Is Buizel Good in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Playthrough?
Breed-only. Water with AbilitySwift Swim. Floatzel is fast, but Hoenn already drowns you in faster, stronger Water-types. No gap for Buizel to fill.
Buizel resists most of Roxanne's coverage and hits back hard.
Buizel has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Buizel trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Buizel has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Norman's typing presses Buizel's defenses.
Winona's typing presses Buizel's defenses.
Buizel trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Wallace's typing presses Buizel's defenses.
Buizel trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Buizel trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Glacia's typing presses Buizel's defenses.
Drake's team hits Buizel's weaknesses hard.
Buizel trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Buizel cannot be caught in this game. It must be traded in from a compatible game where it appears in the wild. Cross-region trading typically becomes available after defeating the Elite Four.
How to Get Buizel in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
No wild encounters for Buizel in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire. Bring Buizel over from Diamond & Pearl, Platinum, or HeartGold & SoulSilver, then level through the stages. Each step in the chain is laid out below.
How to Obtain Buizel in ORAS
Step 1Buizel ✓LATER APPEARANCEfrom Diamond & PearlNot TradeableAppears in Diamond & Pearl via Walking · Route 205. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.LATER APPEARANCEfrom PlatinumNot TradeableAppears in Platinum via Walking · Valley Windworks. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.LATER APPEARANCENot TradeableAppears in HeartGold & SoulSilver via Walking · Route 9 · Radio: Sinnoh Sound. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.
Step 2Evolve into Floatzel
Buizel Weakness
Type-wise, Buizel takes extra damage from Electric and Grass. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Just 2 weak spots to worry about, which keeps teambuilding straightforward.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
What is Buizel Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Buizel
In Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, Rotom can KO Buizel with Volt Switch (182-214%).
 Rotom ElectricGhost | C | |
Recommended Build AbilityLevitate ItemLeftovers NatureCalm Moves
Damage vs Buizel View Rotom builds →Volt Switch 2x182-214%KO Shadow Ball104-122%KO | ||
Buizel Evolutions
One evolution ahead. Buizel grows into Floatzel through a straightforward two-stage chain. A massive partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs are average hatch time. Evolving adds up to 165 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Buizel easily with 200 breeding partners from the Ground and Water1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Aqua Ring, Aqua Tail, Baton Pass and 11 more to offspring.
ORAS Buizel Best Moveset
Water at 65 Attack and 85 Speed. AbilitySwift Swim doubles Speed in rain. AbilityWater Veil prevents burns. The moveset fires at pre-evolution power. Floatzel one evolution away adds 105 Attack and 115 Speed.
Best Build
Buizel best EVs are Sp. Atk and Speed
Special Sweeper Moveset
- Hydro Pump
- Brick Break
- Ice Beam
- Aqua Jet
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Aqua Ring and Aqua Tail aren't available any other way for Buizel, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Hydro Pump and Aqua Tail 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
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It swims by rotating its two tails like a screw. When it dives, its flotation sac collapses.
It inflates the flotation sac around its neck and pokes its head out of the water to see what is going on.
Buizel Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Guide
For Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, you can run Buizel through the first few routes without issues. 330 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Floatzel as fast as you can.
Game Availability
Available in 12 titles since its debut in Diamond & Pearl, Buizel spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through catching or hatching as a base form 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 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DPDebut
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 7LGPE
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