Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Walkthrough

Gible / Lake Valor / Route 216 / Route 217

Wayward Cave – Secret Entrance

Before we continue on to the lake, we’re gonna take a quick detour and go catch a Gible. Gible evolves into a very strong Pokémon and that’ll be helpful as we get closer to the end of the game’s story.

Go to Route 206 and get under Cycling Road. Go to the entrance to Wayward Cave and go west so that you’re under the bridge. The hidden entrance is over on the left side of the bridge. Just keep walking forward until you enter it.

Once inside use Flash. Then, use Strength to push the boulder in front of you out of the way. GO down the stairs and collect all of the items and keep an eye out for a Gible.

Lake Valor

Fly to Pastoria City and head to Lake Valor through Route 213 and Valor Lakefront. The NPCs that were blocking the entrance are now gone.

Fly to Pastoria City and head to Lake Valor through Route 213 and Valor Lakefront. The NPCs that were blocking the entrance are now gone.

Enter the area and work your way through the Galactic Grunts until you get to the middle of the area with an entrance to the cave.

• • Galactic Grunt
    • Glameow Lv. 33
    • Croagunk Lv. 33
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Golbat Lv. 32
    • Croagunk Lv. 36
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Croagunk Lv. 34
    • Dustox Lv. 31
    • Beautifly Lv. 31

Valor Cavern

Enter the Cavern and battle Commander Saturn.

• • Saturn
    • Kadabra Lv. 35
    • Toxicroak Lv. 37
    • Bronzor Lv. 35

Saturn will leave after mentioning Commander Mars at Lake Verity. So now we have our next destination.

Lake Verity

Fly home to Twinleaf and heal your Pokémon by speaking to your mom.

Head to Lake Verity by way of Route 201.

As soon as you enter the Lake, you’ll speak to Rowan who will tell you to stop Team Galactic. You’ll then have to battle your way through more Galactic Grunts.

• • Galactic Grunt
    • Glameow Lv. 33
    • Stunky Lv. 32
    • Glameow Lv. 32
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Silcoon Lv. 32
    • Golbat Lv. 32
    • Glameow Lv. 32
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Stunky Lv. 32
    • Glameow Lv. 32
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Beautifly Lv. 31
    • Glameow Lv. 33

After defeating the two teams of Grunts, you can then interact with Mars who is standing with Dawn or Lucas.

You’ll have to Battle Mars again now.

• • Mars
    • Golbat Lv. 37
    • Bronzor Lv. 37
    • Purugly Lv. 39

After beating Mars again, Rowan will speak to you and tell you go check on your Rival up at Lake Acuity.

Mt. Coronent

We are about to head out on a long trip in order to reach Snowpoint City, so make sure to stock up on healing items and Poké Balls.

Fly to Eterna City and then head east to Route 211 to reach Mt. Coronent.

If you haven’t already come through here, you’ll need to battle a trainer just before the entrance to the mountain.

• • Hiker Louis
    • Geodude Lv. 15
    • Onix Lv. 15

Enter the mountain. Now that you can use Strength, you grab the items in here and make your way completely through the mountain.

Take the stairs to the northeast and follow the path until you reach another staircase that will lead into the basement.

Basement

Pokémon found in the Mt. Coronent Basement:

• • Meditite
  • Machoke
  • Graveler
  • Chingling
  • Golbat
  • Clefairy
  • Zubat
  • Barboach – Good Rod
  • Feebas – Good Rod
  • Magikarp – Old/Good Rod

As soon as you enter the basement, you’ll be shrouded in fog. So boot up the Hidden Moves app and use Defog. Catch whatever Pokémon you may need and collect all the items.

It is possible to catch a Feebas in here, but it is difficult to find them. Feebas will only appear in specific spots of the water. There is no way of telling which spot is correct. Making things even more difficult is the fact that these spots are randomly changed daily.

When you’re done in here, make your way up the stairs to the north.

Follow the short path to the exit.

Route 216

You’ll immediately notice that is snowing up here. So, you can take a guess as to what type of Pokémon you’ll be able to find here.

Trainers found on Route 216:

• • Ace Trainer Blake
    • Ambipom Lv. 35
    • Kadabra Lv. 35
  • Ace Trainer Maria
    • Golduck Lv. 34
    • Ponyta Lv. 35
    • Sudowoodo Lv. 33
  • Ace Trainer Laura
    • Lopunny Lv. 37
  • Skier Edward
    • Sneasel Lv. 35
  • Ace Trainer Garrett
    • Mr. Mime Lv. 33
    • Machoke Lv. 34
    • Sneasel Lv. 35

Pokémon found on Route 216:

• • Snover
  • Sneasel
  • Zubat
  • Graveler
  • Machoke
  • Meditite
  • Noctowl – Night Only

You can take the high or low path here. They both end up in the same place.

There is a house where the route turn to head north. This is the Snowbound Lodge and you can rest on a bed in here to heal your party if needed.

When the route goes north, it turns into Route 217.

Route 217

As you enter Route 217, you’ll notice that the snowfall is thicker and heavier here. This will make advancing through some of the route little slow.

Trainers found Route 217:

• • Ace Trainer Dalton
    • Raichu Lv. 34
    • Pelipper Lv. 36
    • Hippopotas Lv. 38
  • Ninja Boy Antonio
    • Zubat Lv. 33
    • Golbat Lv. 33
    • Zubat Lv. 34
    • Croagunk Lv. 36
  • Skier Shawn
    • Snover Lv. 34
    • Snover Lv. 34
    • Golduck Lv. 34
    • Snover Lv. 35
  • Skier Madison
    • Snover Lv. 37
  • Ninja Boy Ethan
    • Skorupi Lv. 35
    • Golbat Lv. 35
  • Skier Bjorn
    • Mantyke Lv. 36
    • Sneasel Lv. 38
  • Skier Lexie
    • Marill Lv. 35
    • Clefairy Lv. 35
  • Black Belt Luke
    • Croagunk Lv. 36
    • Onix Lv. 35
    • Machoke Lv. 37
  • Ace Trainer Olivia
    • Roselia Lv. 37
    • Seaking Lv. 37

Pokémon found on Route 217:

• • Snover
  • Sneasel
  • Zubat
  • Machoke
  • Meditite
  • Medicham
  • Noctowl – Night Only

As you trudge your way through the snow, there is a house on the left side of the route. Go inside and the Hiker will tell you that he dropped Rock Climb. This is important as it is another HM that you need to fully explore certain areas of Sinnoh.

Rock Climb can be found outside of the house just above it. Go pick it up and then speak to the Hiker again. He’ll tell you to keep it and will give you an Icicle Plate for being honest.

There is a second house on this route further to the north on the right. Speak to the woman inside and she will give you a Spell Tag. If you come back into this house after leaving with the tag, the woman will be gone. Spooky.

To the north of the Spell Tag house is an Ice Rock in the grass. Eevee will evolve into Glaceon here if it levels up while on Route 217.

From here, make your way back down a bit and go left. The path to reach Acuity Lakefront is to the northwest.

Acuity Lakefront

There will be two Galactic Grunts that are blocking the entrance to Lake Acuity. So just head east for now. Grab the Ultra Ball in the northeast corner and then take the exit to the southeast.

You’ll finally have made it to Snowpoint City.