Is Shedinja Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
AbilityWonder Guard blocks all damage except super-effective hits. 1 HP means any super-effective move, weather damage, or status kills it instantly. Bug/Ghost has five weaknesses in Gen 3. Against opponents without those types, Shedinja is invincible. Against the rest, it's dead. The ultimate gimmick.
Nincada trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
Brawly's typing presses Nincada's defenses.
Wattson's team hits Ninjask's weaknesses hard.
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Flannery's team hits Ninjask's weaknesses hard.
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Ninjask trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
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Winona's team hits Ninjask's weaknesses hard.
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Ninjask trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
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Ninjask has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
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Ninjask has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
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Ninjask trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
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Ninjask trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
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Ninjask trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
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Ninjask trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
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Catch Nincada
Catch Nincada on Route 116 (walking, Lv 6-7, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Flannery
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Fiery Path
- After Norman
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 123
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 45GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Nincada to Shedinja
Nincada evolves into Shedinja at Level 20. Your Nincada should hit Level 20 before you reach Wattson, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Flannery
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Fiery Path
- After Norman
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 38GhostShadow BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Nincada to Ninjask
Nincada evolves into Ninjask at Level 20. Your Nincada should hit Level 20 before you reach Wattson, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- LV 31NormalSlashPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Norman
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
How to Get Shedinja in Ruby & Sapphire
Shedinja is the catch with Nincada's evolution. It appears in your party at level 20 only if you have an open slot and a spare Poke Ball, never on the map itself.
Catch Nincada at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Shedinja.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Nincada
- 2Evolve Shedinjaat Lv.20
Badge 1How to Obtain Shedinja in RS
- Step 1Catch Nincada
- Step 2Shedinja ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Nincada egg.
How to Get Shiny Shedinja in Ruby & Sapphire
Shedinja shows up when Nincada evolves with an open party slot and a spare Poke Ball, so track down a shiny Nincada on Route 116 and evolve it. Compare Shiny Shedinja odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Shedinja 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 Shedinja in the Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Shedinja Weakness
Shedinja is weak to Fire, Flying, Rock, Ghost, and Dark. On the flip side, it's immune to Normal and Fighting-type moves entirely. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Wonder Guard makes Shedinja immune to all non-super-effective damage.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Flying, Rock, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Poison, Ground, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Normal, Fighting |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Shedinja Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Shedinja
 Combusken FireFighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Combusken builds →Overheat 2x411-485%KO Rock Tomb 2x79-94% Peck 2x57-68% | ||
 Torkoal Fire | C | |
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Skarmory builds →Peck 2x81-96% Thief 2x49-60% | ||
 Numel FireGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Numel builds →Overheat 2x336-396%KO Rock Tomb 2x64-77% | ||
 Swellow Normal | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Swellow builds →Wing Attack 2x145-172%KO Thief 2x74-89% | ||
 Slugma Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Slugma builds →Overheat 2x351-415%KO Rock Throw 2x49-60% | ||
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Golbat builds →Wing Attack 2x134-160%KO Bite 2x100-119%KO Astonish 2x47-55% | ||
 Aron SteelRock | C | |
 Graveler RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Graveler builds →Rock Tomb 2x130-153%KO Flamethrower 2x119-140%KO | ||
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodRustboro City Gift | ||
 Pelipper Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Pelipper builds →Wing Attack 2x96-115%KO Thief 2x85-102%KO | ||
 Mightyena Dark | C | |
 Beautifly Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Beautifly builds →Gust 2x85-102%KO Thief 2x89-106%KO | ||
 Masquerain Bug | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Surskit (Route 102 Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Shedinja View Masquerain builds →Gust 2x74-89% Thief 2x89-106%KO | ||
Shedinja Evolutions
Nincada's line splits into 2 evolutions, and Shedinja is the level-up path. Each sibling form needs a different method to obtain. Breed through Nincada to get eggs. Ninjask has 220 more total stats, but Shedinja makes up for it with a stronger Attack gain (+45 from Nincada). View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Shedinja is genderless — breed with Ditto to produce Nincada eggs. Part of the Mineral egg group.
Ditto onlyRS Shedinja Best Moveset
1 HP and immunity to all non-super-effective damage through AbilityWonder Guard. Bug, Fire, Rock, Flying, and Dark moves end it instantly, but everything else bounces off. The ability creates free switch-ins against entire movepools. Held ItemLum Berry cures status.
Best Build
Shedinja best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Attacker Moveset
- Shadow Ball
- Toxic
- Baton Pass
- Hidden Power Bug
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Shedinja gets Endure and Feint Attack exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Normal and Flying coverage and more rounds out the picture alongside Leech Life and Shadow Ball.
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 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
SHEDINJA’s hard body doesn’t move - not even a twitch. In fact, its body appears to be merely a hollow shell. It is believed that this POKéMON will steal the spirit of anyone peering into its hollow body from its back.
SHEDINJA is a peculiar POKéMON. It seems to appear unsought in a POKé BALL after a NINCADA evolves. This bizarre POKéMON is entirely immobile - it doesn’t even breathe.
Shedinja Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Shedinja is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Nincada at level 20.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Shedinja spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in a solid number of 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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