Machop are turtle-like bipedal creatures that have gray skin, with three brown ridges on top of its head. They have large eyes and also have small tails.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
Machop, though small, has enough strength to hurl an adult human. Machop's special muscles will never tire or cramp no matter how long it trains.
Behavior
Machop spend their time and energy practicing all different forms of martial arts and trying to improve their abilities. Machop will lift boulders and Graveler as if they were dumbells in order to strengthen their bodies.
Machop also appeared in Pikachu's Rescue Adventure as one of the wild Pokémon who help the trainers' Pokémon and Elekid save the Exeggcute nests and Togepi in a storm.
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.
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.
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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Despite their classifications, Machop and its evolutions could not learn Superpower until Pokémon Platinum.
Despite having a tail, it cannot learn Iron Tail; this however, would be right as its next evolution doesn't have a tail.
In Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, it's mentioned that Machop can control Aura into orbs. However, there doesn't seem to be a connection between Machop and Lucario (save for both being fighting) and Machop can't learn Aura Sphere in the games.
Machop is one of 5 Kanto Pokémon that had its Base EXP changed in Generation III. Its former Base EXP was 88. The others are Kabuto, Omanyte, Geodude, and Abra.
Machop's name may be a combination of chop and macho, which is Spanish for overly masculine or chauvinist. Macho has come to mean tough or masculine in English. Like Mr. Mime, this is not reflected in the gender distribution (even though the females are still rarer than males). Wanriky is a corruption of 腕力 wanryoku (the 力 is pronounced riki in some words), physical strength.
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