Is Weedle Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Own a copy of LeafGreen? Insert it into the GBA slot and Weedle appears on Route 204 and in Eterna Forest. The Bug/Poison path through the Dual Slot, though Butterfree is the better outcome.
Roark's Pokemon outpace and outclass Weedle here.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Gardenia's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Byron's team.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Volkner's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Aaron's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Bertha's team.
Flint's team hits Beedrill's weaknesses hard.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Mars's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Jupiter's team.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Weedle on Route 204 (walking, Lv 6, rare). Pokémon LeafGreen in GBA slot.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 6)
- LV 6PoisonPoison StingPower 23Accuracy 100%PP 35
Evolve Weedle to Beedrill
Kakuna evolves into Beedrill at Level 10. Your Weedle should hit Level 10 before you reach Gardenia, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM89BugU-turnPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Veilstone Game Corner
- TM62BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 212
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Veilstone Department Store
- After Fantina
- TM81BugX-ScissorPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Route 221
- LV 37PoisonPoison JabPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Candice
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Galactic HQ B2F in Veilstone City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Weedle in Diamond & Pearl
Weedle needs LeafGreen jammed into the GBA slot before it spawns in Sinnoh. With that dual-slot trick active, it is a rare level 6 catch on one early route.
1 location to catch Weedle
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 1Where To Catch Weedle in DP
Weedle is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 6. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 1Weedle ✓
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Kakunaor evolve from Weedle (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into BeedrillBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Weedle egg.
To plan your throws, open the Diamond & Pearl catch rate calculator with Weedle preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Weedle in Diamond & Pearl
Weedle shares the Route 204 grass with the other bugs, so build a PokeRadar chain right there to pull its shiny way down. Compare Shiny Weedle odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Weedle 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Diamond & Pearl shiny odds calculator with Weedle already selected.
Weedle Weakness
Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock moves hit Weedle for super-effective damage. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Standard number of weaknesses for the Bug/Poison typing.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Flying, Psychic, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison, Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Weedle Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Weedle
 Aerodactyl Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weedle View Aerodactyl builds →Wing Attack 2x130-155%KO Rock Tomb 2x113-134%KO Fire Fang 2x96-114%KO | ||
 Monferno FireFighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chimchar (Lake Verity Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weedle View Monferno builds →Fire Blast 2x259-305%KO Rock Tomb 2x61-71% | ||
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMt Coronet Surfing | ||
 Growlithe Fire | C | |
 Kadabra Psychic | A | |
 Murkrow Dark | C | |
 Vespiquen Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weedle View Vespiquen builds →Power Gem 2x102-121%KO Gust 2x91-107%KO | ||
 Lunatone RockPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weedle View Lunatone builds →Confusion 2x127-150%KO Rock Tomb 2x71-86% | ||
 Doduo Normal | C | |
 Staravia Normal | C | |
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weedle View Solrock builds →Rock Tomb 2x104-123%KO Fire Blast 2x136-161%KO Confusion 2x91-107%KO | ||
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
 Beautifly Bug | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weedle View Butterfree builds →Gust 2x100-118%KO Confusion 2x80-96% | ||
Weedle Evolutions
Three stages ahead. Weedle grows into Kakuna, then pushes on to Beedrill. Check the evolution methods below. For breeding, quick to hatch with a decent partner pool via one egg group. The evolved forms gain up to 200 total stats over Weedle. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Weedle easily with 48 breeding partners from the Bug egg group.
DP Weedle Best Moveset
Stats are too low for anything, and Poison Sting as the strongest attack means the moveset can't threaten any real target. Evolve immediately.
Best Build
Weedle best EVs are Sp. Atk and Sp. Def
Utility Moveset
- Poison Sting
- String Shot
- Bug Bite
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Not a lot to pick from. Weedle gets Poison Sting for same-type damage, and limited coverage rounds things out. You're building around what's available rather than choosing from a deep bench.
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
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It eats its weight in leaves every day. It fends off attackers with the needle on its head.
Weedle Diamond & Pearl Guide
For Diamond & Pearl, you can run Weedle through the first few routes without issues. 195 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Kakuna as fast as you can.
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Weedle has appeared in 19 games: most mainline games. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
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
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