Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver – Safari Zone Strategy Guide

In the original Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal, when your Trainer traveled to Kanto you found that the Safari Zone had moved out of Fuchsia City. This meant no Safari Zone Pokemon for your character. In Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, the Safari Zone is back… just in a brand new location. It’s the biggest and most complex Safari Zone to date, so let’s take a look at what all you’ll have to go through to catch ’em all.

First of all, the basic premise has stayed the same – you are given thirty Safari Balls and you have a limited number of steps to catch Pokemon with. Your play ends when you run out of either steps or Safari Balls. This new Safari Zone is a lot more Trainer friendly however. Remember in the old games where you’d have to waste half your steps just to get to an area where you could hopefully find a Chansey? Well, now the Safari Zone is customizable. By using your DS stylus and the touch pad, you can move around the order of the six Safari Zones. This means if all you need to complete the Pokedex is say, a Smeargle, you can set it up so that the Field area of the Safari Zone is right at the entrance, giving you a better chance of catching it. Each of the six zones features distinctly different Pokemon, so you’ll have to visit them all eventually.

The Safari Zone Warden will also have tasks he will assign to you. The first is to get him a Geodude. In return, he’ll activate the customization ability mentioned in the previous paragraph. After that, he will ask you for a Sandshrew. Once you bring him one he’ll activate a new level of customization. This will involve special items that can attract Pokemon that would otherwise not appear in the Safari Zone. Each of these special Pokemon will require a set number of items to be laid down in the Safari Zone in the area they would show up in. Now you can only have 30 items out at a time, and some Pokemon like, say, Carnivine require 25 Grassland item to be laid out in the Desert area. That leaves you only five items to place elsewhere in the zone. The good thing is that the longer you leave these items out, the more experience those items will get, and they will level up like a Pokemon. These items will eventually be worth up to seven times their original value (based on how long you leave them out for), so things will get easier to catch all the Pokemon possible in the Safari Zone. Some rarely occurring Pokemon will not only requires items to be set out, but will also require those items to sit in the area for a length of time before they appear. Remember Carnivine in our item example? Well you’ll also have to leave those items in the Desert for ten straight days before he’ll begin to appear. Because of this, you might want to consider looking for Carnivine in the Marshlands where he requires only 18 points of items, but he will then take 20 days to appear. It’s up to you.

Here now is an easy to read table of each Pokemon and the requirements you’ll need to make them appear within the Safari Zone.

Peaks

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Geodude	Grass	Any	None	None
Graveller	Grass	Any	None	None
Magnemite	Grass	Any	None	None
Magneton	Grass	Any	None	None
Magmar	Grass	Day	None	None
Wobuffet	Grass	Any	None	None
Linoone	Grass	Any	5 Grassland Items	None
Zangoose	Grass	Any	12 Grassland Items	None
Fearow	Grass	Any	5 Forest Items	None
Paras	Grass	Any	3 Forest Items	None
Lairon	Grass	Any	24 Rocky Items	None
Higher Level Magmar	Grass	Day	10 Rocky Items	None
Wobuffet	Grass	Night	Ten Rocky Items	None
Slowbro	Grass	Any	5 Water Items	None
Vigoroth	Grass	Any	10 Grassland Items and 19 Forest Items	60 Days
Spheal	Grass	Any	18 Water Items	40 Days
Bronzor	Grass	Any	7 Forest Items+ 18 Rocky Items	30 Days

Desert

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Sandshrew	Grass	Any	None	None
Sandslash	Grass	Any	None	None
Cubone	Grass	Day	None	None
Marowak	Grass	Day	None	None
Fearow	Grass	Night	None	None
Higher Level Fearow	Grass	Any	3 Grassland Items	None
Spinda	Grass	Any	14 Grassland Items	None
Hippopotas	Grass	Any	28 Rocky Items	None
Higher Level Marowak	Grass	Any	6 Rocky Items	None
Lotad	Grass	Any	8 Water Items	None
Trapinch	Grass	Any	25 Rocky Items	30 Days
Vibrava	Grass	Any	25 Forest items	20 Days
Cacnea	Grass	Any	18 Forest Items	20 Days
Cacturne	Grass	Any	21 Water Items	40 Days
Carnivine	Grass	Any	25 Grassland Items	10 Days

Plains

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Abra	Grass	Any	None	None
Girafarig	Grass	Any	None	None
Rattata	Grass	Day	None	None
Smeargle	Grass	Day	None	None
Raticate	Grass	Night	None	None
Stantler	Grass	Night	None	None
Higher Level Girafarig	Grass	Any	3 Grassland Items	None
Higher Level Stantler	Grass	Any	3 Grassland Items and 3 Forest Items	None
Manectric	Grass	Any	15 Grassland Items	None
Shinx	Grass	Any	10 Grassland Items	None
Zigzagoon	Grass	Any	15 Forest Items	None
Higher Level Smeargle	Grass	Any	3 Forest Items	None
Ponyta	Grass	Any	5 Rocky Items	None
Houndoom	Grass	Any	10 Rocky Items	None
Zangoose	Grass	Any	15 Rocky Items	None
Surskit	Grass	Any	28 Water Items	None
Lotad	Grass	Any	12 Water Items	None

Meadow

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Jigglypuff	Grass	Any	None	None
Hoppip	Grass	Day	None	None
Skiploom	Grass	Day	None	None
Sunkern	Grass	Day	None	None
Clefairy	Grass	Night	None	None
Marill	Grass or Water-Surf	Night (Grass), Any (Surf)	None	None
Wooper	Grass or Water-Surf	Night(Grass), Any(Surf)	None	None
Magikarp	Water-Surf or Old Rod	Any	None	None
Poliwhirl	Water-Super Rod or Good Rod	Any	None	None
Raticate	Grass	Any	5 Grassland Items	None
Chansey	Grass	Any	12 Grassland Items	None
Higher Level Skiploom	Grass or Water-Surf	Any	8 Grassland Items (Grass), 3 Water Items (Surf)	None
Nuzleaf	Grass	Any	28 Grassland Items	None
Higher Level Clefairy	Grass	Any	3 Rocky Items	None
Geodude	Grass	Any	3 Rocky Items	None
Higher Level Wooper	Grass	Any	3 Water Items	None
Higher Level Poliwhirl	Water-Old Rod or Good Rod	Any	3 Water Items (Old Rod), 5 Water Items (Good Rod)	None
Gyarados	Water-Good Rod or Super Rod	Any	7 Water Items(Good Rod), 14 Water Items (Super Rod)	None
Masquerain	Water-Surf	Any	14 Water Items	None
Seedot	Grass	Any	18 Grassland items	10 Days
Nuzleaf	Grass	Any	18 Forest Items	20 Days
Nosepass	Grass	Any	18 Rocky Items	30 Days
Riolu	Grass	Any	10 Forest Items and 18 Rocky Items	70 Days

Forest

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Bellsprout	Grass	Any	None	None
Misdreavus	Grass	Any	None	None
Pidgey	Grass	Day	None	None
Mr. Mime	Grass	Day	None	None
Ghastly	Grass	Night	None	None
Haunted	Grass	Night	None	None
Higher Level Mr. Mime	Grass	Any	3 Grassland Items	None
Budew	Grass	Any	24 Grassland Items	None
Weepinbell	Grass	Any	4 Forest Items	None
Higher Level Misdreavus	Grass	Any	4 Forest Items	None
Electrabuzz	Grass	Any	4 Rocky Items	None
Lickitung	Grass	Any	3 Water Items	None
Surskit	Grass	Any	24 Water Items	None
Bidoof	Grass	Any	10 Water Items	None
Shuppet	Grass	Any	18 Forest Items	20 Days
Beldum	Grass	Any	21 Rocky Items	70 Days
Bronzong	Grass	Any	9 Forest items and 18 Rocky Items	110 Days

Swamp

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Jigglypuff	Grass	Any	None	None
Sentret	Grass	Any	None	None
Murkrow	Grass	Any	None	None
Paras	Grass	Day	None	None
Drowzee	Grass	Night	None	None
Hypno	Grass	Night	None	None
Goldeen	Water-Surf or Good Rod	Any	None	None
Seaking	Water-Good Rod	Any	None	None
Magikarp	Water-Surf or Old Rod	Any	None	None
Dratini	Water – Super Rod	Any	None	None
Parasect	Grass	Any	3 Grassland Items	None
Furrett	Grass	Any	5 Grassland Items	None
Pachirisu	Grass	Any	10 Grassland Items	None
Weepinbell	Grass	Any	8 Forest Items	None
Higher Level Hypno	Grass	Any	5 Forest Items	None
Chimecho	Grass	Any	15 Forest Items	None
Voltorb	Grass	Any	10 Rocky Items	None
Duskull	Grass	Any	28 Rocky Items	None
Floatzel	Grass	Any	10 Water Items	None
Higher Level Goldeen	Water – Old Rod	Any	2 Water Items	None
Higher Level Seaking	Water-Surf, Old Rod, Good Rod	Any	3 Water Items (Old Rod), 4 Water Items (Surf), 6 Water Items (Good Rod)	None
Higher Level Murkrow	Grass or Water-Surf	Any	5 Forest Items(Grass), 10 Water Items (Surf)	None
Higher Level Dratini	Water-Good Rod	Any	10 Water Items	None
Dragonair	Water-Super Rod	Any	15 Water Items	None
Bagon	Grass	Any	9 Forest Items and 18 Rocky Items	110 Days

Marshlands

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Ekans	Grass	Any	None	None
Arbok	Grass	Any	None	None
Grimer	Grass or Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Koffing	Grass	Any	None	None
Weezing	Grass	Any	None	None
Oddish	Grass	Night	None	None
Gloom	Night	Any	None	None
Wooper	Grass or Water-Surf	Night (Grass), Any (Water)	None	None
Poliwag	Water-Surf or Good Rod	Any	None	None
Poliwhirl	Water-Good Rod	Any	None	None
Magikarp	Water-Old Rod or Good Rod	Any	None	None
Higher Level Gloom	Grass	Any	2 Grassland Items	None
Jumpluff	Grass	Any	5 Grassland items and 10 Water Items	None
Diglett	Grass	Any	5 Rocky Items	None
Shuckle	Grass	Any	8 Rocky Items	None
Muk	Grass, Water-Surf	Any	8 Water Items(Grass), 16 Water Items (Surf)	None
Quagsire	Grass	Any	13 Water Items	None
Barboach	Water-Super Rod	Any	4 Water Items	None
Roselia	Grass	Any	25 Forest Items	20 Days
Seviper	Grass	Any	18 Grassland Items	10 Days
Banette	Grass	Any	25 Rocky Items	30 Days
Croagunk	Grass	Any	21 Forest Blocks	20 Days
Carnivine	Grass	Any	18 Forest Items	20 Days

Mountain

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Rattata	Grass	Any	None	None
Magnemite	Grass	Any	None	None
Magneton	Grass	Any	None	None
Raticate	Grass	Day	None	None
Lickitung	Grass	Day	None	None
Larvitar	Grass	Day	None	None
Zubat	Grass	Night	None	None
Golbat	Grass	Night	None	None
Higher Level Magneton	Grass	Any	3 Grassland Items	None
Volbeat	Grass	Any	10 Grassland Items	None
Meditite	Grass	Any	20 Forest items	None
Chingling	Grass	Any	10 Forest Items	None
Higher Level Larvitar	Grass	Any	5 Rocky Items	None
Lunatone	Grass	Any	10 Rocky Items	None
Krabby	Grass	Any	3 Water Items	None
Dusclops	Grass	Any	18 Forest Blocks	20 Days
Sealeon	Grass	Any	7 Grassland Blocks and 17 Water Blocks	30 Days
Metang	Grass	Any	28 Rock Blocks	30 Days

Rocky Beach

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Slowpoke	Grass	Any	None	None
Slowbro	Grass	Any	None	None
Krabby	Grass	Any	None	None
Doduo	Grass	Any	Day	None
Zubat	Grass	N ight	None	None
Poliwag	Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Polwhirl	Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Magikarp	Water-Surf, Old Rod or Good Rod	Any	None	None
Lapras	Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Krabby	Water-Good Rod	Any	None	None
Goldeen	Water-Super Rod	Any	None	None
Seaking	Water-Super Rod	Any	None	None
Dodrio	Grass	Any	4 Grassland Items	None
Electrike	Grass	Any	10 Grassland Items	None
Mareep	Grass	Any	5 Forest Items	None
Manectric	Grass	Any	10 Forest Items	None
Budew	Grass	Any	18 Forest items	None
Slowbro	Grass	Any	10 Rock Items and 10 Water Items	None
Kingler	Grass	Any	10 Rocky Items	None
Aron	Grass	Any	24 Rocky items	None
Higher Level Krabby	Surf-Old Rod	Any	2 Water Items	None
Higher Level Lapras	Water-Surf	Any	10 Water Items	None
Corphish	Water-Good Rod and Super Rod	Any	10 Water Items(Good Rod), 15 Water Items (Super Rod)	None
Gible	Grass	Any	13 Grassland Blocks and 17 Rocky Blocks	100 Days

Wasteland

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Magnemite	Grass	Any	None	None
Onix	Grass	Any	None	None
Kangaskahn	Grass	Any	None	None
Machop	Grass	Day	None	None
Fearow	Grass	Night	None	None
Manectric	Grass	Any	3 Grassland items	None
Illumise	Grass	Any	10 Grassland Items	None
Bellsprout	Grass	Any	3 Forest items	None
Higher Level Fearow	Grass	Any	6 Rocky Items	None
Machoke	Grass	Any	5 Rocky Items	None
Skorupi	Grass	Any	28 Rocky Items	None
Kingler	Grass	Any	5 Water items or 8 Rocky items	None
Golduck	Grass	Any	3 Water Items	None
Breloom	Grass	Any	21 Forest items	20 Days
Medicham	Grass	Any	18 Forest Blocks	20 Days
Solrock	Grass	Any	21 Rocky Items	30 Days

Savannah

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Female Nidoran	Grass	Day	None	None
Male Nidoran	Grass	Day	None	None
Rhyhorn	Grass	Day	None	None
Tarous	Grass	Day	None	None
Nidorino	Grass	Night	None	None
Nidorina	Grass	Night	None	None
Zubat	Grass	Night	None	None
Golbat	Grass	Night	None	None
Higher Level Tarous	Grass	Any	5 Grassland items	None
Zigzagoon	Grass	Any	10 Grassland Items	None
Luxio	Grass	Any	24 Grasslands Items	None
Houndour	Grass	Any	4 Forest Items	None
Rhyhorn	Grass	Any	5 Rocky Items	None
Rhydon	Grass	Any	10 Rocky Items	None
Azurill	Grass	Any	5 Water Items	None
Shroomish	Grass	Any	6 Grassland items and 18 Forest Items	20 Days
Torkoal	Grass	Day	18 Rock Items	30 Days
Cacturne	Grass	Day	18 Forest Items	20 Days

Wetlands

Pokemon Name	Pokemon Location	Time of Day	Items Needed	Time Needed
Spearow	Grass	Day	None	None
Farfetch’d	Grass	Day	None	None
Ditto	Grass	Day	None	None
Sentret	Grass	Day	None	None
Psyduck	Grass	Night	None	None
Golduck	Grass	Night	None	None
Wooper	Grass	Night	None	None
Quagsire	Grass	Night	None	None
Psyduck	Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Golduck	Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Wooper	Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Quagsire	Water-Surf	Any	None	None
Poliwag	Water-Old Rod	Any	None	None
Poliwhirl	Water-Good Rod	Any	None	None
Furret	Grass	Any	2 Grassland Items	None
Lombre	Grass	Any	14 Grassland Items	None
Surskit	Grass	Any	6 Grassland Items	None
Higher Level Farfetch’d	Grass	Any	3 Forest Items	None
Pachirisu	Grass	Any	8 Forest items	None
Higher Level Golduck	Grass	Any	5 Rocky Items	None
DoDuo	Grass	Any	4 Rocky Items	None
Higher Level Ditto	Grass	Any	15 Water Items	None
Higher Level Poliwhirl	Water – Old Rod	Any	2 Water Items	None
Corphish	Water – Good Rod	Any	10 Water items	None
Gyarados	Water – Super Rod	Any	6 Water Items	None
Higher Level Quagsire	Water-Surf	Any	3 Water Items	None
Higher Level Golduck	Water-Surf	Any	6 Water Items	None
Shelgon	Grass	Any	21 Rocky items	70 Days
Buizel	Grass	Any	18 Water Items	40 Days

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March 16, 2010

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Alex Lucard

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30 responses to “Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver – Safari Zone Strategy Guide”

POKEMASTA

March 27, 2010

Where can you find a ghastly or a Haunter?

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POKEMASTA

March 27, 2010

Where can you catch a ghastly/Haunter here?

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1. Alex Lucard
  
  March 27, 2010
  
  Sprout Tower at night.
  
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Brendan

April 2, 2010

i was thinking…you know that u have 2 wait a certain amout of days for sum pokemon 2 appear…can u jus like change the date on your DS so that it makes the game think that say 20days have gone past??? any one know?

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Sean

April 8, 2010

@brendan, no i don’t think it will work like that, if you change the date on your ds it takes at least 24 hours in order for anything time related to happen, as far as changing it 20 days and than waiting 24 hours i’m not sure but personally i wouldn’t waste my time trying

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COKSUKA

April 9, 2010

@Brendan, might work, changing the time from 1pm to 1am makes it night so I don’t see why not. Worth a try, it takes 2 mins to do. it’s a stupid thing to put in a game anyway, the majority of people beat the elite 4 in less than 2 weeks, then they’re done with the game, not going to sit around for 110 days for some shit pokemon to appear.

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SHADOW SHAYMIN

April 11, 2010

no you cant change the date but if you forward your clock to 23.29 and wait a minute then save then repete for an extra day each time thats how i got riolu

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Thom

April 13, 2010

Is there anyway you can tell if you have made the rarer pokemon appear??

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J-Man

April 15, 2010

@Shadow Shaymin – Why 23.29, and not 23.59? I’m gonna try what you recommend.

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rye

April 17, 2010

need help to find dragon type pokemon realy strong to beat 9 gym

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1. Alex Lucard
  
  April 17, 2010
  
  There is no ninth gym. There are two sets of eight.
  
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Someone

April 17, 2010

@Shaymin: Are you just BSing? I’ve tried the same approach for bagon and then shelgon and both times was unable to catch one.

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Someone

April 17, 2010

I should add that the time to set the clock to (and the time that I used) is 23:59

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luke

April 30, 2010

the date changes work for me in the safari zone as do they for the bug catching contest(tho i dont recomend jumping ahead because it records the days you do the contest i would only do that for days you missed)

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luke

April 30, 2010

on another note the the best way to get any pokemon is to have the other versions. thats how i did it i legitimantly have seen caught and curently own every pokemon in all ther evolved forms thats the best thing i can recomind because yes the waiting is bs when i can just do in 5 min on another vesion and trade over what its making me do in like 100+ days

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Spyder0

June 8, 2010

Now if it says have 18 rocky items, do you have to have exactly 18 items or can you just wait till it counts as 18 rocky items?

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Judas

June 13, 2010

@Luke, not everyone has 2 DS’s to trade the stuff over. I have 100% pokedex in diamond, but there’s not much I can do about it with one ds.

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hanksy

June 21, 2010

how dow you get safrizone items

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pokefan n.1

June 28, 2010

thanks so so much for the floatzel cheat it really helped!!!

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pokefan n.1

June 28, 2010

thnxxxxxxxxxxxx so much now i have flotzel thank you loads !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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blubbermonkeysxMUDKIPS

June 30, 2010

WTF I NEED a shelgon so i can pwn the world! help me please???

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Kicking Bird

July 21, 2010

OMG I CAUGHT IT USING MY LAST SAFARI BALL! YESSSSS!!! now to save the game…

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Kicking Bird

July 21, 2010

AND NOW TO BLAST BURN IT WITH CHARIZARD IN FRONT OF TWO CHILDREN ON ROUTE 14……….

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Kicking Bird

July 21, 2010

THAT’LL TEACH YOU NOT TO BE SO HARD TO CATCH!!

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james bickford

July 22, 2010

i need a garchomp i will trade you a lv 70 mewtwo

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james bickford

July 22, 2010

look for the name black

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Boykes

August 6, 2010

I know, there are 6 areas I see, but why are there more places :S

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Allison

November 7, 2010

I’m confused about the itemssss thing??

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ceejay

December 14, 2010

How can I get a bagon its so hard I already placed the items down and waited 120 days and it still did not show up

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thidal

February 8, 2011

this always works bait mud bait mud ball mud ball mud ball mud ball mud… works evey time and if it flees its just not worthy to be in your party and a little secret your DS goes off of the time on it so dont wait months just change the date

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