What is the best way to Level Up in HeartGold/SoulSilver?

I know of a few way and I know that everyone who plays Heart-Gold or Soul-Silver feels as though Game Freak decided to screw. This usually happened about2 1/2 hoursafter they bought the game on the release date. I now know what you feel like. There are few areas to level up in HG and SS after the Kanto league has been beaten. It is most frustrating and can make you feel likesmacking your head on the wall,no lets say through the wall.

But is there even hope?I know peopl say that it just take a long time, but now I want to ask those people what their definition of time is,eternity? Does anyone ever even get Lv. 100s in this game? (or is that just for hackers) I am feeling weak. :'( What should Ido?>_< I know of a few ways though. Might they be hope for me? I will list what I do know. Here they are

Battle Wild PokemonThis is best done at either Cerulean Cave(Anything with either a ground weakness or no attacks that do mush damage to ground/rock) and Mt. Silver(for any thing with grass/water/ice moves that will not be OHKO by a ground move.

Fight the E4This can be done by leveling up to Lv. 80 +…. hard thing to do. Ooooor you can buy a lot of stuff so you have no money and then just go fight them and lose every time to quickly level up.

Use Rare CandiesI know that there are like 15 or so rare candies sitting around. They can also be bought at the PokeAthlon for 2000 P on Mondays and Saturdays.

Use the Day Care ServicesThis can be very good when leveling up in the wild because your Pokemon slowly gains Experience and eventually can be a high level. But the down side is it takes the longest of any of these ways.

Use an Exp. Share for low level PokemonLike it says “Low level Pokemon”

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Level grinding in older Pokemon games is hard. There is no easy way out. However, the steps below will help you train as efficiently as possible in HG/SS.

This answer generally assumes you’ve completed the game including Kanto, and you have some Pokemon from your playthrough that can be used for switch training (roughly level 55+).

If you’re mid-playthrough, refer tothis guide. Make use of PokeGear rematches, areas you haven’t cleared yet, and Exp. Share for Pokemon that can’t fight on their own. Remember trainers give considerably more experience than wild Pokemon. Use fewer Pokemon on your team to spread experience more efficiently.

Before starting, do the following changes to your in-game options to make the grind faster:

After you reach the “solo training” phase below, turn the battle style back to “set”, so you see less dialogue boxes.

Lucky Eggs are tricky to get in HG/SS, but necessary for anyone serious about training Pokemon beyond about level 50. They are available 5% of the time on wild Chansey, which itself only appears at a rate of 1% on Routes 13, 14 and 15. Here are ways to make the process easier:

If you’re only interested in training to level 50, then Exp. Share training is a viable alternative to Lucky Egg, so you can skip this step if you want.

Low-level Pokemon cannot take fights on their own, so they need to be trained using teammates. At this stage, there are two reasonable approaches: a) switch training with the Lucky Egg or b) using the Exp. Share. The Lucky Egg approach is slightly faster overall, but the Exp. Share approach requires less brain power. Suggestions for who to fight:

Of these three options, pick the hardest that your team is capable of clearing efficiently. If you’re only part way though the game, stick to PokeGear rematches (or just keep trying the fight/s you’re losing).

Wherever possible, avoid training on wild Pokemon as they award less experience than trainer Pokemon andonly go up to around level 50.

Once your Pokemon can hold its own in battles, you can let it solo entire fights and thus gain all the available experience. This is when the Lucky Egg truly becomes necessary to train with any efficiency. You should start solo training as soon as there are PokeGear battles your Pokemon is capable of clearing on its own.

When your Pokemon is level 50+, it should consistently clear all the regular PokeGear rematches alone – at this point, you may graduate to the Gym Leader rematches. Pick one that your Pokemon matches favourably against, as this makes the grind faster and effective at earlier levels.

Offensively-inclined Pokemon have a much easier time with solo training, especially ones with setup moves like Swords Dance (which can be used at the start of the fight).If your Pokemon needs a boost, use X-items on it at the start of fights.When your Pokemon is around level 80+, it should be capable of beating the Pokemon League alone with reasonable efficiency, assuming it has boosts described above. If it’s having trouble, go back to PokeGear fights.

If you have multiple Pokemon to train, give a second Pokemon the Exp. Share (while your main one holds Lucky Egg). This causes less experience to be handed out in total, but the difference is small enough to where switch training both Pokemon completely separately is slower.

Use your Rare Candies at level 95+, when leveling up requires the most experience (except for Pokemon in the Erratic experience group).This videoshows all the locations. There are repeatable ways to get Rare Candies, but they are inefficient.

TobyOrNotToby’s answerhas an interesting trick where you can level up your Pokemon overnight using the Day-Care. Actively grinding is faster, but this may be worthwhile if you’re a bit desperate. You can also combine your level grinding withShankzEEVEE’s ideato get extra Rare Candies.

Yeah, the best way to go in my opinion is:

hunt down a chansey with a lucky eggand have an exp.sharegive the exp.share to a Pokemonput it first in your partythen rematch the gym leadersand just switch him out with another Pokemonthen when he gets around lvl-35-40take him to mt.silver and give him the lucky eggwhen you get to about 55-60rematch the gym leaders with the lucky egg

that’s usually how I train mine

Well, let me just say, Mt. Silver is the one place in the game (HG/SS) with wild Pokemon around level 50.If you have a low-level Pokemon, give it an Exp. Share and have him at the front of your party. Once a strong wild Pokemon, immediately switch out the weaker one for a stronger one and take down the foe. With a just-hatched Pokemon, for example, you could could see it go to level 9 after one battle in Mt. Silver easily.

From trainer battles, the best is still to line up a match with Gym Leaders or the Elite Four, or even Red.

If all else fails, there are Rare Candies. Just keep listening in on Buena’s Password and she’ll give you a Rare Candy every time you get 25 points on your Blue Card.

There’s a ethical question to this but at the Ecruteak Gym there’s a place where, if you hold down the up button, it’s an endless loop of you falling and then reappearing at the beginning. What you can do is put your Pokémon in the daycare and then tape down the up button overnight. I did this at a lower level but I got my Drowzee from level 13 to 37 in about 6 hours. There’s probably quicker methods if you really wanna go through the grind but if you just want to level up to beat Red or compete against a friend, in my case, this is a good way to do it

If you want to do the Rare Candy Route… You could catch some Teddiursa at Mt. Silver… They have a 50% chance of having the ability Pick Up and at Level 41+ they pick up Rare Candies every once in a while…

Have the Teddiursa(s) in your Party while battling Wild Pokemons and check after the Battle if they pick upped something… It’s not that bothersome if you’re using Sweet Scent to encounter Wild Pokemons…

Use the Rare Candies once you have enough to reach Level 100 as the latter Levels are the harder to gain Experience…