two or three times out of like 500 drinks bought."

Master Veilstone City in Pokémon Platinum! Find Porygon, get free massages, and conquer Maylene's challenging gym with our step-by-step guide and boss battle tips.

Veilstone City offers several key activities before challenging the Gym Leader. You can visit the department store for items like Great Balls and vending machine drinks, which are cheaper alternatives to Potions. The vending machine drinks are noted to be effective about two or three times out of 500 purchases.

To obtain Porygon, go to the house above the Pokémon Center and select the top dialogue option. Porygon itself is decent, but its evolutions are quite strong and versatile. If you have the Upgrade item, you can evolve Porygon into Porygon2 via trading.

In the southwestern part of town, a house on the left offers a free Pokémon massage daily. This is beneficial for Pokémon that evolve through happiness, like Buneary or Eevee. You'll also receive a random contest item once per day.

Next door to the massage house, you can acquire the Coin Case from a clown. Speak to him and choose the correct hand; if incorrect, you can try again.

There are stones to the east of the city that are only useful if you possess the event Pokémon Deoxys.

Veilstone Gym - Maylene

Before entering the gym, you'll encounter Rowan's Assistant and Crasher Wake near the lower left corner of Veilstone.

The gym's puzzle involves punching bags and tires. Pressing 'A' near a punching bag in a specific direction will cause it to move along its pole. If tires are in the way, the punching bag will smash them.

Gym Trainers: 4

1. Push the first punching bag to the right, breaking tires. Then, move up and push the next punching bag upwards twice until it stops near holes.
2. Push the other punching bag upwards to break tires. Go up and around the punching bag you just moved to find another. Push this one twice to the left to clear two sets of tires. Navigate around to the lower part of the arena to proceed, fighting a trainer if they are blocking the path.
3. Head to the upper left corner of the gym to fight a trainer. Then, push a punching bag down and then right.
4. Go to the lower left corner and find two punching bags. Push the accessible one up, then left, and finally down to break tires blocking the other.
5. With the tires cleared, push the next punching bag up, then right to break the remaining tires.
6. Proceed through the now-clear paths and push the upper punching bag to the right to reach Maylene.

Note: Tires respawn each time you exit and re-enter the gym, requiring you to redo the puzzle if you leave to heal.

Boss: Maylene

• Meditite Lv. 28 (Psychic/Fighting)
• Machoke Lv. 29 (Fighting)
• Lucario Lv. 32 (Fighting/Steel)

Strategy: Flying-type attacks are effective against Meditite and Machoke. For Lucario, which is more resilient due to its Steel typing, Fire-type attacks are recommended. Meditite's Psychic/Fighting typing cancels out Fighting's weakness to Psychic. Machoke is a pure Fighting type, making it vulnerable to Flying and Ghost types. Lucario's Drain Punch can heal it, so strong offensive pressure is key.