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

Find Lombre’s Ruby/Sapphire encounters, original Water/Grass 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

Lombre is Hoenn #020 and National #271. Its original Ruby/Sapphire typing is Water / Grass. 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.

Lombre
Lombre: original Generation III form, Hoenn #020.
Lombre original Ruby/Sapphire base stats
StatBase value
HP60
Attack50
Defense50
Sp. Atk60
Sp. Def70
Speed50
Total340
02

Where to obtain it in Ruby and Sapphire

Match the game version, area and method before traveling. Ordinary grass, fishing, gifts, fossil revival and trades are separate acquisition routes.

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

Lombre original Ruby/Sapphire encounters
Location / areaVersionMethodLevelCondition
Route 114SapphireGrass / cave walking16–18No extra condition recorded
03

Evolution family and original requirements

Lombre original Hoenn evolution family
FromIntoRuby / Sapphire method
LotadLombreLevel 14
LombreLudicoloUse Water Stone

Friendship evolution uses the original threshold of 220. Trade evolutions require a compatible second game and system. These are original cartridge methods: Feebas uses Beauty, Wurmple uses personality and Nincada can create an extra party member.

All original Hoenn evolution methods

04

Abilities, breeding and training reference

Lombre original ability slots
AbilitySlot
Swift SwimRegular slot 1
Rain DishRegular slot 2

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.

Lombre breeding and training facts
PropertyValue
Gender ratio50% female / 50% male
Egg group(s)Water 1 / Grass
Base hatch cycles15
Experience growthMedium Slow
Base capture rate120 /255 (not a percentage chance)
EV yield when defeatedSpecial Defense +2

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

Lombre exact Ruby/Sapphire level-up learnset
LevelMove
1 / starting moveAstonish
3Growl
7Absorb
13Nature Power
19Fake Out
25Fury Swipes
31Water Sport
37Thief
43Uproar
49Hydro Pump

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

Lombre compatible original machines
MachineMoveTypeOriginal category
TM06ToxicPoisonStatus
TM07HailIceStatus
TM14BlizzardIceSpecial
TM17ProtectNormalStatus
TM21FrustrationNormalPhysical
TM27ReturnNormalPhysical
TM42FacadeNormalPhysical
TM44RestPsychicStatus
TM45AttractNormalStatus
TM46ThiefDarkSpecial
HM03SurfWaterSpecial
HM04StrengthNormalPhysical
HM05FlashNormalStatus
HM07WaterfallWaterSpecial
HM08DiveWaterSpecial

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

No Ruby/Sapphire Egg moves are recorded for this form.

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 Water moves are special; Grass 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 Lombre in the illustrated Hoenn Pokédex.

FIELD NOTE

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

References