Slowpoke

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#079    Slowpoke

Type(s)

Water Psychic

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Oblivious		 Ability 2
Own Tempo		 Hidden Ability
Regenerator

Rarity Tier

  Common  

Catch rate

  190/255 (24.84%)  

Base stats

HP
90

Atk
65

Def
65

Sp.Atk
40

Sp.Def
40

Spd
15

Base-stat total: 315
EV Yield

HP
1

Atk
0

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 1

Base Experience

  99  

Gender Ratio

    50%  
  50%    

Height

  1.2m  

Weight

  36kg  

Slowpoke is a Water— and Psychic-type Pokémon.

In its bi-evolutionary line, it evolves into either Slowbro as early as level 37 or Slowking when traded while holding a King’s Rock.

Obtainability

Wild

Land

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Berry Forest 45-50 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Canyon Entrance 12-42 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Diamond Empire Ballroom 22-31 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Empire East Wing 22-31 Morning Day Night Common
Dragons Den 48-52 Morning Day Night Common
Dragons Den B1F 40-55 Morning Day Night Common
Dragons Neck 30-35 Morning Common
Dragonspiral Tower 4F 25-31 Morning Day Night Common
Five Isle Meadow 12-16 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Icefall Back Cave 41-45 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Icefall Cave Entrance 43-49 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Kindle Road 34-38 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Lake Cave 26-30 Morning Day Night Common
Route 40 15-21 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Ruin Valley 35-48 Morning Lagging Tail Common
Safari Johto Wet Zone 17-22 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Sleeping Path 42-45 Morning Day Night Common
Slowpoke Well 8-12 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Slowpoke Well L1 8-12 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Tohjo Falls 22-26 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Water Path 40-44 Morning Day Night Lagging Tail Common
Whitmore Residence Backyard 35-40 Morning Day Night 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
Aphrodia Island 35-40 Morning Day Night Common
Bond Bridge 29-37 Morning Day Night Common
Breakers Beach 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Cape Brink 30-37 Morning Day Night Common
Cerulean Cave 1F 60-64 Morning Day Night Common
Cerulean Cave B1F 55-61 Morning Day Night Common
Chrono Cross 5-25 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain 1F 22-26 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain B1F 22-26 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain B1F 22-26 Morning Day Night Common
Diamond Domain Main Cave 22-26 Morning Day Night Common
Digletts Cave B2F 20-25 Morning Day Night Common
Dragons Den 48-52 Morning Day Night Common
Five Island 16-20 Morning Day Night Common
Green Path 12-27 Morning Day Night Common
Guild Island 42-50 Morning Day Night Common
Icefall Cave Entrance 5-36 Morning Day Night Common
Kindle Road 23-27 Morning Day Night Common
Love Island 13-17 Morning Day Common
Memorial Pillar 25-29 Morning Day Night Common
Nap Forest 42-45 Morning Night Common
Resort Gorgeous 5-25 Morning Day Night Common
Route 12 24-29 Morning Day Night Common
Route 13 24-30 Morning Day Night Common
Route 17 20-32 Morning Day Night Common
Route 19 28-35 Morning Day Night Common
Route 4 8-12 Morning Day Night Common
Route 6 13-17 Night 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 Exclusive 21-25 Morning Day Night Common
Safari Johto Wet Zone 17-22 Morning Day Night Common
Seafoam B4F 36-40 Morning Day Night Common
Secret Nap Area 45-50 Morning Day Night Common
Slowpoke Well 8-12 Morning Day Night Common
Slowpoke Well L1 8-12 Morning Day Night Common
Vulcan Cave B2F 36-40 Morning Day Night Common
Vulcan Cove 36-40 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
Celadon City 10-15 Morning Day Night Common
One Island 25-29 Morning Common
Outcast Island 5-25 Morning Day Night Common
Route 10 20-23 Morning Common
Route 11 10-20 Morning Common
Route 22 3-7 Morning Day Common
Tanoby Ruins 10-40 Morning Day Common
Vermilion City 13-18 Morning Day Night Common
Viridian City 10-15 Morning Day 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.

NPCs

Daily Challenges

Main article: Daily Challenges

Slowpoke is one out of many assignable Pokémon in Kanto‘s iteration of the Daily Challenges system; by virtue of that, this is one of the guaranteedly shiny Pokémon that may be potentially rewarded for every 50-divisible task.

Diggable Patches
Region Area Levels Rarity
Johto Slowpoke Well 18-22 Common

Discontinued methods

Wild

Slowpoke previously spawned in these areas.

Land
Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Vulcan Island Kalijodo Cave Entrance 20-26 Morning Day Night 2

Slowpoke 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.
Surfing

Old
Region Location Levels Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier

Slowpoke 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
— Yawn Normal Status — — 10
— Curse Ghost Status — — 10
5 Growl Normal Status — 100 40
9 Water Gun Water Special 40 100 25
14 Confusion Psychic Special 50 100 25
19 Disable Normal Status — 100 20
23 Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
28 Water Pulse Water Special 60 100 20
32 Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical 80 90 15
36 Slack Off Normal Status — — 10
41 Amnesia Psychic Status — — 20
45 Psychic Psychic Special 90 100 10
49 Rain Dance Water Status — — 5
54 Psych Up Normal 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
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
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
TM33 Reflect Psychic Status — — 20
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM38 Fire Blast Fire Special 110 85 5
TM39 Swift Normal Special 60 — 20
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM42 Dream Eater Psychic Special 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM45 Thunder Wave Electric Status — 100 20
TM46 Psywave Psychic Special — 80 15
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
TM61 Sunny Day Fire Status — — 5
TM66 Light Screen Psychic Status — — 30
TM67 Protect Normal Status — — 10
TM68 Rain Dance Water Status — — 5
TM80 Shadow Ball Ghost Special 80 100 15
TM85 Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100 15
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM105 Scald Water Special 80 100 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
  • 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
Frustration Normal Physical — 100 20
Tri Attack Normal Special 80 100 10
Zap Cannon Electric Special 120 50 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
Aqua Tail Water Physical 90 90 10
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Dream Eater Psychic Special 100 100 15
Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100 15
Icy Wind Ice Special 55 95 15
Iron Tail Steel Physical 100 75 15
Psych Up Normal Status — — 10
Signal Beam Bug Special 75 100 15
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
Swift Normal Special 60 — 20
Thunder Wave Electric Status — 100 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
Belch Poison Special 120 90 10
Belly Drum Normal Status — — 10
Block Normal Status — — 5
Future Sight Psychic Special 120 100 10
Me First Normal Status — — 20
Mud Sport Ground Status — — 15
Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
Snore Normal Special 50 100 15
Stomp Normal Physical 65 100 20
Wonder Room Psychic Status — — 10
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.
  • 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
Bug
Dark
Electric
Ghost
Grass
Dragon
Fairy
Flying
Ground
Normal
Poison
Rock
Fighting
Fire
Ice
Psychic
Steel
Water
None
  • All darkened weakness types have a 4x weakness due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type weaknesses.
  • All darkened resistance types have a 1⁄4x resistance due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type resistances.

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Slowpoke 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 Slowpoke-Slowbro Differential Slowpoke-Slowking Differential
1 79 8 60 60
2 87 8 65 65
3 125 38 120 120
4 222 97 243 243
5 409 187 456 456
6 715 306 775 775
7 1169 454 1222 1222
8 1802 633 1816 1816
9 2643 841 2576 2576
10 3721 1078 3522 3522
11 5068 1347 4674 4674
12 6711 1643 6050 6050
13 8682 1971 7671 7671
14 11009 2327 9556 9556
15 13723 2714 11724 11724
16 16852 3129 14195 14195
17 20428 3576 16989 16989
18 24479 4051 20124 20124
19 29036 4557 23621 23621
20 34128 5092 27499 27499
21 39784 5656 31777 31777
22 46035 6251 36476 36476
23 52910 6875 41614 41614
24 60439 7529 47212 47212
25 68652 8213 53288 53288
26 77578 8926 59862 59862
27 87248 9670 66954 66954
28 97690 10442 74583 74583
29 108936 11246 82770 82770
30 121014 12078 91531 91531
31 133954 12940 100890 100890
32 147786 13832 110864 110864
33 162540 14754 121473 121473
34 178246 15706 132736 132736
35 194933 16687 144674 144674
36 212632 17699 157306 157306
37 231371 18739 170650 170650
38 251182 19811 184729 184729
39 272094 20912 199559 199559
40 294136 22042 215162 215162
41 317339 23203 231557 231557
42 341732 24393 248763 248763
43 367346 25614 266801 266801
44 394211 26865 285690 285690
45 422356 28145 305449 305449
46 451811 29455 326099 326099
47 482607 30796 347660 347660
48 514774 32167 370150 370150
49 548342 33568 393591 393591
50 583341 34999 418001 418001
51 619802 36461 443401 443401
52 657754 37952 469811 469811
53 697229 39475 497252 497252
54 738257 41028 525743 525743
55 780869 42612 555305 555305
56 825096 44227 585957 585957
57 870969 45873 617721 617721
58 918518 47549 650617 650617
59 967777 49259 684668 684668
60 1018776 50999 719892 719892
61 1071547 52771 756313 756313
62 1126124 54577 793952 793952
63 1182539 56415 832830 832830
64 1240826 58287 872971 872971
65 1301019 60193 914398 914398
66 1363154 62135 957135 957135
67 1427266 64112 1001206 1001206
68 1493393 66127 1046638 1046638
69 1561574 68181 1093458 1093458
70 1631851 70277 1141694 1141694
71 1704265 72414 1191376 1191376
72 1778863 74598 1242538 1242538
73 1855695 76832 1295217 1295217
74 1934814 79119 1349453 1349453
75 2016282 81468 1405290 1405290
76 2100166 83884 1462781 1462781
77 2186542 86376 1521984 1521984
78 2275500 88958 1582973 1582973
79 2367146 91646 1645834 1645834
80 2461609 94463 1710671 1710671
81 2559044 97435 1777616 1777616
82 2659648 100604 1846839 1846839
83 2763672 104024 1918557 1918557
84 2871440 107768 1993058 1993058
85 2983384 111944 2070732 2070732
86 3100086 116702 2152112 2152112
87 3222347 122261 2237943 2237943
88 3351294 128947 2329292 2329292
89 3488548 137254 2427715 2427715
90 3636490 147942 2535536 2535536
91 3798709 162219 2656321 2656321
92 3980770 182061 2795698 2795698
93 4191566 210796 2962835 2962835
94 4445823 254257 3173231 3173231
95 4768914 323091 3454197 3454197
96 5206687 437773 3856305 3856305
97 5846720 640033 4478790 4478790
98 6868026 1021306 5530617 5530617
99 8668400 1800374 7491748 7491748
100 12231073 3562673 11593176 11593176

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Slowpoke

External Links

  • Slowpoke’s Bulbapedia
  • Slowpoke’s Serebii