Is Vulpix Good in Emerald Playthrough?
AbilityFlash Fire absorbs Fire attacks for full immunity. Vulpix evolves into Ninetales with a Fire Stone for fast Special-based Fire coverage. Handles Glacia's Ice E4 and Sidney's Grass-types. Wallace's Water Champion fight is unfavorable, same as every Fire-type trying to close out Emerald.
Roxanne's team hits Vulpix's weaknesses hard.
Vulpix trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Vulpix has the type edge here and should clean up Wattson's team.
Vulpix trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Vulpix trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Vulpix trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Juan's team.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Phoebe's team.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Drake's team hits Ninetales's weaknesses hard.
Wallace's team hits Ninetales's weaknesses hard.
Catchable
Catch Vulpix in Mt. Pyre (walking, Lv 25-29, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- LV 29FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- After Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- After Juan
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Evolve Vulpix to Ninetales
Vulpix evolves into Ninetales with a Fire Stone. You can pick up the Fire Stone in Fiery Path.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- After Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- After Juan
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
How to Get Vulpix in Emerald
Vulpix shows up commonly on Mt. Pyre around levels 25 to 29. That mountain is its single home in Emerald, so the catch is tied to one late-ish climb rather than spread across the map.
Wild Vulpix may be holding when caught:
Rawst Berry (always) A hold item that heals a burn in battle.1 location to catch Vulpix
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6Where To Catch Vulpix in E
- Step 1Vulpix ✓
- Step 2Evolve into NinetalesBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Vulpix egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Emerald for Vulpix.
How to Get Shiny Vulpix in Emerald
Vulpix prowls the misty grass of Mt. Pyre, so pace its slopes and reset each encounter, keeping watch for the off-color coat that sets a shiny apart from the rest. Compare Shiny Vulpix odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Vulpix 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 Emerald shiny odds for Vulpix.
Vulpix Weakness
Water, Ground, and Rock moves hit Vulpix for super-effective damage. 5 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Flash Fire grants an additional Fire immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. Vulpix's special bulk (base 65 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Ground, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Vulpix Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Vulpix
 Camerupt FireGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Camerupt builds →Earthquake 2x202-238%KO Rock Slide 2x101-120%KO | ||
 Swampert WaterGround | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Swampert builds →Surf 2x122-143%KO Dig 2x133-157%KO Rock Tomb 2x74-87% | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing | ||
 Feraligatr Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Totodile (Littleroot Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Feraligatr builds →Surf 2x113-134%KO Dig 2x85-100%KO | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Azumarill Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Azurill (Petalburg City Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Azumarill builds →Surf 2x93-111%KO Dig 2x49-59% Rollout 2x25-30% | ||
 Pelipper Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing | ||
 Regirock Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 111 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Regirock builds →Ancient Power 2x122-143%KO Dig 2x80-96% | ||
 Armaldo RockBug | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Anorith (Rustboro City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Armaldo builds →Ancient Power 2x147-173%KO Dig 2x98-115%KO Water Gun 2x30-37% | ||
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Geodude builds →Earthquake 2x168-199%KO Rock Tomb 2x86-101%KO | ||
 Sandslash Ground | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Sandslash builds →Dig 2x122-143%KO Rock Tomb 2x67-80% | ||
 Claydol GroundPsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Claydol builds →Dig 2x93-111%KO Ancient Power 2x62-74% | ||
 Gligar Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Gligar builds →Dig 2x97-114%KO Rock Tomb 2x55-65% | ||
 Trapinch Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Trapinch builds →Dig 2x122-143%KO Rock Tomb 2x67-80% | ||
Vulpix Evolutions
Vulpix doesn't evolve by leveling. You'll need an evolution item to push it forward to Ninetales. The evolved forms gain up to 206 total stats over Vulpix. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Vulpix easily with 102 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Disable, Feint Attack, Flail and 5 more to offspring.
E Vulpix Best Moveset
Fire pre-evolution with AbilityFlash Fire absorbing Fire hits for a power boost. 65 Sp. Atk behind that boost still can't threaten anything. Ninetales' 81 Sp. Atk and 100 Speed make the same ability actually dangerous.
Best Build
Vulpix best EVs are HP and Attack
Utility Moveset
- Iron Tail
- Body Slam
- Fire Blast
- Hidden Power Ice
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Vulpix misses out on Disable and Feint Attack. That's 8 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Overheat and Fire Blast, with Normal and Ground coverage and more rounding things out.
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 18 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It can freely control fire, making fiery orbs fly like will-o’-the-wisps. Just before evolution, its six tails grow hot as if on fire.
Vulpix Emerald Guide
Yes. Wild Vulpix in Emerald can hold Rawst Berry (always). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Rawst Berry.
For Emerald, you can run Vulpix through the first few routes without issues. 299 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Ninetales as fast as you can.
Vulpix has an Alolan form that swaps the typing and reshuffles the stats. Introduced in Gen 7. Worth checking if the original version doesn't fit your team.
Game Availability
Since debuting in Red & Blue, Vulpix has appeared in 21 titles over 9 generations. Along the way, it received an Alolan form in Generation 7, keeping it relevant across different competitive metas.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
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 7SMAlolan
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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Where to go next after Vulpix.
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