Is Mantine Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Gold version only, available by Surfing on Route 41. Water/Flying with excellent special bulk. Mantine handles special attackers and contributes against Chuck and Bruno. Not the hardest hitter, but the defensive profile keeps it alive longer than expected.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Mantine's defenses.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Mantine's weaknesses hard.
Lt. Surge's team hits Mantine's weaknesses hard.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Mantine on Route 41 (Surf, Lv 20-24, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 20)
- LV 20WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- LV 25NormalTake DownPower 90Accuracy 85%PP 20
- After Morty
- TM34NormalSwaggerPower —Accuracy 90%PP 15Olivine Lighthouse
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- LV 40FlyingWing AttackPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 35
Gold & Silver Mantine Locations
Mantine is a Gold-only catch, a single uncommon surfing encounter at level 20. Silver trainers cannot reel one in at all, so a save on that version has to trade one over to fill the dex slot.
1 location to catch Mantine
Encountered via Surfing
Badge 4Best Locations to Catch Mantine in Gold & Silver
How to Get Shiny Mantine in Gold & Silver
Mantine cruises the water off Route 41, so you will need Surf just to reach it before the long shiny grind even begins. Compare Shiny Mantine odds across every game
Shiny Mantine Evolution
Does Not EvolveGold & Silver Shiny Mantine 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.
For time estimates and charm math, open the Gold & Silver shiny odds calculator with Mantine already selected.
Mantine Weakness
Type-wise, Mantine takes extra damage from Electric and Rock. Watch out for Electric attacks, those deal 4x damage. Ground moves do nothing thanks to a full immunity. 5 resistances help offset the weaknesses. Mantine's special bulk (base 140 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Electric |
| 2x (Weak) | Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Fighting, Bug, Steel |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- 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 Mantine Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Mantine
 Ampharos Electric | C | |
 Magneton ElectricSteel | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Mantine View Magneton builds →Thunder 4x180-211%KO Rollout 2x17-20% | ||
 Sudowoodo Rock | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 36 Interact Encounter Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Mantine View Sudowoodo builds →Rock Slide 2x83-99% Thunder Punch 4x31-36% | ||
 Graveler RockGround | B | |
 Onix RockGround | C | |
 Shuckle BugRock | B | |
Mantine Evolutions
No evolution chain to worry about here. Mantine is a standalone Pokemon with a decent partner pool for breeding through one egg group. Its eggs take an average time to hatch. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Mantine easily with 37 breeding partners from the Water 1 egg group. Pass egg moves like Haze, Hydro Pump, Slam and 1 more to offspring.
GS Mantine Best Moveset
Water/Flying with 140 Sp. Def for excellent special tank potential. MoveSurf fires from 80 Sp. Atk at moderate power, and MoveIce Beam adds coverage. Held ItemLeftovers sustains the massive special bulk. Tanks special hits reliably but the physical Defense is paper-thin.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Swagger
- Hidden Power Ground
- Surf
- Ice Beam
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Haze and Hydro Pump aren't available any other way for Mantine, and they meaningfully change what it threatens. Stack those on top of Hydro Pump and Surf 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
18 of 22 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
As it majestically swims, it doesn’t care if REMORAID attach to it for scavenging its leftovers.
Swimming freely in open seas, it may fly out of the water and over the waves if it builds up enough speed.
Mantine Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Mantine plays as a balanced. Speed is middling, so pick your spots carefully. Surf is the primary attack.
Game Availability
Available in 17 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Mantine spans 8 generations of Pokemon games. It's accessible through wild encounters in most mainline games.
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
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