Is Stantler Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Route 36 and Route 37 in Johto. Normal-type with decent special stats but nothing that stands out. Stantler is available at a good time but the performance never matches the potential. Gets outpaced by mid-game and doesn't evolve.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Stantler trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Stantler trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Stantler trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Clair's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Stantler trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Stantler trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Stantler trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Stantler has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Stantler trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Stantler on Route 36 (walking, Lv 13, rare).
Recommended Moves
- LV 15PsychicHypnosisPower —Accuracy 60%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 23NormalStompPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 40NormalTake DownPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
Gold & Silver Stantler Locations
Stantler sticks to two grassy spots, common at one and rare at the other, in the low-to-mid teens. A modest mid-game catch, nothing exotic, just a couple of routes where it reliably turns up.
2 locations to catch Stantler
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 3Best Locations to Catch Stantler in Gold & Silver
How to Get Shiny Stantler in Gold & Silver
Stantler wanders wild across Route 36 and Route 37, two stretches that sit right side by side, so you can drift between them and keep the encounters stacking up. Compare Shiny Stantler odds across every game
Shiny Stantler Evolution
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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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Stantler in the Gold & Silver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Stantler Weakness
Type-wise, Stantler takes extra damage from Fighting. Ghost moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. Stantler leans offensive (base 95 Atk) rather than trying to tank its weaknesses.
| 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 Stantler Weak Against
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Stantler Evolutions
What you see is what you get. Stantler sits outside any evolution chain, so focus on the egg moves and plenty of partners from one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Stantler easily with 66 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Bite, Disable, Light Screen and 2 more to offspring.
GS Stantler Best Moveset
95 Attack with MoveReturn and MoveEarthquake for physical coverage. MoveHypnosis at 60%% accuracy adds unreliable sleep. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Decent mid-tier physical attacker with a sleep option, though the accuracy limits how much the utility adds.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Earthquake
- Curse
- Return
- Hypnosis
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Bite and Disable aren't available any other way for Stantler, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Take Down and Headbutt for solid options.
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
20 of 26 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The curved antlers subtly change the flow of air to create a strange space where reality is distorted.
Those who stare at its antlers will gradually lose control of their senses and be unable to stand.
Stantler Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Stantler has 465 BST, so weigh it against what your team already covers.
In Gold & Silver, Stantler plays as a balanced. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully. Return is the primary attack. Set up with Curse when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
Stantler first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 17 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
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
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