Is Croagunk Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Route 212 Poison/Fighting. AbilityDry Skin heals in rain and takes extra Fire damage, new in Gen 4. AbilityAnticipation warns about super-effective moves. Toxicroak at 37 is a fast physical Fighting option with a unique typing.
Croagunk has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Croagunk trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Croagunk trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Croagunk trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Fantina's team hits Croagunk's weaknesses hard.
Toxicroak has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Toxicroak resists most of Candice's coverage and hits back hard.
Toxicroak has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Toxicroak has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Toxicroak trades roughly evenly with Bertha's team.
Toxicroak has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Toxicroak trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Toxicroak has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Toxicroak has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Toxicroak has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Toxicroak trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Croagunk in the Great Marsh (walking, Lv 22-26, uncommon). Pre-National Dex.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 22)
- LV 22FightingRevengePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Gardenia
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Oreburgh Gate (basement)
- LV 31DarkSucker PunchPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 38PoisonPoison JabPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Wayward Cave (secret entrance under bike path)
- LV 43PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Croagunk to Toxicroak
Croagunk evolves into Toxicroak at Level 37. Your Croagunk should hit Level 37 before you reach Byron, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM52FightingFocus BlastPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Oreburgh Gate (basement)
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM75NormalSwords DancePower —Accuracy 100%PP 30Veilstone Game Corner
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 41PoisonPoison JabPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 49PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Croagunk in Diamond & Pearl
Croagunk hops the Great Marsh, an uncommon catch in the low 20s available there throughout the game. Its poison sacs croak from the tall marsh grass, and it turns up nowhere else in Sinnoh.
Wild Croagunk may be holding when caught:
Black Sludge (5% chance) Held: Poison-type holder recovers 1/16 (6.25%) max HP each turn. Non-Poison-Types take 1/8 (12.5%) max HP damage.1 location to catch Croagunk
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 3Where To Catch Croagunk in DP
Croagunk is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 22-26. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Toxicroakor evolve from Croagunk (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Croagunk catch rates for Diamond & Pearl by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Croagunk in Diamond & Pearl
Croagunk asks for a foreign parent, so breed it Masuda-style for the shiny rate. Compare Shiny Croagunk odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Croagunk 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Diamond & Pearl with Croagunk preloaded.
Croagunk Weakness
Psychic, Ground, and Flying moves hit Croagunk for super-effective damage. Psychic hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. 6 resistances give it solid defensive coverage on top of that. Dry Skin grants an additional Water immunity, reshaping the matchup chart.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Psychic |
| 2x (Weak) | Ground, Flying |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Poison, Rock, Dark |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Bug |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Croagunk Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Croagunk
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Gliscor Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Gliscor builds →Earthquake 2x176-208%KO Aerial Ace 2x108-127%KO | ||
 Marowak Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Marowak builds →Earthquake 2x153-181%KO Aerial Ace 2x63-74% | ||
 Kadabra Psychic | A | |
 Drifblim Ghost | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Drifloon (Valley Windworks Interact Encounter) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Drifblim builds →Dream Eater 4x226-267%KO Fly 2x140-165%KO | ||
 Mr. Mime Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Mr. Mime builds →Dream Eater 4x365-431%KO Aerial Ace 2x44-51% | ||
 Lunatone RockPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Lunatone builds →Dream Eater 4x353-415%KO Earthquake 2x78-92% | ||
 Yanmega Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Yanmega builds →Dream Eater 4x274-323%KO Aerial Ace 2x91-108%KO | ||
 Girafarig NormalPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Girafarig builds →Dream Eater 4x340-400%KO Earthquake 2x101-121%KO | ||
 Sandslash Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Sandslash builds →Earthquake 2x182-215%KO Aerial Ace 2x73-87% | ||
 Donphan Ground | B | |
 Hypno Psychic | C | |
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMt Coronet Surfing | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Croagunk View Solrock builds →Dream Eater 4x235-277%KO Earthquake 2x117-138%KO | ||
Croagunk Evolutions
Croagunk evolves into Toxicroak. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are quick to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 190 total stats over Croagunk. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Croagunk easily with 39 breeding partners from the Human-Like egg group. Pass egg moves like Bullet Punch, Cross Chop, Dynamic Punch and 8 more to offspring.
DP Croagunk Best Moveset
Poison/Fighting with AbilityDry Skin recovering HP in rain and taking extra Fire damage. The moveset previews Toxicroak's unique water-healing niche. Stats too low to compete. Toxicroak is where the rain niche becomes real.
Best Build
Croagunk best EVs are Attack and Sp. Atk
Utility Moveset
- Vacuum Wave
- Sucker Punch
- Fake Out
- Ice Punch
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Croagunk misses out on Bullet Punch and Cross Chop. That's 11 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Focus Punch and Focus Blast, with coverage across 7 types rounding things out.
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
39 of 41 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its cheeks hold poison sacs. It tries to catch foes off guard to jab them with toxic fingers.
Inflating its poison sacs, it makes an eerie blubbering sound for intimidation.
Croagunk Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Wild Croagunk in Diamond & Pearl can hold Black Sludge (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Black Sludge.
In Diamond & Pearl, Croagunk does the job early-game if you need a Poison/Fighting type on your team. Evolve it into Toxicroak before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Croagunk first appeared in Diamond & Pearl and has been available in 13 games across 6 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
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