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

Find Wobbuffet’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

Wobbuffet is Hoenn #161 and National #202. 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.

Wobbuffet
Wobbuffet: original Generation III form, Hoenn #161.
Wobbuffet original Ruby/Sapphire base stats
StatBase value
HP190
Attack33
Defense58
Sp. Atk33
Sp. Def58
Speed33
Total405
02

Where to obtain it in Ruby and Sapphire

To breed Wynaut, give a Wobbuffet parent Lax Incense; ordinary breeding produces Wobbuffet. The Lavaridge gift Egg is another source of Wynaut.

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

Wobbuffet original Ruby/Sapphire encounters
Location / areaVersionMethodLevelCondition
Safari Zone SwRubyGrass / cave walking27–29No extra condition recorded
Safari Zone SwSapphireGrass / cave walking27–29No extra condition recorded
Safari Zone SeRubyGrass / cave walking27–29No extra condition recorded
Safari Zone SeSapphireGrass / cave walking27–29No extra condition recorded
03

Evolution family and original requirements

Wobbuffet original Hoenn evolution family
FromIntoRuby / Sapphire method
WynautWobbuffetLevel 15

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

Wobbuffet original ability slots
AbilitySlot
Shadow TagRegular 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.

Wobbuffet breeding and training facts
PropertyValue
Gender ratio50% female / 50% male
Egg group(s)Amorphous
Base hatch cycles20
Experience growthMedium Fast
Base capture rate45 /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

Wobbuffet exact Ruby/Sapphire level-up learnset
LevelMove
1 / starting moveCounter
1 / starting moveDestiny Bond
1 / starting moveMirror Coat
1 / starting moveSafeguard

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

Wobbuffet has no compatible TM or HM in Ruby/Sapphire.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 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 Wobbuffet in the illustrated Hoenn Pokédex.

FIELD NOTE

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

References