Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver/Violet City: Difference between revisions

| [[File:Pokemon 095Onix.png|left]]Onix learns a lot of good moves at low levels, many of them very useful for the first two gyms. It gets both Rock Throw and Rock Tomb by level 17, and learns Screech even earlier allowing its moves hit harder. It also learns Sandstorm at Lv 22 which hurts non-Rock, Ground or Steel Pokemon each round while boosting its Special Defense by 50% for the duration - useful for surviving those 4x effective Water or Grass moves that are prevalent throughout the game.

It can also evolve into a {{bp|Steelix}} should you find a Metal Coat trade it. This evolution raises most of Onix's stats (except Speed) to competitive levels.  

| [[File:Pokemon 175Togepi.png|right]]Togepi has a lot of fun attacks, like random move-unleashing Metronome (at level 6) and Encore, which forces your opponent to repeat its last attack 2-6 times (at level 19). It's too bad that Togepi's Attack and Speed scores are so low, so you'll need to make sure that Togepi doesn't die every time he goes out to battle - because that will delay the evolution into a Togetic as it will only evolve when it's freindship is high enough and fainting will detract from that value.

|[[Image:Pokemon_092Gastly.png|left]]Gastlies are incredible! They boast a useful set of immunities and resistances for the early part of the game: being immune to Normal, Fighting and Ground attacks from their Ghost typing and Levitate ability, and can't be inflicted with the Poisoned status thanks to their Poison typing. Their combined typing also grants resistances to Poison, Bug and Grass moves. At this point in the game, its weaknesses of Ghost, Dark and Psychic don't appear often. So short of running into anything known for the moves Lick, Bite or Confusion, they're fairly safe - just beware of their low Defense and Special Defense values.

It's early moveset is great too. It should come with Lick and Hypnosis when you catch it and it'll learn the useful moves Spite, Mean Look, Curse and Night Shade all by level 15. Lick paralyzes foes, Spite cuts the foe's PP, Night Shade does damage equal to Gastly's level regardless of type, and Curse (when used by a ghost like Gastly) sacrifices half the user's health in return for cutting a quarter of the foe's each turn.

 

It'll evolve into Haunter at Level 25, can learn Dream Eater by level 39 to finish off the Hypnosis/Dream Eater combo.