Is Pachirisu Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Route 205 Electric with AbilityPickup finding free items. Pachirisu doesn't evolve. Cute, small, and underpowered. Luxray outperforms it at everything. The Pickup utility is the main draw, not the combat.
Roark's typing presses Pachirisu's defenses.
Gardenia's typing presses Pachirisu's defenses.
Pachirisu trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Pachirisu has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Pachirisu trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Pachirisu has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Pachirisu trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Pachirisu trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Pachirisu has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Bertha's team hits Pachirisu's weaknesses hard.
Pachirisu trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Pachirisu trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Pachirisu has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Pachirisu resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Pachirisu has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Pachirisu trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Pachirisu on Route 205 (walking, Lv 9, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- LV 13ElectricSparkPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Gardenia
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Lake Valor
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- TM34ElectricShock WavePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 215
- TM28GroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10Maniac Tunnel
- LV 29ElectricDischargePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 37NormalLast ResortPower 130Accuracy 100%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM73ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Exchange Service Corner building in the Battle Park, entered through the Fight Area gatehouse
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Diamond & Pearl Pachirisu Locations
Pachirisu scampers three spots, common to uncommon from level 7 up. The squirrel keeps to a stretch of mid-game routes, an easy Electric-type to round out an early team.
3 locations to catch Pachirisu
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 5Best Locations to Catch Pachirisu in Diamond & Pearl
4 walking spots from Lv. 7-29 for Pachirisu. Sorted by game progression with rates on each row, so you can compare without scrolling through everything.
How to Get Shiny Pachirisu in Diamond & Pearl
Pachirisu scurries around Route 205 and the Valley Windworks, where a PokeRadar chain brings its shiny out of the shadows. Compare Shiny Pachirisu odds across every game
Shiny Pachirisu Evolution
Does Not EvolveDiamond & Pearl Shiny Pachirisu Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
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 Diamond & Pearl shiny odds for Pachirisu.
Pachirisu Weakness
Ground moves hit Pachirisu for super-effective damage. Its Electric typing keeps the defensive matchups simple. With 60 HP and balanced defenses, Pachirisu can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Electric, Flying, Steel |
Pachirisu Evolutions
Pachirisu is what you get. No evolutions, but it breeds through two egg groups with a decent partner pool. Its eggs are quick to hatch. It's got 7 egg moves worth looking into. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Pachirisu easily with 35 breeding partners from the Fairy and Field egg groups. Pass egg moves like Bite, Covet, Defense Curl and 4 more to offspring.
DP Pachirisu Best Moveset
95 Speed with Run Away or Pickup but only 45 in both Attack stats. The moveset has Electric attacks at negligible power. Fast but completely harmless.
Best Build
Pachirisu best EVs are HP and Defense
Wall Moveset
- Super Fang
- U Turn
- Thunder Wave
- Light Screen
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Pachirisu picks up Bite and Covet only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Thunder and Thunderbolt while coverage across 7 types 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
28 of 30 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It makes fur balls that crackle with static electricity. It stores them with berries in tree holes.
It makes electricity with pouches in its cheeks and shoots charges from its tail. It lives atop trees.
Pachirisu Diamond & Pearl Guide
For Diamond & Pearl, it depends on your team. Pachirisu rates C-Tier. Not a powerhouse, but the Electric coverage might be exactly what you're missing.
In Diamond & Pearl, use Pachirisu as a pivot. Splits damage between physical and special. Speed is middling,
For Diamond & Pearl, run Impish on Pachirisu. +Defense is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the pivot role.
Game Availability
Pachirisu first appeared in Diamond & Pearl and has been available in 12 games across 6 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 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DPDebut
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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