Is Mankey Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Gold version only, found around Route 42 in Johto. Fighting coverage helps against Whitney's Miltank if you backtrack for it, and Primeape puts in work against Karen's Umbreon at the E4. Useful pickup.
Mankey has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Mankey trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Mankey has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Mankey trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Mankey trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Primeape resists most of Jasmine's coverage and hits back hard.
Primeape resists most of Pryce's coverage and hits back hard.
Primeape trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Primeape has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Sabrina's team hits Primeape's weaknesses hard.
Primeape has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Primeape trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Primeape has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Primeape resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Primeape has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Primeape trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Primeape trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Primeape trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Primeape has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Primeape has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Primeape trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Mankey on Route 42 (walking, Lv 15, common).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce 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
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
- LV 39FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
- LV 51NormalThrashPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
Evolve Mankey to Primeape
Mankey evolves into Primeape at Level 28. Your Mankey should hit Level 28 before you reach Jasmine, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM25ElectricThunderPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 10Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM48FireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM33IceIce 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 45FightingCross ChopPower 150Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
- LV 63NormalThrashPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
How to Get Mankey in Gold & Silver
Mankey is Gold-exclusive, just two route spots, common in both. A small footprint for a version pick, so Silver players miss this line unless a trade brings one over.
2 locations to catch Mankey
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 8Where To Catch Mankey in GS
Mankey is where the line starts, caught through walking encounters at Lv. 13-15. The chain covers 2 catchable stages before reaching the final form.
Not landing the catch? Calculate Mankey catch rates for Gold & Silver by ball, status, and HP.
How to Get Shiny Mankey in Gold & Silver
Mankey isn't a wild catch here, so pull a Primeape from Route 9 or Route 42, pair it with a Ditto at the Day Care, and hatch every Mankey it produces. Compare Shiny Mankey odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Mankey 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.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Gold & Silver with Mankey preloaded.
Mankey Weakness
Mankey is weak to Flying and Psychic. Not many exploitable gaps in the Fighting typing defensive chart. Mankey's Fighting typing only leaves 2 gaps to cover.
| 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 Mankey Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Mankey
 Scyther Bug | B | |
 Natu Psychic | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Mankey View Natu builds →Future Sight 2x163-193%KO Peck 2x48-58% | ||
 Golbat Poison | B | |
 Kadabra Psychic | C | |
 Farfetch'd Normal | C | |
 Fearow Normal | C | |
 Hypno Psychic | C | |
 Butterfree Bug | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Mankey View Butterfree builds →Confusion 2x58-68% Gust 2x52-62% | ||
 Noctowl Normal | C | |
 Pidgeotto Normal | D | |
 Slowpoke WaterPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodSlowpoke Well Surfing | ||
Mankey Evolutions
Mankey is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Primeape. Check the evolution method below. Plenty of partners for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 150 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Mankey easily with 66 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Beat Up, Counter, Foresight and 3 more to offspring.
GS Mankey Best Moveset
Fighting pre-evolution with decent Attack but the typing still gets punished by Psychic and Ghost. Primeape improves the numbers without fully solving the matchup problems.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Cross Chop
- Hidden Power Fighting
- Low Kick
- Detect
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Breeding opens up real options for Mankey. Beat Up and Counter come exclusively from egg moves, and they're worth the effort. The rest of the kit covers basics through Cross Chop and Dynamic Punch 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
25 of 29 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
It is extremely ill-tempered. Groups of them will attack any handy target for no reason.
It’s unsafe to approach if it gets violently enraged for no reason and can’t distinguish friends from foes.
Mankey Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, for a casual playthrough, Mankey works as a placeholder. Fighting coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Primeape. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Mankey appears in 20 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Mankey have the longest track record of availability in the series.
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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