#0489 · Sinnoh · Generation 4 · mythical

Phione

Sea Drifter Pokémon · Water-type

Phione is a Water-type Pokémon, the Sea Drifter Pokémon, number 489 (#0489) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 4 and comes from the Sinnoh region. It is 0.4 m tall and weighs 3.1 kg.

Phione is the Sea Drifter Pokémon, a tiny blue Water type that hatches from the Eggs of the Mythical Manaphy, which makes it the only Pokémon you can get by breeding a Mythical. Nobody is sure how the two are related.

How to pronounce Phione

Phione is pronounced fee-OH-nay. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Phione said out loud:

In Japanese it is フィオネ.

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Phione is 0.4 m tall and weighs 3.1 kg. It has a round blue head with a flotation sac on top, a long ribbon-like antenna, long flipper-like arms and a red gem on its chest. The Pokédex says it inflates the sac to drift across the sea in search of food.

Behaviour

Phione drifts in packs when the water is warm, and has been seen travelling with Manaphy. The Pokédex says it heads back to its birthplace, wherever its drifting has taken it. A Legends: Arceus entry guesses that its sea-blue body is a defence that helps it vanish into the water from predators.

Habitat

The Pokédex places it in warm seas. In Legends: Arceus it is at Seaside Hollow in the Cobalt Coastlands, in a set of three and then without limit once Manaphy is caught. In Scarlet and Violet it arrives by breeding Manaphy or through Pokémon HOME, and and it is not available in Legends: Z-A.

Powers

Its Ability Hydration cures a status condition after each turn in rain. It learns Bubble Beam, Whirlpool, Water Pulse, Aqua Ring and Dive. With 80 in every base stat it has no weak spot and no standout strength.

Name origin

Phione may combine Manaphy with Clione, the genus of sea slugs that float in the open sea. The Japanese name is フィオネ (Fione), which the games write Phione in Latin letters.

Design inspiration

Bulbapedia reads Phione as probably modelled on sea angels (Clione), which turn up a lot in Japanese documentaries, above all in Hokkaido, the island Sinnoh is modelled on. The Manaphy and Phione pairing may also nod to polyphenism, where one species looks different in different conditions; the Pokédex has Manaphy born in cold seas and Phione in warm ones. These are fan readings.

Evolution notes

Phione does not evolve. Pair Manaphy or a Phione with Ditto and the Egg will be a Phione, and Phione cannot turn into Manaphy or produce Eggs that hatch into one.

In the games

Phione has no story role in the main series: it is a breeding-only Pokémon, first seen in Diamond and Pearl. In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, a group of six Phione lives in Miracle Sea.

In the anime

Three Phione debuted in 'Hold the Phione!' as residents of Chocovine Town. One fell for Dawn's Buneary and was briefly caught by Team Rocket before it escaped.

Fun facts

• Phione's six base stats are identical to Glalie's, Bulbapedia notes.
• Official sources disagree on whether it is truly Mythical: Prima's HeartGold and SoulSilver guide says it is not Legendary because it can be hatched, and in the Bank Pokédex it is the one Mythical without a shiny background.
• Among fully evolved Mythical Pokémon, Phione alone gives 1 Effort Value when defeated instead of 3, Bulbapedia notes.
• Bulbapedia lists Phione, Nidoran male and female, Illumise and Volbeat as the only Pokémon whose Eggs can come from a parent species they never evolve from.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Phione (Pokémon) · Serebii: Phione (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 80
• Attack: 80
• Defense: 80
• Sp. Atk: 80
• Sp. Def: 80
• Speed: 80

Phione’s base stat total is 480. Its highest stat is HP and Attack and Defense and Sp. Atk and Sp. Def and Speed.

Type matchups

What is Phione weak to?

Phione takes extra damage from Electric (2×), Grass (2×) moves.

It resists Fire (½×), Water (½×), Ice (½×), Steel (½×).

Evolution

Phione does not evolve, and it does not evolve from any other Pokémon.

Abilities

• Hydration: Cures any major status ailment after each turn during rain.

Moves

Moves Phione learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (35)

Phione can learn 35 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Charm, Protect, Water Pulse, Disarming Voice, Chilling Water, Facade, Swift, Icy Wind, Fling, Endure, Rain Dance, Zen Headbutt, U-turn, Sleep Talk, Waterfall, Dazzling Gleam, Grass Knot, Rest, Substitute, Liquidation, Surf, Helping Hand, Baton Pass, Ice Beam, Hydro Pump, Blizzard, Tera Blast, Haze, Knock Off, Scald, Weather Ball, Flip Turn, Psych Up, Whirlpool, Alluring Voice.

Breeding & training

• Gender: genderless.
• Egg groups: Water 1, Fairy.
• Egg cycles: 40 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 5,120).
• Catch rate: 30 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Slow (1,250,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 1 HP effort value.
• Base experience yield: 216.

Pokédex entries

Can be seen floating offshore during seasons when the seas are warm. Its azure body blends in with the ocean waters—logic suggests this is a defense mechanism against natural predators. (Legends: Arceus)

It drifts in warm seas. It always returns to where it was born, no matter how far it may have drifted. (Platinum, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, Y, Alpha Sapphire)

When the water warms, they inflate the flotation sac on their heads and drift languidly on the sea in packs. (HeartGold, SoulSilver, X, Omega Ruby)

A Pokémon that lives in warm seas. It inflates the flotation sac on its head to drift and search for food. (Diamond, Pearl)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Taller than 11% of all Pokémon (0.4 m).
• Heavier than 10% of all Pokémon (3.1 kg).
• Base stat total 480, ranked #405 of 1,025.
• One of 154 Water-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 170 blue Pokémon.
• Number 103 of 107 Pokémon introduced in Generation 4 (Sinnoh).
• Can learn 42 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 30: about 3.9% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 4 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Phione (Pokémon), Serebii: Phione (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (fee-OH-nay): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 20 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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