Is Sableye Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Granite Cave catch. Dark/Ghost in Gen 3 has zero weaknesses since Fairy type doesn't exist yet. AbilityKeen Eye prevents accuracy drops. Sableye's stats are low across the board, but nothing can hit it super-effectively. Handles Phoebe and Tate and Liza through type advantage alone. Unique defensively, weak offensively.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
Sableye has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Sableye has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Sableye has the type edge here and should clean up Tate & Liza's team.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Sableye has the type edge here and should clean up Phoebe's team.
Sableye has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Sableye trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catchable
Catch Sableye in Granite Cave (walking, Lv 9-11, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- LV 29DarkFeint AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 41GhostShadow BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
Ruby & Sapphire Sableye Locations
Sableye is Sapphire territory only. Seven grass and cave spots, common to uncommon, with a startling level spread from 9 all the way to 56. Ruby players get Mawile in the matching slots instead, so it needs a trade over there.
4 locations to catch Sableye
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Best Locations to Catch Sableye in Ruby & Sapphire
You can find Sableye through 7 walking encounters at Lv. 9-56. The list is sorted by game progression, so the earliest accessible spots show up first.
How to Get Shiny Sableye in Ruby & Sapphire
Sableye appears only in Sapphire, so comb the dark floors of Granite Cave or Victory Road and check each wild one for a shiny. Compare Shiny Sableye odds across every game
Shiny Sableye Evolution
Does Not EvolveRuby & Sapphire Shiny Sableye 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Ruby & Sapphire shiny odds calculator with Sableye already selected.
Sableye Weakness
Sableye has no type weaknesses thanks to its unique defensive typing. Normal, Fighting, and Psychic moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison |
| 0x (Immune) | Normal, Fighting, Psychic |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Sableye Weak Against
FortressBest Pokemon Against Sableye
In Ruby & Sapphire, Blissey's Ice Beam hits Sableye for 35-41%. Gengar's Thunderbolt hits Sableye for 46-54%.
S | ||
Recommended Build AbilityNatural Cure ItemLeftovers NatureModest Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Blissey builds →Ice Beam35-41% | ||
S | ||
Recommended Build AbilityLevitate ItemLeftovers NatureTimid Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Gengar builds →Thunderbolt46-54% | ||
A | ||
Recommended Build AbilityImmunity ItemLeftovers NatureAdamant Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Snorlax builds →Shadow Ball22-26% Earthquake27-32% | ||
A | ||
Recommended Build AbilityArenatrap ItemChoice Band NatureJolly Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Dugtrio builds →Earthquake39-46% Rock Slide29-35% | ||
A | ||
Recommended Build AbilityKeeneye ItemLeftovers NatureCareful Moves View Skarmory builds →
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A | ||
Recommended Build AbilityRockhead ItemChoice Band NatureJolly Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Aerodactyl builds →Earthquake40-47% Rock Slide30-36% | ||
A | ||
Recommended Build AbilityNatural Cure ItemLeftovers NatureBold Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Celebi builds →Giga Drain26-31% | ||
B | ||
Recommended Build AbilityTruant ItemChoice Band NatureAdamant Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Slaking builds →Earthquake60-70% Shadow Ball48-56% | ||
B | ||
Recommended Build AbilitySturdy ItemLeftovers NatureCareful Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Forretress builds →Earthquake19-22% | ||
B | ||
Recommended Build AbilityLevitate ItemLeftovers NatureAdamant Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Claydol builds →Earthquake22-26% | ||
B | ||
Recommended Build AbilityClearbody ItemLeftovers NatureCareful Moves View Registeel builds →
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Recommended Build AbilityGuts ItemLeftovers NatureAdamant Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Hariyama builds →Knock Off10-12% Rock Slide22-26% | ||
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Recommended Build AbilityEffect Spore ItemLeftovers NatureJolly Moves View Breloom builds →
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Recommended Build AbilityPure Power ItemSalacberry NatureJolly Moves
Damage vs Sableye View Medicham builds →Shadow Ball15-18% Rock Slide14-17% | ||
Sableye Evolutions
Sableye is what you get. No evolutions, but it breeds through one egg group with a decent partner pool. Its eggs take an average time to hatch. It's got 3 egg moves worth looking into. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Sableye easily with 28 breeding partners from the Human-Like egg group. Pass egg moves like Moonlight, Psych Up, Recover to offspring.
RS Sableye Best Moveset
Dark/Ghost typing has zero weaknesses (no Fairy type exists yet), meaning nothing hits super-effectively. AbilityKeen Eye prevents accuracy drops. MoveShadow Ball and MoveSeismic Toss for coverage. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. No weakness at all, though stats are too low to exploit the typing aggressively.
Best Build
Sableye best EVs are HP and Defense
Wall Moveset
- Recover
- Knock Off
- Seismic Toss
- Psych Up
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Moonlight and Psych Up give Sableye options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 8 types already covers a decent range on top of Shadow Ball and Knock Off. The egg moves push it further.
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
28 of 29 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
SABLEYE lead quiet lives deep inside caverns. They are feared, however, because these POKéMON are thought to steal the spirits of people when their eyes burn with a sinister glow in the darkness.
SABLEYE digs the ground with sharpened claws to find rocks that it eats. Substances in the eaten rocks crystallize and rise up to the POKéMON’s body surface.
Sableye Ruby & Sapphire Guide
- Is Sableye exclusive to Sapphire or Ruby?
Sableye is exclusive to Pokemon Sapphire. Ruby players have to trade for one.
See the Locations section above for where to find Sableye in Sapphire.
Game Availability
Available since Ruby & Sapphire, Sableye appears in 16 games spanning 7 generations. Beyond its original form, it gained a Mega form in Generation 6.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
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 6ORASMega
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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