Is Durant Good in Black & White Playthrough?
Bug/Steel with AbilityHustle boosting Attack by 50% at the cost of accuracy. Victory Road catch. No evolution. High Attack and decent Speed. AbilityHustle misses hurt, but when it connects, Durant hits hard. Arrives too late for the story.
Durant resists most of Cilan's coverage and hits back hard.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Chili's team.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Cress's team.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Lenora's team.
Durant resists most of Burgh's coverage and hits back hard.
Durant trades roughly evenly with Elesa's team.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Clay's team.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Skyla's team.
Durant resists most of Brycen's coverage and hits back hard.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Drayden's team.
Durant trades roughly evenly with Shauntal's team.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Grimsley's team.
Durant has the type edge here and should clean up Caitlin's team.
Durant trades roughly evenly with Marshal's team.
Durant trades roughly evenly with Alder's team.
Catchable
Catch Durant in Victory Road (walking, Lv 37-40, common).
Black & White Durant Locations
Durant stacks fourteen chances into the same area, all of them walking encounters. Common odds and a tight level 37 to 42 band mean the colony is hard to miss once you arrive.
Best Locations to Catch Durant in Black & White
You can find Durant through 7 walking encounters at Lv. 37-42. The list is sorted by game progression, so the earliest accessible spots show up first.
How to Get Shiny Durant in Black & White
Durant marches to the Day Care for shinies, since an imported parent makes every egg a boosted Masuda chance. Compare Shiny Durant odds across every game
Shiny Durant Evolution
Does Not EvolveBlack & White Shiny Durant Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,366 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 |
|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 144 |
| 25%one in four | 393 |
| 50%coin flip | 947 |
| 90%very likely | 3,145 |
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 Durant in the Black & White Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Durant Weakness
Durant is weak to Fire. Watch out for Fire attacks, those deal 4x damage. On the flip side, it's immune to Poison-type moves entirely. It resists 9 types, so it can switch into a lot of moves safely. Durant's physical bulk (base 112 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Fire |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Normal, Ice, Psychic, Bug, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
| 0x (Immune) | Poison |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Durant Weak Against
FortressBest Pokemon Against Durant
 Chandelure GhostFire | B | |
 Volcarona BugFire | A | |
Obtain MethodRelic Castle Interact Encounter | ||
 Darmanitan Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodDesert Resort Interact Encounter Available Move Moves
Damage vs Durant View Darmanitan builds →Flare Blitz 4x248-292%KO | ||
 Emboar FireFighting | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Tepig (Nuvema Town Gift) | ||
 Simisear Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Pansear (Dreamyard Gift) | ||
 Ninetales Fire | B | |
 Heatmor Fire | C | |
 Houndoom DarkFire | C | |
 Rapidash Fire | C | |
Durant Evolutions
Durant is what you get. No evolutions, but it breeds through one egg group with plenty of partners. Its eggs take an average time to hatch. It's got 6 egg moves worth looking into. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Durant easily with 65 breeding partners from the Bug egg group. Pass egg moves like Baton Pass, Endure, Feint Attack and 3 more to offspring.
BW Durant Best Moveset
109 Attack at 109 Speed with AbilityHustle boosting Attack by 50%% at reduced accuracy. Bug/Steel resists 8 types. AbilityTruant as a hidden ability is a trap — it forces skipping every other turn. The moveset runs Hustle for raw power and Speed, firing boosted physical Bug and Steel TermStab with an accuracy gamble.
Best Build
Durant best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Iron Head
- Hone Claws
- X Scissor
- Rock Slide
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Durant. Baton Pass and Endure can be bred onto it, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Iron Head and X-Scissor and coverage across 9 types.
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
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
They attack in groups, covering themselves in steel armor to protect themselves from Heatmor.
Durant dig nests in mountains. They build their complicated, interconnected tunnels into mazes.
Durant Black & White Guide
In Black & White, Durant plays as a sweeper. It outspeeds most threats, so it can pressure opponents before they move.
In Black & White, Durant pairs best with Togekiss, Rotom Wash, and Conkeldurr. Togekiss has Decent synergy and covers what Durant can't handle on its own.
Durant's hidden ability is Truant. It skips every second turn. Situational compared to Swarm and Hustle.
In Black & White, Jolly is the go-to nature for Durant. That's +Speed / -Sp. Atk. Pair it with 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe EVs. Fits the sweeper role.
Game Availability
Since Black & White, Durant has been obtainable in 7 games. A Generation 5 debut means a shorter history, but Durant has appeared steadily across every generation since.
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 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BWDebut
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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