Is Octillery Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Strong on both physical and special offense with a wide movepool. Octillery can hit in ways other Water-types can't, but the low Speed means Crystal's faster threats go first. A niche pick for players who want offensive variety over reliability.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Octillery resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Octillery's weaknesses hard.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Octillery resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Trade
Octillery cannot be caught in this game. It must be traded in from a compatible game where it appears in the wild. Cross-region trading typically becomes available after defeating the Elite Four. Alternatively, transfer the pre-evolution and level it up to Lv 25.
Recommended Moves
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- LV 22WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 22IceAurora BeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 22PsychicPsybeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 25WaterOctazookaPower 98Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TUTORFireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- LV 54IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 70NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Octillery in Crystal
Octillery has no wild form in Crystal. You hook a Remoraid on Route 44 and level it to 25, so the whole line traces back to that one fishing route.
How to Obtain Octillery in C
- Step 1Obtain RemoraidCARTRIDGE TRADEfrom Gold & SilverAvailableCatch in Gold & Silver via Super rod · Route 44 · the Remoraid swarm on Route 44 that Fisher Wilton, then trade to the current game via link cable.LATER APPEARANCEfrom EmeraldNot TradeableAppears in Emerald via Super rod · Safari Zone · Safari Zone: 500 entry fee, 30 Safari Balls. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.LATER APPEARANCEfrom FireRed & LeafGreenNot TradeableAppears in FireRed & LeafGreen via Super rod · Water Path. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.LATER APPEARANCEfrom Diamond & PearlNot TradeableAppears in Diamond & Pearl via Good rod · Pokémon League. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.LATER APPEARANCEfrom PlatinumNot TradeableAppears in Platinum via Good rod · Route 212. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.LATER APPEARANCENot TradeableAppears in HeartGold & SoulSilver via Super rod · Route 44 · Swarm active. Forward-only transfer — no path back to this game from a later one.
- Step 2Octillery ✓
How to Get Shiny Octillery in Crystal
Octillery emerges from a level 25 Remoraid, so land the shiny Remoraid first through eggs and let the evolution deliver the cannon. Compare Shiny Octillery odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Octillery 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 Crystal with Octillery preloaded.
Octillery Weakness
Octillery is weak to Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. With 75 HP and balanced defenses, Octillery can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- 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 Octillery Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Octillery
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Celebi PsychicGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Interact Encounter | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Tangela Grass | C | |
 Sunflora Grass | C | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
 Raikou Electric | S | |
 Pikachu Electric | C | |
Obtain MethodCeladon City Gift | ||
 Jolteon Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Octillery View Electabuzz builds →Thunderbolt 2x87-103%KO | ||
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter | ||
 Jumpluff Grass | C | |
Octillery Evolutions
Octillery is what Remoraid becomes. Breed it for Remoraid eggs (average hatch time). A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Remoraid pushed Octillery to 480 total stats. HP saw the largest single gain at +40. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Octillery to get Remoraid eggs easily using 37 partners from the Water 1 and Water 2 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Aurora Beam, Haze, Octazooka and 2 more.
C Octillery Best Moveset
Wide special coverage from 105 Sp. Atk: MoveSurf, MoveIce Beam, and MoveFire Blast hit a huge range of types. 45 Speed goes last against everything competitive. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Hits hard from the special side if the low Speed doesn't get it removed first.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Flamethrower
- Surf
- Ice Beam
- Return
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Octillery. Aurora Beam and Haze come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Surf and Bubble Beam and Normal and Ice coverage and more.
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 21 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
Its instinct is to bury itself in holes. It often steals the nesting holes of others to sleep in them.
Octillery Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Octillery plays as a attacker. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully. Surf is the primary attack.
No. Octillery isn't catchable in Crystal. Obtain one in Gold or Silver, then trade it over.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Octillery appears in 17 games across 8 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline games, typically found through wild encounters.
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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