Is Weepinbell Good in Crystal Playthrough?
Hold off on the Leaf Stone until Weepinbell learns the moves you need. The level-up movepool is better than Victreebel's. Mid-Johto performance is fine for a Grass-type while you wait.
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 Weepinbell in Crystal
The lone wild Weepinbell is an uncommon catch on Route 44, nothing more. Raising a Bellsprout to level 21 is the practical way to get one.
1 location to catch Weepinbell6 locations to catch Bellsprout
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 7Catch Bellsprout at any of the 6 locations below, then level it up to 21 — it evolves into Weepinbell.
Badge 1
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Badge 3
Badge 4
Badge 5
Badge 6 Badge 7
Badge 8Where To Catch Weepinbell in C
Bellsprout gets you Weepinbell sooner: catch it at the very start and evolve it at Lv 21. Wild Weepinbell first appears at Route 44 (after Badge 7).
- Step 3Evolve into VictreebelBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Bellsprout egg.
Not landing the catch? Calculate Weepinbell catch rates for Crystal by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Weepinbell in Crystal
Weepinbell grows along Route 44 east of Mahogany Town as an uncommon level 24 spawn at all hours; camp that one route or evolve a shiny Bellsprout at 21. Compare Shiny Weepinbell odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Weepinbell 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Crystal with Weepinbell preloaded.
Weepinbell Weakness
Type-wise, Weepinbell takes extra damage from Fire, Ice, Flying, and Psychic. 4 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Standard number of weaknesses for the Grass/Poison typing.
| 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 Weepinbell Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Weepinbell
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weepinbell View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x210-247%KO Fire Punch 2x88-104%KO Ice Punch 2x88-104%KO | ||
 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 Weepinbell View Celebi builds →Future Sight 2x181-213%KO | ||
 Entei Fire | B | |
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weepinbell View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x172-203%KO Fly 2x80-95% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
 Skarmory Steel | A | |
 Jynx IcePsychic | B | |
 Flareon Fire | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Scyther Bug | B | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Weepinbell View Scyther builds →Wing Attack 2x91-108%KO | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
Weepinbell Evolutions
Sitting between Bellsprout and Victreebel, Weepinbell is part of a chain that requires an evolution item. Not your typical level-up setup. HP has grown the most so far (+15), but there's still another 100 stats to gain in the final evolution. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Weepinbell 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 Weepinbell Best Moveset
MoveSleep Powder and MoveSludge Bomb from a middle-stage stat line. Victreebel improves the Attack and Sp. Atk to levels where the moves actually threaten. Functional but outclassed by the evolution.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Swords Dance
- Sludge Bomb
- Hidden Power Ground
- Sleep Powder
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Encore and Leech Life give Weepinbell options it can't learn any other way, and Normal and Bug coverage already covers a decent range on top of Solar Beam and Sludge Bomb. The egg moves push it further.
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 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
When it is hungry, it swings its razor-sharp leaves, slicing up any unlucky object nearby for food.
Weepinbell Crystal Guide
For Crystal, you can run Weepinbell through the first few routes without issues. 390 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Victreebel as fast as you can.
In Crystal, Weepinbell plays as a balanced. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully.
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Weepinbell has appeared in 20 games: most mainline games. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
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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