Is Banette Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Routes 225 and 226 at level 48, postgame. Ghost-type with AbilityInsomnia preventing sleep. Strong physical Attack for a Ghost. The physical/special split helps Banette use Shadow Claw effectively. Battle Frontier attacker.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Fantina's team.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Byron's typing presses Banette's defenses.
Banette trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Banette trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Banette trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Flint's team hits Banette's weaknesses hard.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Banette trades roughly evenly with Mars's team.
Banette has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Banette trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Banette on Route 225 (walking, Lv 48-50, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 48)
- LV 48GhostShadow BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 48FireWill-O-WispPower —Accuracy 75%PP 15
- After Fantina
- TM65GhostShadow ClawPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Fantina
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Maylene
- TUTORGhostOminous WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 212
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Banette in Platinum
Banette only comes out at night, walking the grass on a pair of late southern routes near level 49. Daylight hours leave that grass empty of it, so the marionette ghost is strictly an after-dark catch.
Wild Banette may be holding when caught:
Spell Tag (5% chance) Held: Ghost-Type moves from holder do 20% more damage.2 locations to catch Banette
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Where To Catch Banette in Pt
- Step 1Obtain ShuppetBREEDINGAvailableLeave Banette with a compatible partner at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Shuppet egg.
- Step 2Banette ✓or evolve from Shuppet (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Banette catch rates for Platinum by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Banette in Platinum
Banette drifts through the nighttime grass of Route 225 and Route 226, so chain it to 40 for a 1 in 200 shiny. Compare Shiny Banette odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Banette Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Platinum with Banette preloaded.
Banette Weakness
Type-wise, Banette takes extra damage from Ghost and Dark. Normal and Fighting moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Normal, Fighting |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Banette Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Banette
 Giratina GhostDragon | S | |
Obtain MethodDistortion World Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Giratina builds →Shadow Force 2x139-163%KO Dark Pulse 2x63-74% | ||
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Tyranitar builds →Crunch 2x118-140%KO Shadow Claw 2x69-82% | ||
 Absol Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Absol builds →Sucker Punch 2x116-137%KO Shadow Claw 2x68-80% | ||
 Drapion PoisonDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Drapion builds →Crunch 2x85-101%KO Shadow Ball 2x42-50% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Banette View Cacturne builds →Sucker Punch 2x104-123%KO | ||
 Weavile DarkIce | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Weavile builds →Night Slash 2x95-112%KO Shadow Claw 2x63-74% | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Houndoom builds →Dark Pulse 2x103-121%KO Shadow Ball 2x68-81% | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Shiftry builds →Dark Pulse 2x88-104%KO Shadow Ball 2x59-69% | ||
 Spiritomb GhostDark | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 209 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Spiritomb builds →Sucker Punch 2x86-102%KO Shadow Ball 2x89-105%KO | ||
 Gengar GhostPoison | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Gengar builds →Shadow Ball 2x118-140%KO Dark Pulse 2x79-93% | ||
 Drifblim Ghost | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Drifloon (Valley Windworks Interact Encounter) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Drifblim builds →Shadow Ball 2x88-104%KO Payback 2x32-39% | ||
 Sableye DarkGhost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Sableye builds →Shadow Claw 2x65-77% Dark Pulse 2x68-80% | ||
 Rotom ElectricGhost | C | |
Obtain MethodOld Chateau Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Rotom builds →Shadow Ball 2x91-107%KO Dark Pulse 2x60-71% | ||
 Froslass IceGhost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Banette View Froslass builds →Shadow Ball 2x80-94% Payback 2x32-39% | ||
Banette Evolutions
Banette is the evolved form of Shuppet. Breeding produces Shuppet eggs, and they take an average time to hatch. Evolving from Shuppet gave Banette the biggest boost in Attack (+40), bringing the total to 455 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Banette to get Shuppet eggs easily using 31 partners from the Amorphous egg group. Notable egg moves include Astonish, Confuse Ray, Destiny Bond and 6 more.
Pt Banette Best Moveset
Revealing the opponent's held item through AbilityFrisk adds scouting value, and 115 Attack fires physical Ghost and coverage moves hard. MoveShadow Sneak provides Ghost-type priority that bypasses the average 65 Speed. The moveset hits first when it counts.
Best Build
Banette best EVs are HP and Attack
Physical Tank Moveset
- Shadow Claw
- Shadow Sneak
- Will O Wisp
- Thunder Wave
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Astonish and Confuse Ray aren't available any other way for Banette, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Shadow Ball and Shadow Claw for solid options.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
39 of 43 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
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Banette Platinum Guide
Mega Evolution isn't available in Platinum, but Banette does have a Mega form in Gen 6-7 games (X/Y, ORAS, Sun/Moon). Mega Banette hits 555 BST.
Yes. Wild Banette in Platinum can hold Spell Tag (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Spell Tag.
Yes. Banette is not available during the main story. It can only be obtained after entering the Hall of Fame. Banette becomes available after the main story is complete in Platinum.
In Platinum, Banette plays as a cannon. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully.
Game Availability
Banette first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and spans 15 games across 7 generations. It later gained a Mega form in Generation 6, adding new dimensions to its competitive identity.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORASMega
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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