Psyduck

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#054    Psyduck

Type(s)

Water

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Damp		 Ability 2
Cloud Nine		 Hidden Ability
Swift Swim

Rarity Tier

  Common  

Catch rate

  190/255 (24.84%)  

Base stats

HP
50

Atk
52

Def
48

Sp.Atk
65

Sp.Def
50

Spd
55

Base-stat total: 320
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
0

Sp.Atk
1

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 1

Base Experience

  80  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  0.8m  

Weight

  19.6kg  

Psyduck is a Water-type Pokémon.

It evolves into its only evolutionary outlet in Golduck as early as level 33.

Obtainability

Wild

Land

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Bond Bridge 29-37 Morning Common
Canyon Entrance 12-42 Morning Common
Diamond Domain 1F 21-25 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain B1F 21-25 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain Main Cave 21-25 Morning Day Night Common
Dragonspiral Tower 4F 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Evergreen Island Crystal Cave 14-16 Morning Day Night Common
Five Isle Meadow 15-19 Morning Day Night Common
Hoenn Safari Zone Area 2 28-32 Morning Day Night Common
Hoenn Safari Zone Area 3 28-32 Morning Day Night Common
Icefall Back Cave 41-45 Morning Day Night Common
Icefall Cave Entrance 43-49 Morning Day Night Common
Kindle Road 34-38 Morning Day Night Common
Lake Acuity 35-41 Morning Day Night Common
Lake Valor 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Lake Verity 2-5 Morning Day Night Common
Oreburgh Gate B1F 5-9 Morning Day Night Common
Palpatoo Beak 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Ravaged Path 3-7 Morning Day Night Common
Route 104 4-6 Morning Day Night Common
Route 204 5-9 Morning Common
Route 209 17-21 Morning Day Common
Route 210 North 25-29 Morning Day Night Common
Route 212 North 22-26 Morning Common
Ruin Valley 35-48 Morning Day Night Common
Safari Johto Grass and Swamp Zone 17-21 Morning Day Night Common
Seafoam 1F 27-30 Morning Day Night Common
Seafoam B1F 31-34 Morning Day Night Common
Seafoam B4F 36-40 Morning Day Night Common
Sinnoh Safari Area Zone 4 24-28 Day Common
Sinnoh Safari Area Zone 5 24-28 Morning Day Night Common
Water Path 40-44 Morning Common
  • 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 East Avenue 5 Morning Day Night Common
Alto Mare National Park 10-15 Morning Day Night Common
Alto Mare Secret Garden 10-15 Morning Day Night Common
Alto Mare West Avenue 5-5 Morning Day Night Common
Amity Square 17-20 Morning Day Night Common
Berry Forest 45-50 Morning Day Night Common
Cape Brink 30-37 Morning Day Night Common
Cerulean Cave 1F 60-64 Morning Day Night Common
Cerulean Cave B1F 55-59 Morning Day Night Common
Crumpit Valley 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Cryofrost Path 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain 1F 22-26 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain B1F 21-25 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain B1F 21-25 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain Main Cave 22-26 Morning Day Night Common
Dock Island 10-14 Morning Day Night Common
Dragons Den 45-49 Morning Day Night Common
Eterna City 20-30 Morning Day Night Common
Evergreen Island Frozen Cave 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Evergreen Island Frozen Path 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Evergreen Island Valley 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Evergreen Waterway 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Five Island 16-20 Morning Day Night Common
Four Island 5-35 Morning Day Night Common
Frozen Cave 20-24 Morning Day Night Common
Frozen Cave B2F 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Galeras Island South 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Green Path 12-27 Night Common
Hoenn Safari Zone Area 1 28-32 Morning Day Night Common
Hoenn Safari Zone Area 2 28-32 Morning Day Night Common
Hoenn Safari Zone Area 3 28-32 Morning Day Night Common
Ilex Forest 5-9 Morning Day Night Common
Kindle Road 25-29 Morning Day Night Common
Lake Acuity 35-41 Morning Day Night Common
Lake Valor 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Lake Verity 20-30 Morning Day Night Common
Leev Town Entrance 20-24 Morning Day Night Common
Love Island 13-17 Morning Day Night Common
Memorial Pillar 10-14 Morning Common
Mountain Area Dungeon 9-15 Morning Day Night Common
Mt. Coronet 4F 25-30 Morning Day Night Common
Mt. Crumpit 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
One Island 34-38 Morning Day Night Common
Oreburgh Gate B1F 20-30 Morning Day Night Common
Pal Park 20-25 Morning Day Night Common
Pinkan Island Meadow 60-65 Morning Day Night Common
Ravaged Path 20-30 Morning Day Night Common
Route 13 24-30 Day Common
Route 17 20-32 Morning Day Night Common
Route 19 30-35 Morning Day Night Common
Route 203 20-35 Morning Day Night Common
Route 205 11-14 Morning Day Night Common
Route 210 North 25-29 Morning Day Night Common
Route 212 North 22-26 Morning Day Night Common
Route 214 23-27 Morning Day Night Common
Route 22 3-7 Morning Day Common
Route 225 51-55 Morning Day Night Common
Route 227 53-57 Morning Day Night Common
Route 228 40-44 Morning Day Night Common
Route 6 13-17 Morning Day Common
Safari Area 1 23-28 Morning Day Night Common
Safari Area 2 12-14 Morning Day Night Common
Safari Area 3 20-22 Morning Day Night Common
Safari Entrance 21-26 Morning Day Night Common
Safari Johto Snow Zone 15-19 Morning Day Night Common
Sinnoh Safari Area Zone 6 25-29 Morning Day Night Common
Slowpoke Well 8-12 Morning Day Night Common
Spawn Testing 60-65 Morning Day Night Common
Treasure Beach 34-38 Morning Day Common
Water Labyrinth 20-30 Morning Common
Whoville 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
  • 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
Fishing Staff 30-35 Morning Day Night Common
Mt. Coronet South 20-28 Morning Day Night Common
Outcast Island 5-25 Morning Day Night Common
Route 10 20-23 Morning Day Night Common
Route 11 10-20 Morning Day Night Common
Tanoby Ruins 10-40 Morning Common
Vermilion City 13-18 Morning Day Common
Viridian City 10-15 Morning Day Night Common
  • 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

Psyduck previously spawned in these areas.

Wild

Surfing

Old
Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier

Psyduck 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.
Fishing
Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Vulcan Island Kalijodo Cave B2F 20-26 Morning Day Night 1
Vulcan Island Kalijodo Lake 20-26 Morning Day Night 2

Psyduck 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
— Scratch Normal Physical 40 100 35
— Water Sport Water Status — — 15
4 Tail Whip Normal Status — 100 30
8 Water Gun Water Special 40 100 25
11 Confusion Psychic Special 50 100 25
15 Fury Swipes Normal Physical 18 80 15
18 Water Pulse Water Special 60 100 20
22 Disable Normal Status — 100 20
25 Screech Normal Status — 85 40
29 Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90 10
32 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90 15
36 Soak Water Status — 100 20
39 Psych Up Normal Status — — 10
43 Amnesia Psychic Status — — 20
46 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 5
50 Wonder Room Psychic Status — — 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
TM16 Pay Day Normal Physical 40 100 20
TM17 Submission Fighting Physical 80 80 25
TM19 Seismic Toss Fighting Physical — 100 20
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM29 Psychic Psychic Special 90 100 10
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM39 Swift Normal Special 60 — 20
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM53 Psyshock Psychic Special 80 100 10
TM54 Calm Mind Psychic Status — — 20
TM57 Hail Ice Status — — 10
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM66 Light Screen Psychic Status — — 30
TM67 Protect Normal Status — — 10
TM81 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM105 Scald Water Special 80 100 15
TM114 Rock Smash Fighting Physical 40 100 15
TM115 Shadow Claw Ghost Physical 70 100 15
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
HM03 Surf Water Special 90 100 15
HM05 Flash Normal Status — 100 20
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.

Move tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90 10
Counter Fighting Physical — 100 20
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Dynamic Punch Fighting Physical 100 50 5
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
Ice Punch Ice Physical 75 100 15
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95 15
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Mega Kick Normal Physical 120 75 5
Mega Punch Normal Physical 80 85 20
Psych Up Normal Status — — 10
Role Play Psychic Status — — 15
Seismic Toss Fighting Physical — 100 20
Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 15
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
Swift Normal Special 60 — 20
Water Pulse Water Special 60 100 20
Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90 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
Confuse Ray Ghost Status — 100 10
Cross Chop Fighting Physical 100 80 5
Encore Normal Status — 100 5
Foresight Normal Status — — 40
Future Sight Psychic Special 120 100 10
Hypnosis Psychic Status — 60 20
Mud Bomb Ground Special 65 85 10
Psybeam Psychic Special 65 100 20
Refresh Normal Status — — 20
Secret Power Normal Physical 70 100 20
Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
Synchronoise Psychic Special 120 100 15
Yawn 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.
  • 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 Psyduck 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 Psyduck-Golduck Differential
1 64 7 82
2 70 6 89
3 101 31 149
4 179 78 290
5 330 151 540
6 577 247 926
7 944 367 1478
8 1456 512 2223
9 2135 679 3189
10 3007 872 4406
11 4095 1088 5900
12 5423 1328 7701
13 7015 1592 9836
14 8896 1881 12335
15 11089 2193 15223
16 13618 2529 18531
17 16507 2889 22286
18 19781 3274 26518
19 23463 3682 31252
20 27578 4115 36519
21 32149 4571 42346
22 37200 5051 48761
23 42755 5555 55794
24 48840 6085 63472
25 55476 6636 71821
26 62689 7213 80874
27 70503 7814 90656
28 78942 8439 101196
29 88029 9087 112521
30 97789 9760 124662
31 108245 10456 137645
32 119423 11178 151500
33 131345 11922 166254
34 144037 12692 181936
35 157522 13485 198573
36 171824 14302 216195
37 186967 15143 234829
38 202975 16008 254505
39 219874 16899 275251
40 237685 17811 297093
41 256435 18750 320062
42 276147 19712 344186
43 296845 20698 369492
44 318554 21709 396010
45 341297 22743 423768
46 365100 23803 452796
47 389985 24885 483119
48 415979 25994 514770
49 443104 27125 547774
50 471387 28283 582162
51 500850 29463 617962
52 531518 30668 655203
53 563417 31899 693915
54 596571 33154 734127
55 631005 34434 775866
56 666744 35739 819164
57 703813 37069 864050
58 742237 38424 910553
59 782042 39805 958704
60 823253 41211 1008534
61 865897 42644 1060073
62 909999 44102 1113351
63 955587 45588 1168403
64 1002688 47101 1225259
65 1051328 48640 1283952
66 1101538 50210 1344518
67 1153346 51808 1406990
68 1206782 53436 1471406
69 1261878 55096 1537804
70 1318667 56789 1606223
71 1377184 58517 1676708
72 1437465 60281 1749303
73 1499551 62086 1824059
74 1563486 63935 1901032
75 1629319 65833 1980283
76 1697104 67785 2061882
77 1766902 69798 2145909
78 1838788 71886 2232462
79 1912846 74058 2321652
80 1989179 76333 2413618
81 2067914 78735 2508535
82 2149211 81297 2606620
83 2233270 84059 2708152
84 2320356 87086 2813504
85 2410816 90460 2923168
86 2505120 94304 3037820
87 2603916 98796 3158399
88 2708116 104200 3286238
89 2819029 110913 3423272
90 2938577 119548 3572377
91 3069664 131087 3737942
92 3216784 147120 3926841
93 3387124 170340 4150212
94 3592584 205460 4426746
95 3853668 261084 4789145
96 4207424 353756 5297479
97 4724623 517199 6068631
98 5549920 825297 7346454
99 7004768 1454848 9685450
100 9883696 2878928 14492270

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Psyduck

  • Pink Psyduck

External Links

  • Psyduck’s Bulbapedia
  • Psyduck’s Serebii