Is Machoke Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
The boosted EXP from the Goldenrod trade means Machoke levels faster than most team members. Strong enough to handle the late gyms and E4 without needing the Machamp trade. Plenty of players clear Lance with Machoke alone.
Machop trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Bugsy's typing presses Machop's defenses.
Machop has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Machoke trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Machoke trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Machoke resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Machoke has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Machamp has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Sabrina's team hits Machamp's weaknesses hard.
Machamp has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Machamp has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Machamp resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Machamp has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Will's team hits Machamp's weaknesses hard.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Machamp has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Machamp has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Machamp trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Trade Machop
Machop can be received through an in-game trade in Goldenrod City. Trade Drowzee. Trade a Drowzee to Mike in the Goldenrod Department Store to receive Muscle the Machop.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Chuck
- TM01FightingDynamic PunchPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Prize for defeating Chuck
- LV 31FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 37FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- LV 49FightingSubmissionPower 120Accuracy 80%PP 25
Evolve Machop to Machoke
Machop evolves into Machoke at Level 28. Your Machop should hit Level 28 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Chuck
- TM01FightingDynamic PunchPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5Prize for defeating Chuck
- LV 34FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- LV 43FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
- LV 61FightingSubmissionPower 120Accuracy 80%PP 25
Evolve Machoke to Machamp
Machoke evolves into Machamp when traded. Most players are ready to trade before reaching Clair.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 120Accuracy 85%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- LV 34FightingVital ThrowPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- LV 43FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- TM03GhostCursePower —Accuracy 100%PP 10Gift in the Celadon Mansion roof house, at night only
- LV 61FightingSubmissionPower 120Accuracy 80%PP 25
How to Get Machoke in Gold & Silver
A couple of spots hold wild Machoke at levels running into the 30s, or you evolve a Machop at level 28. Just know the next step, Machamp, needs a trade you cannot do alone.
2 locations to catch Machoke3 locations to catch Machop
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 4
Badge 5
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Catch Machop at any of the 3 locations below, then level it up to 28 — it evolves into Machoke.
Badge 2
Badge 3 Badge 4 Badge 5 Badge 6 Badge 7 Badge 8Where To Catch Machoke in GS
Machop gets you Machoke sooner: pick up it on Goldenrod City (before Badge 3) and evolve it at Lv 28. Wild Machoke first appears at Mt. Mortar (after Badge 4).
- Step 2Machoke ✓or evolve from Machop (Step 1)
- Step 3Evolve into MachampBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Machop egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Gold & Silver for Machoke.
How to Get Shiny Machoke in Gold & Silver
Machoke prowls deep in Mt. Mortar and Rock Tunnel, so grind those caves one wild battle at a time until the shiny shows. Compare Shiny Machoke odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Machoke Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breed w/ Shiny Parent: Eggs inherit stats from a shiny parent, so about 1 in 64 hatch shiny. A shiny Ditto helps every egg, and any other shiny parent (the red Gyarados works) helps only eggs of the opposite gender.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 7-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 19-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 45-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 147-- | -- |
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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Gold & Silver shiny odds for Machoke.
Machoke Weakness
Machoke's Fighting typing leaves it vulnerable to Flying and Psychic. Few weaknesses and 3 resistances make the typing clean. Just 2 weak spots to worry about, which keeps teambuilding straightforward.
| 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
- Special stat split into Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
What is Machoke Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Machoke
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Natu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machoke View Natu builds →Future Sight 2x102-121%KO Peck 2x23-28% | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Hypno Psychic | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machoke View Butterfree builds →Confusion 2x36-43% Gust 2x26-31% | ||
 Pidgeotto Normal | D | |
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Slowpoke WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing | ||
Machoke Evolutions
Sitting between Machop and Machamp, Machoke is part of a chain that requires a trade. Not your typical level-up setup. So far, Sp.Def got the biggest boost (+25 from Machop). The final form adds another 100 stats on top. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Machoke to get Machop eggs easily using 15 partners from the Human-Like egg group. Notable egg moves include Encore, Light Screen, Meditate and 1 more.
GS Machoke Best Moveset
100 Attack in a Fighting type that now has real targets with Dark-types around. Still outclassed by Machamp's 130 Attack and deeper movepool. One evolution short.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Cross Chop
- Rest
- Sleep Talk
- Rock Slide
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Encore and Light Screen on Machoke. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Cross Chop and Dynamic Punch, they expand what Machoke can actually threaten in practice.
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.
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
23 of 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It always goes at its full power, but this very tough and durable POKéMON never gets tired.
The muscles covering its body teem with power. Even when still, it exudes an amazing sense of strength.
Machoke Gold & Silver Guide
No. Machoke only evolves into Machamp through a real trade. There is no in-game alternative in Gold & Silver.
For Gold & Silver, you can run Machoke through the first few routes without issues. 405 BST won't carry you far though. Get it to Machamp as fast as you can.
In Gold & Silver, use Machoke as a setup sweeper. Physical side carries the damage. Not the fastest,
Game Availability
One of the original 151, Machoke has appeared in 21 games: nearly every mainline game. From Red & Blue through the latest titles, it's rarely been left out of a regional Pokedex.
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 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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