Is Hypno Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Bulkier than Kadabra but slower and weaker on offense. Hypno can take hits that would knock Kadabra out, which matters against Will's Xatu and Koga's Venomoth. If you can't trade for Alakazam, Hypno is the safe Psychic choice in Crystal.
Drowzee trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Drowzee trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Drowzee trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Hypno resists most of Morty's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno resists most of Chuck's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Hypno resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Hypno trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Hypno resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Hypno has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catch Drowzee
Catch Drowzee on Route 34 (walking, Lv 12, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM41ElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- LV 18PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 40PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 45PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
Evolve Drowzee to Hypno
Drowzee evolves into Hypno at Level 26. Your Drowzee should hit Level 26 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 26)
- LV 26PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM03GhostCursePower —Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift in the Celadon Mansion roof house, at night only
- LV 49PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 60PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
How to Get Hypno in Crystal
The only wild Hypno is a rare night encounter on Route 11. Leveling a Drowzee to 26 gets you one without depending on that single thin spawn.
1 location to catch Hypno4 locations to catch Drowzee
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Drowzee at any of the 4 locations below, then level it up to 26 — it evolves into Hypno.
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The only way to get Hypno during the story is evolving Drowzee (Lv 26).
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Crystal for Hypno.
How to Get Shiny Hypno in Crystal
Hypno appears only as a rare night spawn on Kanto's Route 11, so the direct hunt is brutal; chaining night Drowzee and evolving the shiny at 26 beats it. Compare Shiny Hypno odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Hypno 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 Hypno.
Hypno Weakness
Bug, Ghost, and Dark moves hit Hypno for super-effective damage. Hypno's special bulk (base 115 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Bug, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fighting, 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 Hypno Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Hypno
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Tyranitar builds →Crunch 2x49-58% Fury Cutter 2x9-11% | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Houndoom builds →Crunch 2x56-66% Shadow Ball 2x46-55% | ||
 Sneasel DarkIce | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Sneasel builds →Shadow Ball 2x49-58% Feint Attack 2x18-22% Fury Cutter 2x7-8% | ||
 Murkrow Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Murkrow builds →Feint Attack 2x35-41% Shadow Ball 2x45-53% | ||
 Misdreavus Ghost | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Misdreavus builds →Shadow Ball 2x51-60% Thief 2x16-19% | ||
 Haunter GhostPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Haunter builds →Shadow Ball 2x45-54% Thief 2x19-23% | ||
 Venomoth BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Venomoth builds →Thief 2x16-19% Leech Life 2x15-17% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Scyther builds →Pursuit 2x12-14% Fury Cutter 2x12-14% | ||
 Yanma Bug | C | |
 Pinsir Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Pinsir builds →Thief 2x12-14% Fury Cutter 2x13-16% | ||
 Beedrill BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Beedrill builds →Twineedle 2x23-27% Pursuit 2x9-12% | ||
 Ledian Bug | C | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Parasect builds →Leech Life 2x20-24% Thief 2x12-15% | ||
 Ariados BugPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Hypno View Ariados builds →Leech Life 2x18-22% Thief 2x12-15% | ||
Hypno Evolutions
Evolved from Drowzee. Hypno is the final form in this two-stage line. A small partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Sp.Atk grew the most through evolution (+30 over Drowzee), and Hypno peaks at 483 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Hypno to get Drowzee eggs easily using 15 partners from the Human-Like egg group. Notable egg moves include Barrier, Light Screen.
C Hypno Best Moveset
115 Sp. Def absorbs special attacks, and MovePsychic from 73 Sp. Atk hits modestly from a type that still threatens most of the format. MoveHypnosis and MoveThunder Wave provide sleep and paralysis. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Bulky Psychic that disrupts through status rather than raw damage.
Best Build
Screens Setter Moveset
- Reflect
- Body Slam
- Rest
- Curse
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Level-up moves are just the starting point for Hypno. TMs unlock Normal and Fighting coverage and more and turn a straightforward STAB kit around Future Sight and Dream Eater into something with actual range.
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 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The longer it swings its pendulum, the longer the effects of its hypnosis last.
Hypno Crystal Guide
In Crystal, use Hypno as a support. Special attacks are the main output. Not the fastest, Set up with Curse when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Hypno has appeared in 19 games: most mainline games. 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
Winds & Waves
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