Is Oddish Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Route 34 and Ilex Forest encounters. Grass/Poison with AbilityChlorophyll doubling Speed in sun. Vileplume at Leaf Stone handles Chuck through Grass and contributes against Misty in Kanto. Bellossom at Sun Stone is the alternative path.
Oddish trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Oddish trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Oddish has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Morty's team hits Vileplume's weaknesses hard.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
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Vileplume resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
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Vileplume resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
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Catchable
Catch Oddish in Ilex Forest (walking, Lv 5-6, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 9PoisonAcidPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Bugsy
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- LV 21GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Lake of Rage
- LV 37GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 41GrassPetal DancePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 20
Evolve Oddish to Vileplume
Gloom evolves into Vileplume with a Leaf Stone. You can receive the Leaf Stone from an NPC in Route 34. 2 other locations are also available.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 19)
- LV 19GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- TM60FightingDrain PunchPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 39
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Lake of Rage
- LV 53GrassPetal DancePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 65GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Oddish to Bellossom
Gloom evolves into Bellossom with a Sun Stone. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Morty.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 19)
- LV 19GrassLeaf BladePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- TM60FightingDrain PunchPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 39
- LV 23GrassMagical LeafPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- LV 53GrassLeaf StormPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Oddish in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Oddish is strictly a night catch, common to uncommon across six locations but only after dark. The weed Pokemon stays buried during daylight, so time your route walks for the evening if you want one early.
6 locations to catch Oddish
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 2
Badge 3
Badge 4
Badge 5
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Where To Catch Gloom in HGSS
- Step 1Catch Oddish
- Step 2Gloom ✓Ilex ForestLv.5-6GrassRate 60%NightRoute 5Lv.13GrassHeartGoldRate 60%NightRoute 6Lv.13GrassHeartGoldRate 60%NightRoute 24Lv.10GrassRate 30%Nightor evolve from Oddish (Step 1)
Available in-game· 2 pathsPick one
Not landing the catch? Calculate Gloom catch rates for HeartGold & SoulSilver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Oddish in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Oddish sprouts along Route 24 and Route 25 at night, but breeding it Masuda-style is the fastest way to a shiny. Compare Shiny Oddish odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Oddish 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 Oddish preloaded.
Oddish Weakness
Oddish's Grass/Poison typing leaves it vulnerable to Fire, Ice, Flying, and Psychic. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Standard number of weaknesses for the Grass/Poison typing.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Flying, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Fighting |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Oddish Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Oddish
 Spoink Psychic | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Oddish View Butterfree builds →Gust 2x53-64% Confusion 2x43-51% | ||
 Spearow Normal | C | |
 Chingling Psychic | D | |
 Drowzee Psychic | C | |
 Zubat Poison | C | |
 Bronzor SteelPsychic | C | |
 Chatot Normal | C | |
 Numel FireGround | D | |
 Slugma Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodViolet City Gift | ||
 Cyndaquil Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodNew Bark Town Gift | ||
 Meditite FightingPsychic | C | |
 Ralts Psychic | C | |
 Slowpoke WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing | ||
Oddish Evolutions
From here, Oddish's line branches into Vileplume and Bellossom. That's 2 possible evolutions, each with its own method. The evolved forms gain up to 170 total stats over Oddish. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Oddish easily with 45 breeding partners from the Grass egg group. Pass egg moves like Charm, Flail, Ingrain and 5 more to offspring.
HGSS Oddish Best Moveset
Grass/Poison at 75 Sp. Atk hints at special potential, but 30 Speed anchors the moveset in place. AbilityChlorophyll doubles that Speed in sun, creating sweeping potential the base stats don't suggest. Without sun support, too slow.
Best Build
Oddish best EVs are HP and Defense
Wall Moveset
- Sludge Bomb
- Energy Ball
- Solar Beam
- Leech Seed
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Charm and Flail on Oddish. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Petal Dance and Solar Beam, they expand what Oddish can actually threaten in practice.
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 18 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Awakened by moonlight, it roams actively at night. In the day, it stays quietly underground.
If exposed to moonlight, it starts to move. It roams far and wide at night to scatter its seeds.
Oddish HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
- Where in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Safari Zone can I find Oddish?
See the Locations section above for where to find Oddish in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Oddish from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Oddish easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, you can run Oddish through the first few routes without issues. 320 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Gloom as fast as you can.
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Oddish has appeared in 20 games: most mainline games. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
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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