Is Chansey Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Route 14 and Route 15 in Kanto, postgame only. Chansey's 250 HP special sponge role hasn't changed, but you can't get one until after the Johto E4. A Kanto utility pick.
Falkner's typing presses Chansey's defenses.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Morty's typing presses Chansey's defenses.
Chuck's team hits Chansey's weaknesses hard.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Lt. Surge's typing presses Chansey's defenses.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Chansey has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Chansey trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Chansey has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Blaine's typing presses Blissey's defenses.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Blissey trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Blissey has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Chansey on Route 15 (walking, Lv 25, rare).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- LV 35NormalEgg BombPower 150Accuracy 75%PP 10
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- LV 57NormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Chansey to Blissey
Chansey evolves into Blissey with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Brock.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 47)
- LV 47NormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 47NormalEgg BombPower 150Accuracy 75%PP 10
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
How to Get Chansey in Gold & Silver
Chansey is rare wherever it shows, three spots all at level 25. Famous for bolting before you can act, so the thin rate is only half the battle once you actually run into one.
Wild Chansey may be holding when caught:
Lucky Egg (2% chance) Earns extra EXP. points. (HOLD)3 locations to catch Chansey
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Where To Catch Chansey in GS
Chansey is the chain's first catch. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 25 across 6 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Evolve into BlisseyBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Chansey egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Gold & Silver for Chansey.
How to Get Shiny Chansey in Gold & Silver
Chansey is strictly a wild-grass grind on Route 13, Route 14, and Route 15, so settle into those fields and rack up encounters until one turns shiny. Compare Shiny Chansey odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Chansey 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Gold & Silver shiny odds for Chansey.
Chansey Weakness
Fighting moves hit Chansey for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Chansey's special bulk (base 105 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- 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 Chansey Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Chansey
 Machoke Fighting | B | |
 Primeape Fighting | C | |
 Hitmonlee Fighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Tyrogue (Mt Mortar Gift) Available Move Moves
Damage vs Chansey View Hitmonlee builds →High Jump Kick 2x170-200%KO | ||
Chansey Evolutions
To get Blissey from Chansey, you need a special method. The evolution method matters here. The evolved forms gain up to 90 total stats over Chansey. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Chansey (with patience) with 16 breeding partners from the Fairy egg group. Pass egg moves like Heal Bell, Metronome, Present to offspring.
GS Chansey Best Moveset
250 HP and 105 Sp. Def still block special attacks, but Blissey now exists as the direct evolution and does everything better. Softboiled and MoveThunder Wave provide the same support tools. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Functional, though Blissey takes over the primary special tank role.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Soft Boiled
- Curse
- Shadow Ball
- Body Slam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Coverage runs deep. Chansey can hit 10 types beyond STAB, including Ice and Psychic. The offense anchors on Hyper Beam and Double-Edge while TMs handle everything else.
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
27 of 35 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It walks carefully to prevent its egg from breaking. However, it is extremely fast at running away.
Few in number and difficult to capture, it is said to bring happiness to the trainer who catches it.
Chansey Gold & Silver Guide
Yes. Wild Chansey in Gold & Silver can hold Lucky Egg (2%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Lucky Egg.
Yes. Chansey is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Chansey becomes available after the main story is complete in Gold & Silver.
In Gold & Silver, Chansey has 450 BST and evolves into Blissey. Compare the two forms before you give either one a team slot.
In Gold & Silver, use Chansey as a wall. Physical side carries the damage. Not the fastest, Set up with Curse when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Chansey appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Chansey have the longest track record of availability in the series.
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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