Growlithe

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#058	Growlithe
Types Fire	Generation   I
Abilities Ability 1 Intimidate Ability 2 Flash Fire Hidden Ability Justified
Rarity Tier   Uncommon	Catch rate   190/255 (24.84%)
Base stats HP 55 Atk 70 Def 45 Sp.Atk 70 Sp.Def 50 Spd 60 Base-stat total: 350
EV Yield HP 0 Atk 1 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 1
Base Experience   91	Gender Ratio     75%     25%
Height   0.7m	Weight   19kg

Growlithe is a Fire-type Pokémon.

It evolves into its only evolutionary outlet in Arcanine when contactually exposed to a Fire Stone.

Obtainability

Wild

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rarity Tier
Abandoned Desert Village	31-35	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Alto Mare Secret Garden	30-34	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Bittersweet Cave 3F	25-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Bittersweet Cave 4F	30-34	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Cave Of Justice	26-30	Morning	Day	Night		Uncommon
Cinnabar Mansion 1	31-35	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Cinnabar Mansion 2	31-35	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Eriyadu Sulfur Pools	22-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Eumi Island Theme Park 2	18-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Evergreen Island Crystal Cave	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Evergreen Island Frozen Cave	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Evergreen Island Valley	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Evergreen Island Valley Path	17-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Flake Path	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Galeras Island West	27-33	Morning	Day	Night		Uncommon
Haunted Cave	25-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Haunted Cave Depths 1	25-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Haunted House 3F	24-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Crumpit	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Pyre Exterior	24-29	Morning	Day	Night		Uncommon
Mt. Pyre Summit	21-26	Morning	Day	Night		Uncommon
Mt. Summer Exterior	26-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Mt. Summer Exterior 2	26-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Murky Path	25-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Oakwood Cavern 1F	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Polar Path	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 202	3-6	Morning	Day	Night		Uncommon
Route 35	14-18	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 36	21-22			Night		Common
Route 37	16-20	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 48	22-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 7	16-20	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 8	22-22		Day			Common
Safari Johto Mountain Zone	22-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Scattered Realm Nesting Grounds	20-22	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Serenia Village	24-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Uncanny Path	24-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Unison Mountain 2F	25-29	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Unison Mountain South Summit	25-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Vulcan Cavern	34-35	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Vulcan Lava Pit	35-35	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Abandoned Pokéballs

Viridian Maze

Growlithe is lumped together with Bellsprout and Horsea as one of the three eventualities in the abandoned Pokéball found aground in Viridian Maze—all of which have equal odds.

Route 8

A level-10 stray Growlithe can be found in an abandoned Pokéball that is shrouded underneath a tree on x-coordinate 52 and y-coordinate 9.

Moves

Level-Up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
—	Roar	Normal	Status	—	—	20
—	Bite	Dark	Physical	60	100	25
6	Ember	Fire	Special	40	100	25
8	Leer	Normal	Status	—	100	30
10	Odor Sleuth	Normal	Status	—	—	40
12	Helping Hand	Normal	Status	—	—	20
17	Flame Wheel	Fire	Physical	60	100	25
19	Reversal	Fighting	Physical	—	100	15
21	Fire Fang	Fire	Physical	65	95	15
23	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
28	Flame Burst	Fire	Special	70	100	15
30	Agility	Psychic	Status	—	100	30
32	Retaliate	Normal	Physical	70	100	5
34	Flamethrower	Fire	Special	90	100	15
39	Crunch	Dark	Physical	80	100	15
41	Heat Wave	Fire	Special	95	90	10
43	Outrage	Dragon	Physical	120	100	10
45	Flare Blitz	Fire	Physical	120	100	15
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
	TM06	Toxic	Poison	Status	—	90	10
	TM08	Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
	TM09	Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85	20
	TM23	Dragon Rage	Dragon	Physical	—	100	10
	TM28	Dig	Ground	Physical	80	100	10
	TM33	Reflect	Psychic	Status	—	—	20
	TM34	Bide	Normal	Physical	—	—	10
	TM38	Fire Blast	Fire	Special	110	85	5
	TM39	Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	20
	TM40	Skull Bash	Normal	Physical	100	100	15
	TM44	Rest	Psychic	Status	—	—	10
	TM55	Roar	Normal	Status	—	—	20
	TM60	Hidden Power	Normal	Special	60	100	15
	TM61	Sunny Day	Fire	Status	—	—	5
	TM67	Protect	Normal	Status	—	—	10
	TM85	Flamethrower	Fire	Special	90	100	15
	TM92	Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100	20
	TM96	Thief	Dark	Physical	60	100	25
	TM100	Overheat	Fire	Special	130	90	5
	TM111	Will-O-Wisp	Fire	Status	—	85	15
	TM114	Rock Smash	Fighting	Physical	40	100	15
	TM138	Sleep Talk	Normal	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. Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move's obtainability.

Move tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Covet	Normal	Physical	60	100	25
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Headbutt	Normal	Physical	70	100	15
Heat Wave	Fire	Special	95	90	10
Outrage	Dragon	Physical	120	100	10
Swagger	Normal	Status	—	90	15
Swift	Normal	Special	60	—	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-Inheritable Moves

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Body Slam	Normal	Physical	80	100	15
Close Combat	Fighting	Physical	120	100	5
Covet	Normal	Physical	60	100	25
Crunch	Dark	Physical	80	100	15
Double-Edge	Normal	Physical	120	100	15
Double Kick	Fighting	Physical	30	100	30
Fire Spin	Fire	Special	40	100	25
Flare Blitz	Fire	Physical	120	100	15
Heat Wave	Fire	Special	95	90	10
Howl	Normal	Status	—	—	40
Iron Tail	Steel	Physical	100	75	15
Morning Sun	Normal	Status	—	—	5
Thrash	Normal	Physical	120	100	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
Ground Rock Water	Dark Dragon Electric Fighting Flying Ghost Normal Poison Psychic	Bug Fairy Fire Grass Ice Steel	None

Leveling Chart

This is a tabulated leveling chart of the amount of experience Growlithe 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 cross-compare how much experience you can save training if you were to evolve Growlithe at a later level.

Level	XP	Level-Up Differential	Growlithe-Arcanine Differential
1	72	7	105
2	80	8	115
3	115	35	189
4	204	89	363
5	376	172	676
6	657	281	1162
7	1074	417	1859
8	1656	582	2803
9	2429	773	4030
10	3421	992	5578
11	4658	1237	7483
12	6169	1511	9782
13	7980	1811	12511
14	10119	2139	15707
15	12614	2495	19406
16	15491	2877	23645
17	18777	3286	28461
18	22501	3724	33891
19	26690	4189	39971
20	31370	4680	46736
21	36569	5199	54226
22	42315	5746	62476
23	48634	6319	71522
24	55555	6921	81402
25	63104	7549	92151
26	71309	8205	103807
27	80197	8888	116407
28	89796	9599	129986
29	100133	10337	144582
30	111235	11102	160230
31	123129	11894	176969
32	135844	12715	194835
33	149405	13561	213864
34	163842	14437	234094
35	179181	15339	255560
36	195449	16268	278300
37	212675	17226	302351
38	230885	18210	327748
39	250106	19221	354529
40	270367	20261	382732
41	291695	21328	412393
42	314117	22422	443548
43	337662	23545	476235
44	362355	24693	510489
45	388226	25871	546350
46	415301	27075	583853
47	443609	28308	623036
48	473176	29567	663936
49	504031	30855	706590
50	536202	32171	751036
51	569717	33515	797311
52	604602	34885	845452
53	640887	36285	895498
54	678600	37713	947485
55	717769	39169	1001453
56	758422	40653	1057438
57	800587	42165	1115481
58	844295	43708	1175620
59	889573	45278	1237892
60	936450	46877	1302339
61	984957	48507	1369000
62	1035124	50167	1437916
63	1086980	51856	1509127
64	1140557	53577	1582676
65	1195886	55329	1658606
66	1253000	57114	1736960
67	1311931	58931	1817785
68	1372715	60784	1901128
69	1435387	62672	1987037
70	1499984	64597	2075565
71	1566546	66562	2166768
72	1635116	68570	2260705
73	1705740	70624	2357440
74	1778466	72726	2457043
75	1853350	74884	2559597
76	1930455	77105	2665189
77	2009851	79396	2773923
78	2091621	81770	2885922
79	2175862	84241	3001331
80	2262691	86829	3120327
81	2352253	89562	3243132
82	2444727	92474	3370021
83	2540345	95618	3501356
84	2639405	99060	3637603
85	2742303	102898	3779392
86	2849574	107271	3927579
87	2961955	112381	4083354
88	3080483	118528	4248406
89	3206645	126162	4425182
90	3342632	135987	4617318
91	3491742	149110	4830348
92	3659091	167349	5072945
93	3852854	193763	5359128
94	4086564	233710	5712401
95	4383547	296983	6173828
96	4785944	402397	6818719
97	5374258	588314	7793364
98	6313034	938776	9402405
99	7967923	1654889	12337160
100	11242704	3274781	18347417

Special Counterparts

• 
  Original counterpart
• 
  Shiny Growlithe

External Links

• Growlithe's Bulbapedia
• Growlithe's Serebii