Is Breloom Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Shroomish evolves at level 23. Grass/Fighting with AbilityEffect Spore. Strong Attack, but the line is post-game here, so Breloom arrives after the Elite Four.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Breloom resists most of Whitney's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Breloom resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Breloom resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Janine's team hits Breloom's weaknesses hard.
Sabrina's team hits Breloom's weaknesses hard.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Lance's team hits Breloom's weaknesses hard.
Catchable
Catch Breloom in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 46). Block objects required.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 46)
- LV 46FightingSky UppercutPower 128Accuracy 90%PP 15
- LV 46GrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 46FightingForce PalmPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Bugsy
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- TM60FightingDrain PunchPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 39
- After Chuck
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Chuck
How to Get Breloom in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Headbutt a Shroomish out of the post-National-Dex Viridian Forest trees and level it to 23 for Breloom. The tree spawn for that first stage is where this whole thing starts.
Wild Breloom may be holding when caught:
Kebia Berry (5% chance) If held by a Pokemon, it weakens a foe's supereffective Poison-type attack.1 location to catch Breloom2 locations to catch Shroomish
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Shroomish at any of the 2 locations below, then level it up to 23 — it evolves into Breloom.
Badge 8Where To Catch Breloom in HGSS
Shroomish is your first catch on the way to Breloom. You'll find walking and headbutt encounters from Lv. 3-46 across 6 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Breloom ✓or evolve from Shroomish (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the HeartGold & SoulSilver catch rate calculator with Breloom preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Breloom in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Breloom evolves from Shroomish, so breed that Viridian Forest base form Masuda-style and raise it up. Compare Shiny Breloom odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver 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 HeartGold & SoulSilver 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
 Scyther Bug | C | |
 Altaria Dragon | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Altaria builds →Fly 4x141-166%KO Fire Blast 2x77-91% Ice Beam 2x61-71% | ||
 Skarmory Steel | B | |
 Dodrio Normal | C | |
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Golbat builds →Fly 4x154-182%KO Sludge Bomb 2x81-96% | ||
 Ninjask Bug | C | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Farfetch'd builds →Fly 4x168-198%KO Poison Jab 2x50-59% | ||
 Gliscor Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Gliscor builds →Aerial Ace 4x118-139%KO Poison Jab 2x51-61% Ice Fang 2x42-50% Fire Fang 2x42-50% | ||
 Vespiquen Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Vespiquen builds →Aerial Ace 4x104-123%KO Sludge Bomb 2x63-75% | ||
 Yanmega Bug | B | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
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.
HGSS Breloom Best Moveset
130 Attack behind MoveSpore for 100% accuracy sleep and Grass/Fighting coverage makes the moveset one of the most threatening physical attackers. AbilityPoison Heal with Held ItemToxic Orb heals 12.5% HP per turn while immune to other status. 60 HP and 70 Speed are tight.
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 coverage across 7 types 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
All 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
It scatters poisonous spores and throws powerful punches while its foe is hampered by inhaled spores.
Breloom HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
- How do I catch Breloom in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Safari Zone?
See the Locations section above for where to find Breloom in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Breloom from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Breloom easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
Yes. Wild Breloom in HeartGold & SoulSilver can hold Kebia Berry (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Kebia Berry.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Breloom plays as a cannon. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, 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
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