Is Pupitar Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
The middle stage of the Tyranitar line. Pupitar sits at this stage until level 55, which is a long wait. Keep grinding past the E4 if you're committed to reaching Tyranitar for Red.
Larvitar trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Larvitar trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Larvitar trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Larvitar has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Chuck's team hits Larvitar's weaknesses hard.
Larvitar has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Larvitar trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Larvitar's weaknesses hard.
Larvitar has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Sabrina's typing presses Larvitar's defenses.
Erika's team hits Larvitar's weaknesses hard.
Larvitar has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Larvitar trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Larvitar trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Larvitar has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Larvitar trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Pupitar trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Pupitar has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Bruno's team hits Pupitar's weaknesses hard.
Pupitar has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Pupitar trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catch Larvitar
Catch Larvitar in Mt. Silver (walking, Lv 15-20, rare).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 15)
- LV 15DarkBitePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 22RockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10
- LV 29NormalThrashPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 43DarkCrunchPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 50GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 57NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
Evolve Larvitar to Pupitar
Larvitar evolves into Pupitar at Level 30. Your Larvitar should hit Level 30 before you reach Will, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30RockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10
- LV 30NormalThrashPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 30DarkBitePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 47DarkCrunchPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 56GroundEarthquakePower 150Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 65NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Pupitar in Gold & Silver
No wild Pupitar exists in Gold or Silver. A Larvitar reaches level 30 to get here, so the only route runs through that rare single-spot base form and a fair bit of grinding past where you caught it.
Catch Larvitar at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Pupitar.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8How to Obtain Pupitar in GS
Larvitar is your first catch on the way to Pupitar. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 15-20 across 8 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Pupitar ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave Tyranitar with a compatible partner at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Larvitar egg.
- Step 3Evolve into Tyranitar
How to Get Shiny Pupitar in Gold & Silver
Pupitar has no wild haunt of its own, so chase the shine one stage back on a Larvitar at Mt. Silver, and the color holds right through the evolution. Compare Shiny Pupitar odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Pupitar 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 Pupitar.
Pupitar Weakness
Pupitar's Rock/Ground typing leaves it vulnerable to Water, Grass, Ice, Fighting, Ground, and Steel. Water and Grass hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Electric-type attacks completely. 5 resistances help offset the weaknesses.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Water, Grass |
| 2x (Weak) | Ice, Fighting, Ground, Steel |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Normal, Fire, Flying, Rock |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Poison |
| 0x (Immune) | Electric |
- 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 Pupitar Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Pupitar
 Tangela Grass | C | |
 Suicune Water | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Suicune builds →Surf 4x182-214%KO Blizzard 2x77-90% Iron Tail 2x55-65% Dig 2x34-40% | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Vaporeon Water | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Vaporeon builds →Hydro Pump 4x271-320%KO Blizzard 2x90-107%KO Iron Tail 2x49-58% Mud-Slap 2x11-13% | ||
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Meganium builds →Solar Beam 4x215-253%KO Earthquake 2x60-70% Iron Tail 2x60-70% Rock Smash 2x13-15% | ||
 Slowbro WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Slowbro builds →Surf 4x199-235%KO Blizzard 2x83-98% Earthquake 2x55-65% Iron Tail 2x55-65% | ||
 Sunflora Grass | C | |
 Golduck Water | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Golduck builds →Hydro Pump 4x241-283%KO Blizzard 2x80-94% Iron Tail 2x60-70% Dig 2x36-42% | ||
 Feraligatr Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Totodile (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Feraligatr builds →Hydro Pump 4x208-244%KO Earthquake 2x72-85% Iron Tail 2x72-85% Blizzard 2x69-81% | ||
 Donphan Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Donphan builds →Earthquake 2x122-143%KO Rock Smash 2x17-20% | ||
 Marowak Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Marowak builds →Earthquake 2x87-103%KO Iron Tail 2x58-68% Blizzard 2x48-57% Dynamic Punch 2x58-68% | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Lapras builds →Hydro Pump 4x220-259%KO Ice Beam 2x87-103%KO Iron Tail 2x61-72% Rock Smash 2x14-16% | ||
 Quagsire WaterGround | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 32 Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Pupitar View Quagsire builds →Surf 4x141-166%KO Earthquake 2x92-109%KO Iron Tail 2x61-72% Ice Punch 2x37-44% | ||
Pupitar Evolutions
Partway through Larvitar's chain. Pupitar still has another evolution ahead before reaching Tyranitar. For breeding, takes forever to hatch with a decent partner pool via one egg group. So far, HP got the biggest boost (+20 from Larvitar). The final form adds another 190 stats on top. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Pupitar to get Larvitar eggs using 36 partners from the Monster egg group. Notable egg moves include Ancient Power, Focus Energy, Outrage and 2 more.
GS Pupitar Best Moveset
Rock/Ground middle stage with stats improving toward Tyranitar but still below competitive thresholds. MoveEarthquake exists at reduced power. One evolution from the top tier.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Earthquake
- Earthquake
- Rest
- Rock Slide
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Ancient Power and Focus Energy from the egg pool give Pupitar something extra. Pair those with Earthquake and Dig for STAB and Dark and Normal coverage for reach, and the kit fills out nicely.
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
17 of 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its shell is as hard as sheet rock, and it is also very strong. Its THRASHING can topple a mountain.
Even sealed in its shell, it can move freely. Hard and fast, it has outstanding destructive power.
Pupitar Gold & Silver Guide
Yes. Pupitar is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Pupitar becomes available after the main story is complete in Gold & Silver.
In Gold & Silver, Pupitar has 410 BST and evolves into Tyranitar. Compare the two forms before you give either one a team slot.
Game Availability
Available in 18 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Pupitar spans 8 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through catching or hatching as a base form in most mainline games.
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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