Is Venomoth Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Fast and gets decent special coverage through TMs. Venomoth can handle Chuck and puts in some work against Koga at the E4. Crystal's move tutor doesn't help Bug-types directly, so what you see from TMs is what you get.
Falkner's team hits Venonat's weaknesses hard.
Venonat trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Whitney's team hits Venonat's weaknesses hard.
Venonat trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Venonat's defenses.
Jasmine's team hits Venomoth's weaknesses hard.
Venomoth has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Venomoth trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Venomoth trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Venomoth has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Venomoth resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Venomoth trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Venomoth has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Venomoth resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Blaine's team hits Venomoth's weaknesses hard.
Venomoth trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Venomoth has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Venomoth trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Venomoth has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Venomoth has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Venomoth trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catch Venonat
Catch Venonat in Ilex Forest (walking, Lv 5, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- LV 17PsychicConfusionPower 50Accuracy 100%PP 25
- LV 33PsychicPsybeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- 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
- LV 41PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Venonat to Venomoth
Venonat evolves into Venomoth at Level 31. Your Venonat should hit Level 31 before you reach Jasmine, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- 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
- LV 36PsychicPsybeamPower 65Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 52PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Venomoth in Crystal
Leveling a Venonat to 31 sidesteps the poor odds and the nighttime-only window. Wild Venomoth flies at night across seven routes, never more than uncommon and often rare.
6 locations to catch Venomoth11 locations to catch Venonat
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Catch Venonat at any of the 11 locations below, then level it up to 31 — it evolves into Venomoth.
Badge 1
Badge 2
Badge 3
Badge 4
Badge 5 Badge 6 Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Venomoth in C
Venonat gets you Venomoth sooner: catch it (before Badge 2) and evolve it at Lv 31. Wild Venomoth first appears at Route 43 (after Badge 6).
- Step 1Catch VenonatRoute 43Lv.15-17GrassRate 40%NightIlex ForestLv.5GrassRate 30%NightRoute 24Lv.10GrassRate 30%NightRoute 10Lv.15GrassRate 30%NightRoute 9Lv.15GrassRate 30%NightRoute 25Lv.10GrassRate 20%NightLake of RageLv.10Headbutting treesRate 15%Route 43Lv.10Headbutting treesRate 15%National ParkLv.10-12FloorRate 10%NightNational Park - Bug Catching ContestLv.10-16FloorRate 10%Bug-Catching Contest only, on Tuesdays, ThursdaysRoute 13Lv.23GrassRate 30%NightRoute 15Lv.23GrassRate 30%NightRoute 14Lv.26GrassRate 30%Night
- Step 2Venomoth ✓Route 10Lv.15GrassRate 10%NightRoute 9Lv.15GrassRate 10%NightRoute 13Lv.25GrassRate 10%NightRoute 15Lv.25GrassRate 10%Nightor evolve from Venonat (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Venomoth catch rates for Crystal by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Venomoth in Crystal
Venomoth drifts across Kanto's Route 9, Route 10 & Route 13 through Route 15 after dark as an uncommon find, with rare high-level spawns in National Park; hunt late and keep moving. Compare Shiny Venomoth odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Venomoth 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 Crystal with Venomoth preloaded.
Venomoth Weakness
Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock moves hit Venomoth for super-effective damage. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Venomoth leans toward special offense (base 90 Sp.Atk) instead of trying to wall anything.
| 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 Venomoth Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Venomoth
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x139-164%KO Fire Punch 2x59-69% | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x117-138%KO Fly 2x68-81% | ||
 Celebi PsychicGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Celebi builds →Future Sight 2x122-144%KO Ancient Power 2x49-58% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
 Flareon Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Slide 2x90-107%KO Fire Punch 2x22-27% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Quilava builds →Fire Blast 2x103-121%KO Rollout 2x19-23% | ||
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Gyarados Water | B | |
Obtain MethodLake Of Rage Good Rod | ||
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
Venomoth Evolutions
Evolved from Venonat. Venomoth is the final form in this two-stage line. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Sp.Atk grew the most through evolution (+50 over Venonat), and Venomoth peaks at 450 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Venomoth to get Venonat eggs easily using 23 partners from the Bug egg group. Notable egg moves include Baton Pass, Giga Drain, Screech.
C Venomoth Best Moveset
MoveSleep Powder remains the primary niche, with 90 Speed outspeeding a decent portion of the mid-tier. Bug and Poison TermStab still threaten nothing offensively, and Steel types now resist Poison. MovePsychic from 90 Sp. Atk provides the real coverage.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Sleep Powder
- Thief
- Psychic
- Giga Drain
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Venomoth picks up Baton Pass and Giga Drain only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Sludge Bomb and Leech Life while Normal and Psychic coverage and more adds range.
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
16 of 23 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The scales it scatters will paralyze anyone who touches them, making that person unable to stand.
Venomoth Crystal Guide
In Crystal, use Venomoth as a balanced. Physical side carries the damage. Speed is middling,
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Venomoth has appeared in 19 games: most mainline games. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
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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