Is Seviper Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Breed-only. Poison with AbilityShed Skin. No evolution and limited stats. Not worth the breeding effort.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Seviper resists most of Whitney's coverage and hits back hard.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Brock's team hits Seviper's weaknesses hard.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Seviper has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Seviper trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Seviper in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 47-48). Requires 35 Plains objects placed in Marshland.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 47)
- LV 47DarkCrunchPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM28GroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Whitney
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Hiker on Route 42
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- TM79DarkDark PulsePower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Sold by the TM clerk on 3F of the Celadon Department Store
- LV 52PoisonPoison JabPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
HeartGold & SoulSilver Seviper Locations
Seviper comes from an egg at the Day-Care and nowhere else in these games. The long fanged snake has no wild encounter, so tracking down a parent to breed is the real work.
1 location to catch Seviper
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Best Locations to Catch Seviper in HeartGold & SoulSilver
How to Get Shiny Seviper in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Seviper leans on the Masuda Method, so pair it with a foreign parent for a shiny of its own. Compare Shiny Seviper odds across every game
Shiny Seviper Evolution
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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 Seviper preloaded.
Seviper Weakness
Seviper is weak to Ground and Psychic. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Only 2 weaknesses makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Poison, Bug |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Seviper Weak Against
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Seviper Evolutions
No evolution chain to worry about here. Seviper is a standalone Pokemon with a decent partner pool for breeding through two egg groups. Its eggs take an average time to hatch. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Seviper easily with 30 breeding partners from the Dragon and Field egg groups. Pass egg moves like Assurance, Body Slam, Night Slash and 5 more to offspring.
HGSS Seviper Best Moveset
100 Attack and 100 Sp. Atk for mixed offense from both sides. AbilityShed Skin clears status one-third of the time. Fires physical or special Poison coverage depending on the target. 65 Speed is the bottleneck.
Best Build
Seviper best EVs are HP and Sp. Atk
Special Tank Moveset
- Flamethrower
- Earthquake
- Sucker Punch
- Sludge Bomb
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Seviper. Assurance and Body Slam come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Sludge Bomb and Poison Jab and coverage across 9 types.
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 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
In battle, it uses its bladed tail to counter any ZANGOOSE. It secretes a deadly venom in its tail.
Seviper HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
- How do I catch Seviper in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Safari Zone?
See the Locations section above for where to find Seviper in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Seviper from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Seviper easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Seviper plays as a attacker. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Mild is the go-to nature for Seviper. That's +Sp. Atk / -Defense. Pair it with 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpA EVs. Fits the attacker role.
Game Availability
Seviper first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 15 games across 7 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
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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