Is Wingull Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Surfing encounters in Johto and Kanto waterways. Water/Flying with AbilityKeen Eye. Pelipper at level 25 has decent bulk. Gyarados dominates the Water/Flying slot so thoroughly that Wingull is an afterthought.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's typing presses Wingull's defenses.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Pelipper trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Lt. Surge's team hits Pelipper's weaknesses hard.
Pelipper trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Pelipper trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Pelipper has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Wingull has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Wingull trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Wingull in Vermilion City (Surf, Lv 35, common). Swarm.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 35)
- LV 35WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 35FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Morty
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 40
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15From Chuck's wife outside Cianwood Gym
- LV 42FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 47FlyingAir SlashPower 113Accuracy 95%PP 20
Evolve Wingull to Pelipper
Wingull evolves into Pelipper at Level 25. You get it at Level 35, past Level 25, so it evolves into Pelipper the next time it levels up.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 25)
- LV 25WaterWater PulsePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Kimono Girl in the Ecruteak Dance Theater
- After Morty
- TM88FlyingPluckPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 40
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 135Accuracy 95%PP 15From Chuck's wife outside Cianwood Gym
- After Clair
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Mt. Mortar
- LV 57WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Wingull in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Wingull is a swarm-only catch, turning up common when you surf a specific Kanto city's water during its swarm. No swarm means no Wingull, so the alert is what you are waiting on.
1 location to catch Wingull
Encountered via Surfing
Badge 8Where To Catch Wingull in HGSS
- Step 2Evolve into Pelipper
Bring the right balls: check Wingull catch odds in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Wingull in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Wingull glides over the water off Vermilion City, though a shiny hatches faster from Masuda breeding. Compare Shiny Wingull odds across every game
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Wingull 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Wingull in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Wingull Weakness
Type-wise, Wingull takes extra damage from Electric and Rock. Watch out for Electric attacks, those deal 4x damage. Ground moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. The Water/Flying typing picks up 5 resistances to work with.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Electric |
| 2x (Weak) | Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Fighting, Bug, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Wingull Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Wingull
 Raikou Electric | B | |
 Zapdos Electric | A | |
Obtain MethodRoute 10 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wingull View Zapdos builds →Thunderbolt 4x552-650%KO Ancient Power 2x117-138%KO | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Ampharos Electric | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wingull View Ampharos builds →Thunderbolt 4x513-604%KO Power Gem 2x126-149%KO | ||
 Jolteon Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Rampardos Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cranidos (Pewter City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wingull View Rampardos builds →Head Smash 2x555-654%KO Thunderbolt 4x217-255%KO | ||
 Plusle Electric | B | |
 Minun Electric | C | |
 Luxray Electric | C | |
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Raichu Electric | C | |
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodTeam Rocket Hq Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wingull View Electrode builds →Thunderbolt 4x380-447%KO Rollout 2x29-34% | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Pewter City Gift) | ||
Wingull Evolutions
Wingull is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Pelipper. Check the evolution method below. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 170 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Wingull easily with 31 breeding partners from the Flying and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Agility, Aqua Ring, Gust and 4 more to offspring.
HGSS Wingull Best Moveset
Water/Flying at 55 Sp. Atk and 85 Speed for a first-stage. AbilityKeen Eye prevents accuracy drops. The moveset fires basic special Water attacks. Evolve to Pelipper.
Best Build
Wingull best EVs are Sp. Atk and Speed
Special Sweeper Moveset
- Air Slash
- Blizzard
- Ice Beam
- Tailwind
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding's the move. Agility and Aqua Ring give Wingull options it can't learn any other way, and coverage across 8 types already covers a decent range on top of Fly and Air Slash. 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
21 of 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It soars on updrafts without flapping its wings. It makes a nest on sheer cliffs at the sea’s edge.
Wingull HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Wingull has 270 BST and evolves into Pelipper. Compare the two forms before you give either one a team slot.
Yes. Wingull is not available during the main story. It can only be obtained after entering the Hall of Fame. Wingull becomes available after the main story is complete in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
Game Availability
Debuting in Ruby & Sapphire, Wingull appears in 15 games across 7 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
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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