Is Meganium Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Meganium is the defensive starter. It absorbs hits better than Typhlosion or Feraligatr and can outlast opponents through sheer durability. The problem is the gym matchups stay unfavorable through most of Johto. Useful against Chuck and the Water trainers, but you'll lean on teammates for most boss fights.
Falkner's team hits Chikorita's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's team hits Chikorita's weaknesses hard.
Bayleef trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Bayleef trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Bayleef trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Meganium has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Meganium resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Clair's team hits Meganium's weaknesses hard.
Meganium has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Meganium has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Meganium trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Meganium trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Meganium resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
Meganium resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Meganium trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Meganium trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Meganium has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Meganium trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Meganium has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Meganium trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Meganium trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Starter
Chikorita is available as a starter.
Recommended Moves
- LV 8GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 29NormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 50GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Chikorita to Bayleef
Chikorita evolves into Bayleef at Level 16. Your Chikorita should hit Level 16 before you reach Whitney, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 16)
- LV 16GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- LV 31NormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
- LV 55GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Bayleef to Meganium
Bayleef evolves into Meganium at Level 32. Your Bayleef should hit Level 32 before you reach Jasmine, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 32)
- LV 32GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- LV 32NormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 61GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Meganium in Gold & Silver
Meganium caps the grass starter line at level 32, with no wild encounters at all. The whole road traces back to choosing Chikorita from Elm, so only one save in three ever reaches this point naturally.
Catch Chikorita at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Meganium.
How to Obtain Meganium in GS
- Step 2Evolve into BayleefBREEDINGAvailableLeave Meganium with a compatible partner at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Chikorita egg.
- Step 3Meganium ✓
How to Get Shiny Meganium in Gold & Silver
Meganium traces to Elm's Chikorita, so reset the New Bark Town gift until it shines, then bring it up through Bayleef to level 32. Compare Shiny Meganium odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Meganium Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
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.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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 Gold & Silver shiny odds for Meganium.
Meganium Weakness
Type-wise, Meganium takes extra damage from Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, and Bug. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Meganium's overall bulk (80/100/100) lets it take a hit or two from most weaknesses before going down.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, Bug |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Grass, 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 Meganium Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Meganium
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Meganium View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x92-108%KO Smog 2x11-14% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Meganium View Scyther builds →Wing Attack 2x53-62% Fury Cutter 2x12-15% | ||
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Meganium View Quilava builds →Fire Blast 2x78-93% Fury Cutter 2x5-6% | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Meganium View Golbat builds →Wing Attack 2x41-49% Leech Life 2x10-12% | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Growlithe Fire | A | |
 Ledian Bug | C | |
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
 Gloom GrassPoison | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
 Weepinbell GrassPoison | C | |
Meganium Evolutions
End of the line. Meganium caps a three-stage chain that started at Chikorita. Breeding produces the base form, and eggs take an average time to hatch. HP grew the most through evolution (+35 over Chikorita), and Meganium peaks at 525 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Meganium to get Chikorita eggs easily using 23 partners from the Grass and Monster egg groups. Notable egg moves include Ancient Power, Counter, Flail and 2 more.
GS Meganium Best Moveset
Solid defensive stats with MoveReflect and MoveLight Screen for team support. MoveLeech Seed drains opponents passively and MoveSynthesis provides HP recovery. Held ItemLeftovers stacks with Leech Seed for sustained presence. Defensive Grass support that blocks physical threats and sustains the team.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Synthesis
- Body Slam
- Swords Dance
- Leech Seed
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Ancient Power and Counter aren't available any other way for Meganium, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Solar Beam and Giga Drain for solid options.
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
22 of 28 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The aroma that rises from its petals contains a substance that calms aggressive feelings.
MEGANIUM’s breath has the power to revive dead grass and plants. It can make them healthy again.
Meganium Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Meganium plays as a support. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully.
Game Availability
Available in 17 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Meganium 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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