Is Exploud Good in Emerald Playthrough?
AbilitySoundproof makes Exploud immune to sound moves. Mixed offense handles most neutral matchups through raw Normal power. No specific boss advantages, but the broad coverage gets Exploud through the E4 on volume alone.
Roxanne's typing presses Whismur's defenses.
Whismur trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Loudred trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Loudred trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Loudred trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Loudred has the type edge here and should clean up Winona's team.
Exploud trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Exploud has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
Exploud has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Exploud trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Exploud has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Exploud has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Exploud has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Catch Whismur
Catch Whismur on Route 116 (walking, Lv 6, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 45NormalHyper VoicePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega KickPower 180Accuracy 75%PP 5Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 128Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORFireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORIceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
Evolve Whismur to Loudred
Whismur evolves into Loudred at Level 20. Your Whismur should hit Level 20 before you reach Wattson, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Given by the Tunnel Man in Rusturf Tunnel
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 140Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 57NormalHyper VoicePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega KickPower 180Accuracy 75%PP 5Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 128Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORFireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORIceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORRockRock SlidePower 75Accuracy 90%PP 10Battle Frontier
- TUTORElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
Evolve Loudred to Exploud
Loudred evolves into Exploud at Level 40. Your Loudred should hit Level 40 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 40)
- LV 40NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Given by the Tunnel Man in Rusturf Tunnel
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 140Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 63NormalHyper VoicePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega KickPower 180Accuracy 75%PP 5Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 128Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORFireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORIceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORRockRock SlidePower 75Accuracy 90%PP 10Battle Frontier
- TUTORElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
How to Get Exploud in Emerald
Loudred reaches its final form Exploud at level 40, capping the loud Whismur line. No cave hands the big speaker over directly, so you grow one rather than catch it.
Wild Exploud may be holding when caught:
Chesto Berry (5% chance) A hold item that awakens Pokemon in battle.Catch Whismur or Loudred at any of these 4 spots to eventually evolve into Exploud.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Whismur is your first catch on the way to Exploud. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 5-44 across 6 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve Loudredor evolve from Whismur (Step 1)
- Step 3Exploud ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Whismur egg.
How to Get Shiny Exploud in Emerald
Exploud is never wild, so catch a shiny Whismur in Rusturf Tunnel and raise it, evolving into Loudred at 20 and Exploud at 40; the shine stays with it the whole climb. Compare Shiny Exploud odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Exploud 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Emerald shiny odds for Exploud.
Exploud Weakness
Exploud's Normal typing leaves it vulnerable to Fighting. It shrugs off Ghost-type attacks completely. With 104 HP and balanced defenses, Exploud can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Exploud Weak Against
Good
Exploud Evolutions
End of the line. Exploud caps a three-stage chain that started at Whismur. Breeding produces the base form, and eggs take an average time to hatch. HP grew the most through evolution (+40 over Whismur), and Exploud peaks at 480 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Exploud to get Whismur eggs easily using 102 partners from the Field and Monster egg groups. Notable egg moves include Extrasensory, Smelling Salts, Snore and 2 more.
E Exploud Best Moveset
AbilitySoundproof prevents MoveRoar and MovePerish Song from disrupting the team, and Exploud's balanced 91 Attack/91 Sp. Atk lets the moveset go mixed. 104 base HP provides enough bulk to take a hit while firing back with Normal TermStab.
Best Build
Exploud best EVs are HP and Attack
Bulky Support Moveset
- Return
- Fire Blast
- Substitute
- Shadow Ball
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breadth over depth defines this movepool. Exploud won't stack one type's damage ceiling, but coverage across 10 types means it always has an effective option. Hyper Beam and Double-Edge anchor the STAB core.
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 29 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It has sound-generating organs all over its body. It communicates with others by adjusting the tone and volume of the cries it emits.
Exploud Emerald Guide
In Emerald, use Exploud as a balanced. Physical side carries the damage. Not the fastest, Return is the primary attack.
For Emerald, run Adamant on Exploud. +Attack is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the balanced role.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Exploud spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in a solid number of games.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
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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