Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gym Leader Battle Music (HQ)

[@Pokeli]

They did a great job on this one, the nostalgia is strong with this one!

[@joaov.3275]

I really love it! One of the best remixes, in my opnion. And sorry for any problem in my comment. This brazillian it's still learning a lot of english 😅

[@kiritsu551]

Tbh i feel like this about all of the OSTs

[@freedom-exe]

Like this man

[@MundoCesserland2023]

pokemon forever bro

[@DHC189]

420 likes nice!

[@Gemini_Blessed_Boy]

I love how lively they made Fantina!! Her dancing and gestures on battle are really nice touches

[@leonardofarias8843]

Skip to 2:55

[@Spring_312]

Her battle movements said: ↙️↘️↖️↗️↩️↪️↕️⤴️🔃🔄🔁

[@DarthSnake058]

Gardenia’s clapping was adorable when you beat her

[@zephdo2971]

Alluring Soulful Dancer

[@Legxendcruxh100]

@@DarthSnake058 She wasn't angry or Dissappointed at all, instead she was Happy for us, such an underrated Gym Leader with a Good Taste of Clothe Style

[@KesslerVTuber]

Love how they gave the gym leaders experessive animations when they call an attack. Gives them personality and who they actually are.

[@remigiusznowak7277]

How about volkner? He looked depressed. How they made his animations here?

[@KesslerVTuber]

@@remigiusznowak7277 volkner always looked miserable even on the show

[@remigiusznowak7277]

@@KesslerVTuber ik, but i mean you said that they made expresive animations for gym leaders and Volkner is depressed. So i was wondering what his animations would look like and how he will express his depression

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

Like the pokeball trowing animations in SwSh

[@andred.3687]

@@remigiusznowak7277 He’ll probably look disinterested in battling you when you see him. The game DID say he felt down about not having a good challenge in a while, if that answers your question?

[@alacritical7873]

this is a great rendition of the original theme. I love how strong and pounding the drums are in this

[@thatdarnskag5043]

My personal word for describing the gen4 gym and elite 4 themes is "unrelenting". I'm glad they kept that feel for these updates.

[@fortnitesexman]

they royally fucked them up the main theme is muffled and weak and the drums are too loud as a result overshadowing the theme itself so describing them as unrelenting is accurate, it's unrelenting garbage

[@thevenom2731]

@@fortnitesexman wrong

[@Free2_express08]

That was always the best part of the Sinnoh Gym theme for me.

[@krizos5305]

​@@thatdarnskag5043 I played the old version gym music, then I updated for the rematch with now it has the remake ost and yeah it feels so strong as if the remake was an exclusive ost for the rematch

[@rafaelitodc2158]

Volkner in the rematch: *sents out Pelipper* Me: so, you're that kind of trainer

[@jotaro4734]

Does drizzle ability also power ups the electric attacks?

[@PeekatChu.]

@@jotaro4734 well... it helps the move Thunder hit alot better

[@jotaro4734]

@@PeekatChu. I see....

[@jacobkern2060]

@@jotaro4734 Thunder gets 100% accuracy in the rain.

[@HaxeRain]

@@PeekatChu. thunder and hurricane get 100% accuracy on rain, so yeah, its quite the set up, also considering that one would usually use ground types versus him, even leading with one, its such a outa the bat move

[@StrawberrySkyAct1]

The violins and instrument choices sound very similar to what the anime did way back when Diamond and Pearl was first airing. A fantastic callback!

[@theramendutchman]

Dang, I didn't know it went that deep!

[@kanohu8983]

Oh you mean the version that played in the Darkrai movie?? I remembered ripping that off KZbin back in the day and jamming out to that shit mowing the lawn in high school lol

[@senafd5077]

00:18 ah yes, the badge clanging sound

[@MariOmor1]

Like in the BW2 version

[@VeiledArctic]

Now that you mention it, yea it does sound like that.

[@luuanh1852]

Everyone

[@moonwalker9626]

I'm so glad they made Byron have a "hi hungry I'm dad" personality with his animations.

[@smellymewi]

Maylene nearly swept my whole team with her Lucario. Like damn, that is like the first time I was put in that position for a long time. Thank god for my Roselia who came in clutch with Extrasensory

[@gengarzilla1685]

I already had a Croagunk with Substitute and Focus Punch while battling her Lucario. That was fun.

[@dragmaapatre2348]

Laughs in monferno and other type coverage

[@nickrohrbacher8200]

Fire monke one shot

[@HipHop-gp3rs]

@@nickrohrbacher8200 Mach punch

[@Bangbanggooberblat69]

Torterra: *laughs*

[@imusama1876]

1:07 gardenia battle entrance pose 🔥

[@LeHarukii]

I love this Nostalgia hits me

[@bigboiharambe6299]

I love how they made a really good soundtrack and made it sound modern without making it worse

[@pratikgaikwad7472]

To be honest this version is bad when compared to the movie version.

[@YashMaj1248]

@@pratikgaikwad7472 ofc it’s going to sound worse, the movie soundtrack were performed live.

[@JoaoAlves-ms9hw]

When I'm playing the game, I turn up the volume everytime that I'm battling with the gym leader. Powerful music, better than the original.

[@Doopyhpp]

@Merciless Freak just stop bro

[@user-od6ue9zv9u]

@Merciless Freak IT'S HIS OPINION!

[@evlyevii]

Overall this track surpasses the original but the only complaint I have about it is the sheer lack of prominent bass it has. The original has such a catchy bassline but in this version the bass is virtually non-existent. Still a wonderful improvement on the original track though

[@evlyevii]

@Merciless Freak k don't care tbh

[@pyrux9506]

@Merciless Freak no its you what drug are you on

[@victory4454]

10 seconds in and im already loving this theme

[@pratikgaikwad7472]

Rise of darkrai movie did it a lot better

[@RobertoX98]

I admit Roark’s Cranidos learning Bulldoze caught me off guard a bit.

[@lyonvensa]

When they can turn one of my least favorite gym leader music into something I enjoy, it's a sign that they do something right. Also, it's unbelievable how the gym leaders got so much personality just because they got new throwing, commanding, and losing animations for them. Gardenia is irresistible for me now.

[@selfefan1]

nobody is immune to tomboy propaganda

[@leonardofarias8843]

@@selfefan1 Gardenia is a tomboy now?

[@JoeBo24]

Yeah I never cared for Wake but I just beat him the other day and he’s grown on me now.

[@dragmaapatre2348]

The sinnoh disinterest is strong in this comment let me guess g2 or g3 fan ?

[@lyonvensa]

@@dragmaapatre2348 As a matter of fact, G4 is one of the first "real" pokemon game I played (Platinum), so G4 still holds a really special place inside me.

[@hawkes5296]

The dppt gym leader battle theme is one of my favourite themes of all time and i was so scared that with this remake they'd butcher it. But it pleasantly surprised me actually- it's still as intense as i can remember!

[@Legxendcruxh100]

Say what you want, this Gym Theme is such a Vibe.

[@pratikgaikwad7472]

Especially the movie one

[@anthonythomas624]

To anyone that sees this, I just bought the game Saturday and I did not have a problem with the first two gyms. Then came Maylene and that lucario😓

[@Lunaris27]

Dude same! I just beat Maylene, but she gave me the most trouble due to her Lucario. I almost lost but thanks to Manaphy, I manage to beat her.. Barely.

[@wiirareusb8456]

@Lunaris27 Well facing her Lucario was surprisely easy when I have Torterra using Earthquake and took out Lucario in one shot.

[@Biospark88]

@@wiirareusb8456 I had the same, but I didn't need that. I brought my Staraptor and it was...I can only describe it as a slaughter once I broke out the close combat.

[@EKURAIN]

I didn’t have problems with her since my monferno outspeds it, i have problems with the water gym tho

[@MariOmor1]

I already had problems with the first gym because I was using chimchar lol

[@SSRDawn]

The silent bass on behind is just awesome

[@shadowrylander]

Man, does this bring back memories...

[@Light-yl8oc]

Is anyone gonna talk about that bass?, DAYUMM I love this theme

[@whitee123]

I just can‘t get this theme out of my head…

[@PurplestCatalyst64]

This is one of the gym themes that strikes a fine balance between a battle with a great cause, while not being balls to the walls with the instruments and just tossing hundreds around every beat

[@_leon227_]

Omg this music is so intense thats hurts in my ears 😳 the sinnoh Region is back omg

[@valk5041]

This is a banger 😳

[@hie4771]

@Merciless Freak cry

[@beerguy177]

i used to take it easy on the gym leaders so i could listen to this gem for longer

[@CenturionAqua]

Rightt or be “afk”😂

[@bugno9969]

I wish it was more like the B2W2 one but this is more faithful

[@MariOmor1]

The intro sounds like it

[@AzumarillConGafasBv]

I like more this one, BW2 is an electronic one and this one tries to resemble the epicness of the original

[@pedromonteiro2248]

BW2 is too eletrônico gay club... this one is wasaaaaaayyy better! Actually, BW2 ruined most of old themes...

[@MariOmor1]

@@pedromonteiro2248 did it?

[@pedromonteiro2248]

@@MariOmor1 Or course it did!

[@magolor152]

It sounds threatening and intense... I like it

[@juicecubyt9251]

Pokeli please do a mashup with the original. They compliment each other so well

[@alexie832]

Nostalgic memories updated!

[@_Ange]

Its honestly so good. 😁

[@franek9875]

Now that Legends is out it just hits different

[@imperialwyvern]

Volker doesn't look sad for once. 😀

[@Coolmusicplaylist]

Really good job on this.

[@ragingcatinferno8818]

Say what you want about bdsp, but you have to admit this is pretty good

[@yourlocalyanfei]

B2W2: Look at what they need to match a fraction of our power

[@nickrussell8279]

Ah, I remember having trouble distinguishing the original version with it's elite 4 counterpart. But here, it's much clearer.

[@jaredcook4414]

Roark: “Uh, other Gym Leaders. Heads-up: I just got beaten by a challenger, and he’s coming for you guys next.” Crasher Wake: “What’s so bad about tha-…” Roark: “He’s got a Monferno and a Luxio. And I’m pretty sure I heard him say he was gonna catch a Gible the first chance he got.” Crasher Wake. “…Um, does that mean…?” Volkner: “Yes, it does. We’re all royally f*cked.”

[@magolor152]

Cynthia: "he might be a worthy opponent, or he might be more prey... so we shall see..." *Her garchomp's eyes glow brightly from the shadows*

[@RyanYeehaw]

@@magolor152 a simple Ice Beam and her Garchomp is reduced to ashes

[@wikiuser92]

@@RyanYeehaw Garchomp's held Yache Berry disagrees.

[@TylerChou059]

@@wikiuser92 Gardevoir with Choice Specs boosted Moonblast: NO!!!!

[@zackrack8942]

@@TylerChou059 but will it outspeed garchomp though 🤔

[@LoLBlazeraid]

absolute slapper, love it

[@Magiklor]

i love the startup always to this song no matter what version

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

"We have Electivire and Jolteon in the game right?" "Yep." "And those were on his Platinum Team." "Yep." "So if both are in the game, then we should appease the fans and make his team the one from Platinum." "That makes sense to me." "Then add them." "LeTs AdD aMbIpOm AnD oCtIlLeRy DuR hUr HuR!"

[@ksoundkaiju9256]

I think the team volkner uses in his first gym battle is the team he used before he specialized in electric types Same for flint

[@MariOmor1]

His rematch uses the Platinum team

[@tenacious_takakumi2680]

Glad to see the 4:th Hokage in HD graphics

[@sewell1992]

Who's here after listening to this in legends arceus ?

[@JoseAlberto-dh8pf]

Congrats on that shiny Quaqsire

[@kono9460]

one of my fav gym leader osts

[@nickcheahwilde6885]

Drum-de-drum-drum in this theme (Geronimo Stilton and the kingdom of fantasy vibes)

[@omegamike466]

I think this is definitely a better version or remake of this theme than the original. The original felt pain but with this one it feels like there’s more to it. More sounds, instruments, it’s louder in it feels exciting.

[@pratikgaikwad7472]

Have you heard the movie version. The movie one is alot better.

[@brucewayne2956]

A epic song for an easy battle.

[@i-work-at-enron]

Game Freak may miss on a lot of their games today, but they NEVER miss with the music.

[@TheHelios767]

I love how they makes this game so nostalgic

[@patrickjosephgamboa187]

Me when facing Wake: Okay Torterra this is gonna be an easy one! Wake: Ice Fang go brrrrr

[@poketron592]

this is intense man

[@mehmetdogukoc8887]

This is epic

[@jimphoenix494]

Wow, the soundtrack is so nice, if only they gave this treatment to literally everything else in the game

[@tuxedotoad4160]

If only the battles lasted this long.

[@mattmiller1404]

To me Sinnoh was the last region to have its gym theme feel like a moment of truth. Even for the earlier gyms. Also, 2:30 gonna tell my kids this was Naruto

[@XKidRiotX]

That's a super solid way of putting it! Moment of truth, I could never put it into words! I agree, gyms should feel intense, not necessarily intimidating but the music should make you feel like you're being tested. Because you are.

[@mattmiller1404]

@@XKidRiotX exactly! I’m not saying it should sound like you’re about to partake in a savage mauling but even with a level 13 chimchar, I want to feel like this gym battle is more important than a regular battle. After all you do need that badge to challenge the elite four, so the music should match the significance

[@loucar10]

What about unova?

[@syazlinomar5531]

Love it

[@snowtom3566]

I dont know if Black2 and white2 have better vocals because there is always a part that is like very fast and sounds different than the other parts of the music

[@Tava]

This is the best theme in the game by far. Soundtrack actually kills or/as

[@heymikkao]

Legends Arceus warden theme destroyed this lol

[@phantoniam]

Both are great

[@pratikgaikwad7472]

What about the movie version though?

[@fyro_j8961]

Nah Wardens theme is underwhelming compared to this one

[@chuckled125]

I listen to both, they do different things for me

[@Kivamusicchannel]

I greatly prefer this one over Legends Arceus version.

[@grandmasteryoda6717]

Say what you want about these games, the soundtrack was really good.

[@blastchaos4286]

I can just imagine someone throwing their shoulders out hitting these drums

[@STALKER777LK]

DAMN As good as the Og

[@GBA-049]

Kicks ass like always

[@PeekatChu.]

Honestly wished Gym Leaders had some buff compared to regular trainers. Cause you can demolish them without much effort >.>

[@MariOmor1]

The original ones were pretty easy but here in BDSP they got a little smarter

[@qrockrocks326]

Agreed

[@wikiuser92]

Plus many of them have really good held items.

[@wikiuser92]

@Wiley Midura Say that to their held items and rematch teams.

[@SomeGuy-cf2lp]

They even buffed their movesets. Roarks Cranidos has Bulldoze

[@freedom-exe]

This is really op

[@KaizoKitsune625]

I remember my Monferno challenging Maylene and after spamming Power Up Punch, I went for Mach Punch on her Lucario, like One Punch!

[@duck_man1048]

Man, BDSP wasn't *that* bad... I'm thinkin of replaying it

[@dnd2432]

hey april fools was 4 days ago

[@duck_man1048]

@@dnd2432 LMFAO

[@lubbo5261]

I mean the game itself is 1 to 1 like Diamond and Pearl, it just could have been much more.

[@ascendedcat260]

I'm a simple man. I hear a glockenspiel, I like.

[@tammytheranger7645]

Alright. Who at ILCA's idea was to give Volkner a Drizzle, Damp Rock, Hurricane Pelipper at his rematch?!

[@nicoheroesdx]

Well... I wonder... how strong are the trainers in the rematch... *-Gym Leader Roark sends out Tyranitar!*

[@nishant9289]

Bro Wake's rematch is harder than all of the scarlet and violet and black 2/white 2 battles (excluding subway and PWT)

[@MOVED_acc.144]

-*GYM LEADER ROARK SENT OUT ARCEUS*

[@Shari362]

​@@nishant9289Unless you have something specific to counter Wake or are super overleveled that battle is nearly impossible to win

[@nishant9289]

@@Shari362 FSG made a video too. He mentioned that Wake was using a strategy that from BDSP standards was too overpowered for OU and was banned on day two/three.

[@roygeritz6798]

The trumpets ❤

[@bluestrike1259]

SO MANY UPLOADS

[@DarthNoox]

I hadn't really taken the time to listen to it until now but honestly it doesn't sound that good to me, the part at 0:45 was always the best and here it is just lackluster imo

[@toastisity]

Weirdo

[@s.oddity3640]

Soulless game

[@lemon5730]

Hell yeah!

[@flordelizapacifico4022]

I want to ask something: is there people here that got saved by a Kricketot/Kricketune? Raise your hand if yes. 🤚

[@azurestarseliph5926]

WHY DID THEY MAKE GARDENIA SO FUKING CUTE?!!!

[@JJDocx]

The drums part has hard vibes

[@cocostar319]

I had cherrim, roserade, and torterra on my team. I'll honestly just let you imagine how the Candice battle went. (Sinnoh has so many great grass types tho.....)

[@ryanplays0212]

Roark was easy, Gardenia actually gave me hell, and then I basically swept through the others until I got to Volkner.

[@completelyroundoak]

Spent about an hour wiping on her roserade because All of my pokemon were *underleveled *type disadvantage or *really fucking heavy I was wondering why grass knot was 3 hitting my (i forget what turtwigs mid evolution is called, i just named him Jerry.)

[@Runmindor]

Ain’t no better gym leader theme, simple as that.

[@Gvasco]

I’m hardcore Nuzlocking Brilliant diamond rn. And now every battle feels like it needs this music.

[@Ramsmusic97]

Overall, it’s a good remastering of the original. My only problem is the lack of the prominent bass line at the beginning of the track

[@IcedPZ]

The heavy bass kick is really distracting, either way it's pretty great.

[@veinpain6070]

you should do a mashup of this theme and the old gen 4 gym music theme, just like what you did with the battle fronier for hoenn

[@anvil1267]

Everyone talking struggling with gyms Me who overleveled by the third gym: 👀

[@nothingmuch02784]

This is cool! I like the music But the thing about Diamond and Pearl is that I feel like too many gym leaders are too easy. Only Maylene was hard and I had to battle her around 13 times, but except for Gardenia (I battled her 2 times) all the other gym leaders I only battled once which was not so fun and not really a challenge :( Please don't take this offensively and I'm really not trying to be mean because I really like this game. Maybe the battles were easy because my Pokemon were around 3-7, mostly 5 levels higher than the gym leader's Pokemon. Thank you for reading and I hope everyone stays safe and has fun with this game! :)

[@Mwright4444]

Don't apologize, anyone who attacks you for a fact (this game wasn't made to be hard) is a twat. I fought every leader once, they all took out a couple of my mons but I always did them first try, I think they were well done, just easy.

[@nothingmuch02784]

@@Mwright4444 Alright, thanks so much! I just didn't want it to seem like I didn't like the game but I actually really do and I'm in Stark Mountain right now

[@Mwright4444]

@@nothingmuch02784 Oh yeah, I do think the game is great, 100%, the remakes and OG D/P/P but they definitely aren't hard in any way. They're kids games after all. I'm glad you enjoy them though!

[@nothingmuch02784]

@@Mwright4444 Thanks! I do! I'm glad you think the game is great as well even though you said they're kids games, haha. Sorry if that sounded rude in any kind of way!

[@Mwright4444]

@@nothingmuch02784 It didn’t at all lol. I mean they are kids games they sell really well with a younger audience and they’re made around that. Doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy them though, they are good games, just not super tough to beat.

[@Xx_Meteoro_xX]

man, i can imagine pummel, floogull and stogg composing this 💀

[@heavendelight9794]

Its a big shame sinnoh gym leaders dont have pokemons from later generation. Imagine roark has coalossal, lyrcanroc, gigalith, tyrantrum, aurorus. Gardenia has eldegoss, luranria, tsareena, whimsicott, shiinotic. Maylene has grapploct, pangoro, mienshao, falinks, crabominable, kommo o, wake has barrewskuda, dreadnaw, araquanid, jellicent, clawitzer, fantina have mimikyu, chandelure, polteagaist, gourgeist, trevenant. Byron have copperajah, aegislash, bisharp, escavalier, ferrothorn, perrserker, candice have avalugg, Vanilluxe, arctozolt, arctovish, alolan ninetales, alolan sandslash, volkner have boltund, toxtricity, galvantula, eelectross, zebstrika, alolan raichu, heliolisk.

[@cassidytwi]

The theme of.. Roark Gardenia Maylene Wake Fantina Byron And Volkner.

[@AsianRailgun]

You're forgetting a certain Ice-type specialist here... what's their name again?

[@oksat6495]

@@AsianRailgun Candis nu- Idk man I forgot her name as well🤔

[@MOVED_acc.144]

@@AsianRailgun candeez.

[@MOVED_acc.144]

this took me a minute to get the joke.

[@lazyyest]

One of the only remasters that I like better than the original- a lot of the others are lacking the Sinnoh bass, but this one has enough of that while amping up the drums. Jesus.

[@bee5607]

Roark my man

[@IceRuby-ur4zl]

**As you enter the Hearthome City Gym expecting Fantina, you see that it looks like the interior of an old warehouse. You need to navigate through this dingy area, avoiding Bikers, Roughnecks, & the sort. When you reach the end, you are met with someone who looks like a 60s punk, pompadour and all.** "Hm? Wus a lil' twoyp like ya's doin' in my Gym? Ta trample all ova me like I'm some sorta steppin' stone? Is *dat* what'cha sayin'? DAT'S IT! You want the Gym Badge that badly? COME AN' GET IT!" **You are challenged by Gym Leader Akira!** Lv. 32 Sassy Skuntank (Shuca Berry) - *Venoshock* - Protect - Toxic - *Night Slash* Lv. 34 Jolly Weavile (Bright Powder) - *Ice Shard* - *Night Slash* - Brick Break - Shadow Claw "Grr, DAT'S IT! YOU WANT REAL POWAH? I GOTS YA POWAH RIGHT HERE! DIS IS GONNA HOYT!" Lv. 36 Serious Honchkrow (Scope Lens) - *Night Slash* - Defog - Swagger - *Drill Peck*

[@finnonfilmz]

The NERVE of you to replace Fantina of all gym leaders when Forgettable Roark is right there

[@georgetourloukis7194]

What's really dissapointing is that the original themes had 3 different variations to the base melody while this only has 2

[@Saddler46]

I love it ! 😸🐙🦑🐋

[@brucewayne2956]

0:23 There's so much Johto vibe here.

[@Future.Trunks220]

Good workout music actually 😂

[@MOVED_acc.144]

you will never catch me beating that mismagius.

[@whatduhheell]

the first 2 seconds of this beat goes absolutely crazy then the song just middens