Poliwag

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#060  -  Poliwag

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#060	Poliwag
Types Water	Generation   I
Abilities Ability 1 Water Absorb Ability 2 Damp Hidden Ability Swift Swim
Rarity Tier   Common	Catch rate   255/255 (33.33%)
Base stats HP 40 Atk 50 Def 40 Sp.Atk 40 Sp.Def 40 Spd 90 Base-stat total: 300
EV Yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 1 EV-yield total: 1
Base Experience   77	Gender Ratio     50%     50%
Height   0.6m	Weight   12.4kg

Poliwag is a Water-type Pokémon.

It evolves into Poliwhirl as early as level 25; thereafter, it will either evolve into Poliwrath via contactual exposure to a Water Stone, or it will evolve into Politoed when traded while holding a King's Rock.

Obtainability

Wild

Land

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rarity Tier
Corsica Island	15-19	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Medusas Cloud	24-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 22	3-5		Day			Common
Shamouti Island	38-40	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Shamouti Island frozen	38-40	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Sinnoh Safari Area Zone 5	24-28			Night		Common
Tower of Energy 4F	24-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Water

Surfing

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Amazon Forest	35-40	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Amity Square	17-20	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Berry Forest	45-50			Night			Common
Blackthorn City	42-46	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Breezy Garden	17-21	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Cliff Edge Gate	28-32	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Dragonspiral Tower Exterior	21-25	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Ecruteak City	15-25	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Fire Island Seaway	25-29	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Four Island	5-35			Night			Common
Frozen Cave	20-25			Night			Common
Fuchsia City	10-15	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Hoenn Safari Zone Area 3	28-32	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Icefall Cave Entrance	5-20	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Ilex Forest	10-14	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Mt. Mortar B1F	33-37	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Mt. Pyre Exterior	21-26	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Mt. Pyre Summit	21-26	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Mt. Silver 1F	47-50	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Nap Cave	45-50	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Nap Cave B1F	45-50	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Pinkan Island Cliff	40-45	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 10	22-25	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 11	25-26	Morning					Common
Route 119A	32-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 28	33-37	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 30	4-6	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 32	7-9	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 35	14-18	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 4	8-12	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 42	34-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 43	36-40	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 44	36-40	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 45	44-47	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 47	30-34	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 49	35-39	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Route 6	22-24			Night			Common
Ruin Valley	35-48	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Ruins Of Alph	18-25	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Safari Area 2	34-38	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Safari Johto Grass and Swamp Zone	22-26	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Secret Nap Area	45-50	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Sleeping Path	42-45	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Spawn Testing	60-65	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Violet City	10-14	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Viridian City	10-15	Morning	Day	Night			Common
All rows with a fishing rod indicate that its corresponding Pokémon can also be fished with the rod tier shown Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Fishing

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Shamouti Seaway	15-19	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Shamouti Seaway Frozen	15-19	Morning	Day	Night			Common
Pokémon on this list can only be encountered via fishing. Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive.

Discontinued methods

Poliwag previously spawned in these areas.

Wild

Land

Region	Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rarity Tier
[[]]	Amazon Forest		1	1	1	King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Amity Square		1	1	1	King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Berry Forest			1		King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Blackthorn City		1	1	1		Common
[[]]	Breezy Garden		1	1	1		Common
[[]]	Cliff Edge Gate				1		Common
[[]]	Dragonspiral Tower Exterior		1	1	1		Common
[[]]	Ecruteak City					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Fire Island Seaway					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Four Island					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Frozen Cave					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Fuchsia City					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Hoenn Safari Zone Area 3						Common
[[]]	Icefall Cave Entrance					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Ilex Forest					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Mt. Mortar B1F					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Mt. Pyre Exterior					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Mt. Pyre Summit					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Mt. Silver 1F					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Nap Cave					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Nap Cave B1F					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Pinkan Island Cliff						Common
[[]]	Route 10						Common
[[]]	Route 11					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 119A					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 28					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 30					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 32						Common
[[]]	Route 35					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 4					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 42					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 43						Common
[[]]	Route 44					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 45					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 47					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Route 49						Common
[[]]	Route 6						Common
[[]]	Ruin Valley					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Ruins Of Alph						Common
[[]]	Safari Area 2						Common
[[]]	Safari Johto Grass and Swamp Zone						Common
[[]]	Secret Nap Area						Common
[[]]	Sleeping Path						Common
[[]]	Spawn Testing						Common
[[]]	Violet City					King's Rock	Common
[[]]	Viridian City					King's Rock	Common
Poliwag is no longer accessible in this area—be it due to the area's present inaccessibility or the Pokémon's removal. This data exists strictly for archival purposes.

Water

Old

Region	Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rod	Rarity Tier
Poliwag is no longer accessible in this area—be it due to the area's present inaccessibility or the Pokémon's removal. This data exists strictly for archival purposes.

Moves

Level-up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
—	Water Sport	Water	Status	—	—	15
5	Water Gun	Water	Special	40	100	25
8	Hypnosis	Psychic	Status	—	60	20
11	Bubble	Water	Special	40	100	30
15	Double Slap	Normal	Physical	15	85	10
18	Rain Dance	Water	Status	—	—	5
21	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
25	Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
28	Mud Shot	Ground	Special	55	95	15
31	Belly Drum	Normal	Status	—	—	10
35	Wake-Up Slap	Fighting	Physical	70	100	10
38	Hydro Pump	Water	Special	110	80	5
41	Mud Bomb	Ground	Special	65	85	10
Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM		Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
	TM08	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
	TM09	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
	TM11	Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
	TM12	Water Gun	Water	Special	40	100	25
	TM13	Ice Beam	Ice	Special	90	100	10
	TM14	Blizzard	Ice	Special	110	70	5
	TM28	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
	TM29	Psychic	Psychic	Special	90	100	10
	TM34	Bide	Normal	Physical	—	—	10
	TM40	Skull Bash	Normal	Physical	100	100	15
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM46	Psywave	Psychic	Special	—	80	15
	TM57	Hail	Ice	Status	—	—	10
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM68	Rain Dance	Water	Status	—	—	5
	TM92	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
	TM96	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100	25
	TM105	Scald	Water	Special	80	100	15
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	HM03	Surf	Water	Special	90	100	15
	HM06	Dive	Water	Physical	80	100	10
	HM07	Waterfall	Water	Physical	80	100	15
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move's obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Frustration	Normal	Physical	—	100	20
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Endeavor	Normal	Physical	—	100	5
Headbutt	Normal	Physical	70	100	15
Icy Wind	Ice	Special	55	95	15
Swagger	Normal	Status	—	90	15
Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100	20
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Bubble Beam	Water	Special	65	100	20
Encore	Normal	Status	—	100	5
Endeavor	Normal	Physical	—	100	5
Endure	Normal	Status	—	—	10
Haze	Ice	Status	—	—	30
Ice Ball	Ice	Physical	30	90	20
Mind Reader	Normal	Status	—	—	5
Mist	Ice	Status	—	—	30
Mud Shot	Ground	Special	55	95	15
Refresh	Normal	Status	—	—	20
Splash	Normal	Status	—	—	40
Water Pulse	Water	Special	60	100	20
Water Sport	Water	Status	—	—	15
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
2×  Weak to	1×  Neutral to	½×  Resistant to	0×  Immune to
Electric Grass	Bug Dark Dragon Fairy Fighting Flying Ghost Ground Normal Poison Psychic Rock	Fire Ice Steel Water	None

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Poliwag requires to advance per level, as well as a comparative overview of how much less experience is needed to level up at the same levels than its evolution would require; this is informative for ascertaining how much experience can be saved if you were to delay its evolution to a later level.

Level	XP	Level-Up Differential	Poliwag-Poliwhirl Differential	Poliwag-Poliwrath Differential	Poliwag-Politoed Differential
1	61	6	49	93	93
2	67	6	54	102	102
3	97	30	98	166	166
4	173	76	197	318	318
5	318	145	368	591	591
6	556	238	628	1018	1018
7	909	353	991	1629	1629
8	1401	492	1475	2458	2458
9	2055	654	2096	3538	3538
10	2894	839	2869	4900	4900
11	3941	1047	3812	6576	6576
12	5220	1279	4940	8601	8601
13	6752	1532	6268	11004	11004
14	8562	1810	7816	13821	13821
15	10673	2111	9596	17082	17082
16	13107	2434	11627	20819	20819
17	15888	2781	13924	25067	25067
18	19039	3151	16504	29857	29857
19	22583	3544	19382	35221	35221
20	26544	3961	22576	41191	41191
21	30943	4399	26100	47800	47800
22	35805	4862	29972	55082	55082
23	41152	5347	34207	63068	63068
24	47008	5856	38823	71790	71790
25	53396	6388	43835	81281	81281
26	60339	6943	49258	91574	91574
27	67859	7520	55110	102700	102700
28	75981	8122	61408	114694	114694
29	84728	8747	68166	127586	127586
30	94122	9394	75401	141409	141409
31	104186	10064	83130	156196	156196
32	114945	10759	91369	171980	171980
33	126420	11475	100133	188792	188792
34	138636	12216	109441	206666	206666
35	151615	12979	119306	225633	225633
36	165380	13765	129746	245728	245728
37	179955	14575	140778	266981	266981
38	195364	15409	152417	289426	289426
39	211628	16264	164679	313094	313094
40	228772	17144	177582	338020	338020
41	246819	18047	191141	364235	364235
42	265792	18973	205372	391772	391772
43	285714	19922	220293	420663	420663
44	306608	20894	235918	450943	450943
45	328499	21891	252267	482643	482643
46	351408	22909	269352	515795	515795
47	375361	23953	287194	550434	550434
48	400380	25019	305805	586591	586591
49	426488	26108	325204	624300	624300
50	453710	27222	345408	663594	663594
51	482068	28358	366432	704505	704505
52	511586	29518	388294	747069	747069
53	542289	30703	411010	791317	791317
54	574200	31911	434597	837283	837283
55	607343	33143	459072	885001	885001
56	641741	34398	484451	934504	934504
57	677420	35679	510753	985827	985827
58	714403	36983	537993	1039004	1039004
59	752715	38312	566191	1094069	1094069
60	792381	39666	595362	1151058	1151058
61	833425	41044	625525	1210006	1210006
62	875874	42449	656699	1270948	1270948
63	919752	43878	688900	1333921	1333921
64	965087	45335	722149	1398964	1398964
65	1011904	46817	756464	1466111	1466111
66	1060231	48327	791865	1535404	1535404
67	1110096	49865	828374	1606883	1606883
68	1161528	51432	866010	1680589	1680589
69	1214558	53030	904798	1756566	1756566
70	1269217	54659	944760	1834860	1834860
71	1325539	56322	985921	1915521	1915521
72	1383560	58021	1028310	1998599	1998599
73	1443318	59758	1071955	2084153	2084153
74	1504856	61538	1116891	2172245	2172245
75	1568219	63363	1163154	2262945	2262945
76	1633462	65243	1210788	2356334	2356334
77	1700643	67181	1259841	2452500	2452500
78	1769833	69190	1310372	2551554	2551554
79	1841114	71281	1362452	2653623	2653623
80	1914585	73471	1416167	2758863	2758863
81	1990368	75783	1471625	2867468	2867468
82	2068615	78247	1528965	2979683	2979683
83	2149523	80908	1588365	3095823	3095823
84	2233342	83819	1650060	3216300	3216300
85	2320410	87068	1714369	3341670	3341670
86	2411178	90768	1781724	3472680	3472680
87	2506270	95092	1852735	3610379	3610379
88	2606562	100292	1928271	3756250	3756250
89	2713315	106753	2009598	3912442	3912442
90	2828381	115066	2098606	4082146	4082146
91	2954551	126170	2198193	4270217	4270217
92	3096154	141603	2312932	4484262	4484262
93	3260107	163953	2450262	4736572	4736572
94	3457862	197755	2622749	5047744	5047744
95	3709155	251293	2852520	5453746	5453746
96	4049645	340490	3180501	6020513	6020513
97	4547449	497804	3686925	6876045	6876045
98	5341798	794349	4540545	8286742	8286742
99	6742089	1400291	6128509	10856728	10856728
100	9513057	2770968	9442463	16113958	16113958

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

• 
  Original counterpart
• 
  Shiny Poliwag
• 
  Pink Poliwag

External Links

• Poliwag's Bulbapedia
• Poliwag's Serebii