Is Gloom Good in Crystal Playthrough?
The decision point: Leaf Stone for Vileplume or Sun Stone for Bellossom. In Crystal, Vileplume hits harder and the Poison sub-typing's Psychic weakness only matters against Will at the E4. Most runs pick Vileplume for the stronger offense.
Falkner's team hits Oddish's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's typing presses Oddish's defenses.
Oddish trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Morty's team hits Vileplume's weaknesses hard.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
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Vileplume resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
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Janine's team hits Vileplume's weaknesses hard.
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Vileplume resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
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Koga's team hits Vileplume's weaknesses hard.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
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Catch Oddish
Catch Oddish in Ilex Forest (walking, Lv 5-7, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- LV 23PoisonAcidPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 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 39GrassPetal DancePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Oddish to Vileplume
Gloom evolves into Vileplume with a Leaf Stone. You can receive the Leaf Stone from an NPC in Route 34.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20GrassPetal DancePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 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
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
Evolve Oddish to Bellossom
Gloom evolves into Bellossom with a Sun Stone. You can receive the Sun Stone from an NPC in National Park.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20GrassPetal DancePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 20GrassStun SporePower —Accuracy 75%PP 30
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- LV 55GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Gloom in Crystal
An Oddish hits level 21 and becomes Gloom, which is the reliable route. The only wild Gloom is a single rare night encounter on Route 24, hardly worth the hunt.
1 location to catch Gloom3 locations to catch Oddish
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Oddish at any of the 3 locations below, then level it up to 21 — it evolves into Gloom.
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Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Gloom in C
The only way to get Gloom during the story is evolving Oddish (Lv 21).
Available in-game· 2 pathsPick one
- VileplumeUse Leaf StoneGetFound at Route 34: Sometimes given out by Picnicker Gina if the player has her number
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Crystal for Gloom.
How to Get Shiny Gloom in Crystal
Gloom is a genuinely rare night-only spawn on Kanto's Route 24; most hunters chain the far more common night Oddish nearby and evolve their shiny instead. Compare Shiny Gloom odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Gloom 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 Crystal shiny odds for Gloom.
Gloom Weakness
Gloom is weak to Fire, Ice, Flying, and Psychic. The Grass/Poison typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Not too many gaps in the chart, 4 weaknesses to account for.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Flying, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Fighting |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
- 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 Gloom Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Gloom
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x138-163%KO Fly 2x99-116%KO Dream Eater 2x78-91% | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Lugia builds →Dream Eater 2x99-116%KO Aeroblast 2x103-122%KO Blizzard 2x78-93% | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x149-176%KO Fire Punch 2x63-74% Ice Punch 2x63-74% | ||
 Celebi PsychicGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Interact Encounter | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 2x138-163%KO Dream Eater 2x78-91% | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Dragonite builds →Fly 2x102-120%KO Fire Blast 2x85-100%KO Blizzard 2x85-100%KO | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Jynx builds →Dream Eater 2x121-143%KO Blizzard 2x143-169%KO | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x123-144%KO Fly 2x64-75% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Gloom View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x128-150%KO Psychic 2x64-76% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
Gloom Evolutions
Gloom can evolve into Vileplume and Bellossom. Gloom sits before the split, so check the evolution methods below to pick your path. HP has grown the most so far (+15), but there's still another 95 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Gloom to get Oddish eggs easily using 23 partners from the Grass egg group. Notable egg moves include Flail, Razor Leaf, Swords Dance and 1 more.
C Gloom Best Moveset
MoveGiga Drain provides Grass TermStab with HP recovery from 85 Sp. Atk alongside MoveSleep Powder for status. Vileplume and Bellossom both improve on these stats. A mid-stage that functions on sleep utility alone.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Swords Dance
- Sludge Bomb
- Petal Dance
- Sleep Powder
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Gloom gets Flail and Razor Leaf exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Normal coverage rounds out the picture alongside Petal Dance and Solar Beam.
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
15 of 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The smell from its drool-like syrup and the pollen on its petals is so bad, it may make opponents faint.
Gloom Crystal Guide
In Crystal, for a casual playthrough, Gloom works as a placeholder. Grass/Poison coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Vileplume. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Gloom appears in 20 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Gloom have the longest track record of availability in the series.
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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