Is Silcoon Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Bug cocoon with AbilityShed Skin clearing status occasionally. Silcoon evolves into Beautifly at 10. The only purpose is reaching that evolution. Once Beautifly is online, Silcoon's job is finished.
Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
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Beautifly resists most of Brawly's coverage and hits back hard.
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Wattson's team hits Beautifly's weaknesses hard.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
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Beautifly has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
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Beautifly has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
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Drake's team hits Beautifly's weaknesses hard.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
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Catch Wurmple
Catch Wurmple on Route 101 (walking, Lv 2-3, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 2)
- LV 2NormalTacklePower 35Accuracy 95%PP 35
- LV 5PoisonPoison StingPower 15Accuracy 100%PP 35
Breed Beautifly
Beautifly can be obtained by breeding (post-game).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- After Norman
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Breed Dustox
Dustox can be obtained by breeding (post-game).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 38PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
How to Get Silcoon in Emerald
Silcoon appears as an uncommon catch in Petalburg Woods at level 5, the same spot its Wurmple base swarms. Catching it directly skips the random evolution gamble, since a wild Silcoon always leads to Beautifly.
1 location to catch Silcoon4 locations to catch Wurmple
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 1Catch Wurmple at any of the 4 locations below, then level it up to 7 — it evolves into Silcoon.
Badge 1Where To Catch Silcoon in E
The path to Silcoon starts with Wurmple at Lv. 2-6 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 3Evolve into BeautiflyBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Wurmple egg.
Not landing the catch? Calculate Silcoon catch rates for Emerald by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Silcoon in Emerald
Silcoon clings to the tall grass of Petalburg Woods as an uncommon find, so work that patch steadily, or evolve a shiny Wurmple caught nearby, through the same full-odds patience. Compare Shiny Silcoon odds across every game
Shiny Silcoon Evolution
Multi-Path
Emerald Shiny Silcoon Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
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 Emerald with Silcoon preloaded.
Silcoon Weakness
Type-wise, Silcoon takes extra damage from Fire, Flying, and Rock. Silcoon's physical bulk (base 55 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Flying, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Ground |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Silcoon Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Silcoon
 Torchic Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 101 Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Silcoon View Torchic builds →Ember 2x75-89% Rock Tomb 2x39-45% | ||
 Taillow Normal | C | |
 Cyndaquil Fire | D | |
Obtain MethodLittleroot Town Gift | ||
 Wingull Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing | ||
Silcoon Evolutions
Wurmple can evolve into Silcoon and Cascoon. Silcoon sits before the split, so check the evolution methods below to pick your path. Defense has grown the most so far (+20), but there's still another 190 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Silcoon to get Wurmple eggs easily using 37 partners from the Bug egg group.
E Silcoon Best Moveset
Cocoon stage that only learns MoveHarden on top of the moves Wurmple already had. Defense stacking on 50 HP and 50 Defense accomplishes nothing. Beautifly one evolution away at least gets offensive moves.
Best Build
Silcoon best EVs are Attack
Utility Moveset
- Harden
- Harden
Moves List
A compact toolkit overall. The offense runs through Bug STAB for Silcoon, with Poison and Normal coverage doing what it can. Don't expect versatility from this one.
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
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
It prepares for evolution using the energy it stored while it was a WURMPLE. It keeps watch over the surroundings with its two eyes.
Silcoon Emerald Guide
In Emerald, for a casual playthrough, Silcoon works as a placeholder. Bug coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Cascoon. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Silcoon appears in 14 games across 7 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
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
Winds & Waves
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