Oak's Letter

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Oak's Letter (Japanese: オーキドのてがみ Okido's Letter) is an event-exclusive Key Item available in , .
In , it was the third of the four event items in the Sinnoh-based games, preceded in its distribution by the and Member Card, and followed by the then-unreleased Azure Flute.
==In the core series games==
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===Effect===
When this item is received as an event and delivered by the deliveryman at the Poké Mart, the will find Professor Oak waiting for them on their next visit to , at the northernmost, barren end of the route. He will explain to the player that the white rock there is present for a person to note what they are most thankful for, and upon inspection of it, the player will be able to enter their own note (via the same text input system as is used for Pokémon nicknames). After this has been done, the Seabreak Path will appear, and a will come down from it before returning north to the Flower Paradise, where it can be caught at level 30.
===Description===
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===Acquisition===
====Distribution in Platinum====
Game Version 	Duration
Game Version 	Wi-Fi
Japanese 	Apr. 18 to May 11, 2009
North American	Sep. 28 to Nov. 8, 2009
PAL 	Sep. 28 to Nov. 8, 2009
=====Wonder Card=====
======Japanese======	
======English======
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====Distribution in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl====
Game Version	Duration
Game Version	Internet
Worldwide 	Feb. 27 to Mar. 27, 2022
=====Wonder Card=====
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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Oak's Letter first appeared in Dealing with Dragonite, under Marley's possession. It was featured again in Unplugging Rotom (Heat, Wash, Mow, Fan, Frost), where Marley used the instructions written on it by to find on , so that she could ask it to help her in the final battle against Team Galactic. Full contents of the letter were later revealed in The Final Dimensional Duel X.
==Trivia==
* Even though the residing at the Flower Paradise is caught from the wild, its status screen will always display it as having been met in a fateful encounter.
** This is likely because only fateful encounter Shaymin can become and allow the player to receive the Gracidea in the first place.
* Although Oak's Letter is present in the game data for , the item was never distributed for those games by Nintendo.
** A Shaymin could be caught in those games by acquiring Oak's Letter via cheating and glitches, but, due to the fact that does not apply the fateful encounter flag, this Shaymin cannot be used to obtain the Gracidea Flower in Generation IV and Generation V.
* Despite Oak's Letter only being distributed for Pokémon Platinum, the Wonder Card for the Pokémon 20th Anniversary Shaymin states that, "With a special letter, Shaymin could first be encountered in the Flower Paradise of Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl."
* Marley will speak to the player differently with the Oak's Letter event activated.
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
* Secret Key (Sinnoh)
* Member Card
* Azure Flute
* List of Key Items in Generation IV
* List of Key Items in Generation VIII
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Category:Key Items
Category:Event items
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