How to unlock Oshawott
Oshawott is one of the free starters: pick it from the starter selector at the start of a run and it costs no tickets. Later copies come from the Unova banner, where it sits in the 1★ pool. The 1★ band takes 45% of all pulls and holds 233 partners, so one specific Oshawott works out to about 0.1931% per draw. The 70-pull pity counter only applies to 5★ results, so Oshawott has no floor of its own and no targeted pull. A duplicate Oshawott refunds 15 coins at the 1★ rate.
Oshawott stats and rank
Oshawott reads 95 HP, 97 speed, ×1.05 attack, ×1 physical, ×1.05 special, 45 defense and 45 special defense, for a 308 base-stat total. On the three-stat percentile this is 24.5 out of 100, which puts Oshawott at rank 766 of 966 and in tier C. The relative picture matters more than the total: its strongest slot is special multiplier (48th percentile) and its weakest is defense (15th percentile), so every one of its stats sits below the roster median, so its case rests on move pool and availability rather than raw numbers.
Best moves in Oshawott's pool
At move level 5 the pool is led by Body Slam at 75.6 damage per 0.71s (106.1 effective DPS, ×1 multiplier), then Tackle at 33.6 damage per 0.38s (89.6 effective DPS, ×1 multiplier), then Quick Attack at 44.8 damage per 0.56s (79.6 effective DPS, ×1 multiplier). 5 of its 12 damaging moves scale with the physical multiplier and 7 with the special one, alongside 5 support moves. Its special multiplier is the higher of the two (×1.05 against ×1), so special moves convert better. The top option beats the second by 16.5 DPS, which decides slot one and leaves slot two as a judgement call. That DPS figure says nothing about range or behaviour, so treat it as a first filter rather than a final ranking.
Evolution cards for Oshawott
Its starting move, Water Gun, evolves into Scald once the move is at level 5 and you hold the Power card, which boosts attack for that run. That card has to drop inside the run; nothing in the permanent menu replaces it. 12 of its 17 moves carry an evolution card, across 6 distinct cards (Vigor, Sprint, Power, Reflexes, Armor and Synthesis). The strongest of them is Body Slam at 106.1 effective DPS, so that is the one worth holding a card for first.
Oshawott compared to similar partners
The two closest stat lines in the roster are Numel (+2 HP, -4 speed, +0.01 attack, -3 total) and Mareep (+0 HP, -4 speed, +0.01 attack, -28 total). Against Numel, Oshawott is 4 speed faster and Numel hits harder by ×0.01, and the rank gap is 18 places. Treat the gaps as the price of the switch rather than free stats, so neither side is a strict upgrade and the move pools have to break the tie.