Is Breloom Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Grass/Fighting with AbilityPoison Heal healing HP every turn when poisoned. Equip a Toxic Orb and Breloom regenerates instead of dying. The physical/special split means Fighting moves are properly physical now. If imported, handles Byron, Candice, and Bertha. One of Gen 4's biggest ability upgrades.
Shroomish resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Shroomish's weaknesses hard.
Maylene's typing presses Shroomish's defenses.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Fantina's team hits Breloom's weaknesses hard.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Breloom resists most of Bertha's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Saturn's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catch Shroomish
Catch Shroomish in the Great Marsh (walking, Lv 22-26, uncommon). Post-National Dex.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 22)
- LV 22NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Gardenia
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Route 212
- LV 37GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 41GrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Candice
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Galactic HQ B2F in Veilstone City
- Post-Game
- TM53GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 226
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Shroomish to Breloom
Shroomish evolves into Breloom at Level 23. Your Shroomish should hit Level 23 before you reach Crasher Wake, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- LV 33FightingSky UppercutPower 128Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 41GrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM53GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 226
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Breloom in Diamond & Pearl
Raise a Shroomish to level 23 to get Breloom, which has no encounter of its own. That Shroomish only enters the Great Marsh rotation after the National Dex unlocks it.
Wild Breloom may be holding when caught:
Kebia Berry (5% chance) Held: Consumed when struck by a super-effective Poison-type attack to halve the damage.Catch Shroomish at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Breloom.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Shroomish
- 2Evolve Breloomat Lv.23
Badge 3How to Obtain Breloom in DP
- Step 2Breloom ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Shroomish egg.
How to Get Shiny Breloom in Diamond & Pearl
Breloom evolves from Shroomish, so breed that pre-evo Masuda-style and evolve it up. Compare Shiny Breloom odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Breloom Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Diamond & Pearl shiny odds calculator with Breloom already selected.
Breloom Weakness
Type-wise, Breloom takes extra damage from Flying, Fire, Ice, Poison, and Psychic. Watch out for Flying attacks, those deal 4x damage. With 6 resistances, the defensive profile is strong.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Flying |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Poison, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Grass, Ground, Rock, Dark |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Breloom Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Breloom
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Aerodactyl Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Aerodactyl builds →Fly 4x198-233%KO Ice Fang 2x47-56% Fire Fang 2x47-56% | ||
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMt Coronet Surfing | ||
 Gliscor Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Gliscor builds →Aerial Ace 4x126-148%KO Poison Jab 2x53-64% Ice Fang 2x44-52% Fire Fang 2x44-52% | ||
 Yanmega Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Yanmega builds →Aerial Ace 4x101-120%KO Dream Eater 2x95-113%KO | ||
 Drifblim Ghost | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Drifloon (Valley Windworks Interact Encounter) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Drifblim builds →Fly 4x161-191%KO Dream Eater 2x80-94% | ||
 Vespiquen Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Vespiquen builds →Aerial Ace 4x107-127%KO Poison Sting 2x12-14% | ||
 Murkrow Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Murkrow builds →Fly 4x167-198%KO Dream Eater 2x75-89% | ||
 Mothim Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Mothim builds →Aerial Ace 4x120-141%KO Dream Eater 2x81-96% | ||
 Doduo Normal | C | |
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Noctowl builds →Sky Attack 4x173-205%KO Dream Eater 2x75-89% | ||
 Staravia Normal | C | |
 Glaceon Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Kadabra Psychic | A | |
Breloom Evolutions
Evolved from Shroomish. Breloom is the final form in this two-stage line. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs are quick to hatch. Attack grew the most through evolution (+90 over Shroomish), and Breloom peaks at 460 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Breloom to get Shroomish eggs easily using 35 partners from the Fairy and Grass egg groups. Notable egg moves include Charm, Fake Tears, False Swipe and 5 more.
DP Breloom Best Moveset
130 Attack paired with MoveSpore for 100% accurate sleep creates one of the most dangerous lead Pokemon in the game. AbilityPoison Heal with Held ItemToxic Orb recovers HP every turn while blocking other status, and the moveset hits with physical Fighting and Grass attacks at massive power. MoveMach Punch adds Fighting-type priority.
Best Build
Breloom best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Attacker Moveset
- Spore
- Seed Bomb
- Focus Punch
- Substitute
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Charm and Fake Tears give Breloom options it can't learn any other way, and Normal and Dark coverage and more already covers a decent range on top of Focus Punch and Focus Blast. The egg moves push it further.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
39 of 42 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
Its short arms stretch when it throws punches. Its technique is equal to that of pro boxers.
Breloom Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, Breloom plays as a cannon. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully.
In Diamond & Pearl, Adamant is the go-to nature for Breloom. That's +Attack / -Sp. Atk. Pair it with 76 HP / 248 Atk / 184 Spe EVs. Fits the cannon role.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Breloom spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in a solid number of games.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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