Is Snubbull Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Route 38 catch. Pure Normal in Gen 2, not Fairy. Granbull evolves at 23 with decent Attack. Middle-of-the-road Normal-type that works without impressing. Crystal's combined roster from both versions means stronger Normal options are within reach.
Snubbull trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Snubbull trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Snubbull trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Granbull has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Granbull has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Granbull has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Granbull has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Granbull has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Granbull trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Granbull has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Granbull has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Snubbull on Route 34 (walking, Lv 10, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- LV 43NormalTake DownPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
Evolve Snubbull to Granbull
Snubbull evolves into Granbull at Level 23. Your Snubbull should hit Level 23 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TM03GhostCursePower —Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift in the Celadon Mansion roof house, at night only
- LV 51NormalTake DownPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20
How to Get Snubbull in Crystal
Snubbull is common on six routes split between Johto and Kanto, all in the morning and day. None of the spots stands out, so grab one wherever you happen to pass.
6 locations to catch Snubbull
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Snubbull in C
The line opens with Snubbull at Lv. 10-18 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Granbullor evolve from Snubbull (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the Crystal catch rate calculator with Snubbull preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Snubbull in Crystal
Snubbull struts through the morning and daytime grass on Route 34 and Route 35 and across Kanto's Route 5 through Route 8, staying common everywhere it appears. Compare Shiny Snubbull odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Snubbull 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Crystal shiny odds calculator with Snubbull already selected.
Snubbull Weakness
Fighting moves hit Snubbull for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Snubbull's Normal typing only leaves 1 gap to cover.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- 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 Snubbull Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Snubbull
Snubbull Evolutions
Snubbull is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Granbull. Check the evolution method below. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 150 total stats over Snubbull. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Snubbull easily with 16 breeding partners from the Fairy and Field egg groups. Pass egg moves like Crunch, Feint Attack, Heal Bell and 5 more to offspring.
C Snubbull Best Moveset
Normal pre-evolution with 80 Attack heading toward Granbull. MoveReturn provides modest damage. Evolve for the 120 Attack that makes the physical role function.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Curse
- Lovely Kiss
- Shadow Ball
- Return
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Snubbull picks up Crunch and Feint Attack only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Take Down and Strength while coverage across 8 types adds range.
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
26 of 31 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
In truth, it is a cowardly POKéMON. It growls eagerly in order to hide its fear from its opponent.
Snubbull Crystal Guide
In Crystal, for a casual playthrough, Snubbull works as a placeholder. normal coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Granbull. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Snubbull 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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