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Drifloon is a new Pokemon introduced in this Generation and it can only be encountered once every Friday between 10:00 a.m. - 7:59 p.m.
This was changed to all 24 hours in Platinum, but oh my god you might have missed this Pokemon without a guide.
Leafeon is a new Eeveelution that specializes in physical attacks.
Its best physical grass move, Leaf Blade, is not learned until Level 71.
There are two Ice and Electric type families in DP's Pokedex.
There are two late game Gym leaders of said types.
To the shock of many they use none Ice and Electric types!
Phione is a Pokemon you can only get from breeding the Mythical Pokemon Manaphy.
It's the only Mythical Pokemon to do this and contrary to every baby form in the series it cannot evolve into Manaphy.
I have no idea why they did this.
8 HMs are required to beat the game.
Realistically you're either giving them to your team or you're using TWO EXTRA POKEMON FOR HMs.
Bibarel can learn most of them :)
DP had 151 Pokemon in its Pokedex (like Gen 1), but a lot of new evolutions/Pokemon locked to the post-game or were incredibly rare.
It's a meme but a lot of teams had at these two because of it.
Tangela received a new evolution this generation but is completely absent from both Diamond and Pearl.
The only way to obtain one legally before Platinum was to transfer them from the GBA Pokemon games.
Before the post-game, there are exactly two fire types to choose from: Chimchar and Ponyta.
Why they did this and had a fire type member of the Elite Four I will never understand.