Appendix:Emerald walkthrough/Section 11: Difference between revisions

[[Image:Route124under.png|thumb|left|The [[underwater]] area of the route.]]

Route 124 is a large [[Water route]] that links [[Lilycove City]]'s eastern side with {{rt|126|Hoenn}}'s northern side. Near the center of the route, the path turns to the south. You will need {{m|Dive}} to fully explore it. At the mouth of the outlet near Mossdeep, a pair of islands play home to the [[Diving Treasure Hunter]], who will exchange [[Shard]]s for [[Evolutionary stone]]s. South of the outlet, Route 124 becomes Route 126.

 

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===Diving Treasue Hunter===

The '''Diving Treasure Hunter''' is a man that will exchange [[Shard]]s for [[evolutionary stone]]s. He lives in a small hut on {{rt|124|Hoenn}}, near [[Mossdeep City]]. If you talk to him, he will trade a corresponding stone for your Shard based on its color. This transaction is one of the few ways to obtain evolutionary stones, so take advantage of this guy!

[[File:Mossdeep City E.png|275px|right|thumb|Mossdeep City]]

[[Mossdeep City]] is on an island. North of the city is the [[Shoal Cave]], which is located on {{rt|125|Hoenn}}. To its west is where you have traveled from, Route 124, and to the east is {{rt|127|Hoenn}}. It blossoms with flowers and trees. The city's slogan is ''Cherish Pokémon!''. It also has a [[Mossdeep Space Center|Space Center]] which boasts of being ''the closest place to space''. Now, the house right at the corner of the west side of the city is [[Steven Stone]]'s house. Enter it. You will find a note left by Steven, saying that he has gone on a journey and is leaving {{p|Beldum}}, his most favorite Pokémon, for you. There is a [[Poké Ball]] next to it. It contains a level 5 {{p|Beldum}}. This is a nice surprise... Beldum is the first evolution of {{p|Metagross}}, a very powerful {{type2|Steel}}. Unfortunately, the only move Beldum learns is {{m|Take Down}}. But once it evolves into {{p|Metang}} at Level 20, it's a good Pokémon, and it's ''awesome'' once it becomes Metagross at Level 45. Now head out. There are also other houses. One boy will inform you about where your [[secret base]] is in case you have forgotten. In another house, a {{tc|Black Belt}} will inform you which [[Pokéblock]]s your Pokémon like. Another Black Belt, who is standing outside on the waves will teach your Pokémon {{m|DynamicPunch}}.

As you probably noticed, there is a Gym here. The specialty type is {{t|Psychic}}, and the highest-leveled Pokémon are Level 42, so '''training to at least that level before challenging the Gym is recommended.''' Know in advance that there are ''two'' Gym Leaders here— [[Tate]] and [[Liza]] are twins and will challenge you to a [[Double Battle]]! When you're ready, enter the Gym.

[[File:Mossdeep Gym E.png|275px|right|thumb|The Mossdeep Gym's layout]]

This gym is similar to [[Saffron Gym|one in Kanto]] in that it's a series of rooms connected by [[warp tiles]]. Each room contains trainers and obstacles on spinners that rotate when certain tiles are stepped on, changing the path and often bringing the sight of enemy trainers in-line with you. In {{2v2|Ruby|Sapphire}}, the Gym's puzzle had only [[Spinner|spinner tiles]].

As stated before, the Trainers here use {{type2|Psychic}} Pokémon, which are weak to {{t|Bug}}-, {{t|Dark}}-, and {{t|Ghost}}-type attacks. Psychic is good against {{t|Fighting}}- and {{t|Poison}}-types, so don't use those Pokémon in this Gym challenge.  Dark-type Pokémon are immune to Psychic-type attacks, and Dark-type moves can be learned by a wide variety of Pokémon, so use that to your advantage here.

When you challenge the Gym Leaders, they send out {{p|Claydol}}, a Psychic/{{t|Ground}}-type, and {{p|Xatu}}, a Psychic/{{t|Flying}}-type. Claydol knows {{m|Earthquake}}, a powerful Ground-type attack that will hit both your Pokémon unless they have the [[Ability]] {{a|Levitate}} or are a Flying-type. (Note: All of Tate and Liza's Pokémon are immune to Ground-type moves due to either Levitate or being of the Flying type.) Xatu also has the powerful attack {{m|Psychic}}, the {{type2|Rock}} move {{m|AncientPower}}, and {{m|Light Screen}} to reduce damage to its team by Special attacks by one-third. However, it has a huge amount of weaknesses: the types {{t|Water}}, {{t|Grass}}, {{t|Ice}}, Ghost, Dark, and Bug will all do super-effective damage. Use moves of those types to take it out. Xatu has a moderately high Special Attack stat, and also knows Psychic. Its other moves are {{m|Confuse Ray}}, which will confuse your Pokémon, {{m|Calm Mind}} to boost its Special Attack and Special Defense, and {{m|Sunny Day}} for some reason. Sunny Day will give a boost to any {{type2|Fire}} moves used in battle, so use this to your advantage! A good Ice-, {{t|Electric}}-, {{t|Rock}}-, or Dark-type move or two will most likely knock it out. Once Xatu and Claydol are taken care of, the next Pokémon are {{p|Solrock}} and {{p|Lunatone}}. These two are both Psychic/Rock-types, and are therefore supereffectively damaged by Water, Grass, and Steel as well as the normal Psychic-type {{t|Dark|weak}}{{t|Ghost|nes}}{{t|Bug|ses}}. Like Xatu, Solrock knows Sunny Day, except that it can put the move to good use— it knows {{m|SolarBeam}}, a Grass-type move with 120 base power, ''which will not need to waste a turn for charging during sunny weather.'' It also takes advantage of Sunny Day to give a boost to its {{m|Flamethrower}}. Grass-, Bug-, Ice-, and Steel-types will need to watch out! Lunatone is more defensive, with Light Screen, Calm Mind, and {{m|Hypnosis}} to make your Pokémon fall asleep, as well as Psychic.

Next, you'll be headed to {{rt|126|Hoenn}}.