Is Camerupt Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Fire/Ground with AbilityMagma Armor preventing freeze. Camerupt handles Wattson, Winona (via Fire), and Steven's Skarmory and Aggron. The 4x Water weakness is dangerous but the dual typing covers a wide range of matchups. One of RS's better native Fire options outside the Torchic line.
Roxanne's typing presses Numel's defenses.
Numel trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Numel has the type edge here and should clean up Wattson's team.
Numel has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Norman's typing presses Numel's defenses.
Winona's team hits Numel's weaknesses hard.
Tate & Liza's typing presses Camerupt's defenses.
Camerupt trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
Camerupt trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Camerupt trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Camerupt trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Drake's team hits Camerupt's weaknesses hard.
Camerupt trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catch Numel
Catch Numel on Route 112 (walking, Lv 14-16, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 114
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- LV 29NormalTake DownPower 90Accuracy 85%PP 20
- After Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- LV 35GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 41FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 49NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Numel to Camerupt
Numel evolves into Camerupt at Level 33. Your Numel should hit Level 33 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- After Wattson
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 114
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- After Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- LV 37GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 45FireEruptionPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 5
How to Get Camerupt in Ruby & Sapphire
Camerupt comes only from a level-33 Numel, never from the wild. So your hunt is really for the volcanic-ground Numel; the evolution takes care of itself after that.
Wild Camerupt may be holding when caught:
Rawst Berry (always) A hold item that heals a burn in battle.Catch Numel at any of these 3 spots to eventually evolve into Camerupt.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Numel
- 2Evolve Cameruptat Lv.33
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Badge 4How to Obtain Camerupt in RS
The path to Camerupt starts with Numel at Lv. 14-22 via walking encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Camerupt ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Numel egg.
How to Get Shiny Camerupt in Ruby & Sapphire
Camerupt begins as a Numel in Fiery Path, so catch a shiny one and evolve it, since Camerupt has no wild encounter of its own. Compare Shiny Camerupt odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Camerupt 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 Camerupt already selected.
Camerupt Weakness
Camerupt's Fire/Ground typing leaves it vulnerable to Water and Ground. Water hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Electric-type attacks completely. The Fire/Ground typing picks up 4 resistances to work with.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Water |
| 2x (Weak) | Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Poison, Bug, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Camerupt Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Camerupt
 Pelipper Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing | ||
 Azumarill Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Azurill (Petalburg City Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Camerupt View Azumarill builds →Surf 4x133-158%KO Dig 2x27-32% | ||
 Marshtomp WaterGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Camerupt View Marshtomp builds →Surf 4x133-158%KO Dig 2x57-67% | ||
 Lombre WaterGrass | C | |
 Sandslash Ground | A | |
 Surskit BugWater | D | |
Obtain MethodRoute 102 Surfing | ||
 Graveler RockGround | C | |
 Trapinch Ground | C | |
 Baltoy GroundPsychic | D | |
Numel FireGround | C | |
 Nincada BugGround | C | |
Camerupt Evolutions
Camerupt is what Numel becomes. Breed it for Numel eggs (average hatch time). A massive partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Numel pushed Camerupt to 460 total stats. Attack saw the largest single gain at +40. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Camerupt to get Numel eggs easily using 102 partners from the Field egg group. Notable egg moves include Body Slam, Defense Curl, Howl and 3 more.
RS Camerupt Best Moveset
MoveEarthquake for Ground TermStab and MoveFire Blast for Fire coverage from a mixed attacker frame. AbilityMagma Armor prevents freeze. 100 Attack and 105 Sp. Atk hit from both sides. 20 Speed is catastrophically slow. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Raw power behind the lowest Speed of any competitive Pokemon.
Best Build
Camerupt best EVs are Attack and Sp. Def
Utility Moveset
- Earthquake
- Explosion
- Fire Blast
- Toxic
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Body Slam and Defense Curl on Camerupt. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Eruption and Overheat, they expand what Camerupt 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
All 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
CAMERUPT has a volcano inside its body. Magma of 18,000 degrees F courses through its body. Occasionally, the humps on this POKéMON’s back erupt, spewing the superheated magma.
The humps on CAMERUPT’s back are formed by a transformation of its bones. They sometimes blast out molten magma. This POKéMON apparently erupts often when it is enraged.
Camerupt Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Camerupt is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Numel under specific conditions.
Game Availability
Available since Ruby & Sapphire, Camerupt appears in 15 games spanning 7 generations. Beyond its original form, it gained a Mega form in Generation 6.
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 6ORASMega
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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