Is Phanpy Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Not native to Hoenn. Trade from Colosseum. AbilityPickup for free items. Donphan evolves at 25 with strong physical Ground coverage. RS has Sandslash and Camerupt natively. The import path through Colosseum is long for a Pokemon that doesn't outclass the local Ground options.
Roxanne's typing presses Phanpy's defenses.
Phanpy has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Phanpy trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Phanpy trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Phanpy trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Phanpy trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Tate & Liza's team hits Donphan's weaknesses hard.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Drake's typing presses Donphan's defenses.
Donphan trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catchable
Catch Phanpy in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 27-29, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 27)
- LV 27NormalTake DownPower 90Accuracy 85%PP 20
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Fortree City
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Tate & Liza
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- After Wallace
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
- LV 49NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Phanpy to Donphan
Phanpy evolves into Donphan at Level 25. You get it at Level 27 or higher, past Level 25, so it evolves into Donphan the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 25)
- LV 25NormalHorn AttackPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Fortree City
- After Norman
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Wallace
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
- LV 49GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Phanpy in Ruby & Sapphire
Phanpy is a common Safari Zone catch in the high 20s, the easiest of the gated-grass Pokemon to find. Step outside that reserve and it disappears from the map.
1 location to catch Phanpy
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6Where To Catch Phanpy in RS
- Step 1Phanpy ✓
- Step 2Evolve into DonphanBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Phanpy egg.
Bring the right balls: check Phanpy catch odds in the Ruby & Sapphire Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Phanpy in Ruby & Sapphire
Phanpy shows up commonly in the grass of the Safari Zone, so comb that tall grass until a wild one turns up shiny. Compare Shiny Phanpy odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Phanpy 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 Phanpy in the Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Phanpy Weakness
Phanpy's Ground typing leaves it vulnerable to Water, Grass, and Ice. It shrugs off Electric-type attacks completely. 3 weaknesses is about average, nothing too hard to play around.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Grass, Ice |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison, Rock |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Phanpy Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Phanpy
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Pelipper Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Pelipper builds →Surf 2x125-148%KO Ice Beam 2x84-99% | ||
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) | ||
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) | ||
 Regice Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 105 Interact Encounter | ||
 Swampert WaterGround | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Swampert builds →Surf 2x116-137%KO Ice Beam 2x77-91% | ||
 Lombre WaterGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Lombre builds →Solar Beam 2x112-132%KO Surf 2x89-105%KO Ice Beam 2x59-70% | ||
 Sealeo IceWater | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Spheal (Shoal Cave Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Sealeo builds →Surf 2x104-123%KO Ice Beam 2x104-123%KO | ||
 Azumarill Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Azurill (Petalburg City Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phanpy View Azumarill builds →Surf 2x89-105%KO Ice Beam 2x59-70% | ||
Phanpy Evolutions
Phanpy evolves into Donphan. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A massive partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 170 total stats over Phanpy. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Phanpy easily with 102 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Ancient Power, Body Slam, Counter and 3 more to offspring.
RS Phanpy Best Moveset
Ground pre-evolution heading toward Donphan. AbilityPickup provides no competitive value. MoveEarthquake at stats too low to compete.
Best Build
Phanpy best EVs are Attack and HP
Bulky Support Moveset
- Sandstorm
- Tackle
- Counter
- Earthquake
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Ancient Power and Body Slam from the egg pool give Phanpy something extra.
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 18 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
For its nest, PHANPY digs a vertical pit in the ground at the edge of a river. It marks the area around its nest with its trunk to let the others know that the area has been claimed.
PHANPY uses its long nose to shower itself. When others gather around, they thoroughly douse each other with water. These POKéMON can be seen drying their soaking-wet bodies at the edge of water.
Phanpy Ruby & Sapphire Guide
- Where in the Ruby & Sapphire Safari Zone can I find Phanpy?
See the Locations section above for where to find Phanpy in Ruby & Sapphire.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Phanpy from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Phanpy easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
Game Availability
Phanpy first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 16 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
Winds & Waves
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