Appendix:Platinum walkthrough/Section 6: Difference between revisions

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When you come out of Eterna Forest, all you need to do is walk across the bridge. The Trainers won't battle you unless you talk to them, so just go straight ahead to Eterna City.

Later on after defeating the Eterna Gym and acquiring the ability to use {{m|Cut}} outside of battle you can cut the small trees that separate the northern and southern parts of Route 205 and in the small part between them you can find more items.

==[[Eterna City]]==

[[File:Eterna City DP.png|thumb|370px|Eterna City]]

Once in [[Eterna City]], you will see that Team Galactic has set up another Headquarters. As usual, you must stop them from their evil work. As you can see, the headquarters is blocked by some small trees, so you cannot access it yet. You must first go to the Gym, and battle the Gym Leader, Gardenia. Before that head towards the statue and {{ga|Barry}} will join you. As you walk up to the statue, you'll see [[Cyrus]] there. Once again, he will make a reference to [[Creation trio|Sinnoh's legends]].  

After Barry and Cyrus leave first look carefully around the back of the statue for a hidden [[Plate#Draco Plate|Draco Plate]]. Then as you head back the way you came you'll meet [[Cynthia]] who after mentioning the Sinnoh myths and how it is related to the statue that is in Eterna City, she'll give you a copy of {{HM|01|Cut}}. Also talk to the lady in the [[Pokémon Center]] for an upgrade to your [[Pokétch]] called Friendship Checker which can allow you to use your Pokétch to examine how the specific Pokémon you pick on the app cares about you and makes it easier for using Happiness Evolution or for strengthening the move {{m|Return}}.

If you need some extra training you can go east to {{rt|211|Sinnoh}}'s west area. See [[Appendix:Platinum walkthrough/Section 14#Route 211|this section]] for more information.  

Here are some other places you can check out in Eterna City.

===Underground Man===

Right next to the Pokémon Center is the house of the Underground Man that will give you the Explorer Kit. You can use this daily to travel to the Underground to collect items by digging in the walls, as well as collect other items designed to be used in a game against other players in the Underground. Here is a list of items found by digging in the walls.

 

While in {{2v2|Diamond|Pearl}} you could only get one of the new Fossils in that version, the Skull Fossil in Diamond or the Armor Fossil in Pearl, for Platinum you could one find one of these Fossils here just like before. One major difference is that it has to do with the last digit on your Trainer Card (which is accessed in the menu) for this game. If the last digit is odd then you'll be able to obtain the Skull Fossil (for getting {{p|Cranidos}}), but if it is even then you'll get the Armor Fossil (for getting {{p|Shieldon}}) which you can take to the [[Oreburgh Mining Museum]] at [[Oreburgh City]] to be revived. The Fossils from Generation I and III can only be obtained after getting the [[National Pokédex]].

 

In this building, Sinnoh's [[Name Rater]] can be found, as well as a person named Norton who will trade a {{p|Chatot}} for a {{p|Buizel}}, and yet another who will give away {{TM|67|Recycle}}.

===[[Herb Shop]]===

 

The [[Herb Shop]] is a shop that sells effective, yet inexpensive herbs. A lady runs it. You can buy many things such as full revives.

 

The prices of the herbs, in the herb shop, are:

{{shoprow|{{shopitem|Revival Herb|2800}}|{{shopitem|Heal Powder|450}}}}

 

===[[Rad Rickshaw's Cycle Shop]]===

This Bicycle Shop is a store where [[Bicycle]]s are sold. However, you can not purchase a bike from the store. Once you rescue the owner of the store from the Galactic Eterna Building, he will give you one as a gift for rescuing him. You can talk to him for him to read the manual for the bike to you.

===Oak's House===

After you completed the [[List of Pokémon by Sinnoh Pokédex number|Sinnoh Dex]] and get the National Pokédex, you can go to Oak's house, or the house where he is staying for a while. When you talk to him, he will tell you that {{p|Articuno}}, {{p|Zapdos}}, and {{p|Moltres}} are roaming [[Sinnoh]]. After that, the trio will appear around Sinnoh, but rarely.

Once inside the Gym, you must battle three Trainers, until you can battle Gardenia. While this puzzle is similar to that in Diamond and Pearl the main difference is that is that there is a giant Floral clock within the Gym that changes directions each time you beat a Gym Trainer that will take you to where the next one is as well as two fountains in case you need to leave the Gym to heal so you could return to where the two leaves from the clock had stopped and be able to continue on.