level 50, it knows detect, drill peck, thunder wave, and agility.
You have to trade it from Firered/Leafgreen in Pokemon firered/leafgreen you can find zapdos in power plant, but you need surf to get there.
trade from leafgreen
He's(she's) in the power plant(level 50)
You can find Zapdos in Power Plant only once so if you let Zapdos fly away or if you defeat it you can never find it again in LeafGreen.
You can't get Zapdos on Pokemon Pearl or Diamond but you can migrate it from Pokemon LeafGreen or Pokemon FireRed.
Zapdos will not learn many moves, but here are a few moves such as: Charge on level 61 Light Screen on level 73 Thunder at level 85 Hyper Beam by TM15 Shock Wave by TM34 Hope this helped you and your Zapdos!
Get the 7th or 8th gym badge, and its in the Power Plant.
In Heartgold and Soulsilver have all 16 badges go talk to zapdos at the Power plant same thing with LeafGreen and Firered have 8 badges and talk to zapdos
Use the HM Surf to surf southward from the rock tunnel area soon you will find a building this is the power plant inside you can find zapdos.
In Pokémon LeafGreen Articuno can be found in the Seafoam Islands, Zapdos can be found in the Power Plant and Moltres can be found with One Island's Mt. Ember.
Zapdos will learn Thunder on it's on sometime around level 60.
In Pearl, you can neither find Zapdos, nor Moltres. To get them in Pearl, you'll have to trade or migrate. You can find them in FireRed/LeafGreen, Platinum, HeartGold/SoulSilver and X/Y. If you migrate them from FireRed/LeafGreen, you'll find both of them in the mountain area at Pal Park.