Is Magby Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Baby Pokemon from breeding Magmar. Magmar is catchable in the Burned Tower without going through the baby stage. Skip Magby for a direct Magmar catch.
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.
Hatch
Hatch Magby from an Egg you breed on Route 34.
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
- 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 Gold & Silver
The pre-baby of Magmar, Magby only comes from an egg. Leave a Magmar with a partner at the Day Care, wait for the egg, and out it hatches. Nothing in the wild will ever hand you one.
Wild Magby may be holding when caught:
Catch Magmar at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Magby.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Magby
- 2
Badge 3How to Obtain Magby in GS
- Step 1Magby ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave Magmar with a compatible partner at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Magby egg.
- Step 2Catch or Evolve into Magmaror evolve from Magby (Step 1)
How to Get Shiny Magby in Gold & Silver
Magby comes only from breeding, so catch a Magmar in the Burned Tower and hatch its eggs until a shiny one appears. Compare Shiny Magby odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Magby Calculator
1 MethodThe only route here is Breed w/ Shiny Parent, about 1 in 64 on each try.
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 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
 Marowak Ground | B | |
 Vaporeon Water | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Goldenrod City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Vaporeon builds →Hydro Pump 2x197-232%KO Mud-Slap 2x21-24% | ||
 Rhydon GroundRock | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Rhydon builds →Earthquake 2x252-296%KO Rollout 2x77-91% Surf 2x52-62% | ||
 Suicune Water | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Suicune builds →Surf 2x134-157%KO Dig 2x64-76% | ||
 Tyranitar RockDark | S | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Tyranitar builds →Rock Slide 2x194-229%KO Earthquake 2x172-202%KO Surf 2x92-109%KO | ||
 Donphan Ground | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Donphan builds →Earthquake 2x235-276%KO Rollout 2x48-56% | ||
 Golduck Water | C | |
Obtain MethodIlex Forest Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Golduck builds →Hydro Pump 2x176-207%KO Dig 2x69-82% | ||
 Slowbro WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Slowbro builds →Surf 2x145-170%KO Earthquake 2x105-124%KO | ||
 Azumarill Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Azurill (Mt Mortar Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Azumarill builds →Surf 2x96-113%KO Rollout 2x24-29% Mud-Slap 2x16-20% | ||
 Feraligatr Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Totodile (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Feraligatr builds →Hydro Pump 2x151-177%KO Earthquake 2x140-165%KO | ||
 Lapras WaterIce | C | |
Obtain MethodUnion Cave Interact Encounter | ||
 Nidoking PoisonGround | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Nidoking builds →Earthquake 2x205-241%KO Surf 2x85-100%KO | ||
 Quagsire WaterGround | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 32 Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Quagsire builds →Earthquake 2x176-207%KO Surf 2x102-121%KO Rollout 2x36-43% | ||
 Sandslash Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magby View Sandslash builds →Earthquake 2x200-236%KO Rollout 2x41-49% | ||
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
GS Magby Best Moveset
Baby pre-evolution of Magmar. MoveFire Blast at Sp. Atk too low to threaten anything evolved. Magmar provides the stats to make Fire TermStab functional.
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 Karate 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
Each and every time it inhales and exhales, hot embers dribble out of its mouth and nostrils.
It is found in volcanic craters. Its body temp. is over 1100 degrees, so don’t underestimate it.
Magby Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, 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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