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No. 547 · National Pokédex

Whimsicott

エルフーン · Elfuun · Farfaduvet
🧚 Fairy 🌿 Grass
Height
0.7 m
Weight
6.6 kg
Category
Windveiled Pokémon
Generation
Generation 5
Whimsicott
🔊 Cry

⚡The Essentials on Whimsicott

Types
Fairy Grass
Weaknesses
×4 Poison · ×2 Fire, Ice, Flying, Steel Table
Resistances
×½ Water, Electric, Grass, Fighting, Ground, Dark · immune: Dragon
Evolution
Cottonee → Whimsicott (Sun Stone)
Shiny
Shiny WhimsicottAlternate, rare colors: in the main games since X and Y, an encounter has a 1 in 4,096 chance of being Shiny, excluding hunting bonuses. Available as a Shiny in Pokémon GO. View
Stats
Total 480 · top stat: Speed (116) Detail
In Current Games
Competitive
Champions · Doubles: tier B, No. 23
Other Names
Farfaduvet in French · エルフーン, Elfuun in Japanese · Elfun in German All Languages

📋Overview

Whimsicott is a Fairy and Grass-type Pokémon, No. 547 in the National Pokédex. Original generation: Generation 5. Category: Windveiled Pokémon. Height: 0.7 m, weight: 6.6 kg.

Whimsicott evolves from Cottonee and does not evolve further.

Abilities: Prankster and Infiltrator. Hidden Ability: Chlorophyll. Whimsicott is weak to Fire, Ice, Flying and Steel-type moves (×2 damage). Whimsicott is very weak to Poison-type moves (×4 damage). Whimsicott takes no damage from Dragon-type moves.

Generation
Generation 5
Black / White
National No.
#547
National Pokédex
Category
Windveiled Pokémon
Status
Standard

📊Base Stats

The total determines a Pokémon's overall power.

HP
60
255
Attack
67
255
Defense
85
255
Special Attack
77
255
Special Defense
75
255
Speed
116
255
Total
480
Min HP (Lv. 100)
230
0 IV, 0 EV, neutral nature
Max HP (Lv. 100)
324
31 IV, 252 EV, beneficial nature
Gen Changes
Stable
Unchanged recently

🛡️Type Effectiveness

Multipliers received depending on the type of the opposing move (Fairy / Grass). See the type chart

Very weak (×4) — 1 type
Poison
×4
Weak (×2) — 4 types
Fire
×2
Ice
×2
Flying
×2
Steel
×2
Normal (×1) — 6 types
Normal
×1
Psychic
×1
Bug
×1
Rock
×1
Ghost
×1
Fairy
×1
Resistant (×0.5) — 6 types
Water
×½
Electric
×½
Grass
×½
Fighting
×½
Ground
×½
Dark
×½
Immune (×0) — 1 type
Dragon
×0

✨Abilities

Ability 1
Gives priority to the Pokémon's status moves.
Ability 2
The Pokémon's moves are unaffected by the target's barriers, substitutes, and the like.
Boosts the Pokémon's Speed stat in harsh sunlight.

🌱Whimsicott Evolution

🔮Whimsicott Forms and Shiny

Whimsicott
Standard Form
Fairy · Grass
Shiny Availability
Shiny Whimsicott
Shiny form available
Base rate (Gen VI+): 1/4096. With Shiny Charm: 1/1365. Masuda Method: 1/683.

⚔️Whimsicott Moves

Moves this Pokémon can learn, by method.

Lv.
Move
Type · Cat.
Accuracy
Pow.
PP
1
Charm
Fairy Stat
100%
—
20
1
Cotton Guard
Grass Stat
—
—
10
1
Helping Hand
Normal Stat
—
—
20
1
Growth
Normal Stat
—
—
20
1
Energy Ball
Grass Spec.
100%
90
10
1
Endeavor
Normal Phys.
100%
—
5
1
Giga Drain
Grass Spec.
100%
75
10
1
Solar Beam
Grass Spec.
100%
120
10
1
Mega Drain
Grass Spec.
100%
40
15
1
Stun Spore
Grass Stat
75%
—
30
1
Poison Powder
Poison Stat
75%
—
35
1
Moonblast
Fairy Spec.
100%
95
15
1
Memento
Dark Stat
100%
—
10
1
Cotton Spore
Grass Stat
100%
—
40
1
Gust
Flying Spec.
100%
40
35
1
Razor Leaf
Grass Phys.
95%
55
25
1
Leech Seed
Grass Stat
90%
—
10
1
Tailwind
Flying Stat
—
—
15
1
Fairy Wind
Fairy Spec.
100%
40
30
1
Hurricane
Flying Spec.
70%
110
10
1
Absorb
Grass Spec.
100%
20
25
1
Sunny Day
Fire Stat
—
—
5

🥚Advanced Breeding

Egg Groups
Fairy · Grass
Gender
♂ 50.0 / ♀ 50.0%
Ditto Compatibility
✓ Yes
Pokérus
Susceptible
EV ×2 if infected
Max Characteristic
Speed
Highest base stat
Hyper Training & Mints
Available from level 50. Cost: 1 Gold Bottle Cap per IV set to 31 or 3 Silver Bottle Caps per IV. Mints let you change the effect of a Nature without changing the base Nature.

🗺️Where to Find Whimsicott

Available in 6 games, 19 recorded encounters. Click a game to see the details.

Natively obtainable: Black Black 2 Shield Sword Scarlet Violet

Generation V

⚫
Black 5 encounters
Available ▼
Grass spots (5)
Pinwheel Forest Lv. 17 1%
Pinwheel Forest Lv. 17 4%
Lostlorn Forest Lv. 22 4%
Lostlorn Forest Lv. 22 1%
Abundant Shrine Lv. 50 5%
⚫
Black 2 10 encounters
Available ▼
Grass spots (10)
Castelia City Lv. 18 4%
Castelia City Lv. 18 1%
Lostlorn Forest Lv. 24 4%
Lostlorn Forest Lv. 24 1%
Abundant Shrine Lv. 36 4%
Abundant Shrine Lv. 36 1%
Victory Road Lv. 50 4%
Victory Road Lv. 50 1%
Pinwheel Forest Lv. 57 4%
Pinwheel Forest Lv. 57 1%

Generation VIII

🛡️
Shield 1 encounter
Available ▼
Wild Area (1)
Wild Area / Galar
⚔️
Sword 1 encounter
Available ▼
Wild Area (1)
Wild Area / Galar

Generation IX

🔴
Scarlet 1 encounter
Available ▼
Terarium / Area Zero (1)
Blueberry Academy (Terarium)
🟣
Violet 1 encounter
Available ▼
Terarium / Area Zero (1)
Blueberry Academy (Terarium)

🔄Transfer to Pokémon HOME

How to bring this Pokémon to HOME depending on the game of origin.

Black
→ Pokémon Bank To Pokémon Bank
→ Pokémon HOME Bank → HOME
Black 2
→ Pokémon Bank To Pokémon Bank
→ Pokémon HOME Bank → HOME
Sword
→ Pokémon HOME HOME (direct)
Shield
→ Pokémon HOME HOME (direct)
Scarlet
→ Pokémon HOME HOME (direct)
Violet
→ Pokémon HOME HOME (direct)
Note: Some transfers are irreversible (Bank → HOME). Check the legality of moves in the target game — HOME may replace an illegal move with a basic move.

🏆Competitive & Meta

ZU
Smogon · Gen IX · 2026-09
ZeroUsed
Usage rate: 9.6% · Position #17

📱Whimsicott in Pokémon GO

Whimsicott in Pokémon GO
  • 2,014Max CP (Lv. 40)
  • 1,151Perfect CP in Raids
  • 1 kmper Candy as Buddy
  • ✨ Shiny available
Pokémon GO entry: Whimsicott →

📖Pokédex Entries

Description by game, with language selection.

Black
“Like the wind, it can slip through any gap, no matter how small. It leaves balls of white fluff behind.”
White
“Riding whirlwinds, they appear. These Pokémon sneak through gaps into houses and cause all sorts of mischief.”
Black 2
“They appear along with whirlwinds. They pull pranks, such as moving furniture and leaving balls of cotton in homes.”
White 2
“They appear along with whirlwinds. They pull pranks, such as moving furniture and leaving balls of cotton in homes.”
X
“They appear along with whirlwinds. They pull pranks, such as moving furniture and leaving balls of cotton in homes.”
Y
“Like the wind, it can slip through any gap, no matter how small. It leaves balls of white fluff behind.”
Omega Ruby
“They appear along with whirlwinds. They pull pranks, such as moving furniture and leaving balls of cotton in homes.”
Alpha Sapphire
“Like the wind, it can slip through any gap, no matter how small. It leaves balls of white fluff behind.”
Sun
“It rides on the wind and slips into people’s homes. After it has turned a room into a cotton- filled mess, it giggles to itself and takes off.”
Moon
“This Pokémon appears, riding upon the wind. But if the wind gusts up, it’ll blow the cotton on this Pokémon’s head clean off.”
Ultra Sun
“This nuisance sneaks into people’s homes, where it hides important things and scatters cotton all over the place.”
Ultra Moon
“Whimsicott doesn’t live in a fixed location. It floats around on whirling winds, appearing all over the place to perform its mischief.”
Sword
“It scatters cotton all over the place as a prank. If it gets wet, it’ll become too heavy to move and have no choice but to answer for its mischief.”
Shield
“As long as this Pokémon bathes in sunlight, its cotton keeps growing. If too much cotton fluff builds up, Whimsicott tears it off and scatters it.”

🌍Multilingual Names

🇫🇷 Français
Farfaduvet
🇬🇧 English
Whimsicott
🇯🇵 漢字
エルフーン
🇯🇵 Kana
エルフーン
🇯🇵 Romaji
Elfuun
🇩🇪 Deutsch
Elfun
🇪🇸 Español
Whimsicott
🇮🇹 Italiano
Whimsicott
🇰🇷 한국어
엘풍
🇨🇳 ZH-Hans
风妖精
🇹🇼 ZH-Hant
風妖精
Category (Genus)
🇫🇷 FR
Pokémon Vole Vent
🇬🇧 EN
Windveiled Pokémon
🇯🇵 JP
かぜかくれポケモン
🇩🇪 DE
Windschatten-Pokémon

🎬Media & Gallery

Official artwork
Dream World
Pokémon HOME
Gen V (animated)
Back sprite
Shiny
Gen I
Gen II
Gen III
Gen IV
Audio Cries

❓Frequently asked questions about Whimsicott

What type is Whimsicott?

Whimsicott is a Fairy and Grass-type Pokémon.

Can Whimsicott still evolve?

Whimsicott is the final stage of its evolutionary line: coming from Cottonee, it does not evolve further.

What are Whimsicott's weaknesses?

Whimsicott is weak to Fire, Ice, Flying and Steel-type moves (×2 damage). Whimsicott is very weak to Poison-type moves (×4 damage). Whimsicott takes no damage from Dragon-type moves.

What is Whimsicott's Hidden Ability?

Whimsicott's Hidden Ability is Chlorophyll. Its regular Abilities are Prankster and Infiltrator.

Is Whimsicott available in Pokémon Champions?

Yes, Whimsicott is playable in Pokémon Champions. In our Champions · Doubles tier list, Whimsicott is ranked tier B (No. 23).

Can you get a Shiny Whimsicott in Pokémon GO?

Yes, Shiny Whimsicott is available in Pokémon GO. Its Pokémon GO entry