Is Carvanha Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Great Marsh via Super Rod at level 30. Water/Dark with AbilityRough Skin damaging attackers on contact. Sharpedo at level 30 is instant. Fast and aggressive but frail.
Carvanha has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Carvanha trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Carvanha resists most of Fantina's coverage and hits back hard.
Maylene's team hits Carvanha's weaknesses hard.
Carvanha trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Carvanha trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
Carvanha trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Carvanha trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Sharpedo trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Sharpedo has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Sharpedo has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Sharpedo has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Sharpedo resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Sharpedo has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Sharpedo has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Sharpedo trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Carvanha in the Great Marsh (Super Rod fishing, Lv 30-55, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30DarkCrunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 30DarkBitePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Fantina
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- TM55WaterBrinePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Crasher Wake
- After Volkner
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Victory Road
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORFlyingBouncePower 85Accuracy 85%PP 5Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TUTORRockAncient PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
Evolve Carvanha to Sharpedo
Carvanha evolves into Sharpedo at Level 30. You get it at Level 30 or higher, so it evolves into Sharpedo the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30DarkCrunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- 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
- After Volkner
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Victory Road
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- LV 56DarkNight SlashPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TUTORFlyingBouncePower 85Accuracy 85%PP 5Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TUTORRockAncient PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
How to Get Carvanha in Platinum
Carvanha bites only on a Super Rod, and only in the Great Marsh water, where it is common across a wide level band. You need the top rod and the marsh together, so it is a mid-to-late hookup.
Wild Carvanha may be holding when caught:
Deep Sea Tooth (5% chance) Doubles Clamperl’s Special Attack. Traded on a Clamperl: Holder evolves into Huntail.1 location to catch Carvanha
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
Badge 5Where To Catch Carvanha in Pt
Carvanha is the chain's first catch. You'll find fishing encounters from Lv. 30-55 across 3 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Evolve into SharpedoBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Carvanha egg.
Bring the right balls: check Carvanha catch odds in the Platinum Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Carvanha in Platinum
Carvanha bites the Super Rod in the Great Marsh, but breeding one with a foreign Ditto is the surer shiny. Compare Shiny Carvanha odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Carvanha 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Carvanha in the Platinum Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Carvanha Weakness
Type-wise, Carvanha takes extra damage from Electric, Grass, Fighting, and Bug. Psychic moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. 6 resistances give it solid defensive coverage on top of that.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass, Fighting, Bug |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Ghost, Dark, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Psychic |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Carvanha Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Carvanha
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x528-623%KO Seed Bomb 2x284-335%KO | ||
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 2x443-523%KO X-Scissor 2x158-187%KO | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Tangrowth builds →Solar Beam 2x368-433%KO Focus Blast 2x245-288%KO Shock Wave 2x123-145%KO | ||
 Gallade PsychicFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Gallade builds →Focus Punch 2x512-603%KO Leaf Blade 2x205-242%KO X-Scissor 2x183-215%KO Thunderbolt 2x128-150%KO | ||
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Torterra builds →Wood Hammer 2x365-430%KO Rock Smash 2x82-97% | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Shiftry builds →Leaf Storm 2x363-428%KO X-Scissor 2x151-178%KO Focus Blast 2x208-245%KO | ||
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Infernape builds →Focus Punch 2x438-515%KO Solar Beam 2x233-275%KO U-turn 2x137-162%KO | ||
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Abomasnow GrassIce | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Abomasnow builds →Wood Hammer 2x316-373%KO Focus Punch 2x263-310%KO | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Oreburgh City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Cradily builds →Solar Beam 2x287-338%KO Rock Smash 2x65-77% | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Carvanha View Ludicolo builds →Solar Beam 2x312-368%KO Focus Punch 2x213-250%KO | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
Carvanha Evolutions
Carvanha evolves into Sharpedo. 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. Evolving adds up to 155 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Carvanha easily with 19 breeding partners from the Water 2 egg group. Pass egg moves like Ancient Power, Double-Edge, Hydro Pump and 1 more to offspring.
Pt Carvanha Best Moveset
90 Attack at 65 Speed with 20 in both defenses. AbilityRough Skin chips physical attackers on contact, but the moveset hits hard and can't take a hit from anything. Evolve to Sharpedo.
Best Build
Carvanha best EVs are Speed and Attack
Utility Moveset
- Crunch
- Aqua Jet
- Zen Headbutt
- Substitute
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Ancient Power and Double-Edge give Carvanha options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 7 types already covers a decent range on top of Hydro Pump and Surf. 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
28 of 29 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
They swarm any foe that invades their territory. Their sharp fangs can tear out boat hulls.
Carvanha Platinum Guide
Yes. Wild Carvanha in Platinum can hold Deep Sea Tooth (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Deep Sea Tooth.
In Platinum, Carvanha has 305 BST and evolves into Sharpedo. Compare the two forms before you give either one a team slot.
Yes. Carvanha is not available during the main story. It can only be obtained after entering the Hall of Fame. Carvanha becomes available after the main story is complete in Platinum.
Game Availability
Carvanha first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 15 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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