How to Beat Gardenia in a Rematch Battle

Rematch Gardenia, the Eterna City Gym Leader, in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (BDSP). Read on to find out how to rematch and beat Gardenia, Gardenia's rematch team, her rematch rewards, and the best Pokemon to beat her rematch team.

How to Rematch Gym Leader Gardenia

Get the National Dex

To rematch Gardenia and all the other Gym Leaders, you first need to get the National Dex after becoming champion by seeing all the Pokemon native to the Sinnoh Pokedex. After exiting the lab, Roark will pop up to tell you about the rematches.

How to Unlock the National Dex

Head to the Eterna City Gym

After getting the National Dex, you can head straight to the Eterna City Gym and talk to Gardenia to immediately start the rematch battle.

Gardenia's Rematch Team and Types

Type and Suggested Level

Type Specialty
Suggested Level	Lv. 70 ~ Lv. 75

Gardenia's Rematch Pokemon

Pokemon	Type	Ability / Item	Moves
Jumpluff (Lvl. 66)		Chlorophyll Heat Rock	・Giga Drain ・Sleep Powder ・Leech Seed ・Sunny Day
Sunflora (Lvl. 70)		Solar Power Choice Scarf	・Solar Beam
Cherrim (Lvl. 69)		Flower Gift Focus Sash	・Petal Blizzard ・Solar Beam ・Growth ・Sunny Day
Breloom (Lvl. 68)		Poison Heal Toxic Orb	・Focus Punch ・Leech Seed ・Substitute ・Spore
Torterra (Lvl. 68)		Overgrow Life Orb	・Wood Hammer ・Earthquake ・Stone Edge ・Iron Tail
Roserade (Lvl. 72)		Natural Cure Power Herb	・Solar Beam ・Sludge Bomb ・Grassy Terrain ・Sunny Day

Gardenia's Rematch Reward

How to Beat Gardenia's Rematch Team

Take Advantage of Sunny Day

Most of the Pokemon in Gardenia's team will have the move Sunny Day to set up the field for single turn Solar Beams. You can also take advantage of this as well by using Sunny Day to power-up your Fire type moves. You could even bring a Pokemon with the Solar Power ability to further increase your damage.

Watch Out for Stone Edge and Earthquake

After sending out a Fire or Flying Type to deal with Gardenia's Pokemon, she will likely bring out Torterra as a good counter with both Stone Edge and Earthquake. Fortunately, Torterra is rather slow, so you can take it out in a single turn with a powered-up Fire type move.

Inflict a Status Condition on Breloom

Breloom holds a Toxic Orb and has the ability Posion Heal, which will let it regain some of its health after every turn. Its moveset could also stall your Pokemon with repeated substitutes until you run out of health with Leech Seed.

To prevent this, you can inflict a status condition on Breloom such a paralysis or burn on the first turn. This will disable the Toxic Orb and prevent Breloom from regaining extra health.

Cherrim Holds a Focus Sash

Gardenia's Cherrim will be holding a Focus Sash during the battle, so it cannot be taken down in a singe hit. Chip at its health with a weaker move before taking it out with a strong Fire or Flying type attack.

Roserade Can Use Its Power Herb

Even when you get rid of the sunny weather, Roserade will still be able to unleash one single turn Solar Beam with the Power Herb. Roserade also has the move Grassy Terrain which will increase the power of Solar Beam. Bring out a Pokemon that can surely take the hit.

Best Pokemon to Beat Gardenia's Rematch Team

Pokemon	Recommended Moves
Charizard	・Flamethrower (Lv. 30) ・Air Slash (On Evolution) ・Will-O-Wisp (TM61) ・Has Solar Power as its Hidden Ability. ・Breloom is 4x weak to Flying. ・Will-O-Wisp can disable Toxic Orb.
Heat Rotom	・Overheat (After taking Heat Rotom form) ・Nasty Plot (TM63) ・Thunder Wave (Lv. 25) ・Immune to Earthquake due to Levitate. ・Nasty Plot allows Rotom to regain Special Attack. ・Thunder Wave can disable Toxic Orb.
Staraptor	・Aerial Ace (Lv. 28) ・Close Combat (On Evolution) ・Brave Bird (Lv. 49) ・Breloom is 4x weak to Flying. ・You can inflict high amounts of damage with Brave Bird. ・Intimidate lowers the Attack stat of Pokemon.

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