Is Snover Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Route 216 Grass/Ice. AbilitySnow Warning generates permanent hail on switch-in. Abomasnow at 40 is the only native hail setter in Sinnoh. Available late but the weather utility is unique. Handles Bertha and Cynthia's Garchomp with Ice.
Snover resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Snover has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Snover trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Snover has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Snover trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Snover trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Abomasnow trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Abomasnow resists most of Bertha's coverage and hits back hard.
Abomasnow trades roughly evenly with Flint's team.
Abomasnow trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Abomasnow resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Snover in Mt. Coronet (walking, Lv 38, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 38)
- LV 38GrassWood HammerPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Fantina
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 209
- LV 41IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
- After Candice
- TM72IceAvalanchePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Candice
- Post-Game
- TM53GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 226
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Snover to Abomasnow
Snover evolves into Abomasnow at Level 40. Your Snover should hit Level 40 before you reach Candice, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 40)
- LV 40GrassWood HammerPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Gardenia
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 47IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM53GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 226
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Snover in Diamond & Pearl
Snover dusts four snowy areas, common from level 32 up. The frost tree keeps to the cold heights around Mt. Coronet and the lakefront, so it only shows once you reach the wintry north.
Wild Snover may be holding when caught:
Never Melt Ice (5% chance) An item to be held by a Pokemon. It is a piece of ice that repels heat and boosts Ice-type moves.4 locations to catch Snover
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 6Where To Catch Snover in DP
Snover is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 32-38. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Abomasnowor evolve from Snover (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Snover catch rates for Diamond & Pearl by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Snover in Diamond & Pearl
Snover shuffles across Route 216, Route 217, and Mt. Coronet, where a PokeRadar chain brings its shiny to 1 in 200. Compare Shiny Snover odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Snover 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Diamond & Pearl with Snover preloaded.
Snover Weakness
Snover's Grass/Ice typing leaves it vulnerable to Fire, Fighting, Poison, Flying, Bug, Rock, and Steel. Fire hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Fire |
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting, Poison, Flying, Bug, Rock, Steel |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Grass, Ground |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Snover Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Snover
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Lake Verity Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Infernape builds →Fire Blast 4x311-366%KO Focus Punch 2x219-258%KO Poison Jab 2x78-92% U-turn 2x69-82% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x252-297%KO Rock Slide 2x85-100%KO Aerial Ace 2x69-82% | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x260-306%KO Rock Slide 2x88-104%KO | ||
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 2x219-258%KO Poison Jab 2x119-141%KO Rock Slide 2x74-88% | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Machoke builds →Focus Punch 2x211-249%KO Fire Blast 4x119-140%KO Poison Jab 2x76-90% Rock Slide 2x71-84% | ||
 Growlithe Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Growlithe builds →Fire Blast 4x224-264%KO Aerial Ace 2x44-52% Rock Smash 2x30-36% | ||
 Forretress BugSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Forretress builds →Rock Slide 2x64-76% Mirror Shot 2x56-66% Rock Smash 2x35-42% | ||
 Ponyta Fire | C | |
 Drapion PoisonDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Drapion builds →Fire Fang 4x115-136%KO Poison Jab 2x104-123%KO Brick Break 2x64-76% Rock Slide 2x64-76% | ||
 Seviper Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Seviper builds →Flamethrower 4x159-188%KO Poison Jab 2x114-135%KO Rock Smash 2x39-46% | ||
 Skuntank PoisonDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Skuntank builds →Fire Blast 4x153-180%KO Poison Jab 2x107-126%KO Rock Smash 2x37-44% | ||
 Bronzong SteelPsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Bronzong builds →Rock Slide 2x64-76% Rock Smash 2x35-42% | ||
 Gliscor Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Gliscor builds →Fire Fang 4x119-140%KO Aerial Ace 2x84-99% Poison Jab 2x73-86% Brick Break 2x68-80% | ||
 Staraptor Normal | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Staraptor builds →Fly 2x147-174%KO Close Combat 2x130-154%KO U-turn 2x76-90% Steel Wing 2x76-90% | ||
Snover Evolutions
Snover evolves into Abomasnow. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 160 total stats over Snover. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Snover easily with 45 breeding partners from the Grass and Monster egg groups. Pass egg moves like Double-Edge, Growth, Leech Seed and 4 more to offspring.
DP Snover Best Moveset
Permanent hail from AbilitySnow Warning makes Snover the only non-legendary Pokemon with automatic weather besides Hippopotas. The moveset uses hail for 100% accurate MoveBlizzard, but stats in the 40-62 range are too low for real damage. The weather support itself is the value.
Best Build
Snover best EVs are Sp. Def and HP
Wall Moveset
- Blizzard
- Leech Seed
- Energy Ball
- Toxic
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Double-Edge and Growth on Snover. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Wood Hammer and Solar Beam, they expand what Snover can actually threaten in practice.
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
31 of 33 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It lives on snowy mountains. Having had little contact with humans, it is boldly inquisitive.
In the spring, it grows berries with the texture of frozen treats around its belly.
Snover Diamond & Pearl Guide
Yes. Wild Snover in Diamond & Pearl can hold Never Melt Ice (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Never Melt Ice.
In Diamond & Pearl, Snover does the job early-game if you need a Grass/Ice type on your team. Evolve it into Abomasnow before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Snover first appeared in Diamond & Pearl and has been available in 14 games across 6 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
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- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DPDebut
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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