Is Mantyke Good in Platinum Playthrough?
Route 223 surfing at level 30. Water/Flying baby that evolves into Mantine with a Remoraid in the party. Unusual evolution condition. Mantine's special bulk is solid, but the method is convoluted and the timing is late.
Mantyke resists most of Roark's coverage and hits back hard.
Mantyke trades roughly evenly with Gardenia's team.
Mantyke trades roughly evenly with Fantina's team.
Mantyke trades roughly evenly with Maylene's team.
Crasher Wake's team hits Mantyke's weaknesses hard.
Mantyke has the type edge here and should clean up Byron's team.
Mantyke trades roughly evenly with Candice's team.
Volkner's team hits Mantyke's weaknesses hard.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Aaron's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Bertha's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Flint's team.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Lucian's team.
Mantine resists most of Jupiter's coverage and hits back hard.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Mars's team.
Mantine has the type edge here and should clean up Saturn's team.
Mantine trades roughly evenly with Cynthia's team.
Catchable
Catch Mantyke on Route 223 (Surf, Lv 30-40, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Gardenia
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Wayward Cave (secret entrance under bike path)
- After Fantina
- TM13IceIce BeamPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 216
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- LV 40FlyingBouncePower 128Accuracy 85%PP 5
- LV 49WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
Evolve Mantyke to Mantine
Usually ready to evolve before you reach Aaron, at typical party pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 50)
- LV 50WaterHydro PumpPower 180Accuracy 80%PP 5
- LV 50FlyingBouncePower 128Accuracy 85%PP 5
- After Fantina
- TM68NormalGiga ImpactPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Game Corner
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Veilstone Department Store
- After Maylene
- TUTORWaterDivePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Route 212
- After Crasher Wake
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15From Cynthia's grandmother inside the ruins
- After Volkner
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15From Jasmine in Sunyshore City
- Post-Game
- TUTORWaterAqua TailPower 135Accuracy 90%PP 10Survival Area
- TUTORPoisonGunk ShotPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Survival Area
- TUTORSteelIron HeadPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- TUTORGrassSeed BombPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Survival Area
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Survival Area
How to Get Mantyke in Platinum
Mantyke surfaces only by surfing Route 223, uncommon in that one stretch of open sea. Its very low catch rate of 25 makes the ray a stubborn one, far harder to hold than the route suggests.
1 location to catch Mantyke
Encountered via Surfing
Badge 8Where To Catch Mantyke in Pt
- Step 1Mantyke ✓
- Step 2Evolve into MantineBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Mantine egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Platinum for Mantyke.
How to Get Shiny Mantyke in Platinum
Mantyke skims the Surf on Route 223, so the surer shiny comes from breeding one with a foreign Ditto at 1 in 1,638. Compare Shiny Mantyke odds across every game
Platinum Shiny Mantyke Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Masuda Method, about 1 in 1,639 on each try.
Masuda Method: Breed with a parent from a different-language game. Works on any breedable line.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 173-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 472-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 1,136-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 3,773-- | -- |
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 Platinum shiny odds for Mantyke.
Mantyke Weakness
Type-wise, Mantyke 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. The Water/Flying typing picks up 5 resistances to work with. Water Absorb grants an additional Water immunity, reshaping the matchup chart. Mantyke's special bulk (base 120 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Mantyke Weak Against
ExcellentBest Pokemon Against Mantyke
 Zapdos Electric | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Mantyke View Zapdos builds →Thunderbolt 4x190-223%KO Ancient Power 2x40-48% | ||
 Magnezone ElectricSteel | A | |
 Jolteon Electric | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Eevee (Hearthome City Gift) | ||
 Rampardos Rock | B | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Cranidos (Oreburgh City Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Mantyke View Rampardos builds →Head Smash 2x376-443%KO Thunderbolt 4x74-88% | ||
 Plusle Electric | B | |
 Minun Electric | C | |
 Luxray Electric | C | |
 Electabuzz Electric | C | |
 Manectric Electric | C | |
 Raichu Electric | C | |
 Rotom ElectricGhost | C | |
Obtain MethodOld Chateau Interact Encounter | ||
 Electrode Electric | B | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Mantyke View Electrode builds →Thunderbolt 4x130-154%KO Rollout 2x21-24% | ||
 Cradily RockGrass | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Lileep (Oreburgh City Gift) | ||
 Kabutops RockWater | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Kabuto (Oreburgh City Gift) | ||
Mantyke Evolutions
Mantyke starts the chain as a baby form and evolves into Mantine through a special condition. To get more eggs, breed the evolved versions. Evolving adds up to 140 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Pt Mantyke Best Moveset
120 Sp. Def at 20 Attack on a baby Water/Flying. The moveset absorbs special hits but has no offensive capacity whatsoever. Evolve to Mantine.
Best Build
Mantyke best EVs are Sp. Atk and Speed
Special Attacker Moveset
- Hydro Pump
- Ice Beam
- Rain Dance
- Hidden Power Electric
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
The egg pool carries weight here. Haze and Hydro Pump aren't available any other way for Mantyke, 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. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
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
24 of 25 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
People organize tours to see this Pokémon frolic and skim the tops of waves with REMORAID.
Mantyke Platinum Guide
In Platinum, for a casual playthrough, Mantyke works as a placeholder. Water/Flying coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Mantine. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Diamond & Pearl, Mantyke appears in 12 games across 6 generations. A reliable presence in a solid number of games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DPDebut
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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