Shellder

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#090    Shellder

Type(s)

Water

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Shell Armor		 Ability 2
Skill Link		 Hidden Ability
Overcoat

Rarity Tier

  Uncommon  

Catch rate

  190/255 (24.84%)  

Base stats

HP
30

Atk
65

Def
100

Sp.Atk
45

Sp.Def
25

Spd
40

Base-stat total: 305
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
0

Def
1

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 1

Base Experience

  97  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  0.3m  

Weight

  4kg  

Shellder is a Water-type Pokémon.

It evolves into its only evolutionary outlet in Cloyster when it is contactually exposed to a Water Stone.

Obtainability

Wild

Water

Surfing
Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Breezy Falls 18-23 Morning Day Rare
Buring Strait Underwater 25-31 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Five Island 16-20 Morning Day Night Big Pearl Uncommon
Fuego Ironworks 20-32 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Kalijodo Lake 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Lilycove City 25-35 Morning Day Uncommon
Nap Town 42-45 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Olivine City 15-20 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Pinkan Island Cliff 60-65 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 6 13-17 Night Uncommon
Suzuka Cave 1F 21-25 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Trainers Valley 45-50 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Valley Windworks 20-35 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
Cape Brink 30-37 Morning Uncommon
Chrono Cross 5-25 Morning Day Uncommon
Diamond Domain B1F 22-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Diamond Domain Main Cave 22-26 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Digletts Cave B2F 17-22 Morning Day Night Pearl Rare
Icefall Cave 1F 30-34 Morning Day Night Uncommon
One Island 34-38 Day Uncommon
Pallet Town 15-19 Morning Uncommon
Route 109 32-35 Morning Day Night Pearl Uncommon
Route 11 15-21 Night Uncommon
Route 126 32-33 Morning Day Night Pearl Uncommon
Route 135 42-45 Morning Day Big Pearl Uncommon
Route 19 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 21 25-30 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 26 25-27 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 40 15-21 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 41 30-35 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Route 47 30-34 Day Uncommon
Safari Johto Snow Zone 15-19 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Seafoam B4F 36-40 Morning Day Night Uncommon
Water Labyrinth 15-25 Day 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

Shellder previously spawned in these areas.

Wild

Water

Old
Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier

Shellder 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
— Tackle Normal Physical 50 100 35
4 Withdraw Water Status — — 40
8 Supersonic Normal Status — 55 20
13 Icicle Spear Ice Physical 25 100 30
16 Protect Normal Status — — 10
20 Leer Normal Status — 100 30
25 Clamp Water Physical 35 85 15
28 Ice Shard Ice Physical 40 100 30
32 Razor Shell Water Physical 75 95 10
37 Aurora Beam Ice Special 65 100 20
40 Whirlpool Water Special 35 85 15
44 Brine Water Special 65 100 10
49 Iron Defense Steel Status — — 15
52 Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100 10
56 Shell Smash Normal Status — — 15
61 Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80 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
TM6 Toxic Poison Status — 90 10
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
TM33 Reflect Psychic Status — — 20
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM39 Swift Normal Special 60 — 20
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
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
HM03 Surf Water Special 90 100 15
HM06 Dive Water Physical 80 100 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
Frustration Normal Physical — 100 20
Tri Attack Normal Special 80 100 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.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move Tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Explosion Normal Physical 250 100 5
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95 15
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
Swift Normal Special 60 — 20
Water Pulse Water Special 60 100 20
Refresh Normal Status — — 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
Avalanche Ice Physical 60 100 10
Barrier Psychic Status — — 20
Icicle Spear Ice Physical 25 100 30
Rapid Spin Normal Physical 20 100 40
Rock Blast Rock Physical 25 90 10
Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
Twineedle Bug Physical 25 100 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.
  • 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
Electric
Bug
Flying
Ground
Rock
Fighting
Poison
Normal
Psychic
Ghost
Dragon
Dark
Fairy
Fire
Water
Ice
Steel
None

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Shellder 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 Shellder-Cloyster Differential
1 77 8 93
2 85 8 101
3 122 37 171
4 218 96 334
5 401 183 621
6 700 299 1065
7 1145 445 1697
8 1765 620 2550
9 2589 824 3654
10 3646 1057 5042
11 4965 1319 6746
12 6576 1611 8797
13 8506 1930 11227
14 10787 2281 14069
15 13445 2658 17352
16 16512 3067 21112
17 20015 3503 25377
18 23985 3970 30181
19 28449 4464 35554
20 33438 4989 41530
21 38980 5542 48140
22 45105 6125 55415
23 51841 6736 63388
24 59218 7377 72090
25 67265 8047 81554
26 76011 8746 91810
27 85485 9474 102892
28 95717 10232 114830
29 106735 11018 127657
30 118569 11834 141405
31 131248 12679 156104
32 144800 13552 171788
33 159256 14456 188490
34 174645 15389 206239
35 190995 16350 225067
36 208336 17341 245008
37 226697 18361 266093
38 246108 19411 288354
39 266597 20489 311822
40 288194 21597 336531
41 310928 22734 362511
42 334829 23901 389796
43 359925 25096 418417
44 386247 26322 448406
45 413823 27576 479796
46 442684 28861 512618
47 472858 30174 546905
48 504375 31517 582689
49 537264 32889 620003
50 571556 34292 658880
51 607280 35724 699351
52 644466 37186 741449
53 683144 38678 785206
54 723343 40199 830657
55 765094 41751 877834
56 808427 43333 926770
57 853373 44946 977499
58 899962 46589 1030054
59 948226 48264 1084470
60 998194 49968 1140779
61 1049900 51706 1199019
62 1103374 53474 1259223
63 1158649 55275 1321429
64 1215759 57110 1385671
65 1274736 58977 1451988
66 1335615 60879 1520418
67 1398432 62817 1591002
68 1463224 64792 1663779
69 1530028 66804 1738793
70 1598884 68856 1816090
71 1669835 70951 1895720
72 1742926 73091 1977733
73 1818206 75280 2062186
74 1895727 77521 2149141
75 1975549 79822 2238671
76 2057738 82189 2330852
77 2142369 84631 2425777
78 2229530 87161 2523556
79 2319325 89795 2624316
80 2411879 92554 2728217
81 2507346 95467 2835454
82 2605918 98572 2946277
83 2707840 101922 3061006
84 2813431 105591 3180064
85 2923114 109683 3304014
86 3037458 114344 3433628
87 3157249 119791 3569981
88 3283591 126342 3714597
89 3418072 134481 3869695
90 3563025 144953 4038569
91 3721967 158942 4226247
92 3900350 178383 4440622
93 4106888 206538 4694479
94 4356008 249120 5009294
95 4672573 316565 5422675
96 5101501 428928 6003765
97 5728605 627104 6887229
98 6729278 1000673 8354318
99 8493281 1764003 11045320
100 11983981 3490700 16586597

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Shellder

External Links

  • Shellder’s Bulbapedia
  • Shellder’s Serebii