Is Exeggcute Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Headbutt trees in Johto. Exeggutor needs a Leaf Stone and provides Grass/Psychic coverage that few other Crystal Pokemon offer. The dual typing handles Chuck on both sides and contributes against Bruno. One of the more unique options if you find one in the trees.
Exeggcute trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Exeggutor has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Jasmine's typing presses Exeggutor's defenses.
Exeggutor has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Exeggutor has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Exeggutor has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Exeggutor resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Exeggutor resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
Exeggutor resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Exeggutor has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Exeggutor has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Exeggutor trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Exeggcute on Route 29 (Headbutt, Lv 10, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 19PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 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 43GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Exeggcute to Exeggutor
Exeggcute evolves into Exeggutor with a Leaf Stone. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Bugsy.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 9)
- LV 9PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
How to Get Exeggcute in Crystal
Exeggcute is a pure Headbutt catch, common in trees across 14 Johto and Kanto routes. It never shows in grass, leaving the trees as your only option.
14 locations to catch Exeggcute
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The line opens with Exeggcute at Lv. 10 via headbutt encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 1Exeggcute ✓Lake of RageLv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Lake of RageLv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 29Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 29Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 30Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 30Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 31Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 31Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 32Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 32Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 34Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 34Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 35Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 35Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 36Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 36Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 37Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 37Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 38Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 38Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 39Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 39Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 43Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 43Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 26Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 26Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%Route 27Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 20%Route 27Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 20%
- Step 2Evolve into ExeggutorBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Exeggcute egg.
To plan your throws, open the Crystal catch rate calculator with Exeggcute preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Exeggcute in Crystal
Exeggcute drops out of Headbutt trees rather than grass, shaking loose around the Lake of Rage and Route 29 through Route 31; knock each tree and reset the loop. Compare Shiny Exeggcute odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Exeggcute 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Crystal shiny odds calculator with Exeggcute already selected.
Exeggcute Weakness
Type-wise, Exeggcute takes extra damage from Bug, Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, Ghost, and Dark. Watch out for Bug attacks, those deal 4x damage. 6 resistances give it solid defensive coverage on top of that. Exeggcute's physical bulk (base 80 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Bug |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Grass, Fighting, Ground, 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 Exeggcute Weak Against
Fragile
Exeggcute Evolutions
Evolving Exeggcute into Exeggutor takes an evolution item. It's not a simple level-up, so check the chain details below. Evolving adds up to 205 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Exeggcute easily with 23 breeding partners from the Grass egg group. Pass egg moves like Ancient Power, Mega Drain, Moonlight and 2 more to offspring.
C Exeggcute Best Moveset
Grass/Psychic pre-evolution with dual status moves in MoveSleep Powder and MoveStun Spore. 60 Sp. Atk limits damage output, but the status utility earns lower-tier relevance. Exeggutor provides the Sp. Atk to match the movepool.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Solar Beam
- Giga Drain
- Egg Bomb
- Self Destruct
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Ancient Power and Mega Drain give Exeggcute options it can't learn any other way, and Normal and Rock coverage and more already covers a decent range on top of Solar Beam and Dream Eater.
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
17 of 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
If even one is separated from the group, the energy bond between the six will make them rejoin instantly.
Exeggcute Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Exeggcute does the job early-game if you need a Grass/Psychic type on your team. Evolve it into Exeggutor before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Exeggcute 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
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