Is Wailmer Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Route 122 and 129 surfing and fishing. AbilityWater Veil prevents burns and AbilityOblivious blocks attraction. Wailord at 40 has the highest HP of any Hoenn Pokemon at 170 base. The HP is enormous but everything else is average. A big target that absorbs hits through sheer health.
Wailmer resists most of Roxanne's coverage and hits back hard.
Wailmer has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Wattson's team hits Wailmer's weaknesses hard.
Wailmer has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Norman's typing presses Wailmer's defenses.
Wailmer trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Wailord has the type edge here and should clean up Tate & Liza's team.
Wallace's typing presses Wailord's defenses.
Wailord trades roughly evenly with Sidney's team.
Wailord trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Wailord trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
Wailord has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Wailord trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catchable
Catch Wailmer on Route 103 (Good Rod fishing, Lv 10-30, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- LV 28WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- LV 41WaterWater SpoutPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 50WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Wailmer to Wailord
Wailmer evolves into Wailord at Level 40. Your Wailmer should hit Level 40 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Abandoned Ship
- After Norman
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Petalburg City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Winona
- HM08WaterDivePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mossdeep City
- After Tate & Liza
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Cave of Origin
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 44WaterWater SpoutPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 59WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Wailmer in Ruby & Sapphire
The fishing giant of this batch. A hundred and thirty-two spots over thirty water areas, hooked on the Good or Super Rod, levels 10 to 45. Cast almost anywhere on the sea and Wailmer bites.
30 locations to catch Wailmer
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
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Wailmer is where the line starts, caught through fishing encounters at Lv. 10-45. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 1Wailmer ✓Dewford TownLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Ever Grande CityLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Lilycove CityLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Mossdeep CityLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Pacifidlog TownLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 103Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 105 - OutsideLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 106Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 107Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 108Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 109Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 110Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 115Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 121Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 122Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 123Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 124Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 125Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 126Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 127Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 128Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 129Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 130Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 131Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 132Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 133Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Route 134Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Seafloor Cavern - EntranceLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, High TideLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, High TideLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Slateport CityLv.10-30Good RodRate 20%Dewford TownLv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 105 - OutsideLv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 106Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 107Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 108Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 109Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 110Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 115Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 121Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Route 123Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Seafloor Cavern - EntranceLv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, High TideLv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, High TideLv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Slateport CityLv.20-45Super RodRate 100%Lilycove CityLv.25-45Super RodRate 85%Mossdeep CityLv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Pacifidlog TownLv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 103Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 122Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 124Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 125Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 126Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 127Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 129Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 130Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Route 131Lv.25-45Super RodRate 60%Ever Grande CityLv.30-45Super RodRate 45%Route 128Lv.30-45Super RodRate 45%Route 132Lv.30-45Super RodRate 45%Route 133Lv.30-45Super RodRate 45%Route 134Lv.30-45Super RodRate 45%
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Wailordor evolve from Wailmer (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the Ruby & Sapphire catch rate calculator with Wailmer preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Wailmer in Ruby & Sapphire
Wailmer bites on a Good Rod or Super Rod along coasts such as Lilycove City and Mossdeep City, so keep casting for a shiny catch. Compare Shiny Wailmer odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Wailmer 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Ruby & Sapphire shiny odds calculator with Wailmer already selected.
Wailmer Weakness
Wailmer is weak to Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Wailmer's Water typing only leaves 2 gaps to cover.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Wailmer Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Wailmer
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Route 101 Gift) | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Roselia GrassPoison | C | |
 Lombre WaterGrass | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | B | |
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Rustboro City Gift) | ||
 Magneton ElectricSteel | A | |
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Raichu Electric | C | |
 Plusle Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Wailmer Evolutions
Wailmer is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Wailord. Check the evolution method below. A massive partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take forever to hatch. Evolving adds up to 100 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Wailmer easily with 102 breeding partners from the Field and Water 2 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Curse, Double-Edge, Fissure and 5 more to offspring.
RS Wailmer Best Moveset
Enormous 130 HP but stats otherwise too low for competition. AbilityWater Veil prevents burns and AbilityOblivious prevents attraction. Wailord improves with even more HP.
Best Build
Wailmer best EVs are HP and Sp. Def
Wall Moveset
- Curse
- Rest
- Hidden Power Rock
- Earthquake
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Wailmer. Curse and Double-Edge come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Water Spout and Hydro Pump and Rock and Ghost coverage and more.
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 23 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
WAILMER’s nostrils are located above its eyes. This playful POKéMON loves to startle people by forcefully snorting out seawater it stores inside its body out of its nostrils.
WAILMER can store water inside its body to transform itself into a ball for bouncing around on the ground. By filling itself up with more water, this POKéMON can elevate the height of its bounces.
Wailmer Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Wailmer can be fished up at Hoenn Dewford Town, Hoenn Evergrande City, Hoenn Lilycove City, and Hoenn Mossdeep City in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Wailmer 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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