
Is Wartortle Good in Red & Blue Playthrough?
Solid through the mid-game. Tough enough to take hits and dish out consistent Water damage. Evolves into Blastoise at 36, which is around the time the difficulty starts ramping up.
Squirtle resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Misty's typing presses Wartortle's defenses.
Wartortle has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Erika's team hits Wartortle's weaknesses hard.
Blastoise has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Blastoise trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Blastoise resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Blastoise resists most of Giovanni's coverage and hits back hard.
Blastoise trades roughly evenly with Lorelei's team.
Blastoise resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Blastoise has the type edge here and should clean up Agatha's team.
Blastoise trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Blastoise has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Starter
Squirtle is available as a starter.
Recommended Moves
- After Brock
- TM28GroundDigPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Returned by the Team Rocket thief after you defeat him in Cerulean City
- After Misty
- TM11WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Cerulean Gym Leader Misty
- After Lt. Surge
- TM10NormalDouble-EdgePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Rocket Hideout
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Celadon Department Store roof
- After Erika
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Safari Zone
- LV 35NormalSkull BashPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 42WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Sabrina
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 5Pokémon Mansion
Evolve Squirtle to Wartortle
Squirtle evolves into Wartortle at Level 16. Your Squirtle should hit Level 16 before you reach Misty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Brock
- TM28GroundDigPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Returned by the Team Rocket thief after you defeat him in Cerulean City
- After Misty
- TM11WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Cerulean Gym Leader Misty
- After Lt. Surge
- TM10NormalDouble-EdgePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Rocket Hideout
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Celadon Department Store roof
- After Erika
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Safari Zone
- LV 39NormalSkull BashPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Sabrina
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 5Pokémon Mansion
- LV 47WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Wartortle to Blastoise
Wartortle evolves into Blastoise at Level 36. Your Wartortle should hit Level 36 before you reach Koga, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Brock
- TM28GroundDigPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Returned by the Team Rocket thief after you defeat him in Cerulean City
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Rocket Game Corner
- TM10NormalDouble-EdgePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Rocket Hideout
- After Erika
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Safari Zone
- LV 42NormalSkull BashPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Sabrina
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 5Pokémon Mansion
- After Koga
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Silph Co.
- LV 52WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Wartortle in Red & Blue
Squirtle evolves into Wartortle at level 16. You will never run into a wild Wartortle in Red or Blue; it only comes from raising the starter.
Catch Squirtle at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Wartortle.
How to Obtain Wartortle in RB
Step 2Wartortle ✓
Step 3Evolve into Blastoise
Wartortle Weakness
Wartortle is weak to Electric and Grass. Not many exploitable gaps in the Water typing defensive chart. Wartortle's Water typing only leaves 2 gaps to cover.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice |
- Only 15 types exist — Dark, Steel, and Fairy are absent
- Ghost has no effect on Psychic (a known bug, fixed in Gen II)
- Special stat governs both offense and defense — no Sp.Atk / Sp.Def split
What is Wartortle Weak Against
AvgWartortle Evolutions
Wartortle sits between Squirtle and Blastoise in this three-stage chain. A Water type at 390 stats that can't breed. HP has grown the most so far (+15), but there's still another 140 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
RB Wartortle Best Moveset
Water middle stage with 65 Special, below Blastoise's already-outclassed 85. MoveSurf and MoveBlizzard at reduced power. The moves point toward Blastoise, which itself points toward Starmie.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Hydro Pump
- Blizzard
- Mega Kick
- Body Slam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Most of Wartortle's flexibility comes from TMs. Same-type output runs through Hydro Pump and Surf, but Normal and Dark and the rest of the TM pool push it from predictable to genuinely threatening.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- 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.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM 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 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 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Often hides in water to stalk unwary prey. For swimming fast, it moves its ears to maintain balance.
Wartortle Red & Blue Guide
In Red & Blue, for a casual playthrough, Wartortle works as a placeholder. Water coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Blastoise. That's where the stats start mattering.
In Red & Blue, Wartortle plays as a balanced. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Wartortle appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Wartortle have the longest track record of availability in the series.
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 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
Explore
Where to go next after Wartortle.