Nimbasa City
On your way through the Nimbasa Gate, you'll run into Cheren and Prof. Juniper. Juniper gives you 10 Ultra Balls (wow!) to help make catching Pokemon easier, and then they both decide they need to go find Bianca, because she's apparently still lost in the desert or something. So yeah, just make your way north into Nimbasa City itself.
As soon as you enter, you'll find that Team Plasma is still up to their usual tricks, bullying an old man even. It turns out he's actually the Day Care Man! It's time for you to step in and stop them! The first Plasma goon uses a Watchog L18 and a Trubbish L18. The second one doesn't even both with you, so the two of them run off. As gratitude, the Day Care Man gives you hisBicycle, which lets you ride much, much faster than you can run.
Day Care Time!
After you've protected the Day Care Man from Team Plasma, he'll return to the Pokemon Day Care on Route 3. You can now leave up to two Pokemon in the Day Care, and, if you leave two compatible Pokemon of different genders in there, they'll even lay an egg if you give them enough time!
Afterwards, Bianca shows up and says some stuff about wanting to try the Pokemon Musical contest thingy. It's basically a replacement for the Pokemon Contests. She'll wait for you over there, which is on the northeast corner of town.
You can find the Pokemon Center in the west side of town. One important thing that I absolutely must point out to you though is that the bottom shop person sells you TMs! Yes, that's right, you can buy all of the following TMs from him:
- TM21 (Frustration) for $10000
- TM27 (Return) for $10000
- TM73 (Thunder Wave) for $10000
- TM74 (Gyro Ball) for $10000
- TM16 (Light Screen) for $30000
- TM20 (Safeguard) for $30000
- TM33 (Reflect) for $30000
Even though they look rather pricey, when you factor in you can use them as many times as you'd like, it's not really so bad. If you've got the cash, picking up Return is a good option if you're looking for a way to pump up your Normal-type Pokemon's attacks, particularly earlier ones like Lillipup (and evolutions) or Patrat (and its evolution), because it will probably be very friendly towards you anyway.
Thunder Wave is a great TM to have on the ready for whenever you need it, because although it's not quite as effective as putting a Pokemon to sleep when it comes down to increasing your catch rate, it's at least something that helps give you an edge in catching Pokemon that maybe you don't want to have on all the time.
Even though Light Screen and Reflect are rather expensive, they are very worth it to have, because they essentially half the Physical (Reflect) or Special (Light Screen) damage done toany of your Pokemon by 50% in a Single Battle or 33% in a Double Battle, effectively counting as two X Defends or X Sp. Defs. They're great to have handy if you find you need just a little bit more defense or something, and having them as TMs means you can leave those moves off of your Pokemon while you're running through caves and stuff. That's why I recommend getting these two when you have a bit more money.
So Bianca is waiting for you in the northeast part of town, over by the Pokemon Musical Theater Hall. Inside, the owner of the place will give you each a Prop Case, which can store different items for the musical thing. You'll then have to pick one of your Pokemon to try dress up. Don't think too hard about it or anything, because it's mostly for practice anyway.
You see, there will be a few default items in a ring, and you can use your stylus to place them on your Pokemon. They snap to a certain position, which is very convenient. After you've selected a snazzy look, you can hit OK and then go to the next part, where you can tilt any piece of clothing by sort of tugging on it. It can help fine-tune your Pokemon's look.
If you talk to the girl in the corner sort of by the PC in the Musical Hall, she'll give you TM49 (Echoed Voice), a Special-based Normal-type attack that doesn't do much damage, but if you use it multiple times in a row, it makes it stronger. It also counts if any Pokemon on your team use it on the next turn, like for Double Battles or Triple Battles.
Just Dance!
The Pokemon Musical is one of the newest additions to Black and White. It doesn't directly earn you anything you need, at least to my knowledge, but it can be a lot of fun watching your Pokemon totally cheese it up while dressed up really goofy. It's one of the funnest things they've done with the new sprites by a long shot!
Now anyway, if you actually want to do one of these Pokemon Musical things, you just need to talk to the lady in the middle. Agree to enter, then choose one of your Pokemon, and finally you'll choose a song to dance to.
Once you've selected that, you'll be able to dress up your Pokemon like you were able to earlier. Some Pokemon dress up better than others, so play around and see what looks good on your Pokemon (you can do this by talking to the lady on the eastern desk, by the way). Then, after you've chosen your Pokemon's look and tilted any of its accessories, you'll watch the Pokemon you chose as well as three other Pokemon all cooperate up on stage in a really adorable dance sequence.
If your Pokemon had on any special accessories, you can tap the button for it in the bottom screen to use it and hopefully woo the audience. If you use it at the right moment, like when the spotlight is on your Pokemon, it could have great effect. You'll hear clapping to indicate how well everything went.
After the dance is over, be sure to talk with random people that you see out in the hall! The better you did, the more there'll be, but if you did well, people will give you items that you can use in future performances!
You can keep doing this to get a whole bunch of different items to dress your Pokemon up with! Plus you can even play it with other friends, too.
When you leave the Musical Hall, you'll see Bianca outside talking with her dad. I guess her dad just doesn't approve of her or something, so they get all emotional and sad music plays, but then this wierd lady in yellow shows up, eventually introducing herself as the city's Gym Leader, Elesa, and tries giving Bianca a little pep talk. Things get settled, everyone leaves, woohoo.
Anyway, right to the west of the Musical Hall is the Big Stadium. There's not really much upstairs, so take that blue teleporter to go right onto the field. Depending on what day and season it is, they play different sports here. There are tons of different Trainers and people to encounter here, all randomly assigned, so you'll want to check it out every day.
Just to the west of the Big Stadium is the Small Court. It's the same basic thing as the Big Stadium; take the teleporter, and get on the field so you can meet some of the people playing today.
There's a building in the middle of town that, when you approach it, a lady with blue hair walks out and looks a little confused about it. She says something about the Gear Station and theBattle Subway, but right away she gives you the Vs. Recorder, which lets you record fights against other players and in the Battle Subway. Inside of that building are a whole bunch of subway trains that can take you to various places, I guess. A lot of them have to do with battling online from the looks of it, or are meant to replace the Battle Tower, but you can take one of the subway trains to a little town called Anville Town to get some optional stuff depending on your activity with other players.
Now, in the apartment building just to the west of the Battle Subway, go up to the second floor and talk to the guy up there. He'll give you the valuable Sun Stone, which can be used to evolve Cottonee or Petilil to their evolved form — very handy if you happened to have been using either on your team!
One other very important item you need to pick up is in the apartment building right next door, farther to the west of the Battle Subway. Talk to the blue haired dude inside and he'll give you HM04 (Strength), which is a Physical-based Normal-type 80-power move that isn't a terrible HM, but since you can't get rid of it right away, I would avoid teaching it to any of your Pokemon just yet. Still, though, you'll need this in order to move boulders.
Actually, in that same house, go upstairs and talk to the old lady upstairs and she'll give you the Soothe Bell, a valuable item that helps boost the bearer's happiness a lot quicker while it's held.
You can actually go to the northeast gate leading over to Route 16 if you want to pick up a special item. Talk to the Black Belt inside of the gate and he'll give you the Macho Brace, an item that halves the users Speed while its held, but (in a nutshell) it causes that Pokemon's stats to raise quicker.
Well, now that the main part of the city is out of the way, you can go to the flashy part of the city off to the east and you'll run into N again. It's been awhile since you've seen that oddball, huh? He'll lead you over to the ferris wheel and will then take you up in one of the carts, talking about Ghetsis and his story, apparently. It's kinda weird, but whatever, it's a pretty cool ferris wheel to see. However, after your little ferris wheel ride, some Team Plasma Grunts show up and notice N! It looks like he has some pretty significant ties to Team Plasma after all — in fact, he's Team Plasma's king!
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You've seen a lot of these Pokemon before if you stopped by the desert at all, but N uses their abilities pretty well. Watch out for Sigilyph, because it hits way harder than you'd think. Not only that, but it likes to increase its Speed (and the rest of the team's Speed) with an aptly timed Tailwind.
After beating him, he'll get right up close to you, going into a pretty neat Xtransceiver-esque anime shot of N. He'll tell you that he wants to become the Champion and become the hero and stuff. Ah, I don't know, he's such an oddball, but I love his music!
While you're over by the ferris wheel, there's an X Attack hiding by a tree and bench just to the south of you. Go ahead and pick it up.
The Gym is also just off to the west. Yeah, it's that flashy building that looks like it probably also doubles as a tilt-a-whirl or something. Whenever you're ready, now that you've got everything taken care of, head on in there and get ready for your fourth Gym Badge!
Sneak ahead for some new Pokemon!
Routes 5 to the northwest and 16 to the northeast are both technically open for you to fight a few Trainers on and catch wild Pokemon in the area. Though you won't be able to proceed in either area right yet, you can at least earn some valuable EXP as well as get an opportunity to catch Pokemon like Solosis, Gothita, and Minccino. These sections will be covered, though, but you may want to check them out before your Gym Leader fight.
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