Pokémon Platinum

by Game Freak / Nintendo

Pokémon Platinum is the enhanced third version of Diamond and Pearl, set in the mythology-heavy Sinnoh region. Team Galactic's leader Cyrus aims to destroy and recreate the universe without spirit or emotion, using the legendary Pokémon Dialga and Palkia as tools. The game's defining addition is the Distortion World — a Giratina-ruled dimension where physics doesn't apply — and a post-game Battle Frontier. Widely regarded as the best version of Gen IV and one of the most narratively ambitious games in the series.

56 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Aaron — The Sinnoh Elite Four's first member — a Bug-type specialist who values friendship over power, the only notable Bug-type Elite Four member in the seri
• Azelf — The Being of Willpower — the lake guardian of Lake Valor, said to have given humans the will to act, and the most battle-ready of the three lake guard
• Barry — The player's rival — always in a hurry, perpetually threatening to fine people, son of the Battle Frontier's Tower Tycoon, and genuinely more reckless
• Bertha — The Sinnoh Elite Four's second member — an elderly Ground-type specialist who emphasizes observation over brute force and prefers not to have the Elit
• Byron — Canalave City's Gym Leader — a Steel-type specialist known as 'The Man with the Steel Body,' father of Roark, and enthusiastic about the next generati
• Candice — Snowpoint City's Gym Leader — an Ice-type specialist who defies the cold stereotype by being warm and enthusiastic, believes in befriending Pokémon be
• Charon — Team Galactic's scientist — an older man who joined for profit, not ideology, and whose scheme at Stark Mountain to exploit Heatran becomes the post-S
• Crasher Wake — Pastoria City's Gym Leader — a professional wrestler and Water-type specialist whose ring name is 'The Torrential Masked Master' and who uses his priz
• Cynthia — Sinnoh's Champion — a mythology scholar who appears throughout the game as mentor and ally before you face her as the hardest opponent in the series,
• Cyrus — Team Galactic's leader — a man from Sunyshore City who decided that emotion was the source of all suffering and the correct response was to destroy th
• Dawn — The female protagonist of Pokémon Platinum — a trainer from Twinleaf Town with a talent for Contests as well as battles, dressed for Sinnoh's cold in
• Dialga — The Pokémon of time — Sinnoh mythology's temporal deity, the mascot of Pokémon Diamond, and one of the two legendary Pokémon Cyrus tries to control at
• Fantina — Hearthome City's Gym Leader — a Ghost-type specialist who immigrated to Sinnoh, peppers her speech with French, competes in Pokémon Contests as enthus
• Flint — The Sinnoh Elite Four's third member — a Fire-type specialist from Sunyshore City who kept returning to his hometown to pull his best friend Volkner b
• Gardenia — Eterna City's Gym Leader — an enthusiastic Grass-type specialist who loves exploring forests and is, paradoxically, terrified of Ghost-type Pokémon.
• Giratina — The Pokémon of antimatter — banished by Arceus to the Distortion World for its violent nature, the mascot of Pokémon Platinum, and the entity that int
• Jupiter — Team Galactic's coldest commander — efficient, disdainful, and the one who defeats Barry at Lake Acuity without registering him as worth remembering.
• Looker — International Police officer tracking Team Galactic throughout Sinnoh — well-meaning, grammatically unusual, always with a backup plan, and one of the
• Lucas — The male protagonist of Pokémon Platinum — a quiet, capable trainer from Twinleaf Town who becomes entangled in a scheme to destroy the universe and,
• Lucian — The Sinnoh Elite Four's fourth and final member — a Psychic-type specialist, avid reader, and polite intellectual who builds his battle strategy on pa
• Mars — Team Galactic's most aggressive commander — cheerfully sadistic, intensely loyal to Cyrus, and the first commander you face, at Valley Windworks.
• Maylene — Veilstone City's Gym Leader — a barefoot Fighting-type specialist who doesn't know how she got the job, is stronger than anyone in the city would gues
• Mesprit — The Being of Emotion — the lake guardian of Lake Verity who is said to have given humans the capacity to feel, and the first lake guardian Mars and Cy
• Palkia — The Pokémon of space — Sinnoh mythology's spatial deity, the mascot of Pokémon Pearl, and the second of the two legendaries Cyrus attempts to control
• Palmer — The Tower Tycoon of the Battle Frontier — one of the most powerful trainers in Sinnoh, Barry's largely absent father, and the person Barry is either t
• Professor Rowan — Sinnoh's Pokémon Professor — stern-looking, secretly kind, obsessed with Pokémon evolution, and the only professor in the series who doesn't wear a la
• Roark — Oreburgh City's Gym Leader and mine safety supervisor — a young Rock-type specialist who runs the mine responsibly, loses to the player with genuine h
• Saturn — Team Galactic's most introspective commander — the one who questions Cyrus's methods, assists the player after the defeat at Spear Pillar, and ultimat
• Team Galactic — Sinnoh's villainous organization — space-suited grunts named after celestial bodies, motivated not by profit or territory but by their leader's desire
• Uxie — The Being of Knowledge — one of the three lake guardians created by Arceus, said to have granted humanity the ability to solve problems, and a Pokémon
• Volkner — Sunyshore City's Gym Leader — the last gym leader and the strongest, who spent months rebuilding his gym out of boredom because no worthy challenger h

Locations

• Battle Frontier — Platinum's post-game challenge facility — five battle facilities in the Battle Zone, each with unique mechanics and a Frontier Brain to defeat, access
• Canalave City — A port city built around a canal and drawbridge — home of Byron's steel gym, Sinnoh's only library, and the ferry that leads to Iron Island, Fullmoon
• Celestic Town — A tiny ancient town that preserves Sinnoh's history — where the ruins contain the oldest known murals of the creation mythology, and where Cynthia's g
• Distortion World — The reverse-side dimension where Giratina lives — a realm where gravity is optional, time doesn't flow, space isn't stable, and which is accessible in
• Eterna City — An ancient city on the edge of Eterna Forest — where history fades at the edges and Team Galactic keeps a secondary headquarters, and where an old sta
• Hearthome City — The heart of Sinnoh — a family-focused city built around Pokémon Contests, the Amity Square park, and Fantina's ghost gym, connected to everything and
• Jubilife City — Sinnoh's most modern city — home of the Pokétch Company, the Global Trade Station, Jubilife TV, and a density of foot traffic that makes it feel like
• Lake Acuity — The northern lake near Snowpoint City — where Uxie lives in Acuity Cavern, where Jupiter's operation captures the Being of Knowledge, and where Barry
• Lake Valor — The central lake south of Veilstone City — where Azelf lives, where Saturn's team Galactic operation drains the lake using a bomb to capture the Being
• Lake Verity — The lake near Twinleaf Town — where Mesprit lives in Verity Cavern, where the story begins with Rowan's briefcase and tall grass, and where Team Galac
• Mt. Coronet — The mountain at the center of everything — the tallest peak in the Pokémon world, dividing Sinnoh into east and west, sacred to Sinnoh mythology, and
• Oreburgh City — A coal mining city built on energy extraction — Sinnoh's first gym stop, home of the Oreburgh Mine, and a city whose slogan 'City of Energy' is both i
• Pastoria City — A wetland city in southeastern Sinnoh — home of Crasher Wake's water gym, the Great Marsh safari zone, and a community that takes its local ecosystem
• Pokémon League — The final destination at the end of Victory Road — where the Elite Four wait in sequence and Cynthia waits at the end, and which has existed in the ba
• Sandgem Town — The town east of Twinleaf where Professor Rowan's lab sits — the first town after leaving home, where you receive your Pokédex and where the journey f
• Snowpoint City — The northernmost city in Sinnoh — permanently snow-covered, home of Candice's ice gym, adjacent to a temple housing Regigigas, and the departure point
• Spear Pillar — The ruins at the top of Mt. Coronet — the ancient Temple of Sinnoh where Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina enter the world, and where Cyrus attempts to sum
• Sunyshore City — Sinnoh's southern port and gateway to the Pokémon League — a city of elevated solar panels, a lighthouse, and the uneasy history of being Volkner's ho
• Team Galactic HQ — The Galactic Veilstone Building — Team Galactic's primary headquarters in Veilstone City, multi-story, conspicuous, and the place where the player con
• Twinleaf Town — The player's hometown — a tiny town in southwestern Sinnoh with eight residents, a freshness to the air, and Route 201 to the north that leads to ever
• Veilstone City — Hewn from rock — an eastern city carved into steep mountains, home of Team Galactic's main headquarters, Maylene's fighting gym, and a department stor

Items

• Adamant Orb — Dialga's held item — a hard, blue-grey orb that boosts Dialga's Steel and Dragon moves and is connected to the Diamond Clan's ancient worship of the T
• Griseous Orb — Giratina's held item — found in the Distortion World, it allows Giratina to maintain its Origin Forme outside its home dimension and boosts Ghost and
• Lustrous Orb — Palkia's held item — a pale pearl-like sphere that boosts Palkia's Water and Dragon moves and is connected to the Pearl Clan's ancient reverence for t
• Pokétch — The Pokémon Watch — a wrist-worn touchscreen device manufactured in Jubilife City that combines a timepiece with a suite of installable apps for explo

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