Is Barboach Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Transfer-only Water/Ground from Hoenn. Whiscash at 30 has one Grass weakness. AbilityAnticipation is new in Gen 4 and warns about super-effective moves. Gastrodon fills the same Water/Ground role natively in Sinnoh.
Barboach resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Barboach's weaknesses hard.
Barboach trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Crasher Wake's typing presses Barboach's defenses.
Whiscash trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Whiscash trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Whiscash trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Whiscash resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Whiscash trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Barboach on Oreburgh Gate (Good Rod fishing, Lv 10-25, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 14GroundMud BombPower 98Accuracy 85%PP 10
- LV 22WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Gardenia
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lake Acuity
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- LV 35WaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10
- LV 39GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Barboach to Whiscash
Barboach evolves into Whiscash at Level 30. Your Barboach should hit Level 30 before you reach Fantina, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- LV 39WaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10
- LV 45GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Barboach in Diamond & Pearl
Barboach bites the Good Rod across 12 watery spots, common at level 10 to 25. The whiskers Pokemon hides in mud at nearly every river and lake, so the rod reels them up easily.
12 locations to catch Barboach
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
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Barboach is where the line starts, caught through fishing encounters at Lv. 10-25. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 1Barboach ✓Celestic TownLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Eterna CityLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - 4F Room 1Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - B1FLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - Route 207 EntranceLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Oreburgh Gate - B1FLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Ravaged PathLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 205 - NorthLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 208Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 210 - NorthLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 212 - SouthLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 227Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 228Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Great Marsh - Area 1Lv.15-20Good RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.15-20Good RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.15-20Good RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 4Lv.15-20Good RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.15-20Good RodRate 40%
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into WhiscashEterna CityLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - B1FLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - Route 207 EntranceLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Oreburgh Gate - B1FLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Ravaged PathLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Route 205 - NorthLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Route 208Lv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Route 210 - NorthLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Route 212 - SouthLv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Route 227Lv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Route 228Lv.20-50Super RodRate 45%Great Marsh - Area 1Lv.30-55Super RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.30-55Super RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.30-55Super RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 4Lv.30-55Super RodRate 40%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.30-55Super RodRate 40%Celestic TownLv.40-55Super RodRate 15%or evolve from Barboach (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Barboach catch rates for Diamond & Pearl by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Barboach in Diamond & Pearl
Barboach shines fastest from the Day Care, so breed it Masuda-style with a foreign parent. Compare Shiny Barboach odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Barboach Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
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 | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 Diamond & Pearl with Barboach preloaded.
Barboach Weakness
Barboach's Water/Ground typing leaves it vulnerable to Grass. Grass hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Electric-type attacks completely. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Poison, Rock, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Barboach Weak Against
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Barboach Evolutions
Barboach evolves into Whiscash. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 180 total stats over Barboach. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Barboach easily with 19 breeding partners from the Water 2 egg group. Pass egg moves like Flail, Hydro Pump, Spark and 3 more to offspring.
DP Barboach Best Moveset
Water/Ground with only Grass weakness, but stats in the 41-60 range can't justify a moveset. AbilityAnticipation warns about super-effective moves, which is utility at best. Evolve to Whiscash.
Best Build
Barboach best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Attacker Moveset
- Dragon Dance
- Earthquake
- Waterfall
- Return
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Flail and Hydro Pump on Barboach. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Hydro Pump and Earthquake, they expand what Barboach can actually threaten in practice.
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
25 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It coats its entire body with a slimy fluid so it can squirm and slip away if grabbed.
Its whiskers make a superb radar. They are used to locate prey, even in the murkiest of water.
Barboach Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, Barboach does the job early-game if you need a Water/Ground type on your team. Evolve it into Whiscash before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Barboach first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 16 games across 7 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
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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 6ORAS
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
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