Is Kabutops Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Kabuto evolves at level 40. AbilityBattle Armor blocks critical hits. The physical/special split lets Kabutops use its Attack stat for physical Water moves. Rock/Water handles Flint in the Elite Four rematch if you found a Dome Fossil.
Kabuto resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Kabuto's weaknesses hard.
Kabuto trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Maylene's team hits Kabuto's weaknesses hard.
Kabuto trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Kabuto has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Kabuto has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Kabuto trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Kabutops has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Kabutops has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Kabutops has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Kabutops trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Kabutops resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Kabutops has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Kabutops has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Kabutops trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Fossil Kabuto
Kabuto can be revived from a fossil obtained in Oreburgh City. Revive Dome Fossil. Revive from Dome Fossil at the Mining Museum. Found in The Underground after National Dex.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- 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 Candice
- TM80RockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10Mt. Coronet
- LV 46RockAncient PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Kabuto to Kabutops
Kabuto evolves into Kabutops at Level 40. Your Kabuto should hit Level 40 before you reach Aaron, 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
- After Volkner
- TM71RockStone EdgePower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5Victory Road
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORWaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORFightingSuperpowerPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Kabutops in Platinum
Kabuto reaches Kabutops at level 40, never a wild encounter. You only get there if you revived the Dome Fossil rather than the Helix, so the choice underground decides this whole line.
Catch Kabuto at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Kabutops.
- 1Catch Kabuto
- 2Evolve Kabutopsat Lv.40
Badge 1How to Obtain Kabutops in Pt
- Step 2Kabutops ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Kabuto egg.
How to Get Shiny Kabutops in Platinum
Kabutops evolves from a revived Kabuto, so hatch a shiny one through a foreign Ditto, then level it up. Compare Shiny Kabutops odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Kabutops Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 Platinum with Kabutops preloaded.
Kabutops Weakness
Grass, Electric, Fighting, and Ground moves hit Kabutops for super-effective damage. Grass hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It resists 5 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Kabutops's physical bulk (base 105 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Grass |
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Fighting, Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Normal, Ice, Poison, Flying |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Fire |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Kabutops Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Kabutops
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Tangrowth builds →Solar Beam 4x279-329%KO Earthquake 2x53-63% Focus Blast 2x93-110%KO Shock Wave 2x48-57% | ||
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Torterra builds →Wood Hammer 4x205-241%KO Earthquake 2x87-103%KO Rock Smash 2x25-29% | ||
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x147-174%KO Solar Beam 4x175-206%KO | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Shiftry builds →Solar Beam 4x239-282%KO Dig 2x43-51% Focus Blast 2x79-94% | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Ludicolo builds →Solar Beam 4x239-282%KO Focus Punch 2x60-71% | ||
 Cherrim Grass | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 2x125-147%KO Earthquake 2x56-67% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x142-168%KO Earthquake 2x63-75% | ||
 Gallade PsychicFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Gallade builds →Focus Punch 2x142-168%KO Leaf Blade 4x117-137%KO Earthquake 2x63-75% Thunderbolt 2x50-59% | ||
 Leafeon Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Leafeon builds →Solar Beam 4x175-206%KO Dig 2x46-55% Rock Smash 2x25-29% | ||
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Kabutops View Infernape builds →Solar Beam 4x179-212%KO Focus Punch 2x122-144%KO Earthquake 2x55-65% | ||
Kabutops Evolutions
Kabutops is the evolved form of Kabuto. Breeding produces Kabuto eggs, and they are slow to hatch. Evolving from Kabuto gave Kabutops the biggest boost in Attack (+35), bringing the total to 495 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Kabutops to get Kabuto eggs using 69 partners from the Water 1 and Water 3 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Aurora Beam, Bubble Beam, Confuse Ray and 7 more.
Pt Kabutops Best Moveset
115 Attack and 105 Defense give the moveset a physical attacker and defender profile that works independently of rain. AbilitySwift Swim in rain is a bonus, not a requirement. Physical Rock and Water attacks hit hard at that Attack stat.
Best Build
Kabutops best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Setup Sweeper Moveset
- Waterfall
- Stone Edge
- Aqua Jet
- Swords Dance
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Kabutops misses out on Aurora Beam and Bubble Beam. That's 10 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Stone Edge and Surf, with coverage across 8 types rounding things out.
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
40 of 42 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is thought that this Pokémon came onto land because its prey adapted to life on land.
Kabutops Platinum Guide
Yes. Kabutops is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Kabutops becomes available after the main story is complete in Platinum.
In Platinum, use Kabutops as a wallbreaker. Physical side carries the damage. Speed is middling, Waterfall is the primary attack.
For Platinum, run Adamant on Kabutops. +Attack is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the wallbreaker role.
Game Availability
Kabutops has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 19 titles across all 9 generations. As a Gen 1 original, it's one of the most consistently available Pokemon in the franchise.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
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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