Is Feebas Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Route 119 fishing on specific tiles, one of the rarest catches in RS. AbilitySwift Swim doubles Speed in rain. Beauty condition must be maxed for Milotic evolution. The catch is finding Feebas in the first place. If you manage it and evolve it, Milotic is one of the best Water-types in the game.
Roxanne's typing presses Feebas's defenses.
Brawly's typing presses Feebas's defenses.
Wattson's Pokemon outpace and outclass Feebas here.
Flannery's typing presses Feebas's defenses.
Norman's Pokemon outpace and outclass Feebas here.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Milotic resists most of Tate & Liza's coverage and hits back hard.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Milotic has the type edge here and should clean up Phoebe's team.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Milotic has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Milotic has the type edge here and should clean up Steven's team.
Catchable
Catch Feebas on Route 119 (Good Rod fishing, Lv 20-25, common). Only found in 6 random squares.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- After Wallace
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wallace
Evolve Feebas to Milotic
Feebas evolves into Milotic when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Winona.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 31)
- LV 31WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Flannery
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Fiery Path
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- LV 40WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
How to Get Feebas in Ruby & Sapphire
Feebas hides in a single river tile set, fished with any rod, levels 20 to 25. The catch is that only a handful of spots in that whole stretch hold one, making it the trickiest fish in the game.
1 location to catch Feebas
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
Badge 6Where To Catch Feebas in RS
Feebas is where the line starts, caught through fishing encounters at Lv. 20-25. The chain covers 1 catchable stage before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Evolve into MiloticBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Feebas egg.
To plan your throws, open the Ruby & Sapphire catch rate calculator with Feebas preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Feebas in Ruby & Sapphire
Feebas hides on just a handful of fishing tiles along Route 119, so cast a rod on those exact spots and keep at it until a shiny bites. Compare Shiny Feebas odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Feebas 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Ruby & Sapphire shiny odds calculator with Feebas already selected.
Feebas Weakness
Electric and Grass moves hit Feebas for super-effective damage. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Feebas's special bulk (base 55 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Feebas Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Feebas
 Magneton ElectricSteel | A | |
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
 Plusle Electric | C | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Minun Electric | C | |
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
 Grovyle Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Lombre WaterGrass | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Lileep RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodRustboro City Gift | ||
Feebas Evolutions
One evolution ahead. Feebas grows into Milotic through a straightforward two-stage chain. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 340 total stats over Feebas. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Feebas easily with 27 breeding partners from the Dragon and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Confuse Ray, Dragon Breath, Hypnosis and 3 more to offspring.
RS Feebas Best Moveset
The lowest stats achievable on a Water type. AbilitySwift Swim doubles Speed in rain but there's nothing to do with it. Milotic after max beauty evolution is where Water dominance begins.
Best Build
Feebas best EVs are HP and Attack
Physical Tank Moveset
- Splash
- Protect
- Light Screen
- Substitute
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Feebas misses out on Confuse Ray and Dragon Breath. That's 6 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Surf and Dive, with Normal and Ice coverage and more rounding things out.
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 18 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
FEEBAS’s fins are ragged and tattered from the start of its life. Because of its shoddy appearance, this POKéMON is largely ignored. It is capable of living in both the sea and in rivers.
While FEEBAS’s body is in tatters, it has a hardy and tenacious life force that enables it to live anywhere. However, this POKéMON is also slow and dimwitted, making it an easy catch.
Feebas Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Feebas hides on only 6 of about 400 fishable tiles on Route 119 in Ruby and Sapphire. Any rod works, even the Old Rod, but those 6 tiles move every time you change the trendy phrase in Dewford Town. Feebas turns up around level 20, and even on a correct tile each cast bites only about half the time.
No. Feebas only evolves into Milotic through a real trade. There is no in-game alternative in Ruby & Sapphire. Trade needs a Game Boy Advance link cable and a second GBA running another Gen 3 game (FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald). Trade Feebas to a friend, then have them trade it back. The 2026 Switch re-release supports the same trade through local wireless on the Pokemon Center 2F Wireless Club, with no cables required. The Prism Scale must be held during the trade. Bring one over from a sibling Gen 3 game if needed.
Game Availability
Available in 16 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Feebas spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through catching or hatching as a base form in most mainline 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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