How to Level Up in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

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Last Updated: October 8, 2024

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Need to level up your Pokémon quick? Use this guide.

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Leveling up with the Daycare and Training

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share. If you don't have enough, then start by training one of them, and then switch every time you finish a battle. Easier target is Elite Four since you got two level 100 Pokémon.
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share on the Pokémon you are raising.
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You get more than 200 experience each battle and a full heal. It's a good spot to train for Gardenia.
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You get more than 200 experience each battle and a full heal. It's a good spot to train for Mina.

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, until you don`t have money or you can't buy more things.
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If you beat it beat Bertha and etc.
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Share to your low level Pokémon and go to Victory Road and the Elite Four and keep battling to get your Pokémon's Level up.

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The experience share can be found next to Eterna City. Just talk with Professor Rowan's assistant and he will give you the experience share.

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I would suggest going to routes where the Pokémon are about the same level as the Pokémon you want to train. There are multiple resources online where you can find the Pokémon that are found and their average level on each route.

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Alakazam Strategy

If you're looking to beat the entire elite four with one Pokémon so you can train 5 at once, just raise a level 100 Alakazam with:

Energy Ball or Grass Knot (for Bertha & half of Cynthia's Pokémon)
Shadow Ball (for Lucian)
Fire Punch (for Aaron) (learned through breeding)
Psychic (should still knock out most of Flint's and wreck Lucario)

Tricky Pokémon that could give you trouble:

Driblim- Use Shadow Ball!
Girafarig- Energy Ball him a few times
Spiritomb- Energy Ball him a few times (Don't use fire punch for these two because Alakazam's Special Attack is way higher than his Attack)
Garchomp- Just use psychic, but if you're out of PP use Energy Ball

Also, have him hold leftovers if you've got it. This leveling strategy works perfect if you do it right.

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Have Pokémon's at least level 48 for Cynthia.

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Sometimes, you can beat the elite four unintentionally. You beat Lucian and then to the champion Cynthia while you were expecting to train!

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If you have an exp. share put that on your weakest Pokémon. Then go to the Elite Four and start battling with your strong Pokémon and the weak Pokémon will level up like crazy when you beat a single Pokémon of the Elite Four.

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Watch out for Champion Cynthia, she's hard sometimes.

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If you put Pokémon in the Daycare, you'll have no control of them learning moves.

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