Is Cradily Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Lileep evolves at level 40. Rock/Grass with AbilitySuction Cups. Handles Wake at the Battleground and Bertha in the Elite Four rematch through type matchups. The fossil sourcing is the only barrier to an otherwise solid defensive pick.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Roark's team.
Gardenia's typing presses Lileep's defenses.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Maylene's team hits Lileep's weaknesses hard.
Lileep has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Byron's team hits Lileep's weaknesses hard.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Volkner's team hits Lileep's weaknesses hard.
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 resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
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 Mining Museum. Found in The Underground after National Dex.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Crasher Wake
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 209
- LV 43RockAncient PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Candice
- TM80RockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10Mt. Coronet
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Item ball on B2F of the Team Galactic HQ in Veilstone City
- LV 50GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORGrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- 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
- After Gardenia
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Wayward Cave (secret entrance under bike path)
- After Fantina
- 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 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
- TUTORGrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Cradily in Platinum
Cradily has no encounters of its own. Revive the Root Fossil for a Lileep at Oreburgh, then raise that fossil to level 40 and the ancient sea-lily unfurls.
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
Badge 1How to Obtain Cradily in Pt
- Step 2Cradily ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Lileep egg.
How to Get Shiny Cradily in Platinum
Cradily comes by leveling a revived Lileep, so hatch a shiny one through a foreign Ditto, then evolve it. Compare Shiny Cradily odds across every game
Platinum 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 Platinum 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 | |
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
 Gallade PsychicFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Gallade builds →Focus Punch 2x125-148%KO Fury Cutter 2x7-8% | ||
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Infernape builds →Focus Punch 2x108-128%KO U-turn 2x34-41% | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
 Medicham FightingPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Medicham builds →Focus Punch 2x70-84% Ice Punch 2x25-30% | ||
 Glaceon Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Glaceon builds →Ice Beam 2x77-91% Rock Smash 2x14-16% | ||
 Bronzong SteelPsychic | B | |
 Empoleon WaterSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Empoleon builds →Ice Beam 2x46-54% Steel Wing 2x46-54% Brick Break 2x32-38% | ||
 Scyther Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Scyther builds →U-turn 2x54-64% Brick Break 2x39-46% Steel Wing 2x36-43% | ||
 Kricketune Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Kricketune builds →X-Scissor 2x50-59% Brick Break 2x32-38% | ||
 Forretress BugSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Forretress builds →Bug Bite 2x42-49% Mirror Shot 2x31-37% Rock Smash 2x19-23% | ||
 Regice Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodMt Coronet Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Cradily View Regice builds →Ice Beam 2x62-74% Focus Blast 2x52-62% | ||
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.
Pt Cradily Best Moveset
Rock/Grass typing is weak to Ice, Steel, Fighting, and Bug, and those types are common in competitive play. The moveset uses 97 Defense and 107 Sp. Def to block attacks anyway, and AbilitySuction Cups prevents forced switches. 43 Speed means always going last.
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
33 of 36 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It lives in the shallows of warm seas. When the tide goes out, it digs up prey from beaches.
Cradily Platinum 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 Platinum.
In Platinum, Cradily plays as a balanced. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully.
In Platinum, 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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