Is Wooper Good in Diamond & Pearl Playthrough?
Water/Ground. Quagsire at 20 has one Grass weakness. AbilityWater Absorb heals from Water attacks. If imported, handles Volkner and Flint. Gastrodon fills the same Water/Ground role natively.
Wooper has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Gardenia's team hits Wooper's weaknesses hard.
Wooper trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Volkner's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Quagsire resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Wooper in the Great Marsh (walking, Lv 20, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM28GroundDigPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Maniac Tunnel
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- LV 33GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Fantina
- TM03WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Ravaged Path
- After Candice
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Galactic HQ B2F in Veilstone City
- LV 47WaterMuddy WaterPower 143Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Wooper to Quagsire
Wooper evolves into Quagsire at Level 20. You get it at Level 20, so it evolves into Quagsire the next time it levels up. A lower-level Wooper evolves when it reaches Level 20.
Recommended Moves
- After Gardenia
- TM28GroundDigPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Maniac Tunnel
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Celestic Town
- LV 36GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sunyshore City
- LV 53WaterMuddy WaterPower 143Accuracy 85%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Wooper in Diamond & Pearl
Wooper packs into two marshy spots, common at level 18 to 40 on land and on the surface. Once you can reach its boggy home, the little water fish is one of the simplest catches around.
2 locations to catch Wooper
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Badge 3Where To Catch Wooper in DP
The line opens with Wooper at Lv. 18-40 via walking and surfing encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 1Wooper ✓Route 212 - SouthLv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 90%Great Marsh - Area 1Lv.20-30Surfing on waterRate 60%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.20-30Surfing on waterRate 60%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.20-30Surfing on waterRate 60%Great Marsh - Area 4Lv.20-30Surfing on waterRate 60%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.20-30Surfing on waterRate 60%Route 212 - SouthLv.18GrassRate 30%Great Marsh - Area 5Lv.20FloorRate 20%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.20FloorRate 20%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.22FloorRate 20%Great Marsh - Area 4Lv.22FloorRate 20%Great Marsh - Area 1Lv.24FloorRate 20%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.24FloorRate 20%Great Marsh - Daily PokemonLv.22-26FloorRate 10%Before post-game
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into QuagsireGreat Marsh - Area 5Lv.21-22FloorRate 15%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.21-22FloorRate 15%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.23-24FloorRate 15%Great Marsh - Area 4Lv.23-24FloorRate 15%Great Marsh - Area 1Lv.25-26FloorRate 15%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.25-26FloorRate 15%Route 212 - SouthLv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 10%Great Marsh - Daily PokemonLv.22-26FloorRate 10%Before post-gameGreat Marsh - Area 1Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 5%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 5%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 5%Great Marsh - Area 4Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 5%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 5%or evolve from Wooper (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Wooper catch rates for Diamond & Pearl by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Wooper in Diamond & Pearl
Wooper wanders the Great Marsh and Route 212, where a PokeRadar chain in the grass lands its shiny. Compare Shiny Wooper odds across every game
Diamond & Pearl Shiny Wooper 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Diamond & Pearl with Wooper preloaded.
Wooper Weakness
Type-wise, Wooper takes extra damage from Grass. Watch out for Grass attacks, those deal 4x damage. Electric moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. The Water/Ground typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Water Absorb grants an additional Water immunity, reshaping the matchup chart.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Poison, Rock, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Wooper Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Wooper
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Lake Verity Gift) | ||
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Cherrim Grass | C | |
 Leafeon Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
 Wormadam BugGrass | C | |
 Snover GrassIce | D | |
 Lileep RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodOreburgh City Gift | ||
Wooper Evolutions
Wooper is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Quagsire. Check the evolution method below. A massive partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 220 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Wooper easily with 131 breeding partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Ancient Power, Body Slam, Counter and 8 more to offspring.
DP Wooper Best Moveset
Water/Ground typing only has one weakness in Grass (4x), but 15 Speed and stats in the 25-55 range make the moveset unusable. Evolve to Quagsire.
Best Build
Wooper best EVs are Attack and HP
Physical Attacker Moveset
- Recover
- Earthquake
- Curse
- Waterfall
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Ancient Power and Body Slam aren't available any other way for Wooper, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Earthquake and Muddy Water for solid options.
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
29 of 30 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Transfer Moves
Base Stats
It lives in cold water, half burying itself in mud at the bottom to sleep.
When the temperature cools in the evening, they emerge from water to seek food along the shore.
Wooper Diamond & Pearl Guide
In Diamond & Pearl, for a casual playthrough, Wooper works as a placeholder. Water/Ground coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Quagsire. That's where the stats start mattering.
Yes. Paldean Wooper is a regional variant with different typing and a reworked stat spread. Introduced in Gen 9. Plays completely differently from the original.
Game Availability
Available since Gold & Silver, Wooper appears in 17 games spanning 8 generations. Beyond its original form, it gained a Paldean form in Generation 9.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
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 9SVPaldean
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
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