Is Wurmple Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
National Park or swarm encounter. Bug-type with AbilityShield Dust. Beautifly or Dustox at level 10 depending on personality value. Neither branch justifies a slot past early routes.
Falkner's team hits Wurmple's weaknesses hard.
Bugsy's typing presses Wurmple's defenses.
Wurmple trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Morty's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wurmple here.
Chuck's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wurmple here.
Jasmine's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wurmple here.
Pryce's typing presses Wurmple's defenses.
Clair's team hits Wurmple's weaknesses hard.
Brock's team hits Wurmple's weaknesses hard.
Misty's typing presses Wurmple's defenses.
Lt. Surge's typing presses Wurmple's defenses.
Wurmple trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Janine's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wurmple here.
Wurmple trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Blaine's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wurmple here.
Blue's Pokemon outpace and outclass Wurmple here.
Beautifly has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Will:
Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Koga:
Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Bruno:
Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Karen's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Karen:
Lance's team hits Beautifly's weaknesses hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Lance:
Catchable
Catch Wurmple in the National Park (walking, Lv 24-36, uncommon). Post-National Dex - Thursday, Saturday.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 24)
- LV 24BugBug BitePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 24NormalTacklePower 35Accuracy 95%PP 35
- LV 24PoisonPoison StingPower 15Accuracy 100%PP 35
Evolve Wurmple to Beautifly
Silcoon evolves into Beautifly at Level 10. Your Wurmple should hit Level 10 before you reach Will, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM89BugU-turnPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Jasmine
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- LV 41BugBug BuzzPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Clair
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Mt. Mortar
Evolve Wurmple to Dustox
Cascoon evolves into Dustox at Level 10. Your Wurmple should hit Level 10 before you reach Will, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM89BugU-turnPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Prize for defeating Morty
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Jasmine
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 43
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- LV 41BugBug BuzzPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Wurmple in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Wurmple stays locked until the National Dex, then drops from Headbutt trees across Kanto and walks the National Park on Thursdays and Saturdays. Before that upgrade, there is simply no way to find one.
15 locations to catch Wurmple
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 6
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Badge 8Where To Catch Wurmple in HGSS
Wurmple is the chain's first catch. You'll find headbutt and walking encounters from Lv. 2-36 across 32 total spots in the chain.
- Step 1Wurmple ✓Pallet TownLv.2-6Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 1Lv.2-6Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gamePewter CityLv.3-9Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 2 - NorthLv.3-7Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 2 - SouthLv.3-7Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 22Lv.3-7Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameViridian CityLv.3-7Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 3Lv.6-10Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameFuchsia CityLv.21-34Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 15Lv.21-26Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 12Lv.22-25Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 13Lv.22-25Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameNational Park - Bug Catching ContestLv.24-36FloorRate 20%Post-game (Thu, Sat)Route 21Lv.24-30Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 14Lv.26-30Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-gameRoute 18Lv.26-30Headbutting treesRate 20%Post-game
Available in-game· 2 pathsPick one
Bring the right balls: check Wurmple catch odds in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Wurmple in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Wurmple shakes out of headbutt trees near Pallet Town, so breed it Masuda-style with a foreign-language parent at 1 in 1,638. Compare Shiny Wurmple odds across every game
Shiny Wurmple Evolution
Multi-Path
HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Wurmple 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 Wurmple in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Wurmple Weakness
Fire, Flying, and Rock moves hit Wurmple for super-effective damage. Standard number of weaknesses for the Bug typing.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Flying, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting, Ground |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Wurmple Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Wurmple
 Ninetales Fire | C | |
 Arcanine Fire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wurmple View Arcanine builds →Fire Blast 2x269-317%KO Aerial Ace 2x90-106%KO | ||
 Camerupt FireGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wurmple View Camerupt builds →Fire Blast 2x280-331%KO Rock Slide 2x103-122%KO | ||
 Golbat Poison | C | |
 Scyther Bug | C | |
 Magmar Fire | C | |
 Flareon Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) | ||
 Dodrio Normal | C | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wurmple View Quilava builds →Fire Blast 2x225-266%KO Aerial Ace 2x59-69% | ||
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Vespiquen Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Wurmple View Vespiquen builds →Aerial Ace 2x105-124%KO Power Gem 2x90-106%KO | ||
 Ninjask Bug | C | |
Wurmple Evolutions
From here, Wurmple's line branches into Silcoon and Cascoon. That's 2 possible evolutions, each with its own method. The evolved forms gain up to 200 total stats over Wurmple. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Wurmple easily with 48 breeding partners from the Bug egg group.
HGSS Wurmple Best Moveset
Stats in the 20-45 range across the board. AbilityShield Dust blocks secondary effects on incoming attacks, but the numbers are too low to take any hit. Silcoon or Cascoon depending on personality value.
Best Build
Wurmple best EVs are Attack and Sp. Def
Physical Attacker Moveset
- Poison Sting
- Tackle
- String Shot
- Bug Bite
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Not a lot to pick from. Wurmple gets Bug Bite for same-type damage, and Normal and Poison coverage rounds things out. You're building around what's available rather than choosing from a deep bench.
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
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It lives among the tall grass and in forests. It repels attacks by raising up the spikes on its rear.
Wurmple HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
In HeartGold & SoulSilver, Wurmple has 195 BST and evolves into Silcoon. Compare the two forms before you give either one a team slot.
Yes. Wurmple is a post-game Pokemon. You need to defeat the Elite Four and enter the Hall of Fame first. Wurmple becomes available after the main story is complete in HeartGold & SoulSilver.
Game Availability
Available in 14 titles since its debut in Ruby & Sapphire, Wurmple spans 7 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through catching or hatching as a base form in a solid number of games.
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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