Is Buizel Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Route 205 Water-type. Floatzel at 26 is fast with AbilitySwift Swim for rain Speed. Physical Water attacker available early. Handles Flint and Bertha. Competes with Gyarados and Empoleon for the Water slot but Floatzel is faster than both.
Buizel resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Buizel's weaknesses hard.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Floatzel trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Fantina's team.
Floatzel resists most of Byron's coverage and hits back hard.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Floatzel resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Floatzel trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Buizel on Route 205 (walking, Lv 8-10, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lake Acuity
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- TM28GroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10Maniac Tunnel
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- TM55WaterBrinePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Crasher Wake
- After Fantina
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Ravaged Path
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Buizel to Floatzel
Buizel evolves into Floatzel at Level 26. Your Buizel should hit Level 26 before you reach Maylene, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- 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
- TM55WaterBrinePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Crasher Wake
- After Fantina
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Ravaged Path
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Buizel in Diamond & Pearl
Buizel paddles four early routes and rivers, common to rare from level 7 up. The sea weasel is a reliable early Water-type, often the first one you can fish or surf toward.
Wild Buizel may be holding when caught:
Wacan Berry (5% chance) Held: Consumed when struck by a super-effective Electric-type attack to halve the damage.4 locations to catch Buizel
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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The line opens with Buizel at Lv. 7-23 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into FloatzelRoute 218Lv.28-30GrassRate 35%Route 221Lv.28-30GrassRate 25%Fuego IronworksLv.29-30FloorRate 25%Route 213Lv.22GrassRate 10%or evolve from Buizel (Step 1)
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Diamond & Pearl for Buizel.
How to Get Shiny Buizel in Diamond & Pearl
Buizel paddles Route 205, Route 213, and Route 224, so a PokeRadar chain in that grass brings home its shiny. Compare Shiny Buizel odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Buizel 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Diamond & Pearl shiny odds for Buizel.
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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Buizel Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Buizel
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Rotom ElectricGhost | C | |
Obtain MethodOld Chateau Interact Encounter | ||
 Grotle Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Lake Verity Gift) | ||
 Electrike Electric | C | |
 Elekid Electric | B | |
 Luxio Electric | C | |
 Pachirisu Electric | C | |
 Lombre WaterGrass | D | |
 Cherubi Grass | D | |
 Wormadam BugGrass | C | |
 Budew GrassPoison | C | |
 Lileep RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
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 take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 165 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Buizel easily with 131 breeding partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Baton Pass, Double Slap, Fury Cutter and 5 more to offspring.
DP Buizel Best Moveset
Rain doubles Speed through AbilitySwift Swim, and 65 Attack hints at a physical Water role. But stats across the board are too low for the moveset to compete. Evolve to Floatzel.
Best Build
Buizel best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Revenge Killer Moveset
- Aqua Jet
- Ice Punch
- Waterfall
- Water Pulse
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Baton Pass and Double Slap aren't available any other way for Buizel, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Surf and Waterfall 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
30 of 32 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It has a flotation sac that is like an inflatable collar. It floats on water with its head out.
It swims by rotating its two tails like a screw. When it dives, its flotation sac collapses.
Buizel Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Wild Buizel in Diamond & Pearl can hold Wacan Berry (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Wacan Berry.
For Diamond & Pearl, 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 6 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 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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