Is Ledyba Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Ledyba shows up in the Safari Zone. Evolves into Ledian at 18 with AbilitySwarm. Bug/Flying with high Special Defense and almost no offense. Doesn't threaten any of Emerald's bosses. One of the weakest Bug options available anywhere.
Roxanne's Pokemon outpace and outclass Ledyba here.
Ledyba trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Wattson's team hits Ledyba's weaknesses hard.
Ledyba trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Norman's typing presses Ledyba's defenses.
Ledyba trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Drake's team hits Ledian's weaknesses hard.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
Catchable
Catch Ledyba in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 33, uncommon). Safari Zone: 500 entry fee, 30 Safari Balls, 500-step limit.
Recommended Moves
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 50NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 80Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORIceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSwords DancePower —Accuracy 100%PP 30Battle Frontier
Evolve Ledyba to Ledian
Ledyba evolves into Ledian at Level 18. You get it at Level 33, past Level 18, so it evolves into Ledian the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 60NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 80Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORIceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
How to Get Ledyba in Emerald
Ledyba lives in the Safari Zone and nowhere else in Emerald, an uncommon level 33 walker. The Safari rules apply, no regular Poke Balls and a strict ball count, so it plays a bit harder to land than its rarity suggests.
1 location to catch Ledyba
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6Where To Catch Ledyba in E
- Step 2Evolve into LedianBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Ledyba egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Emerald for Ledyba.
How to Get Shiny Ledyba in Emerald
Ledyba flutters through the Safari Zone grass as an uncommon find, so pace the tiles and inspect each one for its odd coloring, holding out through the same long full-odds hunt. Compare Shiny Ledyba odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Ledyba 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 Emerald shiny odds for Ledyba.
Ledyba Weakness
Rock, Fire, Electric, Ice, and Flying moves hit Ledyba for super-effective damage. Rock hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. The upside? Ground-type moves can't touch it at all. Ledyba's special bulk (base 80 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Rock |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Electric, Ice, Flying |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Ledyba Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Ledyba
 Blaziken FireFighting | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Blaziken builds →Overheat 2x181-214%KO Rock Tomb 4x184-217%KO Aerial Ace 2x110-130%KO | ||
 Regirock Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 111 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Regirock builds →Ancient Power 4x287-338%KO Thunderbolt 2x47-55% | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Solrock builds →Rock Slide 4x341-402%KO Overheat 2x70-83% | ||
 Armaldo RockBug | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Anorith (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Armaldo builds →Ancient Power 4x341-402%KO Aerial Ace 2x114-134%KO | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (Littleroot Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Typhlosion builds →Overheat 2x179-211%KO Aerial Ace 2x83-98% | ||
 Lairon SteelRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Lairon builds →Rock Tomb 4x222-262%KO Aerial Ace 2x86-102%KO Shock Wave 2x30-36% | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
 Magneton ElectricSteel | A | |
 Magcargo FireRock | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Magcargo builds →Overheat 2x154-182%KO Rock Tomb 4x146-172%KO | ||
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Camerupt FireGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledyba View Camerupt builds →Overheat 2x173-204%KO Rock Slide 4x235-277%KO | ||
 Torkoal Fire | C | |
 Ampharos Electric | C | |
 Ninetales Fire | C | |
Ledyba Evolutions
Ledyba evolves into Ledian. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are quick to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 125 total stats over Ledyba. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Ledyba easily with 37 breeding partners from the Bug egg group. Pass egg moves like Bide, Psybeam, Silver Wind to offspring.
E Ledyba Best Moveset
Bug/Flying pre-evolution with AbilitySwarm for low-HP Bug boost. 20 Attack and 40 Sp. Atk ensure the moveset cannot threaten anything. Skip to Ledian, then skip past that too.
Best Build
Ledyba best EVs are Speed and Attack
Utility Moveset
- Aerial Ace
- Swords Dance
- Silver Wind
- Hidden Power Ground
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Ledyba misses out on Bide and Psybeam. That's 3 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Aerial Ace and Silver Wind, with coverage across 9 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
All 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
LEDYBA communicate using a fluid that they secrete from where the legs join the body. They are said to convey feelings to others by altering the fluid’s scent.
Ledyba Emerald Guide
- Where in the Emerald Safari Zone can I find Ledyba?
See the Locations section above for where to find Ledyba in Emerald.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Ledyba from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Ledyba easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
In Emerald, Ledyba does the job early-game if you need a Bug/Flying type on your team. Evolve it into Ledian before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Ledyba first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 15 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form 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
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