Is Elekid Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Baby Pokemon from breeding Electabuzz. Same situation as Smoochum: the adult form is available directly in Kanto. The baby adds nothing to a playthrough.
Elekid trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Elekid has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Elekid trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Electabuzz trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Electabuzz resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Electabuzz trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Electabuzz trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Electabuzz trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Electabuzz resists most of Will's coverage and hits back hard.
Electabuzz resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
Electabuzz trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Electabuzz has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Electabuzz resists most of Lance's coverage and hits back hard.
Hatch
Hatch Elekid from an Egg you breed on Route 34.
Recommended Moves
- LV 9ElectricThunder PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 41ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM07ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Gift from the Power Plant manager after returning the Machine Part
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- LV 49ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
Evolve Elekid to Electabuzz
Elekid evolves into Electabuzz at Level 30. Your Elekid should hit Level 30 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30ElectricThunder PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- LV 47ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 58ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
How to Get Elekid in Gold & Silver
Elekid is breed-only, the baby form of Electabuzz. Park an Electabuzz at the Day Care and the egg you collect hatches one. There is no wild Elekid, so a parent and some patience are the whole recipe.
Catch Electabuzz at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Elekid.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Elekid
- 2
Badge 8How to Obtain Elekid in GS
- Step 1Elekid ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave Electabuzz with a compatible partner at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Elekid egg.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Electabuzzor evolve from Elekid (Step 1)
How to Get Shiny Elekid in Gold & Silver
Elekid arrives only through breeding, so catch an Electabuzz on Route 10, leave it to lay eggs, and hatch them one by one since there's no wild shortcut. Compare Shiny Elekid odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Elekid Calculator
1 MethodThe only route here is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
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 Gold & Silver with Elekid preloaded.
Elekid Weakness
Elekid's Electric typing leaves it vulnerable to Ground. Not many exploitable gaps in the Electric typing defensive chart. Elekid's Electric typing only leaves 1 gap to cover.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Electric, Flying, Steel |
- 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 Elekid Weak Against
Good
Elekid Evolutions
Elekid starts the chain as a baby form and evolves into Electabuzz at level 30. To get more eggs, breed the evolved versions. The evolved forms gain up to 130 total stats over Elekid. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
GS Elekid Best Moveset
Baby pre-evolution of Electabuzz. MoveThunderbolt exists at Sp. Atk levels too low to compete. Electabuzz improves Speed and Special to competitive thresholds.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Thunder
- Psychic
- Ice Punch
- Thunderbolt
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Barrier and Karate Chop from the egg pool give Elekid something extra. Pair those with Zap Cannon and Thunder for STAB and coverage across 7 types for reach, and the kit fills out nicely.
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
21 of 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It rotates its arms to generate electricity, but it tires easily, so it charges up only a little bit.
Even in the most vicious storm, this POKéMON plays happily if thunder rumbles in the sky.
Elekid Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, for a casual playthrough, Elekid works as a placeholder. Electric coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Electabuzz. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Elekid appears in 18 games across 8 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
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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