Machop (Japanese: ワンリキー Wanriky) is a Fighting-type Pokémon introduced in Generation I.
It evolves into Machoke starting at level 28, which evolves into Machamp when traded or when exposed to a Linking Cord.
(Refer to Game data→Evolution data for more details.)
Biology
Machop is a humanoid, bipedal Pokémon that has blue-gray skin. It has three brown ridges on top of its head, large red eyes, and a relatively flat face. On either side of its chest are three, thin, rib-like stripes. Its feet appear to have no toes, while its hands have five fingers. Machop also has a short, stubby tail.
Machop's entire body is covered with muscles that will never tire or cramp. With these muscles, it can lift many times its own body weight; it is even capable of hurling up to 100 adults. It spends its time and energy working out and practicing all different forms of martial arts, striving to improve its abilities. One of its daily training routines involves lifting boulders and Graveler repeatedly as if they were barbells. It becomes more dedicated the more its muscles grow. Once it feels confident, it challenges Makuhita to a battle. Machop lives in the mountains, and its diet includes highly nutritious food that allows it to efficiently build up its muscles. In Generation II, Vital Throw was its signature move.
Evolution
Machop evolves into Machoke, which evolves into Machamp.
(For specifics on this Pokémon's evolution in the games, refer to Game data→Evolution data.)
In the anime
Main series
Major appearances
In Pop Goes The Sneasel, a Machop was protecting the flame of Ho-Oh at a shrine.
In Brave the Wave, Brawly used a Machop during his Gym battle against Ash. It defeated Taillow before being defeated by Treecko. In Just One of the Geysers, Machop was used during Ash's rematch. During that battle, Machop was defeated by Ash's newly-caught Corphish.
In Sitting Psyduck, Emily's Machop chased after her runaway Psyduck.
Minor appearances
Machop debuted in The Punchy Pokémon, under the ownership of a Trainer. It was the first opponent for Ash and his Primeape in the P1 Grand Prix.
In Riddle Me This, a Machop at the Pokémon Lab was targeted by Team Rocket.
In The Power of One, a Machop sensed the disturbance caused by Lawrence III.
Two wild Machop appeared in Pikachu's Rescue Adventure. One helped the Trainers' Pokémon and Elekid save the Exeggcute nests and Togepi during a storm.
A Machop appeared in Pokémon Double Trouble.
In Two Hits and a Miss, a Trainer's Machop was at a Fighting-type dojo.
In A Better Pill to Swallow, Brock's fantasy featured a Machop.
In Machoke, Machoke Man!, a Machop was at the Cianwood Gym.
In A Double Dilemma, a Machop lived at North Petalburg.
In Weekend Warrior, a Coordinator's Machop competed in the Silver Town Pokémon Contest.
In Spontaneous Combusken!, a Machop was at the Chrysanthemum Island beach.
A Machop appeared in To Thine Own Pokémon Be True! and BWS02.
In The Journalist from Another Region!, a Machop was entered into the Pokémon Sumo Tournament on Harvest Island.
A Machop appeared in a flashback or a fantasy in The Forest Champion!.
A Machop appeared in a flashback in When Light and Dark Collide!.
In A Festival of Decisions!, a Machop helped arrest the rogue ninjas that attacked the Ninja Village.
Three Trainers' Machop appeared in Alola to New Adventure!.
Three Trainers' Machop appeared in A Shocking Grocery Run!.
In Racing to a Big Event!, two Trainers' Machop competed in the Pokémon Pancake Race.
In Rocking Clawmark Hill!, two Machop were training up on Clawmark Hill.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in They Might Not Be Giants!.
Three Trainers' Machop appeared in One Journey Ends, Another Begins....
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Getting the Band Back Together!.
Three Trainers' Machop appeared in A Glaring Rivalry!.
In I Choose You!, a Trainer's Machop had a battle with Pikachu.
Two Trainers' Machop appeared in Balloons, Brionne, and Belligerence!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Alola, Kanto!.
In Smashing with Sketch!, a Trainer's Machop competed in the Pokémon Ping-Pong tournament.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Sours for the Sweet!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Twirling with a Bang!.
Two Trainers' Machop appeared in A Young Royal Flame Ignites!.
Six Trainers' Machop appeared in The Power of Us.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in The Shape of Love to Come!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in We Know Where You're Going, Eevee!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Heart of Fire! Heart of Stone!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in The Dealer of Destruction!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in League Offenders and Defenders!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in The Road to The Semifinals!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Z-Move Showdown!.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Exhibition Unmasked!.
Two Trainers' Machop appeared in Thank You, Alola! The Journey Continues!.
In Ivysaur's Mysterious Tower!, an image featured a Worker and multiple Machop. They were helping construct a new Gym in Vermilion City.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Trade, Borrow, and Steal!.
A Machop appeared in a fantasy in Solitary and Menacing!, under the ownership of Bea.
A Trainer's Machop appeared in Secrets of the Jungle.
A Machop appeared in This Could be the Start of Something Big!.
Two Machop appeared in The Pendant That Starts It All: Part One, one under the ownership of a student of Indigo Academy.
Pokédex entries
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Machop
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May's Pokédex
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Machop, the Superpower Pokémon. Machop have muscles that never tire, no matter how much they exercise. Machop have enough strength to throw 100 average-sized adults.
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Pokémon: Twilight Wings
In Training, Bea owns a Machop. It was training alongside her other Pokémon in the Wild Area. It reappeared in The Gathering of Stars.
In the manga
Pocket Monsters HeartGold & SoulSilver Go! Go! Pokéathlon
A Machop appeared in Pocket Monsters HeartGold & SoulSilver Go! Go! Pokéathlon.
Pokémon Adventures
Machop debuted in a flashback Long Live the Nidoqueen!?, under the ownership of Harry.
Bruno owns several Machop, which first appeared in Karate Machop!. They were sent to attack Kanto specifically Pewter City alongside several other Elite Four Pokémon.
A Machop appeared in Querulous Qwilfish, where it was aiding the construction of the Battle Tower.
In Mashing Makuhita, a Machop was one of Brawly's Pokémon, which he sent out against Sapphire's Combusken, but it ended up overwhelmed by its speed. Much later, in Volume 20, Brawly was shown to own a Machoke, which appeared to have evolved from the same Machop.
A group of Machop appeared in The Final Battle IV during Emerald's flashback, helping to repair Earl's Pokémon Academy.
A Machop appeared in The Final Battle IV, where it was one of the Pokémon that helped Emerald with his disabilities.
A Machop appeared in Perturbed by Pachirisu.
A Machop appears with a Battle Girl at the Mini-game Corner in Sylveon Enchants.
Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys
A Machop appeared in Let's Fight! The Mini Pokémon Tournament.
A Machop appeared in a flashback in Let's Fight For The Future!!.
Pokémon Gotta Catch 'Em All
A Machop appeared in Pokémon Cooking Contest!, under the ownership of Yuki.
A Machop appeared in GDZ51.
Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition ~ Ranse's Color Picture Scroll ~
A Machop appeared in The Yellow Scroll: Hanbei vs Kanbei.
A Machop appeared in The Black Scroll: Nobunaga's Ambition.
Pokémon Pocket Monsters
Giovanni's Machop briefly appeared in Get The Last Badge!! along with its evolved forms.
Pokémon Zensho
A Machop appeared in PZ05.
In the TCG
- Main article: Machop (TCG)
In the TFG
One Machop figure has been released.
Game data
Pokédex entries
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Kanto
#066
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(This entry was originally untranslated in English until it was reused in Pokémon FireRed.)
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| Green
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Loves to build its muscles. It trains in all styles of martial arts to become even stronger.
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| Blue
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| Yellow
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Very powerful in spite of its small size. Its mastery of many types of martial arts makes it very tough.
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| Stadium
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Its whole body is covered with muscles, so it can raise bulges anywhere. It can throw a hundred adults.
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| Generation II
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Johto
#140
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Always brimming with power, it passes time by lifting boulders. Doing so makes it even stronger.
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| Silver
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It loves to work out and build its muscles. It is never satisfied, even if it trains hard all day long.
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| Crystal
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It trains by lifting rocks in the mountains. It can even pick up a Graveler with ease.
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| Stadium 2
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Always brimming with power, it passes time by lifting boulders. Doing so makes it even stronger.
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Hoenn
#073
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Kanto
#066
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| Ruby
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Machop's muscles are special - they never get sore no matter how much they are used in exercise. This Pokémon has sufficient power to hurl a hundred adult humans.
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| Sapphire
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Machop exercises by hefting around a Graveler as if it were a barbell. There are some Machop that travel the world in a quest to master all kinds of martial arts.
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| Emerald
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It continually undertakes strenuous training to master all forms of martial arts. Its strength lets it easily hoist a sumo wrestler onto its shoulders.
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| FireRed
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Its whole body is composed of muscles. Even though it's the size of a human child, it can hurl 100 grown-ups.
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Loves to build its muscles. It trains in all styles of martial arts to become even stronger.
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| Generation IV
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Sinnoh
#040
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Johto
#142
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| Diamond
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It hefts a Graveler repeatedly to strengthen its entire body. It uses every type of martial arts.
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| Pearl
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Its muscles never cramp however much it trains. It lives in the mountains away from humans.
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| Platinum
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Though small in stature, it is powerful enough to easily heft and throw a number of Geodude at once.
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| HeartGold
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Always brimming with power, it passes time by lifting boulders. Doing so makes it even stronger.
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| SoulSilver
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It loves to work out and build its muscles. It is never satisfied, even if it trains hard all day long.
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Unova
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| Black
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Though small in stature, it is powerful enough to easily heft and throw a number of Geodude at once.
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| Black 2
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Though small in stature, it is powerful enough to easily heft and throw a number of Geodude at once.
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| Generation VI
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Kalos
Coastal #057
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Hoenn
#075
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It hefts a Graveler repeatedly to strengthen its entire body. It uses every type of martial arts.
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Its whole body is composed of muscles. Even though it's the size of a human child, it can hurl 100 grown-ups.
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| Omega Ruby
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Machop's muscles are special—they never get sore no matter how much they are used in exercise. This Pokémon has sufficient power to hurl a hundred adult humans.
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| Alpha Sapphire
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Machop exercises by hefting around a Graveler as if it were a barbell. There are some Machop that travel the world in a quest to master all kinds of martial arts.
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| Generation VII
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Alola
SM: #095
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Alola
USUM: #117
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Kanto
#066
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| Sun
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It loves working out. As it gazes at its muscles, which continue to swell day by day, it becomes more and more dedicated to its training.
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| Moon
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With its superhuman strength, it's able to throw a hundred people all at the same time. Its strength comes from lifting Graveler every day.
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| Ultra Sun
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Once this Pokémon has gained enough confidence and muscle from training with its friends, it challenges Makuhita to a battle.
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| Ultra Moon
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It likes food that's highly nutritious because its instincts drive it to build muscle efficiently.
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Very powerful in spite of its small size. Its mastery of many types of martial arts makes it very tough.
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Galar
#138
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Sinnoh
#040
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Hisui
#154
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| Sword
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Its whole body is composed of muscles. Even though it's the size of a human child, it can hurl 100 grown-ups.
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| Shield
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Always brimming with power, it passes time by lifting boulders. Doing so makes it even stronger.
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| Brilliant Diamond
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It hefts a Graveler repeatedly to strengthen its entire body. It uses every type of martial arts.
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| Shining Pearl
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Its muscles never cramp however much it trains. It lives in the mountains away from humans.
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| Legends: Arceus
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Though as small as a child, it has strength enough to easily throw a well-built adult. Striving to become ever stronger, Machop trains by carrying a Graveler on its shoulders.
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Game locations
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Route 3, North Lake Miloch, South Lake Miloch, Watchtower Ruins, Giant's Seat, Giant's Mirror, Stony Wilderness
Rolling Fields, South Lake Miloch, North Lake Miloch, Stony Wilderness, Dusty Bowl (Max Raid Battle)
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Shining Pearl
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In side games
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In events
Held items
Stats
Base stats
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At Lv. 100
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70
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130 - 177
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250 - 344
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80
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76 - 145
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148 - 284
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50
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49 - 112
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94 - 218
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35
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36 - 95
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67 - 185
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35
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36 - 95
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67 - 185
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35
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36 - 95
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67 - 185
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Total: 305
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- Minimum stats are calculated with 0 EVs, IVs of 0, and (if applicable) a hindering nature.
- Maximum stats are calculated with 252 EVs, IVs of 31, and (if applicable) a helpful nature.
- This Pokémon's Special base stat in Generation I was 35.
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Pokéathlon stats
Type effectiveness
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Learnset
Machop is available in Pokémon Sword and Shield, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see level-up moves from other generations
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see level-up moves from other generations
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see TM moves from other generations
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- Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Machop in Generation VIII
- Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation.
- Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Machop in that game.
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations
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- Moves marked with an asterisk (*) must be chain bred onto Machop in Generation VIII
- Moves marked with a double dagger (‡) can only be bred from a Pokémon who learned the move in an earlier generation.
- Moves marked with a superscript game abbreviation can only be bred onto Machop in that game.
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Egg moves from other generations
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Move Tutor moves from other generations
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- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see Move Tutor moves from other generations
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- Transferred Pokémon only retain these moves in Pokémon Sword and Shield
- A striped background indicates a generation in which the move can only be obtained via event or as a special move
- Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Machop
- Italic indicates a move that gets STAB only when used by an Evolution of Machop
- × indicates a move that cannot be used in Sword and Shield
- Click on the generation numbers at the top to see transfer-only moves for other generations
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TCG-only moves
Side game data
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Pokémon Ranger
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Min. exp.: 25
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Max. exp.: 35
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Browser entry R-080
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Pokémon Rumble Rush
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Walking Speed: 2.08 seconds
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Base HP: 53
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Base Defense: 46
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Base Speed: 60
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In Pokémon GO, Machop can be obtained by completing 1/4 of the Ticketed Special Research, Straight to the Top, Machop!.
Evolution data
Machop evolves into Machoke starting at level 28, which evolves into Machamp when traded. In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Machoke can also evolve into Machamp when exposed to a Linking Cord.
Sprites
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Trivia
- Before the release of the English versions of Pokémon Red and Blue, Machop was known as "Kara-Tee". This name is a corruption of karate, a fighting style.
Origin
Machop appears to be based on a bodybuilder. It also possesses some reptilian features such as its face, three plate-like crests on its head, a tail, and blue-gray coloration.
Name origin
Machop is a combination of macho (manly; Spanish and Portuguese for male) and chop.[1]
Wanriky is derived from 腕 wan (arm) and 力 riki (strength);[2] altogether, it is derived from an alternate reading of 腕力 wanryoku (arm strength, physical strength).
In other languages
| Language
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Title
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 Japanese
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ワンリキー Wanriky
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From an alternate reading of 腕力 wanryoku
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 French
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Machoc
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From macho and choc
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 Spanish
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Machop
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Same as English name
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 German
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Machollo
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From Macho and Proll
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 Italian
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Machop
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Same as English name
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 Korean
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알통몬 Altongmon
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From 알통 altong and monster
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 Mandarin Chinese
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腕力 Wànlì
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From 腕 wàn and 力 lì
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 Cantonese Chinese
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腕力 Wúnlihk*
鐵腕 Titwún*
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From 腕 wún and 力 lihk
From 鐵 tit and 腕 wún
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 Hindi
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मचॉप Machop
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Transcription of English name
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 Russian
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Мачоп Machop
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Transcription of English name
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 Thai
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วันริกี Wanriki
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Transcription of Japanese name
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Related articles
References
- ↑ ポケＱポン (PokéQuiz in Japanese): 正解は MACHOP！ マチョップ です！ MACHOは マッチョ CHOPは チョップ！
- ↑ PokéQuiz: The correct answer is Wanriky! Wan-ri-kee! “Wan” means “arm,” and “riki” means “strength.”
External links
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