Is Venomoth Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Fast with TM access to MovePsychic, which gives it an edge against Chuck and Koga at the E4. A niche pick that works in specific spots. Most teams find better options, but Venomoth can surprise you.
Venonat trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
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 the National Park (walking, Lv 10-16, uncommon). Bug-Catching Contest only, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, once a day.
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
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 52PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Venomoth in Gold & Silver
Venomoth itself appears wild across seven locations, rarer than Venonat and partly tied to nighttime. Since those spawns thin out fast in daylight, leveling a Venonat to 31 is the steadier bet.
2 locations to catch Venomoth4 locations to catch Venonat
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 8Catch Venonat at any of the 4 locations below, then level it up to 31 — it evolves into Venomoth.
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Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Venomoth in GS
The only way to get Venomoth during the story is evolving Venonat (Lv 31).
- Step 1Catch Venonat
- Step 2Venomoth ✓or evolve from Venonat (Step 1)
Not landing the catch? Calculate Venomoth catch rates for Gold & Silver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Venomoth in Gold & Silver
Venomoth ranks as the harder catch of its family, surfacing mainly through the rare Headbutt-tree slot near Blackthorn City and Mahogany Town, where the shine stays just as stubborn. Compare Shiny Venomoth odds across every game
Gold & Silver 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 Gold & Silver 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
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x138-163%KO Fire Punch 2x58-68% | ||
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x128-151%KO Fly 2x104-122%KO Dream Eater 2x71-84% | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Typhlosion builds →Fire Blast 2x128-151%KO Rollout 2x21-25% | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 2x128-151%KO Dream Eater 2x71-84% | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Lugia builds →Dream Eater 2x91-107%KO Aeroblast 2x108-127%KO | ||
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x114-134%KO Fly 2x66-78% | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x119-140%KO Psychic 2x60-70% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Dragonite builds →Fly 2x106-125%KO Fire Blast 2x79-93% | ||
 Mr. Mime Psychic | C | |
Obtain MethodCeladon City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venomoth View Mr. Mime builds →Dream Eater 2x99-118%KO Fire Punch 2x50-59% | ||
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.
GS Venomoth Best Moveset
90 Speed and 90 Sp. Atk are passable, but Bug and Poison TermStab still hit nothing useful offensively. MoveSleep Powder remains the competitive niche. Steel types now resist Poison, pushing Venomoth further from relevance.
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
When it attacks, it flaps its large wings violently to scatter its poisonous powder all around.
The powder on its wings is poisonous if it is dark in color. If it is light, it causes paralysis.
Venomoth Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, 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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