Is Honchkrow Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Diamond-exclusive. Dusk Stone evolution from Eterna Forest's Murkrow. Dark/Flying with AbilitySuper Luck boosting crit rate. Honchkrow hits extremely hard with mixed offense. Handles Fantina, Lucian, and Maylene. One of Diamond's best exclusive pickups.
Murkrow trades roughly evenly with Roark's team.
Honchkrow resists most of Gardenia's coverage and hits back hard.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Honchkrow trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Fantina's team.
Byron's team hits Honchkrow's weaknesses hard.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Honchkrow trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Honchkrow trades roughly evenly with Bertha's team.
Honchkrow trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Honchkrow has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Honchkrow trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catch Murkrow
Catch Murkrow in Eterna Forest (walking, Lv 10-11, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Roark
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Floaroma Town
- After Gardenia
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 213
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Game Corner
- After Maylene
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15Inside the Galactic Warehouse in Veilstone City
- LV 35DarkFeint AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 45DarkSucker PunchPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Volkner
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Victory Road
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Murkrow to Honchkrow
Murkrow evolves into Honchkrow with a Dusk Stone. Post-Game: You can pick up the Dusk Stone in Victory Road. Available after obtaining the National Pokédex.
Recommended Moves
- After Roark
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Floaroma Town
- After Gardenia
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 213
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Maylene
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15Inside the Galactic Warehouse in Veilstone City
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 45DarkNight SlashPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 55DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Honchkrow in Diamond & Pearl
Honchkrow has no wild spawn. Use a Dusk Stone on a Murkrow, the Diamond-side crow from Eterna Forest, which means Pearl owners trade one in before reaching for the stone.
Catch Murkrow at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Honchkrow.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Murkrow
- 2Evolve HonchkrowUse Dusk Stone
Badge 1
Badge 2How to Obtain Honchkrow in DP
The path to Honchkrow starts with Murkrow at Lv. 10-21 via walking encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Honchkrow ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Murkrow egg.
How to Get Shiny Honchkrow in Diamond & Pearl
Honchkrow needs a Dusk Stone, so chain a shiny Murkrow in Eterna Forest at night and evolve it up. Compare Shiny Honchkrow odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Honchkrow 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 Diamond & Pearl shiny odds calculator with Honchkrow already selected.
Honchkrow Weakness
Type-wise, Honchkrow takes extra damage from Electric, Ice, and Rock. Ground and Psychic moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Ghost, Dark |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground, Psychic |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Honchkrow Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Honchkrow
 Rhydon GroundRock | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Honchkrow View Rhydon builds →Stone Edge 2x135-159%KO Avalanche 2x54-64% Thunderbolt 2x37-44% | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Armaldo RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Anorith (Oreburgh City Gift) | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | C | |
 Glaceon Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Kabutops RockWater | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Kabuto (Oreburgh City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Honchkrow View Kabutops builds →Stone Edge 2x122-143%KO Ice Beam 2x49-57% | ||
 Abomasnow GrassIce | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Honchkrow View Abomasnow builds →Ice Beam 2x96-113%KO Rock Slide 2x51-60% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
 Weavile DarkIce | B | |
 Plusle Electric | B | |
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Oreburgh City Gift) | ||
 Mamoswine IceGround | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Honchkrow View Mamoswine builds →Ice Fang 2x88-103%KO Stone Edge 2x90-106%KO | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Honchkrow View Solrock builds →Stone Edge 2x103-122%KO Charge Beam 2x23-27% | ||
Honchkrow Evolutions
Getting Honchkrow requires an evolution item, not just grinding levels. The chain starts at Murkrow. Breed this form to get Murkrow eggs (average hatch time). HP grew the most through evolution (+40 over Murkrow), and Honchkrow peaks at 505 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Honchkrow to get Murkrow eggs easily using 31 partners from the Flying egg group. Notable egg moves include Confuse Ray, Drill Peck, Feather Dance and 8 more.
DP Honchkrow Best Moveset
125 Attack and 105 Sp. Atk on a Dark/Flying type make for a dangerous mixed attacker. AbilitySuper Luck boosts critical hit rates, and the moveset runs physical Dark and Flying hits or special coverage depending on the target. 71 Speed is the weak point, but MoveSucker Punch bypasses it.
Best Build
Honchkrow best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Brave Bird
- Sucker Punch
- Superpower
- Heat Wave
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Confuse Ray and Drill Peck give Honchkrow options it can't learn any other way, and Ghost and Psychic coverage and more already covers a decent range on top of Sky Attack and Fly. 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
36 of 39 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
Becoming active at night, it is known to swarm with numerous MURKROW in tow.
It makes its MURKROW cronies bring it food. It idles its time away, grooming itself in its nest.
Honchkrow Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, Honchkrow plays as a cannon. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully.
In Diamond & Pearl, Naughty is the go-to nature for Honchkrow. That's +Attack / -Sp. Def. Pair it with 252 Atk / 4 SpA / 252 Spe EVs. Fits the cannon role.
Game Availability
Obtainable through an item-based evolution, Honchkrow appears in 12 titles across 6 generations since Diamond & Pearl. The evolution method adds a barrier that wild-catchable Pokemon don't have.
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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