Is Vileplume Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Leaf Stone on Gloom. Grass/Poison with AbilityChlorophyll. Strong special Attack for a Grass-type available during mid-Johto. Handles Chuck and Misty without trouble. Competes with Bellossom for the Oddish evolution slot.
Oddish trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Oddish trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Oddish has the type edge here and should clean up 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 resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume resists most of Misty's coverage and hits back hard.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
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Vileplume has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
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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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Vileplume trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
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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 5-6, common).
Recommended Moves
- LV 9PoisonAcidPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- After Bugsy
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- LV 21GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Lake of Rage
- LV 37GrassGiga DrainPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 41GrassPetal DancePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 20
Evolve Oddish to Vileplume
Gloom evolves into Vileplume with a Leaf Stone. You can receive the Leaf Stone from an NPC in Route 34. 2 other locations are also available.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 19)
- LV 19GrassMega DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- TM60FightingDrain PunchPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 39
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Lake of Rage
- LV 53GrassPetal DancePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 65GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Oddish to Bellossom
Gloom evolves into Bellossom with a Sun Stone. You can usually obtain this item before you reach Morty.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 19)
- LV 19GrassLeaf BladePower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- TM60FightingDrain PunchPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Route 39
- LV 23GrassMagical LeafPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- LV 53GrassLeaf StormPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5
How to Get Vileplume in HeartGold & SoulSilver
A Leaf Stone on Gloom makes Vileplume, while a Sun Stone instead branches it to Bellossom. The split is permanent, so decide which flower you want before you ever use a stone on that Oddish line.
Catch Oddish or Gloom at any of these 8 spots to eventually evolve into Vileplume.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8How to Obtain Vileplume in HGSS
Oddish is your first catch on the way to Vileplume. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 5-32 across 20 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve GloomRoute 5Lv.15GrassRate 10%NightSafari Zone - MarshlandLv.16-17FloorRate 20%NightRoute 48Lv.22-24GrassRate 20%Route 47Lv.32GrassRate 5%or evolve from Oddish (Step 1)
- Step 3Vileplume ✓
How to Get Shiny Vileplume in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Vileplume needs a Leaf Stone, so breed an Oddish Masuda-style at 1 in 1,638 and evolve it once it shines. Compare Shiny Vileplume odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Vileplume Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 HeartGold & SoulSilver 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Vileplume Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Vileplume
 Ho-Oh Fire | S | |
Obtain MethodBell Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Ho-Oh builds →Brave Bird 2x130-153%KO Overheat 2x125-147%KO Dream Eater 2x60-71% | ||
 Latios DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodPewter City Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Latios builds →Dream Eater 2x104-122%KO Ice Beam 2x66-78% Fly 2x48-56% | ||
 Latias DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodPewter City Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Latias builds →Dream Eater 2x90-106%KO Ice Beam 2x57-67% Fly 2x44-51% | ||
 Mewtwo Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodCerulean Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Mewtwo builds →Future Sight 2x143-169%KO Fire Blast 2x96-113%KO Ice Beam 2x76-89% Aerial Ace 2x38-45% | ||
 Rayquaza Dragon | S | |
Obtain MethodEmbedded Tower Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Rayquaza builds →Fly 2x110-130%KO Overheat 2x109-128%KO Ice Beam 2x74-87% | ||
 Lugia Psychic | S | |
Obtain MethodWhirl Islands Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Lugia builds →Dream Eater 2x77-90% Aeroblast 2x77-90% Ice Beam 2x49-57% | ||
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Gardevoir builds →Future Sight 2x120-141%KO | ||
 Charizard Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Charmander (Pallet Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Charizard builds →Overheat 2x124-146%KO Air Slash 2x67-79% | ||
 Blaziken FireFighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Torchic (Silph Co Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Blaziken builds →Flare Blitz 2x121-143%KO Brave Bird 2x81-95% | ||
 Houndoom DarkFire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Houndoom builds →Overheat 2x125-147%KO Dream Eater 2x60-71% | ||
 Dragonite Dragon | A | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Dragonair (Dragons Den Super Rod) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Dragonite builds →Fly 2x100-118%KO Fire Blast 2x66-78% Ice Beam 2x52-62% | ||
 Skarmory Steel | B | |
 Entei Fire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Entei builds →Overheat 2x106-125%KO Extrasensory 2x41-49% | ||
 Moltres Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodMt Silver Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vileplume View Moltres builds →Overheat 2x140-165%KO Air Slash 2x75-89% | ||
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 45 partners from the Grass egg group. Notable egg moves include Charm, Flail, Ingrain and 5 more.
HGSS Vileplume Best Moveset
Special Grass attacker at 110 Sp. Atk with AbilityChlorophyll doubling 50 Speed in sun for sweeping. The moveset hits hard from the special side and absorbs MoveToxic Spikes through Poison typing. Without sun, 50 Speed goes last against everything competitive.
Best Build
Vileplume best EVs are Sp. Atk and Speed
Special Sweeper Moveset
- Sludge Bomb
- Sleep Powder
- Solar Beam
- Hidden Power Ice
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Vileplume misses out on Charm and Flail. That's 8 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Petal Dance and Solar Beam, with Normal and Fighting 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. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
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
All 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
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Vileplume HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, use Vileplume as an attacker. Special attacks are the main output. Not the fastest,
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, run Modest on Vileplume. +Sp. Atk is what matters, and the -Attack cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the attacker role.
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
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