Is Phione Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Breed Manaphy with Ditto. Water with AbilityHydration healing status in rain. Middling stats that don't live up to the mythical parent. Not worth the breeding effort.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Phione's defenses.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's typing presses Phione's defenses.
Phione resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Misty's typing presses Phione's defenses.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Phione has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Phione trades roughly evenly with Lance'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 Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- LV 24WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Item ball on Ice Path 1F
- After Jasmine
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- LV 46WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 61WaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Phione in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Phione can't be caught in HeartGold & SoulSilver, and none of the games below can send it to HeartGold & SoulSilver directly. The encounter info below covers where it turns up.
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 HeartGold & SoulSilver
Phione cannot be obtained in HeartGold or SoulSilver, so a shiny one has to be bred and brought in from a game that offers it. Compare Shiny Phione odds across every game
Shiny Phione Evolution
Does Not EvolveHeartGold & SoulSilver 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 HeartGold & SoulSilver 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
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Silph Co Gift) | ||
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Phione View Tangrowth builds →Solar Beam 2x114-134%KO Shock Wave 2x38-45% | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Venusaur GrassPoison | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Bulbasaur (Pallet Town Gift) | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Raikou Electric | B | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town 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 onlyHGSS Phione Best Moveset
80 across every stat with AbilityHydration clearing status in rain. Perfectly flat with no strength. Manaphy does everything Phione does with 20 more in every stat.
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 coverage across 7 types 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
All 18 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
When the water warms, they inflate the flotation sac on their heads and drift languidly on the sea in packs.
Phione HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, use Phione as a support. Special attacks are the main output. Speed is middling, Surf is the primary attack.
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, 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 HeartGold & SoulSilver, 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
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