Is Slaking Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
670 BST but AbilityTruant forces a skip every other turn. Slaking hits harder than anything else in RS on its active turns. The truant cycle means opponents get free hits every other turn. Norman's ace for a reason. Devastating when it attacks. Vulnerable when it doesn't.
Roxanne's typing presses Slakoth's defenses.
Slakoth trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Vigoroth trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Vigoroth has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Vigoroth trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Vigoroth has the type edge here and should clean up Winona's team.
Slaking trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Slaking resists most of Wallace's coverage and hits back hard.
Slaking resists most of Sidney's coverage and hits back hard.
Slaking trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Slaking has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Slaking resists most of Drake's coverage and hits back hard.
Slaking has the type edge here and should clean up Steven's team.
Catch Slakoth
Catch Slakoth in Petalburg Woods (walking, Lv 5-6, rare).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
Evolve Slakoth to Vigoroth
Slakoth evolves into Vigoroth at Level 18. Your Slakoth should hit Level 18 before you reach Wattson, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM08FightingBulk UpPower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Brawly
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- LV 31NormalSlashPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- LV 43FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20
Evolve Vigoroth to Slaking
Vigoroth evolves into Slaking at Level 36. Your Vigoroth should hit Level 36 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Rusturf Tunnel
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Norman
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM42NormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- After Tate & Liza
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
How to Get Slaking in Ruby & Sapphire
Vigoroth becomes Slaking at level 36, the only route to it since none appear in the wild. Catching that one rare Slakoth was the hard part, and this is just the payoff.
Catch Slakoth at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Slaking.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
How to Obtain Slaking in RS
How to Get Shiny Slaking in Ruby & Sapphire
Slaking caps the Slakoth line, so shiny-hunt Slakoth in Petalburg Woods, then raise it through Vigoroth into Slaking. Compare Shiny Slaking odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Slaking 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 Slaking.
Slaking Weakness
Fighting moves hit Slaking for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Slaking's physical bulk (base 100 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| 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 Slaking Weak Against
Good
Slaking Evolutions
End of the line. Slaking caps a three-stage chain that started at Slakoth. Breeding produces the base form, and eggs are quick to hatch. Attack grew the most through evolution (+100 over Slakoth), and Slaking peaks at 670 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Slaking to get Slakoth eggs easily using 102 partners from the Field egg group. Notable egg moves include Body Slam, Crush Claw, Curse and 4 more.
RS Slaking Best Moveset
160 Attack is the highest in the format, and MoveReturn from that stat hits harder than almost anything else. AbilityTruant forces a skip turn after every attack, halving effective output. MoveEarthquake for coverage. Held ItemChoice Band amplifies. Enormous power gated behind the hardest ability restriction in the game.
Best Build
Slaking best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Earthquake
- Shadow Ball
- Focus Punch
- Hyper Beam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Coverage runs deep. Slaking can hit 10 types beyond STAB, including Dark and Fighting. The offense anchors on Hyper Beam and Body Slam while TMs handle everything else.
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 33 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
SLAKING spends all day lying down and lolling about. It eats grass growing within its reach. If it eats all the grass it can reach, this POKéMON reluctantly moves to another spot.
Wherever SLAKING live, rings of over a yard in diameter appear in grassy fields. They are made by the POKéMON as it eats all the grass within reach while lying prone on the ground.
Slaking Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Slaking is obtained in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire by evolving Vigoroth under specific conditions.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Slaking 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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