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Gengar’s Pokédex · Kanto · Generation I

#119 Seaking

Water

  • SpeciesGoldfish Pokémon
  • Japanese nameAzumao
  • PronunciationSEE-KING
  • Height4′ 3″ 1.30 m
  • Weight86.0 lb 38.70 kg
  • Gender♂ 50% · ♀ 50%
Seaking official artwork

PokédexWhere to findType matchupsMovesBreedingStats

Name meaning

“The KING of the SEA”

Evolution

  1. GoldeenLevel 33Seaking
Seaking in the original Gengar’s Pokédex
Seaking as it appeared in the original Gengar’s Pokédex

Pokédex entries

RedBlue In the autumn spawning season, they can be seen swimming powerfully up rivers and creeks.
Yellow It is the male’s job to make a nest by carving out boulders in a stream using the horn on its head.
Stadium In the autumn, they travel up rivers to spawn. In other seasons, they make and live in their own nests.
GoldStadium 2 During spawning season, SEAKING gather from all over, coloring the rivers a brilliant red.
Silver Using its horn, it bores holes in riverbed boulders, making nests to prevent its eggs from washing away.
Crystal When autumn comes, the males patrol the area around their nests in order to protect their offspring.

Where to find Seaking

Game Where to find it Time Rarity
Blue Fishing (Fuchsia City, Unknown Dungeon, Route 23) NA Few/Evolve
Red NA Few/Evolve
Yellow Fishing (Cerulean City, Unknown Dungeon, Route 24) NA Few/Evolve
Gold Fishing / Surfing (Cerulean City, Dark Cave, Mt. Mortar, Mt. Silver, Slowpoke Well, Tohjo Falls, Union Cave, Routes 4, 9, 10, 24, 25, 42) Any Many/Evolve
Silver Any Many/Evolve
Crystal Any Many/Evolve

How to catch

Ground Surf Fishing Forest Tree Mountain Tree Rock Smash Breed Evolve Event BugCatch Game Corner
R/B ✓ ✓
Yellow ✓ ✓
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×0.5
  • Water×0.5
  • Electric×2
  • Grass×2
  • Ice×0.5
  • Fighting×1
  • Poison×1
  • Ground×1
  • Flying×1
  • Psychic×1
  • Bug×1
  • Rock×1
  • Ghost×1
  • Dragon×1
  • Dark×1
  • Steel×0.5
  • Gold, Silver & Crystal: 2 weaknesses and 4 resistances out of 17 types. Defence ratio 1 : 2 (50%).
  • Red, Blue & Yellow: 2 weaknesses and 3 resistances out of 15 types. Defence ratio 2 : 3 (~67%).
  • This Pokémon has more weaknesses in GSC than in RBY. So this Pokémon has a better defense ratio in RBY.

Offence: same-type attacks against each type

  • NormalNormal
  • FireGood
  • WaterBad
  • ElectricNormal
  • GrassBad
  • IceNormal
  • FightingNormal
  • PoisonNormal
  • GroundGood
  • FlyingNormal
  • PsychicNormal
  • BugNormal
  • RockGood
  • GhostNormal
  • DragonBad
  • DarkNormal
  • SteelNormal
  • Gold, Silver & Crystal: 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages out of 17 types. Offensive ratio 1:1 (100%).
  • Red, Blue & Yellow: 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage out of 15 types. Offensive ratio 1:1 (100%).

Moves learned by levelling up

R/B/Y G/S/C Move Type Kind
Start Start Peck Flying Physical
Start Start Tail Whip Normal Status
19 10 Supersonic Normal Status
24 15 Horn Attack Normal Physical
— 24 Flail Normal Physical
30 29 Fury Attack Normal Physical
39 41 Waterfall Water Special
48 49 Horn Drill Normal Physical
54 61 Agility Psychic 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

  • Ice Beam

TMs & HMs Gold, Silver & Crystal

  • TM03Curse
  • TM06Toxic
  • TM10Hidden Power
  • TM13Snore
  • TM14Blizzard
  • TM15Hyper Beam
  • TM16Icy Wind
  • TM17Protect
  • TM18Rain Dance
  • TM20Endure
  • TM21Frustration
  • TM27Return
  • TM32Double Team
  • TM34Swagger
  • TM35Sleep Talk
  • TM39Swift
  • TM44Rest
  • TM45Attract
  • HM03Surf
  • HM07Waterfall

TMs & HMs Red, Blue & Yellow

  • TM06Toxic
  • TM07Horn Drill
  • TM09Take Down
  • TM10Double-Edge
  • TM11Bubblebeam
  • TM12Water Gun
  • TM13Ice Beam
  • TM14Blizzard
  • TM15Hyper Beam
  • TM20Rage
  • TM31Mimic
  • TM32Double Team
  • TM34Bide
  • TM39Swift
  • TM40Skull Bash
  • TM44Rest
  • TM50Substitute
  • HM03Surf

Breeding Gold, Silver & Crystal

Egg groups Water 2 Pokémon group 9

Compatible Pokémon

Egg moves

Move How to pass it down
Haze Breed a male from Wooper Family to a female from Remoraid Family. Then breed the male offspring with the move to a female Goldeen.
Hydro Pump Mate with a male Chinchou/Lanturn, Gyarados, or Qwilfish.
Psybeam Mate with male Remoraid/Octillery.

Stats

Stat Base Range at Lv. 100 G/S/C rank R/B/Y rank
HP 80 333-363 18/4565.54% 15/4270.86%
Attack 92 252-282 10/4977.31% 10/4577.31%
Defense 65 198-228 27/5544.05% 24/4444.05%
Speed 68 204-234 24/4751.99% 23/4248.01%
Special Attack G/S/C 65 198-228 23/4648.01% —
Special Defense G/S/C 80 228-258 17/4165.54% —
Special R/B/Y 80 228-258 — 13/2963.67%
Total 450 G/S/C
385 R/B/Y
1413-1593
1215-1365
27/8765.54% 22/6569.15%

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