Sacred Gold & Storm Silver Guide
All 493 Pokémon catchable across Johto and Kanto, every trainer rebuilt, and sixteen gyms that actually fight back.
- Author
- Drayano
- Base game
- Pokémon HeartGold / SoulSilver
- System
- Nintendo DS
- Version
- 1.0.5
- Region
- Johto & Kanto
- Difficulty
- Hard
Every fight the hack's documentation covers, in story order: gym leaders, your rival, the villain admins and their boss, the Elite Four and the Champion, plus any post-game rematches. Numbers on move chips are base power. Click a Pokémon for its full stats.
Search a route to see what's in the grass, water and hordes, or search a Pokémon to see where it lives. Click any Pokémon for its full moveset, TMs and stats.
About Sacred Gold & Storm Silver
Drayano's enhancement hack of HeartGold and SoulSilver. Every route, cave and building was restocked so the whole National Dex is obtainable inside the game, with encounter tables that change between morning, day and night and two new radio channels that pull in evolved or out-of-region species. Gym Leaders, Rocket Executives, the Elite Four and Red run full six-Pokémon teams with held items, real abilities and competitive movesets, and the Kanto half of the game is levelled to be a genuine second act rather than a victory lap. Trade evolutions are handled with held items or new orbs you can use from the bag, stat and ability buffs are spread across the weaker species, and every evolution item is obtainable before the first Elite Four.
What's changed
- All 493 Pokémon obtainable without trading
- Rewritten wild tables for every area, with morning, day and night variations
- Meridian Sound and Pastoral Sound radio channels replace the Hoenn and Sinnoh Sounds
- Full six-Pokémon teams for Gym Leaders, Rocket Executives, the Elite Four and Red
- Kanto rebalanced into a real second half, with levels up to the eighties
- Stat, ability and type buffs for underpowered species; Black and White move updates
- Trade evolutions replaced with usable items and new evolution orbs
- Every evolution item available before the Johto Elite Four
- Cut, Strength and Rock Smash reworked into usable 60-power attacks
What this guide covers
Every guide here is built from the hack's own documentation. Where a hack changed something but never published the numbers, this says so rather than quietly filling the gap with the original game's — which would be worse than leaving it out.
| Section | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Wild Pokémon by area | From the hack | |
| Encounter rates | From the hack | |
| Wild levels | From the hack | |
| Stats, abilities and movesets | From the hack | |
| TM and HM compatibility | From the hack | |
| Where TMs are found | From the hack | The item document lists the TMs Drayano moved. The other 47 sit where HeartGold and SoulSilver left them and are labelled as such. |
| Trainer and boss teams | From the hack | Drayano never published trainer rosters for this hack; the teams here come from a community log recorded by @JD48096761 while playing Sacred Gold. Fights that differ in Storm Silver aren't marked, because the log doesn't distinguish them. |
Credits
- Hack, documentation and all game data: Drayano
- Trainer roster document: @JD48096761
- Logos: kojiyomi
- Sprites via PokéAPI; base move and TM data from PokéAPI and Bulbapedia.
Reading the tables
RatesPercentages are the hack's own encounter rates; * marks anything at 5% or less.
TimesJohto and Kanto run on the DS clock. Morning is 4am–10am, day 10am–8pm and night 8pm–4am; tables marked with a time only appear then.
LevelsThe locations document gives one level range per area. It covers the walking tables, or Surf on the water-only routes; fishing levels are set by the rod, not the route.
RadioMeridian Sound plays on Wednesdays and Pastoral Sound on Thursdays. Both pull species into an area that are not on its normal table, and the Meridian encounters are often underlevelled.
TrainersTrainer teams come from a community log of Sacred Gold. Important trainers were recorded with items, abilities and moves; ordinary trainers only with species and levels. Storm Silver's teams differ only where the two versions differ at all.
TmsThe item document only lists the TMs Drayano moved; the rest sit where HeartGold and SoulSilver left them, so those are shown as unchanged rather than guessed at.
EventsLegendary and gift encounters list what they need and the level they appear at. The full step-by-step for each one is in the hack's own Special Event Guide.
MovesThe documentation says Black and White's move rebalance was applied wherever possible, so move power, accuracy and PP are shown at Black/White values with the change noted.