ORIGINAL GENERATION II · COMPLETE COMPARISON
Gold vs Silver
Every meaningful version split in one place: Pokémon you can obtain without trading, map views whose encounter slots change, the two rate-only exceptions, and the original front-sprite artwork used by each cartridge.
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OBTAINABLE WITHOUT LINK TRADING
Version-exclusive Pokémon
Evolution and breeding are included, so each column represents the complete family members obtainable in that cartridge—not only species that appear directly in grass or caves.
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10Pokémon GoldTrade from Gold to fill these in Silver
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10Pokémon SilverTrade from Silver to fill these in Gold
371 MAP VIEWS COMPARED SLOT BY SLOT
45 different encounter views
These views change at least one Pokémon or level slot. Repeated slots are combined by species and level while preserving their exact total probability.
45 matching views
Highlighted rows are the exact version-dependent entries.
No encounter views match.
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ORIGINAL FRONT ARTWORK
Gold and Silver sprite atlas
Most Pokémon use a different pose between versions. The shared-art filter isolates the nine species whose front image is identical in both games.
242 matching Pokémon
Gold is shown on the left; Silver is shown on the right.
No Pokémon match this sprite filter.
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