Is Milotic Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Water-type with AbilityMarvel Scale boosting Defense by 50% when statused. Milotic is bulky, hits hard on the special side, and Marvel Scale makes status moves backfire against the user. Wallace's ace for a reason. Finding and evolving Feebas is the hardest part. The Pokemon itself is one of RS's best.
Roxanne's typing presses Feebas's defenses.
Brawly's typing presses Feebas's defenses.
Wattson's Pokemon outpace and outclass Feebas here.
Flannery's typing presses Feebas's defenses.
Norman's Pokemon outpace and outclass Feebas here.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Milotic resists most of Tate & Liza's coverage and hits back hard.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Milotic has the type edge here and should clean up Phoebe's team.
Milotic trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Milotic has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Milotic has the type edge here and should clean up Steven's team.
Catch Feebas
Catch Feebas on Route 119 (Good Rod fishing, Lv 20-25, common). Only found in 6 random squares.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- After Wallace
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wallace
Evolve Feebas to Milotic
Feebas evolves into Milotic when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Winona.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 31)
- LV 31WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Flannery
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Fiery Path
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- LV 40WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
How to Get Milotic in Ruby & Sapphire
A Feebas evolves into Milotic once its Beauty stat is high enough, fed by blue Pokeblocks. No wild Milotic exists, so the real work is finding the elusive Feebas first.
Catch Feebas at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Milotic.
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
- 1Catch Feebas
- 2Evolve MiloticBeauty 170+
Badge 6How to Obtain Milotic in RS
Feebas is your first catch on the way to Milotic. You'll find fishing encounters from Lv. 20-25 across 6 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Milotic ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Feebas egg.
How to Get Shiny Milotic in Ruby & Sapphire
On Route 119's special tiles, fish up a shiny Feebas and evolve it into Milotic, which cannot be caught directly. Compare Shiny Milotic odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Milotic 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Milotic in the Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Milotic Weakness
Type-wise, Milotic takes extra damage from Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Milotic's special bulk (base 125 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Milotic Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Milotic
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Magneton ElectricSteel | A | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) | ||
 Pikachu Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
 Plusle Electric | C | |
Milotic Evolutions
Milotic is what Feebas becomes. Breed it for Feebas eggs (average hatch time). A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Feebas pushed Milotic to 540 total stats. Sp.Atk saw the largest single gain at +90. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Milotic to get Feebas eggs easily using 27 partners from the Dragon and Water 1 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Confuse Ray, Dragon Breath, Hypnosis and 3 more.
RS Milotic Best Moveset
MoveRest deliberately triggers AbilityMarvel Scale for a 50% Defense boost while sleeping, creating a free physical tank. 100 Sp. Atk fires MoveSurf and MoveIce Beam for Water/Ice coverage. MoveRecover sustains independently. Held ItemLeftovers adds healing. Status-powered tank that attacks from the special side.
Best Build
Milotic best EVs are HP and Defense
Wall Moveset
- Recover
- Surf
- Toxic
- Refresh
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Confuse Ray and Dragon Breath give Milotic options it can't learn any other way, and Normal and Dragon coverage and more already covers a decent range on top of Hydro Pump and Surf. 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
All 21 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
MILOTIC is said to be the most beautiful of all the POKéMON. It has the power to becalm such emotions as anger and hostility to quell bitter feuding.
MILOTIC live at the bottom of large lakes. When this POKéMON’s body glows a vivid pink, it releases a pulsing wave of energy that brings soothing calm to restless spirits.
Milotic Ruby & Sapphire Guide
It's not a level or a stone. In Ruby and Sapphire, Feebas evolves when it gains a level while its Beauty condition is high enough. You raise that Beauty with Pokeblocks, which you make from Berries at a Berry Blender. Keep feeding the ones that boost Beauty until it's near the top, then one more level-up evolves it.
Milotic is obtained by trade-evolving Feebas. Catch a Feebas first, then trade. Trade needs a Game Boy Advance link cable and a second GBA running another Gen 3 game (FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald). Trade Feebas to a friend, then have them trade it back. The 2026 Switch re-release supports the same trade through local wireless on the Pokemon Center 2F Wireless Club, with no cables required. The Prism Scale must be held during the trade. Bring one over from a sibling Gen 3 game if needed.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Milotic appears in 16 games across 7 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline games, typically found through wild encounters.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
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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