Is Drifloon Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Friday encounter at Valley Windworks. Ghost/Flying with AbilityAftermath damaging the attacker on fainting. Drifblim at level 28 has enormous HP. Handles Maylene's Fighting gym through Ghost immunity. A once-a-week catch that's worth the trip.
Roark's team hits Drifloon's weaknesses hard.
Drifloon has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Drifloon trades roughly evenly with Fantina'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.
Byron's team hits Drifblim's weaknesses hard.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Volkner's team hits Drifblim's weaknesses hard.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Bertha's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Drifblim has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Drifblim trades roughly evenly with Mars'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 15, limited). Appears in front of Valley Windworks every Friday after defeating Team Galactic there.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- 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
- After Maylene
- TUTORDarkSucker PunchPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 212
- LV 38GhostShadow BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 43NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- 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 Fantina
- 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 15Veilstone City (Galactic Warehouse)
- LV 44GhostShadow BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 51NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TM04PsychicCalm MindPower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Exchange Service Corner counter at the Battle Frontier, which you enter from the Fight Area
How to Get Drifloon in Platinum
Drifloon is a once-a-week static encounter, appearing outside Valley Windworks only on Fridays at level 15. Miss it and you wait seven days for the next one, so the balloon ghost rewards checking the calendar.
1 location to catch Drifloon
Badge 2How to Obtain Drifloon in Pt
- 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 Platinum
Drifloon floats by the Valley Windworks each Friday, but breeding one with a foreign Ditto is the surer shiny. Compare Shiny Drifloon odds across every game
Platinum 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 Platinum 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 2x94-113%KO Rock Tomb 2x54-64% | ||
 Aerodactyl Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Aerodactyl builds →Rock Tomb 2x85-100%KO Thunder Fang 2x71-83% Ice Fang 2x71-83% Bite 2x65-78% | ||
 Electrike Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Electrike builds →Thunderbolt 2x94-113%KO Thief 2x25-31% | ||
 Gastly GhostPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Gastly builds →Thunderbolt 2x85-100%KO Thief 2x24-28% Lick 2x21-25% | ||
 Luxio Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Luxio builds →Thunderbolt 2x88-104%KO Bite 2x56-67% | ||
 Pachirisu Electric | C | |
 Cranidos Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Cranidos builds →Rock Tomb 2x94-113%KO Pursuit 2x51-61% Thunderbolt 2x39-47% | ||
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
 Shieldon RockSteel | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Shieldon builds →Thunderbolt 2x49-58% Rock Tomb 2x46-54% | ||
 Lunatone RockPsychic | C | |
 Kabuto RockWater | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Kabuto builds →Rock Tomb 2x67-79% Thief 2x38-44% | ||
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
 Lileep RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Drifloon View Lileep builds →Rock Tomb 2x46-54% Astonish 2x18-22% | ||
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.
Pt Drifloon Best Moveset
Losing a held item doubles Speed through AbilityUnburden, setting up sweeping potential the moveset otherwise can't reach at 70 Speed. Ghost/Flying at 90 HP but 34 Defense means the bulk is an illusion. 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 coverage across 9 types 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
Because of the way it floats aimlessly, an old folktale calls it a “Signpost for Wandering Spirits.”
Drifloon Platinum Guide
Drifloon is a static encounter at Valley Windworks in Platinum. Drifloon appears at level 15. Save before the encounter. These one-shot Pokemon don't respawn if you knock them out or run out of Poke Balls.
In Platinum, 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
Winds & Waves
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