Is Crawdaunt Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Corphish evolves at level 30. Water/Dark with AbilityHyper Cutter. The physical/special split transforms Crawdaunt, matching its Attack with physical Dark and Water moves.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Corphish's defenses.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's typing presses Corphish's defenses.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Misty's typing presses Corphish's defenses.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Erika's team hits Corphish's weaknesses hard.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Corphish has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Corphish trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Crawdaunt has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Crawdaunt trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catch Corphish
Catch Corphish in the Safari Zone (Good Rod fishing, Lv 26). Requires 10 Water objects placed in Wetland.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 26)
- LV 26WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Item ball on Ice Path 1F
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- LV 38WaterCrabhammerPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 10
- LV 47DarkCrunchPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Corphish to Crawdaunt
Corphish evolves into Crawdaunt at Level 30. Level it up in the post-game, after you beat Lance.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Item ball on Ice Path 1F
- LV 39DarkNight SlashPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Clair
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sold by the TM clerk on 3F of the Celadon Department Store
- LV 44WaterCrabhammerPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 10
- LV 57DarkCrunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
How to Get Crawdaunt in HeartGold & SoulSilver
A bred Corphish clamps into Crawdaunt at level 30. Neither stage scuttles through the wild here, so every Crawdaunt traces back to a hatched egg and a bit of grinding.
Catch Corphish at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Crawdaunt.
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
- 1Catch Corphish
- 2Evolve Crawdauntat Lv.30
Badge 8How to Obtain Crawdaunt in HGSS
To get Crawdaunt, start by catching Corphish through fishing encounters at Lv. 26-46. The chain covers 1 catchable stage before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Crawdaunt ✓
How to Get Shiny Crawdaunt in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Crawdaunt evolves from Corphish, so breed that base form Masuda-style and raise it once the shiny shows. Compare Shiny Crawdaunt odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Crawdaunt 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.
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 | 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the HeartGold & SoulSilver shiny odds calculator with Crawdaunt already selected.
Crawdaunt Weakness
Type-wise, Crawdaunt takes extra damage from Electric, Grass, Fighting, and Bug. Psychic moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. 6 resistances give it solid defensive coverage on top of that. Crawdaunt's physical bulk (base 85 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass, Fighting, Bug |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Ghost, Dark, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Psychic |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Crawdaunt Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Crawdaunt
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x177-208%KO Seed Bomb 2x94-111%KO | ||
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 2x148-175%KO X-Scissor 2x53-62% | ||
 Hariyama Fighting | B | |
 Gallade PsychicFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Gallade builds →Focus Punch 2x170-200%KO Leaf Blade 2x68-80% X-Scissor 2x61-72% Thunderbolt 2x59-70% | ||
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Tangrowth builds →Solar Beam 2x171-202%KO Focus Blast 2x114-134%KO Shock Wave 2x57-68% | ||
 Hitmonlee Fighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Tyrogue (Mt Mortar Gift) | ||
 Blaziken FireFighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Silph Co Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Blaziken builds →Focus Punch 2x165-194%KO Solar Beam 2x114-134%KO | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Shiftry builds →Leaf Storm 2x168-198%KO X-Scissor 2x50-59% Focus Blast 2x97-114%KO | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Cacturne builds →Solar Beam 2x178-210%KO Focus Punch 2x106-125%KO Pin Missile 2x11-13% | ||
 Primeape Fighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Primeape builds →Focus Punch 2x147-173%KO U-turn 2x47-55% Thunderbolt 2x56-66% | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Pinsir Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Pinsir builds →Focus Punch 2x113-133%KO X-Scissor 2x92-108%KO | ||
 Venusaur GrassPoison | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Bulbasaur (Pallet Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crawdaunt View Venusaur builds →Solar Beam 2x159-187%KO Rock Smash 2x22-26% | ||
Crawdaunt Evolutions
Crawdaunt is the evolved form of Corphish. Breeding produces Corphish eggs, and they are quick to hatch. Evolving from Corphish gave Crawdaunt the biggest boost in Attack (+40), bringing the total to 468 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Crawdaunt to get Corphish eggs easily using 69 partners from the Water 1 and Water 3 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Ancient Power, Body Slam, Dragon Dance and 5 more.
HGSS Crawdaunt Best Moveset
Water/Dark at 120 Attack and 90 Sp. Atk for devastating physical and mixed coverage. AbilityHyper Cutter blocks Attack drops. The moveset fires physical Water and Dark hits hard. 55 Speed and 63 HP are the constraints that keep the power in check.
Best Build
Crawdaunt best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Revenge Killer Moveset
- Crunch
- Waterfall
- Superpower
- X Scissor
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Ancient Power and Body Slam give Crawdaunt options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 9 types already covers a decent range on top of Crabhammer and Surf. The egg moves push it further.
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 32 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
A brutish Pokémon that loves to battle. It will crash itself into any foe that approaches its nest.
Crawdaunt HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Crawdaunt plays as a cannon. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully. Crunch is the primary attack.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Jolly is the go-to nature for Crawdaunt. That's +Speed / -Sp. Atk. Pair it with 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe EVs. Fits the cannon role.
Game Availability
Crawdaunt first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 15 games across 7 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
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
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