Is Claydol Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Ground/Psychic with AbilityLevitate removing Ground weakness. Transfer-only. If imported, handles Volkner through Ground and Maylene through Psychic. Bronzong fills the same levitating defensive role natively in Sinnoh.
Baltoy has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Baltoy trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Baltoy has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Baltoy trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Fantina's team hits Baltoy's weaknesses hard.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Claydol trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Claydol resists most of Bertha's coverage and hits back hard.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Claydol trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Claydol resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Cynthia's team.
Catch Baltoy
Catch Baltoy on Route 206 (Poké Radar, Lv 14-16, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 19NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Gardenia
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Game Corner
- TM28GroundDigPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Maniac Tunnel
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10Wayward Cave (secret entrance under bike path)
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 53GroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 71NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Baltoy to Claydol
Baltoy evolves into Claydol at Level 36. Your Baltoy should hit Level 36 before you reach Byron, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 36)
- LV 36NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 36NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
- After Gardenia
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Game Corner
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- After Byron
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10Wayward Cave (secret entrance under bike path)
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 62GroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- LV 86NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
How to Get Claydol in Diamond & Pearl
A Poke Radar Baltoy leveled to 36 is the only road to Claydol, which never spawns wild. The whole line surfaces solely through a Radar chain on its early route.
Catch Baltoy at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Claydol.
- 1Catch Baltoy
- 2Evolve Claydolat Lv.36
Badge 2How to Obtain Claydol in DP
- Step 1Catch Baltoy
- Step 2Claydol ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Baltoy egg.
How to Get Shiny Claydol in Diamond & Pearl
Claydol evolves from Baltoy, so chain that shiny on Route 206 at 1 in 200 and let it evolve up. Compare Shiny Claydol odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Claydol 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 Claydol.
Claydol Weakness
Claydol is weak to Water, Grass, Ice, Bug, Ghost, and Dark. On the flip side, it's immune to Electric-type moves entirely. The Ground/Psychic typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Levitate grants an additional Ground immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. Claydol's overall bulk (60/105/120) lets it take a hit or two from most weaknesses before going down.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Grass, Ice, Bug, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, Poison, Psychic, Rock |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Claydol Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Claydol
 Honchkrow Dark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Honchkrow builds →Night Slash 2x69-81% Shadow Ball 2x40-48% | ||
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Exeggutor builds →Leaf Storm 2x122-144%KO Thief 2x22-26% | ||
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Roserade builds →Solar Beam 2x104-123%KO Shadow Ball 2x46-55% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Cacturne builds →Solar Beam 2x98-115%KO Sucker Punch 2x73-86% Pin Missile 2x10-12% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Heracross builds →Megahorn 2x117-138%KO Night Slash 2x46-54% Shadow Claw 2x46-54% | ||
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Lake Verity Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Torterra builds →Wood Hammer 2x104-123%KO Crunch 2x46-55% | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Victreebel builds →Leaf Storm 2x101-118%KO Thief 2x24-28% | ||
 Giratina GhostDragon | S | |
Obtain MethodTurnback Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Giratina builds →Shadow Force 2x98-115%KO Dark Pulse 2x39-46% Energy Ball 2x39-46% Silver Wind 2x29-35% | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Shiftry builds →Leaf Storm 2x92-109%KO Dark Pulse 2x54-63% X-Scissor 2x44-52% Shadow Ball 2x36-42% | ||
 Abomasnow GrassIce | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Abomasnow builds →Wood Hammer 2x91-107%KO Ice Beam 2x64-76% Shadow Ball 2x37-43% Water Pulse 2x28-32% | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Jynx builds →Ice Beam 2x77-91% Shadow Ball 2x44-52% Energy Ball 2x44-52% Water Pulse 2x33-39% | ||
 Kingler Water | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Kingler builds →Crabhammer 2x102-120%KO X-Scissor 2x54-64% Thief 2x28-32% Ice Beam 2x28-32% | ||
 Absol Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Absol builds →Sucker Punch 2x81-96% X-Scissor 2x54-64% Shadow Claw 2x48-56% Ice Beam 2x37-43% | ||
Claydol Evolutions
Claydol is what Baltoy becomes. Breed it for Baltoy eggs (average hatch time). No compatible partners for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Baltoy pushed Claydol to 500 total stats. Defense saw the largest single gain at +50. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Claydol is genderless — breed with Ditto to produce Baltoy eggs. Part of the Mineral egg group.
Ditto onlyDP Claydol Best Moveset
Immune to Ground through AbilityLevitate despite being a Ground type itself, Claydol blocks MoveEarthquake entirely while running 105 Defense and 120 Sp. Def against everything else. The moveset sets MoveStealth Rock and clears hazards with MoveRapid Spin. One of the most reliable defensive utility options available.
Best Build
Claydol best EVs are HP and Defense
Hazard Setter Moveset
- Rapid Spin
- Explosion
- Earthquake
- Stealth Rock
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Most of Claydol's flexibility comes from TMs. Same-type output runs through Dream Eater and Earthquake, but Normal and Rock and the rest of the TM pool push it from predictable to genuinely threatening.
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
44 of 46 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
An ancient clay figurine that came to life as a Pokémon from exposure to a mysterious ray of light.
Claydol Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, Claydol plays as a balanced. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully. Earthquake is the primary attack.
In Diamond & Pearl, Claydol pairs best with Tyranitar. Tyranitar has Decent synergy and covers what Claydol can't handle on its own.
In Diamond & Pearl, Relaxed is the go-to nature for Claydol. That's +Defense / -Speed. Pair it with 252 HP / 112 Atk / 144 Def EVs. Fits the balanced role.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Claydol appears in 14 games across 7 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through wild encounters.
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
Winds & Waves
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