Gold/Silver/Crystal Pokemon in the Safari Zone

Discover how to access new areas in the Safari Zone in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire to catch Pokémon from Gold, Silver, and Crystal. Includes locations and tips.

After beating the Elite Four in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, two new areas of the Safari Zone become accessible, containing Pokémon originally from Gold, Silver, and Crystal that cannot be found elsewhere in the game. To reach these areas, fly to Lilycove City and head west onto Route 121. Enter the Safari Zone and pay the entrance fee.

To reach Area F: From the starting point, head north. Look for a path to your right; take it. The guards blocking the route will be gone. Continue east to enter the new area.

Safari Zone Area F Pokémon

• Sunkern (Common): A Grass-type with poor stats, but evolves into Sunflora with a Sun Stone, gaining better special attack.
• Mareep (Common): An Electric-type that evolves into Flaffy (Level 15) and Ampharos (Level 30). It has solid Special Attack but low speed.
• Aipom (Uncommon): A Normal-type with decent speed but generally not worth using due to poor overall stats. It does not evolve.
• Spinarak (Uncommon): A Bug-type that evolves into Ariados at Level 22. Its Poison typing and limited movepool can be a drawback.
• Hoothoot (Rare): A Flying-type that evolves into Noctowl at Level 20. Noctowl can be effective with moves like Hypnosis and Dream Eater.
• Snubbull (Rare): A Fairy-type (in later generations, but Normal in Gen 3) with poor stats, even after evolving into Granbull.
• Stantler (Rare): A Normal-type excelling in Attack and Speed, but requires TMs for effective moves.
• Gligar (Rare): A Ground/Flying-type with a 4x weakness to Ice and limited Ground-type moves learned by leveling up. Immune to Electric.

In addition to the land areas, surfing in the Safari Zone can yield new Pokémon:

• Wooper (Very Common, Surfing): A Water/Ground-type with an Electric immunity but a 4x Grass weakness. Evolves into Quagsire, which has improved stats but reduced speed.
• Marill (Common, Surfing)
• Quagsire (Very Rare, Surfing)

Fishing in the Safari Zone also reveals different Pokémon depending on the rod used:

• Old Rod: Magikarp (Very Common), Goldeen (Common)
• Good Rod: Magikarp (Very Common), Goldeen (Common), Remoraid (Common)
• Super Rod: Remoraid (Very Common), Goldeen (Common), Octillery (Very Rare)

Remoraid evolves into Octillery at Level 25. At Level 22, it learns Bubblebeam, Aurora Beam, and Psybeam. With TMs, Octillery can be a strong Pokémon, despite its below-average speed.

To reach Area E: From the entrance, head all the way right to a river. Surf across and you'll find a patch of grass. The item on the other side of the grass is a Big Pearl. Surf back across the river and continue north until the screen displays "Safari Zone" in the top left corner.

Safari Zone Area E Pokémon

• Aipom (Common)
• Teddiursa (Common): Evolves into Ursaring at Level 30, capable of learning powerful attacks like Thrash.
• Sunkern (Uncommon)
• Ledyba (Uncommon): A Bug-type that evolves into Ledian at Level 15. It has defensive moves like Reflect and Light Screen but low attack.
• Hoothoot (Rare)
• Pineco (Rare): Evolves into Forretress at Level 31, becoming a Bug/Steel type with high defense. Learns moves like Explosion.
• Houndour (Rare): A Fire/Dark-type with good special attack and speed, evolving into Houndoom at Level 24. Effective against Bug, Grass, Ghost, Ice, and Psychic types.
• Miltank (Rare)