Is Weavile Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Razor Claw evolution from Sneasel at night. Dark/Ice with AbilityPressure. The physical/special split transforms Weavile. Physical MoveIce Punch and MoveNight Slash both match that enormous Attack for the first time. Handles Lucian, Bertha, and Cynthia's Garchomp. One of Gen 4's biggest winners.
Sneasel has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Sneasel has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Sneasel trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Sneasel has the type edge here and should clean up Crasher Wake's team.
Sneasel resists most of Fantina's coverage and hits back hard.
Sneasel trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Lucian's team.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Weavile resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Weavile has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Weavile trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catch Sneasel
Catch Sneasel on Route 216 (walking, Lv 32-33, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Lake Acuity
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- TM75NormalSwords DancePower —Accuracy 100%PP 30Veilstone Game Corner
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- After Candice
- TM72IceAvalanchePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Prize for defeating Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- After Volkner
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Victory Road
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Sneasel to Weavile
Sneasel evolves into Weavile with a hold Razor Claw. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Candice.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 39)
- LV 39DarkNight SlashPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Gardenia
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Lake Acuity
- 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
- After Candice
- TM85PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Valor Lakefront
- LV 49DarkDark PulsePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Weavile in Diamond & Pearl
Give a Sneasel a Razor Claw and level it at night to get Weavile, which has no wild encounter. The dark claw only sharpens up under that held item and the dark sky, never out in the open grass.
Wild Weavile may be holding when caught:
Grip Claw (50% chance) A Pokemon hold item that extends the duration of multiturn attacks like Bind and Wrap.
Quick Claw (5% chance) Held: Holder has a 3/16 (18.75%) chance to move first.Catch Sneasel at any of these 5 spots to eventually evolve into Weavile.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Sneasel
- 2Evolve WeavileHold Razor Claw, Nighttime
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8How to Obtain Weavile in DP
To get Weavile, start by catching Sneasel through walking encounters at Lv. 32-56. The chain covers 1 catchable stage before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Weavile ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Sneasel egg.
How to Get Shiny Weavile in Diamond & Pearl
Weavile takes a Razor Claw at night, so chain a shiny Sneasel at the Acuity Lakefront and evolve it after dark. Compare Shiny Weavile odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Weavile 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Weavile in the Diamond & Pearl Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Weavile Weakness
Fighting, Fire, Bug, Rock, and Steel moves hit Weavile for super-effective damage. Fighting hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. The upside? Psychic-type moves can't touch it at all.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Fighting |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Bug, Rock, Steel |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Ice, Ghost, Dark |
| 0x (Immune) | Psychic |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Weavile Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Weavile
 Infernape FireFighting | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Lake Verity Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Infernape builds →Focus Punch 4x332-390%KO Fire Blast 2x107-127%KO Iron Tail 2x74-88% U-turn 2x52-62% | ||
 Heracross BugFighting | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Heracross builds →Focus Punch 4x389-459%KO Rock Slide 2x66-78% | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Breloom builds →Focus Punch 4x402-473%KO Iron Tail 2x89-106%KO Rock Slide 2x67-80% | ||
 Toxicroak PoisonFighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Toxicroak builds →Focus Punch 4x340-400%KO X-Scissor 2x60-72% Rock Slide 2x58-68% | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Machoke builds →Focus Punch 4x323-380%KO Rock Slide 2x55-65% Fire Blast 2x42-50% | ||
 Mawile Steel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Mawile builds →Focus Punch 4x188-221%KO Flash Cannon 2x46-54% Rock Slide 2x48-57% Fire Blast 2x46-54% | ||
 Medicham FightingPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Medicham builds →Focus Punch 4x220-259%KO Fire Punch 2x37-44% Rock Slide 2x37-44% | ||
 Empoleon WaterSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Empoleon builds →Flash Cannon 2x76-90% Brick Break 4x97-114%KO Rock Slide 2x48-57% | ||
 Riolu Fighting | C | |
Obtain MethodIron Island Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Riolu builds →Focus Punch 4x244-288%KO Iron Tail 2x55-65% Rock Slide 2x41-49% | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Forretress BugSteel | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Forretress builds →Flash Cannon 2x50-59% Rock Smash 4x55-65% Rock Slide 2x50-59% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Sudowoodo builds →Focus Punch 4x215-254%KO Rock Slide 2x83-98% | ||
 Probopass RockSteel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Probopass builds →Flash Cannon 2x58-68% Rock Slide 2x54-63% Rock Smash 4x38-46% | ||
 Armaldo RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Anorith (Oreburgh City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weavile View Armaldo builds →Brick Break 4x133-156%KO X-Scissor 2x106-124%KO Rock Slide 2x99-117%KO Iron Tail 2x87-102%KO | ||
Weavile Evolutions
Weavile evolved from Sneasel's chain using an evolution item. It's a non-standard trigger, so check the details below. Breed this form to get Sneasel eggs (average hatch time). The evolution from Sneasel pushed Weavile to 510 total stats. Attack saw the largest single gain at +25. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Weavile to get Sneasel eggs easily using 131 partners from the Field egg group. Notable egg moves include Bite, Counter, Crush Claw and 9 more.
DP Weavile Best Moveset
The physical/special split exists for Pokemon like Weavile. Dark and Ice attacks are physical now, and 120 Attack at 125 Speed tears through anything weak to either type before it can respond. The moveset runs fast physical hits with priority in MoveIce Shard, and very few things outrun it.
Best Build
Weavile best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Ice Shard
- Night Slash
- Low Kick
- Pursuit
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Need something that threatens multiple types? Weavile's movepool delivers. Coverage across 10 types plus STAB from Blizzard and Ice Beam gives it answers for most defensive cores you'll run into.
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
49 of 51 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
They live in cold regions, forming groups of four or five that hunt prey with impressive coordination.
It sends signals to others by carving odd patterns in frost-covered trees and ice.
Weavile Event Distributions
In Diamond & Pearl, Weavile reaches players through one Mystery Gift distribution rather than a recurring giveaway.
Battle in San DiegoDiamondPearlNot shiny
Weavile Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, use Weavile as a sweeper. Physical side carries the damage. It outspeeds most threats, Pursuit is the primary attack.
For Diamond & Pearl, build your team around Infernape. These have the highest co-usage rates with Weavile in competitive formats. They cover each other's weaknesses.
For Diamond & Pearl, run Jolly on Weavile. +Speed is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the sweeper role.
Game Availability
Since Diamond & Pearl, Weavile has been in 13 games. Requiring an item-based evolution to obtain means it's consistently available but requires more effort than simply catching it in the wild.
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
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