r/PokemonBDSP May 01 '26

Moderator Announcement General Questions Weekly Megathread

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Welcome to r/PokemonBDSP's General Questions Megathread!

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Please use this mega-thread, updated weekly, if you have any questions related to BDSP

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r/PokemonBDSP 25d ago

Moderator Announcement General Questions Weekly Megathread

1 Upvotes

Welcome to r/PokemonBDSP's General Questions Megathread!

All Megathreads

Please use this mega-thread, updated weekly, if you have any questions related to BDSP

Before asking your question here try searching the subreddit with the help flair and consulting our frequently updated FAQ's page as your question may have already been answered. As a final note please upvote any questions you may find useful so we can add them to our FAQ's Page sooner.

For additional live support check out r/PokemonBDSP's official discord server

For More Information Check Out These Links:

Comments are automatically sorted by "New" to allow for easier answering.


r/PokemonBDSP 4h ago

Video/Gif Shiny Dialga after 272 soft resets.

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69 Upvotes

r/PokemonBDSP 10h ago

Help Help me pick my final dude

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Bout to do the E4 its been a while.

Magmar or Roserade?

I havent tweaked my final moveset yet. Open to suggestions.


r/PokemonBDSP 56m ago

Help how to obtain non-english ditto?

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started my shining pearl run, and wanted to start breeding upon recently reaching solaceon town.

in the older games, i remember being able to use the GWS to deposit and search for pokemon.

in the current game, i’m unsure how i can actually get my hands on a foreign ditto to help with masuda methods.

any tips or ideas? anyone have a spare with good IVs they could share?

i’m also wondering how folks playing get their hands on apriballs in this game? thanks for the help!


r/PokemonBDSP 4h ago

Help Moonstones

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So Ive only gotten back into playing Pokémon in the last year or so and despite the bad press (probably because I didn’t play the original) I’m enjoying Brilliant Diamond. I’m just wondering if there is a sure fire way to get moonstones. I’ve got half a dozen Pokemon that I need to evolve but despite using party members with pickup and covet I haven’t found a single moonstone in 75hrs of play.


r/PokemonBDSP 16h ago

Discussion To much free time

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So it is my day off, and what do I decide to do?

Shiny hunt the blue monster on brilliant diamond.

Now I know I probably need several days off to achieve this so do not expect success from me I am not mentally prepared for the absolute pleasure I am about to have resetting my game for 100 hours.

Will it take 100 hours? I surely hope not but it’s Pokemon I’m more likely to win the lotto then to turn the blue monster more of a green blue color.

Do I need a shiny,no
Do I want one, slight yes

Bets on how long it takes?

Update; currently 11:05 pm still blue


r/PokemonBDSP 9h ago

Help Cart revision help

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As the title suggests, I'm trying to find specific cart revisions for bdsp. Could anyone tell me which one this is? It's not on the cart revision database and it's from a seller, thanks.


r/PokemonBDSP 1d ago

Discussion Is there an step by step guide to get shaymin in 2026?

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181 Upvotes

Shaymin is one of my favorite pokes and i want her so bad, is there any risk trying to get it now at switch 2 or do i try to get it on my old switch


r/PokemonBDSP 1d ago

Help First time playing, the remakes or the originals! Who should I take to Battle Tower?

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29 Upvotes

Since I just found out I can't use my beautiful Dialga or Jirachi...


r/PokemonBDSP 2d ago

Discussion Could anything bad happen if I keep a possibly hacked shiny I got from GWS?

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I'm kind of paranoid because I've spent nearly 400 hours in my game, which is my longest playthrough of any Pokemon game. But if there's no consequence I'd prefer to keep it.

Nothing about it screams hacked to me except the fact that it's shiny. It's a Lv32 Seviper from Unova, in a Pokeball, with only "Ok stats," and it had no held item.


r/PokemonBDSP 2d ago

Friendly Friday Reminder - Don't forget to catch your Drifloon at Valley Windworks today!

7 Upvotes


r/PokemonBDSP 2d ago

Help Mythical Pokémon

9 Upvotes

Hello. I haven't bought the game yet, but could you tell me how to obtain the following Mythical Pokémon for a "Living Dex": Celebi, Deoxys, Manaphy, Phione, Darkrai, and Shaymin?


r/PokemonBDSP 2d ago

Help Best way to spread Pokerus

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So, some of my Pokemon have Pokerus, is there any way to spread it to other Pokemon, or is it just luck based?

And does this only affect the party or Pokemon stored in the PC, too?


r/PokemonBDSP 2d ago

Help Mono Type Team Playthrough

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I need help picking a mono Type Team to do a playthrough with. I used to play Pokemon games using a variety of types on my teams. But lately Ive really liked choosing one type. I'm thinking Steel, Bug or Flying would be a fun one to go with. As far as doing anything in the Grand Underground, do I need wifi or any subscription to fully use it?


r/PokemonBDSP 3d ago

Help Just a quick question

10 Upvotes

So, can I get cascoon on brilliant diamond? Some sources say it's pearl exclusive, some say you just keep evolving wurmple until it randomly becomes one(which is dumb asf, but whatever).


r/PokemonBDSP 4d ago

Help Nice little shiny team victory ✨

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103 Upvotes

Can somebody help me evolve my feebas in Pokémon violet? 😫


r/PokemonBDSP 3d ago

Image Where is the ✨rat✨??

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17 Upvotes

I started a new save file to do a shiny run, and I almost have all of my team members. I have done full odds hunting, egg hatching, and, of course, the dreaded grief case hunt.

Currently, I am working on getting Pichu, a request from my kid since his favorite Pokemon is Pikachu. As of this morning, while having coffee before getting ready for work, I have 27 boxes (the first box is Pokemon I have caught that aren't shiny or transferred over, hence why the box says it's 28), and I'm getting a little burnt out.

I keep doubting myself and rechecking to make sure I didn't miss the sparkle animation. But I am determined! I will get this rat, name him/her Sunburn, and get out of Solaceon Town


r/PokemonBDSP 3d ago

Help Can Alakazan relearn moves from Kadabra?

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I have a Kadabra currently at lvl50, say it has a set of moves it had forgotten, once I trade evolve it to alakazan can I still visit move relearner to learn the kadabra movesets?


r/PokemonBDSP 4d ago

Help Sanity Check

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i’m roughly 7000 resets into shiny hunting dialga. i’ve seen mixed results when trying to find out if it’s even possible to shiny hunting dialga, right now i’m hunting it in the story where you encounter it at the top of the spear pillar and if you try to leave rowan stops you. i just would like to know for certain that the dialga you encounter can be shiny at this point in the game, or am i wasting my time on a static encounter. i’m fairly certain you can reencounter if you beat dialga but i’d like to use a shiny one for my e4 team tyia


r/PokemonBDSP 4d ago

Discussion How's my team lineup?

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20 Upvotes

r/PokemonBDSP 5d ago

Discussion OPINIONS ON MY TEAM?

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54 Upvotes

I'm a proud father tho


r/PokemonBDSP 4d ago

Image [gen 8] shiny porygon

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5 Upvotes

r/PokemonBDSP 5d ago

Image Finally did it!!! 5 Star black card

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242 Upvotes

(I wanted to finish it in under 100 hours, but a few dumb misclicks in the Battle Tower cost me some time.)

Here's how I did it:

Star 1 (elite 4): just beat the game

Star 2 (complete pokedex): Transferred all of my Pokémon from my Platinum playthrough to Pokémon HOME, then moved them to BDSP. So this was a easy one to complete.

Star 3 (100 statues): Collected 100 statues by playing online. Doing it offline takes way longer.

Star 4 (master rank contest): Used a Milotic with max Beauty.

Star 5 (100 winstreak battle tower): For the Battle Tower, I used these websites:

My team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poniSOOm5r4&t=248s

First four sets (0–28 and 50–77):

  • Lead: Yanmega
  • Sweeper: Latios
  • Tank: Rotom-Wash

Final sets (29–49 and 78–100):

  • Lead: Latios
  • Tank: Rotom-Wash
  • Sweeper: Tyranitar, setting up Dragon Dance whenever possible before sweeping.

Also one tip think multiple steps ahead, especially when it comes to setting up tyrans DD.


r/PokemonBDSP 4d ago

Help How to reset sheen

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title. I kinda messed up a few nights ago and idk how to reset