Is Grumpig Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
AbilityThick Fat removes Fire and Ice as threats, and AbilityOwn Tempo blocks confusion. Grumpig has solid Special Attack and Defense. Handles Brawly, contributes through the E4. Gardevoir outclasses it in raw power, but Grumpig's defensive abilities make it safer to use. The budget Psychic that holds up.
Spoink has the type edge here and should clean up Roxanne's team.
Spoink resists most of Brawly's coverage and hits back hard.
Wattson's typing presses Spoink's defenses.
Spoink has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Norman's team hits Spoink's weaknesses hard.
Spoink trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Grumpig trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Grumpig has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Grumpig trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Grumpig trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Grumpig has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Grumpig trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Grumpig trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catch Spoink
Catch Spoink on Jagged Pass (walking, Lv 18-20, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 18)
- LV 18PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Fortree City
- After Norman
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- LV 34PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 43FlyingBouncePower 85Accuracy 85%PP 5
- After Wallace
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
Evolve Spoink to Grumpig
Spoink evolves into Grumpig at Level 32. Your Spoink should hit Level 32 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 32)
- LV 32PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- LV 37PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- TM04PsychicCalm MindPower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Tate & Liza
- After Wallace
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
- LV 55FlyingBouncePower 85Accuracy 85%PP 5
How to Get Grumpig in Ruby & Sapphire
No wild Grumpig turns up on any route. You raise it from a Spoink at level 32, and digging that bouncy base form out of its lone mountain patch is the slow part.
Catch Spoink at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Grumpig.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Spoink
- 2Evolve Grumpigat Lv.32
Badge 4How to Obtain Grumpig in RS
- Step 2Grumpig ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Spoink egg.
How to Get Shiny Grumpig in Ruby & Sapphire
A shiny Grumpig comes only from Spoink, since Grumpig itself never appears wild; catch a shiny Spoink and raise it into Grumpig. Compare Shiny Grumpig odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Grumpig 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 Ruby & Sapphire shiny odds for Grumpig.
Grumpig Weakness
Type-wise, Grumpig takes extra damage from Bug, Ghost, and Dark. Thick Fat reduces Fire/Ice damage, further improving the defensive spread. Grumpig's special bulk (base 110 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Bug, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, Psychic |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Grumpig Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Grumpig
 Absol Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Absol builds →Shadow Ball 2x70-83% Bite 2x34-40% | ||
 Banette Ghost | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Banette builds →Shadow Ball 2x94-112%KO Feint Attack 2x25-30% | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Shiftry builds →Shadow Ball 2x56-67% Thief 2x28-33% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Cacturne builds →Feint Attack 2x48-57% Pin Missile 2x12-14% | ||
 Mightyena Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Mightyena builds →Shadow Ball 2x52-62% Bite 2x30-36% | ||
 Volbeat Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Volbeat builds →Signal Beam 2x63-74% Shadow Ball 2x44-52% Thief 2x12-14% | ||
 Ninjask Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Ninjask builds →Shadow Ball 2x52-62% Leech Life 2x22-26% Thief 2x12-14% | ||
 Dusclops Ghost | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Dusclops builds →Shadow Ball 2x64-76% Pursuit 2x13-16% | ||
 Beautifly Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Beautifly builds →Silver Wind 2x48-57% Shadow Ball 2x43-51% Thief 2x20-24% | ||
 Masquerain Bug | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Surskit (Route 102 Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Masquerain builds →Shadow Ball 2x39-46% Thief 2x20-24% | ||
 Illumise Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Grumpig View Illumise builds →Shadow Ball 2x32-38% Thief 2x16-19% | ||
 Pinsir Bug | C | |
 Heracross BugFighting | A | |
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodRustboro City Gift | ||
Grumpig Evolutions
Grumpig is what Spoink becomes. Breed it for Spoink eggs (average hatch time). A massive partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Spoink pushed Grumpig to 470 total stats. Defense saw the largest single gain at +30. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Grumpig to get Spoink eggs easily using 102 partners from the Field egg group. Notable egg moves include Extrasensory, Future Sight, Substitute and 1 more.
RS Grumpig Best Moveset
110 Sp. Def absorbs special attacks, and AbilityThick Fat halves Fire and Ice damage for two fewer weaknesses. MovePsychic from 90 Sp. Atk and MoveCalm Mind for boosting. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Special tank with Calm Mind setup.
Best Build
Grumpig best EVs are HP and Speed
Bulky Support Moveset
- Psychic
- Fire Punch
- Calm Mind
- Trick
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Extrasensory and Future Sight give Grumpig options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 7 types already covers a decent range on top of Future Sight and Psychic. The egg moves push it further.
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
26 of 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
GRUMPIG uses the black pearls on its body to amplify its psychic power waves for gaining total control over its foe. When this POKéMON uses its special power, its snorting breath grows labored.
GRUMPIG uses the black pearls on its body to wield its fantastic powers. When it is doing so, it dances bizarrely. This POKéMON’s black pearls are valuable as works of art.
Grumpig Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Grumpig is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Spoink under specific conditions.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Grumpig appears in 15 games across 7 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline 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 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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