Is Slugma Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Safari Zone encounter. Slugma evolves into Magcargo at 38 with AbilityMagma Armor preventing freeze. Fire/Rock after evolution handles Glacia and contributes against Sidney. Slow with common weaknesses, but the Fire/Rock coverage is useful for the E4 stretch specifically.
Roxanne's team hits Slugma's weaknesses hard.
Slugma trades roughly evenly with Brawly's team.
Slugma trades roughly evenly with Wattson's team.
Flannery's typing presses Slugma's defenses.
Slugma trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
Slugma trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
Tate & Liza's team hits Magcargo's weaknesses hard.
Juan's team hits Magcargo's weaknesses hard.
Magcargo has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
Magcargo trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
Magcargo has the type edge here and should clean up Glacia's team.
Drake's team hits Magcargo's weaknesses hard.
Wallace's team hits Magcargo's weaknesses hard.
Catchable
Catch Slugma in Fiery Path (walking, Lv 15, uncommon).
Recommended Moves
- After Wattson
- TM43NormalSecret PowerPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Route 111
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- After Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- LV 36FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- LV 43RockRock SlidePower 75Accuracy 90%PP 10
- LV 50NormalBody SlamPower 85Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Slugma to Magcargo
Slugma evolves into Magcargo at Level 38. Your Slugma should hit Level 38 before you reach Tate & Liza, at typical leveling pace.
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 38)
- LV 38FireFlamethrowerPower 143Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Flannery
- TM50FireOverheatPower 210Accuracy 90%PP 5Prize for defeating Flannery
- TM06PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10Fiery Path
- After Norman
- TM38FireFire BlastPower 180Accuracy 85%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- TM26GroundEarthquakePower 100Accuracy 100%PP 10Seafloor Cavern
- LV 48RockRock SlidePower 113Accuracy 90%PP 10
How to Get Slugma in Emerald
Slugma is one of the few here you can grab outside the Safari Zone. It walks the Fiery Path and Route 113 ash at low levels, common in the ashfall, so the volcano route hands it over without any pass needed.
2 locations to catch Slugma
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 3Where To Catch Slugma in E
- Step 2Evolve into MagcargoBREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Slugma egg.
Want the exact numbers? Work out your catch odds in Emerald for Slugma.
How to Get Shiny Slugma in Emerald
Slugma oozes across Route 113's ash-dusted grass and through the Fiery Path, so sweep both volcanic spots and inspect every lava snail you find for the telltale shiny glow. Compare Shiny Slugma odds across every game
Emerald Shiny Slugma 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.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Emerald shiny odds for Slugma.
Slugma Weakness
Type-wise, Slugma takes extra damage from Water, Ground, and Rock. The Fire typing picks up 5 resistances to work with. Not too many gaps in the chart, 3 weaknesses to account for.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Water, Ground, Rock |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Slugma Weak Against
AvgBest Pokemon Against Slugma
 Sandslash Ground | A | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Sandslash builds →Dig 2x111-131%KO Rock Tomb 2x62-73% | ||
 Azumarill Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Azurill (Petalburg City Surfing) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Azumarill builds →Bubble Beam 2x82-97% Dig 2x45-54% Rollout 2x24-28% | ||
 Graveler RockGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Graveler builds →Dig 2x111-131%KO Rock Tomb 2x93-110%KO | ||
 Marshtomp WaterGround | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Mudkip (Route 101 Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Marshtomp builds →Dig 2x100-118%KO Rock Tomb 2x56-68% Water Gun 2x54-63% | ||
 Trapinch Ground | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Trapinch builds →Dig 2x111-131%KO Rock Tomb 2x62-73% | ||
 Solrock RockPsychic | C | |
Obtain MethodMeteor Falls Surfing | ||
 Anorith RockBug | C | |
Obtain MethodRustboro City Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Anorith builds →Rock Tomb 2x93-110%KO Dig 2x73-87% Water Gun 2x28-34% | ||
 Pelipper Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing | ||
 Numel FireGround | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Numel builds →Dig 2x79-93% Rock Tomb 2x42-51% | ||
 Croconaw Water | C | |
Obtain MethodEvolve Totodile (Littleroot Town Gift) Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Croconaw builds →Dig 2x63-76% Water Gun 2x54-63% | ||
 Aron SteelRock | C | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Aron builds →Rock Tomb 2x72-85% Dig 2x56-68% | ||
 Nincada BugGround | C | |
 Baltoy GroundPsychic | D | |
Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Slugma View Baltoy builds →Dig 2x61-72% Ancient Power 2x39-48% | ||
 Lombre WaterGrass | C | |
Slugma Evolutions
Slugma is the base form in a two-stage line leading to Magcargo. Check the evolution method below. A decent partner pool for breeding via one egg group. Eggs take an average time to hatch. Evolving adds up to 180 stat points total. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed Slugma easily with 22 breeding partners from the Amorphous egg group. Pass egg moves like Acid Armor, Heat Wave to offspring.
E Slugma Best Moveset
Extremely slow and fragile, Slugma offers little on any team before evolving. The moveset should run special Fire moves while leveling toward Magcargo.
Best Build
Slugma best EVs are HP and Sp. Def
Wall Moveset
- Flamethrower
- Light Screen
- Acid Armor
- Rest
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Most of Slugma's flexibility comes from TMs. Same-type output runs through Overheat and Fire Blast, but Poison and Rock and the rest of the TM pool push it from predictable to genuinely threatening.
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
It is a species of POKéMON that lives in volcanic areas. If its body cools, its skin hardens and immobilizes it. To avoid that, it sleeps near magma.
Slugma Emerald Guide
In Emerald, for a casual playthrough, Slugma works as a placeholder. Fire coverage is useful early. The real payoff is Magcargo. That's where the stats start mattering.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Slugma appears in 16 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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