What’s New in Platinum: New Moon Island

August 5, 2009

Platinum owners can now travel to New Moon Island and battle the Pitch-Black pokémon, Darkrai by obtaining a Member Card over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection from now until September 13th, 2009. This card allows you access into the Harbor Inn in Canalave City. The Harbor Inn is in the northeast corner of town and before the Member Card is active, the door is locked and the sign is too faded to read.

If you have received the Secret Key to unlock the Rotom forms or received mystery gifts from Pokémon Battle Revolution then you are ready to go. Just click on MYSTERY GIFT on the opening screen, then RECEIVE GIFT, then GET VIA NINTENDO WFC and it will load the Wonder Card on to your game
If you have yet to receive a mystery gift, go to the 3rd floor in Jubilife TV. Talk to the man next to a lady and type in “everyone happy” as a response to his first question and type in “wi-fi connection” to the next question. Save your game and when you restart it the MYSTERY GIFT option box will appear below NEW GAME on the opening screen.
Once you have downloaded the Wonder Card, the Member Card can be picked up from the green dressed delivery man in any Poke Mart. Even if you haven’t beaten the elite four yet you still can receive the Member Card, but to battle Darkrai you must finish a few things. First you need to have obtained the National Dex from Professor Rowan. Then you need to visit the son of Sailor Eldritch in Canalave City and retrieve the Lunar Wing from Fullmoon Island.
When you read the sign at the Harbor Inn it will now say “A Roost For Restless Sailors,” and “Enjoy sweet dreams in our sumptuous beds.” Once you enter the inn you be whisked off to bed and will find yourself on New Moon Island, follow the path to find Darkrai waiting for you.

Darkrai will be at level 50 and have the following moves:
Hypnosis
Faint Attack
Nightmare
Double Team
If Darkrai faints, don’t worry, the Sailor Eldritch can now take you to New Moon Island and Darkrai will be waiting for you there. You can battle him as many times as you like(or flee if you find yourself outmatched) until you capture him.

You can only capture Darkrai once so I recommend bringing a pokemon with the ability of synchronize with the nature you prefer. Darkrai has good stats all around, but its best base stats are in Special Attack and Speed so Modest or Timid are usually considered the best natures. Here are some moves to consider when putting together a team to capture Darkrai.
False Swipe - despite its looks Darkrai is a Dark type, not a Ghost, so False Swipe will work to lower it to 1 HP.
Thunder Wave – Sleep and Paralysis help to make pokemon easier to catch and while Sleep is more effective, it is only temporary while Paralysis will stay with it for the rest of the battle. Magnezone and Magneton will resist Faint Attack while dealing out the Thunder Wave.
Taunt – Darkrai has only one attack and Taunt will force it to use Faint Attack. Darkrai’s ability is Bad Dreams which causes you to lose 1/8 of your HP on every turn that you are asleep and its Nightmare attack will further drain away ¼ of your HP. Taunt will prevent it from putting you to sleep with Hypnosis and from using Double Team.
Haze – Double Team not only raises its evasiveness, but makes it harder to catch. Haze wipes away all stat changes.
Aromatherapy - Hypnosis can spell doom to even the highest level pokemon as Bad Dreams and Nightmare will quickly drain away your HP. So even if you quickly lower Darkrai’s HP, it can still cripple you before you can catch it. Switch out your pokemon as they fall asleep and switch in an Aromatherapist to wake up you whole team. Chesto berries can be a handy hold item especially for your aromatherapist as you want to make sure it doesn’t fall asleep before it wakes up its teammates.
Vital Spirit and Insomnia are helpful abilities to avoid Darkrai’s Bad Dreams and Nightmares and, as scary as it might seem, I recommend you battle Darkrai at night (after 8 PM) as Dusk Balls are the most effective ball against this tough catch.

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Comment by NikolaTesla
2009-08-05 11:01:47

I just downloaded the card. Thanks. In case anyone is curious it really won’t work with diamond and pearl.

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Comment by Empoleon67
2009-08-05 12:21:17

got this Darkrai
Timid x/x/x/30/x/28 on my third try

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Comment by Diamond owner
2009-08-06 19:07:44

Killjoy :<

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Comment by Girth
2009-09-11 04:57:42

Other Advice:

Breloom is worth mention because he’s a great staller with SubSeed and poison heal. He also resists Faint Attack and can put Darkrai to sleep with Spore.

Evasion only makes a pokemon more difficult to hit, not to catch.

Max speed New Moon Island Darkrai is 159, so the one-under is 158. With proper EVs, neutral nature Breloom reaches this around level 65-70.

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Comment by kody
2009-10-09 00:18:14

right now u can get OAK’S LETTER as mystery gift

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