Is Weezing Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Koffing evolves at level 35. AbilityLevitate removes the Ground weakness entirely in Gen 4. Solid Defense for a Poison-type. Koga uses one on his E4 team for good reason. Yours arrives late enough that it's more of a niche pick.
Koffing has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Koffing trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Koffing trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Morty's team hits Koffing's weaknesses hard.
Koffing trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Koffing trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Koffing trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Weezing resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Weezing has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Weezing has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Weezing trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catch Koffing
Catch Koffing in Burned Tower (walking, Lv 14-16, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- LV 19NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 24PoisonSludgePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 37NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 42PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Koffing to Weezing
Koffing evolves into Weezing at Level 35. Your Koffing should hit Level 35 before you reach Clair, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 35)
- LV 35PoisonSludgePower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 35NormalSelf-DestructPower 200Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Game Corner
- LV 40NormalExplosionPower 250Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 48PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Weezing in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Weezing barely registers as a wild catch. Just one location holds it, morning and day only, in a tight low-level band. Most players skip the hunt and evolve a Koffing at level 35 instead.
Wild Weezing may be holding when caught:
Smoke Ball (5% chance) An item to be held by a Pokemon. It enables the holder to flee from any wild Pokemon without fail.1 location to catch Weezing3 locations to catch Koffing
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6Catch Koffing at any of the 3 locations below, then level it up to 35 — it evolves into Weezing.
Badge 4
Badge 5 Badge 6
Badge 7Where To Catch Weezing in HGSS
Available earlier: catch Koffing (before Badge 4) and evolve it at Lv 35. Wild Weezing first appears at Safari Zone (after Badge 4).
- Step 2Weezing ✓or evolve from Koffing (Step 1)
To plan your throws, open the HeartGold & SoulSilver catch rate calculator with Weezing preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Weezing in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Weezing hangs over the Safari Zone, but breeding it Masuda-style is the quicker route to a shiny. Compare Shiny Weezing odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Weezing Calculator
3 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.
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 | 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the HeartGold & SoulSilver shiny odds calculator with Weezing already selected.
Weezing Weakness
Type-wise, Weezing takes extra damage from Ground and Psychic. The Poison typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Levitate grants an additional Ground immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. Weezing's physical bulk (base 120 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Poison, Bug |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Weezing Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Weezing
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
 Kadabra Psychic | A | |
 Mr. Mime Psychic | C | |
 Girafarig NormalPsychic | C | |
 Bronzor SteelPsychic | C | |
 Hypno Psychic | C | |
 Slowbro WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Weezing View Slowbro builds →Confusion 2x57-67% Dig 2x31-38% | ||
 Spoink Psychic | C | |
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
 Chingling Psychic | D | |
 Meditite FightingPsychic | C | |
Weezing Evolutions
Weezing is what Koffing becomes. Breed it for Koffing eggs (average hatch time). A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolution from Koffing pushed Weezing to 490 total stats. HP saw the largest single gain at +25. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Weezing to get Koffing eggs easily using 31 partners from the Amorphous egg group. Notable egg moves include Curse, Destiny Bond, Grudge and 6 more.
HGSS Weezing Best Moveset
Physical tank with only Psychic hitting super-effectively thanks to AbilityLevitate canceling the Ground weakness. 120 Defense absorbs physical damage, and 90 Attack fires back with Poison and coverage hits. The moveset thrives against physical attackers and collapses to special ones at 70 Sp. Def.
Best Build
Weezing best EVs are HP and Defense
Wall Moveset
- Will O Wisp
- Flamethrower
- Pain Split
- Thunderbolt
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Curse and Destiny Bond give Weezing options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 8 types already covers a decent range on top of Sludge Bomb and Sludge. 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. 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 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
If one of the twin KOFFING inflates, the other one deflates. It constantly mixes its poisonous gases.
Top-grade perfume is made using its internal poison gases by diluting them to the highest level.
Weezing HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
- How do I catch Weezing in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Safari Zone?
See the Locations section above for where to find Weezing in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Weezing from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Weezing easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
Yes. Wild Weezing in HeartGold & SoulSilver can hold Smoke Ball (5%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Smoke Ball.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Weezing plays as a balanced. Not the fastest, so pick your spots carefully.
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Weezing pairs best with Umbreon. Umbreon has Decent synergy and covers what Weezing can't handle on its own.
Yes. Galarian Weezing is a regional variant with different typing and a reworked stat spread. Introduced in Gen 8. Plays completely differently from the original.
Game Availability
Available since Red & Blue, Weezing appears in 20 games spanning 9 generations. Beyond its original form, it gained a Galarian form in Generation 8.
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 8SwShGalarian
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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