Is Vileplume Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Stronger than Bellossom and available through the same Leaf Stone path. Vileplume handles Chuck's Fighting-types, the Water trainers through Kanto, and takes hits well enough to stick around against Misty's rematch. The Grass slot that works all the way through both regions.
Falkner's team hits Oddish's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's typing presses Oddish's defenses.
Oddish trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Morty's team hits Vileplume's weaknesses hard.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
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Vileplume resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
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Janine's team hits Vileplume's weaknesses hard.
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Vileplume resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
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Koga's team hits Vileplume's weaknesses hard.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
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Catch Oddish
Catch Oddish in Ilex Forest (walking, Lv 5-7, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- 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 39GrassPetal DancePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
Evolve Oddish to Vileplume
Gloom evolves into Vileplume with a Leaf Stone. You can receive the Leaf Stone from an NPC in Route 34.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20GrassPetal DancePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- 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)
Evolve Oddish to Bellossom
Gloom evolves into Bellossom with a Sun Stone. You can receive the Sun Stone from an NPC in National Park.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20GrassPetal DancePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 20GrassStun SporePower —Accuracy 75%PP 30
- After Falkner
- HM01NormalCutPower 50Accuracy 95%PP 30Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- LV 55GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Vileplume in Crystal
No wild Vileplume in Crystal. A Leaf Stone evolves Gloom into it, though that same Gloom can instead become Bellossom with a Sun Stone, so the stone you pick decides the form.
Catch Oddish or Gloom at any of these 3 spots to eventually evolve into Vileplume.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8How to Obtain Vileplume in C
The path to Vileplume starts with Oddish at Lv. 5-12 via walking encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 3Vileplume ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Oddish egg.
How to Get Shiny Vileplume in Crystal
Vileplume needs a Leaf Stone finish: land a shiny Oddish or Gloom at night on Kanto's Route 24, evolve as needed, then apply the stone for the flower. Compare Shiny Vileplume odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Vileplume 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 Vileplume.
Vileplume Weakness
Fire, Ice, Flying, and Psychic moves hit Vileplume for super-effective damage. 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, 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 Vileplume Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Vileplume
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodTin Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Ho-Oh builds →Fire Blast 2x107-126%KO Fly 2x77-91% Dream Eater 2x60-71% | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Lugia builds →Dream Eater 2x77-91% Aeroblast 2x80-94% Blizzard 2x61-72% | ||
 Typhlosion Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x116-137%KO Fire Punch 2x48-57% Ice Punch 2x48-57% | ||
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
 Celebi PsychicGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Interact Encounter Available Move Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Celebi builds →Future Sight 2x100-118%KO | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Houndoom builds →Fire Blast 2x107-126%KO Dream Eater 2x60-71% | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Dragonite builds →Fly 2x79-93% Fire Blast 2x67-79% Blizzard 2x67-79% | ||
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Jynx builds →Dream Eater 2x93-110%KO Blizzard 2x111-131%KO | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x96-113%KO Fly 2x48-57% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x100-118%KO Psychic 2x51-60% | ||
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
Vileplume Evolutions
You get Vileplume from Gloom using a Leaf Stone. It's one of 2 possible evolutions in this branching family, each requiring its own method. Breed through Oddish to get eggs. Vileplume trails Bellossom by 10 stats overall, though its HP grew by +30 from Oddish. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Vileplume to get Oddish eggs easily using 23 partners from the Grass egg group. Notable egg moves include Flail, Razor Leaf, Swords Dance and 1 more.
C Vileplume Best Moveset
MoveSleep Powder forces switches while Grass typing resists the Water, Electric, and Ground coverage that dominates the top tier. MoveSludge Bomb delivers real Poison TermStab damage, and Held ItemLeftovers sustains between defensive switch-ins. Type resistances plus sleep make it a reliable team anchor.
Best Build
Support Moveset
- Sleep Powder
- Moonlight
- Leech Seed
- Sludge Bomb
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Vileplume misses out on Flail and Razor Leaf. That's 4 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Petal Dance and Solar Beam, with Normal coverage rounding things out.
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
By shaking its big petals, it scatters toxic pollen into the air, turning the air yellow.
Vileplume Crystal Guide
In Crystal, use Vileplume as an attacker. Splits damage between physical and special. Not the fastest,
Game Availability
Vileplume has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 20 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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