Is Crobat Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Native to Hoenn via Zubat in every cave. AbilityInner Focus blocks flinching. Crobat is still one of the best friendship evolutions in any game. Fast, hits hard enough, and the Poison/Flying typing handles Brawly and contributes against Sidney. Grab a Zubat early in Granite Cave.
Roxanne's team hits Zubat's weaknesses hard.
Zubat trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Wattson's Pokemon outpace and outclass Zubat here.
Golbat has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Golbat trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Golbat trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Tate & Liza's team hits Crobat's weaknesses hard.
Crobat has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Crobat has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Crobat trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Crobat has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Crobat trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Crobat trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catch Zubat
Catch Zubat in Granite Cave (walking, Lv 7-8, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 21FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- LV 31FlyingAir CutterPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 41PoisonPoison FangPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Zubat to Golbat
Zubat evolves into Golbat at Level 22. Your Zubat should hit Level 22 before you reach Flannery, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 22)
- LV 22FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 35FlyingAir CutterPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- LV 49PoisonPoison FangPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Golbat to Crobat
Golbat evolves into Crobat with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Tate & Liza.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 33)
- LV 33FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Route 119
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 35FlyingAir CutterPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- LV 49PoisonPoison FangPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15
How to Get Crobat in Ruby & Sapphire
Crobat is reached by raising a Golbat with high friendship, and Golbat is common in Hoenn caves like Meteor Falls. Catch and evolve a Zubat there, then keep it happy to finish the line.
Catch Zubat or Golbat at any of these 7 spots to eventually evolve into Crobat.
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
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Badge 8How to Obtain Crobat in RS
The path to Crobat starts with Zubat at Lv. 5-36 via walking and surfing encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 1Catch ZubatMeteor Falls - 1F Room 1Lv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Meteor Falls - 1F Room 1Lv.14-20GrassRate 80%Seafloor Cavern - EntranceLv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 35%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 35%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 35%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, High TideLv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 30%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, High TideLv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 30%Granite Cave - 1FLv.7-8CaveRate 30%Granite Cave - 1F Room 2Lv.7-8CaveRate 30%Granite Cave - B1FLv.9-10CaveRate 30%Granite Cave - B2FLv.10-11CaveRate 30%Cave of Origin - EntranceLv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 1Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 2Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 3Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 4Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 5Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 8Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Cave of Origin - InsideLv.30-34CaveRate 60%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, High TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, High TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - B1F, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - B2F, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - B3F, Low TideLv.26-30CaveRate 40%Victory Road - 1FLv.36CaveRate 10%
- Step 2Catch or Evolve GolbatVictory Road - B2FLv.25-40Surfing on waterRate 100%Meteor Falls - 1F Room 2Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 1Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 2Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - EntranceLv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 5%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 5%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 5%Shoal Cave - B3F, Low TideLv.30-32CaveRate 5%Meteor Falls - 1F Room 2Lv.33-40GrassRate 65%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 1Lv.33-40GrassRate 65%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 2Lv.33-40GrassRate 50%Victory Road - B1FLv.38-42CaveRate 35%Victory Road - B2FLv.40-44CaveRate 35%Victory Road - 1FLv.38-40CaveRate 25%Cave of Origin - EntranceLv.33-36CaveRate 10%Cave of Origin - InsideLv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 1Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 2Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 3Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 4Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 5Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 8Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, High TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, High TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - B1F, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - B2F, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Sky Pillar - 1FLv.48-50FloorRate 30%Sky Pillar - 3FLv.51-53FloorRate 30%Sky Pillar - 5FLv.54-56FloorRate 30%or evolve from Zubat (Step 1)
- Step 3Crobat ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Zubat egg.
How to Get Shiny Crobat in Ruby & Sapphire
With no wild form of its own, Crobat comes from a shiny Golbat found in Hoenn's caves, then evolved by building up its friendship. Compare Shiny Crobat odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Crobat Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Crobat in the Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Crobat Weakness
Electric, Ice, Psychic, and Rock moves hit Crobat for super-effective damage. The upside? Ground-type moves can't touch it at all. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Psychic, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Crobat Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Crobat
 Latios DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodRoaming Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Latios builds →Psychic 2x96-113%KO Thunderbolt 2x67-79% Ice Beam 2x67-79% | ||
 Latias DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodRoaming Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Latias builds →Psychic 2x83-98% Thunderbolt 2x59-69% Ice Beam 2x59-69% | ||
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Gardevoir builds →Future Sight 2x123-145%KO Thunderbolt 2x65-77% | ||
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x119-140%KO Shock Wave 2x40-47% | ||
 Aggron SteelRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Aggron builds →Rock Tomb 2x47-56% Ice Beam 2x36-43% Thunderbolt 2x36-43% | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
 Magneton ElectricSteel | A | |
 Metagross SteelPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Beldum (Mossdeep City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Metagross builds →Psychic 2x74-87% Rock Tomb 2x37-44% | ||
 Regirock Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 111 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Regirock builds →Ancient Power 2x52-61% Thunderbolt 2x31-37% | ||
 Chimecho Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Chimecho builds →Psychic 2x74-87% Shock Wave 2x33-39% | ||
 Grumpig Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Grumpig builds →Psychic 2x70-83% Shock Wave 2x31-37% | ||
 Girafarig NormalPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Girafarig builds →Psychic 2x70-83% Thunderbolt 2x49-58% | ||
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Rhydon GroundRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Crobat View Rhydon builds →Rock Tomb 2x54-64% Ice Beam 2x29-35% Thunderbolt 2x29-35% | ||
Crobat Evolutions
End of the line. Crobat caps a three-stage chain that started at Zubat. Breeding produces the base form, and eggs are quick to hatch. Speed grew the most through evolution (+75 over Zubat), and Crobat peaks at 535 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Crobat to get Zubat eggs easily using 25 partners from the Flying egg group. Notable egg moves include Curse, Feint Attack, Gust and 3 more.
RS Crobat Best Moveset
130 Speed acts before nearly everything in the format. AbilityInner Focus prevents flinch, and MoveSludge Bomb provides Poison TermStab. MoveShadow Ball for Ghost coverage, MoveHidden Power for additional type hits. Held ItemChoice Band boosts physical output. Speed-first attacker.
Best Build
Crobat best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Sludge Bomb
- Shadow Ball
- Aerial Ace
- Hidden Power Fighting
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Crobat picks up Curse and Feint Attack only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Fly and Sludge Bomb while Ghost and Bug coverage and more adds range.
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
22 of 23 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
If this POKéMON is flying by fluttering only a pair of wings on either the forelegs or hind legs, it’s proof that CROBAT has been flying a long distance. It switches the wings it uses if it is tired.
CROBAT sneaks up on its intended prey using wings that barely make a sound. This POKéMON rests by hanging on a tree branch with its rear legs that serve as wings.
Crobat Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Crobat is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Golbat with high friendship.
Game Availability
Available in 18 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Crobat spans 8 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in most mainline games.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
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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