Is Skiploom Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Slightly better than Hoppip but still too weak to contribute in battles. Evolves into Jumpluff at 27. The speed improves but the damage never does.
Falkner's Pokemon outpace and outclass Hoppip here.
Bugsy's team hits Hoppip's weaknesses hard.
Skiploom trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Morty's typing presses Jumpluff's defenses.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Jasmine's team hits Jumpluff's weaknesses hard.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Janine's team hits Jumpluff's weaknesses hard.
Jumpluff resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
Jumpluff resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Blaine's team hits Jumpluff's weaknesses hard.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Koga's team hits Jumpluff's weaknesses hard.
Jumpluff has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Jumpluff trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Lance's team hits Jumpluff's weaknesses hard.
Catch Hoppip
Catch Hoppip on Route 32 (walking, Lv 6, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- LV 10NormalTacklePower 35Accuracy 95%PP 35
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- LV 30GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Hoppip to Skiploom
Hoppip evolves into Skiploom at Level 18. Your Hoppip should hit Level 18 before you reach Whitney, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 18)
- LV 18NormalTacklePower 35Accuracy 95%PP 35
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 36GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Skiploom to Jumpluff
Skiploom evolves into Jumpluff at Level 27. Your Skiploom should hit Level 27 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 27)
- LV 27GrassStun SporePower —Accuracy 75%PP 30
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- LV 44GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
How to Get Skiploom in Gold & Silver
One rare daytime spot holds a wild Skiploom at level 26, but evolving a Hoppip at level 18 lands one far sooner. The middle stage rarely justifies the hunt when the base form is everywhere.
1 location to catch Skiploom5 locations to catch Hoppip
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Hoppip at any of the 5 locations below, then level it up to 18 — it evolves into Skiploom.
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Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Skiploom in GS
The only way to get Skiploom during the story is evolving Hoppip (Lv 18).
- Step 2Skiploom ✓or evolve from Hoppip (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into JumpluffBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Hoppip egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Gold & Silver for Skiploom.
How to Get Shiny Skiploom in Gold & Silver
Skiploom lives wild in the Route 14 grass alone, though a shiny Hoppip evolved at level 18 reaches it just as well if you'd rather build up from there. Compare Shiny Skiploom odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Skiploom 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Gold & Silver shiny odds for Skiploom.
Skiploom Weakness
Skiploom is weak to Ice, Fire, Poison, Flying, and Rock. Watch out for Ice attacks, those deal 4x damage. On the flip side, it's immune to Ground-type moves entirely.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Ice |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Poison, Flying, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Fighting |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- 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 Skiploom Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Skiploom
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Lugia builds →Blizzard 4x181-213%KO Aeroblast 2x139-163%KO | ||
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x160-189%KO Fly 2x133-157%KO | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Dragonite builds →Blizzard 4x198-234%KO Fly 2x136-160%KO Fire Blast 2x99-117%KO | ||
 Dewgong WaterIce | C | |
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Typhlosion builds →Fire Blast 2x160-189%KO Rollout 2x28-33% | ||
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 2x160-189%KO Sludge Bomb 2x83-98% | ||
 Muk Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodCeladon City Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Muk builds →Sludge Bomb 2x142-167%KO Ice Punch 4x89-106%KO Fire Blast 2x70-83% | ||
 Nidoking PoisonGround | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Nidoking builds →Blizzard 4x174-204%KO Fire Blast 2x87-102%KO Poison Sting 2x24-29% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Skiploom View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x149-175%KO Smog 2x20-24% | ||
Skiploom Evolutions
Skiploom sits between Hoppip and Jumpluff in this three-stage line. Not the final form yet. For breeding, average hatch time with a decent partner pool via two egg groups. Speed has grown the most so far (+30), but there's still another 120 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Skiploom to get Hoppip eggs easily using 16 partners from the Fairy and Grass egg groups. Notable egg moves include Amnesia, Confusion, Double-Edge and 4 more.
GS Skiploom Best Moveset
Middle-stage Grass/Flying heading toward Jumpluff. MoveSleep Powder works from any stat line, and the Speed is improving. Jumpluff completes the package with elite Speed.
Best Build
Screens Setter Moveset
- Reflect
- Leech Seed
- Encore
- Stun Spore
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Skiploom gets Amnesia and Confusion exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Normal and Psychic coverage rounds out the picture alongside Solar Beam and Giga Drain.
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
15 of 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The bloom on top of its head opens and closes as the temperature fluctuates up and down.
It spreads its petals to absorb sunlight. It also floats in the air to get closer to the sun.
Skiploom Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, for a casual playthrough, Skiploom works as a placeholder. Grass/Flying coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Jumpluff. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Skiploom appears in 16 games across 8 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline 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 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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