Raising Ampharos

Selecting Ampharos
My last Pokémon was water type so I thought I would try an Electric type. I had once had an Ampharos in Pokémon coliseum and remembered likening its moves.

Breeding
Ampharos have got some great Electric type moves but I wanted more power, So Dad was a LV 26 Pikachu with Thunderbolt. Mom was an Ampharos.

I wanted a male Mareep with modest nature. After 30 eggs I finally got a female with modest nature.

So I breed one of the new baby males with the modest baby female holding an everstone and got 3 male Mareeps with modest nature.

I had just missed Jimmers post about testing IV’s so I had selected the one with high HP and Special attack stat.

I named it ‘Nervous’ after the jokes about farmers and sheeps.

I can trade the 2 others if anyone wants them.

Battle Tower
Now that I know how fast it EV train with the Battle Tower items, I headed straight there for the items for HP and special attack. With my Eevee team we reached the Tower Tycoon (21st Battle) 3 times only to be squashed like a bug.

EV Training
I tried something new this time and that’s Pokérus a little virus that helps Pokémon EV train, its awesome. It doubles the EV points for each win.
For Special Attack I went to the resort area pond and fought Golducks for 2 ea. I had 1 Pokémon tank and with the exp. share I was getting 4 ea with Pokérus, but it wasn’t long before I could use Thunderbolt and with Power Lens & Pokérus I was getting 12 ev each.
For HP’s I went to route 201 to find Bidoof’s and 10 ea (Power Weight+ Pokérus ) it didn’t take long.

Move Tutor
One of the reasons I liked Ampharos so much is they are resistant to most attacks, but they are weak to ground attacks. Magnet Rise makes Ampharos immune to ground attacks so I had to get that on my move list. I went to Snowpoint city to the Move Tutor and discovered I needed shards to buy the moves, This is new to platinum. I needed 2 Blue shards, 4 yellow shards, & 2 green shards.

Underground
To get shards you need to dig for them in the Underground, I like the mini game where your digging for items, plus you can find some great stones for later. I have been deleting the Spheres that I found they fill up my bag and I don’t know what to do with them. As far as I can tell you can just buy decorations and traps with them.

Leveling and Final Move Set
I leveled up to get Charge and Signal Beam.

• Thunderbolt
• Magnet Rise
• Charge
• Signal Beam