Is Pelipper Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Wingull evolves at level 25. Water/Flying with AbilityKeen Eye in Gen 4. Decent bulk and reliable Surf access. Gyarados already fills the Water/Flying role better in every way. Always the second choice.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's typing presses Wingull's defenses.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Pelipper trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Lt. Surge's team hits Pelipper's weaknesses hard.
Pelipper trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Pelipper trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catch Wingull
Catch Wingull in Vermilion City (Surf, Lv 35, common). Swarm.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 35)
- LV 35WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 35FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Morty
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 40
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15From Chuck's wife outside Cianwood Gym
- LV 42FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 47FlyingAir SlashPower 113Accuracy 95%PP 20
Evolve Wingull to Pelipper
Wingull evolves into Pelipper at Level 25. You get it at Level 35, past Level 25, so it evolves into Pelipper the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 25)
- LV 25WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- After Morty
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 40
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15From Chuck's wife outside Cianwood Gym
- After Clair
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Mt. Mortar
- LV 57WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Pelipper in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Catch a Wingull during its surfing swarm and level it to 25, and Pelipper follows. The swarm window for the pre-evolution is the only doorway, since this stage never spawns on its own.
Catch Wingull at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Pelipper.
Encountered via Surfing
- 1Catch Wingull
- 2Evolve Pelipperat Lv.25
Badge 8How to Obtain Pelipper in HGSS
- Step 2Pelipper ✓
How to Get Shiny Pelipper in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Pelipper evolves from Wingull, so breed that base form Masuda-style and raise it once the shiny shows. Compare Shiny Pelipper odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Pelipper 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Pelipper in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Pelipper Weakness
Pelipper's Water/Flying typing leaves it vulnerable to Electric and Rock. Electric hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Ground-type attacks completely. It resists 5 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Pelipper's physical bulk (base 100 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Electric |
| 2x (Weak) | Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Fighting, Bug, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Pelipper Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Pelipper
 Raikou Electric | B | |
 Zapdos Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodRoute 10 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pelipper View Zapdos builds →Thunderbolt 4x259-305%KO Ancient Power 2x55-65% | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Ampharos Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pelipper View Ampharos builds →Thunderbolt 4x239-282%KO Power Gem 2x59-70% | ||
 Jolteon Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Rampardos Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cranidos (Pewter City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pelipper View Rampardos builds →Head Smash 2x194-229%KO Thunderbolt 4x101-119%KO | ||
 Plusle Electric | B | |
 Minun Electric | C | |
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
 Luxray Electric | C | |
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Raichu Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pelipper View Electrode builds →Thunderbolt 4x179-211%KO Rollout 2x11-13% | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Pewter City Gift) | ||
Pelipper Evolutions
Pelipper is the evolved form of Wingull. Breeding produces Wingull eggs, and they take an average time to hatch. Evolving from Wingull gave Pelipper the biggest boost in Defense (+70), bringing the total to 430 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Pelipper to get Wingull eggs easily using 31 partners from the Flying and Water 1 egg groups. Notable egg moves include Agility, Aqua Ring, Gust and 4 more.
HGSS Pelipper Best Moveset
Water/Flying at 100 Defense for physical bulk and 95 Sp. Atk for special Water attacks. AbilityKeen Eye prevents accuracy drops. The moveset blocks physical threats and fires back from the special side. 60 HP and 65 Speed are the constraints.
Best Build
Pelipper best EVs are Sp. Def and Speed
Bulky Support Moveset
- Surf
- Roost
- Ice Beam
- Air Slash
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breadth over depth defines this movepool. Pelipper won't stack one type's damage ceiling, but coverage across 10 types means it always has an effective option. Sky Attack and Hydro Pump anchor the STAB core.
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
25 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
It protects its young in its beak. It bobs on waves, resting on them on days when the waters are calm.
Pelipper HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, it depends on your team. Pelipper rates C-Tier. Not a powerhouse, but the Water/Flying coverage might be exactly what you're missing.
Yes. Pelipper is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Pelipper becomes available after the main story is complete in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, use Pelipper as a support. Special attacks are the main output. Not the fastest, Surf is the primary attack.
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, run Modest on Pelipper. +Sp. Atk is what matters, and the -Attack cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the support role.
Game Availability
Pelipper first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 15 games across 7 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
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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