Is Horsea Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Whirl Islands in Johto. Seadra evolves into Kingdra via trade with a Dragon Scale in Gen 2, which is a massive upgrade. Without the trade, Seadra is average.
Horsea has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Horsea has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Horsea trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Horsea trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Horsea's defenses.
Horsea has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Horsea trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Seadra trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Kingdra trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Kingdra trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Kingdra trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Kingdra resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Kingdra resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Kingdra has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Horsea on Whirl Islands (Good Rod fishing, Lv 20, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- 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 Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM24DragonDragon BreathPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Clair
- LV 43WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Horsea to Seadra
Horsea evolves into Seadra at Level 32. Your Horsea should hit Level 32 before you reach Clair, at typical leveling pace.
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 Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Clair
- TM24DragonDragon BreathPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Clair
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
- LV 51WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Seadra to Kingdra
Seadra evolves into Kingdra when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Lt. Surge.
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 Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM24DragonDragon BreathPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Clair
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 51WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Horsea in Gold & Silver
Horsea sticks to one body of water but offers it three ways: surfing, the Good Rod, and the Super Rod. Common to uncommon, and the only line that leads to Kingdra later through a Dragon Scale trade.
Wild Horsea may be holding when caught:
Dragon Scale (2% chance) A rare dragon-type item.1 location to catch Horsea
Encountered via fishing with a Rod, Surfing
Badge 6Where To Catch Horsea in GS
The line opens with Horsea at Lv. 15-40 via fishing and surfing encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 1Horsea ✓Whirl Islands - B2FLv.15-24Surfing on waterRate 90%Whirl Islands - SWLv.15-19Surfing on waterRate 30%Whirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.20-24Surfing on waterRate 60%Whirl Islands - B2FLv.20Good RodRate 10%Whirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.20Good RodRate 10%Whirl Islands - SELv.20Good RodRate 10%Whirl Islands - SWLv.20Good RodRate 10%Whirl Islands - B2FLv.40Super RodRate 30%Whirl Islands - B2F Inner CaveLv.40Super RodRate 30%Whirl Islands - SELv.40Super RodRate 30%Whirl Islands - SWLv.40Super RodRate 30%
- Step 3Evolve into KingdraBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Horsea egg.
To plan your throws, open the Gold & Silver catch rate calculator with Horsea preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Horsea in Gold & Silver
Horsea turns up deep in the Whirl Islands on the Good Rod, the Super Rod, or a Surf encounter, and any of the three can produce the shine. Compare Shiny Horsea odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Horsea 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 Gold & Silver shiny odds calculator with Horsea already selected.
Horsea Weakness
Horsea is weak to Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Horsea's physical bulk (base 70 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, 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 Horsea Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Horsea
Horsea Evolutions
Horsea kicks off a three-stage evolution line through Seadra all the way to Kingdra. For breeding, average hatch time with a small partner pool via two egg groups. Evolving adds up to 245 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Horsea easily with 13 breeding partners from the Dragon and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Aurora Beam, Disable, Dragon Rage and 3 more to offspring.
GS Horsea Best Moveset
Water pre-evolution with stats too low for any competitive role. MoveSurf from weak Sp. Atk barely dents targets. Kingdra, the new evolution added this generation, is the real destination.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Surf
- Hydro Pump
- Waterfall
- Octazooka
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Horsea gets Aurora Beam and Disable exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Dragon and Ice coverage rounds out the picture alongside Hydro Pump and Surf.
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
18 of 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
If attacked by a larger enemy, it quickly swims to safety by adeptly controlling its dorsal fin.
Its big, developed fins move rapidly, allowing it to swim backward while still facing forward.
Horsea Gold & Silver Guide
Yes. Wild Horsea in Gold & Silver can hold Dragon Scale (2%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Dragon Scale.
In Gold & Silver, for a casual playthrough, Horsea works as a placeholder. Water coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Seadra. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Horsea appears in 20 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Horsea 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
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