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Kricketot in Pokémon Platinum: locations, stats and moves

Find Kricketot’s Platinum locations, Generation IV Bug typing, base stats, original abilities, evolution requirements and exact Platinum moves.

Edition covered

Original Nintendo DS release; not Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl.

01

Generation IV identity and base stats

Kricketot is Sinnoh #015 and National #401. Its Platinum typing is Bug. The stats below describe its standard Platinum form on the original Nintendo DS cartridge. Later Fairy typing, stat buffs and Hidden Abilities are excluded.

The existing Platinum sprite shows its standard Platinum form; gender, cloak or alternate forms can have different appearances.

Kricketot
Kricketot: standard Platinum form, Sinnoh #015.
Kricketot Generation IV base stats
StatBase value
HP37
Attack25
Defense41
Sp. Atk25
Sp. Def41
Speed25
Total194
02

Where to obtain it in Platinum

Check the location, method and conditions before travelling. A gift, trade, Honey Tree, daily replacement or stationary interaction is different from ordinary grass. Level ranges combine matching documented encounter slots.

These records are filtered to Platinum. Time, Poké Radar, swarm, GBA insertion, daily and story conditions remain separate. Postgame areas require their story access; no listed area is promised to be open on a fresh save.

Encounter methods · Legendaries, gifts and historical requirements · Sinnoh map and routes

Kricketot recorded Platinum encounters
Location / areaMethodLevelCondition
Eterna ForestGrass / cave walking10Time Night
Eterna ForestGrass / cave walking12Time Morning
Route 201Grass / cave walking3Time Night
Route 201Grass / cave walking3Time Morning
Route 202Grass / cave walking4Time Night
Route 202Grass / cave walking3Time Morning
Route 203Grass / cave walking5Time Night
Route 203Grass / cave walking4Time Morning
Route 204 South Towards Jubilife CityGrass / cave walking4Time Night
Route 204 South Towards Jubilife CityGrass / cave walking3Time Morning
Route 204 North Towards Floaroma TownGrass / cave walking9Time Night
Route 204 North Towards Floaroma TownGrass / cave walking8Time Morning
Route 205 East Towards Eterna CityGrass / cave walking13Time Night
Route 205 East Towards Eterna CityGrass / cave walking12Time Morning
Route 207Grass / cave walking6Time Night
Route 207Grass / cave walking5Time Morning
03

Evolution family and Generation IV requirements

Kricketot regional evolution family
FromIntoPlatinum method
KricketotKricketuneLevel 10

Friendship evolution uses the original threshold of 220. Held-item trades need a compatible second game and system. Platinum uses special rocks, Mt. Coronet magnetic evolutions, learned-move requirements and Beauty rather than later replacement methods.

Evolution, forms and Pokédex completion

04

Original abilities, breeding and training

Kricketot Generation IV ability slots
AbilityOriginal slot
Shed SkinRegular ability slot 1

Hidden Abilities did not exist in Generation IV. The table restores original ability slots where a species changed in later games; an ability’s modern behavior must not be assumed to match Platinum.

Kricketot breeding and training facts
PropertyValue
Gender ratio50% female / 50% male
Egg group(s)Bug
Base hatch cycles15
Experience growthMedium Slow
Base capture rate255 / 255 (not a percentage chance)
EV yield when defeatedDefense +1

The Solaceon Town Day Care supports breeding before the League. Undiscovered species cannot produce Eggs. Some baby forms require the matching incense on a parent, while trade evolutions still need the trade rather than only a Day Care level.

Platinum breeding, EV, IV and nature rules

05

Platinum level-up moves

Kricketot exact Platinum level-up learnset
LevelMove
1 / starting moveBide
1 / starting moveGrowl
16Bug Bite

Every row uses the Platinum version group. Level 1 moves include starting and reminder moves; a later caught specimen need not already know every entry. Evolution timing affects which stage learns a move. Pastoria’s Move Reminder charges a Heart Scale.

06

Compatible Platinum TMs and HMs

Kricketot has no compatible TM or HM in Platinum. Check its level-up and tutor moves for its available techniques.Platinum TMs are single-use: teaching one consumes that copy. HMs are reusable and require the Move Deleter to be forgotten. Defog is HM05 and Rock Climb is HM08; these are the Generation IV field moves, with their own badge requirements.

All Platinum TM/HM locations and field badges

07

Egg moves and Platinum Move Tutors

No Platinum Egg moves are recorded for this form.

Recorded Platinum tutor compatibility: Endeavor, Mud Slap, Snore, Uproar.

Tutor compatibility does not mean every listed technique comes from the same shard tutor. Starter ultimate moves, Draco Meteor and other special services have their own requirements.

Tutor locations, shard costs, special tutors and the Move Reminder

08

Related species and return to the Pokédex

Return to Kricketot in the illustrated Sinnoh Pokédex.

FIELD NOTE

Use Kricketot’s exact Platinum method and condition. Daily encounters, counterpart-game species, original evolution rules and external Egg requirements need separate collection plans.

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