Best Ways To Check Friendship (Pokémon Platinum)

Top Ways To Check Friendship
#	Method	Description
1	Friendship Checker Pokétch App	An app for the Pokétch received from a brown-haired woman inside the Pokémon Center in Eterna City
2	Hearthome City Friendship Checker	A blonde woman found in the Pokémon Fan Club’s clubhouse in Hearthome City

Of the four ways of checking Friendship in Pokémon Platinum, the most convenient method is to refer to the Friendship Checker Pokétch app, since it can be used at any time without having to visit a specific location.

However, the most detailed method is to have the Friendship Checker in Hearthome City assess your Pokémon.

While no Friendship-checking option gives specific numerical measurements of Friendship, the woman in the Hearthome City Pokémon Center offers the most clues to help you pinpoint it as closely as possible.

This guide explores both options and helps to translate the clues they provide.

Most Convenient Method: The Friendship Checker Pokétch App

Naturally, the most efficient method of checking your Pokémon’s Friendship is one you can use on the go. By adding the Friendship Checker to your list of Pokétch apps, this information is always a couple of taps away.

Acquiring the Friendship Checker App

You can pick up the Friendship Checker app from a woman inside the Pokémon Center in Eterna City. There are no prerequisites to obtaining it.

Standing in front of the Pokémon Center in Eterna City.

The woman you’ll need to talk to is the closest NPC to your right as soon as you walk in through the front door. This is the Friendship Checker of Eterna City; she’ll assess the Friendship of the Pokémon in your party’s first slot if you speak to her.

More importantly, the first time you interact with her she will give you the Friendship Checker app for free.

Picking up the Friendship Checker app in Eterna City.

This way you can assess your Pokémon on your own without having to visit her.

Checking Friendship With the Friendship Checker App

Pull up your Friendship Checker app (number 6 on your Pokétch) and you’ll see icons of every Pokémon on your team bouncing around the touch screen.

The Friendship Checker app displaying a whole Pokémon team.

Tap and hold one of your Pokémon and make a note of its reaction. The way that it responds to your touch will give you a clue about where the Pokémon’s Friendship currently stands.

The table below will help you read your Pokémon’s response:

Friendship Checker Measurements
Hearts	Friendship
Two large hearts	255
Two small hearts	200-254
One small heart	150-199
No hearts and the Pokémon approaches the stylus	70-145
No hearts and the Pokémon moves away from the stylus	0-69

Using the Friendship Checker Pokétch app to check Staraptor’s Friendship level.

Most Detailed Method: The Hearthome City Friendship Checker

If it’s accuracy you need in your measurements, you can get the most precise Friendship reading by visiting the Friendship Checker at the Pokémon Fan Club in Hearthome City.

Finding the Hearthome Friendship Checker

You can find the Hearthome City Friendship Checker inside the Pokémon Fan Club’s clubhouse.

To locate it, start by heading south from the Hearthome Pokémon Center.

Taking the main street south from the Hearthome City Pokémon Center.

When you reach the white picket fences, turn eastward.

Turning east and passing the Poké Mart.

Pass the gap to the east of the Poké Mart and enter the red-roofed building with a heart sign on the front—this is the Pokémon Fan Club’s clubhouse.

Entering the Fan Club’s clubhouse.

The blonde woman in the northwest corner of the room is the Hearthome Friendship Checker.

Identifying the Hearthome City Friendship Checker.

Checking Friendship With the Hearthome Friendship Checker

Speak with the Hearthome Friendship Checker to have her evaluate the Friendship of the Pokémon in your party’s first slot.

This Friendship Checker operates like other Friendship-assessing NPCs, in that she will use one of a selection of phrases to help you figure out which Friendship range your Pokémon fall into.

What makes this NPC special is that her phrases are more specific than the rest: with seven possible comments (instead of the three to five given by other NPCs or the Friendship Checker app), she is the most accurate Friendship Checker in the game.

The table below shows all of the Hearthome Friendship Checker’s comments and which Friendship stat ranges they describe:

Phrasing	Friendship Range
“It simply adores you! Why, I feel like I am intruding!”	255
“It’s very friendly toward you. I can tell you treat it kindly.”	200-254
“It’s quite friendly to you. It must be happy being with you.”	150-199
“It’s warming up to you. That’s my impression.”	100-149
“It’s feeling neutral to you. It’s up to you to change that.”	50-99
“Hmm… It seems to dislike you a little.”	1-49
“Oh my… I think this one really hasn’t taken too kindly to you.”	0

Getting a Pokémon evaluated by the woman at the Pokémon Fan Club.

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