How to Get Giratina & Shadow Origin Form Battle in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl 

Ah man i wish they just did a Pokemon platinum rather then two separate games. Going to the distortion world was pretty fun

I remember, back in the day before the internet was as big as it was, my brother and I had Diamond and Pearl. We had both sunk hours upon hours in it. He was further then me and I got bored one day and stole his ds and just explored around post game areas I didn't have access to yet. I wandered into the Spring Path and got lost in the cave system that it led me to. For some reason, even though I DESPISED caves as a kid (hated how the wild encounters stopped you every 5 seconds) I kept wandering around it because it was new. It was mysterious. As far as I or ANYONE I talked to back then knew, this cave didn't exist. It wasn't talked about. But it was ENDLESS. Every once and awhile I found a pillar but when I tried turning back I couldn't leave. So I kept going. And eventually I entered a room and I can't remember exactly but I could've sworn the music changed. The atmosphere felt different as if the cave itself had opened up. And there it was. A small sprite that blew my little mind. Because, in this cave that was endless, in this path tucked away by a part of the map no one ever went back to, there was a pokemon absolutely no one, and I mean it, no one knew about. I had been playing pokemon for years. I had friends who had been playing it for years. We had all sunken weeks of our lives into these new games, exploring every inch, catching every creature, finding every item. And yet, there it was. A 6 legged, winged bug-like sprite, slumbering away and waiting to be discovered. It felt like a fever dream almost. I checked the pokedex first, sure that at some point I must have not reached yet there was a clue to what this pokemon was, but there wasn't anything my brother was missing. No data entry yet to be discovered. I saved and reloaded to make sure I didn't somehow mess up his cartridge. When it was still there, I RAN to my brother to show him this brand new pokemon and he was just as astonished. He was two years older then me and in a different grade and NONE of his friends had heard or seen this creature before either. I remember him grilling me for awhile about where the hell I was in the game before I kept bothering him to go up to it and battle it. I was HANGING over his shoulder as he threw out his Lucario (his favorite pokemon) and we quickly figured out that while this thing looked bug-like, it was anything but and: It. Hit. HARD. Needless to say my brother did not stock up for his little sister to go spelunking her way through a cave and right into a boss battle. He slowly weakened the pokemon called Giratina as his team took some heavy damage. When he finally got it into the red he gave the DS to me. He had 3 great balls, 12 pokeballs and 1 premiere ball. It was not looking promising. We couldn't risk going and stocking up on items or pokeballs because I didn't even know how or why I ended up in front of this thing to begin with and knew I couldn't find my way back if I tried. Out of the two of us, I was known for being able to catch any pokemon in any ball. After all, when my brother had spent hours throwing balls at Zapdos in the power plant all the way back in pokemon Blue, I grabbed his Gameboy and threw one single pokeball where all his ultra balls had failed and caught it on my first attempt. Back then that was a true display of great skill, for greater then simple luck that I became known for. I was our only hope. I took a deep breath, knowing that it mattered just how fast I would be able to mash that B button and hold the down direction at the same time. And I started throwing. The ultra ball was no luck, and I was rusty, having walked through a cave all day instead of filling my dex. So of course it couldn't contain this great mystery. Great balls were my favorite ball of all so I saved them, knowing if push came to shove they would pull through for me. I threw out 5 pokeballs, only seeming to practice my technique as Giratina busted each and every one of them only to knock out even more of my brothers team. They were not looking healthy at all and a few more attacks would've ended up in a white out and this pokemon would've been lost to our memories and the disbelief of our classmates. I switched over to the great ball and now it was my brother's turn to lurch over my shoulder, his fingers digging into my arm as I prayed to the pokemon gods that I wouldn't let my brother down. The blue and red ball shook once, twice... 3 times. The legend was caught. I FORCED my brother to immediately trade it into my game so I could get it on my pokedex to prove to my friends this incredible, unbelievable, never before seen or heard of pokemon existed and that I was the one who discovered it! To this day, Giratina is still one of my brothers favorite pokemon and although I am not a legendary fan, that shadow ghost will always hold a special place in my heart because it reminds me that even when absolutely everything seems explored and all the answers are found, there are still mysteries just waiting for us out there. Waiting for a chance to turn into a legendary story and memory. Anyways, I cannot wait to enter this new twist and conquer that monsterous shadow beast to make my younger self proud.

I wish they had done a delta episode style post-game based on giratina and the distortion world, like Cyprus goes again, gets the chain summons giratina etc, it would have made for such a good post game thing!

The secret to successfully catching it is announcing loudly "gabagool".

I think the Level 100 Shadow Origin battle was the coolest thing in these remakes

I love how getting the Manaphy Egg just gives you the Pokédex entry without ever hatching it.

Damn shame the Distortion World wasn't in the game in full but at least we get Giratina's Origin form

I remember getting that preorder bonus giratina figure from GameStop with platinum back in the day- I think that was what Austin mentioned near the end.

One tip for Turnback Cave is actually to NOT go the same direction the whole time. You actually wanna just go to the closest/easiest to get to door to cut down on time. If its all random, there's no reason at all to no just go diagonal to the closer door.

A bit unfortunate there is no platinum distortion world, but it's pretty cool they added the shadow Giratina instead.

Was literally thinking as soon as the Ramanas Park video went up, "Huh, I wonder how you get Shadow Giratina." I think Austin is a mind reader

*AJP has come so far since our BotW days. I’m so proud of you brother. Keep up the phenomenal work!*

I’ve been playing Pokémon since red, yellow, and blue. And man I gotta say your vids help so much with keeping up with all the new features and stuff, thank you for your service my dude!

Small thing, you only need to have cleared the Titans in order to gain access to the Distortion Plate. I caught Giratina first then did the Regis. Now I have access to it and the Distortion Room.

What I love is yeah they used the diamond and pearl battle, but it’s cool they gave a nod to the platinum battle against giratina

Origin Giratina looks so gosh darn cool here, really wish the distortion story was put in as the post game story line to make this encounter complete. Can imagine all the Pokémon and opponents being like level 70 and up to make it more challenging, with Giratina itself being level 100 at the end to give a truly epic final boss feel. And of course the orb that gives it the origin form would be the final prize at the end to top it all off. But oh well, just glad you can get the origin form in the game at least.

Austin you have helped me do so many things in the Pokémon games for the past few years I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart I couldn't done some of the games without you thanks again

“if your team isn’t level 66 then idk if you should be over here, anyways we’re gonna make our way..” lmfao the way you just flew through that made me laugh

Did anyone else find Giratina by random as a kid on the OG D&P? That was an awesome feeling.

9:49 nice “the office” reference “If the gabba is not on the gool. I send it back” iykyk Oh yeah and thanks for the help😅

Ooooh, I love distortion form of Giratina! I'm glad to know that fighting this version unlocks it.

I’m not sure if this is in the pipeline already, but I would be very interested in a quick exp video! I know that you normally make those for new Pokémon games, so I am assuming that you will cover that topic at some point (no rush btw, you’ve already put so much work into this research and these videos), but I just wanted to put it out there that I would find one to be very useful! :D

this is a really fun event :D i didnt play the og game, so its gunna be fun to see it for the first time :D thanks for all the great coverage !

I used this method and got all three pillars in 9 rooms so thanks for this guide it was super helpful

I got really lucky on the pillars area didn't know it was random and just ran around. Was finished in less than 10 rooms

austin man, your an amazing youtuber bro, like your whole channel is incredible and you take time to help the rest of the community get help on everything. you probably get it alot but your great for making these vids man keep it up!!!

Don’t have the game but still loving these videos, they are making me want to get the games so bad haha I love Austin John I live on his videos man idk how I would get through the games without his help lol

For the giratina encounter, just run up left up left a bunch of times and you will get it eventually

I made a Weavile made specifically for hunting ghosts. The move set was: foresight, false swipe, dark pulse, and ice beam.

In the turn back cave, use the rock formations as guidance. Go through the doors that: Have the arrow formations pointing towards them. That are not blocked off by rock formations. Go through the doors with the diagonal rock formations in front of them. I've managed to get this done in 4 rooms using this.

I have a Giratina statue, my uncle works for Pokémon and gave me a special copy of the game with it already in my secret base. My girlfriend would confirm this but she goes to a different school.

I was one of those that Bought the PLATINUM GUIDE. That one does tell you… you have to make it before 15 tries or the items get lowered and it did tell you the pattern. The guide, I hope, is still at my parents. I have kids now but I remember platinum was favorite. The ash pickachu poke center Easter egg was amazing to me but you had to mate ash pikachu with a lvl 100. That was not in the guide had to find out myself. Basically nurse joy didn’t want to heal my pichu.

The rooms are random, there's 0 reason to go in a single direction, go through whatever door is fastest to get to.

I encountered giratina 2 days ago. Wasn’t planning on shiny hunting it but it was shiny on that very 1st encounter. I used my master ball and save just after that in case the game crashes. Now he’s saved in my PC.

By the way Austin when the 1.18 minecraft caves and cliffs update drops will you be making a series playing it? It would be really cool, I really enjoyed the one you made around a year ago

Giratina Statue is more than likely this generations Azure Flute. As much as I don't want that to be the case.

Amazing video, thank you for the details. I was a little afraid after finding out shadow Giratina was Lv100 before battling, but it worked out.

Ever since I was 6 I’ve always just went forward in the Turnback Cave, you really don’t need any strategy for it, just keep going up and eventually Giratina will be there.

Are the statues that spawn in the caves the same as the ones they give you for the secret base? If thats the case then I feel that they probably programmed it the same way as the other single room encounters, likely even copy/pasting the skeleton. It’s probably set up as clear room -> place statue/items. This brings up some questions: What happens if you KO the Pokémon instead of capturing it? Are the rooms programmed to be cleared if you beat the Pokémon wether or not it’s added to your box? What about if you release the Pokémon before talking to the guy? Is he programmed to check if you have it when you pass him? Is the guy programmed to give us the statue after capturing the Pokémon in the room and they forgot to put in an exception since it can’t be caught?

Therapist: Arm body Austin not real, it cant hurt you. Arm body Austin: 7:49

Can't wait for all the Legends Arceus content to come. I started supporting the channel when you were releasing Breath of The Wild content. This gives me all those returning vibes. Thanks for all the info on the games I love (Pokemon & Zelda) Here's to hoping a great 2022 full of Amazing new content!

Keep it up man I've watched your content since sword and shield but I finally made myself to subscribe you've always got the best content for the games

In summary:*Insert overused "I am a shadow, the true self!" line from Persona 4 here*

Just to help u have to unlock post game

I hunted Giratina while I watched this. I essentially kept going forward and after 9 rooms I found my first pillar decided to stick with going right. Lo and behold I found the second and third pillar in the next 2 rooms I went in after the first. Just one after another.

4 and 9 wow that was quick luck for me 😅

Here's me getting to Giratina on my very first try by NOT following Austin John's advice! 😂 I literally thought I would give it only one try before trying using his method and it worked!

Let me just take a minute to thank you for all these helpful videos for BDSP. I was so lost in the beginning and I would have missed out on so much additional content without all your work. You are a hero to all of us who are adulting in the day and exhausted at night but still make time for Pokémon.

13:43 Hm, no pinned comment about a Giratina Statue as of just yet, so I bet it's still not out.

Your videos have been incredibly helpful going through BD/SP. Keep up the awesome work! And thanks for your help!

I had the toy statue as a kid. My mom's friend bought it from someone to have it shipped for my birthday. I'm not sure where it is now, but I used to carry it with me to school.

First

I got to Giratina by accident. I'm a new player so I didn't know this was how to get to it but I kept getting lost in the cave until I somehow ran into them and was so shocked. Took me about 200 balls to get em but I didn't give up😭

Tipp for the Shadow Garantina, if you have a dialga lvl 70 with Roar of time, it's 2 shot

13:25 maybe its in the data as a little easter egg for people who know about the pre-order

I wonder if the item ID for the Giratina statue is just a model ID for the upside down statue that appears in the distortion room

13:45 The most *simple* yet the *best* explanation for unreleased Pokemon events ever made!

Gonna let you know that I am so appreciative that you aren't trying to gimmick me into subbing. Been subbed since SwSh but seeing the genuine appreciation and explanation of analytics is a far better way than most RU-vidrs go about it. Keep up the good work. Seeing both your personal and channel growth in this short time has been enjoyable. I look forward to your informative content during the Arceus release.

IIRC, in the OG games riding the bike increased the chances of entering a pillar room. No clue if it's the same in these games.

9:46 When I try to read the doctor's signature

So I found pillar 1 within 2 rooms then found pillar 2 within 4 rooms and pillar 3 within 6 rooms so it took me a total of 6 rooms to find Giratina. Interesting fact is I was finding a pillar every other room

I just did this and found it within the first three rooms, I just went right the whole time. This was my first time doing it too.

Junichi Masuda found a poetic way of saying that Platinum is the "shadow" of his games (Diamond and Pearl), putting the only DS cartridge/slate in a place meant to homage the past and capture the legendaries from Gens 1-3, in a remake meant to be the definitive version of the Sinnoh games that barely includes content from the third version (just the alternate form events, with the scripts copypasted straight from Platinum as Charon's notebook is still in Rotom's room; the reworked PC backgrounds and the Contest music). He is like Shigeru Miyamoto: a genius often and a genuine dumbass who don't want to acknowledge the contributions made by his coworkers sometimes.

I have a question for you Austin name one pokemon out of all of them in the world to get a hisui form my pick is lucario line

I remember when I first did this in pearl way back when. Giratina was my first legendary ever to be caught with a PokeBall. Dam thing took me 3 days to do it

Am I the only one that tripped out when Austin had a recording of his head over the livestream recording lol

It took me 3 mins to encounter him using your method just going right ! Sheesh super fast but took a lot longer to catch him bro did not want to go inside

I found out today about the spinda issue transferring to bdsp. I’m extremely annoyed I’m literally 4 or 5 Pokémon from every gens dex being done for home all I needed then was to do the research ones. Trust one (not rare legendary) to throw a spanner in the works. Nintendo need to do something with that Pokémon

I just did this and it allowed me to get Giratina without any issues. Each room right after was a pillar that led me to get to it

I got the shadow origin without knowing, I got the slate for it thinking I was gonna catch just another legendary pokemon. I finally found the room and activated the slate but then I realised that the shadow form was LEVEL 100. I freaked out. I sent out my level 80 arceus and somehow easily beat it. Arceus truly is the strongest pokemon.

As soon as I heard you say just go in one direction I found all the pillars in just 4 rooms lol.

In the previous video, I commented where giratina? And boom Austin makes a video about it

I usually don't try to fully get my hand around the after-game in Pokémon games. I was just biking around to hatch my eggs, I've seen this passage I've never seen before , so I got in, having NO CLUE what it was or where it led. Got lost in this maze, never expected to find Giratina down there. Later on, back to the Park, I find another Giratina (I've been silly to think i could catch it again 😅) This is the lost Pokémon magic

Giratina statue will be like gmax melmetal, it’ll release 2 years after the game release.

Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think you can use escape rope in here as I tried to use escape rope after catching Giratina but it was a few days ago so I could remember it wrong:)

Ngl kinda disappointed theres no distortion world like Pokémon platinum NDS, was rly looking forward to that remake

@austinjohn if you don't have the national Dex the springy path doesn't exist! If you go to the opening before . The route doesn't actually exist. Then when you go back it just magically changes!

I don’t know how but I went back and forth through the “same” doors after getting lost and after entering and exiting it brought me straight to Giratina

I wonder if Dialga and Palkia have origin forms as well. Their designs look similar to Giratina's after it is summoned into the world so maybe Dialga and Palkia have more majestic forms as well.

I think that giratina statue is for the statue that appears in the room after defeating shadow giratina,

Anyone else notice his camera splits in two at 7:44?

When I first found the Spring Path I didn't realize it was the Giratina spot until I saw the ominous cave entrance in the middle of the lake.

Manage to find the pillars in 6 rooms and quick ball the Giratina in the first round… yup 👍🏼 this was quite successful

The rocks are the key, it works literally the same as plat, if there is no unsymmetrical rocks, none of the doors will lead to a pillar, so just don’t go through the one you came in from. Then any irregular rock patterns nexts to doors, will lead to a pillar room.

yall better subscribe..this man hasn't slept since the 19th

The original diamond and pearl game had fixed paths for this cave and you could find it in its guide book. Fun and interesting stuff.

All I had to do to get the Girantina room was go straight the whole time. Went though 4-5 rooms maybe in total.

Its called turn back cave for a reason. You just turn back to the southern exit every time. Took me like 4 doors.

Here's a little something I discovered a couple of days after the games were released. The Shadow Giratina has a chance of appearing as a shiny of course the only difference is the shiny sparkles

The origin forme giratina figurine was a also a pre-order bonus in the US. I had one. Unfortunately it was broken because of my younger siblings. Oh well.

why does he have a different cover art for shining pearl?

For anyone struggling on the shadow giratina fight: you can cheese it with destiny bond!

Failed my first few times. Then as luck would have it, after 11 rooms I stumble across all 3 pillars back to back as I kept going straight. XD

ive watched all these videos and the ones for scarlet since Christmas and caught every legend thanks to you . cheers sir @Austin John Plays

So I just followed your guide, I got to Giratina in 4, so my strategy was following what the old game says, for example if the rocks are the same on the adjacent side you came through then you continue ahead, if they’re different you go through the adjacent doorway, and vice versa

In the original games there were numbers on the pillars which served as clues for the player to navigate the cave.

In turnback cave I usually just go straight forward

Tip: An easy way to beat Shadow Giratina is to use perish song.

It’s funny cause you can get a shiny shadow giratina, it doesn’t look any different and it isn’t catchable but it’s funny to see it sparkle in the beginning of the battle

Lmao. I actually did get a Giratina Statue when I pre-ordered the original Platinum. The box is gone/destroyed, but it's still in the sealed bag.