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Chimecho in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: locations, stats and moves

Find Chimecho’s Ruby/Sapphire encounters, original Psychic typing, Generation III stats, ability slots, evolutions, breeding and exact-version moves.

Edition covered

Original Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version for Game Boy Advance. Version-specific encounters and story roles are labelled. Emerald and the Nintendo 3DS remakes have separate rules and progression.

01

Generation III identity and base stats

Chimecho is Hoenn #151 and National #358. Its original Ruby/Sapphire typing is Psychic. The picture and base stats describe its original Generation III form on Game Boy Advance. Later Fairy typing, stat increases and evolutions are excluded.

Base stats describe the species; level, IVs, EVs and nature determine an individual’s actual battle stats.

Chimecho
Chimecho: original Generation III form, Hoenn #151.
Chimecho original Ruby/Sapphire base stats
StatBase value
HP65
Attack50
Defense70
Sp. Atk95
Sp. Def80
Speed65
Total425
02

Where to obtain it in Ruby and Sapphire

Find Chimecho at Mt. Pyre’s summit. These original base stats use HP 65, Defense 70 and Sp. Def 80, before later increases. Chingling was introduced later and cannot hatch in Ruby/Sapphire.

These records include only Ruby and Sapphire. Story flags, field moves, historical access and exceptional encounters retain their conditions; a listed location is not necessarily open on a new save.

Encounter methods · Legendaries and event access · Gifts, fossils and trades

Chimecho original Ruby/Sapphire encounters
Location / areaVersionMethodLevelCondition
Mt Pyre SummitRubyGrass / cave walking28No extra condition recorded
Mt Pyre SummitSapphireGrass / cave walking28No extra condition recorded
03

Evolution family and original requirements

Chimecho has no evolution in the original Hoenn roster. Weather or Deoxys forms are separate from evolution; evolutions introduced in later generations cannot occur here.

Forms and collection requirements

04

Abilities, breeding and training reference

Chimecho original ability slots
AbilitySlot
LevitateRegular slot 1

Ruby/Sapphire have no Hidden Abilities. Many abilities gained additional battle or overworld effects in later games; use the original effect in the linked ability reference.

Chimecho breeding and training facts
PropertyValue
Gender ratio50% female / 50% male
Egg group(s)Amorphous
Base hatch cycles25
Experience growthFast
Base capture rate45 /255 (not a percentage chance)
EV yield when defeatedSpecial Attack +1, Special Defense +1

Use the Route 117 Day Care. Eggs hatch at Lv.5; Undiscovered-group Pokémon do not breed. Incense changes the baby result for the Marill and Wobbuffet families. Ruby/Sapphire do not have Emerald’s Everstone nature inheritance or Volt Tackle breeding, and no native Ditto catch is available.

Original breeding, EV, IV and nature rules

05

Ruby and Sapphire level-up moves

Chimecho exact Ruby/Sapphire level-up learnset
LevelMove
1 / starting moveWrap
6Growl
9Astonish
14Confusion
17Take Down
22Uproar
25Yawn
30Psywave
33Double-Edge
38Heal Bell
41Safeguard
46Psychic

Every row uses the original Ruby/Sapphire version group. Lv.1 entries include starting or reminder moves; a caught specimen need not know all listed moves. The Fallarbor Move Reminder charges a Heart Scale for an eligible level-up move.

06

Compatible TMs and HMs

Chimecho compatible original machines
MachineMoveTypeOriginal category
TM06ToxicPoisonStatus
TM12TauntDarkStatus
TM17ProtectNormalStatus
TM20SafeguardNormalStatus
TM21FrustrationNormalPhysical
TM27ReturnNormalPhysical
TM29PsychicPsychicSpecial
TM33ReflectPsychicStatus
TM41TormentDarkStatus
TM42FacadeNormalPhysical
TM44RestPsychicStatus
TM45AttractNormalStatus
TM49SnatchDarkStatus
HM05FlashNormalStatus

Original TMs are consumed after use; HMs are reusable and require the relevant badges for field use. The Lilycove Move Deleter can remove HM moves. Generation III assigns damaging moves by type: Normal, Fighting, Flying, Poison, Ground, Rock, Bug, Ghost and Steel use Attack; Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Psychic, Ice, Dragon and Dark use Sp. Atk. Status moves remain status moves.

All 50 TM and 8 HM locations

07

Egg moves and original move services

Recorded Ruby/Sapphire Egg moves: Curse, Disable, Dream Eater, Hypnosis.

The father passes eligible Egg moves and compatible TM/HM moves; both parents knowing an eligible level-up move can also pass it. The Fallarbor reminder does not teach arbitrary Egg moves. Emerald’s additional move tutors and Battle Frontier are absent from Ruby/Sapphire.

For this Pokémon’s types, damaging Psychic moves are special. A move’s individual modern damage class must not replace the original type rule.

Move Reminder, Deleter and original services

08

Related species and return to the Pokédex

Return to Chimecho in the illustrated Hoenn Pokédex.

    FIELD NOTE

    Use Chimecho’s exact Ruby or Sapphire location and condition. Original game rules determine evolution, breeding and move damage categories.

    References