Politoed

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#186    Politoed

Type(s)

Water

Generation

  II  

Abilities
Ability 1
Water Absorb		 Ability 2
Damp		 Hidden Ability
Drizzle

Rarity Tier

  Uncommon  

Catch rate

  45/255 (5.88%)  

Base stats

HP
90

Atk
75

Def
75

Sp.Atk
90

Sp.Def
100

Spd
70

Base-stat total: 500
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
3

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 3

Base Experience

  185  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  1.1m  

Weight

  33.9kg  

Politoed is a Water-type Pokémon.

Having evolved from Poliwhirl when traded with a King’s Rock, it is one of the final evolutionary stages of Poliwag in its bievolutionary line; the other one is Poliwrath, which also evolves from Poliwhirl when contactually exposed to a Water Stone.

Obtainability

Wild

Land

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Safari Johto Grass and Swamp Zone 17-21 Morning Day Night Kings Rock Rare
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Water

Surfing
Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Route 120 25-30 Morning Rare
Route 204 3-13 Morning Day Night Rare
Route 28 33-37 Morning Day Night Rare
Safari Area 3 20-22 Night Rare
  • All table rows with a fishing rod indicate that its corresponding Pokémon can also be fished with the rod tier shown
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick
Fishing
Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Fuchsia City 20-20 Morning Day Night Kings Rock Rare
Mt. Silver Exterior 32-40 Morning Day Night Rare
Route 43 16-20 Morning Rare
Safari Entrance 21-26 Day Rare
  • Pokémon that are tabulated on this list can only be encountered via fishing.
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible.

Discontinued methods

Politoed previously spawned in these areas.

Wild

Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Vulcan Island Mt. Summer Exterior 20-26 Morning Day Night 9

Politoed is no longer accessible in this area—be it due to the area’s present inaccessibility or the Pokémon’s removal. This data exists strictly for archival purposes.

Moves

Level-up

Level Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
— Perish Song Normal Status — — 5
— Double Slap Normal Physical 15 85 10
— Hypnosis Psychic Status — 60 20
— Bubble Beam Water Special 65 100 20
27 Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
37 Bounce Flying Physical 85 85 5
48 Hyper Voice Normal Special 90 100 10
  • 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
TM6 Toxic Poison Status — 90 10
TM13 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 10
TM14 Blizzard Ice Special 110 70 5
TM15 Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90 5
TM26 Earthquake Ground Physical 100 100 10
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM29 Psychic Psychic Special 90 100 10
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM57 Hail Ice Status — — 10
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM67 Protect Normal Status — — 10
TM68 Rain Dance Water Status — — 5
TM81 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM96 Thief Dark Physical 60 100 25
TM105 Scald Water Special 80 100 15
TM114 Rock Smash Fighting Physical 40 100 15
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
HM03 Surf Water Special 90 100 15
HM06 Dive Water Physical 80 100 10
HM07 Waterfall Water Physical 80 100 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.
  • Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move’s obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Bulldoze Ground Physical 60 100 20
Focus Blast Fighting Special 120 70 5
Focus Punch Fighting Physical 150 100 20
Frustration Normal Physical — 100 20
Giga Impact Normal Physical 150 90 5
  • 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
Bounce Flying Physical 85 85 5
Counter Fighting Physical — 100 20
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Dynamic Punch Fighting Physical 100 50 5
Endeavor Normal Physical — 100 5
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
Hyper Voice Normal Special 90 100 10
Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 15
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95 15
Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
Seismic Toss Fighting Physical — 100 20
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
Water Pulse Water Special 60 100 20
  • 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
Bubble Beam Water Special 65 100 20
Encore Normal Status — 100 5
Endeavor Normal Physical — 100 5
Endure Normal Status — — 10
Haze Ice Status — — 30
Ice Ball Ice Physical 30 90 20
Mind Reader Normal Status — — 5
Mist Ice Status — — 30
Mud Shot Ground Special 55 95 15
Refresh Normal Status — — 20
Splash Normal Status — — 40
Water Pulse Water Special 60 100 20
Water Sport Water Status — — 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.

Move Inheritors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 5
  • 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.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Electric
Grass
Bug
Dark
Dragon
Fairy
Fighting
Flying
Ghost
Ground
Normal
Poison
Psychic
Rock
Fire
Ice
Steel
Water
None

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Politoed 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 is informative for ascertaining how much experience can be saved if you were to delay its evolution to a later level.

Level XP Level-Up Differential
1 148 15
2 163 15
3 233 70
4 415 182
5 764 349
6 1336 572
7 2185 849
8 3367 1182
9 4939 1572
10 6955 2016
11 9470 2515
12 12542 3072
13 16224 3682
14 20573 4349
15 25644 5071
16 31492 5848
17 38174 6682
18 45745 7571
19 54260 8515
20 63774 9514
21 74344 10570
22 86025 11681
23 98873 12848
24 112942 14069
25 128289 15347
26 144970 16681
27 163039 18069
28 182553 19514
29 203567 21014
30 226137 22570
31 250318 24181
32 276166 25848
33 303737 27571
34 333086 29349
35 364269 31183
36 397343 33074
37 432361 35018
38 469381 37020
39 508458 39077
40 549648 41190
41 593007 43359
42 638591 45584
43 686455 47864
44 736657 50202
45 789251 52594
46 844294 55043
47 901842 57548
48 961952 60110
49 1024680 62728
50 1090082 65402
51 1158215 68133
52 1229137 70922
53 1302903 73766
54 1379572 76669
55 1459201 79629
56 1541847 82646
57 1627568 85721
58 1716424 88856
59 1808472 92048
60 1903773 95301
61 2002387 98614
62 2104373 101986
63 2209795 105422
64 2318716 108921
65 2431198 112482
66 2547308 116110
67 2667114 119806
68 2790685 123571
69 2918094 127409
70 3049418 131324
71 3184738 135320
72 3324138 139400
73 3467713 143575
74 3615563 147850
75 3767801 152238
76 3924553 156752
77 4085962 161409
78 4252197 166235
79 4423456 171259
80 4599977 176521
81 4782053 182076
82 4970051 187998
83 5164438 194387
84 5365823 201385
85 5575012 209189
86 5793090 218078
87 6021557 228467
88 6262520 240963
89 6519004 256484
90 6795461 276457
91 7098598 303137
92 7438813 340215
93 7832726 393913
94 8307851 475125
95 8911608 603757
96 9729668 818060
97 10925690 1196022
98 12834191 1908501
99 16198526 3364335
100 22856047 6657521

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Politoed

  • Pink Politoed

External Links

  • Politoed’s Bulbapedia
  • Politoed’s Serebii