4th Gen Diamond / Pearl Q&A Thread

[KJ]

ahhhh i need help, i beat the 7th gym but the problem i have is that the team Galactic guys werent outside the lake entrance as i came through, it was as if that part had already been done(im playing a used game btw) but i dont have the storage key, and the guy outside the team Galactic hq isnt there either so how do i get this key!? all i wanna do is get to the area where dialga is, dont i have to go through there hq before i go to the mt?

 

[Arceus200]

I cannot remeber clearly, but I think you have to go to SPEAR PILLAR first.......





...But Im not sure...

 

[KJ]

that didnt work, it wont let me there, im in Mt. Coronet now, and i just crossed the two bridges and theres a blockage "cave painting" in front of the next part of the cave entrance. so i cant go any farther.

 

[Arceus200]

Have you already been to all of the lakes?

 

[KJ]

thats what im not sure bout, bc this is a used game from gamestop i just picked up where it had been left off, 6 gyms where already beat, i just beat the 7th, now im trying to figure out how to get the key to the HQ haha. do i have to go to all 3 lakes before i can go any farther in the MT/get the key?

 

[Arceus200]

Wait. Have you already been to that small town to the right of mt. coronet?

 

[KJ]

celestic town? yea i have, do i need to do sumthing there?

 

[Arceus200]

I just thought....

The thing you had to do was go down into the cave, but I'm pretty sure you have already done that

 

[KJ]

the stuff on the wall in that cave is the same thing thats blocking the way in mt. coronet

 

[~Kavin~]

pokeradar question

I'm hoping this topic goes here if not I'm apologizing in advance. There is a grid for shiny hunting dealing with numbers from 1 to 4 with your character in the middle
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4
4 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 4
4 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 4
4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4
4 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 4
4 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 4
4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4.
Four being your best chance to encounter the pokemon your chaining. Is this method 100%? I tried chaining by this method but to no avail the chain broke. Has anyone come up with a better method? I'm currently trying to chain an eevee in the trophy garden and I know it's one of the hardest pokemon to train. Any advice on chaining and has anyone had success by following this chart?

 

[Pharue]

There are a couple of developed methods on it, just look around a bit. I forgot the exact links, but they're around here somewhere.

 

[Charliezard]

You need a lot of patience...A LOT
As long as you only go to the furthest away square from yourself you should be fine. Avoid the 4's and reset if nothing shows up. Don't think "ahhh, that one's good enough!" Cuz...it probably isn't :/

 

[~Kavin~]

so avoid the fours cause I heard that they have the best chance of keeping your chain going. My longest chain was 20 and it was broken because of that darn four

 

[Schala_25]

If they're on the edge of the grass, or in a corner, you should avoid them. I think your grid is just saying that the farther away the tile is, the more likely it is to be the same pokemon. Go to the farthest grass that isn't on the edge or corner, and you should be fine. Just remember that it takes a while, and sometimes the chain breaks for no real reason, so you've got to be patient.

 

[Archeopterix]

You need a lot of patience...A LOT
As long as you only go to the furthest away square from yourself you should be fine. Avoid the 4's and reset if nothing shows up. Don't think "ahhh, that one's good enough!" Cuz...it probably isn't :/

Avoid the fours? I thought it was only step on a patch when there are three others. :|

 

[sdfs]

Avoid the edges, try and go far away, but no more than 7 steps away, stay in the same kind of patch of grass (don't go from moving a lot to moving a little), reset if you're unsure. Also, chains can break suddenly, so even if you're doing it right, it has a chance of breaking (it does this to me a lot for ralts.)
This should help you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wruW8rzRAxA

 

[Mimikyu402]

So Does anyone know a good moveset for a metagross?

 

[ClassicRockFan]

Although questions like that should go in the S&M forum, I would recommend looking at some of Smogon's Metagross movesets and see if you think that any of them are good for batting.

 

[~Kavin~]

Avoid the edges, try and go far away, but no more than 7 steps away, stay in the same kind of patch of grass (don't go from moving a lot to moving a little), reset if you're unsure. Also, chains can break suddenly, so even if you're doing it right, it has a chance of breaking (it does this to me a lot for ralts.)


thanks for the vid! I see why my chains were breaking....I was messing up by picking the four across and or up and down from me! Going to go try again!

Got another question....sorry for the double post but can you get a shiny pokemon with a chain of 26? I've heard somewhere that people would just do 20 and get results just that it would take longer than forty. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[True Justice]

Got another question....sorry for the double post but can you get a shiny pokemon with a chain of 26? I've heard somewhere that people would just do 20 and get results just that it would take longer than forty. Can anyone confirm this?

You can encounter a Shiny with a chain of 1. The lowest I've ever gotten was 9 and my brother got a Shiny at 3. However, the closer to 40, the more likely it is to encounter a Shiny. Some people probably play it safe by stopping at 20 and resetting, hoping to get lucky. But it does take longer to find one at 20 than one at 40.