Is Chansey Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Trophy Garden encounter or transfer. AbilityNatural Cure clears status on switch-out. Chansey's 250 HP absorbs special hits better than almost anything else available. Blissey at high friendship takes the bulk further. If found during the story, Chansey outlasts fights through raw HP.
Roark's typing presses Chansey's defenses.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Fantina's typing presses Blissey's defenses.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Chansey on Route 209 (walking, Lv 16, rare).
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Lost Tower
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- LV 38NormalEgg BombPower 150Accuracy 75%PP 10
- After Byron
- HM08NormalRock ClimbPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20Route 217
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 46NormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Catch Happiny
Happiny is given to you as a gift in Hearthome City at Lv 1. Received as an Egg in Hearthome City.
Recommended Moves
- From Start
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Gardenia
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lake Verity
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Game Corner
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Chansey to Blissey
Chansey evolves into Blissey with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Maylene.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Lost Tower
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- LV 38NormalEgg BombPower 150Accuracy 75%PP 10
- After Byron
- HM08NormalRock ClimbPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20Route 217
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 46NormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TM73ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Exchange Service Corner building in the Battle Park, entered through the Fight Area gatehouse
How to Get Chansey in Diamond & Pearl
Chansey is rare everywhere it appears, scattered thin across two routes plus the postgame Trophy Garden. The low spawn rate is the catch, so expect plenty of empty grass before one shows.
Wild Chansey may be holding when caught:
Oval Stone (50% chance) A peculiar stone that makes certain species of Pokemon evolve. It is shaped like an egg.
Lucky Egg (5% chance) Held: Increases EXP earned in battle by 50%.3 locations to catch Chansey2 locations to catch Happiny
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 2
Badge 3Catch Happiny at any of the 2 locations below, then hold oval stone, daytime — it evolves into Chansey.
Badge 2 Badge 3Where To Catch Chansey in DP
Happiny is your first catch on the way to Chansey. You'll find walking and gift encounters from Lv. 1-20 across 10 total spots in the chain.
- Step 1Catch HappinyHearthome CityLv.1Gift from NPCRate 100%Trophy Garden - Daily PokemonLv.16-18GrassRate 5%Post-game
- Step 2Chansey ✓Route 209Lv.16GrassRate 5%Trophy Garden - Daily PokemonLv.16-18GrassRate 5%Post-gameRoute 210 - SouthLv.18-20GrassRate 5%or evolve from Happiny (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into BlisseyBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Chansey egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Diamond & Pearl for Chansey.
How to Get Shiny Chansey in Diamond & Pearl
Chansey rarely appears on Route 209 and Route 210 and in the Trophy Garden, so a PokeRadar chain in that grass turns up its shiny. Compare Shiny Chansey odds across every game
Shiny Chansey Evolution
3 Forms
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Chansey Calculator
4 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.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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 Chansey.
Chansey Weakness
Fighting moves hit Chansey for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Chansey's special bulk (base 105 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Chansey Weak Against
Good
Chansey Evolutions
Chansey connects Happiny to Blissey in this chain. At least one evolution here needs a special method. So far, HP got the biggest boost (+150 from Happiny). The final form adds another 90 stats on top. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Chansey to get Happiny eggs (with patience) using 35 partners from the Fairy egg group. Notable egg moves include Aromatherapy, Counter, Gravity and 6 more.
DP Chansey Best Moveset
250 HP and 105 Sp. Def absorb special attacks all day, and AbilityNatural Cure clears status on every switch. The moveset stalls with Softboiled for recovery and MoveToxic for passive damage, outlasting most special attackers. 5 Defense means any physical hit is an instant KO.
Best Build
Chansey best EVs are Defense and Sp. Def
Wall Moveset
- Soft Boiled
- Seismic Toss
- Heal Bell
- Toxic
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Coverage runs deep. Chansey can hit 12 types beyond STAB, including Dark and Ice. The offense anchors on Giga Impact and Hyper Beam while TMs handle everything else.
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
54 of 57 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It is said to deliver happiness. Being compassionate, it shares its eggs with injured people.
It lays several eggs a day and won’t share them with those who have evil in their hearts.
Chansey Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Wild Chansey in Diamond & Pearl can hold Oval Stone (50%) or Lucky Egg (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Oval Stone.
In Diamond & Pearl, for a casual playthrough, Chansey works as a placeholder. Normal coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Blissey. That's where the stats start mattering.
In Diamond & Pearl, use Chansey as a wall. Splits damage between physical and special. Not the fastest,
For Diamond & Pearl, run Bold on Chansey. +Defense is what matters, and the -Attack cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the wall role.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Chansey appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Chansey have the longest track record of availability in the series.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
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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