How to get to pastoria city brilliant diamond

If you're confused, don't be. Route 213 and Valor Lakefront run into each other in a sort of confusing way. Route 213's confines actually spread into the resort area that would otherwise appear to be a continuous locale (Valor Lakefront), so we'll first explore the rest of that area before moving on. There are items to find and people to speak to, so let's get going.

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First and foremost, explore the western edge of the resort. While you won't be able to continue westward to the primary area of Route 213, you can find a building to explore (though this person won't yet have anything of interest to provide you with). Be sure to explore the area south of this building as well, near the pool, where you can acquire a PP Up. Head back to the east hereafter, and move southward from the Seven Stars Restaurant. As you move southward, you can find two more buildings to explore. Be mindful to head into these, since one of them will have a clown (literally a clown, I'm not insulting the guy) who will hand over TM92. After grabbing that head, back outside and move southward through the resort's main office, being sure to talk to the man behind the counter to heal your Pokemon en route.

Heading through the southern door of the main office will bring you to a small beach area. Here, two weak trainers, Tuber Jared and Tuber Chelsea, can be battled. The experience and money earned from these battles is quite paltry, but don't pass up the opportunity to fight them nonetheless. Before leaving the beach area, be sure to scour the location to the west of the main office to find a Yellow Shard. Then, head westward along the thin, sandy pathway, as this will ultimately open up to a wider area on the other side.

Walk around this more wide-open beach locale. You'll see a solitary home sitting on the sand -- walk on in and speak with the man within to find out how your Pokemon feel about you, simply by examining the footsteps they leave behind. Then, do battle with a pair of hostile trainers on this western segment of the beach -- Fisherman Kenneth and Beauty Cyndy. After fighting those thugs off, be sure to explore the nook on the eastern edge of the beach. Destroy the rock blocking it and grab the TM40 on the other side. Then, move northward to reach the small, grassy area of Route 213 that will lead directly to Pastoria City.

Pastoria City is an extremely small settlement with few people and few buildings. Its main draw is the Great Marsh due north of it, but since that's not a mandatory location to visit, we'll cover that in the Side Quests section of the guide (so check that out when you get a chance). Otherwise, you'll want to run around this town and explore the few structures you'll be able to enter. A person in one home will hand over a Turtwig Mask, while a woman in another house will give you a Babiri Berry, but other than that, there's little else to see or do. It's the gym that beckons you, and it's located on the western edge of town (be sure to grab the free-growing Persim Berries and Nanab Berries you encounter in town, as well).

When you approach the entrance to the gym and attempt to go in, your friend will show up and want to do battle with you. Don't expect him to bring much to the table that will stymie you at this point in the game. He'll come at you with two level thirty-two Pokemon in the form of a Buizel and Ponyta. He'll also have a level thirty-four Staravia and a level thirty-six Grotle. Take out these Pokemon as best you can, and be sure to retreat back to the Pokemon Center in town to heal your six active Pokemon before entering the gym itself, where you'll be able to do battle. In fact, there's a person at the Pokemon Center, a woman named Idol Grace, who will want to fight you with her two weak Clefairies as well, so battle her before proceeding if you so desire.

Pastoria City Gym's Leader is a man named named Wake, and his Pokemon are especially weak against electrical-based moves since his creatures are predominantly water-inspired. However, he's the least of your worries here, since getting to him is an annoying process of button pushing and lower-trainer fighting that will make your head spin if you don't keep your wits about you. The six lower trainers in his gym will guard buttons that will raise and lower the water level in the gym. It's a no-brainer to figure this out on your own; simply take out a trainer, hit the nearby button, and proceed down the path it opens up, usually towards another trainer-button combination. Before long, you'll have access to Wake himself, but be sure to save your game (and maybe even leave and heal at the Pokemon Center) before challenging Wake himself, or you may have to repeat the entire process all over again.

Wake was no competition for one Pokemon in our arsenal in particular -- our Luxray. Luxray's electrical-based attacks killed Wake's Gyarados and Floatzel before they could even respond with an attack of their own, though we had to turn to Normal and Dark attacks to take out Quagsire. Nonetheless, with a similar Pokemon in your own party, you should be fine -- Wake is surprisingly easy considering he's the fifth Gym Leader you face. Be sure to use items as needed and be ready for his use of a Hyper Potion on one of his Pokemon (for us it was on his Floatzel). When his Pokemon are felled, not only do you get the Fen Badge for all of your hard work, but you get TM55 as well. Good work, soldier!

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