Diamond & Pearl Eterna Forest
You don't cross Eterna Forest alone: the timid trainer Cheryl teams up with you, healing between a run of double battles. The abandoned Old Chateau broods at the forest's far edge.
Eterna Forest is in Sinnoh, with Old Chateau to the north and Route 205 to the south. In the story it comes after Floaroma Meadow and before Eterna City.
ETERNA FOREST MAP
Eterna Forest sits between the two stretches of Route 205, a leafy detour you pass through rather than around. Cut opens a few side nooks, but the path to the far exit needs no HM.
Pokemon Encounters
The forest floor is a bug glut, Wurmple and the Silcoon and Cascoon cocoons thick in the grass beside Buneary and Budew. Honey on the trees here is your shot at Munchlax at 1 percent, with Heracross and Aipom alongside. Murkrow haunts the Diamond grass while Misdreavus takes its place in Pearl.
Slakoth
ITEMS
Eterna Forest hides TM82 Sleep Talk on the path, with Silver Powder for Bug teams and an Insect Plate deeper in. Berries and basic healing fill the rest of the trail.
TM82 Sleep Talk
User performs one of its own moves while sleeping.
TM82 Sleep Talk
User performs one of its own moves while sleeping.
Antidote
A spray-type medicine. It lifts the effect of poison from one Pokemon.
Bluk Berry
Used for creating PokéBlocks and Poffins.
Cheri Berry
Held: Consumed when paralyzed to cure paralysis.
Ether
It restores the PP of a Pokemon's selected move by a maximum of 10 points.
Great Ball
A good, high-performance Ball that provides a higher Pokemon catch rate than a standard Poke Ball.
Honey
A sweet honey with a lush aroma that attracts wild Pokemon when it is used in grass, caves, or on special trees.
Oran Berry
Held: Consumed at 1/2 max HP to recover 10 HP.
Paralyze Heal
A spray-type medicine. It eliminates paralysis from a single Pokemon.
Potion
A spray-type medicine for wounds. It restores the HP of one Pokemon by just 20 points.
Razz Berry
Used for creating PokéBlocks and Poffins.
Silver Powder
An item to be held by a Pokemon. It is a shiny, silver powder that ups the power of Bug-type moves.
Insect Plate
An item to be held by a Pokemon. It is a stone tablet that boosts the power of Bug-type moves.
TRAINERS
Bug Catchers and a Lass thread Eterna Forest with a Psychic or two mixed in, none past level 15. An easy walk made slower by the maze than the battles.
Donald
Eterna Forest Guide
Cheryl partners with you the whole way through Eterna Forest, turning wild encounters into Double Battles and healing your party after every fight before she leaves at the north exit. This is also the only place in Sinnoh to catch Buneary, but the Double Battles complicate it: a Buneary usually appears beside a second wild Pokemon, often a Budew, and you must knock that other one out before you can throw a Poke Ball. Watch that Cheryl's Chansey does not faint your Buneary first.