This is function 15 of our official Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl complete guide and walkthrough, which picks upwards in Snowpoint City after approximately 100 hours of trekking through Hail and snowfall deeper than a 15-twelvemonth-old MCR fan. While the reason you lot came here was to assist your rival at Lake Acuity, y'all won't exist able to access the lake until you lot trounce Candice in Snowpoint Gym.

At present that you've got your bearings in Snowpoint Urban center, it'due south important that you admittedly under no circumstances visit the firm in the northwestern corner of the town. This, reader, is where Mindy lives - if you want to know why Mindy sucks, I wrote about how atrocious she is before Vivid Diamond & Pearl fifty-fifty came out.

Anyhow, what you should be doing next is making your style to Snowpoint Gym. The puzzle here is a bit abrasive, so here's a quick rundown of what you should do to finish information technology speedily. Information technology'southward worth noting that you slide along ice tiles until you attain an obstacle, while snow tiles stop you in your tracks.

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  • From the starting betoken, move to the top of the snow section and go left.
  • When you hit a snowball, get up three snow tiles.
  • At the tertiary tile, go right and you volition go the whole way to the opposite side of the room, at which betoken you will land on the top of two continued snowfall tiles.
  • Use the D-pad to walk to the lower tile and get left to take out one of the snowballs obstructing the path to Candice.
  • Go back to the starting area and go left over again.
  • This time, instead of turning right at the tertiary tile, go upwards until you reach a snowball to stop you.
  • Go right to accept out another main snowball.
  • Head back to the start over again - this time, nosotros'll be going right instead of left.
  • When you hit the snowball, go up until you crash-land into a trainer.
  • Go right and then upwardly to three snow tiles shaped like a tetromino.
  • From the lesser left of the 3 tiles, go left and y'all will skate the whole way to the opposite side of the room.
  • From here, go upwardly until y'all hit the back wall, then plow left into the back left corner of the room.
  • Go downward to the snow tile, downwards again to the snowball beneath, and plough right to take out the third and final obstructive snowball.
  • The only snowballs left are the ones in the pit in the middle of the room, which you'll destroy naturally equally yous skate around or by skating down from the remaining unused tiles on the superlative ii tiers of the rink.

Phew! Now that's out of the way, nosotros've finally got our path to Candice. From the beginning of the puzzle, head straight through all the stairs along the centre of the room until you lot attain the gym leader's platform. Candice is one of the easiest gym leaders in the game if you've built your team right - if you have Infernape and Staraptor, she probably won't even manage to land a single hit on you. The fundamental matter to recall is that Fighting is rex in Sinnoh, so provided y'all have a Pokemon with Close Gainsay and potentiall a fill-in 'mon with access to STAB Burn moves, this fight should be over before it fifty-fifty begins.

Once you obtain the Icicle Badge, head to the Pokemon Eye and heal upwards if you need to. Now that you've beaten Candice, the grunts blocking the manner to Lake Acuity will have moved to each side of the entrance, significant you're really able to admission it at present. Unfortunately, the outset thing yous'll run across is your rival getting thrashed by Jupiter's Skuntank. Uxie, the Lake Guardian who resides in Lake Acuity, has been abducted alongside Mesprit from Verity and Azelf from Valor. All three Legendary Pokemon are apparently being held in the massive Team Galactic HQ in the northeast corner of Veilstone Metropolis.

This brings the states to part 16 of our consummate Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl walkthrough: Veilstone City Team Galactic HQ.

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