Is Skitty Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Transfer-only Normal from Hoenn. Moon Stone evolves into Delcatty. AbilityNormalize is new in Gen 4 and turns all moves into Normal type. That ability removes coverage entirely. Don't import this.
Skitty trades roughly evenly with Roark's team.
Skitty has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Skitty trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Skitty has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Fantina's typing presses Skitty's defenses.
Skitty trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
Skitty trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Mars's team.
Delcatty resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Saturn's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Skitty on Route 222 (walking, Lv 40, common). Swarm.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 40)
- LV 40NormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- From Start
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Gardenia
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Veilstone Game Corner
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Skitty to Delcatty
Skitty evolves into Delcatty with a Moon Stone. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Volkner.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Lost Tower
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Amity Square
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Skitty in Diamond & Pearl
Skitty rides a Swarm onto one route, common at a high level 40 for such a small cat. It only appears on its swarm day, so watch the list and grab it before the route rotates away.
Wild Skitty may be holding when caught:
Leppa Berry (5% chance) Held: Consumed when a move runs out of PP to restore its PP by 10.1 location to catch Skitty
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 7Where To Catch Skitty in DP
- Step 1Skitty ✓
- Step 2Evolve into DelcattyBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Skitty egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Diamond & Pearl for Skitty.
How to Get Shiny Skitty in Diamond & Pearl
Skitty pads out during its Route 222 swarm, where a PokeRadar chain is what pulls its shiny down to 1 in 200. Compare Shiny Skitty odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Skitty Calculator
3 MethodsThe best route is PokeRadar Chain at full boosts, about 1 in 200 on each try. Tune it below.
PokeRadar Chain: Chain shaking-grass patches without breaking the combo. The rate peaks at a chain of 40.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 22-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 58-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 139-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 460-- | -- |
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 Diamond & Pearl shiny odds for Skitty.
Skitty Weakness
Skitty is weak to Fighting. On the flip side, it's immune to Ghost-type moves entirely. Only 1 weakness makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Skitty Weak Against
Good
Skitty Evolutions
Evolving Skitty into Delcatty takes an evolution item. It's not a simple level-up, so check the chain details below. Evolving adds up to 140 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Skitty easily with 35 breeding partners from the Fairy and Field egg groups. Pass egg moves like Baton Pass, Fake Out, Fake Tears and 9 more to offspring.
DP Skitty Best Moveset
Normal typing at stats in the 35-50 range with AbilityNormalize turning every move into Normal type. The moveset loses all type coverage from Normalize. Evolve to Delcatty.
Best Build
Skitty best EVs are Defense and Speed
Pivot Moveset
- Sucker Punch
- Fake Out
- Return
- Baton Pass
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Double-Edge and Blizzard bring the raw damage. But Skitty also picks up coverage across 10 types from TMs, making it tough to find a safe switch. You're not locked into one angle here.
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
34 of 37 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It can’t stop itself from chasing moving things, and it runs in a circle, chasing its own tail.
Skitty Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Wild Skitty in Diamond & Pearl can hold Leppa Berry (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Leppa Berry.
In Diamond & Pearl, Skitty does the job early-game if you need a Normal type on your team. Evolve it into Delcatty before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Skitty has been available in 13 games since Ruby & Sapphire, though obtaining it requires an item-based evolution. This extra step makes it less common than Pokemon found through standard wild encounters.
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- 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
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