Is Sunflora Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Sun Stone on Sunkern. Sunflora hits OK on the special side but is painfully slow and fragile. Every other Grass-type in the game outperforms it. The Sun Stone is better spent elsewhere.
Falkner's team hits Sunkern's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's team hits Sunkern's weaknesses hard.
Whitney's typing presses Sunkern's defenses.
Morty's typing presses Sunflora's defenses.
Sunflora trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Sunflora trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Sunflora resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Clair's team hits Sunflora's weaknesses hard.
Sunflora trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Sunflora trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Sunflora trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Janine's team hits Sunflora's weaknesses hard.
Sunflora has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Sunflora resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Blaine's team hits Sunflora's weaknesses hard.
Blue's team hits Sunflora's weaknesses hard.
Sunflora trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Koga's team hits Sunflora's weaknesses hard.
Sunflora has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Karen's team hits Sunflora's weaknesses hard.
Lance's team hits Sunflora's weaknesses hard.
Catch Sunkern
Catch Sunkern in the National Park (walking, Lv 11-13, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 11)
- LV 11GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 11GrassAbsorbPower 30Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 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 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- LV 46GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
Evolve Sunkern to Sunflora
Sunkern evolves into Sunflora with a Sun Stone. You can receive the Sun Stone from an NPC in National Park.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- LV 20NormalGrowthPower —Accuracy 100%PP 40
- LV 31GrassPetal DancePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 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
- LV 46GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
How to Get Sunflora in Gold & Silver
A Sun Stone on Sunkern is the only road to Sunflora, with nothing wild to find. The same stone the Gloom line wants, so a single Sun Stone forces a choice between this and a Bellossom.
Catch Sunkern at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Sunflora.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Sunkern
- 2Evolve SunfloraUse Sun Stone
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Badge 8How to Obtain Sunflora in GS
Sunkern is your first catch on the way to Sunflora. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 10-13 across 4 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Sunflora ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Sunkern egg.
How to Get Shiny Sunflora in Gold & Silver
Sunflora starts as the Sunkern you're really after, found out in the National Park and along Route 24, and a Sun Stone lifts that shiny into its bloom. Compare Shiny Sunflora odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Sunflora 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 Sunflora preloaded.
Sunflora Weakness
Sunflora is weak to Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, and Bug. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Sunflora's special bulk (base 85 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, Bug |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Grass, Ground |
- 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 Sunflora Weak Against
FragileBest Pokemon Against Sunflora
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x113-133%KO Fly 2x106-125%KO | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Typhlosion builds →Fire Blast 2x111-131%KO Fury Cutter 2x8-10% | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 2x113-133%KO Sludge Bomb 2x67-79% | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Dragonite builds →Fly 2x110-130%KO Fire Blast 2x69-82% Blizzard 2x69-82% Fury Cutter 2x11-14% | ||
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Lugia builds →Aeroblast 2x111-131%KO Blizzard 2x63-75% | ||
 Muk Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodCeladon City Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Muk builds →Sludge Bomb 2x114-134%KO Fire Blast 2x50-58% Ice Punch 2x31-37% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Scyther builds →Wing Attack 2x79-93% Fury Cutter 2x15-17% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x104-122%KO Smog 2x17-19% | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Flareon Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Sunflora View Flareon builds →Fire Blast 2x99-117%KO Smog 2x21-25% | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
 Ninetales Fire | C | |
Sunflora Evolutions
Sunflora doesn't evolve through normal leveling. You'll need an evolution item to get here from Sunkern's line. Breed this form to get Sunkern eggs (average hatch time). Evolving from Sunkern gave Sunflora the biggest boost in Sp.Atk (+75), bringing the total to 425 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Sunflora to get Sunkern eggs easily using 23 partners from the Grass egg group.
GS Sunflora Best Moveset
105 Sp. Atk fires MoveGiga Drain and MoveHidden Power with decent power, but 30 Speed means going last against everything. MoveGrowth boosts the Sp. Atk further, though the Speed makes safe setup nearly impossible. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Power behind Grass moves if it survives to use them.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Growth
- Giga Drain
- Attract
- Synthesis
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
TMs define Sunflora's movepool. The natural moves cover basics with Petal Dance and Solar Beam, but the real versatility comes from technical machines giving it Normal and Poison coverage. 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
15 of 21 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It converts sunlight into energy. In the darkness after sunset, it closes its petals and becomes still.
In the daytime, it rushes about in a hectic manner, but it comes to a complete stop when the sun sets.
Sunflora Gold & Silver Guide
Honestly, in Gold & Silver Sunflora is a tough sell. It rates just E-Tier, and stronger Grass options exist. Fun pick, not a practical one.
In Gold & Silver, Sunflora plays as a setup sweeper. It's slow, so Trick Room or priority moves are key. so pick your spots carefully. Set up with Growth when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
Sunflora has been available in 16 games since Gold & Silver, though obtaining it requires an item-based evolution. This extra step makes it less common than Pokemon found through standard wild encounters.
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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