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

Find Whiscash’s Ruby/Sapphire encounters, original Water/Ground 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

Whiscash is Hoenn #128 and National #340. Its original Ruby/Sapphire typing is Water / Ground. 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.

Whiscash
Whiscash: original Generation III form, Hoenn #128.
Whiscash original Ruby/Sapphire base stats
StatBase value
HP110
Attack78
Defense73
Sp. Atk76
Sp. Def71
Speed60
Total468
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

Whiscash original Ruby/Sapphire encounters
Location / areaVersionMethodLevelCondition
Meteor Falls BackRubySuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
Meteor Falls BackSapphireSuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
Meteor Falls B1FRubySuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
Meteor Falls B1FSapphireSuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
Meteor Falls Backsmall RoomRubySuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
Meteor Falls Backsmall RoomSapphireSuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
Victory Road B2FRubySuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
Victory Road B2FSapphireSuper Rod30–45No extra condition recorded
03

Evolution family and original requirements

Whiscash original Hoenn evolution family
FromIntoRuby / Sapphire method
BarboachWhiscashLevel 30

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

Whiscash original ability slots
AbilitySlot
ObliviousRegular 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.

Whiscash breeding and training facts
PropertyValue
Gender ratio50% female / 50% male
Egg group(s)Water 2
Base hatch cycles20
Experience growthMedium Fast
Base capture rate75 /255 (not a percentage chance)
EV yield when defeatedHp +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

Whiscash exact Ruby/Sapphire level-up learnset
LevelMove
1 / starting moveMud Slap
1 / starting moveMud Sport
1 / starting moveTickle
1 / starting moveWater Sport
6Mud Sport
6Water Sport
11Water Gun
16Magnitude
21Amnesia
26Rest
26Snore
36Earthquake
46Future Sight
56Fissure

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

Whiscash compatible original machines
MachineMoveTypeOriginal category
TM06ToxicPoisonStatus
TM07HailIceStatus
TM14BlizzardIceSpecial
TM17ProtectNormalStatus
TM21FrustrationNormalPhysical
TM26EarthquakeGroundPhysical
TM27ReturnNormalPhysical
TM37SandstormRockStatus
TM42FacadeNormalPhysical
TM44RestPsychicStatus
TM45AttractNormalStatus
HM03SurfWaterSpecial
HM04StrengthNormalPhysical
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; Ground moves are physical. 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 Whiscash in the illustrated Hoenn Pokédex.

FIELD NOTE

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

References