VaporeonWater StoneJolteonThunder StoneFlareonFire StoneEspeonHigh Friendship (Day)UmbreonHigh Friendship (Night)
Is Vaporeon Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Water Stone on Bill's Eevee. Vaporeon is bulky with high HP and strong special attacks. Crystal's Water roster is deep though, and Vaporeon competes with Starmie, Gyarados, and Lanturn for the same slot. Worth it if those others aren't on your team.
Eevee has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Eevee has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Whitney:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Morty:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Chuck:
Vaporeon resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Jasmine:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Pryce:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Clair:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Lt. Surge:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Sabrina:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Erika:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Janine:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Misty:
Vaporeon resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Brock:
Vaporeon resists most of Blaine's coverage and hits back hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Blaine:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Blue:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Will:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Koga:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Bruno:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Karen:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Lance:
Gift Eevee
Eevee is given to you as a gift in Goldenrod City at Lv 20. From Bill. Given by Bill in his house in Goldenrod City after meeting him in the Ecruteak Pokemon Center.
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 23NormalQuick AttackPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 30DarkBitePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 42NormalTake DownPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20
Evolve Eevee to Vaporeon
Eevee evolves into Vaporeon with a Water Stone. You can receive the Water Stone from an NPC in Route 42.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TUTORIceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod City
- LV 52WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Eevee to Jolteon
Eevee evolves into Jolteon with a Thunder Stone. You can receive the Thunder Stone from an NPC in Route 38.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 42ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM07ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Gift from the Power Plant manager after returning the Machine Part
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- LV 52ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
Evolve Eevee to Flareon
Eevee evolves into Flareon with a Fire Stone. You can receive the Fire Stone from an NPC in Route 36.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 16)
- LV 16FireEmberPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 30DarkBitePower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- LV 52FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Eevee to Espeon
Eevee evolves into Espeon with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Whitney.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 16)
- LV 16PsychicConfusionPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 36PsychicPsybeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- LV 47PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Eevee to Umbreon
Eevee evolves into Umbreon with high friendship. Friendship is usually high enough before you reach Whitney.
Recommended Moves
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 30GhostConfuse RayPower —Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 36DarkFeint AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 100Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
How to Get Vaporeon in Crystal
A Water Stone on Bill's gift Eevee is the only way to Vaporeon, since none appear wild. That stone is one of three choices, and the single Eevee locks you out of the other two.
Catch Eevee at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Vaporeon.
- 1Catch Eevee
- 2Evolve VaporeonUse Water Stone
Badge 2How to Obtain Vaporeon in C
- Step 2Vaporeon ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Eevee egg.
How to Get Shiny Vaporeon in Crystal
Vaporeon has no wild source of its own, so the hunt happens one stage earlier: land a shiny Eevee first, then hand it a Water Stone to finish the job. Compare Shiny Vaporeon odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Vaporeon Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Crystal with Vaporeon preloaded.
Vaporeon Weakness
Type-wise, Vaporeon takes extra damage from Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Vaporeon's special bulk (base 95 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| 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 Vaporeon Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Vaporeon
 Parasect BugGrass | C | |
 Celebi PsychicGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Interact Encounter | ||
 Victreebel GrassPoison | C | |
 Sunflora Grass | C | |
 Tangela Grass | C | |
 Vileplume GrassPoison | C | |
 Raikou Electric | S | |
 Meganium Grass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Chikorita (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
Jolteon Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Pikachu Electric | C | |
Obtain MethodCeladon City Gift | ||
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter | ||
 Jumpluff Grass | C | |
Vaporeon Evolutions
Vaporeon is one of 5 ways Eevee's chain can end. This one takes the Water Stone path, while the siblings go different directions. Breed through Eevee to get eggs. Vaporeon and Jolteon share the same 525 total stats, but they're distributed differently. Check the comparison below to see where each one specializes. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Vaporeon to get Eevee eggs (with patience) using 66 partners from the Field egg group. Notable egg moves include Charm, Flail.
C Vaporeon Best Moveset
130 HP stacked with 110 Sp. Atk creates a special tank that hits hard while absorbing punishment. MoveSurf and MoveIce Beam cover the standard Water/Ice spread. MoveRest plus MoveSleep Talk sustains indefinitely. Held ItemLeftovers amplifies the massive HP. One of the hardest special attackers in the format to wear down.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Growth
- Surf
- Rest
- Acid Armor
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Most of Vaporeon's flexibility comes from TMs. Same-type output runs through Hydro Pump and Surf, but Normal and Dark and the rest of the TM pool push it from predictable to genuinely threatening.
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
23 of 28 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
As it uses the fins on the tip of its tail to swim, it blends with the water perfectly.
Vaporeon Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Vaporeon plays as a tank. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully. Surf is the primary attack. Set up with Growth when you get a free turn.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Vaporeon appears in 22 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Vaporeon have the longest track record of availability in the series.
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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