Is Phione Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Bred from Manaphy. Water with AbilityHydration clearing status in rain. Phione doesn't evolve into Manaphy and has worse stats than its parent. A breeding curiosity with no competitive value. Weaker than most native Water options in Sinnoh.
Phione resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Phione's weaknesses hard.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Mars's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Saturn's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Trade
Phione cannot be caught in this game. It must be traded in from a compatible game where it appears in the wild. Cross-region trading typically becomes available after defeating the Elite Four.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lake Acuity
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- LV 24WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- TM55WaterBrinePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Crasher Wake
- LV 46WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sunyshore City
- LV 61WaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Phione in Diamond & Pearl
Phione has no wild encounter in Diamond or Pearl. It only hatches from an egg bred by leaving a Manaphy with a Ditto in the Day Care, so a Manaphy has to come first.
Phione is not available as a wild encounter in this game.
Also Obtainable In:
Pokemon transfers only go forward through generations, never backward. Direct cross-gen trades aren't supported.
How to Get Shiny Phione in Diamond & Pearl
Phione only comes from breeding Manaphy with Ditto, so a shiny has to be hatched in a game set up for it and then traded in. Compare Shiny Phione odds across every game
Shiny Phione Evolution
Does Not EvolveDiamond & Pearl Shiny Phione Calculator
1 MethodThe only route here is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 Phione in the Diamond & Pearl Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Phione Weakness
Electric and Grass moves hit Phione for super-effective damage. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. With 80 HP and balanced defenses, Phione can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Phione Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Phione
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Lake Verity Gift) | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Abomasnow GrassIce | C | |
 Cherrim Grass | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Oreburgh City Gift) | ||
Phione Evolutions
What you see is what you get. Phione sits outside any evolution chain, so focus on the egg moves and no compatible partners from two egg groups. Eggs take forever to hatch. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Phione is genderless and can only breed with Ditto. Part of the Fairy and Water 1 egg groups.
Ditto onlyDP Phione Best Moveset
80 across every stat. The moveset has Water attacks and AbilityHydration for status healing in rain, but the stats are too flat to threaten or outlast anything. Manaphy does everything better.
Best Build
Phione best EVs are Sp. Atk and Speed
Special Attacker Moveset
- Surf
- Rain Dance
- Rest
- Grass Knot
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without TMs, Phione's movepool is bare bones. With them, you get Ice and Normal coverage and more on top of Surf and Dive for STAB. The natural kit handles basics, but TMs are doing the real work.
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
26 of 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
A Pokémon that lives in warm seas. It inflates the flotation sac on its head to drift and search for food.
Phione Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, use Phione as a support. Special attacks are the main output. Speed is middling, Surf is the primary attack.
For Diamond & Pearl, build your team around Starmie, Latias, and Aerodactyl. These have the highest co-usage rates with Phione in competitive formats. They cover each other's weaknesses.
For Diamond & Pearl, run Timid on Phione. +Speed is what matters, and the -Attack cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the support role.
Game Availability
As a Mythical Pokemon, Phione has limited availability: 12 games since its debut in Diamond & Pearl. Typically obtained through special events or in-game quests rather than standard encounters.
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
Winds & Waves
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