Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver Version Exclusives
HeartGold has 21 exclusives and SoulSilver 19, and ten on each side can be yours before the League. The rest wait for the post-game: Kanto swarms, Rock Smash fossils, a roaming Latias or Latios, and Kyogre or Groudon in the Embedded Tower. Ho-Oh and Lugia are in both versions, but only your version’s mascot waits for you in the story at Lv 45; the other one comes after the League at Lv 70.
Every exclusive and where to catch it
Each row sets a HeartGold exclusive beside its usual SoulSilver counterpart. Every stage lists where you get it, the time of day when it matters, and the first badge the game needs before you can.
HeartGold21 PokémonYour version
SoulSilver19 PokémonYour version
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The first badge each Pokémon needs: the badge that opens the road, lets a field move work outside battle, or opens the shop that sells its evolution stone. Exclusive lines before the League: HeartGold: 6, SoulSilver: 6.
Badge 1Falkner
Badge 2Bugsy
Badge 3Whitney
Badge 4Morty
Badge 5Chuck
Badge 6Jasmine
Badge 7Pryce
Badge 8ClairPost-gameAfter LanceHeartGold14 on the timelineYour game
SoulSilver13 on the timelineYour game
Exclusives against every boss
For each battle, these are the exclusives you can have by then that hit at least half the boss’s team super effectively with one of their own types. Level and stone evolutions count up to the boss’s highest level, and Levitate is factored in. The Kanto gyms and Red come after the League, so they are not listed.
HeartGold exclusives that helpSoulSilver exclusives that help
Counts use each exclusive’s own types, not its full moveset. The battle pages have the movesets.
How to Trade Between HeartGold and SoulSilver
Pick your version to see only the Pokémon you need to trade for. Until then, both lists show.
How to get SoulSilver exclusives in HeartGold
How to get HeartGold exclusives in SoulSilver
- Both players need: their own Nintendo DS and a copy of HeartGold or SoulSilver
- Where: the Union Room in any Pokémon Center
- Connect with: DS local wireless
No one to trade with? Once you reach Kanto after the League, Pal Park in Fuchsia City brings Pokémon up from the Generation III games on the Game Boy Advance.
HeartGold exclusives to trade into SoulSilver
Done: you have every HeartGold exclusive.
Grouped by the point in a HeartGold run where your friend can first get each one. Ticks are saved on this device.
Available from the start
Available after Badge 2 (Bugsy)
Available after Badge 3 (Whitney)
Available after Badge 4 (Morty)
Mantyke (same family): listed under “Available after you beat Lance”
Available after Badge 7 (Pryce)
Available after you beat Lance
Trade for one Omanyte and evolve the rest yourself.
Mantine (same family): Route 41, after Badge 4 (Morty)
Trade for one Anorith and evolve the rest yourself.
SoulSilver exclusives to trade into HeartGold
Done: you have every SoulSilver exclusive.
Grouped by the point in a SoulSilver run where your friend can first get each one. Ticks are saved on this device.
Available from the start
Available after Badge 2 (Bugsy)
Available after Badge 3 (Whitney)
Available after Badge 7 (Pryce)
Available after you beat Lance
Trade for one Kabuto and evolve the rest yourself.
Trade for one Lileep and evolve the rest yourself.
Every Difference Between HeartGold and SoulSilver
Other ways the two versions differ, outside the wild encounters.
What changes in other gamesHo-Oh and Lugia
HeartGoldYour version
Ho-OhLv 45 at the top of the Bell Tower in the story, with the Rainbow Wing and the Clear Bell
LugiaLv 70 deep in the Whirl Islands after the League, with the Silver Wing from Pewter City
SoulSilverYour version- LugiaLv 45 deep in the Whirl Islands in the story, with the Silver Wing and the Tidal Bell
- Ho-OhLv 70 at the top of the Bell Tower after the League, with the Rainbow Wing from Pewter City
Kimono Girls’ bell
HeartGoldYour version- Clear BellFrom the Kimono Girls in Ecruteak City; it calls Ho-Oh to the Bell Tower
SoulSilverYour version- Tidal BellFrom the Kimono Girls in Ecruteak City; it calls Lugia to the Whirl Islands
Embedded Tower legendary
HeartGoldYour version- KyogreLv 50 in the Embedded Tower after the Red battle, with the Blue Orb from Mr. Pokémon
SoulSilverYour version- GroudonLv 50 in the Embedded Tower after the Red battle, with the Red Orb from Mr. Pokémon
Rayquaza appears in the Embedded Tower only when your party holds a Kyogre caught in HeartGold and a Groudon caught in SoulSilver, so one of the two has to come over in a trade.
Kanto roaming legendary
HeartGoldYour version- Latias
Lv 35, roams Kanto after you meet Steven in Vermilion City
SoulSilverYour version- LatiosLv 35, roams Kanto after you meet Steven in Vermilion City
Rock Smash fossils
HeartGoldYour version- Helix FossilRuins of Alph; revives into Omanyte in Pewter City
- Claw FossilCliff Cave; revives into Anorith in Pewter City
SoulSilverYour version- Dome FossilRuins of Alph; revives into Kabuto in Pewter City
- Root FossilCliff Cave; revives into Lileep in Pewter City
Goldenrod Game Corner prize Pokémon
Abra is a 200-coin prize in both versions. Ekans and Sandshrew are not exclusives: each version has one in the wild and the other as this prize.
Same in both
- Gym leaders in Johto and Kanto, the Elite Four (Will, Koga, Bruno and Karen) and Champion Lance
- Red on Mt. Silver
- The Johto starters from Professor Elm and the Kanto starter from Professor Oak
- The Celadon Game Corner prizes (Mr. Mime, Eevee and Porygon)
- The Bug-Catching Contest, where both versions get the Caterpie and Weedle lines
- How the Pokéathlon, the Battle Frontier and Kanto open up