Is Zubat Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Cave catch throughout Hoenn. AbilityInner Focus prevents flinching. Zubat evolves into Golbat at 22 and then Crobat through friendship. The friendship grind is worth it. Crobat is one of the fastest Pokemon in Emerald and handles Brawly, Sidney, and Phoebe with ease.
Roxanne's team hits Zubat's weaknesses hard.
Zubat trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Wattson's team hits Golbat's weaknesses hard.
Golbat has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Golbat trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Golbat trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Crobat trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Crobat has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
Crobat has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Crobat trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Crobat has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Crobat trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Crobat has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Catchable
Catch Zubat in Granite Cave (walking, Lv 7-8, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 21FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- LV 31FlyingAir CutterPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- 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 41PoisonPoison FangPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Evolve Zubat to Golbat
Zubat evolves into Golbat at Level 22. Your Zubat should hit Level 22 before you reach Wattson, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 22)
- LV 22FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 35FlyingAir CutterPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 49PoisonPoison FangPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Evolve Golbat to Crobat
Golbat evolves into Crobat with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Tate & Liza.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 33)
- LV 33FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Given by your rival after you defeat them on Route 119
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 35FlyingAir CutterPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
How to Get Zubat in Emerald
Zubat is the cave default. With 21 encounters across seven caves, it floods nearly every underground spot from Granite Cave onward, on foot and over water. Levels climb hard from single digits to the mid-30s depending on how deep you are.
7 locations to catch Zubat
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Badge 2
Badge 3
Badge 4
Badge 5
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Where To Catch Zubat in E
Zubat is the chain's first catch. You'll find walking and surfing encounters from Lv. 5-44 across 60 total spots in the chain.
- Step 1Zubat ✓Altering CaveLv.6-16CaveRate 100%Meteor Falls - 1F Room 1Lv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Meteor Falls - 1F Room 1Lv.14-20GrassRate 80%Seafloor Cavern - EntranceLv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 35%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 35%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 35%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, High TideLv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 30%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, High TideLv.5-35Surfing on waterRate 30%Granite Cave - 1FLv.7-8CaveRate 30%Granite Cave - 1F Room 2Lv.7-8CaveRate 30%Granite Cave - B1FLv.9-10CaveRate 30%Granite Cave - B2FLv.10-11CaveRate 30%Cave of Origin - EntranceLv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 1Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 2Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 3Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 4Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 5Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - Room 8Lv.28-35CaveRate 90%Cave of Origin - InsideLv.30-34CaveRate 60%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - B1F, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - B2F, Low TideLv.26-32CaveRate 45%Shoal Cave - B3F, Low TideLv.26-30CaveRate 40%Victory Road - 1FLv.36CaveRate 10%
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into GolbatVictory Road - B2FLv.25-40Surfing on waterRate 100%Meteor Falls - 1F Room 2Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 1Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 2Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 90%Seafloor Cavern - EntranceLv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 5%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 5%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.30-35Surfing on waterRate 5%Shoal Cave - B3F, Low TideLv.30-32CaveRate 5%Meteor Falls - 1F Room 2Lv.33-40GrassRate 65%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 1Lv.33-40GrassRate 65%Meteor Falls - Steven's CaveLv.33-40GrassRate 65%Meteor Falls - B1F Room 2Lv.33-40GrassRate 50%Victory Road - B1FLv.38-42CaveRate 35%Victory Road - B2FLv.40-44CaveRate 35%Sky Pillar - 1FLv.34-35FloorRate 30%Sky Pillar - 3FLv.34-35FloorRate 30%Sky Pillar - 5FLv.34-35FloorRate 30%Victory Road - 1FLv.38-40CaveRate 25%Cave of Origin - EntranceLv.33-36CaveRate 10%Cave of Origin - InsideLv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 1Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 2Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 3Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 4Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 5Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 6Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 7Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Seafloor Cavern - Room 8Lv.33-36CaveRate 10%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 1, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - 1F Room 2, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - B1F, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%Shoal Cave - B2F, Low TideLv.32CaveRate 5%or evolve from Zubat (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into CrobatBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Zubat egg.
Bring the right balls: check Zubat catch odds in the Emerald Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Zubat in Emerald
Zubat swarms the darkness of Granite Cave and Meteor Falls, so wade through those tunnels and reset each hit, watching for the green-tinged wings that give away a shiny. Compare Shiny Zubat odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Zubat 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 Zubat in the Emerald Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Zubat Weakness
Electric, Ice, Psychic, and Rock moves hit Zubat for super-effective damage. The upside? Ground-type moves can't touch it at all. The Poison/Flying typing picks up 4 resistances to work with.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Psychic, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Zubat Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Zubat
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Zubat View Gardevoir builds →Psychic 2x209-247%KO Thunderbolt 2x148-175%KO | ||
 Magneton ElectricSteel | A | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Zubat View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x271-319%KO Shock Wave 2x92-109%KO | ||
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Lairon SteelRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Zubat View Lairon builds →Rock Tomb 2x100-118%KO Shock Wave 2x49-58% | ||
 Grumpig Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Zubat View Grumpig builds →Psychic 2x161-190%KO Shock Wave 2x72-86% | ||
 Plusle Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
 Minun Electric | C | |
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Zubat View Solrock builds →Psychic 2x113-133%KO Rock Tomb 2x103-122%KO | ||
 Graveler RockGround | C | |
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodRustboro City Gift | ||
 Baltoy GroundPsychic | D | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Zubat View Baltoy builds →Psychic 2x92-110%KO Ice Beam 2x65-76% Ancient Power 2x44-53% | ||
 Lileep RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodRustboro City Gift | ||
Zubat Evolutions
Zubat kicks off a three-stage evolution line through Golbat all the way to Crobat. For breeding, quick to hatch with a decent partner pool via one egg group. The evolved forms gain up to 290 total stats over Zubat. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Zubat easily with 25 breeding partners from the Flying egg group. Pass egg moves like Curse, Feint Attack, Gust and 3 more to offspring.
E Zubat Best Moveset
Poison/Flying pre-evolution with AbilityInner Focus preventing flinch. Stats too thin. One evolution from Golbat, two from Crobat's fast moveset.
Best Build
Zubat best EVs are Attack and Speed
Physical Sweeper Moveset
- Sludge Bomb
- Shadow Ball
- Hidden Power Flying
- Quick Attack
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Zubat picks up Curse and Feint Attack only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Sludge Bomb and Wing Attack while Bug and Ghost coverage and more adds range.
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
20 of 21 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
While living in pitch-black caverns, their eyes gradually grew shut and deprived them of vision. They use ultrasonic waves to detect obstacles.
Zubat Emerald Guide
In Emerald, for a casual playthrough, Zubat works as a placeholder. Poison/Flying coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Golbat. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Zubat appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Zubat have the longest track record of availability in the series.
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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