Is Slakoth Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Petalburg Woods, early catch. AbilityTruant makes Slakoth attack only every other turn. Vigoroth at 18 loses Truant for AbilityVital Spirit, becoming usable. Slaking at 36 gets Truant back with 160 Attack. The ability is a deliberate handicap on a monster.
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.
Catchable
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 Slakoth in Ruby & Sapphire
Slakoth holes up at one rare grass spot, levels 5 to 6. It appears early in the game but in just that single patch, so you'll be revisiting the same grass to land one.
1 location to catch Slakoth
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Where To Catch Slakoth in RS
- Step 1Slakoth ✓
- Step 3Evolve into Slaking
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Ruby & Sapphire for Slakoth.
How to Get Shiny Slakoth in Ruby & Sapphire
Slakoth stays uncommon but present in the grass of Petalburg Woods, so keep working its wild encounters until a shiny shows. Compare Shiny Slakoth odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Slakoth 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 Slakoth.
Slakoth Weakness
Slakoth's Normal typing leaves it vulnerable to Fighting. It shrugs off Ghost-type attacks completely. Slakoth's physical bulk (base 60 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 Slakoth Weak Against
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Slakoth Evolutions
Slakoth kicks off a three-stage evolution line through Vigoroth all the way to Slaking. For breeding, quick to hatch with a massive partner pool via one egg group. The evolved forms gain up to 390 total stats over Slakoth. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Slakoth easily with 102 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Body Slam, Crush Claw, Curse and 4 more to offspring.
RS Slakoth Best Moveset
Normal pre-evolution crippled by AbilityTruant only allowing attacks every other turn. Vigoroth removes the restriction temporarily before Slaking reimplements it at massive stats.
Best Build
Slakoth best EVs are HP and Defense
Bulky Support Moveset
- Double Edge
- Aerial Ace
- Blizzard
- Body Slam
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Body Slam and Crush Claw from the egg pool give Slakoth something extra. Pair those with Body Slam and Strength for STAB and coverage across 9 types for reach, and the kit fills out nicely.
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 29 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
SLAKOTH lolls around for over twenty hours every day. Because it moves so little, it does not need much food. This POKéMON’s sole daily meal consists of just three leaves.
SLAKOTH’s heart beats just once a minute. Whatever happens, it is content to loaf around motionless. It is rare to see this POKéMON in motion.
Slakoth Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Slakoth can be caught in the wild at Hoenn Petalburg Woods in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Slakoth appears in 14 games across 7 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
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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