Lake Valor

Lake Valor リッシ湖 Risshi Lake "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	South end of Route 214
Region:	Sinnoh
Generations:	IV, VIII
Location of Lake Valor in Sinnoh.
Pokémon world locations

Lake Valor (Japanese: リッシ湖 Risshi Lake) is a location in the Sinnoh region. Here, Team Galactic's Commander Saturn is battled for the first time. Within the cave in the center of the lake resides the Legendary Pokémon Azelf.

The entrance to Lake Valor is blocked by two Cameramen until the player talks to Professor Rowan at the Canalave Library after earning the Mine Badge.

History

According to Volo in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, there are two legends as to Lake Valor's origins. The first says it was formed from a volcano crater, as Lake Verity was, while the second says it was carved out in an ancient Pokémon battle.

During the events of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Team Galactic uses a Galactic Bomb to dry up the lake. The resulting earthquake is felt in Canalave City, located at the opposite side of Sinnoh. While dried-up, what appears to be the remains of a river that flows into the lake is located to the northwest of the lake. When the lake is restored, the remnants of the river disappear and are replaced by trees. While the lake is dried up, the cavern entrance is at the level of the lakebed, but while it is filled, the entrance is at the water level.

After Dialga^DBD/Palkia^PSP/Giratina^Pt has been caught or defeated at Mount Coronet^DPBDSP/the Distortion World^Pt, the lake will have been rejuvenated and can be Surfed on.

Items

Item		Location	Games
	HP Up	In the northwest while the lake is dry, next to the pile of Magikarp (hidden) (missable)	D  P  Pt  BD  SP
	TM25 (Thunder)	At the right edge of tall grass in the southeast part of the lake (requires Surf)	D  P  Pt  BD  SP

Pokémon

Generation IV

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	35-36	20%
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	38-39	15%
Golduck	D		P		Pt		Grass	40-41	15%
Noctowl	D		P		Pt		Grass	34, 36	0%	0%	20%
Staravia	D		P		Pt		Grass	34-36	25%	25%	5%
Staravia	D		P		Pt		Grass	38, 40	35%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	34-36	45%
Bibarel	D		P		Pt		Grass	39, 41	35%
Chingling	D		P		Pt		Grass	35-36	10%
Surfing
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-40	90%
Psyduck	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-30	90%
Golduck	D		P		Pt		Surfing	20-40	10%
Fishing
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Old Rod	3-10	100%
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Old Rod	3-15	100%
Goldeen	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	10-25	45%
Goldeen	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	15-20	40%
Seaking	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	25-35	5%
Magikarp	D		P		Pt		Fishing Good Rod	10-25	55%
Seaking	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	20-50	45%
Seaking	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	30-55	45%
Gyarados	D		P		Pt		Fishing Super Rod	30-55	55%
Swarm
Lickitung	D		P		Pt		Swarm	34, 36	40%
Special Pokémon
Wobbuffet	D		P		Pt		Poké Radar	35, 36	22%
Wobbuffet	D		P		Pt		Poké Radar	38, 40, 41	22%
Lunatone	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot Sapphire	35	8%
Lunatone	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot Sapphire	40-41	8%
Solrock	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot Ruby	35	8%
Solrock	D		P		Pt		Dual-slot Ruby	40-41	8%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Valor Cavern

Azelf in Valor Cavern

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Azelf	D		P		Pt		Only one	50	One
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Generation VIII

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Psyduck	BD			SP			Grass	35-36	20%
Noctowl	BD			SP			Grass	34, 36	0%	0%	20%
Staravia	BD			SP			Grass	34, 36	20%	20%	0%
Staravia	BD			SP			Grass	35	5%
Bibarel	BD			SP			Grass	34-36	45%
Chingling	BD			SP			Grass	35-36	10%
Surfing
Psyduck	BD			SP			Surfing	20-40	90%
Golduck	BD			SP			Surfing	20-40	10%
Fishing
Magikarp	BD			SP			Fishing Old Rod	3-10	100%
Goldeen	BD			SP			Fishing Good Rod	10-25	45%
Magikarp	BD			SP			Fishing Good Rod	10-25	55%
Seaking	BD			SP			Fishing Super Rod	20-50	45%
Gyarados	BD			SP			Fishing Super Rod	30-55	55%
Swarm
Lickitung	BD			SP			Swarm	34, 36	40%
Special Pokémon
Wobbuffet	BD			SP			Poké Radar	35-36	22%
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Valor Cavern

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Azelf	BD			SP			Only one	50	One
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainers

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Lake Valor proper

Trainer	Pokémon
Galactic Grunt Reward: $1320	Glameow♀ Lv.33 No item
	Croagunk♀ Lv.33 No item
Galactic Grunt Reward: $1440	Golbat♂ Lv.32 No item
	Croagunk♂ Lv.36 No item
Galactic Grunt Reward: $1240	Croagunk♂ Lv.34 No item
	Dustox♂ Lv.31 No item
	Beautifly♂ Lv.31 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Valor Cavern

Commander Saturn Valor Cavern Diamond and Pearl Reward: $2960

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Synchronize Held item: None Kadabra♂ Lv.35 Shock Wave Electric Special   --       Embargo Dark Status   --       Recover Normal Status   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       Types: Steel Psychic Ability: Levitate Held item: None Bronzor Lv.35 Iron Defense Steel Status   --       Gyro Ball Steel Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Types: Poison Fighting Ability: Anticipation Held item: Sitrus Berry Toxicroak♀ Lv.37 Revenge Fighting Physical   --       Faint Attack Dark Physical   --       Mud Bomb Ground Special   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --

Pokémon Platinum

Lake Valor proper

Trainer	Pokémon
Galactic Grunt Reward: $1400	Glameow♀ Lv.35 No item
	Murkrow♀ Lv.35 No item
Galactic Grunt Reward: $1480	Golbat♂ Lv.37 No item
Galactic Grunt Reward: $1320	Croagunk♂ Lv.33 No item
	Houndour♂ Lv.33 No item
	Stunky♂ Lv.33 No item
	Glameow♀ Lv.33 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Valor Cavern

Commander Saturn Valor Cavern Platinum Reward: $3200

Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♀ Lv.38 Toxic Poison Status   --       Air Cutter Flying Special   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Supersonic Normal Status   --       Types: Steel Psychic Ability: Levitate Held item: None Bronzor Lv.38 Iron Defense Steel Status   --       Gyro Ball Steel Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Types: Poison Fighting Ability: Anticipation Held item: Sitrus Berry Toxicroak♀ Lv.40 Revenge Fighting Physical   --       Faint Attack Dark Physical   --       Mud Bomb Ground Special   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Lake Valor proper

Trainer	Pokémon
Team Galactic Grunt Reward: $1,584	Glameow♀ Lv.33 No item
	Croagunk♀ Lv.33 No item
Team Galactic Grunt Reward: $1,728	Golbat♂ Lv.32 No item
	Croagunk♂ Lv.36 No item
Team Galactic Grunt Reward: $1,488	Croagunk♂ Lv.34 No item
	Dustox♂ Lv.31 No item
	Beautifly♂ Lv.31 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Valor Cavern

File:VSSaturn BDSP.png Commander Saturn Valor Cavern Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Reward: $3,256

Type: Psychic Unknown Ability: Synchronize Held item: Damp Rock Kadabra Lv.35 Rain Dance Water Status   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       Kinesis Psychic Status   --       Reflect Psychic Status   --       Types: Steel Psychic Ability: Levitate Held item: None Bronzor Lv.35 Payback Dark Physical   --       Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Gyro Ball Steel Physical   --       Extrasensory Psychic Special   --       Types: Poison Fighting Ability: Dry Skin Held item: None Toxicroak Lv.37 Revenge Fighting Physical   --       Toxic Poison Status   --       Thief Dark Physical   --       Mud-Slap Ground Special   --

Layout

Version	Lake	Dry Lake	Cavern
Diamond
Pearl
Platinum

In the anime

Lake Valor in the anime

In the anime, Lake Valor has a Contest Hall where two important tournaments organized by the Pokémon Activities Committee were held: the Wallace Cup and the Sinnoh Grand Festival. Like in the games, the Hotel Grand Lake and the Seven Stars Restaurant are located nearby. Due to its landmarks and the Pokémon competitions taking place there, Lake Valor is a popular tourist destination. The Pokémon Contest events are also responsible for bringing vendors to the area, with food and merchandise stalls lining up in the large street leading to the stadium. The lake is said to be the home of Azelf, the Legendary Pokémon known as "The Being of Willpower".

Ash and his friends arrived at Lake Valor for the Wallace Cup in A Full Course Tag Battle!. They were soon joined by May, who traveled all the way from Johto to compete for the Aqua Ribbon. Since the competition would not start until the next day, the group decided to visit the Seven Stars Restaurant, where they formed pairs to face off against the owners of the restaurant, Roman and Kylie, in Tag Battles, as it is required for customers to defeat them before sitting down to have a meal.

The Wallace Cup took place between Staging a Heroes' Welcome! and Strategy with a Smile! with Wallace as one of the Contest Judges. Dawn, Ash, May, Zoey, Jessilina, and Kyle were among the several Pokémon Coordinators taking part in the event. The final round pit Dawn against May and the two had a hard-fought match, with Dawn using her Piplup against May's Glaceon. When time ran out, Marian announced that Dawn had won. As a result, she was awarded the prestigious Aqua Ribbon, her second Contest Ribbon overall.

Tourists passing by the food and merch stalls

In Pruning a Passel of Pals!, Ash decided to go for a walk with Pikachu after falling out of bed. At the lake, he briefly saw the silhouette of Azelf hovering over the lake's surface. Ash's encounter with the Willpower Pokémon shares similarities to Dawn's encounter with Mesprit in Following A Maiden's Voyage! and Brock's encounter with Uxie in Uncrushing Defeat!.

In The Needs of the Three!, it was explained that Lake Valor, Lake Verity, and Lake Acuity are the entrances to another world where the lake guardians reside, and the Pokémon do not actually live in the lakes themselves. In order to draw Azelf out from its homeworld, Pokémon Hunter J, having been hired by Team Galactic, dropped the Galactic Bomb at the lake, which created a spatial anomaly that repelled the water and forced Azelf to appear.

After that, J proceeded to capture Azelf, prompting Mesprit and Uxie to appear at the lake. J tried to capture them as well but was challenged by Gary, who was monitoring the lake just as Professor Rowan and Professor Carolina were doing at Lake Verity and Lake Acuity, respectively. However, Gary's Umbreon and Electivire were no match to Saturn's Toxicroak and were quickly defeated. After J successfully captured all three lake guardians and delivered them to Saturn, her airship was struck by Mesprit and Uxie's Future Sight, which the two had used before being captured. This caused J's ship to crash and sink into Lake Valor. Soon after sinking, the ship exploded, leaving the fates of J and her henchmen unknown.

Although Marian announced in Fighting Ire with Fire! that the Sinnoh Grand Festival was going to be held at Lake Valor, Ash and his friends would only get there in Dealing With a Fierce Double Ditto Drama!. The competition began in Last Call — First Round! and was entered by 108 Coordinators who managed to collect five Ribbons from the Sinnoh region. Among them were Dawn and her rivals Zoey, Kenny, Nando, Ursula, and Jessilina. In the final round, which took place in A Grand Fight for Winning!, Dawn found herself against her longtime friend Zoey. After a fierce battle, Zoey emerged victorious, earning the Ribbon Cup and the title of Top Coordinator.

Gallery

Seven Stars Restaurant	Hotel Grand Lake	Contest Hall

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Lake Valor in Pokémon Adventures

Lake Valor dried up in Pokémon Adventures

Diamond & Pearl arc

At the end of Bombastic Bibarel & Heroic Hippopotas, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, and Dr. Footstep were thrown to the Lake Valor lakeside by a sandstorm created by a wild Hippowdon. Diamond and Platinum ended up on the shore and while seeking for their comrades, Diamond told Platinum about a mysterious incident that happened to him when he was little at Lake Verity. After this, they encountered two Scientists, who intended to take them away, leading to a battle. Meanwhile, Pearl and Dr. Footstep had ended up on the opposite shore of the lake, but were thrown on an island in the middle of the lake by a wild Staraptor. In the midst of the battle between Diamond and Platinum and the Scientists, a strange light coming from the center of the lake gave Diamond and Platinum a chance to resolve the battle. Pearl and Dr. Footstep swam to the shore and saw the two Scientists tied up. After Diamond explained what had happened, Platinum fainted due to the burden of the battle. In the morning, she woke up, shocked upon noticing they had camped out the previous night, as opposed to her plan of staying at Hotel Grand Lake. After the first shock, she recovered and enjoyed the sunrise.

Later, after Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum decided to split up to stop Team Galactic, Pearl headed to Lake Valor. In Tackling Tangrowth, Team Galactic blew up the lake with the Galactic Bomb in order to awaken and capture the lake guardians. While being dragged into Valor Cavern by Saturn, Pearl revealed that he had seen a reflection of a blue-headed Pokémon on the surface of the puddle in the cavern while being there earlier. After Team Galactic had successfully captured Azelf, the dried-up lake was taken care of by Crasher Wake, who had his Quagsire and Floatzel use Rain Dance in order to refill it.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

Lake Valor dried up in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

Lake Valor debuted in The Legendary Pokémon, Captured, where Hareta arrived there to find it dried up by a Galactic Bomb detonated by Saturn, who had succeeded in capturing Azelf. While a group of Gym Leaders called into action by Byron took care of the Team Galactic Grunts present, Hareta battled and defeated Saturn. In The Battle Rages On, Cyrus arrived and berated Saturn of his failure. Since Hareta had lost his previous battle against Cyrus, he demanded to battle the Galactic Boss one-on-one. However, the battle was left unfinished when Saturn used his Rhyperior's Lightning Rod to redirect Hareta's finishing move away from Cyrus's Gyarados. After Rhyperior had been defeated by Hareta's Piplup, Cyrus took Saturn with him and left, and Byron, impressed by Hareta's strength, gave him a Mine Badge.

Trivia

• At each of Sinnoh's lakes, a TM can be found containing a powerful move of a different type. Lake Valor's TM is the Electric-type TM25 (Thunder).
• When the bomb is set off here, the blast is powerful enough to be felt in Canalave City on the other side of Sinnoh, but there is no damage to the Magikarp living in the lake or the surrounding area, besides the obvious crater and disappearance of water.
• Lake Valor is the only Sinnoh lake that is not entered from the south.

Name origin

Valor means "courage". This is fitting, as Azelf is the Willpower Pokémon.

Risshi is from 立志 risshi (resolve, aspiration), as indicated by a signpost in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl that provided an annotation of its name fully written in kanji as 立志湖.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 立志湖 Laahpji Wùh Mandarin 立志湖 Lìzhì Hú Finnish Valor-järvi French Lac Courage German See der Kühnheit Italian Lago Valore Korean 입지호수 Ipji Hosu Polish Jezioro Waleczności Portuguese Lago Valor Russian Лейк Валор Leik Valor Spanish Lago Valor Vietnamese Hồ Quyết Chí

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