Biology
Machop is a humanoid, bipedal Pokémon that has gray skin. There are three brown ridges on top of its head, and it has large red eyes and relatively flat face. Its chest has three, thin, rib-like stripes on either side. Its feet appear to have no toes, while its hands have five fingers. It 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 spends its time and energy practicing all different forms of martial arts and trying to improve its abilities. Machop lives in the mountains.
In the animeIn the mangaIn the TCGIn the TFG
One Machop figure has been released.
Game data
Pokédex entries
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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Generation I
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Red
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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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Gold
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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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Generation III
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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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LeafGreen
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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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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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Generation V
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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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White
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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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White 2
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Generation VI
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X
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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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Y
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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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Game locations
This Pokémon was unavailable prior to Generation I.
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In side games
In events
Held items
Stats
Base stats
Stat
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Range
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At Lv. 50
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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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Other Pokémon with this total
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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
Under normal battle conditions in Generation IX, this Pokémon is:
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Learnset
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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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TCG-only moves
Side game data
Evolution
Sprites
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.
- Machop and its evolutions have been in all Japan-centric regional Pokédexes.
Origin
Machop appears to be based on a bodybuilder.
Name origin
Machop may be a combination of macho (Spanish for overly male or chauvinist) and chop. Macho has come to mean tough or masculine in English. Akin to Mr. Mime, the masculine attribute has no reflection on gender assignment, as both species can be male and female; however, Machop's evolutionary line does have a 3:1 male:female ratio, making the species predominantly—but not entirely—male.
Wanriky is a combination of the on'yomi readings of 腕 wan (arm) and 力 riki (strength).
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