
Is Delcatty Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Normal with AbilityCute Charm or AbilityNormalize. Normalize converts every move to Normal type, eliminating super-effective damage. Delcatty's stats are among the lowest of any fully evolved Pokemon in Emerald. One of the weakest things you can evolve.
Roxanne's typing presses Skitty's defenses.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Flannery's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Norman's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Winona's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Delcatty trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Drake's team.
Delcatty has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Catch Skitty on Route 116 (walking, Lv 7-8, rare).
- After Brawly
- TM43NormalSecret Power105100%20
- TM10NormalHidden Power90100%15
- After Wattson
- TM13IceIce Beam90100%10
- TM24ElectricThunderbolt90100%15
- LV 31NormalCovet90100%25
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacade105100%20
- After Winona
- TM22GrassSolar Beam120100%10
- LV 39NormalDouble-Edge180100%15
You can pick up the Moon Stone in Meteor Falls.
- After Roxanne
- HM04NormalStrength120100%15
- After Brawly
- TM43NormalSecret Power105100%20
- TM10NormalHidden Power90100%15
- After Wattson
- TM13IceIce Beam90100%10
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacade105100%20
- After Winona
- TM15NormalHyper Beam22590%5
- TM22GrassSolar Beam120100%10
- After Juan
- TUTORNormalDouble-Edge180100%15
How to Get Delcatty in Emerald
No wild encounters for Delcatty. The 2-stage line runs through Skitty, which you can catch but it's a rare spawn from the locations below. Evolve through a special method once you've got the levels.
Catch Skitty at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Delcatty.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Skitty
- 2Evolve DelcattyUse Moon Stone
How to Obtain Delcatty in E
Step 1Catch SkittyRoute 116Lv.7-8GrassRate 2%
Step 2Delcatty ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Delcatty egg.
Delcatty Weakness
Fighting moves hit Delcatty for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Just 1 weak spot to worry about, which keeps teambuilding straightforward.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Delcatty Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Delcatty
Makuhita Fighting | C | |
Delcatty Evolutions
Getting Delcatty requires an evolution item, not just grinding levels. The chain starts at Skitty. Breed this form to get Skitty eggs (quick to hatch). HP grew the most through evolution (+20 over Skitty), and Delcatty peaks at 380 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Delcatty to get Skitty eggs easily using 27 partners from the Fairy and Ground egg groups. Notable egg moves include Baton Pass, Fake Tears, Helping Hand and 5 more.
E Delcatty Best Moveset
Contact moves have a chance to infatuate through AbilityCute Charm, but Delcatty's stats are too low across the board to compete. The moveset offers nothing that stronger Normal types like Slaking or Ursaring cannot do better.
Best Build
Delcatty best EVs are HP and Speed
Pivot Moveset
- Substitute
- Baton Pass
- Shadow Ball
- Double Edge
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Need something that threatens multiple types? Delcatty's movepool delivers. Coverage across 11 types plus STAB from Hyper Beam and Double-Edge gives it answers for most defensive cores you'll run into.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
Rather than keeping a permanent lair, it habitually seeks comfortable spots and sleeps there. It is nocturnal and becomes active at dusk.
Delcatty Emerald Guide
In Emerald, watch for Hitmonlee (Fighting) when using Delcatty. They all hit it super-effectively with STAB. Only 1 weakness means fewer dedicated counters to worry about.
In Emerald, Delcatty has niche appeal at best. 380 base stats means you're fighting uphill by mid-game. There are better Normal Pokemon available.
For Emerald, we rate Delcatty C-Tier: a niche pick in Emerald's meta. At 380 BST, the stats are spread pretty evenly. Substitute with Leftovers is the standard set.
Cute Charm has a 30% chance of infatuating attacking Pokémon on contact. That's the one you want on Delcatty. Normalize works too if your team needs something different.
Base 70 Speed is workable. Faster than some, slower than many. On offense, Delcatty is a physical attacker with base 65 Attack.
Game Availability
Obtainable through an item-based evolution, Delcatty appears in 13 titles across 8 generations since Ruby & Sapphire. The evolution method adds a barrier that wild-catchable Pokemon don't have.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB

Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS

Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut

Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG

FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP

Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS

HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW

Black & White - Gen 5B2W2

Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY

X & Y - Gen 6ORAS

Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM

Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM

Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7LGPE

Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh

Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP

Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV

Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW

Winds & Waves