Is Snover Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Acuity Lakefront and Route 217 at level 32, right before Snowpoint. Grass/Ice with AbilitySnow Warning setting permanent hail on entry. Abomasnow at level 40 is slow but hits hard. Handles Bertha and Cynthia's Garchomp through Ice. A late-game catch that delivers when it matters.
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 Fantina'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 Byron's team.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Abomasnow trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Abomasnow trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Abomasnow resists most of Bertha's coverage and hits back hard.
Flint's team hits Abomasnow's weaknesses hard.
Abomasnow trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Abomasnow resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Abomasnow has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Abomasnow trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Snover in Mt. Coronet (walking, Lv 36, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 36)
- LV 36GrassWood HammerPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Fantina
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- LV 41IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
- Post-Game
- TM53GrassEnergy BallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 226
- TUTORGrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- 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 Fantina
- 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
- TUTORGrassSeed BombPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- TUTORDragonOutragePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Snover in Platinum
Snover is common across the snowbound northern routes and the Acuity lake area, climbing in level as you near the peak. The frost tree owns the cold country, so the snow region up north is where it lives.
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.5 locations to catch Snover
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Snover is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 32-41. 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 Platinum by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Snover in Platinum
Snover shuffles through the snowy grass of Route 216 and Route 217, common enough to chain to 40 for a shiny. Compare Shiny Snover odds across every game
Platinum 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 Platinum 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 (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Infernape builds →Fire Blast 4x309-364%KO Focus Punch 2x218-257%KO Poison Jab 2x79-93% U-turn 2x70-82% | ||
 Ninetales Fire | C | |
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Arcanine builds →Fire Blast 4x300-354%KO Aerial Ace 2x62-73% Rock Smash 2x42-50% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 2x257-303%KO Rock Slide 2x86-102%KO Aerial Ace 2x70-82% | ||
 Gallade PsychicFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Gallade builds →Focus Punch 2x257-303%KO X-Scissor 2x92-109%KO Poison Jab 2x92-109%KO Rock Slide 2x86-102%KO | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 2x266-313%KO Rock Slide 2x89-105%KO | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 4x328-386%KO Rock Smash 2x36-43% Smog 2x20-23% | ||
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 2x222-263%KO Poison Jab 2x121-142%KO X-Scissor 2x80-95% Rock Slide 2x76-89% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 4x300-354%KO Focus Punch 2x137-161%KO Smog 2x18-21% | ||
 Flareon Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Flareon builds →Fire Blast 4x291-343%KO Rock Smash 2x48-57% | ||
 Rampardos Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cranidos (Oreburgh City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Rampardos builds →Focus Punch 2x218-257%KO Rock Slide 2x166-196%KO Fire Blast 4x146-171%KO | ||
 Rapidash Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Rapidash builds →Fire Blast 4x254-300%KO Megahorn 2x113-134%KO Poison Jab 2x77-91% | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Forretress BugSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Snover View Forretress builds →Bug Bite 2x79-94% Flash Cannon 2x68-80% Rock Slide 2x66-79% Rock Smash 2x36-43% | ||
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.
Pt Snover Best Moveset
Permanent hail through AbilitySnow Warning is the only non-legendary source of automatic weather besides Hippopotas. The moveset guarantees 100% MoveBlizzard accuracy, but stats in the 40-62 range can't back it up. The weather support matters more than what Snover does.
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
Seemingly curious about people, they gather around footsteps they find on snowy mountains.
Snover Platinum Guide
Yes. Wild Snover in Platinum 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 Platinum, 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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