Is Seel Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Found in the Whirl Islands, which is mid-to-late Johto. Dewgong's Ice typing gives it the Lance matchup, but you can get Ice coverage from Lapras or Piloswine earlier.
Seel has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Seel has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Seel trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Seel trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Seel's defenses.
Seel trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Seel trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Dewgong trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Dewgong trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Dewgong trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Dewgong trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Dewgong resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Dewgong trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Dewgong has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Seel on Whirl Islands (walking, Lv 22-24, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 22)
- LV 22NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 22IceAurora BeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- LV 32NormalTake DownPower 90Accuracy 85%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 37IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Seel to Dewgong
Seel evolves into Dewgong at Level 34. Your Seel should hit Level 34 before you reach Clair, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 34)
- LV 34IceAurora BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- TM16IceIcy WindPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 15Prize for defeating Pryce
- LV 43IceIce BeamPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
How to Get Seel in Gold & Silver
Every Seel lives in one place, uncommon throughout, in the low-to-mid twenties. Eight encounters all in the same icy water means you go to that one spot or you go without.
1 location to catch Seel
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6Where To Catch Seel in GS
The line opens with Seel at Lv. 22-26 via walking encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Evolve into DewgongBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Seel egg.
Bring the right balls: check Seel catch odds in the Gold & Silver Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Seel in Gold & Silver
Seel swims through the caverns of the Whirl Islands, and every wild one you wade past is another chance at the shiny. Compare Shiny Seel odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Seel 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Seel in the Gold & Silver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Seel Weakness
Type-wise, Seel takes extra damage from Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Seel's Water typing only leaves 2 gaps to cover.
| 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 Seel Weak Against
Good
Seel Evolutions
Seel is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Dewgong. Check the evolution method below. Plenty of partners for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 150 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Seel easily with 66 breeding partners from the Field and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Disable, Encore, Lick and 3 more to offspring.
GS Seel Best Moveset
Water pre-evolution with stats too low for any format. MoveSurf from weak Sp. Atk deals negligible damage. Dewgong at the next stage barely improves the competitive outlook.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Surf
- Waterfall
- Rain Dance
- Whirlpool
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Disable and Encore give Seel options it can't learn any other way, and Normal and Ice coverage and more already covers a decent range on top of Surf and Waterfall. 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
16 of 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Although it can’t walk well on land, it is a graceful swimmer. It especially loves being in frigid seas.
In daytime, it is often found asleep on the seabed in shallow waters. Its nostrils close while it swims.
Seel Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, for a casual playthrough, Seel works as a placeholder. Water coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Dewgong. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Seel appears in 19 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Seel have the longest track record of availability in the series.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- 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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