Paras

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#046    Paras

Type(s)

Bug Grass

Generation

  I  

Abilities
Ability 1
Effect Spore		 Ability 2
Dry Skin		 Hidden Ability
Damp

Rarity Tier

  Common  

Catch rate

  190/255 (24.84%)  

Base stats

HP
35

Atk
70

Def
55

Sp.Atk
45

Sp.Def
55

Spd
25

Base-stat total: 285
EV Yield

HP
0

Atk
1

Def
0

Sp.Atk
0

Sp.Def
0

Spd
0

EV-yield total: 1

Base Experience

  70  

Gender Ratio

    87.5%  
  12.5%    

Height

  0.3m  

Weight

  5.4kg  

Paras is a Bug— and Grass-type Pokémon.

It evolves into Parasect as early as level 24.

Obtainability

Wild

Land

Location Levels Times Held Item Rarity Tier
Bug Catching Area 15-19 Morning Day Night Common
Ilex Forest 5-9 Morning Day Night Tiny Mushroom Common
Mt. Moon 1F 10-13 Morning Day Night Tiny Mushroom Common
Mt. Moon B1F 10-13 Morning Day Night Tiny Mushroom Common
Mt. Moon B2F 10-13 Morning Day Night Tiny Mushroom Common
Nap Forest 42-45 Morning Day Night Common
Palpatoo Beak 35-39 Morning Day Night Common
Pinkan Island Forest 60-65 Morning Night Common
Safari Area 1 23-28 Morning Day Night Tiny Mushroom Common
Safari Area 2 12-14 Morning Day Night Tiny Mushroom Common
Safari Area 3 20-22 Morning Day Night Tiny Mushroom Common
Safari Exclusive 21-25 Morning Day Tiny Mushroom Common
  • Pink-colored areas denote that this area or inhabiting spawn is strictly members-accessible
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

NPCs

Paras is one out of many assignable Pokémon in Kanto‘s iteration of the Daily Challenges system; by virtue of that, this is one of the guaranteedly shiny Pokémon that may be potentially rewarded for every 50-divisible task.

Moves

Level-up

Level Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
— Scratch Normal Physical 40 100 35
2 Sleep Powder Grass Status — 75 15
6 Poison Powder Poison Status — 75 35
6 Stun Spore Grass Status — 75 30
11 Absorb Grass Special 20 100 25
15 Fury Swipes Normal Physical 18 80 15
17 Fury Cutter Bug Physical 40 95 20
19 Leech Life Bug Physical 80 100 10
22 Spore Grass Status — 100 15
27 Slash Normal Physical 70 100 20
33 Growth Normal Status — — 20
38 Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 10
43 Aromatherapy Grass Status — — 5
49 Rage Powder Bug Status — — 20
54 X-Scissor Bug Physical 80 100 10
  • Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs/HMs

TM Moves Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
TM6 Toxic Poison Status — 90 10
TM8 Body Slam Normal Physical 80 100 15
TM9 Take Down Normal Physical 90 85 20
TM21 Mega Drain Grass Special 40 100 15
TM22 Solar Beam Grass Special 120 100 10
TM28 Dig Ground Physical 80 100 10
TM33 Reflect Psychic Status — — 20
TM34 Bide Normal Physical — — 10
TM40 Skull Bash Normal Physical 100 100 15
TM44 Rest Psychic Status — — 10
TM60 Hidden Power Normal Special 60 100 15
TM61 Sunny Day Fire Status — — 5
TM66 Light Screen Psychic Status — — 30
TM67 Protect Normal Status — — 10
TM75 Swords Dance Normal Status — — 30
TM81 Brick Break Fighting Physical 75 100 15
TM86 Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100 10
TM92 Facade Normal Physical 70 100 20
TM96 Thief Dark Physical 60 100 25
TM104 False Swipe Normal Physical 40 100 40
TM114 Rock Smash Fighting Physical 40 100 15
TM138 Sleep Talk Normal Status — — 10
HM01 Cut Normal Physical 50 95 30
HM05 Flash Normal Status — 100 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move’s obtainability.

TM-tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Bullet Seed Grass Physical 25 100 30
Frustration Normal Physical — 100 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Move tutors

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Bug Bite Bug Physical 60 100 20
Counter Fighting Physical — 100 20
Double-Edge Normal Physical 120 100 15
Fury Cutter Bug Physical 40 95 20
Giga Drain Grass Special 75 100 10
Knock Off Dark Physical 65 100 25
Seed Bomb Grass Physical 80 100 15
Swagger Normal Status — 90 15
Swords Dance Normal Status — — 30
Synthesis Grass Status — — 5
Refresh Normal Status — — 20
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Egg Moves

Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy PP
Agility Psychic Status — 100 30
Bug Bite Bug Physical 60 100 20
Counter Fighting Physical — 100 20
Cross Poison Poison Physical 70 100 20
Endure Normal Status — — 10
Fell Stinger Bug Physical 30 100 25
Flail Normal Physical — 100 15
Leech Seed Grass Status — 100 10
Metal Claw Steel Physical 50 95 35
Natural Gift Normal Physical — 100 15
Psybeam Psychic Special 65 100 20
Pursuit Dark Physical 40 100 20
Screech Normal Status — 85 40
Sweet Scent Normal Status — 100 20
Wide Guard Rock Status — — 10
  • Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it.
  • Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information.
  • For more information on egg-move-tutors, refer to: Egg Moves.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
 2×  Weak to  1×  Neutral to  ½×  Resistant to  0×  Immune to
Bug
Flying
Fire
Ice
Poison
Rock
Dark
Dragon
Fairy
Ghost
Normal
Psychic
Steel
Electric
Fighting
Grass
Ground
Water
None
  • All darkened weakness types have a 4x weakness due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type weaknesses.
  • All darkened resistance types have a 1⁄4x resistance due to the multiplicative damage-modifiers of both of the Pokémon’s type resistances.

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience that Paras requires to advance per level, as well as a comparative overview of how much less experience is needed to level up at the same levels than its evolution would require; this helps you handily cross-compare their leveling charts to ascertain how many experience points you would save if you were to delay evolving Paras to a later level.

Level XP Level-Up Differential Paras-Parasect Differential
1 56 6 52
2 61 5 56
3 88 27 100
4 157 69 199
5 289 132 372
6 505 216 635
7 826 321 1006
8 1274 448 1504
9 1868 594 2143
10 2631 763 2944
11 3583 952 3921
12 4745 1162 5094
13 6138 1393 6480
14 7784 1646 8096
15 9703 1919 9959
16 11916 2213 12086
17 14444 2528 14496
18 17309 2865 17206
19 20530 3221 20233
20 24130 3600 23595
21 28130 4000 27308
22 32550 4420 31390
23 37411 4861 35859
24 42735 5324 40733
25 48542 5807 46027
26 54853 6311 51761
27 61690 6837 57952
28 69074 7384 64617
29 77025 7951 71772
30 85565 8540 79437
31 94715 9150 87628
32 104495 9780 96362
33 114927 10432 105658
34 126032 11105 115532
35 137831 11799 126003
36 150346 12515 137087
37 163596 13250 148801
38 177603 14007 161165
39 192389 14786 174195
40 207975 15586 187908
41 224381 16406 202322
42 241629 17248 217455
43 259740 18111 233324
44 278735 18995 249947
45 298635 19900 267341
46 319462 20827 285525
47 341237 21775 304515
48 363981 22744 324330
49 387716 23735 344986
50 412463 24747 366503
51 438243 25780 388897
52 465079 26836 412187
53 492990 27911 436389
54 522000 29010 461525
55 552130 30130 487609
56 583401 31271 514661
57 615836 32435 542700
58 649457 33621 571743
59 684286 34829 601810
60 720346 36060 632919
61 757659 37313 665089
62 796249 38590 698340
63 836139 39890 732690
64 877352 41213 768161
65 919912 42560 804774
66 963846 43934 842550
67 1009178 45332 881508
68 1055934 46756 921674
69 1104143 48209 963072
70 1153834 49691 1005725
71 1205036 51202 1049660
72 1257782 52746 1094908
73 1312107 54325 1141500
74 1368051 55944 1189471
75 1425654 57603 1238860
76 1484966 59312 1289712
77 1546039 61073 1342078
78 1608939 62900 1396022
79 1673740 64801 1451614
80 1740531 66791 1508946
81 1809425 68894 1568132
82 1880559 71134 1629313
83 1954111 73552 1692674
84 2030311 76200 1758459
85 2109464 79153 1826994
86 2191980 82516 1898728
87 2278427 86447 1974287
88 2369602 91175 2054560
89 2466650 97048 2140844
90 2571255 104605 2235074
91 2685956 114701 2340207
92 2814686 128730 2460898
93 2963734 149048 2604713
94 3143511 179777 2784400
95 3371959 228448 3022358
96 3681496 309537 3359919
97 4134045 452549 3877900
98 4856180 722135 4745827
99 6129172 1272992 6351448
100 8648234 2519062 9684741

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

  • Original counterpart

  • Shiny Paras

  • Pink Paras

    Pink Paras

External Links

  • Paras’s Bulbapedia
  • Paras’s Serebii