Is Machop Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Available via an in-game trade in Goldenrod's Department Store: give a Drowzee, get a Machop. Traded Pokemon gain boosted experience, which makes Machoke come faster. Fighting coverage is valuable through Whitney, Pryce, and the E4.
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.
In-Game Trade
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
Catch Machop
Catch Machop in Mt. Mortar (walking, Lv 13-15, common).
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 Machop in Gold & Silver
Machop has three angles: wild on a few routes, or an in-game trade in Goldenrod where a Drowzee gets you one. The traded Machop arrives ready, no grass hunting required if you have the Drowzee.
3 locations to catch Machop
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Machop in GS
The line opens with Machop at Lv. 12-28 via walking and trade encounters. 2 catchable stages total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Machokeor 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 Machop.
How to Get Shiny Machop in Gold & Silver
Machop from the Drowzee trade in Goldenrod is locked non-shiny, so skip it and catch wild Machop in Mt. Mortar or Rock Tunnel, where a sparkle is at least possible. Compare Shiny Machop odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Machop 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 Machop.
Machop Weakness
Type-wise, Machop takes extra damage from Flying and Psychic. Its Fighting typing keeps the defensive matchups simple. Only 2 weaknesses makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| 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 Machop Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Machop
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Natu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machop View Natu builds →Future Sight 2x154-181%KO Peck 2x31-36% | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Hypno Psychic | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Machop View Butterfree builds →Confusion 2x54-64% Gust 2x33-40% | ||
 Pidgeotto Normal | D | |
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Slowpoke WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing | ||
Machop Evolutions
Machop is the start of a three-stage chain. It evolves into Machoke first, then eventually reaches Machamp. For breeding, average hatch time with a small partner pool via one egg group. Evolving adds up to 200 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Machop easily with 15 breeding partners from the Human-Like egg group. Pass egg moves like Encore, Light Screen, Meditate and 1 more to offspring.
GS Machop Best Moveset
Stats too low for any competitive role, but the evolution line leads to Machamp's massive jump to the top. The destination justifies the journey.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Earthquake
- Cross Chop
- Curse
- Rock Slide
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Encore and Light Screen aren't available any other way for Machop, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Cross Chop and Dynamic Punch for solid options.
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
Always brimming with power, it passes time by lifting boulders. Doing so makes it even stronger.
It loves to work out and build its muscles. It is never satisfied, even if it trains hard all day long.
Machop Gold & Silver Guide
Trade a Drowzee to Mike in the Goldenrod Department Store to receive Muscle the Machop. This is an NPC trade, so the Machop you receive is yours immediately, no transfer cable needed.
In Gold & Silver, Machop does the job early-game if you need a Fighting type on your team. Evolve it into Machoke before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Machop has been part of the series since Red & Blue, appearing in 21 titles across all 9 generations. As a Gen 1 original, it's one of the most consistently available Pokemon in the franchise.
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
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