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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: Great Marsh daily spawns explained and whether to throw bait or mud

Everything you demand to know about how the Great Marsh works.

The Not bad Marsh is Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl'southward equivalent to the Safari Zone, allowing yous to catch some rare and unusual Pokémon - and pick upward some essential items - as you explore its six areas. It also follows on from Pastoria City in your chance, and our Bright Diamond and Shining Pearl walkthrough.

Below we'll explain how the Great Marsh works, including how daily spawns work and where to get whatsoever key items on your first visit - and what to practise and where to go next if you lot've come here from our walkthrough guide.

On this folio:

Great Marsh explained: how daily spawns work
Should you use Allurement or Mud in the Great Marsh?
Slap-up Marsh Pokémon and particular locations

Peachy Marsh explained: how daily spawns work

The Great Marsh is a Safari Zone-like area in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, accessed via Pastoria City, which is split into six areas with a tram in the centre that will take you to each of them, saving you the walk.

Each entrance to the Groovy Marsh costs 500 Pokémon Dollars, and you become a limited amount of time in there, measured by the number of steps you take when walking, running, or cycling. That means using the tram is essential if yous desire to go to some of the deeper areas of the marsh and all the same accept plenty steps left over to walk around chasing Pokémon and collecting items.

There's besides one central mechanic here that works differently to anywhere else: rare, rotating daily spawns. Here's how that works.

How daily spawns work

Before you acquire the National Pokédex, there are eight special Pokémon spawns that can only occur in the Bully Marsh via this method. Each day, an unknown number of them volition spawn in the Great Marsh, and those that spawn will exist set to but appear in a specific Area (there are vi in total).

To find out which rare daily spawn Pokémon are spawning where, you can use the binoculars on the upper floor of the archway building of the Great Marsh, which cost 100 Pokémon Dollars each time y'all apply them. These practise not alter the spawns, and you lot do not need to apply them in order for the spawns to appear (we've personally verified this). The binoculars are but a method to help you locate which Area the Pokémon you lot're later is spawning in that 24-hour interval, so you can head there and run around in the long grass until it appears.

The binoculars, meanwhile, can show any Pokémon that spawns in that area. So, for example: looking through one pair might show Area 1, with a Bibarel. This does non necessarily mean that there are no rare Pokémon spawning in Surface area 1! Continue re-using those binoculars and it might eventually show a Carnivine, for instance, is besides spawning in Surface area 1 that mean solar day.

Below are the rare spawns that tin appear. Notation that several of these Pokémon, such every bit Roselia, are catchable elsewhere, while Skorupi for example can be caught in Pokémon Hideaways in the Yard Underground. Over again, several (more than 1 in total, but maybe less than one for all six Areas at one time) can spawn per mean solar day, and you don't need to utilize the binoculars to trigger the spawns.

Rotating Daily Spawn Pokémon

Pokémon	Availability
Carnivine	Random run into in long grass in a ready Area, rotating daily.
Croagunk	Random run into in long grass in a set Expanse, rotating daily.
Toxicroak	Random run across in long grass in a set Expanse, rotating daily.
Roselia	Random meet in long grass in a set Expanse, rotating daily.
Staravia	Random run across in long grass in a fix Surface area, rotating daily.
Skorupi	Random see in long grass in a set Area, rotating daily.
Drapion	Random encounter in long grass in a gear up Surface area, rotating daily.
Golduck	Random encounter in long grass in a prepare Area, rotating daily.

Notation that after y'all get the National Pokédex, another handful of new Pokémon are able to spawn hither as Rotating Daily Spawns.

Should yous apply Bait or Mud in the Bang-up Marsh?

Whether to apply Bait or Mud depends on two things: what effect you desire, and whether yous like to run a risk or play things safe.

For starters, let's explain the basics: in the Great Marsh you lot can't battle or weaken Pokémon, y'all but discover them and get presented with iv options: throw a ball, throw Mud, throw Allurement, or run away from the battle. Throwing both Bait and Mud has two furnishings.

Bait - increases the chance of Pokémon fleeing; increases the run a risk of you successfully communicable it with a ball.
Mud - decreases the hazard of a Pokémon fleeing; decreases the gamble of you successfully catching it with a ball.

It might sound backwards, given the word "bait" is used by the game, just basically: throw Mud at Pokémon you don't want to run abroad. Throw Bait if you want to gamble on them running before yous've even had a take a chance to throw a ball.

Great Marsh Pokémon and item locations

Aside from those new mechanics, the Great Marsh is also a location that yous'll need to laissez passer through on your journeying through Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl's principal story.

With that in mind, here are the spawns and items in each Area of the Great Marsh, so you can collect absolutely everything you want.

Bachelor Pokémon (standard wild spawns in all all Areas)

Pokémon	Availability
Wooper	Muddy grass
Quagsire	Dingy grass
Bibarel	Muddy grass
Starly	Muddy grass
Marill	Muddy grass
Psyduck	Muddy grass
Budew	Dingy grass (morning and twenty-four hour period)
Hoothoot	Dingy grass (dark)
Noctowl	Muddied grass (dark, Surface area 1 and 2 merely)
Azurill	(Rare) Dingy grass
Bidoof	(Rare) Muddy grass

Items

Items	Location
3x TM97 Defog	Expanse half-dozen - From Ace Trainer just within the first area as presently every bit you enter
Paralyze Heal	Area 6 - On right of water, driblet downward from ledge
Hyper Potion	Area vi - Subconscious - two steps below Paralyze Heal
Antidote	Expanse 5 - Left of the school boy
Full Heal	Area v - Hidden in centre of big muddy grass expanse north-west of Antidote
Poké Brawl	Area 4 - N of the tram stop most the tracks
Super Potion	Area 4 - Far eastern side from tram station
Nugget	Area 4 - Subconscious - jump downwardly ledge below super potion, in tree peak correct corner
Honey	Area iii - By homo in dungarees in far west corner
Ultra Brawl	Area 3 - Hidden - head due westward of tram station between 2 muddle puddles
Toxic Plate	Area 2 - Hidden - in trees in far northernmost wall, near Parasol Lady
Neat Ball	Surface area two - Simply due east of tram stop
Potion	Area i - Above ledge only westward of tram stop
Super Repel	Surface area i - Due north of Potion on northernmost tree wall
Rare Candy	Expanse 1 - Hidden - far due north-easternmost corner of expanse in grass

Here are what the areas wait like for reference. Surface area 1 is listed get-go in these images, and is the back left in-game. Surface area 2 is dorsum-right in the game. Area three is center-left. Area 4 is middle-right. Surface area 5 is bottom-left. Area 6 is bottom-right.

Areas one and ii.

Areas 3 and 4.

Areas v and six.

If you've collected everything you want here - the main thing is to go Defog for your Pokétch past talking to the Ace Trainer every bit soon as you enter! - then that's yous sorted in terms of primary story progress, and it's on to the next objective. Head back to our folio of Pastoria City and have on the Gym if you haven't already, or skip to the "Afterward defeating Gym Leader Crasher Wake" section on that page if you already have!

For more than guides and links to the residual of our walkthrough pages meanwhile, return to our main Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl walkthrough hub.