Is Bellsprout Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Route 31 and Sprout Tower area. Victreebel evolves via Leaf Stone and hits harder than Vileplume on the special side. Crystal keeps both Grass lines available, so the choice comes down to whether you want the MoveSleep Powder Victreebel learns naturally.
Falkner's team hits Bellsprout's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's typing presses Bellsprout's defenses.
Bellsprout trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Victreebel resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Victreebel resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
Victreebel resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Koga's team hits Victreebel's weaknesses hard.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Bellsprout on Route 31 (walking, Lv 5, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 5)
- LV 5GrassVine WhipPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 23PoisonAcidPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 37GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- LV 45NormalSlamPower 80Accuracy 75%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Bellsprout to Victreebel
Weepinbell evolves into Victreebel with a Leaf Stone. You can receive the Leaf Stone from an NPC in Route 34.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- LV 20GrassVine WhipPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
How to Get Bellsprout in Crystal
Bellsprout grows along six early Johto routes, common on most and rare on the two Kanto ones. You'll trip over it well before the first gym.
6 locations to catch Bellsprout
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Bellsprout in C
The line opens with Bellsprout at Lv. 5-22 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 3Evolve into VictreebelBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Bellsprout egg.
Not landing the catch? Calculate Bellsprout catch rates for Crystal by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Bellsprout in Crystal
Bellsprout lines Route 31, Route 32 & Route 36 at any hour as a common spawn, with higher levels on Route 44; the early routes near Violet City chain fastest. Compare Shiny Bellsprout odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Bellsprout Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 7-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 19-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 45-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 147-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Crystal with Bellsprout preloaded.
Bellsprout Weakness
Fire, Ice, Flying, and Psychic moves hit Bellsprout for super-effective damage. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. 4 weaknesses is about average, nothing too hard to play around.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Flying, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Fighting |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Bellsprout Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Bellsprout
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Magby Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift | ||
 Smoochum IcePsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift | ||
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Bellsprout View Kadabra builds →Confusion 2x121-145%KO Fire Punch 2x121-143%KO Ice Punch 2x121-143%KO | ||
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
 Ledian Bug | C | |
 Pidgeotto Normal | D | |
 Drowzee Psychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Bellsprout View Drowzee builds →Confusion 2x63-75% Fire Punch 2x61-71% Ice Punch 2x61-71% | ||
 Slowpoke WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Bellsprout View Slowpoke builds →Fire Blast 2x91-107%KO Blizzard 2x91-107%KO Confusion 2x59-70% | ||
 Natu Psychic | C | |
 Zubat Poison | D | |
Bellsprout Evolutions
Bellsprout is the start of a three-stage chain. It evolves into Weepinbell first, then eventually reaches Victreebel. For breeding, average hatch time with a decent partner pool via one egg group. The evolved forms gain up to 190 total stats over Bellsprout. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Bellsprout easily with 23 breeding partners from the Grass egg group. Pass egg moves like Encore, Leech Life, Reflect and 2 more to offspring.
C Bellsprout Best Moveset
Grass/Poison pre-evolution offering MoveSleep Powder and nothing else competitively. The sleep buys one free turn. Victreebel handles the Grass support role after two evolutions.
Best Build
Support Moveset
- Sleep Powder
- Giga Drain
- Solar Beam
- Swords Dance
Moves List
Without breeding, Bellsprout misses out on Encore and Leech Life. That's 5 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Solar Beam and Sludge Bomb, with Normal and Bug coverage rounding things out.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
15 of 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
If it notices anything that moves, it immediately flings its vine at the object.
Bellsprout Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Bellsprout does the job early-game if you need a Grass/Poison type on your team. Evolve it into Weepinbell before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Bellsprout has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 20 titles across all 9 generations. As a Gen 1 original, it's one of the most consistently available Pokemon in the franchise.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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