Is Mareep Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Mareep evolves through Flaaffy into Ampharos at 30. AbilityStatic paralyzes on contact. One of the stronger Electric-types available in Emerald's Safari Zone. Handles Juan's gym and Wallace's Water Champion team. Slower than Manectric but hits harder on Special.
Mareep trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
Mareep has the type edge here and should clean up Brawly's team.
Wattson's typing presses Mareep's defenses.
Mareep trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
Mareep trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Mareep has the type edge here and should clean up Winona's team.
Ampharos trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Ampharos trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Drake's team hits Ampharos's weaknesses hard.
Ampharos has the type edge here and should clean up Wallace's team.
Catchable
Catch Mareep in the Safari Zone (walking, Lv 34-36, common). Safari Zone: 500 entry fee, 30 Safari Balls, 500-step limit.
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from Wattson after clearing New Mauville
- After Wattson
- TM34ElectricShock WavePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wattson
- After Flannery
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Fiery Path
- After Norman
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- LV 37ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- After Juan
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Meteor Falls
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Evolve Mareep to Ampharos
Flaaffy evolves into Ampharos at Level 30. Your Mareep should hit Level 30 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 30)
- LV 30ElectricThunder PunchPower 113Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Brawly
- TM24ElectricThunderboltPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from Wattson after clearing New Mauville
- After Wattson
- TM34ElectricShock WavePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Wattson
- After Norman
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 115
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 57ElectricThunderPower 180Accuracy 70%PP 10
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalMega KickPower 120Accuracy 75%PP 5Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalMega PunchPower 80Accuracy 85%PP 20Battle Frontier
- TUTORFireFire PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Battle Frontier
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
How to Get Mareep in Emerald
Mareep grazes the Safari Zone as a common level 34 to 36 catch, the one fluffy spot it calls home in Emerald. A stray Altering Cave row exists too, but that was a Japan-only event slot that never went live elsewhere.
2 locations to catch Mareep
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 6
Badge 7
Badge 8Where To Catch Mareep in E
- Step 3Evolve into Ampharos
Bring the right balls: check Mareep catch odds in the Emerald Catch Rate Calculator before you throw.
How to Get Shiny Mareep in Emerald
Mareep grazes the northern expansion of the Safari Zone once you can bike in, and it turns up often in that grass, so keep walking the field and eyeing each fluffy sheep for a pink-wooled shiny. Compare Shiny Mareep odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Mareep Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
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 Mareep in the Emerald Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Mareep Weakness
Mareep's Electric typing leaves it vulnerable to Ground. Not many exploitable gaps in the Electric typing defensive chart. Mareep's Electric typing only leaves 1 gap to cover.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Ground |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Electric, Flying, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Mareep Weak Against
Good
Mareep Evolutions
Mareep kicks off a three-stage evolution line through Flaaffy all the way to Ampharos. For breeding, average hatch time with a massive partner pool via two egg groups. The evolved forms gain up to 230 total stats over Mareep. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Mareep easily with 102 breeding partners from the Field and Monster egg groups. Pass egg moves like Body Slam, Charge, Odor Sleuth and 4 more to offspring.
E Mareep Best Moveset
Electric pre-evolution with AbilityStatic for contact paralysis. The moveset previews Ampharos's raw special power but lacks it entirely at this stage. Two evolutions away.
Best Build
Mareep best EVs are Sp. Def and Defense
Wall Moveset
- Thunderbolt
- Protect
- Reflect
- Toxic
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
You'll want to breed for Body Slam and Charge on Mareep. These egg moves aren't just nice to have. Combined with STAB from Thunder and Thunderbolt, they expand what Mareep can actually threaten in practice.
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
All 17 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its fluffy wool rubs together and builds a static charge. The more energy is charged, the more brightly the lightbulb at the tip of its tail glows.
Mareep Emerald Guide
- Where in the Emerald Safari Zone can I find Mareep?
See the Locations section above for where to find Mareep in Emerald.
Safari rules: You can only use Safari Balls. No battling. Two tactical items shift the catch/flee trade-off:
- Throw bait to keep Mareep from fleeing (flee rate cut to 1/4) but it becomes harder to catch (catch factor halved).
- Throw a rock to make Mareep easier to catch (catch factor doubled) but it flees twice as often.
- Each effect lasts 2-6 random turns; throwing one cancels the other.
In Emerald, for a casual playthrough, Mareep works as a placeholder. Electric coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Flaaffy. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Mareep appears in 17 games across 8 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline 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 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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