Is Remoraid Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Route 44 fishing encounter during mid-Johto. Water-type with AbilitySniper boosting critical damage. Octillery at level 25 has balanced offenses. A functional mid-game Water option that gets outclassed once Gyarados and Lapras join the roster.
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 trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Remoraid's defenses.
Remoraid has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Remoraid trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's typing presses Octillery's defenses.
Octillery resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Octillery trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Octillery resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Octillery has the type edge here and should clean up 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 has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Remoraid on Route 44 (Good Rod fishing, Lv 20, rare).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- LV 32WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Item ball on Ice Path 1F
- LV 40IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 45NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
Evolve Remoraid to Octillery
Remoraid evolves into Octillery at Level 25. Your Remoraid should hit Level 25 before you reach Clair, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 25)
- LV 25WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Item ball on Ice Path 1F
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- LV 48IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 55NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Remoraid in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Remoraid lives on one Johto route, a rare bite on either rod most days. Its swarm flips that route to common walking encounters in the water, which is far and away the simplest way to reel one in.
1 location to catch Remoraid
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
Badge 7Where To Catch Remoraid in HGSS
The line opens with Remoraid at Lv. 10-40 via fishing encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Evolve into Octillery
Not landing the catch? Calculate Remoraid catch rates for HeartGold & SoulSilver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Remoraid in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Remoraid schools along Route 44, but a shiny comes faster from Masuda breeding with a foreign parent. Compare Shiny Remoraid odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Remoraid Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 HeartGold & SoulSilver 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Remoraid Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Remoraid
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Cacturne GrassDark | B | |
 Tangrowth Grass | C | |
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Shiftry GrassDark | C | |
 Ludicolo WaterGrass | C | |
 Carnivine Grass | C | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Raikou Electric | B | |
 Jolteon Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Ampharos Electric | C | |
Remoraid Evolutions
One evolution ahead. Remoraid grows into Octillery through a straightforward two-stage chain. Plenty of partners 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 69 breeding partners from the Water 1 and Water 2 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Aurora Beam, Flail, Haze and 7 more to offspring.
HGSS Remoraid Best Moveset
65 across all offensive stats with AbilityHustle boosting Attack by 50% at an accuracy cost. Some physical potential through Hustle. Octillery is the special coverage evolution.
Best Build
Remoraid best EVs are Attack and Sp. Atk
Mixed Attacker Moveset
- Blizzard
- Gunk Shot
- Signal Beam
- Water Pulse
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Aurora Beam and Flail from the egg pool give Remoraid something extra. Pair those with Water Spout and Surf for STAB and coverage across 12 types 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. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
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
All 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It has superb accuracy. The water it shoots out can strike moving prey from more than 300 feet away.
Using its dorsal fin as a suction pad, it clings to a MANTINE’s underside to scavenge for leftovers.
Remoraid HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, 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
Explore