Is Vulpix Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Silver version only, found around Route 36 and Route 37. Ninetales is a solid Fire option in a game where Fire-types are scarce outside the Cyndaquil line. If you didn't pick Cyndaquil, Vulpix is one of the few ways to fill the gap.
Vulpix has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Vulpix has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Vulpix trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Ninetales resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Ninetales's weaknesses hard.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Ninetales resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Misty's team hits Ninetales's weaknesses hard.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Ninetales resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
Ninetales trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Ninetales has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Lance's team hits Ninetales's weaknesses hard.
Catchable
Catch Vulpix on Route 36 (walking, Lv 13, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 13)
- LV 13FireEmberPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- LV 31FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
Evolve Vulpix to Ninetales
Vulpix evolves into Ninetales with a Fire Stone. Post-Game: You can receive the Fire Stone from an NPC in Route 25.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20FireEmberPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- LV 20GhostConfuse RayPower —Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- TM28GroundDigPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 10National Park
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
How to Get Vulpix in Gold & Silver
Only Silver players get a wild Vulpix, found on four Kanto and Johto routes at mixed rarity. Catch it after dark and the rate drops to rare, so daytime gives you the better odds.
Wild Vulpix may be holding when caught:
4 locations to catch Vulpix
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 3
Badge 4
Badge 5
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Where To Catch Vulpix in GS
Vulpix is the chain's first catch. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 13-18 across 8 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Evolve into NinetalesBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Vulpix egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Gold & Silver for Vulpix.
How to Get Shiny Vulpix in Gold & Silver
Vulpix prowls the wild grass only in Silver, across Route 7, Route 8, Route 36, and Route 37, so Gold players have to breed for it instead, hatching eggs that can shine just as a wild hunt would. Compare Shiny Vulpix odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Vulpix 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 Gold & Silver shiny odds for Vulpix.
Vulpix Weakness
Water, Ground, and Rock moves hit Vulpix for super-effective damage. 5 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Vulpix's special bulk (base 65 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Ground, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, 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 Vulpix Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Vulpix
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Quagsire WaterGround | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 32 Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Quagsire builds →Surf 2x100-118%KO Dig 2x108-128%KO Rollout 2x38-46% | ||
 Croconaw Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Totodile (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Croconaw builds →Surf 2x95-113%KO Dig 2x69-82% | ||
 Sandslash Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Sandslash builds →Dig 2x120-143%KO Rollout 2x41-49% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Throw 2x103-123%KO Dig 2x80-95% | ||
 Slowpoke WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing | ||
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Geodude builds →Dig 2x103-123%KO Rock Throw 2x87-103%KO | ||
 Onix RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Vulpix View Onix builds →Dig 2x70-84% Rock Throw 2x62-74% | ||
Vulpix Evolutions
Vulpix doesn't evolve by leveling. You'll need an evolution item to push it forward to Ninetales. The evolved forms gain up to 206 total stats over Vulpix. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Vulpix easily with 66 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Disable, Feint Attack, Flail and 2 more to offspring.
GS Vulpix Best Moveset
Fire pre-evolution with stats too low for any format. Ninetales offers modest improvement, but Fire typing faces steeper competition now with Steel types resisting it. No value here.
Best Build
Screens Setter Moveset
- Reflect
- Fire Blast
- Curse
- Frustration
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Vulpix misses out on Disable and Feint Attack. That's 5 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Fire Blast and Flamethrower, with Normal and Ground coverage and more 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 19 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
As it develops, its single white tail gains color and splits into six. It is quite warm and cuddly.
If it is attacked by an enemy that is stronger than itself, it feigns injury to fool the enemy and escapes.
Vulpix Gold & Silver Guide
Yes. Wild Vulpix in Gold & Silver can hold Burnt Berry (25%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Burnt Berry.
For Gold & Silver, you can run Vulpix through the first few routes without issues. 299 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Ninetales as fast as you can.
Vulpix has an Alolan form that swaps the typing and reshuffles the stats. Introduced in Gen 7. Worth checking if the original version doesn't fit your team.
Game Availability
Since debuting in Red & Blue, Vulpix has appeared in 21 titles over 9 generations. Along the way, it received an Alolan form in Generation 7, 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 7SMAlolan
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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