Is Magby Good in Crystal Playthrough?
The best possible Odd Egg outcome in Crystal. Magby gives Fire-type coverage before the second gym in a game desperate for it. Gold and Silver only offered Magmar through the Burned Tower or breeding. Crystal's Odd Egg Magby can become a Magmar that fills the Fire gap through the entire story.
Magby trades roughly evenly with Falkner's team.
Magby has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Magby trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Magmar has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Magmar trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Magmar resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Magmar resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Clair's team hits Magmar's weaknesses hard.
Magmar has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Magmar trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Magmar resists most of Erika's coverage and hits back hard.
Magmar has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Magmar trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Magmar trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Magmar trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Magmar trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Magmar has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Magmar resists most of Koga's coverage and hits back hard.
Magmar trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Magmar has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Lance's team hits Magmar's weaknesses hard.
Gift
Magby is given to you as a gift on Route 34 at Lv 5. Hatch Odd Egg received from Day-Care Man (random). Hatch the Odd Egg received from the Day-Care Man on Route 34. The Egg randomly hatches into one of seven baby Pokemon, with a 14% chance of being Shiny.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 5)
- LV 5FireEmberPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 25
- After Bugsy
- TM41ElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- LV 19FireFire PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 37FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- LV 49FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5
Evolve Magby to Magmar
Magby evolves into Magmar at Level 30. Your Magby should hit Level 30 before you reach Morty, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30FireFire PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Bugsy
- TM41ElectricThunder PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- LV 41FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner prize (7500 coins)
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Saffron City
- LV 49GhostConfuse RayPower —Accuracy 100%PP 10
- LV 57FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5
How to Get Magby in Crystal
Magby is the Fire baby the Odd Egg can produce, raising into the Magmar line if it hatches. The Day-Care Man only hands over one egg, so you may never see this particular result.
Wild Magby may be holding when caught:
1 location to catch Magby
Badge 1How to Obtain Magby in C
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Magmaror evolve from Magby (Step 1)
How to Get Shiny Magby in Crystal
Magby is best hatched straight from the Odd Egg, whose 1 in 7 rate blows the usual long odds out of the water. Compare Shiny Magby odds across every game
Crystal Shiny Magby Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Odd Egg, about 1 in 50 on each try.
Odd Egg: Accept the Odd Egg from the Day-Care Man on Route 34. Each baby has its own shiny chance of 1 to 3 percent, fixed when you take the egg, so save first and reset until it hatches shiny.
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 | 6-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 15-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 35-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 114-- | -- |
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 Crystal shiny odds for Magby.
Magby Weakness
Magby is weak to Water, Ground, and Rock. It resists 5 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. 3 weaknesses is about average, nothing too hard to play around.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Ground, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel |
- 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 Magby Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Magby
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Geodude builds →Rock Throw 2x84-100%KO Mud-Slap 2x38-47% | ||
 Slowpoke WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Slowpoke builds →Water Gun 2x38-47% Mud-Slap 2x22-27% | ||
 Totodile Water | C | |
Obtain MethodNew Bark Town Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Totodile builds →Water Gun 2x38-47% Mud-Slap 2x22-27% | ||
 Onix RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Onix builds →Rock Throw 2x62-73% Mud-Slap 2x27-33% | ||
 Poliwag Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEcruteak City Surfing | ||
 Psyduck Water | D | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Surfing | ||
 Sandshrew Ground | C | |
 Wooper WaterGround | C | |
Obtain MethodRuins Of Alph Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Wooper builds →Water Gun 2x33-40% Mud-Slap 2x27-33% | ||
Magby Evolutions
Magby is the baby form here. It evolves into Magmar at level 30, but you can't breed it directly. Hatch one by breeding the evolved forms instead. Evolving adds up to 130 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
C Magby Best Moveset
Baby Fire pre-evolution. MoveFire Blast at stats too low to compete in any format. Magmar provides the Sp. Atk for functional Fire TermStab.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Fire Blast
- Thunder Punch
- Cross Chop
- Sunny Day
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Magby. Barrier and Cross Chop come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Fire Blast and Flamethrower and coverage across 8 types.
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
19 of 24 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It naturally spits an 1100-degree flame. It is said when many appear, it heralds a volcanic eruption.
Magby Crystal Guide
In Crystal, Magby does the job early-game if you need a Fire type on your team. Evolve it into Magmar before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Magby first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 18 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
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 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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