Is Venonat Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Route 43 in Johto, available before the final Johto gyms. Bug/Poison still doesn't contribute much offensively. Venomoth with MovePsychic from TM is the only angle that works, same as Gen 1.
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.
Catchable
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 Venonat in Gold & Silver
Venonat is reachable two ways: 34 encounters in grass and headbutted trees across both games, common to rare. Some of those tree spots are night-gated, so check the clock if it is not showing up.
4 locations to catch Venonat
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Venonat in GS
Venonat is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 8-16. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
- Step 1Venonat ✓
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Venomothor evolve from Venonat (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the Gold & Silver catch rate calculator with Venonat preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Venonat in Gold & Silver
Venonat both drops from Headbutt trees and roams the grass around Ecruteak City and Mahogany Town, so pick one method and repeat it until a shiny shows. Compare Shiny Venonat odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Venonat 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Gold & Silver shiny odds calculator with Venonat already selected.
Venonat Weakness
Venonat is weak to Fire, Flying, Psychic, and Rock. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. 4 weaknesses is about average, nothing too hard to play around.
| 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 Venonat Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Venonat
 Magmar Fire | C | |
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venonat View Quilava builds →Fire Blast 2x138-163%KO Rollout 2x24-28% | ||
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venonat View Kadabra builds →Psybeam 2x106-125%KO Fire Punch 2x79-94% | ||
 Growlithe Fire | A | |
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venonat View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Throw 2x78-92% Fire Punch 2x32-39% | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
 Vulpix Fire | B | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Onix RockGround | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Venonat View Geodude builds →Rock Throw 2x63-75% Fire Blast 2x49-58% | ||
Venonat Evolutions
Venonat evolves into Venomoth. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 145 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Venonat easily with 23 breeding partners from the Bug egg group. Pass egg moves like Baton Pass, Giga Drain, Screech to offspring.
GS Venonat Best Moveset
Bug/Poison typing with no offensive value and stats too low for any format. MoveSleep Powder provides utility but nothing follows up after the sleep. Venomoth improves the numbers modestly.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Sludge Bomb
- Leech Life
- Poison Powder
- Toxic
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Venonat. Baton Pass and Giga Drain come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Sludge Bomb and Leech Life and Normal and Psychic coverage and more.
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
Its eyes also function as radar units. It catches and eats small bugs that hide in darkness.
Poison oozes from all over its body. It catches and eats small bugs at night that are attracted by light.
Venonat Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Venonat does the job early-game if you need a Bug/Poison type on your team. Evolve it into Venomoth before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Venonat has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 19 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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