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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (2021)

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Let's Play

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Before taking on Canalave Gym, I enter Iron Island, which is an optional area, but there is a good reward you can get when you explore the place. I encounter a Trainer named Riley, who tells me that the Wild Pokémon have become restless, so he helps me with finding what the cause of it is.

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At the start of the video, I get some trade evolutions out of the way so that they are in rotation, as I have started playing Shining Pearl at around that time. If you Surf down the water, you can find the TM for U-turn, which is a decent move to have, some Pokémon like Staraptor and Infernape are good users for that move.
Iron Island is optional, but in Platinum, you did have to visit Iron Island to get the HM for Strength from Riley, who is at the entrance, and that was all you needed to do, but in this game, you have to access the top floor in Lost Tower, which despite being optional in Platinum, is not in this game, as Strength is a required Hidden Move to progress through the game.
I decided to evolve Murkrow into Honchkrow, as I did get Brave Bird on it with the help of the Move Deleter and the Pokémon Nursery. There are some good items you can get in Iron Island, like an Iron Ball, Magnet, Iron Plate, and Shiny Stone.
Riley is in the cave, he does resemble the character Sir Aaron from the movie Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and he does have a Lucario for his partner Pokémon, which knows Force Palm, Metal Claw, Screech, and Laser Focus.
There is one new encounter I want to go over, and that is Steelix, back when Onix was available in Oreburgh Mine, I didn't recommend it, this is because you can find wild Steelix there, that way it would save having to use up a Metal Coat. Steelix is a very defensive Pokémon, and it can relearn the Elemental Fangs and you can teach it Bulldoze and Gyro Ball for TMs right away, meaning it is ready to fight. It does require a TM to learn Earthquake, but aside from that, Steelix isn't TM reliant, and as for the Metal Coat, you can just find them on Bronzor as a 5% chance, and you can even find them on Magnemite in the Grand Underground the same chance as you would find it on Bronzor.
There are a bunch of Trainers there, and one reference I like in Platinum was that the female Ace Trainer used Medicham, Lopunny, and Kirlia, which was a reference to Team Charm from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Darkness, & Sky, technically it was Gardevoir that was part of the team, although that Ace Trainer's Kirlia was above the level when it would have evolved into Gardevoir. For other notable Trainers, there is the other Cherrim Trainer, they gave Cherrim to two Trainers, and both are in optional areas.
At the end is Team Galactic, and after battling them, Riley gives you a Pokémon Egg, and near the end is a Shiny Stone, which you can use to evolve Roselia into Roserade, or Togetic into Togekiss.
The Egg that you get hatches into a Riolu, which is the pre-evolved form of Lucario, this Pokémon requires Friendship to evolve, and it can only evolve in the daytime, and as you get it at Level 1, you can just level it up a bit while it is holding the Soothe Bell. When it is evolved, Lucario learns Aura Sphere right when it evolves, there isn't much reason to keep it as a Riolu for that long. Lucario learns a wide variety of moves, it can relearn Force Palm and Nasty Plot, and for its level up moves, it can learn Power-Up Punch, Calm Mind, Bone Rush, Swords Dance, Meteor Mash, Dragon Pulse, Extreme Speed, and Close Combat, and it has great TM variety, it can learn Dark Pulse, Water Pulse, Psychic, Flash Cannon, Earthquake, Shadow Claw, Stone Edge, Poison Jab, and many other moves, Lucario has excellent versatility, so it is a good option if you are patient enough to hatch the Egg and raise Riolu's Friendship, and level it up a bit so that it is up to the level of your other team members.

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