Poliwhirl

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#061    Poliwhirl

Type(s)

Water

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Water Absorb		 Ability 2
Damp		 Hidden Ability
Swift Swim

Rarity Tier

  Common  

Catch rate

  120/255 (15.69%)  

Base stats

HP
65

Atk
65

Def
65

Sp.Atk
50

Sp.Def
50

Spd
90

Base-stat total: 385
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
2

EV-yield total: 2

Base Experience

  131  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  1m  

Weight

  20kg  

Poliwhirl is a Water-type Pokémon.

Having evolved from Poliwag as early as level 25, it has a bievolutionary outlet; it will either evolve into Poliwrath when contactually exposed to a Water Stone, or it will evolve into Politoed when traded while holding a King’s Rock.

Obtainability

Wild

Land

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Dragon Neck 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Dragon Neck 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Kalijodo Cave B2F 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Mt. Summer Exterior 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
North Pole Harbour 25-31 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 44 18-20 Morning Day Night Kings Rock 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

Water

Surfing
Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Alto Mare 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Alto Mare Chained 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Alto Mare Secret Garden 10-15 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Ecruteak City 15-25 Morning Day Night Kings Rock Uncommon
Frozen Cave B2F 25-31 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Icefall Cave Entrance 10-25 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Kalijodo Cave B2F 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Lake Acuity 35-41 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Medusas Cloud 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Pyre Exterior 21-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Pyre Summit 21-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Silver 1F 47-50 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Mt. Silver Exterior 32-40 Night Uncommon
Nap Cave 45-50 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Nap Cave B1F 45-50 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Nido Isle 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 22 3-7 Night Uncommon
Route 227 53-57 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 228 40-44 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 28 33-37 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 30 3-5 Morning Night Uncommon
Route 44 20-25 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Safari Area 2 12-14 Morning Night Uncommon
Safari Johto Grass and Swamp Zone 17-21 Night Uncommon
Sendoff Spring 40-44 Morning Day Night Uncommon
  • 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
Cerulean Cave 1F 60-64 Morning Day Night Common
Cerulean Cave B1F 58-62 Morning Day Night Common
Route 10 20-23 Night Uncommon
Ruins Of Alph 18-25 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Violet City 10-14 Night Kings Rock Uncommon
Viridian City 13-18 Night Kings Rock Uncommon
  • 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

Poliwhirl previously spawned in these areas.

Wild

Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Vulcan Island Kalijodo Cave B2F 20-26 Morning Day Night 4
Vulcan Island Mt. Summer Exterior 20-26 Morning Day Night 4

Poliwhirl 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
— Hypnosis Psychic Status — 60 20
— Water Gun Water Special 40 100 25
— Water Sport Water Status — — 15
5 Water Gun Water Special 40 100 25
8 Hypnosis Psychic Status — 60 20
11 Bubble Water Special 40 100 30
15 Double Slap Normal Physical 15 85 10
18 Rain Dance Water Status — — 5
21 Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
27 Bubble Beam Water Special 65 100 20
32 Mud Shot Ground Special 55 95 15
37 Belly Drum Normal Status — — 10
43 Wake-Up Slap Fighting Physical 70 100 10
48 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 5
53 Mud Bomb Ground Special 65 85 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
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
TM29 Psychic Psychic Special 90 100 10
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM46 Psywave Psychic Special — 80 15
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
Frustration Normal Physical — 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.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Bulldoze Ground Physical 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.

Move Tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Counter Fighting Physical — 100 20
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Endeavor Normal Physical — 100 5
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
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.

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 Poliwhirl 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 Poliwhirl-Poliwrath Differential Poliwhirl-Politoed Differential
1 104 10 54 54
2 115 11 59 59
3 165 50 118 118
4 294 129 250 250
5 541 247 470 470
6 946 405 795 795
7 1547 601 1239 1239
8 2384 837 1820 1820
9 3497 1113 2555 2555
10 4924 1427 3458 3458
11 6706 1782 4546 4546
12 8881 2175 5836 5836
13 11488 2607 7343 7343
14 14568 3080 9085 9085
15 18158 3590 11076 11076
16 22300 4142 13334 13334
17 27031 4731 15874 15874
18 32392 5361 18714 18714
19 38421 6029 21868 21868
20 45159 6738 25353 25353
21 52644 7485 29185 29185
22 60915 8271 33381 33381
23 70012 9097 37958 37958
24 79975 9963 42930 42930
25 90843 10868 48314 48314
26 102654 11811 54127 54127
27 115449 12795 60385 60385
28 129267 13818 67104 67104
29 144147 14880 74300 74300
30 160129 15982 81990 81990
31 177252 17123 90189 90189
32 195555 18303 98914 98914
33 215078 19523 108182 108182
34 235861 20783 118008 118008
35 257942 22081 128408 128408
36 281361 23419 139401 139401
37 306158 24797 151000 151000
38 332372 26214 163223 163223
39 360043 27671 176086 176086
40 389210 29167 189605 189605
41 419913 30703 203797 203797
42 452191 32278 218678 218678
43 486085 33894 234264 234264
44 521632 35547 250572 250572
45 558875 37243 267619 267619
46 597851 38976 285419 285419
47 638602 40751 303991 303991
48 681166 42564 323350 323350
49 725584 44418 343514 343514
50 771896 46312 364498 364498
51 820142 48246 386319 386319
52 870362 50220 408995 408995
53 922596 52234 432541 432541
54 976886 54290 456976 456976
55 1033272 56386 482315 482315
56 1091794 58522 508575 508575
57 1152494 60700 535774 535774
58 1215413 62919 563930 563930
59 1280594 65181 593059 593059
60 1348077 67483 623179 623179
61 1417906 69829 654310 654310
62 1490124 72218 686467 686467
63 1564774 74650 719671 719671
64 1641901 77127 753942 753942
65 1721551 79650 789297 789297
66 1803769 82218 825757 825757
67 1888605 84836 863345 863345
68 1976106 87501 902080 902080
69 2066326 90220 941988 941988
70 2159318 92992 983092 983092
71 2255138 95820 1025420 1025420
72 2353849 98711 1069000 1069000
73 2455515 101666 1113864 1113864
74 2560209 104694 1160048 1160048
75 2668010 107801 1207592 1207592
76 2779007 110997 1256543 1256543
77 2893303 114296 1306955 1306955
78 3011015 117712 1358894 1358894
79 3132285 121270 1412441 1412441
80 3257281 124996 1467692 1467692
81 3386210 128929 1524772 1524772
82 3519333 133123 1583841 1583841
83 3656980 137647 1645105 1645105
84 3799583 142603 1708843 1708843
85 3947711 148128 1775429 1775429
86 4102134 154423 1845379 1845379
87 4263913 161779 1919423 1919423
88 4434541 170628 1998607 1998607
89 4616160 181619 2084463 2084463
90 4811921 195761 2179301 2179301
91 5026574 214653 2286677 2286677
92 5267483 240909 2412239 2412239
93 5546416 278933 2565243 2565243
94 5882856 336440 2761435 2761435
95 6310382 427526 3028752 3028752
96 6889656 579274 3419286 3419286
97 7736570 846914 4036034 4036034
98 9087994 1351424 5097621 5097621
99 11470307 2382313 7110532 7110532
100 16184552 4714245 11385740 11385740

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Poliwhirl

  • Pink Poliwhirl

External Links

  • Poliwhirl’s Bulbapedia
  • Poliwhirl’s Serebii