Every Pokemon generation has that one gym puzzle that is incredibly hard to solve. In Cerise & Blue, it was the teleporters in the Saffron Metropolis gym, while the tile puzzle establish in Crimson & Sapphire'due south Mossdeep City gym besides left plenty of players perplexed. Pokemon Bright Diamond & Shining Pearl continues this rich tradition, with Snowpoint City's water ice-themed gym undoubtedly the toughest of the games' eight to navigate.

In order to articulate a path to the gym leader, Candice, Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl players will demand to destroy a number of big snowballs past crashing into them at high speeds. This may audio simple plenty, but they'll only be able to approach the snowballs from certain directions and volition as well need to have built upward enough momentum to actually destroy them when they make contact. Worse notwithstanding, if players happen to get out the gym before actually beating Candice, all of the snowballs will respawn, forcing players to starting time all over once again.

Updated March 31, 2022, by Tom Bowen: Though the Pokemon franchise isn't exactly renowned for its puzzles, there accept been some pretty memorable ones over the years. Ranging from the insultingly simple to the frustratingly bad (hither's looking at you lot, Lieutenant Surge), gym leader puzzles can help to mix upward the gameplay while also giving players something other to recollect about than type-effectiveness and setup strategies. The Snowpoint City Gym puzzle is peradventure the most memorable of them all, simply also one of the almost frustrating. This guide has been updated to improve help players solve it, likewise as to document the now-patched Snowpoint City Gym skip.

How to Solve the Snowpoint City Gym Puzzle

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Upon entering the gym, players should slide to the left from the 4th row of tiles so that they crash into a large unbreakable snowball against the gym's left wall. Next, they should head north to the 3rd of three white tiles. Once they state on it, they'll want to slide to the right, which will take them to two connected white tiles on the opposite side of the gym. By moving to the tile below the one they first country on and then sliding left, they can destroy the behemothic snowball blocking the kickoff ladder.

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From where they end up, players should head up the stairs to their left and and so down and to the right so that they land on the white tile closest to the gym's entrance. They'll then need to head northward, slide into and defeat the Ace Trainer to their correct and then slide back downwards in the direction of the gym's archway. This volition cause players to land on another white tile (next to another Ace Trainer), from which they'll be able to slide to the correct to destroy iii of the snowballs in the central area.

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Afterwards defeating the trainer next to the white tile they end upwardly on, players should go right and so north before climbing the stairs to their right. At the top, they should again slide right and then n so that they can take the next gear up of stairs upward to the highest level. From at that place, they tin can slide north to the gym'southward dorsum wall and and so caput left to the ii white tiles. They'll want to slide south from the tile on the left, and then take a left from the white tile that they land on to destroy 3 more than snowballs. If they then walk one space n and slide to the right from the spot where they end upwards, they can accept out the concluding 2 snowballs in the cardinal area.

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At this signal, players should make their way back towards the archway by sliding left and down until they reach the stairs near the unbreakable snowball in the gym's southwest corner. After climbing them, they'll want to head north (via a second white tile) to another unbreakable snowball and then slide to the right to take out the snowball that's blocking the penultimate ladder.

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To break the final snowball, players should again return to the spot next to the unbreakable snowball in the gym's southwest corner, head north one tile, and so right to the white tile near the gym's entrance from before on. From this spot, they should slide northward, left, and then downwardly. This will have them to another unbreakable snowball, from which they can slide to the right and take out the final snowball that's blocking their way.

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With all of the snowballs now broken, players can render to the entrance and head straight through the center of the gym, using the newly accessible stairways to achieve Candice. If they happen to have chosen Chimchar equally their starter Pokemon, beating her will probably end upwardly being easier than solving the gym's puzzle, every bit three of her four Pokemon are weak confronting fire-type attacks. Players should be conscientious though, equally leaving the gym at any time volition completely reset the puzzle.

Snowpoint City Gym Trainers

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As well as Candice, there are six other trainers scattered around the Snowpoint Urban center Gym. Similar the gym'south leader herself, they all tend to favor Ice-types, so players should bring along a stiff Burn down-blazon Pokemon to accept care of them. A few of these trainers can be skipped with some careful planning, just players may want to bargain with them all straight away just so that they can freely navigate the gym. In fact, given how simple they all are to beat, it would arguably exist foolish for players to pass upwardly the piece of cake money and XP gains that are on offering.

Trainer Name Pokemon
Ace Trainer Brenna (₱two,496) Snover (Lv. 39)
Ace Trainer Isaiah (₱2,496) Quagsire (Lv. 39)
Ace Trainer Anton (₱two,496) Snover (Lv. 39)
Ace Trainer Sergio (₱2,516) Floatzel (Lv. 37)
Sneasel (Lv. 37)
Ace Trainer Alicia (₱two,516) Sneasel (Lv. 37)
Tentacruel (Lv. 37)
Ace Trainer Savannah (₱2,516) Pelipper (Lv. 35)
Golduck (Lv. 36)
Steelix (Lv. 37)

Previous Methods for Reaching Candice at the Snowpoint City Gym

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Due to Pokemon Diamond & Pearl originally beingness released for the Nintendo DS, the games were designed with the handheld console's D-Pad in heed. As a effect, players were but able to travel in iv directions. For Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, notwithstanding, the developers reworked the games' control scheme to better conform the Nintendo Switch and its migrate-prone Joy-Cons.

While this updated control scheme undoubtedly made the games improve, it did bring with it 1 or 2 unforeseen consequences. Perhaps the most notable of these was that it allowed players to hands skip the entirety of the Snowpoint City Gym and get straight to Candice simply by exploiting the role player's newfound ability to motion in eight directions.

For those wondering, the Snowpoint City Gym skip has now been patched, meaning that most players will need to complete the puzzle the intended manner in society to go their Icicle Badge. That said, anyone who is playing on an unpatched version of the games and has no intention of connecting to the internet can even so use it.

To perform the Snowpoint City Gym skip, players should slide forward from the Gym'due south entrance to reach the tile to the left of the ladder that leads to Candice. Once at that place, they'll need to angle the analog stick diagonally upwards and to the correct and so quickly go straight up. If done correctly, they'll at present find themselves standing adjacent to Candice and will be able to trigger a battle but by speaking with her.

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