Is Smoochum Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Baby Pokemon from breeding Jynx. Needs to evolve via leveling to become Jynx, which you can already get directly. No reason to go through the baby stage when the adult form is obtainable.
Falkner's typing presses Smoochum's defenses.
Smoochum has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Smoochum trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Jynx resists most of Morty's coverage and hits back hard.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Jynx trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Jynx resists most of Clair's coverage and hits back hard.
Jynx trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Jynx trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Jynx resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Jynx resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Jynx trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Jynx resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Jynx has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Hatch
Hatch Smoochum from an Egg you breed on Route 34.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- LV 21PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Pryce
- TM16IceIcy WindPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 15Prize for defeating Pryce
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 37PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- LV 49IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
Evolve Smoochum to Jynx
Smoochum evolves into Jynx at Level 30. Your Smoochum should hit Level 30 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30IceIce PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 30NormalLovely KissPower —Accuracy 75%PP 10
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 41NormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 57IceBlizzardPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 5
How to Get Smoochum in Gold & Silver
You will never run into a wild Smoochum. Drop a Jynx at the Day Care with a partner and the egg you collect hatches one, which makes this baby a breeding project rather than a grass encounter.
Wild Smoochum may be holding when caught:
Catch Jynx at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Smoochum.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Smoochum
- 2
Badge 7How to Obtain Smoochum in GS
- Step 1Smoochum ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave Jynx with a compatible partner at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Smoochum egg.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into JynxIce Path - 1FLv.20-22CaveRate 10%DayIce Path - B1FLv.20-22CaveRate 10%DayIce Path - B2FLv.21-23CaveRate 10%DayIce Path - B3FLv.22-24CaveRate 10%Dayor evolve from Smoochum (Step 1)
How to Get Shiny Smoochum in Gold & Silver
Smoochum hatches only from the incubator, so catch a Jynx on the Ice Path, leave it in the Day-Care, and let the eggs it produces carry your shot at the shine. Compare Shiny Smoochum odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Smoochum Calculator
1 MethodThe only route here is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
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 Smoochum.
Smoochum Weakness
Type-wise, Smoochum takes extra damage from Fire, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dark, and Steel. Smoochum's special bulk (base 65 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dark, Steel |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Ice, Psychic |
- 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 Smoochum Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Smoochum
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x174-205%KO Shadow Ball 2x221-261%KO Steel Wing 2x193-228%KO | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 2x174-205%KO Crunch 2x116-137%KO Shadow Ball 2x162-191%KO Iron Tail 2x203-239%KO | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Typhlosion builds →Fire Blast 2x174-205%KO Iron Tail 2x191-226%KO Rollout 2x59-70% Fury Cutter 2x21-24% | ||
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Arcanine builds →Fire Blast 2x162-190%KO Iron Tail 2x239-282%KO | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Entei builds →Fire Blast 2x148-174%KO Iron Tail 2x249-293%KO Bite 2x49-59% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x162-190%KO Iron Tail 2x211-249%KO Thief 2x37-44% | ||
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Tyranitar builds →Rock Slide 2x320-377%KO Crunch 2x104-123%KO Iron Tail 2x285-335%KO Fire Blast 2x102-121%KO | ||
 Flareon Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Flareon builds →Fire Blast 2x154-181%KO Shadow Ball 2x221-261%KO Iron Tail 2x276-326%KO Bite 2x52-61% | ||
 Ninetales Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Ninetales builds →Fire Blast 2x137-161%KO Iron Tail 2x177-209%KO | ||
 Rapidash Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Rapidash builds →Fire Blast 2x134-157%KO Iron Tail 2x221-260%KO | ||
 Magcargo FireRock | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Magcargo builds →Fire Blast 2x148-174%KO Rock Slide 2x145-170%KO | ||
 Sneasel DarkIce | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Sneasel builds →Shadow Ball 2x170-200%KO Iron Tail 2x211-249%KO Feint Attack 2x38-46% Fury Cutter 2x23-27% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Scyther builds →Steel Wing 2x168-198%KO Pursuit 2x24-28% Fury Cutter 2x37-44% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Smoochum View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Slide 2x249-293%KO Fire Punch 2x29-34% Feint Attack 2x23-27% | ||
Smoochum Evolutions
This is the baby stage. Smoochum grows into Jynx at level 30. Want more? Breed the adults. Baby Pokemon sit in the Undiscovered egg group. Evolving adds up to 150 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
GS Smoochum Best Moveset
Baby pre-evolution of Jynx with Ice/Psychic typing at stats too low for competitive play. MoveIce Beam and MovePsychic exist at reduced power. Jynx takes over with the Sp. Atk to threaten.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Blizzard
- Psychic
- Perish Song
- Sing
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
TMs carry this one. Smoochum learns Blizzard and Dream Eater naturally for STAB, but the offensive range comes almost entirely from technical machines. Ghost and Normal and beyond give it real matchup play.
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
19 of 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its lips are the most sensitive parts on its body. It always uses its lips first to examine things.
It always rocks its head slowly backwards and forwards as if it is trying to kiss someone.
Smoochum Gold & Silver Guide
For Gold & Silver, you can run Smoochum through the first few routes without issues. 305 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Jynx as fast as you can.
Game Availability
Available in 16 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Smoochum spans 8 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through catching or hatching as a base form in most mainline games.
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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