Is Corphish Good in Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Playthrough?
Underground Water/Dark. Crawdaunt's 120 Attack makes it one of the hardest-hitting Water-types available. Handles Fantina, Lucian, and Flint. Worth grabbing from the Underground.
Corphish resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Crasher Wake's typing presses Corphish's defenses.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Volkner's team hits Corphish's weaknesses hard.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catch Corphish on Celestic Town (Super Rod fishing, Lv 30-40, common).
Your Corphish should hit Level 30 before you reach Aaron, at typical leveling pace.
How to Get Corphish in Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
A solid number of locations for Corphish with high spawn rates across mid-game routes. The sort toggle below swaps between best odds and earliest access, so you can approach it based on where you are in the game.
Where To Catch Corphish in BDSP
To get Corphish, start by catching Corphish through walking and fishing encounters at Lv. 30-63. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
Step 1Corphish ✓Celestic TownLv.30-40Super RodRate 30%Fountainspring CaveLv.58-63CavePost-gameRiverbank CaveLv.58-63CavePost-gameSpacious CaveLv.58-63CavePost-gameStill-Water CavernLv.58-63CavePost-game
Step 2Catch or Evolve into CrawdauntCelestic TownLv.35-55Super RodRate 5%Fountainspring CaveLv.58-63CavePost-gameRiverbank CaveLv.58-63CavePost-gameSpacious CaveLv.58-63CavePost-gameStill-Water CavernLv.58-63CavePost-gameor evolve from Corphish (Step 1)
Corphish Weakness
Electric and Grass moves hit Corphish for super-effective damage. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Corphish's physical bulk (base 65 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
What is Corphish Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Corphish
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Corphish View Vileplume builds →Petal Dance 2x270-318%KO | ||
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | C | |
 Abomasnow GrassIce | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Corphish View Abomasnow builds →Wood Hammer 2x150-176%KO | ||
In Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, Raikou can KO Corphish with Thunderbolt (94-111%).
 Raikou Electric | B | |
Recommended Build AbilityPressure ItemLeftovers NatureTimid Moves
Damage vs Corphish View Raikou builds →Thunderbolt 2x94-111%KO Scald14-16% Aura Sphere28-33% | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
Recommended Build AbilityTechnician ItemFocus Sash NatureJolly Moves
Damage vs Corphish View Breloom builds →Bullet Seed 2x25-30% Mach Punch20-23% | ||
Corphish Evolutions
Corphish is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Crawdaunt. Check the evolution method below. Plenty of partners for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs are quick to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 160 total stats over Corphish. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Corphish easily with 69 breeding partners from the Water1 and Water3 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Ancient Power, Aqua Jet, Body Slam and 8 more to offspring.
BDSP Corphish Best Moveset
80 Attack at 35 Speed with hidden AbilityAdaptability doubling the TermStab bonus from 50% to 100%. Water TermStab at doubled bonus hits hard for a pre-evo. The moveset has physical power but can't compete at this Speed. One evolution from Crawdaunt's A-tier.
Best Build
Corphish best EVs are Sp. Def and HP
Bulky Support Moveset
- Aqua Jet
- Knock Off
- Swords Dance
- Brick Break
Moves List
Need something that threatens multiple types? Corphish's movepool delivers. Coverage across 10 types plus STAB from Crabhammer and Surf gives it answers for most defensive cores you'll run into.
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
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its hardy vitality enables it to adapt to any environment. Its pincers will never release prey.
Corphish Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Guide
In Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, For a casual playthrough, Corphish works as a placeholder. Water coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Crawdaunt. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Corphish appears in 15 games across 8 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
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 7LGPE
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