Sandshrew

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#027	Sandshrew
Types Ground	Generation   I
Abilities Ability 1 Sand Veil Hidden Ability Sand Rush
Rarity Tier   Common	Catch rate   255/255 (33.33%)
Base stats HP 50 Atk 75 Def 85 Sp.Atk 20 Sp.Def 30 Spd 40 Base-stat total: 300
EV Yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 1 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 1
Base Experience   93	Gender Ratio     50%     50%
Height   0.6m	Weight   12kg

Sandshrew is a Ground-type Pokémon.

It evolves into Sandslash as early as level 22.

Obtainability

Wild

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rarity Tier
Altering Cave	12-25	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Desert Cave	35-40	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Digletts Cave	22-25	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Dragonspiral Tower 5F	25-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Dragonspiral Tower 6F	25-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Eindoak Waterway	25-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Eriyadu Sulfur Pools	28-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Evergreen Island Crystal Cave	25-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Evergreen Island Village Cave	21-26	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Evergreen Waterway	25-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Frozen Cave B1F	25-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Galeras Island West	27-33	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Iron Island 1F	32-36	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Moon 1F	14-16	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Moon B1F	14-16	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Moon B2F	14-16	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 11	25-26			Night		Common
Route 111 Desert	20-24	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 113	19-23	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 3	12-14	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 31	5-7		Day			Common
Route 9	22-25	Morning	Day			Common
Union Cave 1F	8-10	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Union Cave B1F	8-10	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Union Cave B2F	6-10	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Wayward Cave	15-19	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Diggable Patches

Region	Area	Levels	Rarity
Kanto	Route 3	8-12	Common
Kanto	Mt. Moon B2F	12-16	Common
Kanto	Rock Tunnel 1F	16-19	Common
Kanto	Slowpoke Well	18-22	Common

NPCs

Sandshrew is one out of many assignable Pokémon in Kanto's iteration of the Daily Challenges system; by virtue of that, this is one of the guaranteedly shiny Pokémon that may be potentially rewarded for every 50-divisible task.

Moves

Level-Up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
—	Defense Curl	Normal	Status	—	—	40
—	Scratch	Normal	Physical	40	100	35
3	[[]]			—
5	Poison Sting	Poison	Physical	15	100	35
7	Rollout	Rock	Physical	30	90	20
9	Rapid Spin	Normal	Physical	50	100	40
11	Fury Cutter	Bug	Physical	40	95	20
14	Magnitude	Ground	Physical	—	100	30
17	Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	20
20	Fury Swipes	Normal	Physical	18	80	15
23	Sand Tomb	Ground	Physical	35	85	15
26	Slash	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
30	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
34	Gyro Ball	Steel	Physical	—	100	5
38	Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	20
42	Sandstorm	Ground	Status	—	—	10
46	Earthquake	Ground	Physical	100	100	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
	TM17	Submission	Fighting	Physical	80	80	25
	TM19	Seismic Toss	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
	TM26	Earthquake	Ground	Physical	100	100	10
	TM27	Fissure	Ground	Physical	—	30	5
	TM28	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
	TM34	Bide	Normal	Physical	—	—	10
	TM39	Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	20
	TM40	Skull Bash	Normal	Physical	100	100	15
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM48	Rock Slide	Rock	Physical	75	90	10
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM61	Sunny Day	Fire	Status	—	—	5
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM75	Swords Dance	Normal	Status	—	—	20
	TM81	Brick Break	Fighting	Physical	75	100	15
	TM87	Sandstorm	Ground	Status	—	—	10
	TM89	Rock Tomb	Rock	Physical	60	95	15
	TM92	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
	TM96	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100	25
	TM114	Rock Smash	Fighting	Physical	40	100	15
	TM115	Shadow Claw	Ghost	Physical	70	100	15
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	HM01	Cut	Normal	Physical	50	95	30
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.

Move Tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Counter	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Covet (10,000)	Normal	Physical	60	100	25
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Dynamic Punch	Fighting	Physical	100	50	5
Earth Power (10,000)	Ground	Special	90	100	10
Fury Cutter	Bug	Physical	40	95	20
Knock Off	Dark	Physical	65	100	25
Headbutt	Normal	Physical	70	100	15
Rock Slide	Rock	Physical	75	90	10
Rollout	Rock	Physical	30	90	20
Seismic Toss	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Stealth Rock	Rock	Status	—	—	20
Super Fang	Normal	Physical	—	90	10
Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	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-Inheritable Moves

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Chip Away	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
Counter	Fighting	Physical	—	100	20
Crush Claw	Normal	Physical	75	95	10
Endure	Normal	Status	—	—	10
Flail	Normal	Physical	—	100	15
Metal Claw	Steel	Physical	50	95	35
Mud Shot	Ground	Special	55	95	15
Night Slash	Dark	Physical	70	100	15
Rapid Spin	Normal	Physical	50	100	40
Rock Climb	Normal	Physical	90	85	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. 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
Grass Ice Water	Bug Dark Dragon Fairy Fighting Fire Flying Ghost Ground Normal Psychic Steel	Poison Rock	Electric

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience that Sandshrew 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 helps you handily cross-compare their leveling charts to ascertain how many experience points you would save if you were to delay evolving Sandshrew to a later level.

Level	XP	Level-Up Differential	Sandshrew-Sandslash Differential
1	74	8	84
2	81	7	92
3	117	36	150
4	209	92	286
5	384	175	530
6	671	287	913
7	1098	427	1463
8	1692	594	2212
9	2482	790	3186
10	3496	1014	4419
11	4761	1265	5938
12	6304	1543	7774
13	8156	1852	9957
14	10342	2186	12514
15	12891	2549	15477
16	15831	2940	18876
17	19190	3359	22741
18	22996	3806	27099
19	27276	4280	31982
20	32059	4783	37419
21	37373	5314	43441
22	43245	5872	50076
23	49703	6458	57355
24	56776	7073	65307
25	64491	7715	73961
26	72877	8386	83349
27	81960	9083	93500
28	91770	9810	104442
29	102334	10564	116206
30	113679	11345	128822
31	125835	12156	142319
32	138829	12994	156729
33	152689	13860	172079
34	167443	14754	188400
35	183119	15676	205722
36	199745	16626	224074
37	217349	17604	243486
38	235959	18610	263990
39	255603	19644	285613
40	276309	20706	308386
41	298106	21797	332339
42	321021	22915	357502
43	345083	24062	383905
44	370319	25236	411578
45	396758	26439	440551
46	424429	27671	470853
47	453358	28929	502516
48	483576	30218	535570
49	515109	31533	570043
50	547987	32878	605968
51	582238	34251	643373
52	617890	35652	682289
53	654973	37083	722748
54	693514	38541	764781
55	733544	40030	808417
56	775090	41546	853688
57	818183	43093	900624
58	862851	44668	949258
59	909124	46273	999622
60	957032	47908	1051745
61	1006605	49573	1105663
62	1057874	51269	1161407
63	1110870	52996	1219010
64	1165624	54754	1278507
65	1222169	56545	1339932
66	1280538	58369	1403322
67	1340765	60227	1468712
68	1402885	62120	1536142
69	1466934	64049	1605652
70	1532951	66017	1677282
71	1600976	68025	1751078
72	1671053	70077	1827088
73	1743228	72175	1905364
74	1817553	74325	1985963
75	1894083	76530	2068949
76	1972883	78800	2154394
77	2054024	81141	2242381
78	2137591	83567	2333009
79	2223683	86092	2426393
80	2312420	88737	2522676
81	2403951	91531	2622033
82	2498458	94507	2724686
83	2596177	97719	2830920
84	2697414	101237	2941109
85	2802573	105159	3055752
86	2912202	109629	3175530
87	3027053	114851	3301384
88	3148185	121132	3434655
89	3277121	128936	3577278
90	3416096	138975	3732129
91	3568484	152388	3903578
92	3739511	171027	4098466
93	3937532	198021	4327839
94	4176379	238847	4610191
95	4479889	303510	4977782
96	4891130	411241	5489692
97	5492374	601244	6260480
98	6451782	959408	7528265
99	8143042	1691260	9832278
100	11489796	3346754	14534216

Special Counterparts

Sandshrew coalesced with an assortment of other Pokémon to have a Christmas-thematized counterpart as a product of the 2016 Christmas Event.

• 
  Original counterpart
• 
  Shiny Sandshrew
• 
  Christmas Sandshrew

External Links

• Sandshrew's Bulbapedia
• Sandshrew's Serebii