Slather a Honey Tree with Honey in order to catch rare Pokemon! Read on to learn all 21 Honey Tree locations and the best route to interact with them all, as well as a guide on what does Honey do, what Pokemon you can get from Honey, and how to get Honey in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (BDSP).

All Honey Tree Locations

If you're hunting for Honey Tree Pokemon, it's best to slather all 21 Honey Trees in one go. Below is a list of all Honey Tree locations grouped by locations you can fast travel to via the Fly HM and sorted in the recommended order you should slather and interact with them every 6 hours.

Fly to Floaroma Town

Fly to Oreburgh City

Fly to Hearthome City

Fly to Pastoria City

Fly to Various Landmarks

All Honey Tree Pokemon

When slathering Honey on a tree, the game will choose between 2 groups of different encounter rates. Group 1 is more commonly chosen and Silcoon or Cascoon (depending on your version) only appear in this group. Group 2 is more rare but Heracross only appears in this group.

Slathering the same tree without slathering a different Honey Tree since will lead the game to choose the same group that you last encountered at the tree. Use this to help you encounter Heracross in the rare Group 2 more frequently.

Group 1 (Common)

Pokemon	Type	Encounter Rate
Wurmple		Very common
Silcoon		Common
Cascoon		Common
Combee		Common
Burmy (Plant Cloak)		Common
Cherubi		Rare
Aipom		Rare

Group 2 (Rare)

Pokemon	Type	Encounter Rate
Combee		Very common
Burmy (Plant Cloak)		Common
Cherubi		Common
Aipom		Common
Wurmple		Rare
Heracross		Rare

Munchlax Group

At the start of a new save file, 4 out of the 21 Honey Trees are immediately chosen to be Munchlax Trees. There's nothing to indicate which of the 21 are the Munchlax Trees, other than that Munchlax can be commonly encountered at those trees.

Pokemon	Type	Encounter Rate
Munchlax		Common

How to Get Honey

Purchase at Floaroma Meadow

The most efficient way for repeatedly getting Honey is by purchasing it from it the man at the entrance of Floaroma Meadow. Each Honey is worth 100 each, but you can also purchase 10 jars of Honey which will cost 1,000.

There are a total of 21 Honey Trees in the game, so buying two bundles of 10 plus an extra honey a day will allow you to slather all the Honey Trees in Sinnoh!

Honey Gather Ability

Combee's ability is Honey Gather, which allows it to randomly obtain Honey after battle, if it's not holding an item. This is another way to obtain Honey repeatedly and it's free.

How to Use Honey

Slather Golden Trees

Press A when facing the gold-colored Honey Trees and the game will tell you "There is a sweet scent in the air..." If you have Honey in your inventory, you will then be prompted to slather Honey on the tree.

Check the Map for Honey Tree Status

Open the Town Map via the Menu, then press + to bring up Locations Info, which will show all Honey Trees you've encountered.

Press L and R to scroll between showing trees that have not been slathered with Honey (colored white), trees that have been slathered (colored gold), and Honey Trees that have Pokemon in them (with shiny sparkles).

You can use this map to check if you've missed any trees on your Honey slathering route listed above.

Return After 6 Hours

After a minimum of 6 hours has passed in real-time, return to the Honey Tree and it may be rustling, indicating a Pokemon's in the tree. Press A when facing the Honey Tree and you will trigger a battle with the Pokemon in the tree, for a chance at capturing it.

If 6 hours have passed and the Honey Tree isn't rustling, then the Honey has failed and you will need to slather the tree with Honey again and wait another 6 hours.

Pokemon leave tree after 24 hours

If 24 hours have passed since you slathered the tree with Honey and you have not returned to the tree to battle the Pokemon, then the Pokemon will leave and you will need to slather the tree with Honey again and wait another 6 hours.

Use to Catch Rare Pokemon

Some of the Pokemon encountered via Honey Trees can only be encountered through this method. Given that the encounter rate for each Honey Tree Pokemon is not 100%, it may be tedious to wait 6 hours for a Pokemon that isn't guaranteed to appear.

However, with the game's 21 total Honey Trees that you can likely slather 2-3 times a day, that's up to 63 Pokemon you can encounter daily. If you consistently slather all trees 3 times a day, you significantly increase the likelihood of encountering the Pokemon you want within the first week of Honey Pokemon hunting.

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