Is Remoraid Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Fishing in several Johto areas. Octillery evolves at 25 and has surprisingly high Attack and Special. Better than it looks, but there are already too many good Water-types competing for the same slot.
Remoraid resists most of Falkner's coverage and hits back hard.
Remoraid has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Remoraid has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Remoraid has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Remoraid has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Remoraid's weaknesses hard.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Sabrina's typing presses Remoraid's defenses.
Erika's team hits Remoraid's weaknesses hard.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Misty's typing presses Remoraid's defenses.
Octillery resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Remoraid on Route 44 (Super Rod fishing, Lv 40, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 40)
- LV 40WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 40IceAurora BeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 40PsychicPsybeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 44IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 55NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
Evolve Remoraid to Octillery
Remoraid evolves into Octillery at Level 25. You get it at Level 40, past Level 25, so it evolves into Octillery the next time it levels up. A lower-level Remoraid evolves when it reaches Level 25.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 25)
- LV 25WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 25WaterOctazookaPower 98Accuracy 85%PP 10
- LV 25IceAurora BeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 25PsychicPsybeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 54IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 70NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Remoraid in Gold & Silver
Route 44 gives up the odd Remoraid to a rod, but the numbers stay low most days. Its swarm is the exception: when the game flags it, that stretch of water turns thick with Remoraid for the day.
1 location to catch Remoraid
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
Badge 7Where To Catch Remoraid in GS
Remoraid is the chain's first catch. You'll find fishing encounters from Lv. 10-40 across 8 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Evolve into OctilleryBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Remoraid egg.
Not landing the catch? Calculate Remoraid catch rates for Gold & Silver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Remoraid in Gold & Silver
Remoraid lives in just one spot, the water of Route 44, where every rod down to the Old Rod will pull one up for the shiny grind. Compare Shiny Remoraid odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Remoraid 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Gold & Silver with Remoraid preloaded.
Remoraid Weakness
Remoraid's Water typing leaves it vulnerable to Electric and Grass. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Just 2 weak spots to worry about, which keeps teambuilding straightforward.
| 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 Remoraid Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Remoraid
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
 Raikou Electric | S | |
 Ampharos Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter | ||
 Sunflora Grass | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Remoraid View Sunflora builds →Petal Dance 2x163-193%KO | ||
 Bellossom Grass | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Remoraid View Bellossom builds →Petal Dance 2x144-170%KO | ||
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Tangela Grass | C | |
 Bellsprout GrassPoison | D | |
 Skiploom Grass | C | |
Remoraid Evolutions
One evolution ahead. Remoraid grows into Octillery through a straightforward two-stage chain. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 180 total stats over Remoraid. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Remoraid easily with 37 breeding partners from the Water 1 and Water 2 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Aurora Beam, Haze, Octazooka and 2 more to offspring.
GS Remoraid Best Moveset
Water pre-evolution with 65 Sp. Atk and 65 Speed behind MoveSurf. Nothing competitive. Octillery at the next stage provides modest improvement.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Surf
- Octazooka
- Hyper Beam
- Bubble Beam
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Aurora Beam and Haze from the egg pool give Remoraid something extra.
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
16 of 21 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It has superb accuracy. The water it shoots out can strike even moving prey from more than 300 feet.
Using its dorsal fin as a suction pad, it clings to a MANTINE’s underside to scavenge for leftovers.
Remoraid Gold & Silver Guide
For Gold & Silver, you can run Remoraid through the first few routes without issues. 300 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Octillery as fast as you can.
Game Availability
Available in 17 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Remoraid 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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