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Pokémon Platinum

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Learn about the Arena Trap ability in Pokémon Platinum, which prevents Pokémon from fleeing and affects wild encounter rates.

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Learn about the Arena Trap ability in Pokémon Platinum, which prevents Pokémon from fleeing and affects wild encounter rates.

Pokémon with Arena Trap: Diglett, Dugtrio, Trapinch

Ability Effect: Arena Trap prevents Pokémon that are not Flying-type or do not possess the Levitate ability from fleeing from battle.

Out of Battle Effect: If the Pokémon with the Arena Trap ability is set as your lead Pokémon (the first Pokémon in your party), wild Pokémon battles will become 2X more likely to occur.

Tips
  • Use a Pokémon with Arena Trap as your lead to quickly find specific wild Pokémon.
  • Arena Trap is particularly useful for catching Pokémon that might otherwise flee, such as certain roaming legendaries (though this specific game does not feature roaming legendaries that flee).
  • Be aware that Arena Trap also affects your own Pokémon if they are not immune to its effects and you attempt to flee.

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