Is Cradily Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Rock/Grass with AbilitySuction Cups. Transfer-only. If imported, the Grass sub-typing means Crasher Wake's Water attacks aren't super-effective against Rock. A defensive profile unique to the Lileep line that no Sinnoh Pokemon can replicate.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Roark's team.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Maylene's team hits Lileep's weaknesses hard.
Lileep has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Byron's team hits Lileep's weaknesses hard.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Cradily trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Cradily trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Cradily trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Cradily resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Cradily trades roughly evenly with Saturn's team.
Cradily trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Fossil Lileep
Lileep can be revived from a fossil obtained in Oreburgh City. Revive Root Fossil. Revive from Root Fossil at the Oreburgh Mining Museum. Found in the Underground after obtaining the National Dex.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- After Fantina
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 209
- After Candice
- TM80RockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10Mt. Coronet
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Galactic HQ B2F in Veilstone City
- LV 43RockAncient PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 50GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Lileep to Cradily
Lileep evolves into Cradily at Level 40. Your Lileep should hit Level 40 before you reach Aaron, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 40)
- LV 40RockAncient PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Gardenia
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Wayward Cave (secret entrance under bike path)
- After Candice
- TM80RockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10Mt. Coronet
- After Volkner
- TM71RockStone EdgePower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5Victory Road
- LV 56GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Cradily in Diamond & Pearl
To get Cradily you revive a Lileep from a Root Fossil and raise it to level 40. There is no wild one, so the whole sea lily line traces back to a single fossil dig.
Wild Cradily may be holding when caught:
Big Root (5% chance) A Pokemon hold item that boosts the power of HP-stealing moves to let the holder recover more HP.Catch Lileep at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Cradily.
- 1Catch Lileep
- 2Evolve Cradilyat Lv.40
How to Obtain Cradily in DP
- Step 2Cradily ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Lileep egg.
How to Get Shiny Cradily in Diamond & Pearl
Cradily rises from a bred Lileep, hatched through the Masuda Method and evolved up. Compare Shiny Cradily odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Cradily 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.
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 | 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Diamond & Pearl with Cradily preloaded.
Cradily Weakness
Type-wise, Cradily takes extra damage from Ice, Fighting, Bug, and Steel. Cradily's overall bulk (86/97/107) lets it take a hit or two from most weaknesses before going down.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ice, Fighting, Bug, Steel |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Normal, Electric |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Cradily Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Cradily
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x133-157%KO Iron Tail 2x59-70% | ||
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 2x111-131%KO X-Scissor 2x41-48% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Lake Verity Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Infernape builds →Focus Punch 2x111-131%KO Iron Tail 2x50-59% U-turn 2x35-42% | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
 Empoleon WaterSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Empoleon builds →Flash Cannon 2x59-70% Ice Beam 2x46-55% Brick Break 2x33-39% | ||
 Mawile Steel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Mawile builds →Focus Punch 2x63-75% Flash Cannon 2x35-42% Ice Beam 2x27-33% | ||
 Bronzong SteelPsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Bronzong builds →Flash Cannon 2x45-54% Rock Smash 2x18-22% | ||
 Steelix SteelGround | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Steelix builds →Iron Tail 2x63-75% Ice Fang 2x27-33% Rock Smash 2x18-22% | ||
 Medicham FightingPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Medicham builds →Focus Punch 2x71-84% Ice Punch 2x25-30% | ||
 Glaceon Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Glaceon builds →Ice Beam 2x80-94% Iron Tail 2x33-39% Rock Smash 2x14-17% | ||
 Riolu Fighting | C | |
Obtain MethodIron Island Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Riolu builds →Focus Punch 2x81-96% Iron Tail 2x37-44% | ||
 Forretress BugSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Forretress builds →Flash Cannon 2x38-45% Rock Smash 2x18-22% | ||
Cradily Evolutions
Evolved from Lileep. Cradily is the final form in this two-stage line. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are slow to hatch. Attack grew the most through evolution (+40 over Lileep), and Cradily peaks at 495 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Cradily to get Lileep eggs using 21 partners from the Water 3 egg group. Notable egg moves include Barrier, Mirror Coat, Recover and 3 more.
DP Cradily Best Moveset
97 Defense and 107 Sp. Def on Rock/Grass typing make Cradily a durable tank, and AbilitySuction Cups prevents phazing. The moveset stalls with MoveToxic and MoveRecover while the bulk absorbs hits. 43 Speed means always going last, but tanks don't need to be fast.
Best Build
Cradily best EVs are Sp. Def and HP
Wall Moveset
- Recover
- Rock Slide
- Earthquake
- Seed Bomb
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Barrier and Mirror Coat aren't available any other way for Cradily, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Solar Beam and Stone Edge for solid options.
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
34 of 36 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It lives in the shallows of warm seas. When the tide goes out, it digs up prey from beaches.
Cradily Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Cradily is not available during the main story. It can only be obtained after entering the Hall of Fame. Cradily becomes available after the main story is complete in Diamond & Pearl.
In Diamond & Pearl, Cradily plays as a balanced. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully.
In Diamond & Pearl, Careful is the go-to nature for Cradily. That's +Sp. Def / -Sp. Atk. Pair it with 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpD EVs. Fits the balanced role.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Cradily spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in a solid number of games.
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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