Later this year,Pokemonfans will get the chance to revisit the Sinnoh Region on the Nintendo Switch throughPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearl,remakes of the DS-era main seriesPokemongames. However, there are still those that play the originalPokemon Diamond,Pearl, andPlatinumgames regularly, even with remakes on the horizon. In fact, some may even be playing through games likePokemon Platinumfor the first time, as was the case with Reddit user N_E_ON.
While playing throughPokemon Platinum, Reddit user N_E_ON reached Snowpoint City. Upon arriving, they ran into a Pokemon trainer named Mindy, who was offering to trade a Haunter in exchange for a Medicham. For the uninitiated, trading a Haunter in the main seriesPokemongames makes itevolve into Gengar, which is one of N_E_ON’s favorite Pokemon. N_E_ON has never been able to use Gengar in thePokemongames because they didn’t have anyone to trade with, and so they were excited to trade with Mindy to finally add one to their team.
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N_E_ON then spent hours first looking for a Meditite to catch and then training that Meditite to level 37 until it evolved into Medicham. After spending about six hours leveling up Meditite inPokemon Platinum, N_E_ON returned to Snowpoint City and spoke with Mindy. And that’s when disaster struck.
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After completing the Pokemon trade with Mindy, N_E_ON was shocked to learn that the Haunter Mindy trades is holding an Everstone. In thePokemonvideo games, aPokemon holding an Everstoneis unable to evolve. This meant that N_E_ON spent all that time to catch a Meditite and evolve it into a Medicham to trade for a Gengar, only for it to still be impossible for them to get their Gengar.
N_E_ON’s post on Reddit has amassed over 10,000 upvotes and over 400 comments as other users share their bad experiences with Mindy. It seems that manyPokemon Platinumplayers had a similarly negative experience when trading Mindy for a Haunter, as they too had expected to get a Gengar in return. Considering how many people seem to dislike the Mindy NPC inPokemon Platinum, it will be interesting to see if she is removed in theupcomingPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlgames, or if the encounter is tweaked so that Haunter is at least no longer holding an Everstone.
If there are any plans to change the Mindy encounter inPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearl, they haven’t been announced so far. Based on thePokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlgameplaythat’s been shown to date, the games seem to be pretty faithful recreations of the Generation 4Pokemongames, so don’t be surprised if Mindy is still trading a Haunter with an Everstone in the new games.
Pokemon Platinumis out now, exclusively for the Nintendo DS.
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