Is Voltorb Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Team Rocket Hideout in Mahogany Town or the Kanto Power Plant postgame. Electrode evolves at 30 and is the fastest Electric-type available. Crystal's move tutor gives MoveThunderbolt to slower Pokemon though, which cuts into Electrode's speed advantage.
Falkner's team hits Voltorb's weaknesses hard.
Voltorb trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Voltorb trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Voltorb trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Voltorb trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Jasmine's typing presses Electrode's defenses.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Electrode trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Electrode trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Electrode trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Electrode trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Electrode trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Electrode trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Electrode trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Electrode has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
In-Game Trade
Voltorb can be received through an in-game trade in Olivine City. Trade Krabby. Trade a Krabby to the NPC in a house in Olivine City.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 23NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 37NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 39NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Lt. Surge
- TM07ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Gift from the Power Plant manager after returning the Machine Part
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
Catch Voltorb
Catch Voltorb on Team Rocket HQ (interact, Lv 23, limited). A floor trap on Team Rocket HQ B1F in Mahogany Town: stepping on certain tiles starts this battle.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 23)
- LV 23NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Bugsy
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 37NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 39NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Lt. Surge
- TM07ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Gift from the Power Plant manager after returning the Machine Part
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
Evolve Voltorb to Electrode
Voltorb evolves into Electrode at Level 30. Your Voltorb should hit Level 30 before you reach Jasmine, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Bugsy
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner prize (5500 coins)
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 44NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Lt. Surge
- TM07ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Gift from the Power Plant manager after returning the Machine Part
- TUTORElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
How to Get Voltorb in Crystal
Voltorb has three routes in. It walks Route 10 commonly, sits as a fixed overworld ball in the Team Rocket hideout, and an Olivine NPC trades one for a Krabby. The Route 10 grass is the simplest.
3 locations to catch Voltorb
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 4
Badge 5
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Where To Catch Voltorb in C
Voltorb is the chain's first catch. You'll find trade and walking encounters from Lv. 17-23 across 4 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Electrodeor evolve from Voltorb (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the Crystal catch rate calculator with Voltorb preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Voltorb in Crystal
Voltorb crackles along Kanto's Route 10 near the Power Plant, a common level 17 spawn at any hour and easily the best place to stack encounters. Compare Shiny Voltorb odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Voltorb Calculator
3 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.
Soft Reset: Save in front of a static, gift, or legendary encounter, then reset until it sparkles.
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 Crystal shiny odds calculator with Voltorb already selected.
Voltorb Weakness
Voltorb is weak to Ground. Few weaknesses and 3 resistances make the typing clean. At base 100 Speed, Voltorb outspeeds most threats and doesn't need to tank what it can outrun.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Electric, Flying, Steel |
- 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 Voltorb Weak Against
Good
Voltorb Evolutions
One evolution ahead. Voltorb grows into Electrode through a straightforward two-stage chain. No compatible partners for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 160 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Voltorb is genderless and can only breed with Ditto. Part of the Mineral egg group.
Ditto onlyC Voltorb Best Moveset
Fast at 100 Speed with 55 Sp. Atk behind MoveThunderbolt for Electric chip. MoveExplosion provides the surprise physical nuke. Held ItemLeftovers sustains briefly. Goes first every time, but the damage is either light or terminal.
Best Build
Screens Setter Moveset
- Explosion
- Reflect
- Thunder
- Light Screen
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
TMs carry this one. Voltorb learns Zap Cannon and Thunder naturally for STAB, but the offensive range comes almost entirely from technical machines. Normal and Rock and beyond give it real matchup play.
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
14 of 19 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
During the study of this POKéMON, it was discovered that its components are not found in nature.
Voltorb Crystal Guide
Trade a Krabby to the NPC in a house in Olivine City. This is an NPC trade, so the Voltorb you receive is yours immediately, no transfer cable needed.
Voltorb is a static encounter at Johto Team Rocket Hq in Crystal. Voltorb appears at level 23. Save before the encounter. These one-shot Pokemon don't respawn if you knock them out or run out of Poke Balls.
For Crystal, you can run Voltorb through the first few routes without issues. 330 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Electrode as fast as you can.
Yes. Hisuian Voltorb is a regional variant with different typing and a reworked stat spread. Introduced in Gen 8. Plays completely differently from the original.
Game Availability
Since debuting in Red & Blue, Voltorb has appeared in 20 titles over 9 generations. Along the way, it received a Hisuian form in Generation 8, keeping it relevant across different competitive metas.
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 8PLAHisuian
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
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