Is Porygon Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Celadon Game Corner in Kanto, postgame. Porygon2 is available via trade with Up-Grade in Gen 2, which is a solid upgrade. But the postgame-only access means neither form helps with Johto.
Porygon has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Porygon has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Porygon trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Porygon trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Porygon trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Jasmine's typing presses Porygon's defenses.
Porygon has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Porygon trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Lt. Surge's typing presses Porygon's defenses.
Porygon trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Porygon has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Porygon2 has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Porygon2 has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Porygon2 trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Porygon2 trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Porygon2 trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Porygon2 has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Porygon2 has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Porygon2 has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Porygon2 has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Porygon2 has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Purchase
Porygon can be purchased in Celadon City at Lv 20. Purchase from the Celadon Game Corner prize counter for 9,999 coins.
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 36NormalTri AttackPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
Evolve Porygon to Porygon2
Porygon evolves into Porygon2 when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Janine.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 46)
- LV 46NormalTri AttackPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM03GhostCursePower —Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift in the Celadon Mansion roof house, at night only
How to Get Porygon in Gold & Silver
At 9,999 coins, Porygon is the most expensive prize the Celadon Game Corner offers. No wild one exists and the story hands you no other route, so expect a long grind at the slots before you can afford it.
1 location to catch Porygon
Badge 8How to Obtain Porygon in GS
- Step 2Evolve into Porygon2BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Porygon egg.
How to Get Shiny Porygon in Gold & Silver
Porygon is redeemed for coins at the Celadon City Game Corner and locks its DVs the moment you claim it, so save at the prize counter and soft reset; a failed reset just refunds your coins, so the pile never has to be re-earned. Compare Shiny Porygon odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Porygon Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
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.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Gold & Silver with Porygon preloaded.
Porygon Weakness
Fighting moves hit Porygon for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Porygon's Normal typing only leaves 1 gap to cover.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- 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 Porygon Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Porygon
 Machoke Fighting | B | |
 Primeape Fighting | C | |
 Hitmonlee Fighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Tyrogue (Mt Mortar Gift) Available Move Moves
Damage vs Porygon View Hitmonlee builds →High Jump Kick 2x107-127%KO | ||
Porygon Evolutions
To get Porygon2 from Porygon, you need a trade. The evolution method matters here. The evolved forms gain up to 120 total stats over Porygon. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Porygon is genderless and can only breed with Ditto. Part of the Mineral egg group.
Ditto onlyGS Porygon Best Moveset
75 Sp. Atk with MoveThunder Wave and MoveRecover for slow, persistent play. MoveIce Beam and MoveThunderbolt add moderate coverage. Held ItemLeftovers stacks with Recover for near-permanent sustain. Porygon2 does everything better, but Porygon functions in lower tiers.
Best Build
Support Moveset
- Thunder Wave
- Recover
- Return
- Curse
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The level-up pool is slim, so TMs matter here. Porygon's Psychic and Electric coverage and more all comes from technical machines, built on top of Hyper Beam and Tri Attack for same-type damage. Zap Cannon and Blizzard are the payoff moves.
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
18 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is a manmade POKéMON. Since it doesn’t breathe, people are eager to try it in any environment.
A manmade POKéMON that came about as a result of research. It is programmed with only basic motions.
Porygon Gold & Silver Guide
No. Porygon only evolves into Porygon2 through a real trade. There is no in-game alternative in Gold & Silver. The Up-Grade must be held during the trade. Bring one over from a sibling Gen 3 game if needed.
Yes. Porygon is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Porygon becomes available after the main story is complete in Gold & Silver.
In Gold & Silver, Porygon has 395 BST and evolves into Porygon2. Compare the two forms before you give either one a team slot.
In Gold & Silver, use Porygon as a trick room. Physical side carries the damage. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key. Return is the primary attack. Set up with Curse when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Porygon appears in 22 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Porygon 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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