How to evolve Budew Brilliant Diamond

First brought in with Generation IV, Budew is an adorable Baby Pokémon. In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, Budew evolves into Roselia depending on its friendship stat. So, if you want to start their evolution line, you need to buckle down on your bond with them.

Evolve Budew in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl

Budew, the Grass/Poison-type Pokémon, will evolve if it has a High Friendship stat. However, that isn’t the only thing to focus on. With that high stat, you also must level Budew up during the day. If those two things are true, you will soon have yourself a Roselia. The type doesn’t change, so you will still have a Grass/Poison Pokémon.

Raising Budew Friendship in Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl

The good thing about friendship is that it naturally goes up whenever you battle with or travel with a Pokémon. You can keep Budew out of the Poké Ball more often to help. If you want to speed some things up, you can always have Budew hold a Soothe Bell. When held, this item will help Pokémon gain double the amount of happiness.

This way, you will evolve Budew in Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl in little time.

How to Locate Budew

There are several places you can encounter Budew in the wild and the Grand Underground. Take a Luxury Ball with you if you can. If you do, this will help raise Budew’s friendship stat.

In the wild, you can encounter Budew in the following areas:

• Eterna Forest (uncommon morning/day | rare night)
• Within Great Marsh Area 1 (rare morning/day | none at night)
• Great Marsh Area 2 (rare morning/day | none at night)
• Somewhere in Great Marsh Area 3 (rare morning/day | none at night)
• Great Marsh Area 4 (rare morning/day | none at night)
• In the Great Marsh Area 5 (rare morning/day | none at night)
• Great Marsh Area 6 (rare morning/day | none at night)
• Route 204 North (uncommon morning/day |rare night)
• On Route 204 South (uncommon morning/day | rare night)
• Route 212 North (common)

In the Grand Underground, encounters happen in the following locations:

• Grassland Cave
• Riverbank Cave
• Spacious Cave
• Still-Water Cavern
• Sunlit Cavern

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To evolve Budew in Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, just get a high friendship stat and level them up during the day. They will evolve immediately from there. You can always check on their friendship level with the Friendship Checker app on the Poketch.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl is available on Nintendo Switch.

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Budew might not look like the toughest Pokemon in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, but its final form is one of the strongest Grass-types around in Roserade.

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl trainers will probably come across the Grass-type Budew many times in the early areas of the Sinnoh region

Once trainers have caught a Budew, they can put it on the path to greatness. It needs to level up with high Friendship into Roselia, which will then evolve into Roserade when exposed to a Shiny Stone.

Evolving Budew to Roselia in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Budew needs to have a high Friendship level in order to evolve into Roselia. On top of that, it needs to level up during the daytime for that evolution to take place in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.

You can use the Friendship Checker app on your Poketch at any time to see the progress you have made. Do this after plenty of walking and battling with Budew, and maybe even getting Budew a massage in Veilstone City.

After the Friendship level in the app shows two hearts appearing near Budew when you interact with it, level it up during the day with a Rare Candy or by gaining EXP to obtain a Roselia.

Evolving Roselia into Roserade in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Once you have a Roselia in your Pokemon collection, you can use a Shiny Stone to evolve it into the mega powerful Roserade. Shiny Stones may not be that easy to come by, however.

Iron Island and Route 228 both have a Shiny Stone on the ground as a Poke Ball pickup. Others can be found while having a Pokemon with the Pickup Ability in your party.

They will randomly pickup held items after a battle, and there is a chance it could be a Shiny Stone. You can also get one as a reward at the Battle Tower. When you do, go to your Bag and use it on Roselia to evolve it into Roserade.

Edited by Siddharth Satish

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