Is Quagsire Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Water/Ground with one weakness. Quagsire handles Jasmine, Pryce, and every Electric threat that would stop other Water-types. Crystal's move tutor gives it MoveIce Beam for Dragon coverage, making it one of the more complete team members for the price of one early catch.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Quagsire resists most of Morty's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Quagsire resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Quagsire resists most of Lt. Surge's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Erika's team hits Quagsire's weaknesses hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Quagsire resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Quagsire in the Ruins of Alph (walking, Lv 22, rare).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- LV 35GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
Catch Wooper
Catch Wooper on Route 32 (walking, Lv 4, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- LV 31GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- After Lt. Surge
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
How to Get Quagsire in Crystal
Quagsire takes the deeper water and night grass across nine spots, common in most. Or evolve a Wooper at level 20, which most players reach well before the Kanto routes.
9 locations to catch Quagsire3 locations to catch Wooper
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Badge 1
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Badge 5
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Badge 7
Badge 8Catch Wooper at any of the 3 locations below, then level it up to 20 — it evolves into Quagsire.
Badge 1Where To Catch Quagsire in C
To get Quagsire, start by catching Wooper through walking and surfing encounters at Lv. 4-22. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 1Catch Wooper
- Step 2Quagsire ✓Ruins of Alph - OutsideLv.15-24Surfing on waterRate 40%Union Cave - 1FLv.15-24Surfing on waterRate 40%Union Cave - B1FLv.15-24Surfing on waterRate 40%Route 27Lv.28-30GrassRate 40%NightRoute 13Lv.23-25GrassRate 39%NightRoute 15Lv.23-25GrassRate 39%NightRoute 14Lv.26-28GrassRate 39%NightRoute 32Lv.20-24Surfing on waterRate 30%Union Cave - B2FLv.20-24Surfing on waterRate 30%Route 12Lv.25-29Surfing on waterRate 30%Route 13Lv.25-29Surfing on waterRate 30%Union Cave - B2FLv.22CaveRate 20%NightRoute 26Lv.30GrassRate 10%NightRuins of Alph - OutsideLv.22FloorRate 5%Nightor evolve from Wooper (Step 1)
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Crystal for Quagsire.
How to Get Shiny Quagsire in Crystal
Quagsire favors surfers; cruise the pools of Union Cave or the Ruins of Alph at levels 15 to 20, where it is a common splash at any time of day. Compare Shiny Quagsire odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Quagsire Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 7-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 19-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 45-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 147-- | -- |
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 Crystal shiny odds for Quagsire.
Quagsire Weakness
Quagsire's Water/Ground typing leaves it vulnerable to Grass. Grass hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Electric-type attacks completely. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. With 95 HP and balanced defenses, Quagsire can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Poison, Rock, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Quagsire Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Quagsire
 Bellossom Grass | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Quagsire View Bellossom builds →Petal Dance 4x129-153%KO | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Sunflora Grass | C | |
 Bayleef Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Jumpluff Grass | C | |
Quagsire Evolutions
Quagsire is the evolved form of Wooper. Breeding produces Wooper eggs, and they take an average time to hatch. Evolving from Wooper gave Quagsire the biggest boost in HP (+40), bringing the total to 430 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Quagsire to get Wooper eggs easily using 66 partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Ancient Power, Body Slam, Safeguard.
C Quagsire Best Moveset
Immune to Electric and weak only to Grass (4x). MoveEarthquake for Ground TermStab and MoveSurf for Water coverage from a frame that resists most of the format's offense. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. The typing creates a defensive niche no other Water-type replicates.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Earthquake
- Rest
- Belly Drum
- Hidden Power Rock
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Ancient Power and Body Slam on Quagsire. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Earthquake and Surf, they expand what Quagsire can actually threaten in practice.
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.
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 31 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its body is always slimy. It often bangs its head on the river bottom as it swims but seems not to care.
Quagsire Crystal Guide
For Crystal, go for it. Quagsire rates A-Tier, and its Water/Ground typing handles most of what the story throws at you.
In Crystal, use Quagsire as a trick room. Splits damage between physical and special. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key. Earthquake is the primary attack.
Game Availability
Quagsire first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 17 games across 8 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 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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