Is Spinarak Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Gold version only, nighttime on Route 2. Ariados evolves at 22 and provides Poison/Bug coverage. Better than Ledian but that's a low bar. Gets outclassed before Goldenrod City.
Spinarak trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Spinarak trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Spinarak trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Ariados has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Ariados has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Janine's team hits Ariados's weaknesses hard.
Ariados has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Ariados has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Koga's team hits Ariados's weaknesses hard.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Ariados trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Lance's team hits Ariados's weaknesses hard.
Catchable
Catch Spinarak on Route 30 (walking, Lv 3, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- LV 17GhostNight ShadePower 50Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 53PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Spinarak to Ariados
Spinarak evolves into Ariados at Level 22. Your Spinarak should hit Level 22 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 22)
- LV 22GhostNight ShadePower 50Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift from an officer in the Route 43 gate
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 63PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Spinarak in Gold & Silver
The Gold mirror of Ledyba, Spinarak spins up at four early spots, common but only at night. Silver leaves it out of the wild entirely, so the version you picked decides which of the two bugs you raise.
4 locations to catch Spinarak
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Spinarak in GS
The line opens with Spinarak at Lv. 3-15 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
Not landing the catch? Calculate Spinarak catch rates for Gold & Silver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Spinarak in Gold & Silver
Spinarak lurks in the grass on Route 30, Route 31, and Route 37, and thousands of encounters is the realistic price of chasing down its shiny form across those patches. Compare Shiny Spinarak odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Spinarak 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 Gold & Silver with Spinarak preloaded.
Spinarak Weakness
Spinarak's Bug/Poison typing leaves it vulnerable to Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock. The Bug/Poison typing picks up 4 resistances to work with.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Flying, Psychic, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Poison, Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting |
- 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 Spinarak Weak Against
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Spinarak Evolutions
Spinarak is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Ariados. Check the evolution method below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs are quick to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 150 total stats over Spinarak. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Spinarak easily with 23 breeding partners from the Bug egg group. Pass egg moves like Baton Pass, Disable, Psybeam and 2 more to offspring.
GS Spinarak Best Moveset
Bug/Poison pre-evolution with no competitive stats or moves worth mentioning. Ariados provides marginal improvement.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Sludge Bomb
- Leech Life
- Agility
- Poison Sting
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Baton Pass and Disable from the egg pool give Spinarak 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
15 of 21 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It lies still in the same pose for days in its web, waiting for its unsuspecting prey to wander close.
It spins a web using fine--but durable--thread. It then waits patiently for prey to be trapped.
Spinarak Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, for a casual playthrough, Spinarak works as a placeholder. Bug/Poison coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Ariados. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Spinarak appears in 17 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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