Spear Pillar

The Spear Pillar (Japanese: の Spear Pillar) is a location on the peak of Mount Coronet in Sinnoh where the Legendary Pokémon , , and were created by and from which, legends say, Sinnoh itself came from. It is the present-day ruins of the Temple of Sinnoh.
As the Spear Pillar is part of Mount Coronet, it has a special magnetic field that causes and to evolve into and , respectively, when leveled up here.
==In the core series games==
===History===
The area located at the very peak of Mount Coronet, being the remains of the Temple of Sinnoh and the ultimate goal of Team Galactic. It is here that Cyrus summons or or both of them to claim the Legendary Pokémon's powers and create a new universe for himself, free of emotion. Mars and Jupiter battle against the player and , standing in the way before the player can reach Cyrus.
====Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl====
Cyrus uses a Red Chain created from the gems of the lake trio to summon / and have it start creating a new universe, creating distortions in time/dimensions, which are visible throughout Sinnoh. However, before the new galaxy can be born, the lake guardians arrive and destroy the Red Chain, freeing the Legendary Pokémon from Cyrus's control. Angered by this, Cyrus then battles the player. After being defeated, Cyrus and the other Team Galactic members leave Spear Pillar, with Cyrus swearing to one day succeed in his plans. Afterwards, Professor Rowan shows up with / and the player has a chance to battle and catch the Legendary Pokémon.
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Cyrus summons both Dialga and Palkia to the Spear Pillar, using two Red Chains: one from the gems of the lake trio, and the other an artificial copy. The power of Dialga and Palkia together is too great for the lake trio to counterbalance as they did in Diamond and Pearl, and so the Pokémon world is shortly doomed. Just when Cyrus believes himself to have won, he feels the presence of , angered by his actions to destroy the world. Giratina appears between Cyrus and the other two, warping the ancient pillars. It grabs Cyrus, warping him into the Distortion World and leaving behind the tunnel between the worlds. Dialga and Palkia vanish back into their own dimensions, and Cynthia requests the player's help in the Distortion World to repair the link between the two worlds and prevent the warping of reality caused by Giratina's entrance from extending throughout.
After Giratina and Cyrus are defeated in the Distortion World, the player ends up in the Pokémon world once more at the entrance to Turnback Cave. Once the player has entered the Hall of Fame and found both the Adamant and Lustrous Orbs in Mount Coronet, Cynthia's grandmother will tell the player that in ancient times, people apparently met with Dialga and Palkia, by having the Adamant and Lustrous Orbs. Returning to the Spear Pillar with these items, the player will be able to battle with and potentially catch Dialga and Palkia.
====Post-game====
If the player has the Azure Flute upon returning to the Spear Pillar after obtaining the National Pokédex, blowing into it will cause a staircase leading to the Hall of Origin to appear. After reaching the top of the staircase, the player will automatically approach the Mythical Pokémon Arceus. In Generation IV, this event is not legitimately accessible, but is available in Generation VIII if the console has completed save data from Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
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After / destroy the Temple of Sinnoh, it looks exactly like the Spear Pillar in the present day. Additionally Volo alludes to it by describing the ruins as "pillars now turned into spears, stabbing into the heavens".
===Items===
===Special encounters===
====Pokémon Diamond and Pearl====
A / appears here as part of the story. If run from, it respawns upon leaving the area. If defeated, it respawns whenever the player enters the Hall of Fame.
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====Pokémon Platinum====
A and appear here if their corresponding Orbs are in the bag and Cynthia's grandmother has been spoken to after entering the Hall of Fame. If defeated or run from, they respawn after entering the Hall of Fame again.
	
====Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl====
A / appears here as part of the story. If defeated or run from, it respawns after entering the Hall of Fame.
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===Trainers===
====Pokémon Diamond and Pearl====
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===Gallery===
====Artwork====
Concept art from
====Screenshots====
File:Spear Pillar Dialga DP.png| on the Spear Pillar
File:Spear_Pillar Palkia P.png| on the Spear Pillar
File:Distortion World portal Pt.png|Entrances to Dialga and Palkia's worlds and Giratina's Distortion World 
File:Spear Pillar cutscene DP.png|Spear Pillar as the world starts being destroyed
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===Music===
Games	Situation 	Song name (Japanese) 	Song name (English) 	Composition 	Arrangement
 	Overworld 	やりのはしら 	Spear Pillar 	Junichi MasudaGo Ichinose	Junichi MasudaGo Ichinose
 	When battling Team Galactic Grunts 	戦闘！ギンガ団 	Battle! (Team Galactic) 	Junichi Masuda 	Junichi Masuda
 	After defeating Team Galactic Grunts, Mars, Jupiter, and Cyrus	ギンガ団に勝利！ 	Victory! (Team Galactic) 	Go Ichinose 	Hitomi Sato
 	When summoning Dialga/Palkia/Dialga and Palkia 	伝説ポケモン出現！ 	The Legendary Pokémon Appears! 	Junichi Masuda 	Junichi Masuda
 	After Dialga/Palkia appears 	天変地異！！ 	Catastrophe! 	Junichi Masuda 	Junichi Masuda
 	When battling Mars and Jupiter 	戦闘！ギンガ団幹部 	Battle! (Team Galactic Commander) 	Junichi Masuda 	Junichi Masuda
 	When , , and appear 	みずうみのくうどう 	Lake Caverns 	Junichi Masuda 	Junichi Masuda
 	When battling Cyrus 	戦闘！ギンガ団ボス 	Battle! (Team Galactic Boss) 	Junichi Masuda 	Junichi Masuda
 	When battling Dialga/Palkia 	戦闘！ディアルガ・パルキア 	Battle! (Dialga/Palkia) 	Junichi Masuda 	Junichi Masuda
 	When Giratina appears 	ギラティナ出現！ギラティナ出現！その2 	Giratina Appears!Giratina Appears! Part 2	Hitomi Sato 	Hitomi Sato
==In other games==
===Super Smash Bros.===
 is an unlockable stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Players can unlock the stage by completing Event 25: The Aura Is With Me. The background of the stage will feature either , , or strangely , who will occasionally do things to affect the stage such as tilting it diagonally or breaking one section of the top platform; Dialga slows time, Palkia flips or reverses the view, and Cresselia randomly attacks with flying crescents. The lake guardians will also make short cameo appearances when something happens to the stage.
The stage's default music is "" from . Other pieces of background music are "Dialga / Palkia Battle at Spear Pillar!," "Wild Pokémon Battle! (Diamond / Pearl)," "Team Galactic Battle!," and "."
At some point Dialga, Palkia, and Cresselia will affect the stage, each with different effects to the field. Dialga appears when the sky has a blue hue, Palkia appears when the sky has a purple hue, and Cresselia appears when the sky is clear.
The stage reappears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
In its initial appearance in , instead of a plateau at the top of the mountain, the Spear Pillar is a void-like cave inside of Mount Coronet. However, as seen in , Spear Pillar now resides at the summit of Mount Coronet, matching its appearance in the games and more recent animated depictions, although the location's original design is still consistent in flashbacks.
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A large part of focused on Team Galactic searching for the gateway to the Spear Pillar, located somewhere on Mount Coronet. They finally discovered it in Unlocking the Red Chain of Events!. In The Battle Finale of Legend!, they used the Spear Key and a fragment of the Red Chain to unlock the gateway.
At the Spear Pillar, Cyrus used the and the Adamant and Lustrous Orbs to summon and , which he then took control of with the Red Chain. , , and arrived to stop them, defeating Team Galactic's Pokémon and freeing the lake guardians from Cyrus's control. Despite of this, Cyrus was still able to force Dialga and Palkia to start the creation of the new universe. Cynthia realized that the only way to stop the creation was to destroy the Red Chains controlling the Legendary Pokémon. , , , and launched a combination attack on the Legendaries, but Cyrus had Dialga and Palkia to strike back with and , respectively, blocking the attacks and almost hitting Ash and his friends, only to be narrowly saved by the lake guardians' combined . The next combination succeeded in breaking the Red Chains, and the creation of the new universe was stopped. Cyrus, amazed by the sight of his creation, stepped into the collapsing portal, disappearing into the depths of his own "perfect universe".
Although Dialga and Palkia were freed, their rage was not gone, and they attacked the collapsing portal, which started sucking the surrounding world into itself. With the help of Ash, , and , the lake guardians were able to calm down the Legendary Pokémon of time and space and stop the vortex of destruction.
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In Showdown at the Gates of Warp!, Ash, Dawn, Goh, and Chloe visited the Spear Pillar in an , discovering a gate that led them to a dimension where they found Dialga and Palkia locked in a battle due to Alternate World Team Rocket's actions.
In The Arceus Chronicles (Part 3) and The Arceus Chronicles (Part 4), Ash, his friends, and Cynthia traveled to the Spear Pillar to stop a rampaging that was headed there as well. With 's help, they were able to stop Heatran.
===Pokémon Generations===
The Spear Pillar appeared in The New World. It was where Cyrus summoned the and to destroy the world and create a new one in its place. However, appeared to stop Cyrus, freeing Dialga and Palkia and dragging him into the Distortion World, much to the shock of Cynthia, Jupiter, and Mars.
===Pokémon Evolutions===
The Spear Pillar appeared in a flashback in The Rival. After Cyrus had succeeded in summoning , and started battling against Jupiter and Mars, with Barry being especially determined to beat the former after his loss against her at Lake Acuity. Thanks to their first partner Pokémon, Lucas and Barry were able to defeat the s.
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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The Spear Pillar was the location of the final battle in this arc. After the creation of the second Red Chain had been foiled by , , and , Cyrus was left with no choice but to use an artificial copy to replace it. Once arriving at the Spear Pillar in Creeping Away from Cradily, he told Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter to keep anyone from entering while he was completing the ceremony. In Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia I, the Sinnoh Gym Leaders, excluding Volkner, arrived at the Spear Pillar via the Underground, thanks to Byron and the Underground Man, and started battling against the Team Galactic s. Meanwhile, Cyrus managed to use the Red Chains to summon Dialga and Palkia, and forced them to fight each other in order to wipe out the old world and create a new universe in its place.
With extreme effort, the Gym Leaders managed to defeat the Galactic Commanders in Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia II. However, the distortions in space and time caused by Dialga and Palkia's fight made it impossible for them to reach the stairs leading to Cyrus. Figuring another way to get to the Galactic Boss, the Gym Leaders once again made their way through the Underground, and attacked the Red Chains controlling the Legendary Pokémon. Ignoring the attacks from Cyrus's Pokémon, the Gym Leaders' Pokémon managed to break the artificial chain, halving Cyrus's control over the Temporal and Spatial Pokémon. Despite this, the fight between the two Legendaries went on, causing more and more wide-spreading distortions in time and space all across Sinnoh. Eventually, thanks to the combined efforts of the three Pokédex holders and their Pokémon, the second Red Chain was also destroyed and the fight was finally stopped, preventing the new universe from being born.
While the Gym Leaders and Pokédex holders were trying to stop Dialga and Palkia, Sird appeared before the defeated Commanders, revealing that, while she had served as a member of Team Rocket, in actuality, she had been a Team Galactic Commander acting as Cyrus's double agent all along to capture for him. In Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia IV, she was attacked by Riley, who recognized her as the one who had mind-controlled the Advanced level Grunt, but she managed to escape.
In Double Trouble with Dialga and Palkia VI, just when everything seemed to be calming down, Charon appeared, revealing that the hole created by the battle wasn't the seed of a new universe, like everyone else had assumed, but a portal to another world. Suddenly, appeared from the portal and sucked Cyrus, Dialga, and Palkia into it. Charon managed to escape with a smoke bomb distraction, but Diamond's , Kit, managed to snatch his notebook before he got away.
===Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!===
The Spear Pillar first appeared in The Advent of the Legendary Pokémon!!, where Cyrus used the Red Chain to force to appear there and start reversing time in order to wipe out all of existence. However, in Will Hareta's Wish Get Through?!, the lake guardians appeared and destroyed the Red Chain, freeing Dialga from Cyrus's control. Just as things were calming down, in Bonds Connect Across Space-Time..., suddenly appeared as well, attracted by the distortion created by the Red Chain, and started battling Dialga. Although Hareta's attempt to Palkia with a Master Ball failed, he was eventually able to stop the fight and save all of existence from being wiped out.
==In the TCG==
The following is a list of cards mentioning or featuring Spear Pillar in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia == 
*The name "spear pillar" is a reference to the creation myth in , where the deities and were given the spear 天沼矛 Ame-no-nuboko, with which they created 淤能碁呂島 Onogoroshima, upon which they built the pillar 天御柱 Ame-no-mihashira.
*It is impossible to use the HM or use Escape Ropes in Spear Pillar, despite it being part of Mount Coronet. The reason is most likely to prevent the from running away from or . The player has also used a cave exit into the Spear Pillar, thus the game assumes they are no longer in a mountain. Therefore, neither can be used to return to the outside world (although leaving into Mount Coronet allows for the Escape Rope to be used).
*The Temporal Pinnacle, at the peak of Temporal Tower, in , bears resemblance to the Spear Pillar, likely due to the connection both have to Dialga.
*Despite the fact that it is higher up than the snowy areas of Mount Coronet, there is no snow on the Spear Pillar itself. The rest of Mount Coronet cannot be seen, either. In this case, as shown in the animated series, the Spear Pillar is likely to be above the level of the clouds that dump the snow on the lower levels of the mountain.
*The only possible way to encounter before in is to not have the Adamant Orb held by a party member or in the Bag, but to have the Lustrous Orb. If the Adamant Orb is with the player in any manner, Dialga will always appear first, no matter if the Lustrous Orb is also with the player or not.
*In the animated series, the Spear Pillar bears a strong resemblance to the Mystri Stage in the Sinjoh Ruins.
*Spear Pillar makes an appearance as a backdrop when a Pokémon from Sinnoh is used in the Alola Photo Club in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
*The placement of the pillars varies between Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, with Diamond and Pearl's placements being mirrors of each other.
*In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Volo alludes to the modern-day name of the ruins by describing them as "pillars now turned into spears, stabbing into the heavens".
==In other languages==
==Related articles==
Category:Sinnoh locations
Category:Diamond and Pearl locations
Category:Platinum locations
Category:Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl locations
Category:Monuments
Category:Ruins
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