Appendix:Platinum walkthrough/Section 14

Canalave Gym

Canalave Gym 1F

Canalave Gym 2F

Canalave Gym 3F

Canalave Gym 4F

Be aware that the toughest Pokémon you'll face here is Level 41. The layout of the Canalave Gym is a maze consisting of multiple elevator platforms. As you may already know, it specializes in Steel-types. You'll want Fire-, Ground-, and/or Fighting-type Pokémon with you. Steel-types resist attacks of almost every other type, and are completely immune to Poison-type moves. Also, most of the Pokémon in this Gym have high Defense, so Special moves will do the most damage to them. Lucario's Aura Sphere is one of the most dangerous moves to Steel-type Pokémon in the game right now.

To deal with the maze, first head to the easternmost elevator out of the set of four you'll find on 1F. Then, take the elevator south of you on 2F to reach the southeast area of 1F. The next one will take you back up to 2F. Then, use the moving lift hooked up to a wire to get across the ledge. Take the regular elevator there to reach 3F, where you will find more moving lifts to take you across the wires. First, use the moving lift north of you to reach the north area of 3F with two moving lifts side-by side. Take the northern lift and then keep following the path that will take you back down to 2F. Another elevator will take you to the northern area of the 1F. There, an elevator with a red outline will take you up to 4F where Byron, the Gym Leader and the father of Oreburgh City Gym Leader Roark is.

Canalave City Gym Trainers Trainer Pokémon Black Belt Ricky タイト Taito Reward: $912 Steelix♂ Lv.38 No item Worker Gary カネオ Kaneo Reward: $1480 Magnemite Lv.37 No item Worker Jackson テツオミ Tetsuomi Reward: $1360 Magnemite Lv.34 No item Magnemite Lv.34 No item Magnemite Lv.34 No item Ace Trainer Cesar タクミ Takumi Reward: $2400 Scizor♂ Lv.40 No item Worker Gerardo キンジ Kinji Reward: $1400 Magnemite Lv.35 No item Magnemite Lv.35 No item Black Belt David ケンスケ Kensuke Reward: $888 Steelix♂ Lv.35 No item Steelix♂ Lv.37 No item Ace Trainer Breanna マユコ Mayuko Reward: $2280 Bronzor Lv.35 No item Bronzor Lv.36 No item Bronzor Lv.38 No item Leader Byron Canalave Gym Platinum Reward: $4920 Types: Electric Steel Ability: Sturdy Held item: None Magneton Lv.37 Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Tri Attack Normal Special   --       Metal Sound Steel Status   --       Types: Steel Ground Ability: Sturdy Held item: None Steelix♂ Lv.38 Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Sandstorm Rock Status   --       Ice Fang Ice Physical   --       Types: Rock Steel Ability: Sturdy Held item: Sitrus Berry Bastiodon♂ Lv.41 Metal Burst Steel Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Iron Defense Steel Status   --       Taunt Dark Status   --

Byron starts by sending out Magneton, whose weak Sp. Defense makes it vulnerable to moves like Flamethrower. Also, a Ground-type move like Earthquake could easily take it out in one hit due to its Steel/Electric typing. Beware of Flash Cannon if your Earthquake user is part Rock-type. Metal Sound will harshly lower your Pokémon's Special Defense, causing Thunderbolt, Tri Attack, and Flash Cannon to do even more damage, so be careful. With Magneton out of your way, Byron sends in his Steelix. It's best to use Special attacks on it because of its high Defense stat. It will dispose of Fire-types with Earthquake unless you have a Fire-type strong and fast enough to take it out in one hit. It also uses Ice Fang, which Torterra has a 4× weakness to. Sandstorm powers up Ground-type moves, so use that to your advantage if you can. Don't worry too much about Steelix knowing Flash Cannon, as its Special Attack isn't the best. The last Pokémon you'll face is Bastiodon, which is high-leveled but can easily be defeated by a powerful Fighting- or Ground-type attack due to it's type combo of Rock/Steel. Be sure to take it out in one hit (which isn't too hard), or your Pokémon will be on the receiving end of Metal Burst, which does 1.5 times the damage your previous attack did to Bastiodon. Stone Edge poses a threat to Fire-types, and Iron Defense will sharply raise Bastiodon's already high Defense stat. Taunt will only allow your Pokémon to use attacking moves, which shouldn't be much of a concern. Get Bastiodon out of your way as quickly as possible, and you'll have saved your team some pain and earned yourself the Mine Badge without too much trouble!

Once you defeat Byron, he will give you the Mine Badge, which causes all traded Pokémon up to Level 70 obey you without question and allows for Strength to be used outside of battle. He'll also give you TM91 (Flash Cannon), a Steel-type Special attack that occasionally lowers the enemy's Special Defense stat.

Canalave City

When you step out the door, your rival Barry will be there waiting for you. After congratulating you on getting the Mine Badge he asks you to come with him to the Canalave Library. Meet him there, then head in the building and go up to the 3F. It turns out that Professor Rowan is there with his assistant Lucas/Dawn and wanted you to be part of this conversation. Rowan explains that during his exploration of Pokémon evolution, he learned of the Lake guardians that might shed some light on the mystery of evolution he is trying to solve. He is therefore going to investigate the lakes where these three guardians live, and while he is going with his assistant to Lake Verity, you will go to Lake Valor, and Barry is going to Lake Acuity. Just then a tremor goes off, and you'll learn there was an explosion at Lake Valor, and so the group then separates to head to each of their destinations. First you will need to finish your assignment at Lake Valor to progress the game, but since you now have six badges you can backtrack for items you couldn't get before in places such as the basement at Oreburgh Gate since you now have Strength. See this section for more details.

Lake Valor (First visit)

Lake Valor (Dried up)

Items (first visit only)
Item Location Games HP Up In the northwest while the lake is dry (hidden)  Pt

Turns out Team Galactic is responsible for the tremors due to using a large bomb to dry out the lake to find the cavern where Azelf sleeps. You won't be able to find any wild Pokémon while the lake is in this condition. Time to face some Galactic Grunts.

Team Galactic
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

Once you get past them and enter the Valor Cavern, you'll find it is too late, Azelf has been taken by Team Galactic and instead you will have to face the leader of this unit, Commander Saturn.

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   --

Saturn's Golbat can easily be knocked out with an Electric or Rock-type move. His Bronzor should be no problem with a Fire-type special move just like in the Canalave Gym. His star Pokémon is a Toxicroak. It takes a 4× weakness to a Psychic-type. If you do use a Psychic-type make sure it is gifted in speed along with having a good move like Espeon or Alakazam since a slower Psychic-type like Gardevoir can't handle Toxicroak's Faint Attack, a Dark-type move. A Flying-type type can also handle Toxicroak.

After the battle Saturn will gloat how pointless it is to stand up to Team Galactic and mentions that Commander Mars should have caught the guardian at Lake Verity by now before leaving. It is time to head to Lake Verity, so make sure to have your team ready before flying back to Twinleaf Town and then heading to Lake Verity.

Lake Verity (Second Visit)

Available Pokémon

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Starly D P Pt Grass 2-4 50% 50% 40% Bidoof D P Pt Grass 2-4 50% 50% 60% Surfing and Fishing Psyduck D P Pt Surfing 20-30 90% Golduck D P Pt Surfing 20-40 10% Magikarp D P Pt Fishing Old Rod 3-15 100% Magikarp D P Pt Fishing Good Rod 10-25 65% Goldeen D P Pt Fishing Good Rod 15-20 30% Seaking D P Pt Fishing Good Rod 25-35 5% Gyarados D P Pt Fishing Super Rod 30-55 65% Seaking D P Pt Fishing Super Rod 30-55 35% Special Pokémon Wobbuffet D P Pt Poké Radar 3-4 22% Lunatone D P Pt Dual-slot Sapphire 4 8% Solrock D P Pt Dual-slot Ruby 4 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.

Items
Item Location Games TM38 (Fire Blast) In the south-west corner of the western patch of grass (requires Surf)  Pt

Team Galactic
Trainer Pokémon Galactic Grunt Reward: $1460 Glameow♀ Lv.33 No item Golbat♀ Lv.33 No item Murkrow♀ Lv.36 No item Galactic Grunt Reward: $1460 Croagunk♂ Lv.37 No item Galactic Grunt Reward: $1400 Stunky♂ Lv.35 No item Houndour♂ Lv.35 No item Galactic Grunt Reward: $1440 Houndour♀ Lv.34 No item Glameow♀ Lv.36 No item

When you arrive you'll find Rowan holding off one of the grunts while Lucas/Dawn is up ahead facing Mars and needs your help. After going through two Double Battles you will face off against Mars who wishes to get back at you for screwing up her previous mission at the Valley Windworks.

Commander Mars Lake Verity Platinum Reward: $3120

Types: Poison Flying Ability: Inner Focus Held item: None Golbat♀ Lv.38 Air Cutter Flying Special   --       Supersonic Normal Status   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Toxic Poison Status   --       Types: Steel Psychic Ability: Levitate Held item: None Bronzor Lv.38 Iron Defense Steel Status   --       Gyro Ball Steel Physical   --       Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Extrasensory Psychic Special   --       Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Thick Fat Held item: Sitrus Berry Purugly♀ Lv.40 Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Slash Normal Physical   --       Faint Attack Dark Physical   --       Hypnosis Psychic Status   --

Her team is about the same as Saturn's team, but with the difference of Purugly instead of Toxicroak. Since your Fighting-type diversity has greatly improved since last time it shouldn't have been hard to have found a Fighting-type to use against her to defeat Purugly. Be careful since it is fast and can put you asleep with Hypnosis. After the battle, despite fretting about losing again, Mars is satisfied with having captured Mesprit. She also deduces that Saturn's operation of catching Azelf it made it easier to catch Mesprit due to it sensing that Azelf is in danger and made the cave appear to head out. Mars then leaves with the warning of the power they are about to possess.

After Professor Rowan is up to speed on what happened at Lake Valor, he decides to send you to Lake Acuity in the far north where Barry is, believing that Barry may be in danger due to Team Galactic going there. It is time to head to Route 211 which is east of Eterna City or west of Celestic Town.

Route 211

Route 211

There is nothing of value here now, except going into Mt. Coronet's north area. However, you can visit this place earlier in the game if you wish when you first get to Eterna City for the West side of this route or Celestic Town for the East side and find basic stuff here.

Available Pokémon (West Side)

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Zubat D P Pt Grass 14 0% 0% 10% Machop D P Pt Grass 14-15 15% Hoothoot D P Pt Grass 15 0% 0% 10% Meditite D P Pt Grass 13-15 40% 40% 0% Meditite D P Pt Grass 13 0% 0% 20% Bidoof D P Pt Grass 14 20% Chingling D P Pt Grass 14,16 15% Bronzor D P Pt Grass 14,16 10% Special Pokémon Teddiursa D P Pt Dual-slot Emerald 15-16 8% Tyrogue D P Pt Poké Radar 14-16 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.

Trainers (West Side)

Trainer Pokémon Ninja Boy Zach コタロウ Kotarō Reward: $112 Zubat♂ Lv.14 No item Zubat♂ Lv.14 No item Zubat♂ Lv.14 No item Hiker Louis ノボル Noboru Reward: $576 Geodude♂ Lv.14 No item Onix♂ Lv.18 No item Bird Keeper Alexandra フウコ Fūko Reward: $544 Starly♀ Lv.17 No item Hoothoot♀ Lv.17 No item Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Items (West Side)
Item Location Games Great Ball Hidden in the northern most bare patch of tall grass  Pt  TM12 (Taunt) Under the large bridge (requires Rock Smash)  Pt

Available Pokémon (East Side)

Pokémon Games Location Levels Rate Zubat D P Pt Grass 28 0% 0% 10% Machoke D P Pt Grass 29-30 15% Graveler D P Pt Grass 28 20% Noctowl D P Pt Grass 29 0% 0% 10% Meditite D P Pt Grass 27-29 40% 40% 0% Meditite D P Pt Grass 27 0% 0% 20% Chingling D P Pt Grass 28,30 15% Bronzor D P Pt Grass 29 10% 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 (East Side)

Trainer Pokémon Black Belt Sean ユウサク Yūsaku Reward: $744 Croagunk♂ Lv.31 No item Meditite♂ Lv.31 No item Machoke♂ Lv.31 No item Bird Keeper Katherine ミヤビ Miyabi Reward: $1088 Noctowl♀ Lv.34 No item Ruin Maniac Harry トキオ Tokio Reward: $1536 Bronzor Lv.28 No item Bronzor Lv.30 No item Bronzor Lv.32 No item Ninja Boy Nick カツノリ Katsunori Reward: $240 Skorupi♂ Lv.32 No item Croagunk♂ Lv.30 No item Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Items (East Side)

Item Location Games Pecha Berry Berry patch near the entrance to Celestic Town  Pt  Aspear Berry Berry patch near the entrance to Celestic Town  Pt  Iapapa Berry Berry patch near the entrance to Celestic Town  Pt  Grepa Berry Berry patch near the entrance to Celestic Town  Pt  Carbos In the grass  Pt  TM77 (Psych Up) Talk to the person near the Ruin Maniac  Pt  TM29 (Psychic) At the highest hill of the eastern part of the route (requires Rock Climb and Rock Smash)  Pt  Calcium Hidden, on the same hill as TM29 (Psychic) (requires Rock Climb and Rock Smash)  Pt

← Part 13 Route 221, Route 218, Canalave City, Iron Island

Platinum walkthrough

Mt. Coronet (north area), Route 216, Route 217, Acuity Lakefront, Snowpoint City, Snowpoint Gym Part 15 →

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