Is Gligar Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Gold version only, Route 45. Ground/Flying is a strong defensive typing with only Ice and Water as weaknesses. Gligar has no evolution in Gen 2 and the stats are middling. Usable but doesn't evolve into anything better until Gen 4.
Gligar has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Gligar has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Morty's typing presses Gligar's defenses.
Chuck's team hits Gligar's weaknesses hard.
Gligar has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Gligar's weaknesses hard.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Gligar has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Gligar has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Gligar has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Gligar has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Gligar trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Gligar on Route 45 (walking, Lv 24, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- LV 28DarkFeint AttackPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating 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 36NormalSlashPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20
Gold & Silver Gligar Locations
Gligar is a Gold-only catch, sitting at one spot around level 24 and common when it shows. Nothing turns up for Silver players in the wild, so they have to trade to add it to the dex.
1 location to catch Gligar
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 7Best Locations to Catch Gligar in Gold & Silver
How to Get Shiny Gligar in Gold & Silver
Gligar keeps to one lone stretch of Route 45, so that single patch is where every shiny attempt has to play out, encounter after encounter. Compare Shiny Gligar odds across every game
Shiny Gligar Evolution
Does Not EvolveGold & Silver Shiny Gligar 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 Gold & Silver shiny odds for Gligar.
Gligar Weakness
Gligar's Ground/Flying typing leaves it vulnerable to Ice and Water. Ice hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Electric and Ground-type attacks completely. Gligar's physical bulk (base 105 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Ice |
| 2x (Weak) | Water |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, Poison, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric, Ground |
- 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 Gligar Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Gligar
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Lapras builds →Ice Beam 4x196-232%KO Surf 2x98-116%KO | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
 Suicune Water | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Suicune builds →Blizzard 4x169-200%KO Surf 2x103-121%KO | ||
 Slowbro WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Slowbro builds →Blizzard 4x184-218%KO Surf 2x111-132%KO | ||
 Dewgong WaterIce | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Dewgong builds →Blizzard 4x210-247%KO Surf 2x84-100%KO | ||
 Piloswine IceGround | C | |
 Feraligatr Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Totodile (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Feraligatr builds →Blizzard 4x154-182%KO Surf 2x91-108%KO | ||
 Gyarados Water | B | |
Obtain MethodLake Of Rage Good Rod Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Gyarados builds →Blizzard 4x125-147%KO Hydro Pump 2x94-111%KO | ||
 Delibird Ice | C | |
 Quagsire WaterGround | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 32 Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Quagsire builds →Ice Punch 4x86-102%KO Surf 2x80-95% | ||
 Azumarill Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Azurill (Mt Mortar Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Azumarill builds →Blizzard 4x125-147%KO Surf 2x75-89% | ||
 Kingler Water | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 14 Super Rod Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gligar View Kingler builds →Blizzard 4x110-130%KO Surf 2x67-79% | ||
Gligar Evolutions
Gligar is what you get. No evolutions, but it breeds through one egg group with a decent partner pool. Its eggs take an average time to hatch. It's got 4 egg moves worth looking into. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Gligar easily with 23 breeding partners from the Bug egg group. Pass egg moves like Counter, Metal Claw, Razor Wind and 1 more to offspring.
GS Gligar Best Moveset
Ground/Flying typing provides Electric immunity and only one weakness (Ice, at 4x). MoveEarthquake for Ground TermStab and physical coverage. MoveSwords Dance doubles the Attack for sweep attempts. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. The defensive typing creates switch-in opportunities that the offensive stats can exploit.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Earthquake
- Counter
- Sludge Bomb
- Wing Attack
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Counter and Metal Claw from the egg pool give Gligar something extra. Pair those with Wing Attack for STAB and Poison and Normal coverage and more 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 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It flies straight at its target’s face then clamps down on the startled victim to inject poison.
It usually clings to cliffs. When it spots its prey, it spreads its wings and glides down to attack.
Gligar Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Gligar has 430 BST, so weigh it against what your team already covers.
In Gold & Silver, use Gligar as a balanced. Physical side carries the damage. Speed is middling, Earthquake is the primary attack.
Game Availability
Gligar first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 17 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
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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