Is Ledian Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Decent special defense but everything else is too low to matter. Ledian can't deal damage and the Bug/Flying typing creates too many weaknesses. Most teams skip the entire line.
Falkner's team hits Ledyba's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's typing presses Ledyba's defenses.
Whitney's team hits Ledian's weaknesses hard.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Ledian resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Ledian trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Ledian has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catch Ledyba
Catch Ledyba on Route 30 (walking, Lv 3, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM41ElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 50NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Ledyba to Ledian
Ledyba evolves into Ledian at Level 18. Your Ledyba should hit Level 18 before you reach Whitney, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM41ElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 51PsychicAgilityPower —Accuracy 100%PP 30
- LV 60NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
How to Get Ledian in Gold & Silver
One rare morning Ledian turns up at a single Silver spot, though evolving a Ledyba at level 18 is steadier. Gold players cannot catch either form in the wild, leaving a trade as their only in.
1 location to catch Ledian4 locations to catch Ledyba
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Ledyba at any of the 4 locations below, then level it up to 18 — it evolves into Ledian.
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Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Ledian in GS
The only way to get Ledian during the story is evolving Ledyba (Lv 18).
Not landing the catch? Calculate Ledian catch rates for Gold & Silver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Ledian in Gold & Silver
Ledian lives in the wild at Route 2 and nowhere else, so make that single route your hunting ground and stack encounters until one turns shiny. Compare Shiny Ledian odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Ledian 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 Ledian preloaded.
Ledian Weakness
Type-wise, Ledian takes extra damage from Rock, Fire, Electric, Ice, and Flying. Watch out for Rock attacks, those deal 4x damage. Ground moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. Ledian's special bulk (base 110 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Rock |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Electric, Ice, Flying |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- 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 Ledian Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Ledian
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Tyranitar builds →Rock Slide 4x292-344%KO Fire Blast 2x62-73% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Slide 4x226-266%KO Fire Punch 2x18-21% Ice Punch 2x18-21% Thunder Punch 2x18-21% | ||
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x106-125%KO Fly 2x133-157%KO Thunder 2x70-83% | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Lugia builds →Aeroblast 2x139-163%KO Blizzard 2x59-70% Thunder 2x59-70% | ||
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Magneton builds →Thunder 2x113-133%KO Rollout 4x42-49% | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Typhlosion builds →Fire Blast 2x104-123%KO Thunder Punch 2x44-52% Rollout 4x55-65% | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Raikou Electric | S | |
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
 Magcargo FireRock | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Magcargo builds →Fire Blast 2x89-104%KO Rock Slide 4x134-158%KO | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Dragonite builds →Fly 2x136-160%KO Fire Blast 2x65-76% Blizzard 2x65-76% Thunder 2x65-76% | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Ledian View Lapras builds →Ice Beam 2x67-79% Thunder 2x57-67% | ||
Ledian Evolutions
Evolved from Ledyba. Ledian is the final form in this two-stage line. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are quick to hatch. Sp.Def grew the most through evolution (+30 over Ledyba), and Ledian peaks at 390 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Ledian to get Ledyba eggs easily using 23 partners from the Bug egg group. Notable egg moves include Bide, Light Screen, Psybeam.
GS Ledian Best Moveset
High Sp. Def from the stat split but Attack too low to use the physical Bug moves, and Sp. Atk too low for special coverage. Neither side of the stat sheet delivers. Held ItemLeftovers sustains a Pokemon with nothing to sustain for.
Best Build
Screens Setter Moveset
- Light Screen
- Baton Pass
- Agility
- Reflect
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Bide and Light Screen give Ledian options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 9 types already covers a decent range on top of Bug and Flying STAB. The egg moves push it further.
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
21 of 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
When the stars flicker in the night sky, it flutters about, scattering a glowing powder.
The star patterns on its back grow larger or smaller depending on the number of stars in the night sky.
Ledian Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Ledian can work for a story run. It rates C-Tier, a middle-of-the-pack pick, so the Bug/Flying typing decides whether it earns a team slot.
In Gold & Silver, Ledian plays as a balanced. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully. Set up with Agility when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
Available in 15 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Ledian spans 8 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in most mainline games.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
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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