Is Rhydon Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
AbilityLightning Rod draws all Electric attacks to Rhydon, which does nothing since Ground already resists Electric. The real value is AbilityRock Head for recoil-free MoveDouble-Edge. Physical powerhouse that handles Flannery, Wattson, and Steven's Aggron. Safari Zone timing limits the story contribution.
Rhyhorn trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
Rhyhorn trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Rhyhorn trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Rhyhorn has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Rhyhorn trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Rhyhorn trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Tate & Liza's team hits Rhyhorn's weaknesses hard.
Wallace's team hits Rhyhorn's weaknesses hard.
Rhydon has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Rhydon trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Rhydon has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Rhydon trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Rhydon trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catch Rhyhorn
Catch Rhyhorn in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 27-29, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- After Wattson
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 114
- After Norman
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- LV 52GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 57BugMegahornPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 10
Evolve Rhyhorn to Rhydon
Rhyhorn evolves into Rhydon at Level 42. Your Rhyhorn should hit Level 42 before you reach Sidney, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- LV 58GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 66BugMegahornPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 10
How to Get Rhydon in Ruby & Sapphire
Catch a Rhyhorn in the Safari Zone and grind it to level 42 for Rhydon. No wild ones turn up anywhere else.
Catch Rhyhorn at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Rhydon.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Rhyhorn
- 2Evolve Rhydonat Lv.42
Badge 6How to Obtain Rhydon in RS
- Step 2Rhydon ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Rhyhorn egg.
How to Get Shiny Rhydon in Ruby & Sapphire
A shiny Rhydon starts as a shiny Rhyhorn, so catch one in the Safari Zone and evolve it up. Compare Shiny Rhydon odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Rhydon Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
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 Rhydon in the Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Rhydon Weakness
Rhydon is weak to Water, Grass, Ice, Fighting, Ground, and Steel. Watch out for Water and Grass attacks, those deal 4x damage. On the flip side, it's immune to Electric-type moves entirely. 5 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Lightning Rod grants an additional Electric immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. Rhydon's physical bulk (base 120 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Water, Grass |
| 2x (Weak) | Ice, Fighting, Ground, Steel |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Normal, Fire, Flying, Rock |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Poison |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Rhydon Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Rhydon
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x103-121%KO Solar Beam 4x188-222%KO Iron Tail 2x47-55% | ||
 Hariyama Fighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Hariyama builds →Focus Punch 2x97-115%KO Surf 4x77-90% Dig 2x27-32% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x99-117%KO Dig 2x27-33% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Cacturne builds →Solar Beam 4x314-370%KO Focus Punch 2x62-74% | ||
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Sceptile builds →Solar Beam 4x293-345%KO Focus Punch 2x49-58% Iron Tail 2x34-40% Dig 2x21-25% | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Blaziken FireFighting | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Blaziken builds →Focus Punch 2x97-115%KO Dig 2x27-32% | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Shiftry builds →Solar Beam 4x258-304%KO Dig 2x23-27% Rock Smash 2x9-11% | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Cradily builds →Solar Beam 4x237-279%KO Rock Smash 2x8-10% | ||
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Machoke builds →Focus Punch 2x84-99% Dig 2x23-27% | ||
 Swampert WaterGround | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Swampert builds →Surf 4x195-230%KO Focus Punch 2x60-71% Dig 2x38-45% Iron Tail 2x40-48% | ||
 Claydol GroundPsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Claydol builds →Solar Beam 4x142-167%KO Ice Beam 2x57-67% Dig 2x26-31% Rock Smash 2x7-8% | ||
 Tropius Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhydon View Tropius builds →Solar Beam 4x220-259%KO Steel Wing 2x19-23% Rock Smash 2x7-8% | ||
Rhydon Evolutions
Evolved from Rhyhorn. Rhydon is the final form in this two-stage line. A massive partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Attack grew the most through evolution (+45 over Rhyhorn), and Rhydon peaks at 485 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Rhydon to get Rhyhorn eggs easily using 102 partners from the Field and Monster egg groups. Notable egg moves include Counter, Crunch, Crush Claw and 5 more.
RS Rhydon Best Moveset
130 Attack fires MoveEarthquake and Rock TermStab at devastating power. AbilityLightning Rod draws all Electric attacks harmlessly (immune via Ground type), protecting teammates. MoveMegahorn adds Bug coverage. Held ItemChoice Band amplifies. 4x Water weakness is the one fatal flaw.
Best Build
Rhydon best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Earthquake
- Rock Slide
- Megahorn
- Substitute
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Rhydon. Counter and Crunch come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Earthquake and Dig and coverage across 9 types.
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 33 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
RHYDON’s horn can crush even uncut diamonds. One sweeping blow of its tail can topple a building. This POKéMON’s hide is extremely tough. Even direct cannon hits don’t leave a scratch.
RHYDON has a horn that serves as a drill. It is used for destroying rocks and boulders. This POKéMON occasionally rams into streams of magma, but the armor-like hide prevents it from feeling the heat.
Rhydon Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Rhydon is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Rhyhorn under specific conditions.
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Rhydon has appeared in 21 games: nearly every mainline game. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
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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