PokeBonkINDEPENDENT FAN SITEWartortle is reached at run level 24 from Squirtle. Tidal Wave is the middle-stage Ultimate, while the kit and Torrent Shell carry over from the starting partner.
Wartortle 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.
+15 armor and +20 shield. Below 40% HP, +40% damage.
Water GunSpecial · Projectile · Starts equipped↗BubbleSpecial · Burst · Kit offer from Lv. 2↗
Rapid SpinPhysical · Spin · Kit offer from Lv. 4↗Hydro PumpSpecial · Bolt · Kit offer from Lv. 7↗Fires projectiles at the closest enemy. Can cause wet.
Fires a rapid burst of projectiles. Can cause wet.
You spin, hitting and pushing everyone around you.
Fires a continuous beam that pierces everything. Can cause wet.
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.
Inspect the recipe, upgrades and comparison values →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.
Keep Water attacks clearing a route for upgrades. If you want Hydro Spiral, keep Rapid Spin and Hydro Pump useful as separate attacks while they level.
The six bars describe Wartortle’s species stats. Your current in-run values also depend on your starting partner, passive, evolution bonuses, Lab purchases and collected upgrades.
Before the passive, Lab, vitamins, items or evolution bonuses. These values are for Squirtle at the start, not Wartortle after evolving.
Each stage has its own Ultimate in a run started with Squirtle. The highlighted card is Wartortle’s form. The listed time describes the ability’s duration, not its recharge time.
Squirtle · 2.4 sYou spin inside your shell: a whirlpool drags in nearby enemies, hits them non-stop and ends in a wave.
Wartortle · 1.6 s · THIS FORMA giant wave spreads out from you in a circle, drags everyone along and leaves rain.
Blastoise · 2.8 sA wave and two water cannons that sweep 360° around you.
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.
Your saved selections are shared with the Vitamins page and every form in this family. This does not change your game account.
Calcium ↗Special damageSpecial damage for the family signature. Compare attack classes before favoring this over Protein.
Super Potion ↗HP regenRecovery while repositioning or waiting for your next useful attack window.
Carbos ↗Movement speedMovement speed if escaping a closing lane is the problem.
Saved in this browser. Remove a vitamin to free a slot.
Compare all 26 vitamins and edit this plan →Follow the Squirtle build route, attack by attack →
Mystic Water ↗+30% Water-type move damage and +3% total damage.
Supports Water attacks in the kit and signature.
Starting item pool
Leftovers ↗+1.2 HP regen per second.
Recovery without waiting for an attack to connect.
Starting item pool
Wise Glasses ↗+15% special damage.
Special damage when the signature or special attacks carry the build.
Starting item poolBuy 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.
Leftovers ↗+0.2 regen per level.
5 levels · First purchase 100 StardustAgility ↗+2.5% speed per level.
6 levels · First purchase 100 Stardust
4th move ↗Unlocks the fourth move slot.
1 level · First purchase 1275 StardustTo get Wartortle, unlock Squirtle as a League partner, start a run with it and follow its evolution path: Squirtle (Lv. 1) → Wartortle (Lv. 24). Wartortle is an evolved form of that run’s partner, not a separate League starting choice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. You now have Wartortle as your active form in this run.
After the run ends, choose Squirtle again for another attempt and reach the same evolution checkpoint to play as Wartortle. Seeing or reaching Wartortle 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.
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. Wartortle 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. Wartortle is reached through that run’s evolution path rather than selected as a separate level-1 League member.
Wartortle evolves into Blastoise at run level 44 in the reviewed v0.8.62 data. Use the displayed run level, not an individual attack’s level or the evolution threshold from another Pokémon game.
No. Species Defense is shown in the six-stat table; armor is an in-run value affected by the starting baseline, passive and collected upgrades. The baseline shown on this page belongs to Squirtle before those modifiers, not a fresh Wartortle armor calculation.
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 Wartortle does not automatically equip the ingredients or complete the fusion.
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.
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 Wartortle; the shiny look does not make the evolved form a separate starting partner.
Choose a partner, keep the opening attack productive and spend upgrades where the run is struggling.
Read the starter guide →A safe opening is only the start. Plan how the attacks and defenses will hold up as pressure grows.
Plan a Survival run →Compare your role with the rest of the party rather than filling every slot as if you were alone.
Plan with your team →Game values: reviewed public v0.8.62 client, 2026-10-28. Recommendations describe build choices rather than measured results. Open the original game ↗ · About this fan guide
