Is Staryu Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Surf or fish in Olivine City. Starmie requires a Water Stone, which is the only gate between you and one of the best Pokemon in Crystal. Get this as soon as Olivine opens up.
Staryu has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Staryu has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Staryu trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Staryu trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Starmie trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Starmie trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Starmie trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Starmie resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Starmie resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Starmie resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Starmie has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Staryu in Cherrygrove City (Good Rod fishing, Lv 20, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- LV 31WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Lt. Surge
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- LV 50WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Staryu to Starmie
Staryu evolves into Starmie with a Water Stone. You can receive the Water Stone from an NPC in Route 42.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 25)
- LV 25WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
How to Get Staryu in Crystal
Staryu is a nighttime rod catch, 22 encounters across ten coastal spots but only after dark. Fish those same waters by day and you'll pull up nothing.
Wild Staryu may be holding when caught:
Stardust (23% chance) Pretty, red sand. Sell high.
Star Piece (2% chance) A hunk of red gem. Sell very high.9 locations to catch Staryu
Encountered via fishing with a Rod
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Staryu is the chain's first catch. You'll find fishing encounters from Lv. 20-40 across 18 total spots in the chain.
- Step 1Staryu ✓Cherrygrove CityLv.20Good RodRate 10%NightCianwood CityLv.20Good RodRate 10%NightGoldenrod CityLv.20Good RodRate 10%NightOlivine CityLv.20Good RodRate 10%NightRoute 34Lv.20Good RodRate 10%NightRoute 40Lv.20Good RodRate 10%NightUnion Cave - B2FLv.20Good RodRate 10%NightRoute 14Lv.20Good RodRate 10%NightRoute 19Lv.20Good RodRate 10%NightCherrygrove CityLv.40Super RodRate 30%NightCianwood CityLv.40Super RodRate 30%NightGoldenrod CityLv.40Super RodRate 30%NightOlivine CityLv.40Super RodRate 30%NightRoute 34Lv.40Super RodRate 30%NightRoute 40Lv.40Super RodRate 30%NightUnion Cave - B2FLv.40Super RodRate 30%NightRoute 14Lv.40Super RodRate 30%NightRoute 19Lv.40Super RodRate 30%Night
- Step 2Evolve into StarmieBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Staryu egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Crystal for Staryu.
How to Get Shiny Staryu in Crystal
Staryu bites only after dark: night fishing with the Good or Super Rod at Cherrygrove, Cianwood, Goldenrod or Olivine brings it in, topping out at level 40. Compare Shiny Staryu odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Staryu 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Crystal shiny odds for Staryu.
Staryu Weakness
Staryu is weak to Electric and Grass. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Only 2 weaknesses makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- 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 Staryu Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Staryu
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
 Raikou Electric | S | |
 Jolteon Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter | ||
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Sunflora Grass | C | |
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Tangela Grass | C | |
 Pichu Electric | D | |
Obtain MethodRoute 34 Gift | ||
 Skiploom Grass | C | |
Staryu Evolutions
Evolving Staryu into Starmie takes an evolution item. It's not a simple level-up, so check the chain details below. Evolving adds up to 180 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Staryu is genderless and can only breed with Ditto. Part of the Water 3 egg group.
Ditto onlyC Staryu Best Moveset
85 Speed and coverage from MoveSurf plus MoveThunderbolt preview what Starmie delivers at competitive power. Pre-evolution stats limit each move to small damage. One evolution transforms everything.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Surf
- Thunderbolt
- Recover
- Ice Beam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
TMs define Staryu's movepool. The natural moves cover basics with Hydro Pump and Surf, but the real versatility comes from technical machines giving it Normal and Ice coverage and more. That's where the options open up.
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
18 of 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
When the stars twinkle at night, it floats up from the sea floor, and its body’s center core flickers.
Staryu Crystal Guide
Yes. Wild Staryu in Crystal can hold Stardust (23%) or Star Piece (2%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Stardust.
In Crystal, Staryu does the job early-game if you need a Water type on your team. Evolve it into Starmie before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Staryu has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 20 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
Winds & Waves
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