Is Breloom Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Grass/Fighting with AbilityEffect Spore for random contact status. MoveMach Punch gives priority Fighting damage. Breloom handles Roxanne, Norman, Sidney, and Steven's Aggron. One of the strongest mid-game Pokemon in RS. Effect Spore adds an element of chaos that frequently swings battles.
Shroomish has the type edge here and should clean up Roxanne's team.
Shroomish trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Wattson's typing presses Shroomish's defenses.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Norman's team.
Winona's team hits Breloom's weaknesses hard.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Tate & Liza's team.
Breloom resists most of Wallace's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom resists most of Sidney's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Breloom resists most of Glacia's coverage and hits back hard.
Breloom trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Breloom has the type edge here and should clean up Steven's team.
Catch Shroomish
Catch Shroomish in Petalburg Woods (walking, Lv 5-6, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- LV 16GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 22NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Fortree City
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- LV 45GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
Evolve Shroomish to Breloom
Shroomish evolves into Breloom at Level 23. Your Shroomish should hit Level 23 before you reach Flannery, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 123
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- LV 36FightingSky UppercutPower 128Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
How to Get Breloom in Ruby & Sapphire
Grab a Shroomish from its small forest pocket and push it to level 23 for Breloom. The wild grid skips this one entirely, so the forest cluster is where every Breloom begins.
Catch Shroomish at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Breloom.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Shroomish
- 2Evolve Breloomat Lv.23
How to Obtain Breloom in RS
- Step 1Catch Shroomish
- Step 2Breloom ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Shroomish egg.
How to Get Shiny Breloom in Ruby & Sapphire
Breloom evolves from Shroomish, so shiny-hunt that pre-evolution in Petalburg Woods and take it up into Breloom. Compare Shiny Breloom odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Breloom Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Ruby & Sapphire shiny odds calculator with Breloom already selected.
Breloom Weakness
Type-wise, Breloom takes extra damage from Flying, Fire, Ice, Poison, and Psychic. Watch out for Flying attacks, those deal 4x damage. With 6 resistances, the defensive profile is strong.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Flying |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Poison, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Grass, Ground, Rock, Dark |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Breloom Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Breloom
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Golbat builds →Wing Attack 4x108-128%KO Sludge Bomb 2x79-94% | ||
 Combusken FireFighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Combusken builds →Overheat 2x155-184%KO Peck 4x46-55% | ||
 Torkoal Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Torkoal builds →Overheat 2x155-184%KO Sludge Bomb 2x55-65% | ||
 Swellow Normal | C | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
 Swalot Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Swalot builds →Sludge Bomb 2x73-86% Ice Beam 2x64-75% | ||
 Masquerain Bug | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Surskit (Route 102 Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Masquerain builds →Ice Beam 2x80-95% Gust 4x64-75% | ||
 Dustox BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Dustox builds →Sludge Bomb 2x56-68% Psychic 2x46-55% Gust 4x38-45% | ||
 Beautifly Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Beautifly builds →Gust 4x70-83% Psychic 2x76-90% | ||
 Grimer Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Grimer builds →Sludge Bomb 2x79-94% Flamethrower 2x43-50% | ||
 Pelipper Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Pelipper builds →Wing Attack 4x83-98% Ice Beam 2x76-90% | ||
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Kirlia Psychic | D | |
 Slugma Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Breloom View Slugma builds →Overheat 2x134-158%KO Smog 2x10-13% | ||
Breloom Evolutions
Evolved from Shroomish. Breloom is the final form in this two-stage line. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs are quick to hatch. Attack grew the most through evolution (+90 over Shroomish), and Breloom peaks at 460 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Breloom to get Shroomish eggs easily using 27 partners from the Fairy and Grass egg groups. Notable egg moves include Charm, Fake Tears, False Swipe and 2 more.
RS Breloom Best Moveset
MoveSpore guarantees sleep at 100% accuracy, then MoveFocus Punch fires from 130 Attack for devastating Fighting TermStab. AbilityEffect Spore inflicts random status on physical contact, punishing every hit. MoveMach Punch adds priority. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Guaranteed sleep into the hardest Fighting punches in the format.
Best Build
Breloom best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Spore
- Focus Punch
- Mach Punch
- Sky Uppercut
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Charm and Fake Tears give Breloom options it can't learn any other way, and Normal and Steel coverage already covers a decent range on top of Focus Punch and Solar Beam. The egg moves push it further.
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
Base Stats
BRELOOM closes in on its foe with light and sprightly footwork, then throws punches with its stretchy arms. This POKéMON’s fighting technique puts boxers to shame.
The seeds ringing BRELOOM’s tail are made of hardened toxic spores. It is horrible to eat the seeds. Just taking a bite of this POKéMON’s seed will cause your stomach to rumble.
Breloom Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Breloom is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Shroomish under specific conditions.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Breloom spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in a solid number of games.
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
Winds & Waves
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