Surf is STAB and very useful in the field. SKARMORY, Item: Leftovers -thunder Provide explanation and detail. share. Store desired HM slaves in the box until you need them. - Lock-On Razor Leaf - Red's Venusaur (Flying STAB), Pokemon 3: Graveler/ Golem -Rollout -Fire blast All these Pokemon, as well as these moves can be obtained within normal gameplay. These 2 Pokémon can both be caught/fished in Ilex Forest , which is around about the time that their utility moves start to appear. - Shadow Ball - Earthquake (TM26, Victory Road) Flamethrower/Fire Blast Poliwrath is all out attacker and can also put Pokemon to sleep. Alternatively, just solo Red with Amph, using Pikachu to set up. Ecruteak Gym : face all Gastly and Haunters with Quilava's Dig and Gengar with Flaaffy's Thunder Wave + Thundershock + a few awakenings. - Blue's Team sans Gyrados (Water STAB, Ice Punch and Bite) - Morty's Team (Pursuit) Pokemon Gold & Silver has an expansive Pokedex since it managed to fit two regions into one game. Moves: Thunder Wave -> Light Screen. Leer -> Bite (for Morty) -> Strength (HM, Olivine City) Ice Punch Moveset: Being able to manipulate speed and have a chance at skipping turns makes it quite useful. - Bruno's Team sans Onix (Flying STAB) Thunder Punch (TM) Steel Wing. This was so that 'in theory', one could use the team to capture everything & complete the dex, whilst still having decent coverage options through the game. Team Rocket: Comment. -Magnitude Moveset: Fly because STAB (and flying beats walking), Thief for Psychic/Ghost coverage and to potentially steal items mid-fight, Psychic because high Special Attack+STAB, Giga Drain for Rock/Ground/Water coverage. - Karen's Vileplume and Murkrow (Ice STAB) - Proton's Golbat (Rock STAB) Store , clear underground path, grab a bike. See List of Pokemon (Pokedex) to see the list of Water Gun -> Surf (HM, Ecruteak City) Type: Rock/ Ground, Location: Dark Cave (as Geodude) Gotta catch these ten. - Bruno's Onix (Water STAB) - Fire Punch Wiki User Answered 2011-09-14 08:31:39. Cut / Strenght / Body Slam / Sunny Day / Return Pokémon: Every League Champion, Ranked Worst To Best. Was reliable to capture and field moves for (so nothing relying on Friendship, trading, hatching eggs, or head-butting trees for several hours). {Route 32, 42, and 43} Typhlosion has high offensive stats and a high speed stat making him very strong. Since you get Dragonite pretty late before getting him you could use Fearow, Pidgeot or any other flying type you want before getting him. Note that I've used only type enhancing items for all except Lapras. Your team should now be strong enough such that any Pokémon can lead, so rotate them around to make sure they all stay around the same level going forward. {Ilex Forest, Night only} Moves: And finally, I guess a rough walkthrough of how I found my Pokemon teams/TM's/HM's and completed the game. Pokémon 3: Slowbro/Slowking Iron Tail Gym Leaders: Headbutt/Strength This is the one I used. Gym Leaders - Thrash 2. You're welcome to suggest otherwise but, again, it's kind to include other options. Hope this helps someone! which pokemon can learn extreme speed in GOLD/SILVER/CRYSTAL? - Karen's Vileplume (Flying STAB) and Gengar (Pursuit) - surf (HM)/hydro pump Home; Monotype Run Articles; Who I Am; Best Monotype Runs in Pokemon Gold, Silver, Crystal, HG, and SS. Rest is to recover health and is found in the Ice Path, and finally Confuse Ray which is learned at level 22. Lapras provides great type coverage with the dual typing of Water and Ice. - flash (HM)/dynamic punch His moveset will be Feint Attack for STAB (Learned at level 37), Confuse Ray to confuse other Pokemon (Learned at level 30), Iron Tail for coverage, and Swift (Found in Union Cave) because it always hits and is a filler spot (Also because I can't think of a final spot). Arcanine is an amazing Pokemon. Justify your Pokemon and moveset choices; possible discussion points include ease-of-use, team synergy and coverage for key battles. Pokémon League Champions are said to be the best of the best, and, while that's not true for some, others undoubtedly live up to the title. If you got either of those two and not one of the other five (or you did get one of the other five but you just dont want to use the one you got) you could use one of these: Espeon: Psychic, Morning Sun, Protect, Toxic, Jolteon: Thunderbolt/Thunder, Baton Pass, Agility, Thunder Wave, Dragonite: Fly, Whirlpool/Waterfall, Thunderbolt/Thunder/Dynamic Punch, Ice Beam/Outrage/Thunder Wave/Extreme Speed. 2.Jynx Dragon Dance and Ice Fang will take out Lance easy enough. Giga drain is a solid recovery move and sleep powder can destroy teams You can replace one of the above Pokemon with Snorlax, which you find in Vermilion city. If you don't get those chances, you'll have three unevolved Pokémon at the league if you use this team. Thundershock -> Thunder Punch Typhlosion possesses a plethora of strong attacks, and by the time the player reaches Red, it will be an absolute monster. One of the most powerful additions to the game is Espeon. -Razor Leaf Thunder Punch Fly (HM) - Rock Smash - Flamethrower (Level 41) Gyrados -It's Gyrados. ok first of all this guy praticaly made my turn insane trying to find im. Mahogany Gym - Ampharos for Seel and Dewgong, Miltank for Dewgong (Miltank learns Rollout at lvl 31) and Quilava for Piloswine, Olivine Gym - Quilava would single handedly take over the gym with Digs for Magnemite, Flame Wheel for Steelix (lvl 30-35). -Slam - Lt Surge's Magneton (Fire STAB) The best use for a Paras and Parasect is to teach Smeargle Spore, as it is the only Pokémon in Gold and Silver that can learn it. - Clair's Dragonair(s) (Ice STAB) Feature. -Earthquake If you'd like to suggest a Pokemon like this, please mention alternative/s. Replace Fire Punch on Magmar with either Confuse Ray or Theif. - Ice Punch Pokemon League: Goldenrod Radio Tower - Reserve Quilava's (or Typhlosion's) Dig for Rocket Executive's Poison types. Gym Leaders: -Giga Drain/Cut Iron Tail -Flamethrower Nintendo. Get Totodile to about level 10 before attempting 1st Gym. Rock Throw is not really needed because you already have Rollout so replace it with either Dynamic Punch or Explosion. Dragonite @ Dragon Fang -Thunder Punch(Covers Weakness) - Sabrina's Team (Thief) This is the team I used in Pokemon Gold. Pokemon League: Rest gives it recovery and curse boosts its two most prominent stats. Psychic Image via Game Freak. Whatever Pokemon you got from the odd egg. So this is the team I recommend, I did research into multiple things for this. I definitely recommend Heracross. - Koga's Crobat (Ice Punch) Rain Dance / Iron Tail, Umbreon / Houndoom / Thyplosion - Rollout (TM04, Route 35), Advantages: Use whirlwind to switch out anything resisting drill peck. Mareep has good all-round stats, is available early, and gets great move coverage. Ice Beam/Blizzard - Falkner's Team (Rock STAB) Typhlosion @ Charcoal 0. -Ancient power, Pokemon Crystal Team- Feraligatr, Arcanine, Electabuzz, Espeon, Dragonite, and Celebi, Moves: - earthquake 1. 4 EGG POKEMON Both the hidden powers cover for weakness along with earthquake and rest can be used for easy recovery. This Pokémon is probably the best starter for this game, only having problems with Whitney, Chuck, Clair and possibly Pryce's Piloswine. - Red's Pikachu (Ground STAB), Snorlax (Rock Smash) and Charizard (Rock STAB), Pokemon 4: Magmar Sunny Day, Its strong against the Feraligatr, and can withstand some of Whitney's Miltank, Pokémon 6: Heracross Unlike child me, I was prepared to do a bit of research regarding movesets and Pokémon/TM locations before starting the game. - Misty's Lapras (Rollout) and Starmie (Shadow Ball) This Pokémon is not for helping Typhlosion, but it is for your rival and can beat Morty. Ice Punch and Fire Punch give amazing versatility and coverage. - Dragonbreath save. - Petrel's Zubat (Ice Punch) and Raticate (Rock Smash) Replace Magnitude on Graveller with Defence Curl since it does really good with Rollout. Fire Punch and Flamethrower are great STAB, Dig is for Rock Coverage and Thunder Punch is for Water Coverage. - Silver's Sneasel (Steel Wing), Gengar, Alakazam (Pursuit) and Meganium (Flying STAB) Flamethrower and fire blast are good STAB attacks. Team Rocket: -Ice Punch(For Weakness) Return (Highest Friendship) = 102 Power + STAB, Lapras @ Quick Claw : (Union Cave) (HM Needed - Surf) (Appears only on Friday). - Return (TM27, Goldenrod Department Store, have a Pokemon with high Friendship in your Party) I'm restarting and picking Quilava, but I want to know what pokemon I should use when starting, like when I don't have all the badges or items needed to get some other more useful pokemon. Could Crobat work well instead of Fearow? Umbreon can be obtained if you level up Eevee with high friendship at night, Eevee can be gotten from Goldenrod City. Do all the intro stuff. -Blizzard The evolutionary stones are really hard to get. - Rock Smash (TM08, Goldenrod Department Store, 1000 pokedollars -Rollout/Rapid spin Waterfall (HM, Ice Path). What are the differences between Crystal and Gold/Silver? -Blizzard/Psychic/Icy Winds Teach Dig to Croc. Make sure whether the opponent doesn't have earthquake if you want to use dig. Dream Eater goes with sing very well and heals you. WhatCulture About Team Advertise Contact. This team will be valid no matter the starter. Whenever any player think of a Pokemon with unusual colour the very immediate name that hits ones mind is Red Gyarados. -Ice Punch(For Weakness) Others: As Gold/Silver can technically be completed with ‘1’ battle ready Pokémon (see numerous speedrun videos), I didn’t see this as much of an issue. Skarmory is one of the best Pokemon around. Do we know if Crystal comes with a 3DS Theme like Gold & Silver do? 5.Gyarados I have listed HMs in the movesets along with a replacement move because I dont like to use HM slaves. if you want you can replace swift with strength or hyper beam (preferably strenght if neither your heracross or your donphan know strenght. Sludge Bomb This thread is archived. - Strength I still hate how everybody chooses Typhlosion... why do you not have Umbreon? Fighting - Lapras for Onix, Fearow for the rest. Flamethrower - Karen's Murkrow (Rollout), Gengar and Houndoom (Earthquake) - Strength (HM04, Olivine Cafe) I don't like rock types as they have five weaknesses and yet useful to defeat the champion who has all flying types. Take a look through Mt Mortar and Dark Cave if you wish. When talked to, he will deny everything and push the player away. So I'm using Miltank as Rollout user. He will meet with the player on the outskirts of Cherrygrove City, battling to get through. So in these games, all water type moves are considered special attacks. Dynamicpunch / Strength / Bite, Crobat /Noctowl / Pidgeotto by Scott Banner. What is the best team for Pokemon Silver? Cut/Quick Attack. Top Voted Answer. -Rock Slide Because. Surf Head down to lower level of Union Cave, Surf across small body of water, then head to NW exit. Moves: Moveset: Please post original teams. Earthquake is for STAB. his your flyer.give him swift if you gave hyper beam to typhlosion if not then ... stick whit hyper beam. I perfer Croconaw but it is physical and water type moves are all spc in gen 2. Thunderpunch / Thunder / Thunderbolt Consider the unspoken rules of in-game teams, such as to keep the starter on the team, include six Pokemon, or avoid legendaries. -Petal dance -Sludge bomb/Acid/Toxic -Thunderbolt No one can ever deny to recognize this wonderful Shiny Pokemon way back from Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver by appearing in the main plot. Team Rocket - cut (HM)/swords dance By Chris Littlechild Published Nov 21, 2018 Rock Slide / Rock Throw Pokemon Bank for Crystal, Gold, and Silver? Before going to Goldenrod, Catch Drowzee if you want Machop for in-game trade. Really? - fire blast Flamethrower - Iron Tail Use ‘Bell and Totodile as main 'mon up until 3rd gym. Go to the route left of the city and catch Miltank (too difficult, 5%). Morning Sun is for some nice recovery. The best team for Pokemon Crystal. Rock Smash (TM, Route 36 after removing Sudowoodo), Headbutt (TM, Ilex Forest) - Lt Surge's Magneton (Rock Smash) Iron Tail just covers some types. My personal opinion, suggestions gladly accepted ^_^, 1.Typhlosion (Sweeper) - Rock Throw (Level 11) 4. this one is basicaly your surfer but he can also put on a good fight if he got a good moveset ... and no I wont do an alternative with slobrow cause he got more deffense than special deffense and most of the type hes weak against are special attacking type (grass , electric , dark are special when bug , ghost are physical) so its better to have high special def then high def .zap canon or ice beam are just some more coverage while disable is more in the case you get stuck against the wall and need something to handicape your ennemi ... in other word nothing who might happens in-game so why the hell am I talking about this anyway... so thats all I have to say there and I hopeit help you chosing your team bye. - Drill Peck (Level 40) -Fire Punch Goldenrod Gym Nidorino's Double Kicks, Machop's Karate Chops. Magmar: Hunchkrow is probably the best flying type pokemon in the game. Peck -> Thief (TM, Mahogany Town Rocket Hideout) After the tower, battle your way to Olivine City. Moves: 4.Victreebel - Blue's Pidgeot, Gyarados (Thunder Punch) and Exeggutor (Fire STAB) Sludge Bomb (TM) A breif walkthrough (Gyms & Important places, not all). - double edge -Fly You’re telling him to use a Jynx? the problem was that every spot that people on the internet were saying you could find I'm I couldnt . Now his moveset is Razor Leaf for STAB (Weepinbell learns it at level 27), and Sludge Bomb for STAB (Found in the area near the Lake of Rage), Sleep Powder to for making other Pokemon fall asleep. Moves: Use Mareep to clear Sprout Tower and grab Flash, use Bellsprout to fight Water/Rock ‘mon on Route 32 and Union Cave. so this is the best Pokemon team you will know as on of the top 20's that has no legendary in this team! Pokémon Gold and Silver remains one of the top rated and favorite games in the Pokémon franchise for fans all around. Psychic - Ampharos for Xatu, Miltank for the rest. Surf / Waterfall / Whirlpool You can use pretty much anything you want. You can use this team in Gold, Silver or Crystal because their is no version exclusives! - strength (HM)/earthquake Lapras: Pokémon Gold & Silver did a really good job of integrating numerous characters players met in the first generation of games and having their stories feel like a continuation. ANALYST 2 Modified 10 Feb 2021, 00:16 IST . You should add that. Gyarados: Go to National park for levelling up and to obtain TM Dig. Hard Pokemon to get granted you have to trade a chansey for it, but so fast and so strong in attack that it speaks for itself really. It is helpful to note that these games were released prior to the Gen 4 physical-special split. Xatu requires a bit of care to get it to evolve from a level 20 Natu, but once it hits 25, evolves, and learns Fly from Chuck’s wife, it’s smooth sailing from there. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Other: - Blizzard He goes well with just about any team. -Fly -Fire Punch This set gives decent coverage, clearing out most water, rock and ground types with iron tail, earthquake or dynamicpunch, and rollout can be run to get rid of fire types whilst taking minimal damage yourself. I wanted a Dark attacker that wasn’t: a Fire Dog/Fox that couldn’t evolve for ages, a Normal Pokemon with poor stats/move coverage, or a bird that required Headbutt to capture. Either path is fine, can be found in the Slowpoke well, Ice Punch/Blizzard However, players should make sure it's during the day, or else, it will evolve into Umbreon. - Feint Attack Before submitting yours, please read the following guidelines and make adjustments where they fit.. Blackthorn Gym - By this time you may already receive Moon Stone from your mom (if you had decided to save money with her). - Erica's Team (Ice STAB) Include your recommended Pokemon in your answer, each with recommended moves for use throughout the playthrough. Take Down/Hyper Beam. - Rockslide - Ariana's Vileplume (Flying STAB) - Tri Attack - thunder wave Noctowl: After that, lead with Natu if you can to level it up, else use bait-and-switch tactic in a similar manner to levelling Magikarp. Preferably looking for Pokémon that can be found early in the game but Pokémon available later on are okay too! -Earthquake You can include items, abilities, EVs, or natures, but they are not necessary. Umbreon @ Leftovers Typhlosion: Arcanine/Ninetales/Houndoom/Flareon. If you would like to see my crystal and silver teams, ask in the comments. -Rest Gym Leaders Cianwood Gym - Defeat it with Fearow's Peck. - Red's Espeon (Thief) and Venusaur (Psychic). -Egg Bomb - Chuck's Team (Flying STAB) -Sludge Bomb Moves: You can replace it by NeverMeltIce as it increases Ice moves by 10% (More chance to OHKO Dragon types). If not, get Lapras to lvl 36 and handle Dragonairs, making the job very easy. Skarmory: This Pokemon is irreplaceable Rocket Hideout - most of them are poison type - Dig of Quilava, also they are so weak, you can use others also. You will definitely want Gyarados. Fire Punch or Reflect (because your starter already has Fire STAB), Fearow (caught before Whitney via headbutting trees), Fly Espeon is a powerhouse as Psychic is still an unbelievably strong type. Head to Lake of Rage, kill/capture the Gyarados, then fly back to Mahogany. I wanted a team that: In the end, I settled on a team that contained 2 HM slaves, which meant the game was effectively completed with 4 battle ready Pokémon. It's either post-game or giving your number to some people and then waiting for them to call you back. Slam Remember that players may be unable to access certain Pokemon, such as those restricted by version exclusivity or trade evolutions. -Psychic It's not the best but it has some of my favorite Pokemon in it and altogether is pretty powerful with a decent movepool. Best to choose hydro pump or blizzard as you really need at least one 100% accuracy stab move. - Ariana's Murkrow (Rollout) If one wishes, these two HM slaves can be switched out for Legendaries if/when they are captured, however I never ran into any issues by running a ‘4-mon team’. Rollout/Rock Slide I'm not sure why you don't wanna use headbutt, because it's a tm and you can buy it whenever you want. - rest Once you’ve reached Jasmine, stock up on Potions and Antidotes, and it’s time for a Surf! Heracross can make quick work of Red's Snorlax as well. Spearow can be found on route 29 at the earliest and its line does well against Bugsy, Chuck, Will's Exeggutor, Koga's bug types, Bruno's team except Onix, Karen's Vileplume, Erika, Janine's bug types, Blue's Exeggutor, and Red's Venusaur. You should maybe replace one of them with Fire Punch. - Koga's Team sans Muk (Fire STAB and Thunder Punch) Didn’t require a ton of grinding (so no spending half a day getting a Dratini up to speed). - Brock's Team (Earthquake) -Mega Drain(Egg Move) -Earthquake/Low kick(For Weakness). Fire Punch (TM) Victreebel: Exeggutor/Meganium - Ice Punch (TM33, Goldenrod Department Store, 3000 pokedollars) you can replace flail by strength or take down but your gonna take a few hit when doing rollot so flail would be more powerfull ... but I didnt actually try it so I cant tell you for sure if this works well ... but anyway EARTHQUAKE KILL !!! Grab Waterfall (for Poliwag) from Ice Cave and do the Waterfall things. {East Of Morty's Gym Morning Only} Otherwise, head to Mahogany Town. Fury Cutter Ancientpower -Thunderpunch Here is the best team for Pokemon Gold and Silver. - Brock's Team (Iron Tail and Thunder Punch) Now that you have Surf, clear party so that 1 Pokémon slot is available (via Bill’s PC), and backpedal to Route 32. - Lance's Team (Rollout) -Thunder Punch, (Crystal users) Remember that you can change Pokemon, these are just good Pokemon with the best movesets in my opinion. Sweet Scent (TM, Ilex/Route 34 Guardhouse) Shadow Ball Garchomps Mega is useless, it gets a small boost in attack but loses a significant amaount in speed, normal goarchomp with leftovers is 2x better . - Red's Venusaur (Fire STAB), Charizard and Blastoise (Thunder Punch), Pokemon 5: Miltank Im listing HMs to the movesets so make sure yourself that you only give one of each of those to your Pokemon. Others: Actually, changing the clock between daylight savings and no daylight savings can trigger phone calls quite quickly, so you don't have to get lucky. Dark - Typhlosion for Vileplume, Nidoking's Double Kicks / Earthquakes for the rest. - Bugsy's Team (Flying STAB) This is a pretty simple set. Leave Ruins of Alph for later. - Petrel's Zubat (Rollout) ELITE FOUR Ancientpower Use Sleep on Miltank to stop it from repeatedly drinking milk + interrupt Rollout damage. Otherwise great! I’ve been using it for my Virtual Console playthrough of Silver and it has worked like a charm! Abilities don’t exist in gen 2 also. Gen II or bust. Tackle -> Iron Tail (TM, defeat Jasmine) -Sleep Powder/Toxic Type Normal, Location: Route 38 (Only available during the day in Crystal) -Ice Punch - Karen's Team sans Vileplume (Rock STAB, Ground STAB and Rock Smash) Lapras is a good choice: Surf, Psychic, Ice Beam, and Body Slam/Perish Song/ Strength. Meganium will be able to set up reflect to raise your tems defense and take care of water and ground types, decent chance to paralyze with body slam. Trade it with him. - Return __, electabuzz : thunderbolt, icepunch, psychic, dizzy punch - Psychic - Sabrina's Team (Bite) - sludge bomb - Bite (Level 21) -solar Beam -Solar beam __, donphan : earthquake, defence curl, rollot, flail Get Mareep and Bellsprout to about level 15 before attempting 2nd gym. Type: Ice/ Psychic, Location: Ice Path It also gets Toxic, which can be devastating in Gold and Silver. Razor Leaf because special STAB, Cut for clearing bushes and Normal coverage, Sludge Bomb because physical STAB , Sleep Powder because Sleep is silly. Ice Punch or Ice Beam is great coverage and really good against Claire and Lance. Here are some other options though if you dont want him: Pinsir: Strength/Return, Seismic Toss, Submission, Swords Dance, Scyther: False Swipe, Swords Dance, Steel Wing, Return/Slash, Graveler: Earthquake, Rollout, Explosion, Strength/Rock Throw/Headbutt, Machoke: Earthquake, Cross Chop, Seismic Toss, Strength/Return/Curse.