Is Furret Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Transfer-only Normal with AbilityKeen Eye. Furret is fast but weak. Sinnoh's Normal options are better across the board. There's no matchup where you'd pick Furret over Staraptor, Bibarel, or Lopunny.
Roark's Pokemon outpace and outclass Sentret here.
Furret trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Furret trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Furret has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Furret trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Furret trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
Furret resists most of Candice's coverage and hits back hard.
Furret has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Furret has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Furret has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Furret trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Furret trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Furret has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Furret has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Furret has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Furret trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catch Sentret
Catch Sentret on Route 202 (Poké Radar, Lv 2-4, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 47NormalHyper VoicePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Sentret to Furret
Sentret evolves into Furret at Level 15. Your Sentret should hit Level 15 before you reach Gardenia, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Lost Tower
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 56NormalHyper VoicePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Furret in Diamond & Pearl
Evolve a Poke Radar Sentret at level 15 to get Furret, with no wild form to shortcut to. The long-bodied normal type only comes from raising that early-route base.
Wild Furret may be holding when caught:
Oran Berry (50% chance) Held: Consumed at 1/2 max HP to recover 10 HP.
Sitrus Berry (5% chance) Held: Consumed at 1/2 max HP to recover 1/4 max HP.Catch Sentret at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Furret.
- 1Catch Sentret
- 2Evolve Furretat Lv.15
How to Obtain Furret in DP
- Step 1Catch Sentret
- Step 2Furret ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Sentret egg.
How to Get Shiny Furret in Diamond & Pearl
Furret evolves from Sentret, so chain that shiny on Route 202 and let it stretch out long. Compare Shiny Furret odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Furret 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Diamond & Pearl with Furret preloaded.
Furret Weakness
Type-wise, Furret takes extra damage from Fighting. Ghost moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. Only 1 weakness makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Furret Weak Against
Good
Furret Evolutions
Furret is the evolved form of Sentret. Breeding produces Sentret eggs, and they are quick to hatch. Evolving from Sentret gave Furret the biggest boost in Speed (+70), bringing the total to 415 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Furret to get Sentret eggs easily using 131 partners from the Field egg group. Notable egg moves include Assist, Charm, Covet and 8 more.
DP Furret Best Moveset
90 Speed is surprisingly fast, but 76 Attack and 45 Sp. Atk don't give the moveset real damage output. Normal typing means no super-effective coverage from primary attacks. Outclassed by almost every other Normal type.
Best Build
Furret best EVs are HP and Speed
Pivot Moveset
- Baton Pass
- Substitute
- U Turn
- Sucker Punch
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Hard to wall, honestly. Furret threatens 11 types beyond its own STAB, with Dark and Ice standing out. Pair that with Giga Impact and Hyper Beam and switchins need to think twice.
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
43 of 44 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
The mother puts its offspring to sleep by curling up around them. It corners foes with speed.
Furret Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, Furret can work for a story run. It rates C-Tier, a middle-of-the-pack pick, so the Normal typing decides whether it earns a team slot.
In Diamond & Pearl, Furret plays as a pivot. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully.
In Diamond & Pearl, Calm is the go-to nature for Furret. That's +Sp. Def / -Attack. Pair it with 252 HP / 76 Def / 78 SpD / 100 Spe EVs. Fits the pivot role.
Game Availability
Furret first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 16 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
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 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
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