Is Doduo Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Route 26 and 27 in Kanto, postgame only. By that point you've had a Flying-type for the entire Johto story. Dodrio evolves at 31 and is a strong physical attacker, but the timing wastes it.
Doduo has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Doduo has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Doduo has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Doduo trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Doduo trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Doduo trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Doduo trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Doduo trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Dodrio trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Dodrio trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Dodrio resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Dodrio has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Dodrio trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Dodrio trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Dodrio trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Dodrio trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Dodrio has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Dodrio has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Dodrio resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Dodrio has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Dodrio trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Doduo on Route 27 (walking, Lv 28-30, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 28)
- LV 28NormalTri AttackPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 28FlyingPeckPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- LV 33FlyingDrill PeckPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM47SteelSteel WingPower 70Accuracy 90%PP 25Route 28
Evolve Doduo to Dodrio
Doduo evolves into Dodrio at Level 31. Your Doduo should hit Level 31 before you reach Lt. Surge, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 31)
- LV 31NormalTri AttackPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 38FlyingDrill PeckPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM47SteelSteel WingPower 70Accuracy 90%PP 25Route 28
How to Get Doduo in Crystal
Doduo runs five daytime routes, common in the high 20s but rare at the top-level spots like Mt. Silver. It never shows after dark, so save the hunt for morning or day.
5 locations to catch Doduo
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Where To Catch Doduo in C
The line opens with Doduo at Lv. 4-41 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into DodrioRoute 27Lv.30GrassRate 5%Morning/dayMt. Silver - OutsideLv.43CaveRate 5%Morning/dayRoute 28Lv.43GrassRate 5%Morning/dayBlackthorn City - Emy's HouseIn-game tradeLimitedTrade a female Dragonair to EMY in Blackthorn Cityor evolve from Doduo (Step 1)
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Crystal for Doduo.
How to Get Shiny Doduo in Crystal
Doduo sprints through Kanto's Route 26 & Route 27 in the morning and day, common at levels 28 to 30, with rarer birds up Mt. Silver; the paired routes chain well. Compare Shiny Doduo odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Doduo 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 Crystal shiny odds for Doduo.
Doduo Weakness
Doduo is weak to Electric, Ice, and Rock. On the flip side, it's immune to Ground and Ghost-type moves entirely.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground, 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 Doduo Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Doduo
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Doduo View Magneton builds →Thunder 2x318-374%KO Rollout 2x27-32% | ||
 Raikou Electric | S | |
 Jolteon Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Doduo View Electabuzz builds →Thunderbolt 2x208-245%KO Ice Punch 2x109-129%KO | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Doduo View Lapras builds →Ice Beam 2x190-224%KO Thunder 2x159-188%KO | ||
 Pikachu Electric | C | |
Obtain MethodCeladon City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Doduo View Pikachu builds →Thunderbolt 2x127-150%KO Rollout 2x26-31% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Doduo View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Slide 2x145-171%KO Ice Punch 2x48-57% Thunder Punch 2x48-57% | ||
 Rhydon GroundRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Doduo View Rhydon builds →Rollout 2x74-88% Blizzard 2x98-115%KO Thunder 2x98-115%KO | ||
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Doduo View Electrode builds →Thunder 2x227-268%KO Rollout 2x23-28% | ||
 Dewgong WaterIce | C | |
 Piloswine IceGround | C | |
 Graveler RockGround | B | |
Doduo Evolutions
Doduo evolves into Dodrio. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 160 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Doduo easily with 19 breeding partners from the Flying egg group. Pass egg moves like Feint Attack, Flail, Haze and 2 more to offspring.
C Doduo Best Moveset
Normal/Flying pre-evolution heading toward one of the format's top physical attackers. 75 Attack and Speed can't compete yet. Dodrio is one evolution from relevance.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Agility
- Body Slam
- Curse
- Double Edge
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Doduo gets Feint Attack and Flail exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Dark and Ground coverage rounds out the picture alongside Fly and Tri Attack.
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
14 of 19 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It lives on a grassy plain where it can see a long way. If it sees an enemy, it runs away at 60 mph.
Doduo Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Doduo does the job early-game if you need a Normal/Flying type on your team. Evolve it into Dodrio before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Doduo has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 19 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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