Pokemon White
National Dex
Defeat the Elite Four. Then, leave your house after the credits complete, and Professor Juniper’s father will upgrade your Pokedex to the National Dex.
Hold item locations
The following items can be found at the indicated locations:
- Amulet Coin: Unite the three dancers in Castelia City. Defeat the first one by the fountain, and he will ask you to find two other dancers. They are found on Narrow Street and a Unity Pier. Fight them, and then talk to them afterwards. Go back to the fountain, and talk to the dancer in the middle to get the Amulet Coin, which increases the money you gain.
- Big Root: Found in Pinwheel Forest or 5% chance from a wild Lileep or Cradily. This item increases the HP that results from successful Energy draining moves (for example, Leech Seed).
- Black Sludge: Has a 5% chance from a wild Trubbish, Croagunk, or Toxicroak, or 50% chance from a wild Garbodor. This item restores 1/16th of a Poison-type Pokemon’s HP every turn. It damages other types when held.
- Experience Share: Given to you by the CEO/Janitor of the Battle Company on the Floor 55 in Castelia City.
- Health Wing: Defeat the fourth gym leader, then begin to cross Charizard Bridge. Toward the middle is a shadowy black dot floating on the ground. Step on top of it to get the Health Wing, which increases the base health level of a Pokemon.
- Leftovers: Found in a garbage can under the Village Bridge between Route 11 and Route 12. The Dousing Machine must be used to find it. This item restores 1/16th of a Pokemon’s health every turn.
- Lucky Egg: Given to you by Professor Juniper when you arrive at Chargestone Cave on Route 6. This item gives extra experience points to the Pokemon holding it in any battle it participates in.
- Macho Brace: Found in Nimbasa City, from a man standing at the eastern gate. This item will doubles the EV points the Pokemon gets in battle but will halves its speed stat.
- Scope Lens: Found on Floor 47 in the Battle Company in Castelia City. This item boosts a Pokemon’s critical hit ratio.
Power Hold items: Purchased at the Battle Subway.
- Power Weight: +4 HP EV points after every battle, 50% speed stat
- Power Bracer: +4 Attack EV points after every battle, 50% speed stat
- Power Belt: +4 Defense EV points after every battle, 50% speed stat
- Power Lens: +4 Special Attack EV points after every battle, 50% speed stat
- Power Band: +4 Special Defense EV points after every battle, 50% speed stat
- Power Anklet: +4 HP EV points after every battle, 50% speed stat
Relocator option
Go to the second floor of the building with the scientist that wants a password at Castelia City. Talk to him, and say “Everyone Happy”, then “Simple Connection”. Save the game, and you can now use the “Relocator” option at the main menu to transfer the Legendary Trio (Raikou, Suicune, and Entei) and Celebi to Pokemon Black or Pokemon White .
Unity Tower
Unity Tower is located in the oceans of Unova. To access it, do an international trade using the Geonet. Then, travel to Unity Tower by getting on the boat at the Unity Pier at Castelia City. The Unity Tower tracks people from different countries available on the Geonet. You may talk to these people and track things about them.
Wallpapers
Defeat the Elite Four to unlock a new set of wallpapers. Defeat them again to unlock another set of wallpapers.
Alternate Trainer Card colors
Successfully complete one of the indicated tasks to change to the next card color (black or white, gold, purple, red, or silver):
- 1. Complete the National Pokedex.
- 2. Obtain all Pokemon Musical Items.
- 3. Defeat the Elite 4.
- 4. Get a 49 Streak in both Super Single and Super Double Subway lines in the Battle Subway.
- 5. Obtain all Entralink Powers.
Changing Pokemon
Successfully complete the indicated task to change forms:
- Arceus: Give a plate to Arceus to have it change form.
- Deerling and Sawsbuck: Deerling and Sawsbuck will change into their Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter forms depending on the current season based on the system time.
- Deoxys: Examine the meteor in the museum in Nacrene to cycle through Deoxys’ Normal, Attack, Defense, and Speed forms.
- Eevee: Fight enemies near the moss-covered stone in Pinwheel Forest to evolve into Leafeon. Fight enemies near the frozen ice crystal at the bottom of Twist Mountain to evolve into Glaceon
- Feebas: Trade Feebas while it is holding a Prism Scale (obtained on Route 13) to evolve into Milotic.
- Giratina: Give Giratina a Griseous Orb from the Shadow Triad on the Marvelous Bridge to change into its Origin form.
- Karrablast and Shelmet: To evolve Karrablast and Shelmet, trade one for the other with another player. The Karrablast will evolve into Escavalier and the Shelmet will evolve into Accelgor.
- Magneton: Fight enemies in Chargestone Cave to evolve into Magnezone.
- Nosepass: Fight enemies in Chargestone Cave to evolve into Probopass.
- Rotom: Open the boxes in the first door on Floor 1 of Shopping Mall Nine to change into Rotom’s Normal, Heat, Wash, Frost, Fan, and Mow forms.
- Shaymin: Give a Gracidea (from the woman in the Pokemon Center in Lacunosa Town) to Shaymin to change it into its Sky form.
Audino
Walk over to shaking patches of tall grass to have a chance to encounter Audino. Note: Use Repel in grass to find shaking patches easier.
Victini
Use the Nintendo WiFi connection to get the Mystery Gift (the Liberty Pass) from the main menu before April 10, 2011. Use the Liberty Pass to catch Victini in the dungeon of the tower at Liberty Garden.
Zora
Drop off a Zoroark and Lucario at the Pokemon Day Care, and their egg will be a Zora.
Easy seasonal Pokemon and items
To easily catch the Pokemon that show up in different seasons, instead of waiting for the season to change, simply change the system date under the DS settings to the desired month of the season you want it to be. Then, go to any zone, and it will be the corresponding season you changed the date to. You can now catch the different seasonal Pokemon and gain the seasonal items. -From: Kojihidari
Easy experience
Drop off any desired Pokemon at the Day Care Center on Route 3. For each step you take, your Pokemon in the Day Care Center will gain 1 experience point. Run back and forth on the Skyarrow Bridge twenty or more times, and your Pokemon should level-up a few levels by the time you are done. Repeat this process for any desired Pokemon. Note: Make sure you have a lot of money, as you must pay 100 coins each time your Pokemon levels-up.
After defeating the Elite Four, go to the Giant Chasm with two Blisseys in the back of your party. After encountering the Ditto, send in Blissey. Let the Ditto transform into Blissey, then switch out, and defeat the fake Blissey for easy experience.
During the Victini event, after you defeat the Team Plasma members on your way to Victini, save the game. Keep fighting Victini for 500 to 700 experience points. Note: Victini reappears every time you run away or accidentally defeat it.
Easy base stats
To easily increase a Pokemon’s base stats, go to one of the bridges (for example, Driftveil Drawbridge or Marvelous Bridge). There will be flying Pokemon shadows that appear on them and Wings that increase a Pokemon’s base stats will appear approximately 60% of the time; the other 40% of the time wild Ducklett and Swanna will appear. The Wings that appear are: Health Wing – HP, Muscle Wing – Attack, Resist Wing – Defense, Genius Wing – Special Attack, Clever Wing – Special Defense, Swift Wing – Speed, Pretty Wing – no effect; its only purpose is to be sold. Note: All Wings except the Pretty Wing will raise the base stats until they reach 255. -From: jjsandt
Easy money
Once you defeat the Elite 4 for the first time during the story, you can travel the eastern side of Unova. From Nimbasa City, go east, and you will end up on Marvelous Bridge. Once there, notice that you will occasionally hear a “wing-flap” sound, and a small dark area (similar to those seen in lakes and caves) will appear in a random location on the bridge. There will be a 50% chance that when you step on the dark spot, it will either be a “Wing” or a Swanna, the White Bird Pokemon. These “Wings” include the Health Wing, Muscle Wing, Resist Wing, Genius Wing, Clever Wing, Swift Wing, and Pretty Wing. They all give effects similar to those of the Vitamins (Protien, Iron, Calcium, Zinc, etc.) but can be sold for 1,500 PokeDollars. They are very easy to obtain. Keep finding these “Wings” and sell them in large quantities.
Cheap recovery items
In Driftveil City, there is a market where you can buy medicinal herbs, which include Heal Powder, Energy Powder, Energy Root, and Revival Herb. The Heal Powder recovers any status problems of a single Pokemon and is the equivalent of a Full Heal, which costs 600 PokeDollars, but only costs 450 PokeDollars. The EnergyPowder recovers 50 HP and is the equivalent of a Super Potion, which costs 700 PokeDollars, but only costs 500 PokeDollars. The Energy Root recovers 200 HP and is the equivalent of a Hyper Potion, which costs 1,200 PokeDollars, but only costs 800 PokeDollars. The Revival Root is the equivalent of a Max Revive and only costs 2,800 PokeDollars, which is a high price, but at least “Max Revives” can be bought in the game.
Capturing Pokemon more easily
When you encounter a Pokemon you want to catch, weaken it in whatever way desired (HP reduction, status infliction, etc.), then throw an ordinary Poke Ball. When the view zooms in on the Pokemon, use your stylus to trace counter-clockwise circles around the Poke Ball symbol on the touch screen. While doing so, make sure to not trace your circles too fast or too slow. Try to find a good median speed to trace with. This should either make the contained Pokemon roll more or get captured in one roll. Note: This trick seems to work best on higher level Pokemon (at least high level 30s), but it does not work every time you try to catch a Pokemon; it can simply make captures easier with ordinary Poke Balls.
Birthday bonuses
Set the system date to your birthday. Then, go to the Pokemon Musical, and talk to the owner upstairs to get the birthday cake prop. Next, talk to the nurse at a Pokemon Center, and she will ask if it is your birthday. Answer “Yes”, and she will wish you a happy birthday. Additionally, the mist will be gone in Routes 14 and 15.
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