Is Miltank Good in Gold & Silver Playthrough?
Route 38 and 39. Whitney's Miltank is infamous for a reason: Rollout, Attract, and Milk Drink make it one of the toughest gym fights in the series. Catching your own Miltank gives you that same bulk and sustain. High HP and Defense with MoveMilk Drink for healing. A sturdy team member that outlasts most opponents.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Falkner's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Bugsy's team.
Miltank trades roughly evenly with Whitney's team.
Miltank trades roughly evenly with Morty's team.
Miltank trades roughly evenly with Chuck's team.
Miltank trades roughly evenly with Jasmine's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Pryce's team.
Miltank trades roughly evenly with Clair's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Lt. Surge's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Sabrina's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Erika's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Misty's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Brock's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Blue's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Will's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Koga's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Karen's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Catchable
Catch Miltank on Route 38 (walking, Lv 13, rare).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 13)
- LV 13NormalStompPower 98Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Bugsy
- TM02NormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a man in Ilex Forest
- After Whitney
- HM03WaterSurfPower 95Accuracy 100%PP 15Ecruteak City
- After Morty
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Olivine City
- After Jasmine
- TM10NormalHidden PowerPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a fisherman in a house at Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
- LV 43NormalBody SlamPower 128Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Lt. Surge
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Celadon Game Corner
Gold & Silver Miltank Locations
Just four rare Miltank across two grassy spots in the mid teens. Thin odds at both, so it takes some pacing to turn one up, though the same two routes hold it in either version of the game.
Wild Miltank may be holding when caught:
Moomoo Milk (25% chance) Restores Pokemon HP by 100.2 locations to catch Miltank
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 3Best Locations to Catch Miltank in Gold & Silver
3 walking spots at Lv. 13-15 for Miltank, all with tough odds. Lock in the highest-rate location from the list and grind it out.
How to Get Shiny Miltank in Gold & Silver
Miltank grazes the open pastures along Route 38 and Route 39, so walk those fields and battle every cow that appears while you hold out hope for a shiny. Compare Shiny Miltank odds across every game
Shiny Miltank Evolution
Does Not EvolveGold & Silver Shiny Miltank 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Miltank in the Gold & Silver Shiny Odds Calculator to compare every method side by side.
Miltank Weakness
Fighting moves hit Miltank for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Miltank's physical bulk (base 105 Def) helps cushion physical weakness hits, but special attackers are the bigger threat.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- 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 Miltank Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Miltank
Miltank Evolutions
No evolution chain to worry about here. Miltank is a standalone Pokemon with plenty of partners 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 Miltank with 66 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Present, Reversal, Seismic Toss to offspring.
GS Miltank Best Moveset
100 Defense and 105 Speed with MoveBody Slam for Normal TermStab and the one-in-three paralysis chance. MoveMilk Drink recovers HP on demand, and MoveHeal Bell clears the entire team's status conditions. Held ItemLeftovers stacks with Milk Drink for sustained play. Physical tank with team healing that outlasts nearly everything.
Best Build
Utility Moveset
- Milk Drink
- Heal Bell
- Body Slam
- Growl
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Don't skip the egg moves. Miltank picks up Present and Reversal only through breeding, and both fill gaps the natural movepool can't. STAB runs through Hyper Beam and Body Slam while coverage across 9 types adds range.
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
30 of 36 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its milk is packed with nutrition, making it the ultimate beverage for the sick or weary.
If it has just had a baby, the milk it produces contains much more nutrition than usual.
Miltank Gold & Silver Guide
Yes. Wild Miltank in Gold & Silver can hold Moomoo Milk (25%). Use Thief (TM46) or Covet to swipe the held item without affecting your catch chance. Quickest way to farm rare items like Moomoo Milk.
In Gold & Silver, use Miltank as a pivot. Physical side carries the damage. It outspeeds most threats,
Game Availability
Available in 16 titles since its debut in Gold & Silver, Miltank 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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