Is Vespiquen Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Female Combee evolves at level 21. Bug/Flying with AbilityPressure doubling PP usage. Has unique signature moves like Attack Order, Defend Order, and Heal Order. Interesting kit but the 4x Rock weakness and moderate stats limit the impact.
Roark's Pokemon outpace and outclass Combee here.
Combee has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Byron's Pokemon outpace and outclass Vespiquen here.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Bertha's team hits Vespiquen's weaknesses hard.
Flint's team hits Vespiquen's weaknesses hard.
Vespiquen has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Vespiquen has the type edge here and should clean up Jupiter's team.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Mars's team.
Vespiquen has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Vespiquen trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catch Combee
Catch Combee on Floaroma Meadow (Honey Tree, Lv 5-15, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 5)
- LV 5FlyingGustPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 35
- LV 13BugBug BitePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Byron
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Snowpoint City
- TUTORNormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Snowpoint City
- Post-Game
- TUTORGroundMud-SlapPower 20Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
Evolve Combee to Vespiquen
Combee evolves into Vespiquen at Level 21. Your Combee should hit Level 21 before you reach Fantina, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM89BugU-turnPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Veilstone Game Corner
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 213
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- LV 27PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10
- LV 37BugAttack OrderPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Crasher Wake
- TM81BugX-ScissorPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Route 221
- Post-Game
- TUTORBugSignal BeamPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Vespiquen in Platinum
Vespiquen has no wild spawns in Platinum. Only a female Combee evolves, at level 21, so keep checking honey trees until a female shows up to build toward the hive queen.
Wild Vespiquen may be holding when caught:
Poison Barb (5% chance) An item to be held by a Pokemon. It is a small, poisonous barb that ups the power of Poison-type moves.Catch Combee at any of these 18 spots to eventually evolve into Vespiquen.
- 1Catch Combee
- 2Evolve Vespiquenat Lv.21
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Badge 8How to Obtain Vespiquen in Pt
Combee is your first catch on the way to Vespiquen. You'll find headbutt encounters from Lv. 5-15 across 21 total spots in the chain.
- Step 1Catch CombeeEterna ForestLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Floaroma MeadowLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Fuego IronworksLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 205 - NorthLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 205 - SouthLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 206Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 207Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 208Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 209Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 210 - NorthLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 210 - SouthLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 211 - EastLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 212 - NorthLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 212 - SouthLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 213Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 214Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 215Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 218Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 221Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Route 222Lv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%Valley WindworksLv.5-15Honey tree encounterRate 32%
- Step 2Vespiquen ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Combee egg.
How to Get Shiny Vespiquen in Platinum
Vespiquen comes only from a female Combee, so hatch shiny Combee from a foreign Ditto until a female appears, then evolve it. Compare Shiny Vespiquen odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Vespiquen Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
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 | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Platinum shiny odds calculator with Vespiquen already selected.
Vespiquen Weakness
Vespiquen is weak to Rock, Fire, Electric, Ice, and Flying. Watch out for Rock attacks, those deal 4x damage. On the flip side, it's immune to Ground-type moves entirely.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Rock |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Electric, Ice, Flying |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Vespiquen Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Vespiquen
 Aerodactyl Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vespiquen View Aerodactyl builds →Rock Slide 4x128-150%KO Wing Attack 2x50-60% Thunder Fang 2x35-43% Ice Fang 2x35-43% | ||
 Cranidos Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vespiquen View Cranidos builds →Rock Slide 4x146-173%KO Fire Blast 2x29-35% Thunderbolt 2x23-28% | ||
 Probopass RockSteel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vespiquen View Probopass builds →Rock Slide 4x83-98% Thunderbolt 2x40-48% | ||
 Graveler RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vespiquen View Graveler builds →Rock Slide 4x114-135%KO Fire Blast 2x35-43% | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vespiquen View Solrock builds →Rock Slide 4x114-135%KO Fire Blast 2x40-48% | ||
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
 Rotom ElectricGhost | C | |
Obtain MethodOld Chateau Interact Encounter | ||
 Gliscor Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vespiquen View Gliscor builds →Rock Slide 4x76-90% Thunder Fang 2x34-40% Ice Fang 2x34-40% Fire Fang 2x34-40% | ||
 Kabuto RockWater | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
 Glaceon Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Monferno FireFighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Route 201 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vespiquen View Monferno builds →Fire Blast 2x79-94% Rock Slide 4x68-80% | ||
 Lunatone RockPsychic | C | |
 Larvitar RockGround | C | |
Vespiquen Evolutions
Vespiquen is what Combee becomes. Breed it for Combee eggs (quick to hatch). A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are quick to hatch. The evolution from Combee pushed Vespiquen to 474 total stats. Defense saw the largest single gain at +60. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Vespiquen to get Combee eggs using 48 partners from the Bug egg group.
Pt Vespiquen Best Moveset
25% HP from MoveStealth Rock every switch cripples a Pokemon that wants to block attacks at 102 in both defenses. The moveset uses Order moves like MoveAttack Order and MoveHeal Order, but Bug/Flying typing costs too much HP to sustain.
Best Build
Vespiquen best EVs are Sp. Def and HP
Wall Moveset
- Toxic
- Roost
- Attack Order
- Heal Order
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The level-up pool tells the story here. Vespiquen learns Attack Order and Giga Impact naturally, plus enough variety that TMs feel like bonuses. Poison and Dark coverage and more extends the reach beyond that.
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
30 of 31 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
It releases various pheromones to make the grubs in its body do its bidding while fighting foes.
Vespiquen Platinum Guide
In Platinum, Vespiquen plays as a support. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key. so pick your spots carefully.
In Platinum, Careful is the go-to nature for Vespiquen. That's +Sp. Def / -Sp. Atk. Pair it with 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpD EVs. Fits the support role.
Game Availability
Debuting in Diamond & Pearl, Vespiquen appears in 13 games across 6 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through 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 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
Winds & Waves
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