Blastoise is Squirtle’s final form at run level 44. Hydro Cannon is the final-stage Ultimate. Hydro Spiral remains the signature fusion associated with the original Squirtle kit.
Game data v0.8.62Checked 2026-10-28Build advice: our recommendations
Blastoise uses the run started with Squirtle. The levels below describe that partner’s attack offers, not a new loadout unlocked by evolution. Kit-offer levels and the level of an individual attack are separate.
FAMILY PASSIVE
Torrent Shell
+15 armor and +20 shield. Below 40% HP, +40% damage.
You spin inside your shell and push nearby enemies away while two Hydro Pump jets sweep everything around you like a sprinkler.
Both component attacks must reach attack level 8. The later kit offer still needs to appear and be upgraded; reaching a run level alone does not complete the fusion.
These are PokeBonk run levels. They differ from evolution levels in the main Pokémon games. Evolved forms stay attached to the partner you started with.
Calcium and a Water-focused item are useful comparisons when the special Water signature carries your damage. Keep a recovery option if you lose health between large attack windows.
Species stats and your run baseline
The six bars describe Blastoise’s species stats. Your current in-run values also depend on your starting partner, passive, evolution bonuses, Lab purchases and collected upgrades.
HP79
Attack83
Defense100
Sp. Attack85
Sp. Defense105
Speed78
Squirtle’s starting baseline
Before the passive, Lab, vitamins, items or evolution bonuses. These values are for Squirtle at the start, not Blastoise after evolving.
Max HP
108
Armor
11.12
HP regen / s
0.46
Movement multiplier
×1.019
Physical multiplier
×1.003
Special multiplier
×1.011
Ultimate progression
Each stage has its own Ultimate in a run started with Squirtle. The highlighted card is Blastoise’s form. The listed time describes the ability’s duration, not its recharge time.
Squirtle · 2.4 s
Shell Whirlpool
You spin inside your shell: a whirlpool drags in nearby enemies, hits them non-stop and ends in a wave.
Wartortle · 1.6 s
Tidal Wave
A giant wave spreads out from you in a circle, drags everyone along and leaves rain.
Blastoise · 2.8 s · THIS FORM
Hydro Cannon
A wave and two water cannons that sweep 360° around you.
Build around the attacks you kept
These are starting points for a Squirtle family run, not a promise of one best loadout. Keep damage, survival and movement balanced around what is ending your attempts. The planner uses the three base vitamin slots and saves locally on this device.
Squirtle family vitamin plan
0 / 3 base slots
Your saved selections are shared with the Vitamins page and every form in this family. This does not change your game account.
Special damage when the signature or special attacks carry the build.
Starting item pool
Before spending Stardust
Buy for the problem you actually have. A fourth move slot gives a future attack room, while health, armor, recovery or movement can help you reach the later offers in the first place.
To get Blastoise, unlock Squirtle as a League partner, start a run with it and follow its evolution path: Squirtle (Lv. 1) → Wartortle (Lv. 24) → Blastoise (Lv. 44). Blastoise is an evolved form of that run’s partner, not a separate League starting choice.
Choose Squirtle as your first partner, or check your League
On a fresh session, select Squirtle from the three first-partner choices. That choice makes Squirtle your first League member. If you already chose a different starter, continue with the partner you own; you do not need to erase your progress or start a new account.
If you chose another starter, finish two runs
Squirtle’s League challenge is to complete 2 runs, win or lose. A clear is not required. Check the challenge in the League after those attempts: completing it makes the partner available for the encounter-and-capture step, rather than immediately adding it to your selectable roster.
Weaken the normal Squirtle encounter and capture it
If Squirtle was not your initial partner, find its challenge encounter in the following run. Defeat or weaken it until the game marks it ready for capture, then move close and use the capture input shown on screen to throw your Poké Ball. Do not leave the encounter or take the exit while it is still waiting to be caught. Completing the challenge and defeating the encounter are separate from actually capturing it.
Confirm Squirtle has joined your League
Check the League after the capture and select Squirtle when you start the run you want to play. A Pokédex sighting only records that you have seen a species. A shiny catch unlocks a look but does not substitute for the normal challenge-and-capture requirement; a captured Alpha fights beside you for that run and does not join your League.
Evolve Squirtle into Wartortle at run level 24
Start this run as Squirtle and keep collecting experience until your run reaches level 24. This is the PokeBonk evolution checkpoint for Wartortle, not the evolution level from the main Pokémon games. Raising an individual attack to that level does not count: attack levels and your run level are different. This gives you Wartortle; stay in the same run and continue leveling for Blastoise.
Evolve Wartortle into Blastoise at run level 44
Start this run as Squirtle and keep collecting experience until your run reaches level 44. This is the PokeBonk evolution checkpoint for Blastoise, not the evolution level from the main Pokémon games. Raising an individual attack to that level does not count: attack levels and your run level are different. You now have Blastoise as your active form in this run.
What stays unlocked after the run?
After the run ends, choose Squirtle again for another attempt and reach the same evolution checkpoint to play as Blastoise. Seeing or reaching Blastoise does not turn it into an independent level-1 League partner. The family’s passive, kit offers and Ultimate progression follow the run you started with Squirtle.
OUR CLASSIC OPENING RECOMMENDATION
Tier B: why we place Squirtle here
Armor and a starting shield make Squirtle a sensible learning pick. The B placement reflects what happens after that initial shield is spent: the low-health damage bonus does not supply healing.
Upgrade the attacks clearing your path; work toward Rapid Spin plus Hydro Pump only when both stay useful.
59/100 is an editorial opening score, with comfort weighted at 50%, offensive potential at 30% and utility at 20%. It is not a measured win rate. Blastoise is grouped with Squirtle; this score does not rank the evolved form’s late-run ceiling.
Unlock Squirtle, start a run with it, and follow Squirtle at run Lv. 1 → Wartortle at run Lv. 24 → Blastoise at run Lv. 44. Blastoise is reached through that run’s evolution path rather than selected as a separate level-1 League member.
Can Blastoise evolve again in PokeBonk?
Blastoise is the final recorded form on Squirtle’s standard path in the reviewed v0.8.62 data. It is reached at run level 44. Continuing to level improves the run but does not add another standard evolution to this path.
Is Blastoise automatically a better starting choice than Squirtle?
Blastoise is an evolved form reached during a Squirtle run, not an independent starting choice. Compare Squirtle’s opening kit when choosing a partner, then plan how that run will reach Blastoise and support its later attacks.
What is Blastoise’s signature fusion recipe?
The Squirtle family uses Hydro Spiral: combine Rapid Spin and Hydro Pump. Both ingredient attacks need attack level 8 before using Bill’s Machine. These are attack levels, not run levels. Evolution into Blastoise does not automatically equip the ingredients or complete the fusion.
Which vitamins should I use for Blastoise?
For a build centered on Hydro Spiral, Calcium supports its special damage. For the other slots, compare recovery or movement with Squirtle’s existing protection rather than taking only damage. These are build directions, not a requirement to fill all three base slots with one fixed combination.
Does catching a shiny Blastoise unlock it as a starting partner?
A shiny catch unlocks the family’s shiny look but does not replace the normal League challenge and capture for Squirtle. You must still start as Squirtle and evolve during the run to use Blastoise; the shiny look does not make the evolved form a separate starting partner.
Take the build into your next mode
First Classic clear
Choose a partner, keep the opening attack productive and spend upgrades where the run is struggling.