Is Drowzee Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Route 34, right before Goldenrod City. Hypno is a budget Psychic option that takes special hits well. Dark-type immunity to Psychic exists now, but most of the gym circuit doesn't use Dark Pokemon.
Drowzee trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Drowzee trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Drowzee trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Hypno resists most of Morty's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno resists most of Chuck's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Hypno resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Hypno resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Drowzee on Route 34 (walking, Lv 10-12, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM41ElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- LV 18PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 40PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 45PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
Evolve Drowzee to Hypno
Drowzee evolves into Hypno at Level 26. Your Drowzee should hit Level 26 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 26)
- LV 26PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM03GhostCursePower —Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift in the Celadon Mansion roof house, at night only
- LV 49PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 60PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
How to Get Drowzee in Gold & Silver
Three grass spots hold Drowzee, common at each, levels in the low-to-mid teens. A handy early catch, and the same Drowzee is what a Goldenrod NPC wants in exchange for a Machop.
3 locations to catch Drowzee
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Drowzee is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 10-16. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
Bring the right balls: check Drowzee catch odds in the Gold & Silver Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Drowzee in Gold & Silver
Drowzee ranges across Route 11, Route 34, and Route 35, and no single stretch treats you better than another, so pick a patch of grass and rack up encounters. Compare Shiny Drowzee odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Drowzee 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Drowzee in the Gold & Silver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Drowzee Weakness
Drowzee is weak to Bug, Ghost, and Dark. Drowzee's special bulk (base 90 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Bug, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, Psychic |
- 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 Drowzee Weak Against
Vulnerable
Drowzee Evolutions
Drowzee evolves into Hypno. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A small partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 155 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Drowzee easily with 15 breeding partners from the Human-Like egg group. Pass egg moves like Barrier, Light Screen to offspring.
GS Drowzee Best Moveset
The stat split gave 90 Sp. Def but dropped Sp. Atk to 43, leaving MovePsychic too weak to threaten. MoveHypnosis at 60%% accuracy provides unreliable sleep. Hypno does the same job with better stats across the board.
Best Build
Support Moveset
- Psychic
- Thunder Wave
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
TMs define Drowzee's movepool. The natural moves cover basics with Future Sight and Dream Eater, but the real versatility comes from technical machines giving it Normal and Fighting coverage and more. That's where the options open up.
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
19 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
If you think that you had a good dream, but you can’t remember it, a DROWZEE has probably eaten it.
It remembers every dream it eats. It rarely eats the dreams of adults because children’s are much tastier.
Drowzee Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Drowzee does the job early-game if you need a Psychic type on your team. Evolve it into Hypno before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Drowzee 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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