Is Sealeo Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Ice/Water mid-stage with AbilityThick Fat. Sealeo contributes against late-game Water and Dragon trainers. Evolves into Walrein at 44, right before Victory Road. The timing works if you grab a Spheal in Shoal Cave.
Spheal has the type edge here and should clean up Roxanne's team.
Spheal has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Wattson's team hits Spheal's weaknesses hard.
Spheal trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Norman's team hits Spheal's weaknesses hard.
Spheal trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Sealeo has the type edge here and should clean up Tate & Liza's team.
Wallace's typing presses Sealeo's defenses.
Walrein trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Walrein trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Walrein trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Walrein has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Walrein has the type edge here and should clean up Steven's team.
Catch Spheal
Catch Spheal in Shoal Cave (walking, Lv 26-32, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 26)
- LV 26IceAurora BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 43IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
- After Wallace
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wallace
Evolve Spheal to Sealeo
Spheal evolves into Sealeo at Level 32. Your Spheal should hit Level 32 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 32)
- LV 32IceAurora BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- After Wallace
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wallace
- LV 47IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
Evolve Sealeo to Walrein
Sealeo evolves into Walrein at Level 44. Your Sealeo should hit Level 44 before you reach Sidney, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 44)
- LV 44IceAurora BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 50IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
How to Get Sealeo in Ruby & Sapphire
Sealeo is a midpoint with no wild presence, reached by leveling a Spheal to 32. Since Spheal swarms that one frozen area, getting the evolution started is the easy part.
Catch Spheal at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Sealeo.
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Badge 7How to Obtain Sealeo in RS
Spheal is your first catch on the way to Sealeo. You'll find walking and surfing encounters from Lv. 25-35 across 18 total spots in the chain.
How to Get Shiny Sealeo in Ruby & Sapphire
Inside Shoal Cave, a shiny Spheal is the seed of a shiny Sealeo, so catch one there and evolve it up. Compare Shiny Sealeo odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Sealeo 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 Sealeo in the Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Sealeo Weakness
Sealeo is weak to Electric, Grass, Fighting, and Rock. Thick Fat reduces Fire/Ice damage, further improving the defensive spread.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass, Fighting, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Ice |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Sealeo Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Sealeo
 Heracross BugFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x167-197%KO Rock Tomb 2x38-45% | ||
 Hariyama Fighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Hariyama builds →Focus Punch 2x161-190%KO Rock Tomb 2x37-43% | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x173-204%KO Solar Beam 2x76-90% | ||
 Blaziken FireFighting | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Blaziken builds →Focus Punch 2x161-190%KO Rock Tomb 2x37-43% | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Machoke builds →Focus Punch 2x139-163%KO Rock Tomb 2x31-37% | ||
 Medicham FightingPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Medicham builds →Focus Punch 2x95-112%KO Thunder Punch 2x33-39% Rock Tomb 2x22-27% | ||
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Sceptile builds →Solar Beam 2x116-137%KO Focus Punch 2x81-96% Rock Tomb 2x28-33% | ||
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Magneton ElectricSteel | A | |
 Raichu Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Raichu builds →Focus Punch 2x84-100%KO Thunderbolt 2x81-96% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Cacturne builds →Solar Beam 2x125-148%KO Focus Punch 2x104-122%KO | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sealeo View Cradily builds →Solar Beam 2x95-112%KO Rock Tomb 2x42-49% Rock Smash 2x13-15% | ||
 Plusle Electric | C | |
Sealeo Evolutions
Partway through Spheal's chain. Sealeo still has another evolution ahead before reaching Walrein. For breeding, average hatch time with a massive partner pool via two egg groups. HP has grown the most so far (+20), but there's still another 120 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Sealeo to get Spheal eggs easily using 102 partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Curse, Fissure, Rock Slide and 5 more.
RS Sealeo Best Moveset
Middle-stage Water/Ice heading toward Walrein. AbilityThick Fat halves Fire and Ice damage. MoveSurf and MoveIce Beam at moderate power. One evolution from competitive bulk.
Best Build
Sealeo best EVs are Sp. Atk and Speed
Special Sweeper Moveset
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Encore
- Hidden Power Grass
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Sealeo gets Curse and Fissure exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Normal and Ground coverage and more rounds out the picture alongside Blizzard and Ice Beam.
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 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
SEALEO has the habit of always juggling on the tip of its nose anything it sees for the first time. This POKéMON occasionally entertains itself by balancing and rolling a SPHEAL on its nose.
SEALEO often balances and rolls things on the tip of its nose. While the POKéMON is rolling something, it checks the object’s aroma and texture to determine whether it likes the object or not.
Sealeo Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Sealeo is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Spheal under specific conditions.
Game Availability
Available in 15 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Sealeo spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through catching or hatching as a base form in most mainline games.
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 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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