Is Lileep Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Root Fossil from Mirage Tower. Rock/Grass with AbilitySuction Cups preventing forced switches. Cradily at 40 resists Water, Electric, and Normal. The Grass sub-typing means Wallace's Water Champion team can't hit Cradily super-effectively. One of Emerald's best defensive answers for the endgame.
Lileep resists most of Roxanne's coverage and hits back hard.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Flannery's typing presses Lileep's defenses.
Lileep trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Winona's team hits Lileep's weaknesses hard.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Tate & Liza's team.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Phoebe's team.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Cradily trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Cradily has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Fossil
Lileep can be revived from a fossil obtained in Rustboro City. Revive Root Fossil. Revive the Root Fossil at the Devon Corporation in Rustboro City.
Recommended Moves
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 123
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 43RockAncient PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TUTORRockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
Evolve Lileep to Cradily
Lileep evolves into Cradily at Level 40. Your Lileep should hit Level 40 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 123
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 48RockAncient PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TUTORRockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
How to Get Lileep in Emerald
Lileep is not a wild catch but a fossil revival. Take the Root Fossil to the lab in Rustboro City and it comes back at level 20. You can only revive one fossil per game, so choosing Lileep means giving up Anorith.
1 location to catch Lileep
Badge 1How to Obtain Lileep in E
- Step 2Evolve into CradilyBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Lileep egg.
How to Get Shiny Lileep in Emerald
Lileep revives from the Root Fossil, so save right in front of the Devon Corporation scientist in Rustboro City, then soft-reset and check each restoration until your fossil comes back shiny. Compare Shiny Lileep odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Lileep Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Lileep in the Emerald Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Lileep Weakness
Ice, Fighting, Bug, and Steel moves hit Lileep for super-effective damage. 4 weaknesses is about average, nothing too hard to play around.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ice, Fighting, Bug, Steel |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Normal, Electric |
Lileep Evolutions
Lileep evolves into Cradily. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are slow to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 140 total stats over Lileep. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Lileep with 19 breeding partners from the Water 3 egg group. Pass egg moves like Barrier, Mirror Coat, Recover and 1 more to offspring.
E Lileep Best Moveset
Rock/Grass typing and AbilitySuction Cups prevent forced switches from MoveWhirlwind and MoveRoar. Lileep's moveset should run special Grass and Rock TermStab while building toward Cradily.
Best Build
Lileep best EVs are HP and Sp. Def
Wall Moveset
- Toxic
- Protect
- Recover
- Giga Drain
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Lileep picks up Barrier and Mirror Coat only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Solar Beam and Giga Drain while Ghost and Normal 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 16 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It disguises itself as seaweed by making its tentacles sway. Unsuspecting prey that come too close are swallowed whole. It became extinct 100 million years ago.
Lileep Emerald Guide
Revive the Root Fossil at the Devon Corporation in Rustboro City. Lileep is revived at level 5. Give it Rare Candies or experience-share if you want it ready for the late-game. Note: this fossil is only available in Emerald. The other version of Emerald has a different fossil.
In Emerald, Lileep does the job early-game if you need a Rock/Grass type on your team. Evolve it into Cradily before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
In Emerald, use Lileep as a support. Splits damage between physical and special. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key.
For Emerald, run Calm on Lileep. +Sp. Def is what matters, and the -Attack cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the support role.
Game Availability
Lileep first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 14 games across 7 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
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- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
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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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