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Gengar’s Pokédex · Johto · Generation II

#196 Espeon

Psychic

  • SpeciesSun Pokémon
  • Japanese nameEfui
  • PronunciationISP-EE-ON
  • Height2′ 11″ 0.89 m
  • Weight58.0 lb 26.10 kg
  • Gender♂ 87.5% · ♀ 12.5%
Espeon official artwork

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Name meaning

Phonetic pronounciation of ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) and EON (long period of time).

Evolution

  1. EeveeReach Happiness Quota and let evolve during Morning or Day in Gold/Silver/CrystalEspeon
Espeon in the original Gengar’s Pokédex
Espeon as it appeared in the original Gengar’s Pokédex

Pokédex entries

GoldStadium 2 It uses the fine hairs that cover its body to sense air currents and predict its enemy’s actions.
Silver By reading air currents, it can predict things such as weather or its foe’s next move.
Crystal The tip of its forked tail quivers when it is predicting its opponent’s next move.

Where to find Espeon

Game Where to find it Time Rarity
Gold Must Evolve from Eevee by getting it to it’s happiness quota during morning or day Morn. or Day Evolve
Silver Morn. or Day Evolve
Crystal Morn. or Day Evolve

How to catch

Ground Surf Fishing Forest Tree Mountain Tree Rock Smash Breed Evolve Event BugCatch Game Corner
G/S ✓
Crystal ✓

✓ marks how you can get it in each game. Shaded boxes are methods that didn’t exist in that game.

Type matchups

Defence: damage taken from each attack type

  • Normal×1
  • Fire×1
  • Water×1
  • Electric×1
  • Grass×1
  • Ice×1
  • Fighting×0.5
  • Poison×1
  • Ground×1
  • Flying×1
  • Psychic×0.5
  • Bug×2
  • Rock×1
  • Ghost×2
  • Dragon×1
  • Dark×2
  • Steel×1
  • 3 weaknesses and 2 resistances out of 17 types. Defence ratio 3 : 2 (150%).

Offence: same-type attacks against each type

  • NormalNormal
  • FireNormal
  • WaterNormal
  • ElectricNormal
  • GrassNormal
  • IceNormal
  • FightingNormal
  • PoisonNormal
  • GroundNormal
  • FlyingNormal
  • PsychicBad
  • BugNormal
  • RockNormal
  • GhostNormal
  • DragonNormal
  • DarkNo Effect
  • SteelBad
  • 2 advantages and 3 disadvantages out of 17 types. Offensive ratio 2:3 (~66.67%).

Moves learned by levelling up

G/S Crystal Move Type Kind
Start Start Tackle Normal Physical
Start Start Tail Whip Normal Status
8 8 Sand-Attack Ground Status
— — Growl Normal Status
16 16 Confusion Psychic Special
23 23 Quick Attack Normal Physical
— — Bite Dark Special
30 30 Swift Normal Physical
— — Focus Energy (Gold/Silver) Normal Status
— — Baton Pass (Crystal) Normal Status
36 36 Psybeam Psychic Special
— — Take Down Normal Physical
42 42 Psych Up Normal Status
47 47 Psychic Psychic Special
52 52 Morning Sun Normal Status

“Start” means it knows the move from level 1; a dash means it doesn’t learn the move by levelling up in that game.

Move Tutor Crystal

None.

TMs & HMs Gold, Silver & Crystal

  • TM02Headbutt
  • TM03Curse
  • TM06Toxic
  • TM07Zap Cannon
  • TM09Psych Up
  • TM10Hidden Power
  • TM11Sunny Day
  • TM13Snore
  • TM15Hyper Beam
  • TM17Protect
  • TM18Rain Dance
  • TM20Endure
  • TM21Frustration
  • TM23Iron Tail
  • TM27Return
  • TM29Psychic
  • TM30Shadow Ball
  • TM31Mud-Slap
  • TM32Double Team
  • TM34Swagger
  • TM35Sleep Talk
  • TM39Swift
  • TM42Dream Eater
  • TM43Detect
  • TM44Rest
  • TM45Attract
  • TM50Nightmare
  • HM01Cut
  • HM05Flash

Stats

Stat Base Range at Lv. 100 G/S/C rank
HP 65 303-333 24/4546.02%
Attack 65 198-228 24/4940.14%
Defense 60 188-218 31/5538.21%
Speed 110 288-318 5/4794.52%
Special Attack 130 328-358 3/4699.06%
Special Defense 95 258-288 13/4181.59%
Total 525 1563-1743 9/8786.43%

Ranges are the lowest and highest the stat can be at level 100. Ranks compare the base stat with every other Pokémon in those games (1 is the highest), with its percentile underneath.

Restored from Gengar’s Online Pokédex v4.2, one of the first Pokédexes on the web, created by Curtis Alumbaugh (Gengar) with Ian Alumbaugh (Haunter) and kept by Pokémon Dungeon. How to read this page · Red, Blue & Yellow moves · The Library