Is Victreebel Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Sharper on offense than Vileplume with MoveSleep Powder and strong Grass attacks. Victreebel handles Chuck and the Water trainers through Kanto. More fragile than Vileplume but finishes fights faster when the type matchup lines up.
Falkner's team hits Bellsprout's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's typing presses Bellsprout's defenses.
Bellsprout trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Victreebel resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Victreebel resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
Victreebel resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Koga's team hits Victreebel's weaknesses hard.
Victreebel has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Victreebel trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catch Bellsprout
Catch Bellsprout on Route 31 (walking, Lv 5, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 5)
- LV 5GrassVine WhipPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 23PoisonAcidPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- 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 37GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- LV 45NormalSlamPower 80Accuracy 75%PP 20
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Bellsprout to Victreebel
Weepinbell evolves into Victreebel with a Leaf Stone. You can receive the Leaf Stone from an NPC in Route 34.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20GrassRazor LeafPower 83Accuracy 95%PP 25
- LV 20GrassVine WhipPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- 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 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
How to Get Victreebel in Crystal
Victreebel is evolution-only, never a wild catch. A Leaf Stone on Weepinbell does it, so the whole line traces back to a Bellsprout caught on the early Johto routes.
Catch Bellsprout or Weepinbell at any of these 6 spots to eventually evolve into Victreebel.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Bellsprout
- 2
- 3Evolve VictreebelUse Leaf Stone
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Badge 8How to Obtain Victreebel in C
The path to Victreebel starts with Bellsprout at Lv. 5-22 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 3Victreebel ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Bellsprout egg.
How to Get Shiny Victreebel in Crystal
Victreebel is Leaf Stone territory: catch a shiny Bellsprout on the early Johto routes or a Weepinbell on Route 44, evolve as needed, and use the stone. Compare Shiny Victreebel odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Victreebel 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Crystal shiny odds for Victreebel.
Victreebel Weakness
Victreebel's Grass/Poison typing leaves it vulnerable to Fire, Ice, Flying, and Psychic. The Grass/Poison typing picks up 4 resistances to work with.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Ice, Flying, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Water, Electric, Fighting |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass |
- 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 Victreebel Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Victreebel
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x142-168%KO Fly 2x91-108%KO Dream Eater 2x79-93% | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Lugia builds →Dream Eater 2x101-119%KO Aeroblast 2x95-113%KO Blizzard 2x81-96% | ||
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x154-181%KO Fire Punch 2x65-76% Ice Punch 2x65-76% | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Celebi PsychicGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Interact Encounter Available Move Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Celebi builds →Future Sight 2x132-155%KO | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 2x142-168%KO Dream Eater 2x79-93% | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Jynx builds →Dream Eater 2x124-147%KO Blizzard 2x148-174%KO | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x126-148%KO Fly 2x58-68% | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Dragonite builds →Fly 2x94-111%KO Fire Blast 2x88-103%KO Blizzard 2x88-103%KO | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Victreebel View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x132-155%KO Psychic 2x66-78% | ||
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Victreebel Evolutions
Victreebel evolved from Bellsprout's chain using an evolution item. It's a non-standard trigger, so check the details below. Breed this form to get Bellsprout eggs (average hatch time). The evolution from Bellsprout pushed Victreebel to 480 total stats. HP saw the largest single gain at +30. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Victreebel to get Bellsprout eggs easily using 23 partners from the Grass egg group. Notable egg moves include Encore, Leech Life, Reflect and 2 more.
C Victreebel Best Moveset
MoveSludge Bomb at 90 power gives Poison TermStab real teeth, and MoveSleep Powder forces switches that expose teams to MoveSpikes chip. MoveGiga Drain adds Grass damage with HP recovery. Held ItemLeftovers stacks with drain. Grass/Poison support that attacks, sleeps, and drains.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Swords Dance
- Sludge Bomb
- Sleep Powder
- Body Slam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Encore and Leech Life from the egg pool give Victreebel something extra. Pair those with Solar Beam and Sludge Bomb for STAB and Normal and Bug coverage for reach, and the kit fills out nicely.
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
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
Once ingested into this POKéMON’s body, even the hardest object will melt into nothing.
Victreebel Crystal Guide
In Crystal, use Victreebel as an attacker. Splits damage between physical and special. Speed is middling,
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Victreebel appears in 20 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Victreebel 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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