VaporeonWater StoneJolteonThunder StoneFlareonFire StoneEspeonHigh Friendship (Day)UmbreonHigh Friendship (Night)
Is Flareon Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Fire Stone on Eevee. Fire moves are still Special in Gen 2, so Flareon's high Attack still goes to waste. The physical/special-by-type mismatch hasn't been fixed. Worst Eeveelution choice, again.
Eevee has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Eevee has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
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Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
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Vaporeon resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
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Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
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Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
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Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
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Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
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Vaporeon resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vaporeon resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
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Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
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Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
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Gift Eevee
Eevee is given to you as a gift in Goldenrod City at Lv 20. Meet Bill in Ecruteak. Gift from Bill at his house in Goldenrod City after meeting him in Ecruteak City.
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 23NormalQuick AttackPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 30DarkBitePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 42NormalTake DownPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20
Evolve Eevee to Flareon
Eevee evolves into Flareon with a Fire Stone. Post-Game: You can receive the Fire Stone from an NPC in Route 25.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 16)
- LV 16FireEmberPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 30DarkBitePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 52FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Eevee to Vaporeon
Eevee evolves into Vaporeon with a Water Stone. Post-Game: You can receive the Water Stone from an NPC in Route 25.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 52WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Eevee to Jolteon
Eevee evolves into Jolteon with a Thunder Stone. Post-Game: You can receive the Thunder Stone from an NPC in Route 25.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 42ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM07ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Gift from the Power Plant manager after returning the Machine Part
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 52ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
Evolve Eevee to Espeon
Eevee evolves into Espeon with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Whitney.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 16)
- LV 16PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 36PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 47PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Eevee to Umbreon
Eevee evolves into Umbreon with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Whitney.
Recommended Moves
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 30GhostConfuse RayPower —Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 36DarkFeint AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
How to Get Flareon in Gold & Silver
Point a Fire Stone at Eevee and you get Flareon, never a wild encounter. With just one Eevee to spend, this competes with four other evolutions, so the stone choice is the whole decision.
Catch Eevee at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Flareon.
- 1Catch Eevee
- 2Evolve FlareonUse Fire Stone
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Badge 8How to Obtain Flareon in GS
The path to Flareon starts with Eevee at Lv. 15-20 via gift encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Flareon ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Eevee egg.
How to Get Shiny Flareon in Gold & Silver
Flareon is never handed to you directly, so grab the sparkle back at the Eevee stage; Bill's gift in Goldenrod City is your one roll, and a Fire Stone does the rest. Compare Shiny Flareon odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Flareon Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route 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.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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 Gold & Silver shiny odds calculator with Flareon already selected.
Flareon Weakness
Flareon is weak to Water, Ground, and Rock. 5 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Flareon's special bulk (base 110 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Ground, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, 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 Flareon Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Flareon
 Marowak Ground | B | |
Vaporeon Water | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Vaporeon builds →Hydro Pump 2x98-116%KO Mud-Slap 2x12-15% | ||
 Rhydon GroundRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Rhydon builds →Earthquake 2x153-180%KO Rollout 2x47-56% Surf 2x27-31% | ||
 Suicune Water | B | |
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Tyranitar builds →Rock Slide 2x118-139%KO Earthquake 2x104-123%KO Surf 2x46-54% | ||
 Donphan Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Donphan builds →Earthquake 2x142-167%KO Rollout 2x29-34% | ||
 Golduck Water | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Golduck builds →Hydro Pump 2x86-102%KO Dig 2x42-50% | ||
 Slowbro WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Slowbro builds →Surf 2x71-84% Earthquake 2x65-76% | ||
 Azumarill Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Azurill (Mt Mortar Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Azumarill builds →Surf 2x47-56% Rollout 2x15-18% Mud-Slap 2x10-13% | ||
 Feraligatr Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Totodile (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Feraligatr builds →Hydro Pump 2x74-88% Earthquake 2x85-100%KO | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Nidoking PoisonGround | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Nidoking builds →Earthquake 2x124-147%KO Surf 2x41-49% | ||
 Sandslash Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Flareon View Sandslash builds →Earthquake 2x122-144%KO Rollout 2x26-30% | ||
 Dewgong WaterIce | C | |
Flareon Evolutions
Eevee's line splits into 5 evolutions, and Flareon is the Fire Stone path. Each sibling form needs a different method to obtain. Breed through Eevee to get eggs. Flareon and Vaporeon share the same 525 total stats, but they're distributed differently. Check the comparison below to see where each one specializes. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Flareon to get Eevee eggs (with patience) using 66 partners from the Field egg group. Notable egg moves include Charm, Flail.
GS Flareon Best Moveset
The stat split gave 110 Sp. Def, turning Flareon into a legitimate special tank. 130 Attack still can't power Fire moves since Fire is a special type, but physical options like MoveReturn use the Attack honestly. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Defensive value from the Sp. Def that the attack side can't match.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Fire Blast
- Shadow Ball
- Quick Attack
- Flamethrower
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
TMs carry this one. Flareon learns Fire Blast and Flamethrower naturally for STAB, but the offensive range comes almost entirely from technical machines. Normal and Dark and beyond give it real matchup play.
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 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It stores some of the air it inhales in its internal flame pouch, which heats it to over 3,000 degrees.
It fluffs out its fur collar to cool down its body temperature, which can reach 1,650 degrees.
Flareon Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Flareon plays as a wallbreaker. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully. Flamethrower is the primary attack.
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Flareon has appeared in 22 games: nearly every mainline game. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
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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