Cubone

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#104    Cubone

Type(s)

Ground

Generation

  I  

Abilities

Ability 1
Rock Head
Ability 2
Lightning Rod
Hidden Ability
Battle Armor

Rarity Tier

  Uncommon  

Catch rate

  190/255 (24.84%)  

Base stats

HP
50

Atk
50

Def
95

Sp.Atk
40

Sp.Def
50

Spd
35

Base-stat total: 320
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
1

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 1

Base Experience

  87  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  0.4m  

Weight

  6.5kg  

Cubone is a Ground-type Pokémon.

It evolves into its only evolutionary outlet in Marowak as early as level 28.

Obtainability

Wild

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Breezy Cave 17-21 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Desert Lagoon 12-14 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Iron Island 1F 32-36 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Mortar Northern Entrance 18-22 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 3F 2 2 20-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 3F 2 2 20-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 3F 2 2 20-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 3F 2 2 20-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Summer 3F 2 2 20-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Pal Park 20-25 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Pokemon Tower 2F 21-23 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Pokemon Tower 3F 21-23 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Pokemon Tower 4F 21-23 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Pokemon Tower 5F 21-23 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Pokemon Tower 6F 21-23 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Pokemon Tower 7F 21-23 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Rock Tunnel 1 26-30 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Rock Tunnel 2 20-24 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Sevault Canyon 12-49 Morning Day Night Thick Club Uncommon
Underground Path Sinnoh Entrance 23-27 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Vulcan Cave B2F 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Excavation Sites

Site Levels Time period Required experience points Rarity
Feral Site 15-25 00:00-12:00 None Common

Moves

Level-up

Level Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Growl Normal Status 100 40
3 Tail Whip Normal Status 100 30
7 Bone Club Ground Physical 65 85 20
11 Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
13 Leer Normal Status 100 30
17 Focus Energy Normal Status 30
21 Bonemerang Ground Physical 50 90 10
23 Rage Normal Physical 20 100 20
27 False Swipe Normal Physical 40 100 40
31 Thrash Normal Physical 120 100 10
33 Fling Dark Physical 100 10
37 Bone Rush Ground Physical 25 90 10
41 Endeavor Normal Physical 100 5
43 Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
47 Retaliate Normal Physical 70 100 5
  • Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
TM1 Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
TM5 Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
TM6 Toxic Poison Status 90 10
TM8 Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
TM9 Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
TM11 Bubble Beam Water Special 65 100 20
TM12 Water Gun Water Special 40 100 25
TM13 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 10
TM14 Blizzard Ice Special 110 70 5
TM17 Submission Fighting Physical 80 80 25
TM19 Seismic Toss Fighting Physical 100 20
TM26 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 10
TM27 Fissure Ground Physical 30 5
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM34 Bide Normal Physical 10
TM38 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 5
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status 10
TM48 Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM61 Sunny Day Fire Status 5
TM67 Protect Normal Status 10
TM75 Swords Dance Normal Status 30
TM81 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 15
TM85 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 15
TM87 Sandstorm Ground Status 10
TM89 Rock Tomb Rock Physical 60 95 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM96 Thief Dark Physical 60 100 25
TM104 False Swipe Normal Physical 40 100 40
TM114 Rock Smash Fighting Physical 40 100 15
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status 10
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move’s obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Aerial Ace Flying Physical 60 20
Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100 20
Focus Punch Fighting Physical 150 100 20
Frustration Normal Physical 100 20
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
Counter Fighting Physical 100 20
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Dynamic Punch Fighting Physical 100 50 5
Earth Power Ground Special 90 100 10
Endeavor Normal Physical 100 5
Fire Punch Fire Physical 75 100 15
Fury Cutter Bug Physical 40 95 20
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95 15
Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 15
Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 25
Low Kick Fighting Physical 100 20
Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
Rock Slide Rock Physical 75 90 10
Seismic Toss Fighting Physical 100 20
Stealth Rock Rock Status 20
Swagger Normal Status 90 15
Swords Dance Normal Status 30
Thunder Punch Electric Physical 75 100 15
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Ancient Power Rock Special 60 100 5
Belly Drum Normal Status 10
Chip Away Normal Physical 70 100 20
Detect Fighting Status 5
Double Kick Fighting Physical 30 100 30
Endure Normal Status 10
Iron Head Steel Physical 80 100 15
Perish Song Normal Status 5
Screech Normal Status 85 40
Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:

 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Grass
Ice
Water
Bug
Dark
Dragon
Fairy
Fighting
Fire
Flying
Ghost
Ground
Normal
Psychic
Steel
Poison
Rock
Electric

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience that Cubone requires to advance per level, as well as a comparative overview of how much less experience is needed to level up at the same levels than its evolution would require; this helps you handily cross-compare their leveling charts to ascertain how many experience points you would save if you were to delay evolving Cubone to a later level.

Level XP Level-Up Differential Cubone-Marowak Differential
1 69 7 37
2 76 7 40
3 109 33 80
4 195 86 169
5 359 164 317
6 628 269 536
7 1027 399 836
8 1583 556 1230
9 2322 739 1727
10 3270 948 2339
11 4453 1183 3078
12 5898 1445 3953
13 7629 1731 4976
14 9675 2046 6160
15 12059 2384 7513
16 14810 2751 9049
17 17952 3142 10777
18 21512 3560 12709
19 25516 4004 14856
20 29991 4475 17230
21 34962 4971 19839
22 40455 5493 22698
23 46497 6042 25816
24 53113 6616 29205
25 60330 7217 32875
26 68175 7845 36839
27 76672 8497 41105
28 85849 9177 45688
29 95731 9882 50596
30 106345 10614 55842
31 117717 11372 61436
32 129872 12155 67389
33 142838 12966 73714
34 156640 13802 80420
35 171305 14665 87519
36 186858 15553 95022
37 203326 16468 102941
38 220736 17410 111286
39 239113 18377 120068
40 258483 19370 129300
41 278873 20390 138992
42 300310 21437 149155
43 322819 22509 159801
44 346427 23608 170940
45 371161 24734 182584
46 397046 25885 194744
47 424109 27063 207432
48 452377 28268 220659
49 481876 29499 234435
50 512633 30757 248773
51 544674 32041 263684
52 578026 33352 279180
53 612716 34690 295271
54 648772 36056 311970
55 686218 37446 329287
56 725084 38866 347236
57 765397 40313 365826
58 807183 41786 385071
59 850470 43287 404982
60 895288 44818 425572
61 941663 46375 446852
62 989624 47961 468836
63 1039201 49577 491536
64 1090423 51222 514965
65 1143320 52897 539136
66 1197923 54603 564065
67 1254264 56341 589764
68 1312376 58112 616249
69 1372293 59917 643536
70 1434050 61757 671641
71 1497687 63637 700585
72 1563243 65556 730384
73 1630762 67519 761062
74 1700291 69529 792642
75 1771884 71593 825154
76 1845600 73716 858627
77 1921506 75906 893099
78 1999682 78176 928615
79 2080220 80538 965229
80 2163232 83012 1003007
81 2248857 85625 1042036
82 2337267 88410 1082420
83 2428681 91414 1124302
84 2523387 94706 1167871
85 2621762 98375 1213377
86 2724318 102556 1261174
87 2831759 107441 1311753
88 2945077 113318 1365822
89 3065694 120617 1424418
90 3195703 130009 1489101
91 3338259 142556 1562276
92 3498252 159993 1647756
93 3683498 185246 1751791
94 3906935 223437 1885007
95 4190864 283929 2066251
96 4575573 384709 2330643
97 5138027 562454 2747592
98 6035538 897511 3464349
99 7617685 1582147 4821852
100 10748519 3130834 7702043

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Cubone

External Links

  • Cubone’s Bulbapedia
  • Cubone’s Serebii