Odd Keystone

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The Odd Keystone (Japanese: かなめいし Keystone) is an item used in the Generation IV games to summon Spiritomb.

Bag Odd Keystone Sprite.png

Odd Keystones act like containers, capable of trapping and binding Spiritomb inside themselves. All Spiritomb use them as a base.

In the games

 
An Odd Keystone in the Underground

In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, they can be found by digging in the Sinnoh Underground, and one can be found with the Dowsing Machine in Twinleaf Town. A Black Belt just west of Hearthome City hands one to the player, indicating not to ask questions about it, before describing the procedure to summon Spiritomb.

The procedure is as follows. The player must take the Odd Keystone to the broken-down tower on Route 209 and place it there. After this, the player must go underground and talk to 32 other players, and after having returned to the surface, Spiritomb will appear the next time they inspect the Hallowed Tower.

Though the technical requirement is to talk to 32 people, the player only needs to talk to one person 32 times, either leaving the Underground after each time or entering and exiting their Secret Base using the "close door and decorate" function, for it to count separately for both players.

Once placed in Hallowed Tower, the player can check the Odd Keystone every now and then to get an idea of their progress towards unlocking Spiritomb. Progress is indicated by gradually changing responses from checking the Keystone; the responses change as the player talks to more people Underground.

In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, it can be obtained from one specific antique shop variant in Join Avenue. To obtain in any other game, the Odd Keystone must be traded from within said game's respective generation.

Outside of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, its only use is to be sold, either for $1050 normally or $3000 when sold to the item maniac in Icirrus City.

In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, the Odd Keystone is reduced to a minor cameo appearance on the Sea Mauville, which will appear just before the player faces Spiritomb and therefore cannot be collected.

Flavor text

Games Description
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BWB2W2
XYORAS*
SM*
A vital item that is needed to keep a stone tower from collapsing. Voices can be heard from it occasionally.


In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series

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Spiritomb, as an Odd Keystone, in the Sealed Ruin

When the player and partner first arrive at the pit of the Sealed Ruin, they will only see an Odd Keystone not realizing it is a Pokémon. After a moment it will reveal itself to be Spiritomb and attack the player.

When Spiritomb is sleeping, it goes back into the Odd Keystone.

In the anime

 
The Odd Keystone in the anime

In The Keystone Pops!, Ash and Dawn were training their Buizel and Aipom, when Buizel's Sonic Boom destroyed the Hallowed Tower. A Spiritomb then rose from the debris and began wreaking havoc. Ash and Pikachu eventually battled the Spiritomb, and once it was hit by Pikachu's Thunderbolt, Spiritomb retreated back into the Odd Keystone, and the Hallowed Tower was rebuilt.

In the manga

 
An Odd Keystone in Pokémon Adventures

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Cynthia's Spiritomb is connected to an Odd Keystone, which was fully seen in Shunning Spiritomb, when the Forbidden Pokémon was frozen by Cyrus's Weavile and it retracted into the stone.

An Odd Keystone appeared in Leaping Past Lopunny among the rare stones that Steven had found during his stay in Sinnoh.

Trivia

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 楔石 Sitsehk
Mandarin 楔石 Xiēshí
  Finnish Outo riimukivi
  French Clé de Voûte
  German Spiritkern
  Italian Roccianima
  Korean 쐐기돌 Sswaegi Dol
  Spanish Piedra Espíritu*
P. Espíritu*
Piedra Base*


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