Is Barboach Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Good Rod catch across many Sinnoh waterways from mid-game. Water/Ground with only Grass weakness. Whiscash at level 30 handles Volkner and Flint. AbilityOblivious prevents infatuation. Simple but effective if you need Water/Ground.
Barboach resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's Pokemon outpace and outclass Barboach here.
Fantina's team hits Barboach's weaknesses hard.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Whiscash trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Whiscash resists most of Byron's coverage and hits back hard.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Whiscash trades roughly evenly with 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 resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Whiscash has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
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 22WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Fantina
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- LV 35WaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- LV 39GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORFlyingBouncePower 85Accuracy 85%PP 5Survival Area
- 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 Maylene, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- LV 39WaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10
- LV 45GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORFlyingBouncePower 85Accuracy 85%PP 5Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Barboach in Platinum
Barboach is one of the most widespread fishing catches around, common on the Good Rod across ten different water spots. Caves, marsh, and routes all hold it, so any patch of water you fish is a fair bet.
10 locations to catch Barboach
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
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Barboach is the chain's first catch. You'll find fishing encounters from Lv. 10-55 across 30 total spots in the chain.
- Step 1Barboach ✓Eterna CityLv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - 4FLv.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 225Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 227Lv.10-25Good RodRate 45%Route 210 - NorthLv.15-20Good RodRate 40%Route 228Lv.15-20Good RodRate 40%
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into WhiscashEterna CityLv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - B1FLv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Mt. Coronet - Route 207 EntranceLv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Oreburgh Gate - B1FLv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Ravaged PathLv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Route 205 - NorthLv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Route 210 - NorthLv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Route 225Lv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Route 227Lv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Route 228Lv.30-55Super RodRate 45%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.20-50Super RodRate 15%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.20-50Super RodRate 15%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.20-50Super RodRate 15%Mt. Coronet - 4FLv.20-50Super RodRate 15%Route 210 - NorthLv.25-35Good RodRate 5%Route 228Lv.25-35Good RodRate 5%or evolve from Barboach (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Barboach catch rates for Platinum by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Barboach in Platinum
Barboach bites the Good Rod across many Sinnoh waters, so pair one with a foreign Ditto and hatch eggs at 1 in 1,638. Compare Shiny Barboach odds across every game
Platinum 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 Platinum 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
GoodBest Pokemon Against Barboach
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.
Pt Barboach Best Moveset
Water/Ground with only Grass (4x) as a weakness, but stats in the 41-60 range leave the moveset without any real contribution. 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
24 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its slimy body is hard to grasp. In one region, it is said to have been born from hardened mud.
Barboach Platinum Guide
In Platinum, 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
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 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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