Is Skitty Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Route 116 catch. AbilityCute Charm for infatuation chance. Delcatty needs a Moon Stone and gains AbilityNormalize which turns all moves into Normal-type. That removes coverage entirely. Cute charm is a gimmick on a weak Normal-type. Box it.
Roxanne's typing presses Delcatty's defenses.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Wattson's typing presses Delcatty's defenses.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Winona's team.
Tate & Liza's typing presses Delcatty's defenses.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Phoebe's typing presses Delcatty's defenses.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Steven's typing presses Delcatty's defenses.
Catchable
Catch Skitty on Route 116 (walking, Lv 7-8, rare).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Fortree City
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- LV 39NormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
How to Get Skitty in Ruby & Sapphire
Lead with the trade. A Fortree NPC swaps a Skitty for your Pikachu, an easy shortcut. Otherwise it's a rare level 7 to 8 grass catch at one route, so the trade often beats the wild hunt.
Wild Skitty may be holding when caught:
Leppa Berry (5% chance) A hold item that restores 10 PP in battle.2 locations to catch Skitty
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Skitty is the chain's first catch. You'll find trade and walking encounters from Lv. 7-8 across 4 total spots in the chain.
- 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 Ruby & Sapphire for Skitty.
How to Get Shiny Skitty in Ruby & Sapphire
Skitty prowls the grass on Route 116 only occasionally, so keep searching its wild encounters for a shiny. Compare Shiny Skitty odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Skitty 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 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 |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Skitty Weak Against
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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 27 breeding partners from the Fairy and Field egg groups. Pass egg moves like Baton Pass, Fake Tears, Helping Hand and 5 more to offspring.
RS Skitty Best Moveset
Normal pre-evolution with no competitive role. AbilityCute Charm occasionally infatuates on contact. Delcatty provides marginally better stats.
Best Build
Skitty best EVs are Attack and HP
Support Moveset
- Heal Bell
- Return
- Thunder Wave
- Protect
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Skitty gets Baton Pass and Fake Tears exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Coverage across 8 types rounds out the picture alongside Double-Edge and Uproar.
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 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
SKITTY has the habit of becoming fascinated by moving objects and chasing them around. This POKéMON is known to chase after its own tail and become dizzy.
SKITTY is known to chase around playfully after its own tail. In the wild, this POKéMON lives in holes in the trees of forests. It is very popular as a pet because of its adorable looks.
Skitty Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Trade a Pikachu to a girl in a house in Fortree City. This is an NPC trade, so the Skitty you receive is yours immediately, no transfer cable needed.
Yes. Wild Skitty in Ruby & Sapphire 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.
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.
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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