Is Hariyama Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
AbilityThick Fat halves Fire and Ice damage, turning two common weaknesses into non-issues. Hariyama's Attack and HP are enormous. Handles Roxanne, Norman, Sidney, and Steven's Aggron. Slower than Breloom but bulkier. Both earn a team slot.
Makuhita has the type edge here and should clean up Roxanne's team.
Makuhita trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Makuhita trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Hariyama has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Hariyama has the type edge here and should clean up Norman's team.
Hariyama trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Tate & Liza's team hits Hariyama's weaknesses hard.
Hariyama has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Hariyama resists most of Sidney's coverage and hits back hard.
Phoebe's team hits Hariyama's weaknesses hard.
Hariyama resists most of Glacia's coverage and hits back hard.
Hariyama trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Hariyama trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Trade Makuhita
Makuhita can be received through an in-game trade in Rustboro City. Trade Slakoth. Trade a Slakoth to a boy in a house in Rustboro City.
Recommended Moves
- LV 13FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
Evolve Makuhita to Hariyama
Makuhita evolves into Hariyama at Level 24. Your Makuhita should hit Level 24 before you reach Flannery, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 24)
- LV 24FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
How to Get Hariyama in Ruby & Sapphire
Hariyama shows up common at one late-game cave area, levels 38 to 42, or you can evolve a Makuhita at level 24. The wild spawns are pure endgame, so the evolution route arrives much sooner.
Wild Hariyama may be holding when caught:
Kings Rock (5% chance) A hold item that may cause flinching when the foe is hit.1 location to catch Hariyama3 locations to catch Makuhita
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Makuhita at any of the 3 locations below, then level it up to 24 — it evolves into Hariyama.
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Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Hariyama in RS
Makuhita gets you Hariyama sooner: pick up it on Rustboro City at the very start and evolve it at Lv 24. Wild Hariyama first appears at Victory Road (after Badge 8).
- Step 2Hariyama ✓or evolve from Makuhita (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Hariyama catch rates for Ruby & Sapphire by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Hariyama in Ruby & Sapphire
Hariyama shows up commonly deep in Victory Road, so its frequent encounters give you plenty of chances to spot a shiny. Compare Shiny Hariyama odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Hariyama 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Ruby & Sapphire with Hariyama preloaded.
Hariyama Weakness
Flying and Psychic moves hit Hariyama for super-effective damage. Its Fighting typing keeps the defensive matchups simple. Thick Fat reduces Fire/Ice damage, further improving the defensive spread. With 144 HP and balanced defenses, Hariyama can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Flying, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Bug, Rock, Dark |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Hariyama Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Hariyama
 Latios DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodRoaming Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hariyama View Latios builds →Psychic 2x87-103%KO Fly 2x34-40% | ||
 Latias DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodRoaming Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hariyama View Latias builds →Psychic 2x76-89% Fly 2x30-36% | ||
 Rayquaza Dragon | S | |
Obtain MethodSky Pillar Interact Encounter | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hariyama View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x89-105%KO Fly 2x44-51% | ||
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Hariyama View Gardevoir builds →Future Sight 2x112-132%KO | ||
 Altaria Dragon | C | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Hariyama View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x108-127%KO | ||
 Salamence Dragon | S | |
 Grumpig Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hariyama View Grumpig builds →Psychic 2x64-75% Bounce 2x24-28% | ||
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing | ||
 Chimecho Psychic | C | |
 Metagross SteelPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Beldum (Mossdeep City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hariyama View Metagross builds →Psychic 2x67-79% Aerial Ace 2x40-48% | ||
 Girafarig NormalPsychic | C | |
 Ninjask Bug | B | |
Hariyama Evolutions
Hariyama is the evolved form of Makuhita. Breeding produces Makuhita eggs, and they take an average time to hatch. Evolving from Makuhita gave Hariyama the biggest boost in HP (+72), bringing the total to 474 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Hariyama to get Makuhita eggs easily using 28 partners from the Human-Like egg group. Notable egg moves include Counter, Cross Chop, Detect and 5 more.
RS Hariyama Best Moveset
120 Attack fires MoveCross Chop for Fighting TermStab and MoveEarthquake for coverage. AbilityGuts turns status into a 50% Attack boost, or AbilityThick Fat halves Fire and Ice damage alternatively. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Guts-powered Fighting attacker or physical tank depending on the set.
Best Build
Hariyama best EVs are Defense and Sp. Def
Bulky Support Moveset
- Knock Off
- Brick Break
- Rock Slide
- Focus Punch
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Hariyama picks up Counter and Cross Chop only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Focus Punch and Cross Chop while Normal and Dark coverage and more adds range.
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 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
HARIYAMA practices its straight-arm slaps in any number of locations. One hit of this POKéMON’s powerful, openhanded, straight-arm punches could snap a telephone pole in two.
HARIYAMA’s thick body may appear fat, but it is actually a hunk of solid muscle. If this POKéMON bears down and tightens all its muscles, its body becomes as hard as a rock.
Hariyama Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Yes. Wild Hariyama in Ruby & Sapphire can hold Kings Rock (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Kings Rock.
Game Availability
Hariyama first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 14 games across 7 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 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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