Is Magnemite Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Found on Routes 38 and 39 in Johto. Magnemite gains the Steel type in Gen 2, which adds a pile of resistances. Electric/Steel is one of the best defensive typings available. Magneton handles Clair's Dragonair and chunks through the E4.
Magnemite resists most of Falkner's coverage and hits back hard.
Magnemite has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Magnemite has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Magnemite has the type edge here and should clean up Morty's team.
Magnemite has the type edge here and should clean up Chuck's team.
Jasmine's typing presses Magneton's defenses.
Magneton resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Clair's typing presses Magneton's defenses.
Lt. Surge's typing presses Magneton's defenses.
Magneton trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Magneton trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Magneton has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Magneton has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Magneton trades roughly evenly with Brock's team.
Magneton trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Magneton trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Magneton has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Magneton has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Magneton trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Magneton has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Magneton has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Magnemite on Route 38 (walking, Lv 16, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 16)
- LV 16ElectricThunder ShockPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- LV 16NormalTacklePower 35Accuracy 95%PP 35
- After Bugsy
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM04RockRolloutPower 30Accuracy 90%PP 20Route 35
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- LV 33NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- LV 45ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5
Evolve Magnemite to Magneton
Magnemite evolves into Magneton at Level 30. Your Magnemite should hit Level 30 before you reach Jasmine, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30ElectricThunder ShockPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 30
- LV 30ElectricThunder WavePower —Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- After Whitney
- TM13NormalSnorePower 40Accuracy 100%PP 15Moomoo Farm
- LV 35NormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 53ElectricZap CannonPower 150Accuracy 50%PP 5
How to Get Magnemite in Gold & Silver
Spread over nine spots, Magnemite mixes grass encounters with headbutted trees, common to uncommon and clustered around level 15. A steady mid-game find once you reach the routes where it lives.
Wild Magnemite may be holding when caught:
Metal Coat (2% chance) Powers up steel-type moves. (HOLD)4 locations to catch Magnemite
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Magnemite in GS
The line opens with Magnemite at Lv. 15-16 via walking encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
- Step 2Evolve into MagnetonBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Magnemite egg.
Bring the right balls: check Magnemite catch odds in the Gold & Silver Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Magnemite in Gold & Silver
Magnemite hunts faster in the grass near Ecruteak City and Mahogany Town than off the trees, where it fills only the rare Headbutt slot. Compare Shiny Magnemite odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Magnemite 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Magnemite in the Gold & Silver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Magnemite Weakness
Ground, Fire, and Fighting moves hit Magnemite for super-effective damage. Ground hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. The upside? Poison-type moves can't touch it at all. 12 resistances give it solid defensive coverage on top of that.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Ground |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Fighting |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Normal, Electric, Grass, Ice, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Flying, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Poison |
- 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 Magnemite Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Magnemite
 Quagsire WaterGround | B | |
Obtain MethodRoute 32 Surfing Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Quagsire builds →Dig 4x165-196%KO Rock Smash 2x20-25% | ||
 Sandslash Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Sandslash builds →Dig 4x185-218%KO Rock Smash 2x24-29% | ||
 Magmar Fire | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Magmar builds →Fire Blast 2x213-251%KO Mud-Slap 4x49-58% Rock Smash 2x24-29% | ||
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Geodude builds →Dig 4x156-185%KO Fire Blast 2x64-76% Rock Smash 2x20-25% | ||
 Quilava Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cyndaquil (New Bark Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Quilava builds →Fire Blast 2x180-213%KO Dig 4x93-109%KO Rock Smash 2x18-22% | ||
 Growlithe Fire | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Growlithe builds →Fire Blast 2x162-191%KO Dig 4x98-116%KO Rock Smash 2x18-22% | ||
 Onix RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Onix builds →Dig 4x111-131%KO Rock Smash 2x15-18% | ||
 Vulpix Fire | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Magnemite View Vulpix builds →Fire Blast 2x129-153%KO Dig 4x73-87% | ||
Magnemite Evolutions
Magnemite evolves into Magneton. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. No compatible partners for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 140 total stats over Magnemite. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Magnemite is genderless and can only breed with Ditto. Part of the Mineral egg group.
Ditto onlyGS Magnemite Best Moveset
Electric/Steel typing, gained this generation, resists an enormous number of attacking types. MoveThunderbolt fires at modest power from the Sp. Atk stat. The defensive profile alone carves a niche that most pre-evolutions can't claim. Held ItemLeftovers sustains between switch-ins.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Thunderbolt
- Thunder Wave
- Zap Cannon
- Thunder
Moves List
Without TMs, Magnemite's movepool is bare bones. With them, you get Normal and Rock coverage on top of Zap Cannon and Thunder for STAB. The natural kit handles basics, but TMs are doing the real work.
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
13 of 18 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is attracted by electromagnetic waves. It may approach trainers if they are using their POKéGEAR.
The units at the sides of its body generate antigravity energy to keep it aloft in the air.
Magnemite Gold & Silver Guide
Yes. Wild Magnemite in Gold & Silver can hold Metal Coat (2%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Metal Coat.
In Gold & Silver, Magnemite does the job early-game if you need a Electric/Steel type on your team. Evolve it into Magneton before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Magnemite 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
Winds & Waves
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