Is Natu Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Ruins of Alph encounter during the story. Psychic/Flying with AbilitySynchronize passing status to the attacker or AbilityEarly Bird for faster sleep recovery. Xatu at level 25 handles Chuck. Available before Morty.
Falkner's Pokemon outpace and outclass Natu here.
Bugsy's Pokemon outpace and outclass Natu here.
Natu trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with 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.
Xatu resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge'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 trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up 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
- After Bugsy
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- TM89BugU-turnPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Bugsy
- After Morty
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 40
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- LV 36PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Clair
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Mt. Mortar
- LV 47PsychicPsychicPower 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 Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 40
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15From Chuck's wife outside Cianwood Gym
- After Clair
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Mt. Mortar
- LV 42PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- LV 59PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Natu in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Natu is the catchable Ruins of Alph regular, common in the grass right outside the puzzle chambers. Headbutt trees turn up much higher-level ones near the late-game Kanto crossing and Mt. Silver if you want a stronger one.
3 locations to catch Natu
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Natu in HGSS
Natu is the chain's first catch. You'll find headbutt, walking, and more encounters from Lv. 18-48 across 10 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Xatuor evolve from Natu (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the HeartGold & SoulSilver catch rate calculator with Natu preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Natu in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Natu hops around the Ruins of Alph, so breed it Masuda-style with a foreign parent at 1 in 1,638. Compare Shiny Natu odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Natu Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
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 | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 HeartGold & SoulSilver 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Natu Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Natu
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Shiftry builds →Feint Attack 2x108-128%KO Shadow Ball 2x89-104%KO Rock Tomb 2x61-73% | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Glaceon Ice | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Glaceon builds →Ice Beam 2x213-250%KO Shadow Ball 2x120-142%KO Bite 2x49-58% | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Raikou Electric | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Raikou builds →Thunderbolt 2x191-225%KO Shadow Ball 2x107-127%KO Bite 2x64-75% | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Jynx builds →Ice Beam 2x191-225%KO Shadow Ball 2x107-127%KO Payback 2x36-44% | ||
 Ampharos Electric | C | |
 Absol Dark | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Absol builds →Bite 2x135-159%KO Shadow Claw 2x104-123%KO Ice Beam 2x92-108%KO Thunderbolt 2x92-108%KO | ||
 Manectric Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Manectric builds →Thunderbolt 2x177-209%KO Bite 2x58-69% | ||
 Haunter GhostPoison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Haunter builds →Shadow Ball 2x161-191%KO Thunderbolt 2x127-150%KO Sucker Punch 2x56-67% | ||
 Luxray Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Luxray builds →Thunderbolt 2x165-194%KO Bite 2x84-100%KO | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Lapras builds →Ice Beam 2x151-178%KO Thunderbolt 2x100-119%KO | ||
 Plusle Electric | B | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Natu View Electrode builds →Thunderbolt 2x143-169%KO Thief 2x29-35% Rollout 2x23-27% | ||
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 31 breeding partners from the Flying egg group. Pass egg moves like Drill Peck, Feather Dance, Feint Attack and 7 more to offspring.
HGSS Natu Best Moveset
Psychic/Flying with 70 Sp. Atk and 70 Speed for a first-stage, fast and functional from the special side. AbilitySynchronize passes status back to the opponent. The moveset fires special Psychic damage at respectable power. Evolve to Xatu.
Best Build
Natu best EVs are Speed and HP
Bulky Support Moveset
- Wish
- Peck
- Night Shade
- Future Sight
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Natu picks up Drill Peck and Feather Dance only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Future Sight and Psychic while coverage across 8 types 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. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
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
23 of 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Because its wings aren’t yet fully grown, it has to hop to get around. It is always staring at something.
It usually forages for food on the ground but may, on rare occasions, hop onto branches to peck at shoots.
Natu HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, 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
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