Is Spearow Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Available around Route 42, later than in Gen 1. By that point the Pidgey line has a massive head start. Fearow hits harder, but the late arrival makes the switch difficult to justify.
Spearow trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Spearow has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Spearow trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Fearow resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Fearow has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Fearow trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Spearow on Route 46 (walking, Lv 2-3, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 2)
- LV 2FlyingPeckPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- LV 25DarkPursuitPower 40Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 37FlyingDrill PeckPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM47SteelSteel WingPower 70Accuracy 90%PP 25Route 28
Evolve Spearow to Fearow
Spearow evolves into Fearow at Level 20. Your Spearow should hit Level 20 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20FlyingPeckPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 40FlyingDrill PeckPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM47SteelSteel WingPower 70Accuracy 90%PP 25Route 28
How to Get Spearow in Gold & Silver
Two ways in. A man on Route 35 just gives you one, or you grab from 61 wild encounters across Johto and Kanto, common in grass and headbutted trees alike. The gift saves you the search.
16 locations to catch Spearow
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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The line opens with Spearow at Lv. 2-17 via headbutt, walking, and more encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 1Spearow ✓Route 29Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 30Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 31Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 32Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 33Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 42Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 43Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 44Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 80%Route 3Lv.5-8GrassGoldRate 55%Morning/dayRoute 4Lv.5-8GrassGoldRate 55%Morning/dayRoute 22Lv.3-5GrassRate 50%Morning/dayRoute 29Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 30Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 31Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 32Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 33Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 42Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 43Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 44Lv.10Headbutting special treesRate 50%Route 9Lv.13-15GrassSilverRate 50%Morning/dayRoute 42Lv.14-16GrassSilverRate 40%Morning/dayRoute 46Lv.2-3GrassRate 35%Morning/dayRoute 3Lv.5-8GrassSilverRate 35%Morning/dayRoute 4Lv.5-8GrassSilverRate 35%Morning/dayRoute 4Lv.5GrassGoldRate 30%NightRoute 42Lv.14-16GrassGoldRate 30%Morning/dayRoute 33Lv.6GrassRate 20%Morning/dayRoute 9Lv.13GrassGoldRate 20%Morning/dayRoute 35 - Goldenrod GateLv.10Gift from NPCLimitedRoute 10Lv.16GrassRate 30%Morning/dayRoute 7Lv.17GrassRate 30%Morning/day
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Gold & Silver for Spearow.
How to Get Shiny Spearow in Gold & Silver
Spearow blankets the grass on Route 29, Route 30, and Route 31, and that abundance makes those early routes the quickest place to grind, so just run battle after battle. Compare Shiny Spearow odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Spearow Calculator
3 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.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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 Spearow.
Spearow Weakness
Electric, Ice, and Rock moves hit Spearow for super-effective damage. The upside? Ground and Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Bug |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground, 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 Spearow Weak Against
Good
Spearow Evolutions
Spearow evolves into Fearow. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are quick to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 180 total stats over Spearow. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Spearow easily with 19 breeding partners from the Flying egg group. Pass egg moves like False Swipe, Feint Attack, Quick Attack and 2 more to offspring.
GS Spearow Best Moveset
60 Attack behind Normal and Flying moves that can't threaten anything evolved. Fearow improves the numbers modestly.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Agility
- Fly
- Curse
- Drill Peck
Moves List
Without breeding, Spearow misses out on False Swipe and Feint Attack. That's 5 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Fly and Drill Peck, with Dark and Ground coverage rounding things out.
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
It flaps its short wings to flush out insects from tall grass. It then plucks them with its stubby beak.
Very protective of its territory, it flaps its short wings busily to dart around at high speed.
Spearow Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Spearow does the job early-game if you need a Normal/Flying type on your team. Evolve it into Fearow before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Spearow has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 18 titles across all 9 generations. As a Gen 1 original, it's one of the most consistently available Pokemon in the franchise.
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 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
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