Is Drapion Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Skorupi evolves at level 40. Poison/Dark with AbilityBattle Armor. Only weak to Ground. The chain is post-game: Skorupi comes from Wasteland objects in the Safari Zone, which unlock with the National Dex, so Drapion arrives after the Elite Four.
Skorupi has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Skorupi has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Skorupi has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Skorupi has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Skorupi has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Janine's team hits Skorupi's weaknesses hard.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Blaine's team hits Skorupi's weaknesses hard.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Koga's team hits Skorupi's weaknesses hard.
Skorupi trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Drapion has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Drapion has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catch Skorupi
Catch Skorupi in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 44-45). Requires 28 Peak objects placed in Wasteland.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 44)
- LV 44BugBug BitePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Whitney
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Hiker on Route 42
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- After Clair
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Sold by the TM clerk on 3F of the Celadon Department Store
- LV 45DarkCrunchPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 50PoisonCross PoisonPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
Evolve Skorupi to Drapion
Skorupi evolves into Drapion at Level 40. You get it at Level 44 or higher, past Level 40, so it evolves into Drapion the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 40)
- LV 40DarkBitePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM28GroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- After Clair
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sold by the TM clerk on 3F of the Celadon Department Store
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- LV 49DarkCrunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 58PoisonCross PoisonPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
How to Get Drapion in HeartGold & SoulSilver
No wild encounters for Drapion. The 2-stage line runs through Skorupi, which you can catch in the wild from the locations below. Evolve at level 40 once you've got the levels.
Wild Drapion may be holding when caught:
Poison Barb (5% chance) An item to be held by a Pokemon. It is a small, poisonous barb that ups the power of Poison-type moves.Catch Skorupi at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Drapion.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Skorupi
- 2Evolve Drapionat Lv.40
Badge 8How to Obtain Drapion in HGSS
- Step 2Drapion ✓
How to Get Shiny Drapion in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Drapion evolves from Skorupi, so breed that base form Masuda-style and raise its armor once it shines. Compare Shiny Drapion odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Drapion 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your HeartGold & SoulSilver shiny odds for Drapion.
Drapion Weakness
Drapion is weak to Ground. On the flip side, it's immune to Psychic-type moves entirely. The Poison/Dark typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Drapion's physical bulk (base 110 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Poison, Ghost, Dark |
| 0x (Immune) | Psychic |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Drapion Weak Against
Excellent
Drapion Evolutions
Drapion is what Skorupi becomes. Breed it for Skorupi eggs (average hatch time). A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Skorupi pushed Drapion to 500 total stats. Attack saw the largest single gain at +40. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Drapion to get Skorupi eggs easily using 48 partners from the Bug and Water 3 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Agility, Confuse Ray, Feint Attack and 6 more.
HGSS Drapion Best Moveset
Poison/Dark with only Ground super-effective and 110 Defense tanking physical damage. The moveset fires physical Dark and Poison attacks from 90 Attack at 95 Speed. AbilitySniper boosts critical hit damage. Single weakness typing is the primary draw.
Best Build
Drapion best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Crunch
- Toxic Spikes
- Earthquake
- Cross Poison
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Earthquake and Hyper Beam bring the raw damage. But Drapion also picks up coverage across 12 types from TMs, making it tough to find a safe switch. You're not locked into one angle here.
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
It attacks people and Pokémon that cross the desert. This has only furthered its bad reputation.
Drapion HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Drapion plays as a balanced. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully. Crunch is the primary attack.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Jolly is the go-to nature for Drapion. That's +Speed / -Sp. Atk. Pair it with 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe EVs. Fits the balanced role.
Game Availability
Debuting in Diamond & Pearl, Drapion appears in 12 games across 6 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through wild encounters.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DPDebut
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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