Is Lanturn Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
AbilityVolt Absorb turns Electric attacks into healing. Water/Electric handles Winona, Wallace, and most Water trainers. Native to Hoenn via underwater encounters. The massive HP and dual coverage make Lanturn one of RS's underrated team options.
Chinchou resists most of Roxanne's coverage and hits back hard.
Chinchou has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Wattson's typing presses Chinchou's defenses.
Chinchou resists most of Flannery's coverage and hits back hard.
Norman's typing presses Chinchou's defenses.
Chinchou has the type edge here and should clean up Winona's team.
Chinchou has the type edge here and should clean up Tate & Liza's team.
Lanturn has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Lanturn trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Lanturn trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Lanturn has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Lanturn has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Lanturn has the type edge here and should clean up Steven's team.
Catch Chinchou
Catch Chinchou on Route 124 (Surf, Lv 20-30, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- LV 25ElectricSparkPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Norman
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Lilycove Department Store
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- LV 41WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
Evolve Chinchou to Lanturn
Chinchou evolves into Lanturn at Level 27. Your Chinchou should hit Level 27 before you reach Wallace, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 27)
- LV 27ElectricSparkPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 27ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brawly
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- After Norman
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Lilycove Department Store
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- LV 50WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Lanturn in Ruby & Sapphire
Lanturn is the level-27 evolution of a Chinchou caught surfing the eastern routes. There is no wild Lanturn to hook on its own.
Wild Lanturn may be holding when caught:
Yellow Shard (5% chance) A shard from an ancient item. Can be sold cheaply.Catch Chinchou at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Lanturn.
Encountered via Surfing
- 1Catch Chinchou
- 2Evolve Lanturnat Lv.27
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Badge 8How to Obtain Lanturn in RS
To get Lanturn, start by catching Chinchou through surfing encounters at Lv. 20-30. The chain covers 1 catchable stage before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Lanturn ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Chinchou egg.
How to Get Shiny Lanturn in Ruby & Sapphire
Surf Route 124 or Route 126 in search of a shiny Chinchou, then level it into Lanturn, which never appears wild itself. Compare Shiny Lanturn odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Lanturn 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 Lanturn.
Lanturn Weakness
Lanturn's Water/Electric typing leaves it vulnerable to Grass and Ground. It resists 5 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Volt Absorb grants an additional Electric immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. With 125 HP and balanced defenses, Lanturn can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Grass, Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Flying |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Lanturn Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Lanturn
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Lanturn View Sceptile builds →Solar Beam 2x88-103%KO Earthquake 2x51-60% | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Lanturn View Shiftry builds →Solar Beam 2x78-91% Dig 2x35-41% | ||
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
 Swampert WaterGround | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Lanturn View Cradily builds →Solar Beam 2x71-84% Earthquake 2x49-58% | ||
 Flygon GroundDragon | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Lanturn View Flygon builds →Earthquake 2x88-103%KO Solar Beam 2x47-55% | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
 Rhydon GroundRock | B | |
 Donphan Ground | B | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Lanturn View Tropius builds →Solar Beam 2x64-76% Earthquake 2x42-50% | ||
 Sandslash Ground | A | |
Lanturn Evolutions
Lanturn is the evolved form of Chinchou. Breeding produces Chinchou eggs, and they take an average time to hatch. Evolving from Chinchou gave Lanturn the biggest boost in HP (+50), bringing the total to 460 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Lanturn to get Chinchou eggs easily using 17 partners from the Water 2 egg group. Notable egg moves include Amnesia, Flail, Screech.
RS Lanturn Best Moveset
Water/Electric with only two weaknesses and Electric healing through AbilityVolt Absorb for a unique type immunity. MoveSurf and MoveThunderbolt for dual TermStab from 76 Sp. Atk. MoveThunder Wave for paralysis. Held ItemLeftovers sustains 125 HP. Electric immunity on a Water-type.
Best Build
Lanturn best EVs are HP and Sp. Atk
Special Tank Moveset
- Thunderbolt
- Hydro Pump
- Thunder Wave
- Ice Beam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Amnesia and Flail on Lanturn. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Hydro Pump and Thunder, they expand what Lanturn can actually threaten in practice.
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 23 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
LANTURN is nicknamed “the deep-sea star” for its illuminated antenna. This POKéMON produces light by causing a chemical reaction between bacteria and its bodily fluids inside the antenna.
LANTURN is known to emit light. If you peer down into the dark sea from a ship at night, you can sometimes see this POKéMON’s light rising from the depths where it swims. It gives the sea an appearance of a starlit night.
Lanturn Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Lanturn is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Chinchou under specific conditions.
Game Availability
Lanturn first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 17 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
Winds & Waves
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