Is Parasect Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Bug/Grass creates a pile of weaknesses including a brutal 4x Fire vulnerability. Parasect takes hits from everything and deals damage to nothing. But MoveSpore is still MoveSpore, and catching the roaming beasts in Crystal still demands 100% sleep accuracy.
Paras trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Paras trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Paras trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Parasect trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Parasect's defenses.
Parasect trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Parasect has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Parasect trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Parasect has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Parasect has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Parasect has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Janine's team hits Parasect's weaknesses hard.
Parasect has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Parasect resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Parasect trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Parasect trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Parasect has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Koga's team hits Parasect's weaknesses hard.
Parasect trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Parasect trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Lance's team hits Parasect's weaknesses hard.
Catch Paras
Catch Paras in Ilex Forest (walking, Lv 6, rare).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 6)
- LV 6NormalScratchPower 40Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- LV 31NormalSlashPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- LV 43GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
Evolve Paras to Parasect
Paras evolves into Parasect at Level 24. Your Paras should hit Level 24 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 37NormalSlashPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- LV 55GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
How to Get Parasect in Crystal
A Paras evolves at level 24, which beats the alternative by a mile. The only wild Parasect lives on Mt. Silver, deep in the postgame at levels in the high 40s and low 50s.
Wild Parasect may be holding when caught:
Tiny Mushroom (23% chance) An ordinary mushroom. Sell low.
Big Mushroom (2% chance) A rare mushroom. Sell high.1 location to catch Parasect3 locations to catch Paras
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Paras at any of the 3 locations below, then level it up to 24 — it evolves into Parasect.
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Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Parasect in C
The only way to get Parasect during the story is evolving Paras (Lv 24).
- Step 2Parasect ✓or evolve from Paras (Step 1)
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Crystal for Parasect.
How to Get Shiny Parasect in Crystal
Parasect grows wild only on Mt. Silver, walking the cave at levels 46 to 52 around the clock; it is a late-game hunt but the spawns there stay steady. Compare Shiny Parasect odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Parasect 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Crystal shiny odds for Parasect.
Parasect Weakness
Parasect's Bug/Grass typing leaves it vulnerable to Fire, Flying, Ice, Poison, Bug, and Rock. Fire and Flying hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. The Bug/Grass typing picks up 5 resistances to work with.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Fire, Flying |
| 2x (Weak) | Ice, Poison, Bug, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Fighting |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, 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 Parasect Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Parasect
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 4x264-311%KO Fly 4x178-210%KO | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Typhlosion builds →Fire Blast 4x261-308%KO Rollout 2x19-23% Fury Cutter 2x7-9% | ||
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 4x264-311%KO Sludge Bomb 2x56-66% | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Dragonite builds →Fly 4x184-218%KO Fire Blast 4x161-190%KO Blizzard 2x81-95% Fury Cutter 2x11-13% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 4x242-285%KO Smog 2x14-16% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Scyther builds →Wing Attack 4x134-158%KO Fury Cutter 2x13-15% | ||
 Flareon Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Flareon builds →Fire Blast 4x233-274%KO Smog 2x18-21% | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Lugia builds →Aeroblast 4x188-221%KO Blizzard 2x74-88% | ||
 Dodrio Normal | B | |
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Rapidash Fire | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
Parasect Evolutions
Parasect is what Paras becomes. Breed it for Paras eggs (average hatch time). A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Paras pushed Parasect to 405 total stats. HP saw the largest single gain at +25. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Parasect to get Paras eggs easily using 23 partners from the Bug and Grass egg groups. Notable egg moves include Counter, False Swipe, Flail and 4 more.
C Parasect Best Moveset
MoveSpore guarantees the best sleep in the game, and the defensive stats improve enough over Paras to absorb a hit or two before going down. 4x Fire weakness limits switch-in safety. Held ItemLeftovers helps. One-move competitive identity with modest staying power.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Spore
- Hidden Power Bug
- Sludge Bomb
- Return
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Counter and False Swipe from the egg pool give Parasect something extra.
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
19 of 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
When nothing’s left to extract from the bug, the mushrooms on its back leave spores on the bug’s egg.
Parasect Crystal Guide
Yes. Wild Parasect in Crystal can hold Tiny Mushroom (23%) or Big Mushroom (2%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Tiny Mushroom.
In Crystal, Parasect has niche appeal at best. The E-Tier rating means you're fighting uphill by mid-game. There are better Bug/Grass Pokemon available.
In Crystal, use Parasect as a trick room. Splits damage between physical and special. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Parasect appears in 19 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Parasect have the longest track record of availability in the series.
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
Winds & Waves
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