How To Get Razor Fangs in Pokémon Platinum

All Razor Fang Locations
#	Location	Repeatable?
1	Route 214 — Hidden on an empty tile in the corner of a patch of grass.	No
2	Route 225 — Atop a rocky wall in the southwest corner of the Route. Requires the Hidden Move Rock Climb.	No
3	The Battle Frontier — For sale at the Exchange Service Corner for 48 BP.	Yes

The earliest and easiest Razor Fang you can get is on Route 214. It’s hidden on the sole barren tile in an enclosed grassy field to the south of Veilstone City.

Or alternatively you can acquire multiple Razor Fangs by purchasing them from the Battle Frontier for 48 BP each.

Getting Razor Fangs

Location 1: Route 214 (Step-by-Step)

The earliest available Razor Fang is hidden on Route 214, south of Veilstone City. It can be obtained at any time after beating Leader Fantina at the Hearthome City Gym.

Start by heading to Veilstone City and move eastward from the Pokémon Center. Then turn south at the corner.

Heading southeast from the Veilstone Pokémon Center.

Continue southward and leave Veilstone City using the southeastern entrance gate.

Leaving Veilstone City through the southeastern gate.

Continue south on Route 214.

Heading southward on Route 214.

Keep moving downward and climb the staircase to the south.

Heading south across the hilly landscape.

Cut through the patch of grass to the south and climb the next staircase.

Continuing southward across the various staircases.

Stick to traveling southward as the terrain gets hillier.

Sticking to the staircases while moving south.

If you keep moving in the same direction, you will come to an enclosed patch of grass with a trainer standing around in the middle of it.

In the southeastern corner of this grassy area is a single bare tile.

Heading toward the empty tile in the tall grass.

There is a hidden Razor Fang on this tile that is only detectable using the Dowsing Machine Pokétch App.

But you can still pick up the item even without that.

Just stand facing the tile and press A to collect the Razor Fang.

Obtaining the hidden Razor Fang on Route 214.

Location 2: Route 225 (Step-by-Step)

The next Razor Fang is located on Route 225. This is located to the northwest of the Fight Area of the Battle Zone.

This Razor Fang becomes available only after you have entered the Pokémon League Hall of Fame and received the National Pokédex. Reaching it also requires a Pokémon that knows Rock Climb.

Once you’re prepared, travel to the Fight Area and head west from the Pokémon Center.

Moving west down the path in the Fight Area.

Turn northward when you see a sign post & pass through the space between shipping containers.

Moving north between the shipping containers.

Go up through the gate leading to Route 225.

Heading through the gate to reach Route 225.

On the other side of the gate, head left down a pathway with some tall grass.

Taking the first left turn on Route 225.

Go all the way left and use Rock Climb at the mountain’s rocky wall at the end of the path.

A Poké Ball item will be resting on the plateau above.

Approaching the Poké Ball on the plateau.

Pick up the Poké Ball to add another Razor Fang to your Bag.

Obtaining the second Razor Fang.

Location 3: The Battle Frontier (Repeatable)

An unlimited amount of Razor Fangs can be acquired in the Battle Frontier, which is the huge building to the northeast of the Pokémon Center in the Battle Zone’s Fight Area.

Heading northeast from the Fight Area Pokémon Center to enter the Battle Frontier.

After entering the building, go up through the Entrance Hall and leave via the door to the north.

Passing northward through the Battle Frontier’s Entrance Hall.

In the middle of the Main Hall will be several kiosks making up a central marketplace. This is the Exchange Service Corner.

Speak to the clerk at the southwestern kiosk with the blue and white canopy.

Approaching the southwestern Exchange Service Corner kiosk.

Scroll through her inventory until you find the Razor Fang listing.

The Battle Frontier’s listing of the Razor Fang.

This method is endlessly repeatable, but it can be a massive time sink due to the high cost of the item.

Each Razor Fang costs 48 Battle Points (BP). You can only earn BP by fighting in the Battle Frontier’s various facilities.

It can be time-intensive to farm BP, but if you need more than 2 Razor Fangs, this is your only option.

Razor Fang Details and Uses

The in-game description of the Razor Fang.

Uses In Battle

The Razor Fang is a held item that adds a 10% chance of causing the opponent to flinch when the holder uses a damaging move.

Flinching forces the opponent to forfeit its turn entirely. It’s an effect that’s never pleasant to be on the wrong side of — but always satisfying to cause.

The Razor Fang is best given to a quick, strong Pokémon like Weavile or Lucario.

Uses Outside of Battle

When a Gligar gains a level at night while holding a Razor Fang, it will evolve into Gliscor.

Selecting the Razor Fang in the Bag.

Having Gligar hold the Razor Fang.

In Pokémon Platinum, “Night” is considered to be between 8:00 p.m. and 3:59 a.m. according to the DS console’s built-in clock.

If you level up at any other time, Gligar will not evolve.

Battling wild Pokémon at night.

But when all the necessary conditions are met, Gligar will evolve automatically right after gaining a level.

Note that this evolution consumes the Razor Fang permanently.

The newly-evolved Gliscor.

Is Gliscor Worth Using?

Gligar’s Attack, Defense, and Speed stats made it a decent Pokémon; Gliscor takes this formula and runs with it, ending up with respectable base Attack and Speed stats of 95 each. Plus Gliscor also comes with an astronomical 125 base Defense stat.

Gliscor also has the unusual but effective typing of Ground/Flying, offering resistances to Fighting-, Poison-, and Bug-type attacks, as well as complete immunities to Electric and Ground moves.

Its only weaknesses are to Water- and Ice-type moves (but bear in mind that Ice attacks will hit Gliscor for quadruple damage).

Gliscor’s Pokédex entry.

Most Flying-type Pokémon are severely lacking in physical Defense. So Gliscor is able to fill a lot of unlikely offensive and defensive roles in battle.

Its typing also makes it extremely versatile.

For instance:

It’s one of the only Flying-type Pokémon that can learn Earthquake — culminating in a flying powerhouse that your opponents will regret underestimating.

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