Is Kakuna Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Same deal as always. Evolves into Beedrill at 10. The Bug Catching Contest can save you time here.
Falkner's Pokemon outpace and outclass Kakuna here.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Beedrill's defenses.
Jasmine's team hits Beedrill's weaknesses hard.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Janine's team hits Beedrill's weaknesses hard.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Blaine's team hits Beedrill's weaknesses hard.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Koga's team hits Beedrill's weaknesses hard.
Beedrill trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Beedrill has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Lance's team hits Beedrill's weaknesses hard.
Catchable
Catch Kakuna on Route 30 (walking, Lv 4, uncommon).
Catch Weedle
Catch Weedle on Route 30 (walking, Lv 3-4, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 3)
- LV 3PoisonPoison StingPower 23Accuracy 100%PP 35
Evolve Kakuna to Beedrill
Kakuna evolves into Beedrill at Level 10. Your Kakuna should hit Level 10 before you reach Bugsy, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- LV 30DarkPursuitPower 40Accuracy 100%PP 20
- 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 Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
How to Get Kakuna in Gold & Silver
Evolving a Weedle at level 7 is the quick way in. Otherwise Silver scatters Kakuna across 20 uncommon spots in trees and grass, while Gold confines it to the National Park like the rest of its line.
15 locations to catch Kakuna15 locations to catch Weedle
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 1
Badge 2
Badge 3
Badge 4
Badge 5
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Catch Weedle at any of the 15 locations below, then level it up to 7 — it evolves into Kakuna.
Badge 1 Badge 2 Badge 3 Badge 4 Badge 5 Badge 6 Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Kakuna in GS
The path to Kakuna starts with Weedle at Lv. 3-18 via headbutt and walking encounters. 3 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 1Catch WeedleAzalea TownLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Ilex ForestLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Lake of RageLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 34Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 35Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 36Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 37Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 38Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 39Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 26Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Route 27Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 65%Ilex ForestLv.5-6GrassSilverRate 60%DayRoute 30Lv.3-4GrassSilverRate 50%MorningIlex ForestLv.5-6GrassSilverRate 50%MorningAzalea TownLv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Ilex ForestLv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Lake of RageLv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%National ParkLv.10-12FloorSilverRate 50%MorningRoute 34Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 35Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 36Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 37Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 38Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 39Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 26Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 27Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 50%Route 30Lv.3-4GrassSilverRate 35%DayRoute 31Lv.4-5GrassSilverRate 35%DayRoute 2Lv.3GrassSilverRate 30%Morning/dayRoute 31Lv.4GrassSilverRate 30%MorningNational ParkLv.10FloorSilverRate 30%DayNational Park - Bug Catching ContestLv.7-18FloorRate 20%Bug-Catching Contest only, on Tuesdays, Thursdays
- Step 2Kakuna ✓Ilex ForestLv.5-6GrassSilverRate 30%DayIlex ForestLv.6GrassSilverRate 30%MorningNational ParkLv.10FloorSilverRate 30%Morning/dayRoute 2Lv.5GrassSilverRate 20%Morning/dayRoute 30Lv.4-5GrassSilverRate 15%DayRoute 31Lv.5-6GrassSilverRate 15%DayAzalea TownLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Ilex ForestLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Lake of RageLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 34Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 35Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 36Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 37Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 38Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 39Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 26Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 27Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 15%Route 30Lv.4GrassSilverRate 10%MorningRoute 31Lv.5GrassSilverRate 10%MorningNational Park - Bug Catching ContestLv.9-18FloorRate 10%Bug-Catching Contest only, on Tuesdays, Thursdaysor evolve from Weedle (Step 1)
- Step 3Catch or Evolve into BeedrillRoute 2Lv.7GrassSilverRate 10%MorningAzalea TownLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Azalea TownLv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Ilex ForestLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Ilex ForestLv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Lake of RageLv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Lake of RageLv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 34Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 34Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 35Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 35Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 36Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 36Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 37Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 37Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 38Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 38Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 39Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 39Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 26Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 26Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%Route 27Lv.10Headbutting treesSilverRate 5%Route 27Lv.10Headbutting special treesSilverRate 5%National Park - Bug Catching ContestLv.12-15FloorRate 5%Bug-Catching Contest only, on Tuesdays, Thursdaysor evolve from Kakuna (Step 2)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Kakuna catch rates for Gold & Silver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Kakuna in Gold & Silver
Kakuna turns up whether you headbutt the trees at Ilex Forest or walk into it in the grass, so plant yourself wherever the encounters come quicker and keep at it. Compare Shiny Kakuna odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Kakuna 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Gold & Silver with Kakuna preloaded.
Kakuna Weakness
Type-wise, Kakuna takes extra damage from Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock. The Bug/Poison typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Kakuna's physical bulk (base 50 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Flying, Psychic, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison, Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting |
- 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 Kakuna Weak Against
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Kakuna Evolutions
Kakuna sits between Weedle and Beedrill in this three-stage line. Not the final form yet. For breeding, quick to hatch with a decent partner pool via one egg group. Defense has grown the most so far (+20), but there's still another 190 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Kakuna to get Weedle eggs easily using 23 partners from the Bug egg group.
GS Kakuna Best Moveset
Harden as the only move on a cocoon that doesn't survive real damage. Beedrill at the end offers no meaningful improvement to the line.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Harden
Moves List
A compact toolkit overall. The offense runs through Bug and Poison STAB for Kakuna, with limited coverage doing what it can. Don't expect versatility from this one.
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
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Although it is a cocoon, it can move a little. It can extend its poison barb if it is attacked.
From this form, it will grow into an adult. As its body becomes softer, the external shell hardens.
Kakuna Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, for a casual playthrough, Kakuna works as a placeholder. Bug/Poison coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Beedrill. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Kakuna appears in 19 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Kakuna 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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