Is Wurmple Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Early Bug catch that splits into Silcoon or Cascoon at 7. The split is random. AbilityShield Dust blocks secondary effects. The quick evolution gets Bug coverage online fast, but neither Beautifly nor Dustox stays relevant past the third gym.
Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
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Beautifly resists most of Brawly's coverage and hits back hard.
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Wattson's team hits Beautifly's weaknesses hard.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
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Beautifly has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
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Beautifly has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
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Drake's team hits Beautifly's weaknesses hard.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
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Catchable
Catch Wurmple on Route 101 (walking, Lv 2-3, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 2)
- LV 2NormalTacklePower 35Accuracy 95%PP 35
- LV 5PoisonPoison StingPower 15Accuracy 100%PP 35
Breed Beautifly
Beautifly can be obtained by breeding (post-game).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- After Norman
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Breed Dustox
Dustox can be obtained by breeding (post-game).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 38PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
How to Get Wurmple in Emerald
Wurmple crawls through four early areas, common in Petalburg Woods and on the first routes around levels 2 to 6. Which cocoon it becomes is decided at random, so two Wurmple caught side by side can split into different lines.
4 locations to catch Wurmple
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 1Where To Catch Wurmple in E
Wurmple is the chain's first catch. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 2-6 across 4 total spots in the chain.
Bring the right balls: check Wurmple catch odds in the Emerald Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Wurmple in Emerald
Wurmple crawls the grass of Petalburg Woods and Route 104, a common bug encounter, so sweep the same patch repeatedly and settle in for the full-odds grind. Compare Shiny Wurmple odds across every game
Shiny Wurmple Evolution
Multi-Path
Emerald Shiny Wurmple Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
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 Wurmple in the Emerald Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Wurmple Weakness
Fire, Flying, and Rock moves hit Wurmple for super-effective damage. Standard number of weaknesses for the Bug typing.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Flying, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Ground |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Wurmple Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Wurmple
 Torchic Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 101 Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wurmple View Torchic builds →Ember 2x70-84% Rock Tomb 2x47-56% | ||
 Taillow Normal | C | |
 Cyndaquil Fire | D | |
Obtain MethodLittleroot Town Gift | ||
 Wingull Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing | ||
Wurmple Evolutions
From here, Wurmple's line branches into Silcoon and Cascoon. That's 2 possible evolutions, each with its own method. The evolved forms gain up to 200 total stats over Wurmple. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Wurmple easily with 37 breeding partners from the Bug egg group.
E Wurmple Best Moveset
First-route Bug with no competitive use. The moveset is irrelevant since Wurmple evolves almost immediately.
Best Build
Wurmple best EVs are HP and Sp. Def
Bulky Support Moveset
- Poison Sting
- String Shot
- Tackle
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Not a lot to pick from. Wurmple gets Bug STAB for same-type damage, and Normal and Poison 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 sticks to tree branches and eats leaves. The thread it spits from its mouth, which becomes gooey when it touches air, slows the movement of its foes.
Wurmple Emerald Guide
For Emerald, you can run Wurmple through the first few routes without issues. 195 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Silcoon as fast as you can.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Wurmple spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through catching or hatching as a base form in a solid number of games.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
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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