Is Miltank Good in HeartGold & SoulSilver Playthrough?
Route 38 and 39 encounters during mid-Johto. Normal-type with AbilityThick Fat or AbilityScrappy. Whitney's Miltank is infamous, but yours is just as effective. AbilityScrappy lets Normal moves hit Ghost-types directly. Strong Defense and reliable through both regions.
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 has the type edge here and should clean up Whitney's team.
Morty's typing presses Miltank's defenses.
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 has the type edge here and should clean up Clair'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 Misty'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 Erika's team.
Miltank has the type edge here and should clean up Janine's team.
Miltank trades roughly evenly with Sabrina'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
- After Bugsy
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 225Accuracy 90%PP 5Goldenrod Department Store
- TUTORNormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15Ilex Forest
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Goldenrod Department Store
- After Whitney
- HM04NormalStrengthPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Gift from a Hiker on Route 42
- LV 24NormalBody SlamPower 128Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Chuck
- TM01FightingFocus PunchPower 150Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Chuck
- After Jasmine
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20Lake of Rage
- After Clair
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Victory Road
HeartGold & SoulSilver Miltank Locations
Miltank scatters across a few Johto routes, rare on the early ones and uncommon higher up. There is no swarm to lean on, so it takes a bit of patience in the grass before one shows.
Wild Miltank may be holding when caught:
Moomoo Milk (always) Milk with a very high nutrition content. It restores the HP of one Pokemon by 100 points.3 locations to catch Miltank
Encountered via tall grass encounters
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Badge 6Best Locations to Catch Miltank in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Walking encounters at Lv. 13-35 across 3 spots for Miltank. Sorted by progression so you can see what's reachable at your current point in the game.
How to Get Shiny Miltank in HeartGold & SoulSilver
Miltank grazes Route 38 and Route 39, so breed it Masuda-style with a foreign parent at 1 in 1,638. Compare Shiny Miltank odds across every game
Shiny Miltank Evolution
Does Not EvolveHeartGold & SoulSilver Shiny Miltank 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.
Planning a longer hunt? Set up Miltank in the HeartGold & SoulSilver 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. Thick Fat reduces Fire/Ice damage, further improving the defensive spread. 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 |
- Fairy type does not exist — Dragon has fewer checks
- Physical / Special split now per-move (introduced Gen IV)
What is Miltank Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Miltank
 Hariyama Fighting | B | |
 Hitmonchan Fighting | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Tyrogue (Mt Mortar Gift) | ||
 Machoke Fighting | C | |
 Primeape Fighting | C | |
 Meditite FightingPsychic | C | |
Miltank Evolutions
No evolution chain to worry about here. Miltank is a standalone Pokemon with a massive 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 Miltank with 131 breeding partners from the Field egg group. Pass egg moves like Curse, Dizzy Punch, Double-Edge and 9 more to offspring.
HGSS Miltank Best Moveset
Physical bulk at 105 Defense with 100 Speed for a fast defensive Normal type. AbilityScrappy lets Normal and Fighting moves hit Ghost types that would normally be immune. The moveset fires MoveBody Slam for paralysis chance and recovers with MoveMilk Drink. 95 HP sustains the tank.
Best Build
Miltank best EVs are HP and Attack
Physical Tank Moveset
- Body Slam
- Milk Drink
- Heal Bell
- Earthquake
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Coverage runs deep. Miltank can hit 12 types beyond STAB, including Rock and Psychic. The offense anchors on Hyper Beam and Double-Edge while TMs handle everything else.
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 30 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 is around babies, the milk it produces contains much more nutrition than usual.
Miltank HeartGold & SoulSilver Guide
Yes. Wild Miltank in HeartGold & SoulSilver can hold Moomoo Milk (always). 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 HeartGold & SoulSilver, use Miltank as a pivot. Physical side carries the damage. It outspeeds most threats,
For HeartGold & SoulSilver, run Adamant on Miltank. +Attack is what matters, and the -Sp. Atk cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the pivot role.
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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