Is Slowpoke Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Slowpoke Well gives one right after the first gym. Water/Psychic coverage is strong through Crystal's mid-game. Slowbro evolves at 37, which lines up with the Lake of Rage stretch. Patient trainer that takes hits while the team builds around it.
Slowpoke trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Bugsy's team hits Slowpoke's weaknesses hard.
Whitney's typing presses Slowpoke's defenses.
Slowpoke has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
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Slowpoke trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
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Slowpoke trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
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Slowpoke trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
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Slowbro trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
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Slowbro has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
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Slowbro trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
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Slowbro trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
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Slowbro resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
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Slowbro trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
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Slowbro resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
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Slowbro resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
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Slowbro has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
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Slowbro trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
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Slowbro resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
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Slowbro resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
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Slowbro has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
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Slowbro has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
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Catchable
Catch Slowpoke in Slowpoke Well (walking, Lv 6-8, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TUTORFireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- LV 48PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Slowpoke to Slowbro
Slowpoke evolves into Slowbro at Level 37. Your Slowpoke should hit Level 37 before you reach Clair, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORFireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- LV 54PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Slowpoke to Slowking
Slowpoke evolves into Slowking when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Clair.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORFireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- LV 48PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Slowpoke in Crystal
Slowpoke sticks to two water areas, common by surf and uncommon in the grass, with Slowpoke Well being the obvious home. Tohjo Falls is the only other place it turns up.
Wild Slowpoke may be holding when caught:
Kings Rock (2% chance) May make the foe flinch. (HOLD)2 locations to catch Slowpoke
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Slowpoke in C
Slowpoke is where the line starts, caught through surfing and walking encounters at Lv. 6-24. The chain covers 1 catchable stage before reaching the final form.
Available in-game· 2 pathsPick one
Not landing the catch? Calculate Slowpoke catch rates for Crystal by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Slowpoke in Crystal
Slowpoke lazes around Slowpoke Well at every hour, walking the floors and drifting on the water, with more at Tohjo Falls; surf the well pool for constant spawns. Compare Shiny Slowpoke odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Slowpoke 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Crystal with Slowpoke preloaded.
Slowpoke Weakness
Slowpoke's Water/Psychic typing leaves it vulnerable to Electric, Grass, Bug, Ghost, and Dark. With 6 resistances, the defensive profile is strong. Slowpoke's physical bulk (base 65 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass, Bug, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Fighting, Psychic, 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 Slowpoke Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Slowpoke
 Elekid Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift | ||
 Gastly GhostPoison | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slowpoke View Gastly builds →Thunder 2x110-131%KO Lick 2x14-17% | ||
 Ledian Bug | C | |
 Bayleef Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slowpoke View Bayleef builds →Razor Leaf 2x56-67% Fury Cutter 2x7-8% | ||
 Pichu Electric | D | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift | ||
 Beedrill BugPoison | C | |
 Bellsprout GrassPoison | D | |
 Skiploom Grass | C | |
 Paras BugGrass | C | |
 Oddish GrassPoison | C | |
 Venonat BugPoison | D | |
 Spinarak BugPoison | D | |
Slowpoke Evolutions
From here, Slowpoke's line branches into Slowbro and Slowking. That's 2 possible evolutions, each with its own method. The evolved forms gain up to 175 total stats over Slowpoke. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Slowpoke easily with 36 breeding partners from the Monster and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Belly Drum, Future Sight, Safeguard and 1 more to offspring.
C Slowpoke Best Moveset
Water/Psychic pre-evolution too slow for anything competitive. Slowbro and Slowking both evolve from this line, offering physical and special tank variants respectively.
Best Build
Support Moveset
- Rest
- Thunder Wave
- Sleep Talk
- Surf
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Belly Drum and Future Sight from the egg pool give Slowpoke something extra.
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
25 of 32 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is always so absent-minded that it won’t react, even if its flavorful tail is bitten.
Slowpoke Crystal Guide
No. Slowpoke only evolves into Slowking through a real trade. There is no in-game alternative in Crystal. The King's Rock must be held during the trade. Bring one over from a sibling Gen 3 game if needed.
Yes. Wild Slowpoke in Crystal can hold Kings Rock (2%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Kings Rock.
For Crystal, you can run Slowpoke through the first few routes without issues. 315 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Slowbro as fast as you can.
Slowpoke has a Galarian form that swaps the typing and reshuffles the stats. Introduced in Gen 8. Worth checking if the original version doesn't fit your team.
Game Availability
Since debuting in Red & Blue, Slowpoke has appeared in 21 titles over 9 generations. Along the way, it received a Galarian form in Generation 8, keeping it relevant across different competitive metas.
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 8SwShGalarian
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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