Is Ivysaur Good in Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Playthrough?
Does its job through mid-game while working toward Venusaur. Evolve it before the later gyms to get that extra bulk.
Bulbasaur has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Ivysaur has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Ivysaur trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Venusaur trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Koga's team hits Venusaur's weaknesses hard.
Venusaur trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Blaine's team hits Venusaur's weaknesses hard.
Venusaur has the type edge here and should clean up Giovanni's team.
Venusaur resists most of Lorelei's coverage and hits back hard.
Venusaur has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Venusaur trades roughly evenly with Agatha's team.
Venusaur trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Venusaur has the type edge here and should clean up Trace's team.
This is the Let's Go Eevee team. In Let's Go Pikachu, Trace brings Jolteon Lv 57 in place of Raichu Lv 57.
Catch Bulbasaur
Catch Bulbasaur in Viridian Forest (walking, Lv 3-6, rare).
Recommended Moves
- LV 18NormalTake DownPower 90Accuracy 85%PP 20
- LV 23GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Lt. Surge
- TMNormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 32NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Erika
- TMGrassMega DrainPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Sabrina
- TMPoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Giovanni
- TMGrassSolar BeamPower 300Accuracy 100%PP 10
- TMDragonOutragePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Bulbasaur to Ivysaur
Bulbasaur evolves into Ivysaur at Level 16. Your Bulbasaur should hit Level 16 before you reach Misty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- LV 22NormalTake DownPower 90Accuracy 85%PP 20
- LV 31GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Erika
- TMGrassMega DrainPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Sabrina
- TMPoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Koga
- TMPoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 90%PP 10
- LV 48NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Giovanni
- TMDragonOutragePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 56GrassSolar BeamPower 300Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Ivysaur to Venusaur
Ivysaur evolves into Venusaur at Level 32. Your Ivysaur should hit Level 32 before you reach Erika, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 32)
- LV 32GrassPetal DancePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 32GrassPower WhipPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TMNormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
- After Erika
- TMGrassMega DrainPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Sabrina
- TMPoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Giovanni
- TMDragonOutragePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 58NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 71GrassSolar BeamPower 300Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Ivysaur in Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee
No wild encounters for Ivysaur. The 3-stage chain runs through Bulbasaur, which you can catch but it's a rare spawn from the locations below. Evolve at level 32 once you've got the levels.
Catch Bulbasaur at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Ivysaur.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 1How to Obtain Ivysaur in Let's Go
The path to Ivysaur starts with Bulbasaur at Lv. 3+ via gift and walking encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Ivysaur ✓
- Step 3Evolve into Venusaur
How to Get Shiny Ivysaur in Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee
In Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee, the strongest route to a Shiny Ivysaur is Catch Combo, which reaches about 1 in 274 at full boosts. Shininess carries through evolution, so hunting an earlier stage and evolving it counts too. Pick a method and tune your setup below to see live odds. Compare Shiny Ivysaur odds across every game
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Shiny Ivysaur Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Catch Combo at full boosts, about 1 in 274 on each try. Tune it below.
Catch Combo: Catch one species back-to-back. A Lure stacks on top of a 31-plus combo.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters |
|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 29 |
| 25%one in four | 79 |
| 50%coin flip | 190 |
| 90%very likely | 630 |
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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Ivysaur in the Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Ivysaur Weakness
Type-wise, Ivysaur takes extra damage from Fire, Ice, Flying, and Psychic. The Grass/Poison typing picks up 5 resistances to work with.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Flying, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Fighting, Fairy |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
What is Ivysaur Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Ivysaur
 Kadabra Psychic | B | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ivysaur View Butterfree builds →Psybeam 2x44-52% Gust 2x40-48% | ||
 Charmeleon Fire | C | |
 Pidgeotto Normal | D | |
 Zubat Poison | D | |
 Spearow Normal | C | |
Ivysaur Evolutions
Ivysaur sits between Bulbasaur and Venusaur in this three-stage line. Not the final form yet. HP has grown the most so far (+15), but there's still another 120 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Let's Go Ivysaur Best Moveset
Middle stage at 80/80 Special stats and 60 Speed. Grass/Poison TermStab has some output from the move slots, but the moveset needs Venusaur's totals to matter. One evolution from the Mega form that turns these typing advantages into a competitive role.
Best Build
Bulbasaur Candy
Courage Candy+SPDQuiet raises Sp. Atk and lowers Speed. Madam Celadon sets this nature when you pick Blue, then Pink. It costs 10,000 Pokedollars and lasts for the rest of the day.
Candy for Ivysaur
Courage Candy L
Courage Candy XL
Smart Candy
Smart Candy L
Smart Candy XLBulbasaur Candy raises every stat, but only Bulbasaur, Ivysaur and Venusaur can eat it. The stat candy that goes with Ivysaur is Courage Candy (Sp. Def) and Smart Candy (Sp. Atk), and any Pokemon can eat it; Courage Candy L needs level 30, Courage Candy XL needs level 60, Smart Candy L needs level 30 and Smart Candy XL needs level 60 or higher.
Master Trainer
Katrina battles with one level 70 Ivysaur that knows Sludge Bomb, Double-Edge and Growth. It takes extra damage from Fire, Ice, Flying and Psychic moves. Win to earn the Ivysaur Master title. Find Katrina on Route 14.
Moves List
The level-up pool tells the story here. Ivysaur learns Take Down and Double-Edge naturally, plus enough variety that TMs feel like bonuses. Normal and Dragon coverage extends the reach beyond that.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- 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 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 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
All 12 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The bud on its back grows by drawing energy. It gives off an aroma when it is ready to bloom.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Ivysaur appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Ivysaur 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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