
Recommended Level and Moveset: Level 21 Leech Seed, Poison Powder, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf. It can be helpful against Raticate (still don’t use Poison Powder due to Guts), but every other member of your rival’s team will rip through Ivysaur. Anne: Ivysaur should not be used in this battle. Recommended Level and Moveset: Level 22 Leech Seed, Poison Powder, Sleep Powder, Razor Leaf. Sleep/Poison Powder can also be used, but Razor Leaf takes it down much faster anyway. Setting up Leech Seed on Starmie would be helpful, but it has Rapid Spin, which will remove Leech Seed. Misty’s Staryu is fast, but it can only really hurt Ivysaur with Water Pulse’s confusion chance. Ivysaur versus Misty in Cerulean City Gym: This is another case of press A to gym badge. Recommended Level and Moveset: Level 15 Leech Seed, Vine Whip, Poison Powder, Sleep Powder. Poison Powder isn’t a good option against Rattata, though Rattata has Guts. Make sure to heal up if Bulbasaur can’t take a critical hit though if you’re saying “it’ll be okay unless it’s a critical hit”, then it will always be a critical hit. However, Bulbasaur destroys Abra and Rattata is easy enough to deal with barring crits. Anything barring Butterfree/Beedrill is better for dealing with these two. Recommended Level and Moveset: Level 10 Tackle, Growl, Leech Seed, Vine Whip.īulbasaur versus Rival on Nugget Bridge: Using Bulbasaur against Charmander or Pidgeotto is a death sentence. Mankey with Low Kick is another option for this gym, but Bulbasaur is better in almost every way.
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If you get into a pinch (somehow), use Leech Seed or a Potion to patch up your health. Theoretically, you could grind it up to level 16 to evolve it into Ivysaur, but Bulbasaur is more than capable of defeating Brock at level 10. Recommended Level and Moveset: Level 7 Tackle, Growl, Leech Seed.īulbasaur versus Brock in Pewter City Gym: If Bulbasaur is at level 10, press A to Boulder Badge. One-on-one, Bulbasaur loses this battle without significant grinding. However, Bulbasaur can utilize its Leech Seed to support your team. Recommended Level and Moveset: Level 5 Tackle, Growl.īulbasaur versus Rival in Route 22: Bulbasaur is at a distinct disadvantage against your Rival’s Pidgey and Charmander. Using Growl is an option to patch this up, but you may have to use your Potion to avoid a loss. However, Bulbasaur is at a distinct disadvantage due to its only attacking move, Tackle, which is weaker and less accurate than Charmander’s Scratch. Its lack of a reliable STAB move and a rather shallow attack movepool means that it will have trouble taking down anything when it hits neutrally.īulbasaur’s Match-ups in Important Battlesīulbasaur versus Rival in Oak’s Lab: This battle is as straightforward as always. However, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows for Bulbasaur in the Kanto region. Later in the game, it can utilize Sunny Day and Solar Beam to great effect. Its secondary typing, Poison, grants it an immunity to being poisoned by Weedle’s Poison Sting. Its access to support moves like Leech Seed and Sleep Powder can turn the tide of battle in a pinch, and its typing and base stats make it a challenge to take down.

Bulbasaur is a Pokémon that will give you a massive advantage in the first two gyms of the Kanto region.
