Is Claydol Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Ground/Psychic with AbilityLevitate removing Ground weakness. Steven uses Claydol on his Champion team. Defensively solid with only Water, Grass, Bug, Dark, Ghost, and Ice as weaknesses after Levitate. Handles Wattson and most physical attackers. A defensive anchor for the late game.
Baltoy has the type edge here and should clean up Roxanne's team.
Baltoy resists most of Brawly's coverage and hits back hard.
Baltoy trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Baltoy has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Norman's team hits Baltoy's weaknesses hard.
Baltoy trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Claydol trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Claydol trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Claydol trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Claydol trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Claydol has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Claydol trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catch Baltoy
Catch Baltoy on Route 111 (walking, Lv 20-22, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 20NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Wattson
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 114
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Tate & Liza
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 45NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
Evolve Baltoy to Claydol
Baltoy evolves into Claydol at Level 36. Your Baltoy should hit Level 36 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 36)
- LV 36PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 36NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 36NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Tate & Liza
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 55NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
How to Get Claydol in Ruby & Sapphire
Claydol fills six spots at a lone deep-ruins spot, common to uncommon, levels 47 to 56, or you evolve a Baltoy at 36. The wild ones are buried late-game, so the evolution arrives much sooner.
1 location to catch Claydol1 location to catch Baltoy
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Baltoy at any of the 1 location below, then level it up to 36 — it evolves into Claydol.
Badge 3Where To Catch Claydol in RS
The only way to get Claydol during the story is evolving Baltoy (Lv 36).
- Step 1Catch Baltoy
- Step 2Claydol ✓Sky Pillar - 1FLv.47-50FloorRate 25%Sky Pillar - 3FLv.50-53FloorRate 25%Sky Pillar - 5FLv.54-56FloorRate 19%or evolve from Baltoy (Step 1)
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Ruby & Sapphire for Claydol.
How to Get Shiny Claydol in Ruby & Sapphire
Claydol appears in the grass across the floors of Sky Pillar, so walk into wild encounters there and scan each one for shiny coloring. Compare Shiny Claydol odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Claydol 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Ruby & Sapphire 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 |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Claydol Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Claydol
 Heracross BugFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Heracross builds →Megahorn 2x117-138%KO Thief 2x11-13% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Cacturne builds →Solar Beam 2x98-115%KO Feint Attack 2x49-58% Pin Missile 2x10-12% | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Shiftry builds →Solar Beam 2x79-94% Shadow Ball 2x44-52% Thief 2x28-32% | ||
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Sceptile builds →Solar Beam 2x91-107%KO Pursuit 2x21-25% Fury Cutter 2x6-8% | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Ludicolo builds →Solar Beam 2x79-94% Surf 2x63-75% Ice Beam 2x42-50% Thief 2x18-22% | ||
 Walrein IceWater | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Spheal (Shoal Cave Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Walrein builds →Surf 2x66-78% Ice Beam 2x66-78% | ||
 Banette Ghost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Banette builds →Shadow Ball 2x73-86% Feint Attack 2x25-30% | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Cradily builds →Solar Beam 2x73-86% Astonish 2x15-17% | ||
 Regice Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 105 Interact Encounter | ||
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Swampert WaterGround | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Swampert builds →Surf 2x61-71% Ice Beam 2x40-48% | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Roselia builds →Solar Beam 2x86-102%KO Shadow Ball 2x29-35% | ||
 Glalie Ice | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Claydol View Glalie builds →Ice Beam 2x58-68% Crunch 2x33-39% Shadow Ball 2x37-43% Water Pulse 2x24-29% | ||
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 onlyRS Claydol Best Moveset
Ground immunity on a Ground/Psychic type through AbilityLevitate removes what should be the biggest vulnerability. MoveEarthquake for Ground TermStab, MovePsychic for Psychic coverage, MoveRapid Spin for hazard removal, and MoveExplosion finishes. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Hazard removal with dual TermStab.
Best Build
Claydol best EVs are HP and Attack
Physical Tank Moveset
- Rapid Spin
- Earthquake
- Explosion
- Psychic
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The level-up pool tells the story here. Claydol learns Self-Destruct and Hyper Beam naturally, plus enough variety that TMs feel like bonuses. Normal and Rock coverage and more extends the reach beyond that.
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 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
CLAYDOL are said to be dolls of mud made by primitive humans and brought to life by exposure to a mysterious ray. This POKéMON moves about while levitating.
CLAYDOL is an enigma that appeared from a clay statue made by an ancient civilization dating back 20,000 years. This POKéMON shoots beams from both its hands.
Claydol Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Claydol can be caught in the wild at Hoenn Sky Pillar in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire.
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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