Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Walkthrough

Mt. Coronent / Finishing off Team Galactic / Dialga & Palkia

Mt. Coronent

Next stop is Mt. Coronent to chase down Team Galactic. Make sure you’re stocked up on healing items and Poké Balls before heading out.

Fly to Oreburgh City and exit north, Use your bike to ride up to the ledge. Go east on Route 207 to find the southern entrance to Mt. Coronent.

2F-3F

When you enter the mountain, Surf across the water that is right in front of you. Follow the path to the side of the ledge that you can climb up by using Rock Climb. Go up the stairs and follow the path around to an exit at the northwest corner of the cave. Don’t take the exit to the south or you’ll end up outside.

Go up the stairs and up to the next floor where you’ll come across a Galactic Grunt. Beat the two Grunts and take the exit that’ll lead you outside.

Trainers found in 3F Mt. Coronent:

• • Galactic Grunt
    • Beautifly Lv. 40
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Bronzor

Pokémon found on the second and third floors of Mt. Coronent (south):

• • Bronzor
  • Bronzong
  • Golbat
  • Graveler
  • Chingling
  • Medicham
  • Machoke
  • Clefairy

4F

Now that you’re outside, follow the path until you reach a dead end that you can climb using Rock Climb. You can Rock Climb again to find a hidden Nugget to the right. If you went up twice, climb back down. You can enter the entrance on your right to find some items, but without Waterfall, you won’t be able to progress through here.

Pokémon found on the outside of Mt. Coronent:

• • Snover
  • Abomasnow
  • Bronzor
  • Bronzong
  • Golbat
  • Graveler
  • Chingling
  • Medicham
  • Machoke
  • Clefairy
  • Noctowl – Night Only

So from the Rock Climb area outside, follow the path west until you come to another entrance. Go inside. You’ll be on the other side of the previously mentioned waterfall on the fourth floor.

Go in and Rock Climb up the ledge. There will be some more Grunts for you to beat up here.

Follow the path to the exit to the east and you will be outside again.

• • Galactic Grunt
    • Dustox Lv. 35
    • Dustox Lv. 35
    • Golbat Lv. 38
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Stunky Lv. 38
    • Golbat Lv. 38

Pokémon found on the fourth floor of Mt. Coronent:

• • Bronzor
  • Bronzong
  • Golbat
  • Graveler
  • Chingling
  • Medicham
  • Machoke
  • Clefairy
  • Chimecho

Outside Again

Go down the stairs to your left and enter the cave door. This isn’t the story path, but there are Grunts to battle in here.

• • Galactic Grunt
    • Golbat Lv. 40
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Wurmple Lv. 34
    • Beautifly Lv. 38
    • Silcoon Lv. 36
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Croagunk Lv. 35
    • Stunky Lv. 38
    • Croagunk Lv. 38

Pick up the items and beat the Grunts. Go back outside.

Rock climb up the short path to find a hidden Rare Candy and then go back down. Take the other Rock Climb path up.

Take the path west until you find a cave entrance.

5F

This is just a quick hallway with a staircase at the east side. Take the stairs.

6F -7F

Follow the short paths and beat the Grunts

• • Galactic Grunt
    • Bronzor Lv. 38
    • Glameow Lv. 38
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Bronzor Lv. 37
    • Golbat Lv. 37
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Golbat Lv. 37
    • Bronzor Lv. 37
    • Glameow Lv. 37

Spear Pillar

Exit the cave from 7F to reach the summit called the Spear Pillar.

Beat the two Grunts just ahead of you.

• • Galactic Grunt
    • Dustox Lv. 38
    • Croagunk Lv. 38
  • Galactic Grunt
    • Stunky Lv. 38
    • Glameow Lv. 38

After beating the two Grunts, don’t go forward just yet. Make sure to heal your party and that you have plenty of Poké Balls. Specifically Ultra Balls and Dusk Balls.

One Last Battle

When you step forward, you’ll be in a double battle with your Rival vs. Jupiter and Mars.

• • Mars
    • Bronzor Lv. 41
    • Golbat Lv. 42
    • Purugly Lv. 45
  • Jupiter
    • Bronzor Lv. 41
    • Golbat Lv. 41
    • Skuntank Lv. 46

After you beat them, you’ll then battle Cyrus again. Your Rival will heal your party after the battle.

• • Cyrus
    • Honchkrow Lv. 45
    • Gyarados Lv. 45
    • Crobat Lv. 46
    • Weavile Lv. 48

After you beat Cyrus, he’ll leave and then you will be approached by Dawn or Lucas and Rowan. They’ll tell you to face either Dialga or Palkia depending on your version.

Catching Dialga or Palkia

Before you approach it, heal your party and save your game. Just in case you run out of balls or accidentally knock it out, you can quit out of your game and try again.

For both of these, you’re going to want to inflict a status effect. Paralyzing, freezing or putting them to sleep will help you out here. You don’t want to burn or poison them as that will inflict damage and could knock them out.

Battle them until their health is very low. After that, just start throwing balls at them until you’ve caught it. You don’t need to use the Master Ball here. Ultra Balls will get the job done.

Once you’ve caught it, congratulations! You’re now the proud new owner of a creature that can bend space and time as well as create universes. Use it responsibly!

Before leaving, go forward where Dialga or Palkia were and pick up the item.

You can now leave. You won’t be able to Fly from here, but you can use an Escape Rope or back track just a little bit to cave where we fought three grunts.

Celestic Town

Fly to Celestic Town and enter the big house to the north of town. Speak to Cynthia’s grandmother and she will show you a picture of the opposite Pokémon that you just caught. So, if you caught Palkia, she will show you Dialga. This will mark it as ‘seen’ in your Pokédex.