Is Ampharos Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Ampharos with AbilityStatic brings strong Special Attack to the Electric slot. Handles Juan's gym and Wallace's Water Champion team. Slower than native Manectric but deals more damage per hit. The Speed trade-off means Ampharos sometimes takes a hit before striking.
Mareep trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
Mareep has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Wattson's typing presses Mareep's defenses.
Mareep trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Mareep trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Mareep has the type edge here and should clean up Winona's team.
Ampharos trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Ampharos trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Drake's team hits Ampharos's weaknesses hard.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Catch Mareep
Catch Mareep in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 34-36, common). Safari Zone: 500 entry fee, 30 Safari Balls, 500-step limit.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from Wattson after clearing New Mauville
- After Wattson
- TM34ElectricShock WavePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wattson
- After Flannery
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Fiery Path
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- LV 37ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- After Juan
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Evolve Mareep to Ampharos
Flaaffy evolves into Ampharos at Level 30. Your Mareep should hit Level 30 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30ElectricThunder PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Brawly
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from Wattson after clearing New Mauville
- After Wattson
- TM34ElectricShock WavePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wattson
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 57ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega KickPower 120Accuracy 75%PP 5Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 80Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORFireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
How to Get Ampharos in Emerald
Flaaffy evolves into Ampharos at level 30, the top of a line you start with a single Safari Zone Mareep. The glowing tail never appears in the wild, so that one early catch carries the whole way up.
Catch Mareep at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Ampharos.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8How to Obtain Ampharos in E
- Step 2Evolve into FlaaffyBREEDINGAvailableLeave Ampharos with a compatible partner at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Mareep egg.
- Step 3Ampharos ✓
How to Get Shiny Ampharos in Emerald
Ampharos sits at the end of the line, so catch a shiny Mareep in the Safari Zone, evolve it to Flaaffy at level fifteen, then push on to level thirty for a gleaming Ampharos. Compare Shiny Ampharos odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Ampharos Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Emerald shiny odds calculator with Ampharos already selected.
Ampharos Weakness
Ground moves hit Ampharos for super-effective damage. Few weaknesses and 3 resistances make the typing clean. With 90 HP and balanced defenses, Ampharos can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Electric, Flying, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Ampharos Weak Against
Good
Ampharos Evolutions
End of the line. Ampharos caps a three-stage chain that started at Mareep. Breeding produces the base form, and eggs take an average time to hatch. Sp.Atk grew the most through evolution (+50 over Mareep), and Ampharos peaks at 500 total stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Ampharos to get Mareep eggs easily using 102 partners from the Field and Monster egg groups. Notable egg moves include Body Slam, Charge, Odor Sleuth and 4 more.
E Ampharos Best Moveset
Ampharos trades Speed for raw special power, with 115 Sp. Atk delivering MoveThunderbolt harder than any non-legendary Electric-type. The moveset compensates for 55 Speed through MoveThunder Wave to slow faster threats and AbilityStatic to punish physical contact. Teams that can protect Ampharos from Ground coverage benefit from its unmatched Electric output.
Best Build
Ampharos best EVs are HP and Sp. Atk
Bulky Support Moveset
- Thunderbolt
- Substitute
- Focus Punch
- Hidden Power Grass
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Ampharos misses out on Body Slam and Charge. That's 7 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Thunder and Thunderbolt, with Normal and Fighting coverage and more rounding things out.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
All 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
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Ampharos Emerald Guide
Mega Evolution isn't available in Emerald, but Ampharos does have a Mega form in Gen 6-7 games (X/Y, ORAS, Sun/Moon). Mega Ampharos hits 600 BST.
In Emerald, use Ampharos as a wallbreaker. Special attacks are the main output. Not the fastest, Thunderbolt is the primary attack.
For Emerald, run Mild on Ampharos. +Sp. Atk is what matters, and the -Defense cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the wallbreaker role.
Game Availability
Since debuting in Gold & Silver, Ampharos has appeared in 17 titles over 8 generations. Along the way, it received a Mega form in Generation 6, keeping it relevant across different competitive metas.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORASMega
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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