Is Quagsire Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Wooper hits level 20 for Quagsire, or catch one wild in the Great Marsh and Route 212. Water/Ground only fears Grass. AbilityWater Absorb for Water immunity. Handles Volkner and Flint's five Fire-types. Reliable through the back half of the game.
Quagsire resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Gardenia's team hits Quagsire's weaknesses hard.
Fantina's team hits Quagsire's weaknesses hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Maylene's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Quagsire resists most of Byron's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Quagsire resists most of Volkner's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Quagsire resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Quagsire in the Great Marsh (walking, Lv 28, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- LV 36GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 53WaterMuddy WaterPower 143Accuracy 85%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORWaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TUTORRockAncient PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
Catch Wooper
Catch Wooper in the Great Marsh (walking, Lv 26-28, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM28GroundDigPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Maniac Tunnel
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- LV 33GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- LV 47WaterMuddy WaterPower 143Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORWaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TUTORRockAncient PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
How to Get Quagsire in Platinum
Quagsire shares that wetland, ten encounters over two areas at levels 20 to 40, common on land and water. Or evolve a Wooper at level 20, which is the steadier route to one.
2 locations to catch Quagsire1 location to catch Wooper
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Badge 5Catch Wooper at any of the 1 location below, then level it up to 20 — it evolves into Quagsire.
Badge 5Where To Catch Quagsire in Pt
The path to Quagsire starts with Wooper at Lv. 20-30 via walking and surfing encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Platinum for Quagsire.
How to Get Shiny Quagsire in Platinum
Quagsire lolls in the grass on Route 212, so run a Poké Radar chain to 40 there for a shiny, or evolve a chained Wooper. Compare Shiny Quagsire odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Quagsire Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
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 Platinum 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. Water Absorb grants an additional Water immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Quagsire Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Quagsire
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Route 201 Gift) | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Cherrim Grass | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Leafeon Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
 Wormadam BugGrass | C | |
 Snover GrassIce | D | |
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 131 partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Ancient Power, Body Slam, Counter and 8 more.
Pt Quagsire Best Moveset
Electric immunity plus only Grass as a weakness makes Quagsire one of the safest switch-ins against Electric and Rock attacks. The moveset has 85 Attack for physical MoveEarthquake at 95 HP, and AbilityWater Absorb heals on incoming Water. 35 Speed is the trade-off.
Best Build
Quagsire best EVs are HP and Sp. Def
Wall Moveset
- Recover
- Earthquake
- Encore
- Toxic
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 Muddy Water, 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. 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
38 of 40 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It has an easygoing nature. It doesn’t care if it bumps its head on boats and boulders while swimming.
Quagsire Platinum Guide
For Platinum, it depends on your team. Quagsire rates C-Tier. Not a powerhouse, but the Water/Ground coverage might be exactly what you're missing.
In Platinum, use Quagsire as a trick room. Physical side carries the damage. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key. Earthquake is the primary attack.
For Platinum, run Impish on Quagsire. +Defense is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the trick room role.
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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