Is Octillery Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Remoraid evolves at level 25. Water-type with AbilitySniper. Balanced Attack and special Attack. Handles Jasmine and Pryce through Water. The physical/special split helps both sides. Serviceable, but not the Water-type you keep through 16 gyms.
Remoraid resists most of Falkner's coverage and hits back hard.
Remoraid has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Remoraid's defenses.
Remoraid has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's typing presses Octillery's defenses.
Octillery resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Octillery resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up 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 has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catch Remoraid
Catch Remoraid on Route 44 (Good Rod fishing, Lv 20, rare).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- LV 32WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Item ball on Ice Path 1F
- LV 40IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 45NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
Evolve Remoraid to Octillery
Remoraid evolves into Octillery at Level 25. Your Remoraid should hit Level 25 before you reach Clair, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 25)
- LV 25WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Item ball on Ice Path 1F
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- LV 48IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 55NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Octillery in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Fish up a Remoraid on its Johto route and level it to 25 for Octillery. There is no wild version, so the swarm-window Remoraid is the real start of this short line.
Catch Remoraid at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Octillery.
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
- 1Catch Remoraid
- 2Evolve Octilleryat Lv.25
Badge 7How to Obtain Octillery in HGSS
To get Octillery, start by catching Remoraid through fishing encounters at Lv. 10-40. The chain covers 1 catchable stage before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Octillery ✓
How to Get Shiny Octillery in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Octillery evolves from Remoraid, so breed that base form Masuda-style and raise its cannons once it shines. Compare Shiny Octillery odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Octillery 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in HeartGold & SoulSilver 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Octillery Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Octillery
 Roserade GrassPoison | B | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Sceptile Grass | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Treecko (Silph Co Gift) | ||
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Octillery View Tangrowth builds →Solar Beam 2x124-146%KO Shock Wave 2x42-50% | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Octillery View Victreebel builds →Leaf Storm 2x133-157%KO | ||
 Venusaur GrassPoison | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Bulbasaur (Pallet Town Gift) | ||
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Raikou Electric | B | |
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Breloom GrassFighting | A | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
Octillery Evolutions
Octillery is what Remoraid becomes. Breed it for Remoraid eggs (average hatch time). Plenty of partners 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 69 partners from the Water 1 and Water 2 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Aurora Beam, Flail, Haze and 7 more.
HGSS Octillery Best Moveset
Mixed attacker at 105 in both Attack and Sp. Atk, hitting from whichever side the target is weaker. AbilitySniper boosts critical hit damage by 50%. The moveset fires hard from both sides. 45 Speed goes last, and 75 HP can't absorb repeated hits.
Best Build
Octillery best EVs are HP and Sp. Atk
Special Wallbreaker Moveset
- Ice Beam
- Surf
- Energy Ball
- Flamethrower
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The TM pool is where it gets interesting. Coverage across 12 types means almost nothing walls Octillery cleanly, with Water Spout and Surf anchoring the STAB side. Matchup flexibility isn't a problem.
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
All 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
It traps foes with the suction cups on its tentacles, then smashes them with its rock-hard head.
It instinctively sneaks into rocky holes. If it gets sleepy, it steals the nest of a fellow OCTILLERY.
Octillery HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Octillery plays as a attacker. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully. Surf is the primary attack.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Modest is the go-to nature for Octillery. That's +Sp. Atk / -Attack. Pair it with 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD EVs. Fits the attacker role.
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
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