Is Marill Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Mt. Mortar area. Marill is pure Water in Gen 2 (not Water/Fairy, which comes later). Azumarill evolves at 18, which is quick. Decent bulk but the offense is low. Better Water options exist.
Marill has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Marill trades roughly evenly with Bugsy's team.
Whitney's typing presses Marill's defenses.
Marill trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Chuck's typing presses Marill's defenses.
Azumarill has the type edge here and should clean up Jasmine's team.
Azumarill trades roughly evenly with Pryce's team.
Clair's team hits Azumarill's weaknesses hard.
Azumarill trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Sabrina's typing presses Azumarill's defenses.
Azumarill trades roughly evenly with Erika's team.
Azumarill trades roughly evenly with Janine's team.
Misty's typing presses Azumarill's defenses.
Azumarill resists most of Brock's coverage and hits back hard.
Azumarill has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Azumarill trades roughly evenly with Blue's team.
Azumarill trades roughly evenly with Will's team.
Azumarill has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Azumarill has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Azumarill has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Azumarill trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Marill in Mt. Mortar (walking, Lv 15, rare).
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- LV 21WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 28NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- After Jasmine
- TM23SteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15Prize for defeating Jasmine
Evolve Marill to Azumarill
Marill evolves into Azumarill at Level 18. Your Marill should hit Level 18 before you reach Jasmine, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- After Bugsy
- TM14IceBlizzardPower 120Accuracy 70%PP 5Goldenrod Game Corner
- TM33IceIce PunchPower 75Accuracy 100%PP 15Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- LV 25WaterBubble BeamPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Pryce
- HM07WaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Ice Path
- LV 36NormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
How to Get Marill in Gold & Silver
Marill is tricky. A handful of wild spots exist, but the reliable way is the daily swarm at Mt. Mortar, announced over the phone, where it floods the grass and water for that day only.
1 location to catch Marill
Encountered via Surfing, tall grass encounters
Badge 4Where To Catch Marill in GS
Marill is the chain's first catch. You'll find walking and surfing encounters from Lv. 13-24 across 6 total spots in the chain.
- Step 2Evolve into AzumarillBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Goldenrod Pokemon Day Care to receive a Marill egg.
To plan your throws, open the Gold & Silver catch rate calculator with Marill preloaded.
How to Get Shiny Marill in Gold & Silver
Marill leans on a swarm in Mt. Mortar: it does nothing to the odds themselves, but it floods the cave with far more of them so you cycle through encounters much faster. Compare Shiny Marill odds across every game
Gold & Silver Shiny Marill 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 Marill already selected.
Marill Weakness
Marill's Water typing leaves it vulnerable to Electric and Grass. It resists 4 types, giving it decent defensive coverage. Only 2 weaknesses makes it relatively easy to build around defensively.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
- 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 Marill Weak Against
Good
Marill Evolutions
Marill evolves into Azumarill. It's a two-stage chain with the method shown below. A decent partner pool for breeding via two egg groups. Eggs are quick to hatch. The evolved forms gain up to 170 total stats over Marill. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Marill easily with 16 breeding partners from the Fairy and Water 1 egg groups. Pass egg moves like Amnesia, Belly Drum, Foresight and 5 more to offspring.
GS Marill Best Moveset
Water pre-evolution with stats far below competitive levels. MoveSurf from low Sp. Atk does negligible damage. Azumarill at the next stage barely reaches viability.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Whirlpool
- Surf
- Waterfall
- Ice Beam
Moves List
The natural movepool does the job, but Amnesia and Belly Drum from the egg pool give Marill something extra. Pair those with Surf and Waterfall for STAB and coverage across 7 types for reach, and the kit fills out nicely.
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
23 of 27 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
The tip of its tail, which contains oil that is lighter than water, lets it swim without drowning.
The end of its tail serves as a buoy that keeps it from drowning, even in a vicious current.
Marill Gold & Silver Guide
In Gold & Silver, Marill does the job early-game if you need a water type on your team. Evolve it into Azumarill before the later gyms and it holds up fine through the story.
Game Availability
Marill first appeared in Gold & Silver and has been available in 17 games across 8 generations. Obtainable through catching or hatching as a base form in most titles where it appears.
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- 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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