How Pokémon moves in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl from Pokémon Home

If you plan to bring Pokémon from other Pokémon games into Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, you'll want to pay attention to how Pokémon movesets function. If you bring a Pokémon over from Pokémon Sword and Shield and have it appear in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, its attack will alter. You won't be able to use every attack, and the process can be confusing. What happens to Pokémon moves in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl when transferred with Pokémon Home is detailed below.

How Pokémon moves in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl from Pokémon Home work

The moves that a Pokémon knows in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl change depending on which Pokémon you transfer over. Though you bring a level 30 Eevee from Pokémon Legends: Arceus or Pokémon Sword and Shield, for example, that Eevee will be treated as if it came from Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. As a result, its moveset will adapt to reflect this, thus everything you'd expect to see on a level 30 Eevee from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will apply to this Eevee, even if it's from a different game with different attacks.

Any Pokémon you bring into these outside games will have their movesets changed. You should keep this in mind if you transfer them to Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. You should send a separate Pokémon to this game to utilize during your playing if the Pokémon knows a unique move you want to maintain.

In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, not every Pokémon you send to Pokémon Home will be available. Many of the Hisuian Pokémon forms you bring from Pokémon Legends: Arceus, for example, will most likely not work because they were not accessible in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and the same is true with any newer Galar Pokémon from Pokémon Sword and Shield.