In Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the Legendary Grass Pokemon Shaymin is supposed to be unlocked using the Oak’s Letter event through the Mystery Gift feature sometime in the future. However, just like in the original Diamond and Pearl, there is a glitch that will let you access Shaymin early. After all, its whole data including its location already exists in the base game. You have to beat the Elite Four, Sinnoh Champion, and get the National Pokedex first though. Here’s how you can get both Land and Sky Forme Shaymin in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl using the infamous Surf glitch.
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: Catch Shaymin and Get Sky Forme Early
YouTuber Von Klutch Gaming has made a detailed walkthrough on how to do the Shaymin Glitch for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (popularized by PokeTips) as seen above. But if you also need a text-based step-by-step guide, you can read on below as well.
- Get to Route 224, just beyond Victory Road. Also registering your Bicycle to the Quick Slot will help later.
- Find the Black Belt Carl NPC running around near rocks on the shore.
- Go past him for now, and beat three different Trainers first to make sure they won’t interfere with your quest to cheat in– I mean, get Shaymin early:
- Ruin Maniac Larry.
- Ace Trainer Ruben, hidden under a tree.
- And Dragon Tamer Hayden.
- After beating them, save your game just before facing Black Belt Carl as a safety net.
- Stand right by the water, and once Carl spot you, start mashing A. The glitch works by basically forcing the game to interact with both Carl and the water at the same time.
- If you succeed, then after beating Carl you should instantly get the pop-up that tells you to use Surf. If not, load your save and try again.
- However, take note that you must have not beaten Black Belt Carl before attempting this glitch. If you already did, unfortunately, the glitch will not work.
- At this point, you should be Surfing on land (or inside Carl). Try to move slowly otherwise you’ll dismount off the Bibarel. Then Surf past all the Trainers you’ve beaten beforehand.
- Before going past the stairs behind Dragon Tamer Hayden, make sure to position yourself on the upper left part of the stairs when you gently Surf through them.
- Save your game again, just to be sure since it’s easy to mess up the glitch. Reset the game and load the file, if your position is correct then your character and Bibarel should now spawn on top of the stairs and will float on the air when roaming about the area.
- Clip through the rocks in the southwest part of Dragon Tamer Hayden’s area until you float on the water to the west. If you do it right, you should be dropped off by the Bibarel but are now walking on water.
- Walk north until you hit invisible walls. Hop on the Bibarel/use Surf again and now a pop-up indicating you’re in the Seabreak Path area should show up.
- Go east/right for a bit until Route 224 indicator shows up. Drop off then walk up/to the north into the void. It will take quite a while (like a minute or so) until your each Shaymin but if you did register your Bicycle to the Quick Slot you can use it to travel faster since you can’t open your Bag in this glitched area.
- Congratulations, you’ve reached Flower Paradise island and met Shaymin!
- Now beat its behind and
force it to live insidecapture it with a Pokeball. - Lastly, it’s completely optional, but don’t forget to go back to Floaroma Town. Talk with the blonde lady in front of a house to get a Gracidea flower. Use it to transform Shaymin into its Sky Forme that has Grass/Flying dual-typing.
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Both Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl are available now on the Nintendo Switch.