Is Wooper Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Surfing and walking the Great Marsh from level 20. Water/Ground with AbilityWater Absorb healing from Water attacks. Only one weakness to Grass. Quagsire at level 20 handles Wake, Volkner, and Flint's all-Fire E4.
Wooper has the type edge here and should clean up Roark's team.
Gardenia's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wooper here.
Fantina's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wooper here.
Wooper trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with Crasher Wake's team.
Quagsire resists most of Byron's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Candice's team.
Quagsire resists most of Volkner's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire trades roughly evenly with 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 resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Quagsire has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
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 26-28, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM28GroundDigPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Maniac Tunnel
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- LV 33GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- LV 47WaterMuddy WaterPower 143Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORWaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TUTORRockAncient PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
Evolve Wooper to Quagsire
Wooper evolves into Quagsire at Level 20. You get it at Level 26 or higher, past Level 20, so it evolves into Quagsire the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- After Fantina
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- LV 36GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- After Byron
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Oreburgh Gate
- LV 53WaterMuddy WaterPower 143Accuracy 85%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORWaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORGroundEarth PowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
- TUTORRockAncient PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Survival Area
How to Get Wooper in Platinum
Wooper sticks to a single marshy area, nine encounters at levels 20 to 30, common in grass and while surfing. That one wetland is the only place to go looking for it.
1 location to catch Wooper
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Badge 5Where To Catch Wooper in Pt
The line opens with Wooper at Lv. 20-30 via walking and surfing encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into QuagsireRoute 212 - SouthLv.24-26GrassRate 30%Great Marsh - Area 2Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 10%Great Marsh - Area 3Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 10%Great Marsh - Area 6Lv.20-40Surfing on waterRate 10%or evolve from Wooper (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Wooper catch rates for Platinum by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Wooper in Platinum
Wooper paddles only through the Great Marsh, so the surer shiny comes from breeding one with a foreign Ditto at 1 in 1,638. Compare Shiny Wooper odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Wooper Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
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 | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 Platinum 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
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
 Exeggutor GrassPsychic | C | |
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Torterra GrassGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Turtwig (Route 201 Gift) | ||
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Cherrim Grass | C | |
 Tropius Grass | C | |
 Leafeon Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
 Wormadam BugGrass | C | |
 Snover GrassIce | D | |
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.
Pt Wooper Best Moveset
Water/Ground means only Grass (4x) hits super-effectively, which is an incredible defensive profile. The moveset can't do anything with it at 15 Speed and 45 Attack. 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
28 of 30 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
When walking on land, it covers its body with a poisonous film that keeps its skin from dehydrating.
Wooper Platinum Guide
In Platinum, 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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