Is Breloom Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Shroomish evolves at level 23. Grass/Fighting with AbilityEffect Spore and strong Attack. Unique typing, but Great Marsh postgame sourcing means Breloom only fights in the Battle Frontier.
Shroomish resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Shroomish's weaknesses hard.
Fantina's typing presses Shroomish's defenses.
Maylene's typing presses Shroomish's defenses.
Breloom resists most of Crasher Wake's coverage and hits back 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 trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Mars'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 27-30, uncommon). Post-National Dex.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 27)
- LV 27NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Fantina
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Maylene
- 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 10Item ball on B2F of the Team Galactic HQ 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. You get it at Level 27 or higher, past Level 23, so it evolves into Breloom the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- 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 41GrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- Post-Game
- TUTORFightingSuperpowerPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
- TM53GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 226
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Breloom in Platinum
Breloom comes only from raising a Shroomish, itself a post-National-Dex Great Marsh catch. Level that base form to 23 and the Grass and Fighting evolution is yours.
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 5How to Obtain Breloom in Pt
- Step 2Breloom ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Shroomish egg.
How to Get Shiny Breloom in Platinum
Breloom comes by leveling, so breed a Shroomish through a foreign Ditto at 1 in 1,638, then evolve it. Compare Shiny Breloom odds across every game
Platinum 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 Platinum 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 | |
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Staraptor Normal | B | |
 Aerodactyl Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Aerodactyl builds →Fly 4x189-224%KO Ice Fang 2x46-55% Fire Fang 2x46-55% | ||
 Dodrio Normal | C | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMt Coronet Surfing | ||
 Vespiquen Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Vespiquen builds →Aerial Ace 4x105-124%KO Poison Sting 2x10-12% | ||
 Gliscor Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Gliscor builds →Aerial Ace 4x120-141%KO Poison Jab 2x51-61% Ice Fang 2x41-49% Fire Fang 2x41-49% | ||
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
 Yanmega Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Yanmega builds →Aerial Ace 4x100-118%KO Dream Eater 2x93-110%KO | ||
 Drifblim Ghost | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Drifloon (Valley Windworks Interact Encounter) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Drifblim builds →Fly 4x150-176%KO Dream Eater 2x76-90% | ||
 Altaria Dragon | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Altaria builds →Fly 4x139-165%KO Fire Blast 2x75-88% Dream Eater 2x63-75% Ice Beam 2x60-71% | ||
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Infernape builds →Fire Blast 2x152-179%KO Aerial Ace 4x83-98% | ||
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.
Pt Breloom Best Moveset
Self-sustaining through AbilityPoison Heal with Held ItemToxic Orb for 12.5% recovery every turn while blocking other status conditions. 130 Attack behind MoveSpore for guaranteed sleep gives the moveset one of the most dangerous physical offensive profiles available.
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 8 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
39 of 42 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
Its short arms stretch when it throws punches. Its technique is equal to that of pro boxers.
Breloom Platinum Guide
In Platinum, Breloom plays as a cannon. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully.
In Platinum, 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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