Is Psyduck Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Surf or fish in several Johto water routes. Golduck evolves at 33 with balanced stats and decent Water coverage. Crystal's move tutor adds MoveIce Beam for Dragon-type matchups. Competent but never the best Water option when Starmie and Gyarados exist in the same game.
Psyduck trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Psyduck trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Whitney's typing presses Psyduck's defenses.
Psyduck has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Psyduck trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Golduck resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Golduck trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Golduck trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Golduck trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Golduck resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Golduck resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Golduck trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Golduck has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Golduck trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Psyduck in Ilex Forest (walking, Lv 7, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- After Lt. Surge
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- LV 50WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Psyduck to Golduck
Psyduck evolves into Golduck at Level 33. Your Psyduck should hit Level 33 before you reach Jasmine, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- LV 58WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Psyduck in Crystal
Psyduck works two ways: surfing pulls it up commonly on several routes, while the grass version only comes out at night. Pick whichever fits where you are.
4 locations to catch Psyduck
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Psyduck in C
Psyduck is where the line starts, caught through walking and surfing encounters at Lv. 5-24. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into GolduckRoute 6Lv.10-14Surfing on waterRate 10%Ilex ForestLv.15-19Surfing on waterRate 10%Route 35Lv.20-24Surfing on waterRate 10%Mt. Silver - 2FLv.35-39Surfing on waterRate 30%or evolve from Psyduck (Step 1)
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Crystal for Psyduck.
How to Get Shiny Psyduck in Crystal
Psyduck paddles the Ilex Forest water, where surfing turns up common encounters at any hour; night walkers also find it on Route 35 and in National Park. Compare Shiny Psyduck odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Psyduck 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 Psyduck.
Psyduck Weakness
Type-wise, Psyduck takes extra damage from Electric and Grass. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Only 2 weaknesses makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- 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 Psyduck Weak Against
Good
Psyduck Evolutions
Psyduck evolves into Golduck. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. Plenty of partners for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 180 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Psyduck easily with 66 breeding partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Cross Chop, Foresight, Future Sight and 5 more to offspring.
C Psyduck Best Moveset
Water pre-evolution where moderate Sp. Atk behind MoveSurf can't compete with any evolved Water-type. Golduck at the next stage provides a genuine improvement from the stat split.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Hydro Pump
- Surf
- Waterfall
- Whirlpool
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Cross Chop and Foresight give Psyduck options it can't learn any other way, and Normal and Psychic coverage and more already covers a decent range on top of Hydro Pump and Surf. The egg moves push it further.
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
25 of 29 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The only time it can use its psychic power is when its sleeping brain cells happen to wake.
Psyduck Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Psyduck does the job early-game if you need a Water type on your team. Evolve it into Golduck before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Psyduck has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 21 titles across all 9 generations. As a Gen 1 original, it's one of the most consistently available Pokemon in the franchise.
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- 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
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