Is Parasect Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Postgame utility pick for catching roaming Legendaries with MoveSpore. That's the entire pitch. Bug/Grass typing is still terrible defensively and the stats don't keep up.
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 5-6, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 5)
- LV 5NormalScratchPower 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
- LV 55GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
How to Get Parasect in Gold & Silver
Parasect has no wild spawns in either game. You get it by leveling a Paras to 24, which means first tracking down one of those scarce, low-rate Paras spawns before the evolution is even on the table.
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.Catch Paras at any of these 3 spots to eventually evolve into Parasect.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Paras
- 2Evolve Parasectat Lv.24
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Badge 8How to Obtain Parasect in GS
To get Parasect, start by catching Paras through walking encounters at Lv. 5-17. The chain covers 1 catchable stage before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Parasect ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Paras egg.
How to Get Shiny Parasect in Gold & Silver
Parasect comes from Paras, which turns up in Ilex Forest, the National Park, and Mt. Moon, so hunt a shiny one across those three spots and level it to 24 to evolve it. Compare Shiny Parasect odds across every game
Gold & Silver 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 Gold & Silver 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
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 4x254-300%KO Smog 2x15-19% | ||
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Quilava builds →Fire Blast 4x213-250%KO Rollout 2x18-22% Fury Cutter 2x8-11% | ||
 Growlithe Fire | A | |
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Vulpix Fire | B | |
 Golbat Poison | B | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Koffing Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Koffing builds →Fire Blast 4x118-139%KO Sludge 2x53-63% Rollout 2x18-22% | ||
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Pidgeotto Normal | D | |
 Nidorina Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Nidorina builds →Blizzard 2x56-67% Poison Sting 2x14-17% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Nidorino Poison | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Parasect View Nidorino builds →Blizzard 2x56-67% Poison Sting 2x17-21% | ||
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 5 more.
GS Parasect Best Moveset
Guaranteed sleep from MoveSpore on a frame with better bulk than Paras. 4x Fire weakness limits switch-in opportunities. Held ItemLeftovers helps, but the value starts and ends with the 100%% accurate sleep.
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
It stays mostly in dark, damp places, the preference not of the bug, but of the big mushrooms on its back.
The larger the mushroom on its back grows, the stronger the mushroom spores it scatters.
Parasect Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, 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 Gold & Silver, 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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