Is Breloom Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Grass/Fighting with AbilityEffect Spore for random contact status. Breloom handles Norman, Sidney, and contributes against Glacia. In Emerald, fighting both Team Aqua and Team Magma through the story doubles the value of Fighting coverage. MoveMach Punch gives priority against faster threats. One of Emerald's best mid-game catches.
Shroomish resists most of Roxanne's coverage and hits back hard.
Shroomish trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Wattson's typing presses Shroomish's defenses.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Breloom resists most of Norman's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Breloom resists most of Juan's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Breloom resists most of Glacia's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Catch Shroomish
Catch Shroomish in Petalburg Woods (walking, Lv 5-6, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- LV 22NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 45GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
Evolve Shroomish to Breloom
Shroomish evolves into Breloom at Level 23. Your Shroomish should hit Level 23 before you reach Flannery, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 123
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- LV 36FightingSky UppercutPower 128Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega KickPower 120Accuracy 75%PP 5Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 80Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
How to Get Breloom in Emerald
Catch a Shroomish in Petalburg Woods and evolve it at level 23 for Breloom, which has no wild presence of its own. That early forest catch is the sole entry point for the punchy line.
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 1How to Obtain Breloom in E
- Step 1Catch Shroomish
- Step 2Breloom ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Shroomish egg.
How to Get Shiny Breloom in Emerald
Breloom is never found wild, so catch a shiny Shroomish in Petalburg Woods and level it to 23; the shine holds through the evolution into Breloom. Compare Shiny Breloom odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Breloom Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
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 Emerald 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 |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Breloom Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Breloom
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Golbat builds →Wing Attack 4x105-124%KO Sludge Bomb 2x77-91% | ||
 Combusken FireFighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Combusken builds →Flamethrower 2x105-124%KO Peck 4x45-54% | ||
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
 Swellow Normal | C | |
 Seviper Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Seviper builds →Sludge Bomb 2x89-106%KO Flamethrower 2x78-93% | ||
 Swalot Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Swalot builds →Sludge Bomb 2x71-84% Ice Beam 2x62-73% | ||
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Torkoal Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Torkoal builds →Flamethrower 2x105-124%KO Sludge Bomb 2x54-63% | ||
 Dustox BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Dustox builds →Sludge Bomb 2x55-66% Psychic 2x45-54% Gust 4x37-44% | ||
 Beautifly Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Beautifly builds →Gust 4x68-80% Psychic 2x74-88% | ||
 Grimer Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Grimer builds →Sludge Bomb 2x77-91% Flamethrower 2x43-51% | ||
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (Littleroot Town Gift) | ||
 Kirlia Psychic | D | |
 Pelipper Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Pelipper builds →Wing Attack 4x74-88% Ice Beam 2x76-90% | ||
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 27 partners from the Fairy and Grass egg groups. Notable egg moves include Charm, Fake Tears, False Swipe and 2 more.
E Breloom Best Moveset
MoveSpore into MoveFocus Punch is one of the most devastating two-move combinations in Emerald, putting the opponent to sleep and then landing an uninterrupted 150-power Fighting TermStab. The moveset adds Grass coverage for Water and Ground types, and 130 base Attack ensures nothing shrugs off the hits.
Best Build
Breloom best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Spore
- Focus Punch
- Mach Punch
- Sky Uppercut
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 Steel coverage and more already covers a decent range on top of Focus Punch and Solar Beam. 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
25 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
It scatters spores from holes in the cap on its head. It loves warm and humid climates. It feeds on trees and plants in fields and forests.
Breloom Emerald Guide
In Emerald, Breloom plays as a cannon. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully.
In Emerald, Jolly is the go-to nature for Breloom. That's +Speed / -Sp. Atk. Pair it with 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 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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