How to Get Mespirit, Azelf, & Uxie in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl has many Legendary Pokemon for you to catch such as Azelf, Uxie, and Mespirit. Here is How to Get the Lake guardians in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl.

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0:00 Intro
0:48 Shiny Rate
1:25 Azelf
5:15 Uxie
6:49 Mespirit
7:46 Finding Roaming Mespirit
11:18 Catching Roaming Mespirit

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[AustinJohnPlays]

Edit: Arena trap doesn't work on Levitate pokemon lol. Just tested it.

Note: I did NOT make something clear about shiny hunting Mespirit and some could see it as misleading, so please let me elaborate.
At 10:13 when I said Mespirit's hunt is "before the first encounter" that means you have to save at 7:13 's point which is BEFORE you speak to it the first time.
This is when it is released from the cave, and the cutscene with Prof. You then have to find it roaming and see if it is shiny WITHOUT auto-save or manual saving between those 2 points.

I then go into how I would just regularly catch it at 10:20 and then mention "imagine if I got it shiny" because I know how much of a pain it is. I'm sorry if i did not explain this bluntly.

Update: 11.23.21 We now know that if you KO'd Mespirit then beat the elite 4, it will respawn and roam again. It will NOT be in the cave again-which was only in. The new mespirit will have different stats, so we can make an educated guess that it will determine its shiny status again. When Exactly? (ie, beating the champion or the first encounter in grass) more research is needed before a definitive answer.

[starcast]

“Where people are probably still shiny hunting their starters” you did NOT have to call me out like that

[ZekromAndYugiAndDrago]

When Mesprit went off I assumed the others also were roaming legends. Imagine my surprise when I went to to Azelf to set it off and ended up battling it. I was NOT prepared

[blitzar]

Can I just say how impressed I am that your still doing these Pokémon tutorials, I watched you all the time back in the sun and moon days and I recently came back to your channel to see how you were doing, keep up the awesome content Austin!

[SoldierSice]

Got my 5th badge atm. Enjoying the game and not rushing anything, got 12 hours of gameplay in right now.

Never played the old games.

[TheGamingBlu]

just been binged watching all the guides for BDSP....thank you for your hard work austin John

[imdeadinside]

If you use a status move on Mesprit then it runs away, encountering it again will keep the status effect, so if you did something like paralysis, you'll have a better chance at getting if with a Quick Ball

[jacobhueser]

Uxie pissed me off so much that after 48 balls I just killed it. Least favorite Pokémon now

[scelestion]

One thing about Mesprit is that it won't change its location when you move through a city gate. So, repeatedly flying to Hearthome City in a loop, you can wait until Mesprit is just outside the Hearthome City gates, and then you can just go there.
By the way, you can save after each interaction with Mesprit, and paralysis and damage taken will carry over to each next encounter.

[LeoLeo-wsyr]

I tried 100% exactly what you did, and I caught Mesprit. I caught it with a quickball after quitting and launching the game for 4 times at the same spot!!!

It was such a pain to chase it tho lol! This definitely helped me saved a couple of hours lol

[ncrypted]

For chasing roaming Pokemon I recommend Gallade or Smeargle. You can breed a Male Ghastly(with Mean Look) and Female Ralts to bread a Male(For Gallade) Ralts with Mean Look.
Ralts by itself can learn Hypnosis to sleep Pokemon and after evolving it to Gallade you can teach it False Swipe. With Mean Look the wild Pokemon cant run and False Swipe and Hypnosis are selfexplanetory. For the 4th Move you can choose for moves like Swords Dance, Thunderwave or a Attacking Move.
Smeargle can use the same Moves with Spore replacing Hypnosis for higher accuracy. BUT you can teach Smeargle the Move Soak to turn the enemy Pokemon Type to Water, that way you can False Swipe Ghost Types like Giratina or Rotom.

[athmosphield]

Hey, I love the enthusiasm in your vids.

If Shiny hunting Mesprit is the same as in the old gen4 games, you need to save before encountering it at the lake, then look for it in grass, and reset to before the cave encounter if it wasn’t Shiny. I dunno if that’s still true, I just noticed you saying something different. Maybe look into it again.

[chickenofdoom]

I laughed when he said “what balls you should be grabbing and what balls you shouldn’t be grabbing”

[diogodimas]

Pro Tip: Bring a Level 50 Absol with False Swipe / Thunder Wave / Swords Dance / Mean Look. Perfect for all Lake Guardians and Creselia.
All Lake Guardians have Extrasensory/Psychic/Imprison with a defining move (Uxie - Amnesia / Mesprit - Charm / Azelf - Nasty Plot).
Creselia can only hit with Slash and has Moonlight, making it more annoying.
With a Level 50 Absol + Repel on the route with the roaming Mesprit / Creselia, use Mean Look first, so that it doesnt run away, then Thunder Wave and start False Swiping. Or Quick Balls (LOL!), technically in 10 encounters with a 10% chance with a Quick Ball, most likely it will be caught.
PS: To shiny hunt either Mesprit or Creselia, its shiny value will be dictated when you first meet it, meaning when it runs away. So better have Autosave Off, since you´re gonna spend some time trying to see if its Shiny or not.

[RoboCobeh]

An extra trick to help catch the roaming legendaries, since the game seems to try its hardest to not move them to the route you're on/near: Fly to Hearthome City, then bike to the border between Solaceon Town and Route 209. Go back and forth until the icon for the Pokemon is on the top part of route 212 while you're on route 209 (being in Solaceon won't work). Now bike from 209 to Hearthome and then to 212. For whatever reason this path doesn't cause the Pokemon to move locations between loads.

[danielsiess]

After 3 and a half hours of trying to quick ball method, I finially got mespirit. I recomend using the several other methods like he mentioned.

[tylerschmidt]

One Pokémon particularly useful for the Lake Guardians is Murkrow. It can’t be touched by any of their attacks. It has Mean Look to trap Mesprit (which it can learn before level 50 such that Repels can still be used). It has Thunder Wave to paralyze them. Finally, it learns Night Shade to lower their HP is consistent chunks.

[pyruvite]

In case you have accidentally killed one of the lake guardians and you forgot to save, you can go back by two saves. On the start screen (screen with the box legendary and "press a" text), you can hold up, b, and x. You can go to an earlier save. This won't automatically override your current save state. It will override when you save again.

[alib]

Austin's best quality is that he doesn't believe anything until he tests it himself 😂 and if he makes a mistake the comments are where he rectifies it. Makes him the best poketuber around

[kurikame]

thanks for this guide! i have a burning need to catch the lake spirits since when i played diamond, as a 7 year old who never played a pokemon game prior, i missed out on one or two of the lake spirits i think? it haunts me to this day when i check the old save. i’m determined now.