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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl include a feature that allows your Pokemon to follow you in the overworld. This feature for a Pokemon to walk beside you isn't automatically unlocked, however. Here's how to get a Pokemon to follow you in Pokemon BDSP

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How to Make Pokemon Follow You in BDSP

Although Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl don't immediately allow a Pokemon to walk behind you like in Heart Gold and Soul Silver, you can unlock the feature a lot earlier than in Pokemon Sword and Shield, where the feature is locked behind DLC. It's also quite easy to unlock the ability to let a Pokemon walk behind you!

1. First, make it to Hearthome City, home of the third gym leader.
2. Then, head into Amity Square
3. Visiting and playing with Pokemon at Amity Square unlocks the ability to choose one Pokemon at a time to follow you as long as you're outside of caves or buildings.
4. Add the Pokemon you want to walk with to your party.
5. Then, open the Pokemon menu and choose "Walk Together"

Interacting With Pokemon

As your Pokemon follows you, you can interact with it by pressing A while facing it. Sometimes, it will have found a berry and will give it to you.

Items Following Pokemon Pick Up

Pokemon can pick up berries depending on its Nature. This is quite rare though - so don't rely on this method to collect them. See the list below for the berries Pokemon can pick up.

List of Berries

• Figy Berry
• Iapapa Berry
• Tamato Berry
• Yache Berry
• Chople Berry
• Payapa Berry
• Tanga Berry
• Colbur Berry
• Babiri Berry
• Salac Berry
• Lansat Berry
• Micle Berry
• Mago Berry
• Aguav Berry
• Occa Berry
• Wacan Berry
• Rindo Berry
• Shuca Berry
• Coba Berry
• Kasib Berry
• Haban Berry
• Petaya Berry
• Starf Berry
• Custap Berry
• Wiki Berry
• Pomeg Berry
• Kelpsy Berry
• Qualot Berry
• Hondew Berry
• Grepa Berry
• Passho Berry
• Kebia Berry
• Charti Berry
• Chilan Berry
• Apicot Berry
• Enigma Berry
• Jaboca Berry

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