread and the rest of the team fainted... This is going to put a dent in my Budew evolution.


• Received a pokemon egg from Cynthia.
• Received a bicycle as thanks for rescuing the shop owner.
• Rode through Cycling Road (route 206), Luxio got a bunch of exp due to all the Starly/Staravia's the trainers seemed to like using.
• It's getting a little annoying constantly having to hit B when Piplup tries to evolve, but as far as I can tell the only way to obtain an Everstone is to catch Geodude with a 5% chance to be holding one...
• BOOM! First Geodude caught had an Everstone!!
• Caught Ponyta on route 206!
• Got to Wayward Cave and realised I missed TM Flash somewhere. Backtracked to Oreburgh Gate to retrieve it.
• Egg hatched into Togepi!
• Caught Gible in Wayward Cave (hidden area)!
• Obtained Eevee!

Another steam roller of a gym. Luxio just chomped through everyone with Bite, and Staravia helped finish off Fantina's Mismagius when Luxio's HP got low.