Is Porygon Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Gift Pokemon in Platinum. AbilityDownload boosts Attack or Sp. Atk based on the opponent's weaker defense. Two trade evolutions deep to reach Porygon-Z: Up-Grade for Porygon2, then Dubious Disc. Heavy investment for late-game access.
Porygon has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Porygon trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Fantina's typing presses Porygon's defenses.
Porygon-Z trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Porygon-Z resists most of Crasher Wake's coverage and hits back hard.
Byron's typing presses Porygon-Z's defenses.
Porygon-Z has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Porygon-Z trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Porygon-Z has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Porygon-Z resists most of Bertha's coverage and hits back hard.
Porygon-Z trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Porygon-Z trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Porygon-Z resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Porygon-Z has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Porygon-Z has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Porygon-Z trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Gift
Porygon is given to you as a gift in Veilstone City at Lv 25. Receive Porygon from the man in the northeast house in Veilstone City.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- After Fantina
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TUTORNormalLast ResortPower 195Accuracy 100%PP 5Snowpoint City
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 51NormalTri AttackPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Porygon to Porygon-Z
Porygon2 evolves into Porygon-Z when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Maylene.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- After Fantina
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TUTORNormalLast ResortPower 195Accuracy 100%PP 5Snowpoint City
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 51NormalTri AttackPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 67NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Porygon in Platinum
Porygon comes from a Veilstone NPC trade, a one-time handout at level 25. There is no wild version, so that single trade in the Game Corner building is the entire way to one.
1 location to catch Porygon
Badge 4How to Obtain Porygon in Pt
- Step 1Porygon ✓
- Step 3Evolve into Porygon-Z
How to Get Shiny Porygon in Platinum
Porygon is a Game Corner prize in Veilstone City, so breed the one you claim with a foreign Ditto for a shiny. Compare Shiny Porygon odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Porygon Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route 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.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Platinum with Porygon preloaded.
Porygon Weakness
Fighting moves hit Porygon for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Porygon's Normal typing only leaves 1 gap to cover.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Porygon Weak Against
Good
Porygon Evolutions
To get Porygon2 from Porygon, you need a trade. The evolution method matters here. The evolved forms gain up to 140 total stats over Porygon. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Porygon is genderless and can only breed with Ditto. Part of the Mineral egg group.
Ditto onlyPt Porygon Best Moveset
Evolution to Porygon2 or Porygon-Z through trade items is the real value, and AbilityDownload boosting whichever offensive stat the opponent is weaker against gives both paths a strong start. The moveset uses 85 Sp. Atk for special Normal attacks.
Best Build
Porygon best EVs are HP and Sp. Atk
Special Tank Moveset
- Tri Attack
- Thunderbolt
- Trick Room
- Ice Beam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The level-up pool is slim, so TMs matter here. Porygon's coverage across 9 types all comes from technical machines, built on top of Giga Impact and Hyper Beam for same-type damage. Zap Cannon and Blizzard are the payoff moves.
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
34 of 36 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
A man-made Pokémon created using advanced scientific means. It can move freely in cyberspace.
Porygon Platinum Guide
No. Porygon only evolves into Porygon2 through a real trade. There is no in-game alternative in Platinum. The Up-Grade must be held during the trade. Bring one over from a sibling Gen 3 game if needed.
In Platinum, for a casual playthrough, Porygon works as a placeholder. Normal coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Porygon2. That's where the stats start mattering.
In Platinum, use Porygon as a trick room. Special attacks are the main output. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key.
For Platinum, run Quiet on Porygon. +Sp. Atk is what matters, and the -Speed cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the trick room role.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Porygon appears in 22 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Porygon have the longest track record of availability in the series.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
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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