Is Drifloon Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Appears only on Fridays at Valley Windworks. Ghost/Flying with AbilityAftermath dealing damage when KO'd. AbilityUnburden doubles Speed after consuming a held item. Limited availability but a fun pickup if you time it right. Drifblim at 28.
Roark's team hits Drifloon's weaknesses hard.
Drifloon has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Fantina's team.
Byron's team hits Drifblim's weaknesses hard.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Bertha's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Mars's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Drifloon in Valley Windworks (interact, Lv 22, limited). Appears outside Valley Windworks every Friday. Speak to it to battle.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Lake Valor
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Game Corner
- LV 30GhostOminous WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 38GhostShadow BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 43NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Drifloon to Drifblim
Drifloon evolves into Drifblim at Level 28. Your Drifloon should hit Level 28 before you reach Maylene, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Maylene
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15Inside the Galactic Warehouse in Veilstone City
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 44GhostShadow BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 51NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TM04PsychicCalm MindPower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Exchange Service Corner building in the Battle Park, entered through the Fight Area gatehouse
How to Get Drifloon in Diamond & Pearl
Drifloon floats outside the Valley Windworks, but only on Fridays. The balloon Pokemon appears there once a week at level 22, so mark the day or it will not be waiting at the gate.
1 location to catch Drifloon
Badge 1How to Obtain Drifloon in DP
- Step 1Drifloon ✓
- Step 2Evolve into DrifblimBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Drifloon egg.
How to Get Shiny Drifloon in Diamond & Pearl
Drifloon floats in at the Valley Windworks on Fridays, but a shiny is faster to breed via the Masuda Method. Compare Shiny Drifloon odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Drifloon 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Drifloon in the Diamond & Pearl Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Drifloon Weakness
Electric, Ice, Rock, Ghost, and Dark moves hit Drifloon for super-effective damage. The upside? Normal, Fighting, and Ground-type moves can't touch it at all.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Rock, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Poison |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Normal, Fighting, Ground |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Drifloon Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Drifloon
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Shiftry builds →Feint Attack 2x87-104%KO Rock Tomb 2x50-59% | ||
 Rotom ElectricGhost | C | |
Obtain MethodOld Chateau Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Rotom builds →Thunderbolt 2x110-131%KO Astonish 2x28-35% Thief 2x26-31% | ||
 Gengar GhostPoison | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Gengar builds →Thunderbolt 2x95-113%KO Sucker Punch 2x56-67% Lick 2x26-31% | ||
 Aerodactyl Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Aerodactyl builds →Rock Tomb 2x78-92% Thunder Fang 2x67-79% Ice Fang 2x67-79% Bite 2x60-72% | ||
 Elekid Electric | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Elekid builds →Thunderbolt 2x85-100%KO Thief 2x29-36% | ||
 Electrike Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Electrike builds →Thunderbolt 2x85-100%KO Thief 2x23-28% | ||
 Luxio Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Luxio builds →Thunderbolt 2x81-96% Bite 2x51-62% | ||
 Pachirisu Electric | C | |
 Misdreavus Ghost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Misdreavus builds →Thunderbolt 2x69-82% Astonish 2x32-38% Thief 2x28-33% | ||
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
 Murkrow Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Murkrow builds →Pursuit 2x55-65% Astonish 2x28-33% | ||
 Lunatone RockPsychic | C | |
 Kabuto RockWater | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Kabuto builds →Rock Tomb 2x65-77% Thief 2x35-41% | ||
Drifloon Evolutions
Drifloon is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Drifblim. Check the evolution method below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are slow to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 150 total stats over Drifloon. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Drifloon easily with 31 breeding partners from the Amorphous egg group. Pass egg moves like Body Slam, Destiny Bond, Disable and 3 more to offspring.
DP Drifloon Best Moveset
Ghost/Flying at 90 HP but 34 Defense means the bulk is misleading. AbilityUnburden doubles Speed after losing a held item, which sets up sweeping potential. The moveset previews Drifblim's style but needs the evolution. Drifblim is the next step.
Best Build
Drifloon best EVs are HP and Speed
Support Moveset
- Defog
- Hypnosis
- Disable
- Dream Eater
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Drifloon picks up Body Slam and Destiny Bond only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Shadow Ball and Ominous Wind while Normal and Dark 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
36 of 40 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
A Pokémon formed by the spirits of people and Pokémon. It loves damp, humid seasons.
It tugs on the hands of children to steal them away. However, it gets pulled around instead.
Drifloon Diamond & Pearl Guide
Drifloon is a static encounter at Valley Windworks in Diamond & Pearl. Drifloon appears at level 22. Save before the encounter. These one-shot Pokemon don't respawn if you knock them out or run out of Poke Balls.
In Diamond & Pearl, for a casual playthrough, Drifloon works as a placeholder. Ghost/Flying coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Drifblim. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Diamond & Pearl, Drifloon appears in 13 games across 6 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
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
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