Is Natu Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Ruins of Alph area, same as Gold and Silver. Xatu evolves at 25 with Psychic/Flying coverage. Crystal doesn't change Natu's viability, but the Ruins of Alph puzzles are expanded in Crystal if you're exploring the area anyway.
Natu has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Natu has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Natu trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Jasmine's team hits Xatu's weaknesses hard.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Lt. Surge's team hits Xatu's weaknesses hard.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Xatu resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Xatu resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Xatu resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Natu in the Ruins of Alph (walking, Lv 18-24, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 18)
- LV 18FlyingPeckPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- LV 30PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- 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
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 50PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Natu to Xatu
Natu evolves into Xatu at Level 25. Your Natu should hit Level 25 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- LV 35PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
- LV 65PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Natu in Crystal
The Ruins of Alph hold the only wild Natu, common there at levels around the high teens and low 20s. That one site is the entire map for this Pokemon.
1 location to catch Natu
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 1Where To Catch Natu in C
- Step 1Natu ✓
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Xatuor evolve from Natu (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the Crystal catch rate calculator with Natu preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Natu in Crystal
Natu hops around the Ruins of Alph at all hours, a common spawn at levels 18 to 24, which makes it one of Crystal's more comfortable wild hunts. Compare Shiny Natu odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Natu 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Crystal shiny odds calculator with Natu already selected.
Natu Weakness
Electric, Ice, Rock, Ghost, and Dark moves hit Natu for super-effective damage. The upside? Ground-type moves can't touch it at all.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Rock, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Psychic |
| 0.25x (Resist) | 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 Natu Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Natu
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Lapras builds →Blizzard 2x190-225%KO Thunder 2x127-150%KO | ||
 Smoochum IcePsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Smoochum builds →Blizzard 2x190-225%KO Lick 2x15-19% | ||
 Elekid Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Elekid builds →Thunder 2x156-185%KO Ice Punch 2x67-81% | ||
 Gastly GhostPoison | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Gastly builds →Thunder 2x142-169%KO Lick 2x23-29% | ||
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
 Pichu Electric | D | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift | ||
 Onix RockGround | C | |
Natu Evolutions
Natu evolves into Xatu. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 150 total stats over Natu. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
Breeding
Breed Natu easily with 19 breeding partners from the Flying egg group. Pass egg moves like Drill Peck, Feint Attack, Haze and 2 more to offspring.
C Natu Best Moveset
Psychic/Flying pre-evolution. MovePsychic and MoveThunder Wave exist at stats too low to threaten competitively. Xatu improves Speed and Sp. Atk to passable levels.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Drill Peck
- Psych Up
- Psychic
- Night Shade
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Natu picks up Drill Peck and Feint Attack only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Future Sight and Dream Eater while Ghost and Normal coverage and more adds 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
16 of 23 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is extremely good at climbing tree trunks and likes to eat the new sprouts on the trees.
Natu Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Natu does the job early-game if you need a Psychic/Flying type on your team. Evolve it into Xatu before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Natu first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 16 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
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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