Is Floatzel Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Buizel evolves at level 26. AbilitySwift Swim in rain. Floatzel is fast and hits hard physically. Handles Flint's Fire E4 and Bertha through Water. Competes with Gyarados and Empoleon for the Water slot but offers pure speed.
Buizel resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Buizel's weaknesses hard.
Buizel trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Floatzel trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Floatzel resists most of Byron's coverage and hits back hard.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Floatzel trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Floatzel resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Floatzel has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Floatzel trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catch Buizel
Catch Buizel in Valley Windworks (walking, Lv 9-11, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lake Acuity
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- TM55WaterBrinePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Crasher Wake
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Ravaged Path
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Buizel to Floatzel
Buizel evolves into Floatzel at Level 26. Your Buizel should hit Level 26 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
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- TM55WaterBrinePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Crasher Wake
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORWaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Floatzel in Platinum
Floatzel covers a wide late-game spread, common both walking and surfing across the back routes and Victory Road in the high forties. It is everywhere by the endgame, so the sea weasel is never hard to track down.
Wild Floatzel may be holding when caught:
Wacan Berry (5% chance) Held: Consumed when struck by a super-effective Electric-type attack to halve the damage.7 locations to catch Floatzel4 locations to catch Buizel
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 5
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Catch Buizel at any of the 4 locations below, then level it up to 26 — it evolves into Floatzel.
Badge 2
Badge 3
Badge 4 Badge 5Where To Catch Floatzel in Pt
Available earlier: catch Buizel (before Badge 2) and evolve it at Lv 26. Wild Floatzel first appears at Fuego Ironworks (after Badge 5).
- Step 2Floatzel ✓Victory Road - B1FLv.30-50Surfing on waterRate 90%Route 218Lv.29-31GrassRate 40%NightRoute 221Lv.28-31GrassRate 35%NightRoute 218Lv.29-31GrassRate 30%Morning/dayFuego IronworksLv.29-31FloorRate 25%Route 221Lv.29-31GrassRate 25%Morning/dayVictory Road - Nat Dex Area B1FLv.35-55Surfing on waterRate 60%Route 222Lv.38-41GrassRate 40%NightVictory Road - B1FLv.42-44CaveRate 30%Route 222Lv.40GrassRate 20%Morning/dayVictory Road - Nat Dex AreaLv.47-49CaveRate 35%Victory Road - Nat Dex Exit AreaLv.47-49CaveRate 35%Victory Road - Nat Dex Area B1FLv.48-50CaveRate 30%Route 230Lv.48-50GrassRate 25%Route 224Lv.50GrassRate 20%or evolve from Buizel (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the Platinum catch rate calculator with Floatzel preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Floatzel in Platinum
Floatzel turns up on Route 224 and Route 230, so chain it to 40 for a shiny, or evolve a chained Buizel. Compare Shiny Floatzel odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Floatzel Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
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 | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
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 Platinum shiny odds calculator with Floatzel already selected.
Floatzel Weakness
Floatzel's Water typing leaves it vulnerable to Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. At base 115 Speed, Floatzel outspeeds most threats and doesn't need to tank what it can outrun.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Floatzel Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Floatzel
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Floatzel View Tangrowth builds →Solar Beam 2x159-188%KO Shock Wave 2x54-64% | ||
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Route 201 Gift) | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Abomasnow GrassIce | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Floatzel View Abomasnow builds →Wood Hammer 2x128-150%KO | ||
 Cherrim Grass | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Oreburgh City Gift) | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
Floatzel Evolutions
Floatzel is what Buizel becomes. Breed it for Buizel eggs (average hatch time). A massive partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Buizel pushed Floatzel to 495 total stats. Attack saw the largest single gain at +40. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Floatzel to get Buizel eggs easily using 131 partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Baton Pass, Double Slap, Fury Cutter and 5 more.
Pt Floatzel Best Moveset
Glass cannon in Water form: 105 Attack at 115 Speed hits before anything and hard, but 50-55 defenses mean one hit back usually ends the moveset. AbilitySwift Swim in rain pushes the already-extreme Speed further.
Best Build
Floatzel best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Waterfall
- Aqua Jet
- Ice Punch
- Crunch
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Baton Pass and Double Slap on Floatzel. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Surf and Aqua Tail, they expand what Floatzel can actually threaten in practice.
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
37 of 39 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is a common sight around fishing ports. It is known to rescue people and carry off prey.
Floatzel Platinum Guide
Yes. Wild Floatzel in Platinum can hold Wacan Berry (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Wacan Berry.
In Platinum, use Floatzel as a sweeper. Physical side carries the damage. It outspeeds most threats, Waterfall is the primary attack.
For Platinum, run Jolly on Floatzel. +Speed is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the sweeper role.
Game Availability
Debuting in Diamond & Pearl, Floatzel appears in 12 games across 6 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through wild encounters.
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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