Different Pokémon require different items and methods to evolve in  Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl , and several Pokémon will merely evolve once trainers find a Dusk Rock. WhileBDSPincludes the Dusk Stone locations that were in the original games, more than methods can be used to acquire Sunset Stones in the remakes that weren't featured in the originals. For instance, access to the Grand Hole-and-corner in Pokémon BDSP allows players to find an additional Dusk Stone.

The Dusk Stone was one of three evolutionary stones that were introduced in the original Pokémon DiamondandPearl, aslope the Shiny and Dawn Stones. Each stone is tied to an development that was unavailable to Pokémon introduced in generations two and three, such equally Snorunt, Togetic, and Murkrow. Thanks to a few changes, players are able to obtain the Dusk Stone, and others, inPokémon BDSPearlier kickoff the endgame content.

Dusk Stones are used to evolve iisectional Bright Diamond and Shining Pearl Pokémon. In Brilliant Diamond, players tin can apply the Sunset Stone to evolve Murkrow into Honchkrow. In Shining Pearl, they can apply the Sunset Stone to evolve Misdreavus into Mismagius. Honchkrow is a Nighttime- and Flying-type Pokémon and is the best concrete Flying-type attacker available earlier players receive the National Dex. Mismagius is a pure Ghost-type Pokémon and benefits from only being weak to Dark-types and other Ghost-types. Additionally, Mismagius has immunities to all Fighting- and Normal-type attacks.

Where To Find The Sunset Stone In Pokémon BDSP

One of the first Sunset Stones inPokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl tin can be establish by navigating the M Cloak-and-dagger from the embankment on Road 213, east of Pastoria Metropolis. Players tin find a Sunset Rock inside a Bogsunk Cave featured as a large Pokémon Hideaway.

Additionally, a Pokémon with the Pickup ability tin randomly find a Dusk Rock at any point throughout Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.Both games have Aipom, Munchlax, and Pachirisu with the Pickup ability, and, one of the Shining Pearl exclusives, Teddiursa, has the Pickup ability every bit well. Pachirisu tin be caught as shortly as Valley Windworks is attainable, and Aipom can be plant from honey trees. Aipom tin can also be found in the Grand Underground after acquiring the Defog HM, every bit can Munchlax.

The two Dusk Stones that return from the originalDiamondandPearl are still located in the Team Galactic Warehouse and in Victory Road. The Victory Road Dusk Stone can merely be found after players defeat the Elite Four and obtain the National Dex. They tin can return to the archway of the Elite Four and head to the Victory Road exit. They should travel through Victory Road until they accomplish an archway that was previously blocked by an NPC. Players tin use that entrance, boxing the trainers heading due north in the cave, and use Strength to movement the boulders blocking the pathway to reach the Sunset Stone in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.

Getting the warehouse Dusk Stone in Pokémon Bright Diamond & Shining Pearlis somewhat easier. To discover it, players must defeat Commander Jupiter at Lake Acuity. She'll driblet the warehouse key that unlocks the Team Galactic edifice in Veilstone Metropolis. This is a natural role of the story, so players are unable to reach the warehouse prior to this effect, but it'south also hard to miss.

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Pokémon: Shining Pearl  & Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond  are available for the Nintendo Switch.

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