#0964 · Generation IX

Palafin

Water · Dolphin Pokémon — first seen in Generation IX.

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Base stats

Stat	Base	Min	Max
HP	100	310	404
Attack	70	130	262
Defense	72	134	267
Sp. Attack	53	99	225
Sp. Defense	62	116	245
Speed	100	184	328
Total	457

Min and max are at level 100: the minimum is 0 IVs, 0 EVs and a hindering nature, the maximum 31 IVs, 252 EVs and a beneficial nature. Shedinja's HP is always 1 whatever the formula says.

Type defences

Damage Palafin takes from each attacking type.

×2

GrassElectric

×½

SteelFireWaterIce

×1

NormalFightingFlyingPoisonGroundRockBugGhostPsychicDragonDarkFairy

Evolution

Finizen#0963

Level 38 in a multiplayer battle

Palafin#0964

Methods are the current official ones. A ROM hack may change them — trade evolutions especially; the guide table below says which do.

Other forms

Hero Form Palafin

Moves

Palafin is not in any of the 16 official games this site covers (Red & Blue through Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon), so there is no learnset here yet.

Where to find it in the official games

Not obtainable in the wild in any of the 16 official games this site covers. In those games it has to be evolved, traded or bred — or it belongs to a game whose data is not here yet.

Where to find it in the ROM hacks

8 guides on this site put it somewhere you can catch it. Areas link to that guide's own route page, with its own rates and levels.

Guide	Where
Pokémon Soulgold	Abandoned LabSuper Rod · Lv 40-45 · 41% Route 50 UnderwaterSurf · Lv 45-55 · 5%rare Route 50 Underwater Cave 1Surf · Lv 45-55 · 5%rare and 5 more areas
Radical Red	Bond BridgeSurf · Lv 60-65 · 60%
Elite Redux	Route 126Surfing · Lv — · 5%rare Sootopolis CitySurfing · Lv — · 5%rare
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition	Route 107Super Rod · Lv 35-42 · 4%rare
Pokémon Emerald Imperium	Route 117Super Rod · Lv 20-25 · 40% Route 129Surf · Lv 25-30 · 5%rare Sootopolis CitySuper Rod · Lv 35-45 · 20%
Pokémon Emerald Squared	Route 110Fishing · Lv 36-45 · 10% Route 124Water · Lv 40-50 · 11.1% Route 108Water · Lv 20-30 · 11.1% and 1 more area
Pokémon Black Pearl Emerald	Trick House 8Grass · Lv 50 · 1%rare
Pokémon Mirror Gold	Pallet TownSurf · Lv 60-65 · 1%rare Route 47Surf · Lv 42-45 · 90%
Emerald Rogue	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Heart & Soul	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Lazarus	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon: Wishes of Tomorrow	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Exceeded	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
HeartGold Generations	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon CC: Operation Masquerade	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Spirits of the Storm	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it
Pokémon Overcomplicated	not in the wild in this guide's tables — evolve, trade or battle it

Compare official Palafin with the ROM hacks →

In the 17 guides that include it

Changed in 5 of 17 guides: retyped in 1, stats in 4, abilities in 1, evolution in 1.

Every ROM hack on this site that has Palafin, and what it did to it. Guides that changed something are first. Click one for that version's full page — locations, moveset and TMs.

Guide		Type	Total	Abilities
Lazarus Evolves at Lv. 38	Changed	Water	467 +10 +10 Attack	Zero to Hero, Iron Fist + Iron Fist
Pokémon Crippling Medical Debt Edition	Changed		0 -457 -100 HP, -70 Attack, -72 Defense, -53 Sp. Atk, -62 Sp. Def, -100 Speed	—
Pokémon Spirits of the Storm	Changed		0 -457 -100 HP, -70 Attack, -72 Defense, -53 Sp. Atk, -62 Sp. Def, -100 Speed	Zero to Hero
Pokémon Overcomplicated	Changed	Water→WaterLance	457	Defeatist, Technician, Stakeout
Pokémon Mirror Gold	Changed	Water	530 +73 -20 HP, +6 Attack, +27 Defense, +23 Sp. Atk, +37 Sp. Def	Zero To Hero
Emerald Rogue	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero to Hero
Pokémon Soulgold	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero to Hero
Pokémon Heart & Soul	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero To Hero
Radical Red	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero To Hero
Elite Redux	Unchanged	Water	457	Friend Guard, Tidal Rush, Damp
Pokémon Emerald Imperium	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero to Hero
Pokémon: Wishes of Tomorrow	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero To Hero
Pokémon Exceeded	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero To Hero
Pokémon Emerald Squared	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero To Hero
HeartGold Generations	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero to Hero
Pokémon CC: Operation Masquerade	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero to Hero
Pokémon Black Pearl Emerald	Unchanged	Water	457	Zero to Hero

Names in other languages

Japanese	イルカマン
Japanese (Rōmaji)	Irukaman
German	Delfinator
French	Superdofin
Spanish	Palafin
Italian	Palafin
Korean	돌핀맨
Chinese (Simplified)	海豚侠
Chinese (Traditional)	海豚俠

Official data here is present-day reference data from PokéAPI, not a snapshot of any one game's era — the Fairy type and hidden abilities arrived partway through the series, so a difference against an older game can belong to the series rather than to that ROM hack.