Cloyster | Pokémon guide

If your team is a seafood-platter theme or based around Gen I water options, then you’re going to want the Pokémon Cloyster on your roster. The bivalve Pokémon looks quite a bit more daunting than its pre-evolution, Shellder, and can pack a punch on land or in the sea.

Cloyster appears quite early on in the Pokédex, in the grand scheme of things, but we recommend looking up water Pokémon weaknesses so you can keep it safe in battle anyway.

Here’s everything in our Cloyster guide:

Here’s the key information you need to know about Cloyster:

Cloyster’s evolution

Cloyster evolves from the Pokémon Shellder when you give it a Water Stone. You can do this at any level – there’s no minimum for when you can make it grow up.

Cloyster’s locations

Here are all the locations you can find Cloyster in each Pokémon game:

Gen 1 locations

Gen 2 locations

Gen 3 locations

Gen 4 locations

Gen 5 locations

Gen 6 locations

Gen 7 locations

Gen 8 locations

Gen 9 locations

Cloyster’s base stats

Cloyster’s base stats are as follows. When leveling it up in the game, these stats will grow.

• HP – 50
• Attack – 95
• Defense – 180
• Sp. Atk – 85
• Sp. Def – 45
• Speed – 70

Cloyster’s type strengths and weaknesses

Cloyster, despite being an evolved form, has no immunities – but it is resistant to ice and water-type attacks. Below you can see what it’s weak to, which we recommend making a note of.

Cloyster’s moveset

In the latest generation of Pokémon games, Cloyster can learn the following moves:

Level up moves

Learnable TMs

Egg moves

That’s all you need to know about the Pokémon Cloyster, including its movesets, locations, and evolution.