Is Xatu Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Psychic/Flying with reasonable speed and special output. Xatu handles Chuck and contributes against Koga at the E4. Not as powerful as Kadabra or Alakazam, but the Flying sub-typing gives it different matchup angles.
Natu has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Natu has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Natu trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Jasmine's team hits Xatu's weaknesses hard.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Lt. Surge's team hits Xatu's weaknesses hard.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Xatu resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu resists most of Janine's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Xatu resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Xatu resists most of Bruno's coverage and hits back hard.
Xatu has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Xatu trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catch Natu
Catch Natu in the Ruins of Alph (walking, Lv 18-24, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 18)
- LV 18FlyingPeckPower 53Accuracy 100%PP 35
- After Falkner
- TM39NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Union Cave
- LV 30PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- LV 50PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Natu to Xatu
Natu evolves into Xatu at Level 25. Your Natu should hit Level 25 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Chuck
- HM02FlyingFlyPower 105Accuracy 95%PP 15Cianwood City
- LV 35PsychicFuture SightPower 120Accuracy 90%PP 15
- After Clair
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 27
- After Lt. Surge
- TM42PsychicDream EaterPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 15Viridian City
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM19GrassGiga DrainPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 5Prize for defeating Erika
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Prize for defeating Janine
- LV 65PsychicPsychicPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10
How to Get Xatu in Gold & Silver
Xatu never appears in the grass. A Natu reaches level 25 and evolves, so the whole thing depends on tracking down that one Natu spot first and putting in the levels from there.
Catch Natu at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Xatu.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Natu
- 2Evolve Xatuat Lv.25
Badge 1How to Obtain Xatu in GS
- Step 1Catch Natu
- Step 2Xatu ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Natu egg.
How to Get Shiny Xatu in Gold & Silver
Xatu evolves out of the catchable half of the pair, Natu, sitting in the Ruins of Alph grass, so grab a shiny one there and bring it to level 25. Compare Shiny Xatu odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Xatu 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 Gold & Silver with Xatu preloaded.
Xatu Weakness
Type-wise, Xatu takes extra damage from Electric, Ice, Rock, Ghost, and Dark. Ground moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. Xatu leans toward special offense (base 95 Sp.Atk) instead of trying to wall anything.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Ice, Rock, Ghost, Dark |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Grass, Psychic |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- 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 Xatu Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Xatu
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Xatu View Lapras builds →Blizzard 2x119-140%KO Thunder 2x79-93% | ||
 Magnemite ElectricSteel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Xatu View Magnemite builds →Thunder 2x128-152%KO Rollout 2x13-16% | ||
 Flaaffy Electric | C | |
 Gastly GhostPoison | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Xatu View Gastly builds →Thunder 2x88-104%KO Shadow Ball 2x47-56% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Xatu View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Throw 2x57-68% Ice Punch 2x27-32% Thunder Punch 2x27-32% | ||
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
 Onix RockGround | C | |
Xatu Evolutions
Evolved from Natu. Xatu is the final form in this two-stage line. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. HP grew the most through evolution (+25 over Natu), and Xatu peaks at 470 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
Breeding
Breed with Xatu to get Natu eggs easily using 19 partners from the Flying egg group. Notable egg moves include Drill Peck, Feint Attack, Haze and 2 more.
GS Xatu Best Moveset
Psychic/Flying with 95 Sp. Atk and 95 Speed for decent special attacking. MovePsychic hits from a strong offensive type, and MoveThunder Wave paralyzes threats. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Fast enough and strong enough for mid-tier play without excelling at anything specific.
Best Build
Support Moveset
- Psychic
- Haze
- Toxic
- Protect
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Drill Peck and Feint Attack aren't available any other way for Xatu, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Future Sight and Dream Eater for solid options.
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
17 of 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
They say that it stays still and quiet because it is seeing both the past and future at the same time.
In South America, it is said that its right eye sees the future and its left eye views the past.
Xatu Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Xatu plays as a pivot. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully. Psychic is the primary attack.
Game Availability
Available in 16 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Xatu spans 8 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in most mainline games.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
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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