Is Porygon2 Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Trade Porygon with an Up-Grade. Porygon itself is Kanto-only (Game Corner), which means Porygon2 requires trading a postgame catch. Strong stats and a wide movepool, but the setup cost is steep for what amounts to a Normal-type.
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.
Buy Porygon
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 Porygon2 in Gold & Silver
The upgrade to Porygon arrives through a trade, not a catch. Hand the original an Up-Grade item and trade it across, and Porygon2 comes back. None spawn wild, so tracking down that rare item is the bottleneck.
Catch Porygon at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Porygon2.
- 1Catch Porygon
- 2Evolve Porygon2by trading
Badge 8How to Obtain Porygon2 in GS
- Step 2Porygon2 ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Porygon egg.
How to Get Shiny Porygon2 in Gold & Silver
Porygon2 starts with the Celadon Game Corner Porygon, a single fixed prize, so breed it with a Ditto for a shiny, then trade that one holding an Up-Grade to carry the shine up. Compare Shiny Porygon2 odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Porygon2 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Gold & Silver shiny odds for Porygon2.
Porygon2 Weakness
Fighting moves hit Porygon2 for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. With 85 HP and balanced defenses, Porygon2 can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| 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 Porygon2 Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Porygon2
 Machoke Fighting | B | |
 Primeape Fighting | C | |
 Hitmonlee Fighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Tyrogue (Mt Mortar Gift) Available Move Moves
Damage vs Porygon2 View Hitmonlee builds →High Jump Kick 2x77-91% | ||
Porygon2 Evolutions
Porygon2 evolved from Porygon's chain using a trade. It's a non-standard trigger, so check the details below. Breed this form to get Porygon eggs (average hatch time). The evolution from Porygon pushed Porygon2 to 515 total stats. HP saw the largest single gain at +20. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Porygon2 is genderless — breed with Ditto to produce Porygon eggs. Part of the Mineral egg group.
Ditto onlyGS Porygon2 Best Moveset
105 Sp. Atk and 95 Sp. Def with MoveRecover for reliable sustain. MoveIce Beam and MoveThunderbolt provide coverage, and MoveThunder Wave paralyzes faster threats. Held ItemLeftovers stacks with Recover for near-permanent health. Porygon with actual stats, filling a mid-tier special tank role.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Recover
- Ice Beam
- Double Edge
- Curse
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The level-up pool is slim, so TMs matter here. Porygon2'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
19 of 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
This upgraded version of PORYGON is designed for space exploration. It can’t fly, though.
Further research enhanced its abilities. Sometimes, it may exhibit motions that were not programmed.
Porygon2 Gold & Silver Guide
No. Porygon2 is not catchable in the wild. It only comes from trade-evolving Porygon. The Up-Grade must be held during the trade. Bring one over from a sibling Gen 3 game if needed.
Yes. Porygon2 is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Porygon2 becomes available after the main story is complete in Gold & Silver.
In Gold & Silver, Porygon2 has 515 BST, so weigh it against what your team already covers.
In Gold & Silver, use Porygon2 as a setup sweeper. Physical side carries the damage. Not the fastest, Set up with Curse when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
Since Gold & Silver, Porygon2 has been in 19 games. Requiring a trade evolution to obtain means it's consistently available but requires more effort than simply catching it in the wild.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
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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