Is Rhyhorn Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Safari Zone in Hoenn, available mid-to-late game. AbilityRock Head negates recoil. AbilityLightning Rod draws Electric attacks. Rhydon evolves at 42 with massive physical stats. The 4x Water weakness is still brutal, but the abilities add defensive options Gen 2 didn't have.
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.
Catchable
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 Rhyhorn in Ruby & Sapphire
Rhyhorn stomps around the Safari Zone as a common catch in the high 20s. The gated reserve is the only ground it covers in Hoenn.
1 location to catch Rhyhorn
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6Where To Catch Rhyhorn in RS
- Step 1Rhyhorn ✓
- Step 2Evolve into RhydonBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Rhyhorn egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Ruby & Sapphire for Rhyhorn.
How to Get Shiny Rhyhorn in Ruby & Sapphire
Rhyhorn stomps through the Hoenn Safari Zone, so size up each wild meeting there for a shiny. Compare Shiny Rhyhorn odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Rhyhorn 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Ruby & Sapphire shiny odds for Rhyhorn.
Rhyhorn Weakness
Rhyhorn's Ground/Rock typing leaves it vulnerable to Water, Grass, Ice, Fighting, Ground, and Steel. Water and Grass hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Electric-type attacks completely. It resists 5 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Lightning Rod grants an additional Electric immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. Rhyhorn's physical bulk (base 95 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 Rhyhorn Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Rhyhorn
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x145-171%KO Solar Beam 4x283-333%KO Iron Tail 2x64-76% | ||
 Hariyama Fighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Hariyama builds →Focus Punch 2x135-160%KO Surf 4x113-133%KO Dig 2x37-44% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x139-164%KO Dig 2x39-46% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Cacturne builds →Solar Beam 4x469-552%KO Focus Punch 2x87-103%KO | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Sceptile builds →Solar Beam 4x437-514%KO Focus Punch 2x68-81% Iron Tail 2x45-54% Dig 2x28-33% | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Cradily builds →Solar Beam 4x356-419%KO Rock Smash 2x10-13% | ||
 Blaziken FireFighting | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Blaziken builds →Focus Punch 2x135-160%KO Dig 2x37-44% | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Shiftry builds →Solar Beam 4x384-452%KO Dig 2x32-38% Rock Smash 2x12-14% | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Machoke builds →Focus Punch 2x117-138%KO Dig 2x32-38% | ||
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
 Swampert WaterGround | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Swampert builds →Surf 4x291-343%KO Focus Punch 2x83-98% Dig 2x52-62% Iron Tail 2x56-67% | ||
 Claydol GroundPsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Claydol builds →Solar Beam 4x210-248%KO Ice Beam 2x83-98% Dig 2x36-43% Rock Smash 2x9-11% | ||
 Tropius Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Rhyhorn View Tropius builds →Solar Beam 4x328-386%KO Steel Wing 2x28-33% Rock Smash 2x9-11% | ||
Rhyhorn Evolutions
Rhyhorn evolves into Rhydon. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A massive partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 140 total stats over Rhyhorn. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Rhyhorn easily with 102 breeding partners from the Field and Monster egg groups. Pass egg moves like Counter, Crunch, Crush Claw and 5 more to offspring.
RS Rhyhorn Best Moveset
Pre-evolution stats heading toward Rhydon's 130 Attack. AbilityRock Head removes recoil from MoveDouble-Edge and AbilityLightning Rod draws Electric moves harmlessly. 4x Water and Grass weaknesses.
Best Build
Rhyhorn best EVs are HP and Defense
Bulky Support Moveset
- Megahorn
- Double Edge
- Sandstorm
- Hidden Power Fire
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Counter and Crunch from the egg pool give Rhyhorn something extra. Pair those with Earthquake and Dig for STAB and coverage across 8 types for reach, and the kit fills out nicely.
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 28 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
RHYHORN runs in a straight line, smashing everything in its path. It is not bothered even if it rushes headlong into a block of steel. This POKéMON may feel some pain from the collision the next day, however.
RHYHORN’s brain is very small. It is so dense, while on a run it forgets why it started running in the first place. It apparently remembers sometimes if it demolishes something.
Rhyhorn Ruby & Sapphire Guide
- Where in the Ruby & Sapphire Safari Zone can I find Rhyhorn?
See the Locations section above for where to find Rhyhorn in Ruby & Sapphire.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Rhyhorn from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Rhyhorn easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
Game Availability
Rhyhorn has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 21 titles across all 9 generations. As a Gen 1 original, it's one of the most consistently available Pokemon in the franchise.
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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