Is Machamp Good in Ruby & Sapphire Playthrough?
Trade evolution from native Machoke. AbilityGuts turns status into a power boost. Machamp is one of the strongest physical attackers in RS and handles Roxanne, Norman, Sidney, and Steven's Aggron. The trade requirement is the only barrier.
Machop has the type edge here and should clean up Roxanne's team.
Machop trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Machop trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Machop trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Machoke has the type edge here and should clean up Norman's team.
Machoke trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Machamp has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Machamp resists most of Sidney's coverage and hits back hard.
Phoebe's team hits Machamp's weaknesses hard.
Machamp resists most of Glacia's coverage and hits back hard.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Drake's team.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Steven's team.
Catch Machop
Catch Machop on Route 112 (walking, Lv 14-16, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM35FireFlamethrowerPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Mauville Game Corner
- LV 31FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- LV 37FightingSubmissionPower 120Accuracy 80%PP 25
- LV 40FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
Evolve Machop to Machoke
Machop evolves into Machoke at Level 28. Your Machop should hit Level 28 before you reach Norman, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM08FightingBulk UpPower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Brawly
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- LV 33FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 41FightingSubmissionPower 120Accuracy 80%PP 25
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 46FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
Evolve Machoke to Machamp
Machoke evolves into Machamp when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Tate & Liza.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 33)
- LV 33FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Brawly
- TM08FightingBulk UpPower —Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Brawly
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 225Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Tate & Liza
- TM31FightingBrick BreakPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 46FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
How to Get Machamp in Ruby & Sapphire
Machamp cannot be reached alone. Catch a Machop in the Fiery Path area, take it to Machoke at level 28, then trade it to another player to finish.
Catch Machop at any of these 3 spots to eventually evolve into Machamp.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 3
Badge 4How to Obtain Machamp in RS
The path to Machamp starts with Machop at Lv. 14-22 via walking encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Evolve into MachokeBREEDINGAvailableLeave Machamp with a compatible partner at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Machop egg.
- Step 3Machamp ✓
How to Get Shiny Machamp in Ruby & Sapphire
Machamp only arrives through evolution, so track down a shiny Machop, raise it into Machoke, then trade to finish it as Machamp. Compare Shiny Machamp odds across every game
Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Machamp 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Machamp in the Ruby & Sapphire Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Machamp Weakness
Machamp is weak to Flying and Psychic. Not many exploitable gaps in the Fighting typing defensive chart. With 90 HP and balanced defenses, Machamp can afford to eat a neutral hit or two.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Flying, Psychic |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Bug, Rock, Dark |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Machamp Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Machamp
 Latios DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodRoaming Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machamp View Latios builds →Psychic 2x89-104%KO Fly 2x36-42% | ||
 Latias DragonPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodRoaming Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machamp View Latias builds →Psychic 2x77-91% Fly 2x33-39% | ||
 Rayquaza Dragon | S | |
Obtain MethodSky Pillar Interact Encounter | ||
 Xatu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machamp View Xatu builds →Future Sight 2x90-106%KO Fly 2x46-54% | ||
 Gardevoir Psychic | B | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Machamp View Gardevoir builds →Future Sight 2x113-133%KO | ||
 Altaria Dragon | C | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
Available Move Moves
Damage vs Machamp View Kadabra builds →Future Sight 2x110-130%KO | ||
 Salamence Dragon | S | |
 Golbat Poison | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing | ||
 Grumpig Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machamp View Grumpig builds →Psychic 2x65-77% Bounce 2x25-30% | ||
 Chimecho Psychic | C | |
 Ninjask Bug | B | |
 Metagross SteelPsychic | S | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Beldum (Mossdeep City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machamp View Metagross builds →Psychic 2x68-81% Aerial Ace 2x43-51% | ||
 Girafarig NormalPsychic | C | |
Machamp Evolutions
Machamp evolved from Machop's chain using a trade. It's a non-standard trigger, so check the details below. Breed this form to get Machop eggs (average hatch time). The evolution from Machop pushed Machamp to 505 total stats. Attack saw the largest single gain at +50. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Machamp to get Machop eggs easily using 28 partners from the Human-Like egg group. Notable egg moves include Counter, Encore, Light Screen and 4 more.
RS Machamp Best Moveset
130 Attack behind MoveCross Chop devastates Normal and Dark types, and AbilityGuts turns status into a 50% Attack boost so burn and paralysis actually make it more dangerous. MoveEarthquake and MoveRock Slide round out coverage. Held ItemLeftovers sustains. Status-powered Fighting devastation.
Best Build
Machamp best EVs are Attack and HP
Physical Attacker Moveset
- Rock Slide
- Cross Chop
- Hidden Power Ghost
- Bulk Up
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Egg moves make a real difference. Machamp gets Counter and Encore exclusively through breeding, filling gaps that TMs and level-up can't touch. Ground and Normal coverage and more rounds out the picture alongside Focus Punch and Cross Chop.
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 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
MACHAMP has the power to hurl anything aside. However, trying to do any work requiring care and dexterity causes its arms to get tangled. This POKéMON tends to leap into action before it thinks.
MACHAMP is known as the POKéMON that has mastered every kind of martial arts. If it grabs hold of the foe with its four arms, the battle is all but over. The hapless foe is thrown far over the horizon.
Machamp Ruby & Sapphire Guide
Machamp is obtained by trade-evolving Machoke. Catch or evolve a Machoke first, then trade. Trade needs a Game Boy Advance link cable and a second GBA running another Gen 3 game (FireRed, LeafGreen, Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald). Trade Machoke to a friend, then have them trade it back. The 2026 Switch re-release supports the same trade through local wireless on the Pokemon Center 2F Wireless Club, with no cables required.
Game Availability
Available since Red & Blue, Machamp appears in 21 games spanning 9 generations. Beyond its original form, it gained a Gigantamax form in Generation 8.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
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 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwShGigantamax
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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