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Magcargo's Type

FIRE

ROCK

Magcargo's Pokédex #s

National #: 219

Magcargo's Base Stats

HP:: 60

Attack:: 50

Defense:: 120

Sp. Atk:: 90

Sp. Def:: 80

Speed:: 30

Total:: 430

Misc. Info

Height:: 2'7" (0.8m)

Weight:: 121.3 lbs. (55 kg)

Gender Ratio:

Egg Groups:: Amorphous

EXP At Lv. 100:: 1,000,000

EV Yield:: 2 Defense

Base EXP:: 151

Catch Rate:: 75

Base Happiness:: 70

Magcargo's Abilities

Here are what abilities Magcargo can possibly have, along with their effects.

Magma Armor: Magcargo cannot become frozen. Makes egg hatching twice as fast (doesn't stack with Flame Body).

Flame Body: 30% chance of burning the attacker when Magcargo is damaged by a contact move. Speeds up egg hatching outside of battle.

Weak Armor: Raises Magcargo's Speed and lowers its Defense by one stage whenever it is hit by a Physical-based move.

Weaknesses & Resistances

Below is a list of what Magcargo's weakness and resistance is to various types.

4×: WATER

GROUND

2×: FIGHTING

ROCK

½: NORMAL

ICE

POISON

FLYING

BUG

FAIRY

¼: FIRE

Magcargo's Evolution Line

Below you'll find a list of all Pokémon Magcargo evolves from or into, along with its evolution method.

Slugma: starting form

Magcargo: at level 38

Magcargo's Moves in Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl

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Below is a list of all of the moves that Magcargo can learn, along with what level it learns the move, the TM number, and what egg moves it can learn, if any. Hover over a move (desktop/laptop) or click the ? button next to the move (mobile/tablet) to find out more about the move.

Level Up Moves

Here are all of the moves Magcargo learns via level up. Anything marked "Evo." means it learns it upon evolving. If the level is 1, it can be relearned at a Pokémon Center.

Lv.	Move	Type	Power	Acc.%	PP	Target
Evo.	Shell Smash Raises Magcargo's Attack, Special Attack, and Speed by two stages. Lowers Magcargo's Defense and Special Defense by one stage.	NORMAL	--	--	15	User
1	Shell Smash Raises Magcargo's Attack, Special Attack, and Speed by two stages. Lowers Magcargo's Defense and Special Defense by one stage.	NORMAL	--	--	15	User
1	Earth Power 10% chance of lowering the target's Sp. Def by one stage.	GROUND	90	100%	10	One Target
1	Yawn Makes the target fall asleep at the end of the next turn.	NORMAL	--	--	10	One Target
1	Smog Has a 40% chance to poison the target.	POISON	30	70%	20	One Target
1	Ember Has a 10% chance to burn the target.	FIRE	40	100%	25	One Target
1	Rock Throw Damages the target.	ROCK	50	90%	15	One Target
6	Ember Has a 10% chance to burn the target.	FIRE	40	100%	25	One Target
8	Rock Throw Damages the target.	ROCK	50	90%	15	One Target
13	Harden Raises Magcargo's Defense by one stage.	NORMAL	--	--	30	User
15	Incinerate Removes any held berry all nearby enemies was holding.	FIRE	60	100%	15	Nearby Enemies
20	Clear Smog Removes any stat modifiers on the target.	POISON	50	--	15	One Target
22	Ancient Power Has a 10% chance of raising Magcargo's Attack, Defense, Sp. Atk, Sp. Def, and Speed by one stage.	ROCK	60	100%	5	One Target
29	Rock Slide Has a 30% chance of causing all nearby enemies to flinch.	ROCK	75	90%	10	Nearby Enemies
34	Lava Plume Has a 30% chance to burn all nearby Pokémon.	FIRE	80	100%	15	All But Self
36	Amnesia Raises Magcargo's Special Defense by two stages.	PSYCHIC	--	--	20	User
43	Body Slam Has a 30% chance to paralyze the target.	NORMAL	85	100%	15	One Target
47	Recover Restores half of Magcargo's HP.	NORMAL	--	--	10	User
54	Flamethrower Has a 10% chance to burn the target.	FIRE	90	100%	15	One Target
58	Earth Power 10% chance of lowering the target's Sp. Def by one stage.	GROUND	90	100%	10	One Target

TM Moves

Here are all of the moves that Magcargo can learn via TM (Technical Machine). These moves can be taught once per use of the TM.

TM	Move	Type	Power	Acc.%	PP	Target
TM11	Sunny Day Changes the weather to sunny for 5 turns.	FIRE	--	--	5	Entire Field
TM15	Hyper Beam Requires a turn to recharge (unless it misses).	NORMAL	150	90%	5	One Target
TM16	Light Screen Reduces damage from Special-based moves for 5 turns.	PSYCHIC	--	--	30	User's Field
TM17	Protect Protects Magcargo from attacks for a turn. Low chance of working on consecutive turns.	NORMAL	--	--	10	User
TM22	Solar Beam Charges for a turn, attacks on the second turn. No charge time in the sun; half damage in the rain.	GRASS	120	100%	10	One Target
TM26	Earthquake Does double damage against targets using Dig.	GROUND	100	100%	10	All But Self
TM32	Double Team Raises Magcargo's Evasion by one stage.	NORMAL	--	--	15	User
TM33	Reflect Reduces damage from Physical-based moves for 5 turns.	PSYCHIC	--	--	20	User's Field
TM35	Flamethrower Has a 10% chance to burn the target.	FIRE	90	100%	15	One Target
TM37	Sandstorm Changes the weather to a sandstorm for 5 turns.	ROCK	--	--	10	Entire Field
TM38	Fire Blast Has a 10% chance to burn the target.	FIRE	110	85%	5	One Target
TM39	Rock Tomb 100% chance of lowering the target's Speed by one stage.	ROCK	60	95%	15	One Target
TM42	Facade Does double damage if Magcargo is poisoned, burned, or paralyzed.	NORMAL	70	100%	20	One Target
TM44	Rest Magcargo restores its HP to full and falls asleep for two turns.	PSYCHIC	--	--	10	User
TM45	Attract Infatuates Pokémon of the opposite gender.	NORMAL	--	100%	15	One Target
TM50	Overheat Lowers Magcargo's Special Attack by two stages.	FIRE	130	90%	5	One Target
TM58	Endure Will survive any hit with at least 1 HP left this turn. 50% chance of working on consecutive turns.	NORMAL	--	--	10	User
TM61	Will-O-Wisp Burns the target.	FIRE	--	85%	15	One Target
TM64	Explosion Magcargo is knocked out after using Explosion.	NORMAL	250	100%	5	All But Self
TM68	Giga Impact Requires a turn to recharge (unless it misses).	NORMAL	150	90%	5	One Target
TM69	Rock Polish Raises Magcargo's Speed by two stages.	ROCK	--	--	20	User
TM71	Stone Edge Has a higher critical hit rate. (+1 stage.)	ROCK	100	80%	5	One Target
TM74	Gyro Ball Does more damage based on how much lower Magcargo's Speed is compared to the target's.	STEEL	varies	100%	5	One Target
TM76	Stealth Rock Sets floating rocks on the enemy's field. Does 1/8 max HP to enemies that switch in. Weakness/resistance to Rock affects this damage.	ROCK	--	--	20	Enemy Field
TM80	Rock Slide Has a 30% chance of causing all nearby enemies to flinch.	ROCK	75	90%	10	Nearby Enemies
TM82	Sleep Talk Can only be used while asleep. Uses one of Magcargo's moves at random.	NORMAL	--	--	10	User
TM83	Bulldoze 100% chance of lowering all nearby Pokémon's Speed by one stage.	GROUND	60	100%	20	All But Self
TM87	Swagger Raises the target's Attack by two stages and confuses it.	NORMAL	--	85%	15	One Target
TM90	Substitute Costs 25% of Magcargo's max HP. Sets up a Substitute to block effects and damage.	NORMAL	--	--	10	User
TM96	Strength Damages the target.	NORMAL	80	100%	15	One Target
TM98	Rock Smash 50% chance of lowering the target's Defense by one stage.	FIGHTING	40	100%	15	One Target

Egg Moves

Here are all of the moves that Magcargo can learn as Egg Moves. In the case of evolved Pokémon, it shows what Egg Moves it can learn in its lowest evolutionary stage. Click the word EGG to find compatible breeding Pokémon to get that Egg Move onto Magcargo.

	Move	Type	Power	Acc.%	PP	Target
EGG	Acid Armor Raises Magcargo's Defense by two stages.	POISON	--	--	20	User
EGG	Heat Wave Has a 10% chance to burn all nearby enemies.	FIRE	95	90%	10	Nearby Enemies
EGG	Curse Raises Magcargo's Attack and Defense by one stage, but lowers its Speed by one stage.	GHOST	--	--	10	Counter
EGG	Smokescreen Lowers the target's Accuracy by one stage.	NORMAL	--	100%	20	One Target
EGG	Memento Lowers the target's Attack and Special Attack by two stages, then Magcargo faints.	DARK	--	100%	10	One Target
EGG	Stockpile Raises Magcargo's Defense and Special Defense by one stage and adds +1 to the Stockpile counter, up to 3.	NORMAL	--	--	20	User
EGG	Spit Up Hits for 100 power for each Stockpile counter. Resets Stockpile counter to 0.	NORMAL	varies	100%	10	One Target
EGG	Swallow Heals HP based on the Stockpile counter, then resets it to 0.	NORMAL	--	--	10	User
EGG	Rollout Lose control for up to 5 turns, with each hit doing 2× as much. Doubles damage if Defense Curl was used beforehand.	ROCK	30	90%	20	One Target
EGG	Inferno Has a 100% chance to burn the target.	FIRE	100	50%	5	One Target
EGG	Earth Power 10% chance of lowering the target's Sp. Def by one stage.	GROUND	90	100%	10	One Target
EGG	Guard Swap Magcargo swaps any modifiers to its Defense and Special Defense stats with the target's.	PSYCHIC	--	--	10	One Target

Magcargo's Detailed Stats

Below you'll find a more detailed table containing Magcargo's calculated stats, which are the stats that you actually see displayed in game. These are affected by a variety of things, such as level, Effort Values (EVs), Individual Values (IVs), and Magcargo's Nature.

By default, the stats you see in the table below show four different possibilities, all assuming Magcargo is level 100: its stats with 0 EVs, 252+ (max) EVs, 0 IVs, and 31 (max) IVs. Nature is not shown by default, so its maximum is 10% higher than shown here, and minium 10% lower.

Stats at level 100	0 EVs		252+ EVs		Base Stat
Stats at level 100	Min	Max	Min	Max	Base Stat
HP	230	261	293	324	60
Attack	105	136	168	199	50
Defense	245	276	308	339	120
Sp. Atk	185	216	248	279	90
Sp. Def	165	196	228	259	80
Speed	65	96	128	159	30
Total					430

Where to Find Magcargo in Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl

Location information on where to find Magcargo in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl will be coming to the Marriland Pokédex in a future update! Thank you for your patience!

Pokédex Entries for Magcargo

Generation 6 Pokédex Entries

X

Its brittle shell occasionally spouts intense flames that circulate throughout its body.

Y

Its body is as hot as lava and is always billowing. Flames will occasionally burst from its shell.

Omega Ruby

Magcargo's shell is actually its skin that hardened as a result of cooling. Its shell is very brittle and fragile—just touching it causes it to crumble apart. This Pokémon returns to its original size by dipping itself in magma.

Alpha Sapphire

Magcargo's body temperature is approximately 18,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Water is vaporized on contact. If this Pokémon is caught in the rain, the raindrops instantly turn into steam, cloaking the area in a thick fog.

Generation 5 Pokédex Entries

Black White Black 2 White 2

Its body temperature is roughly 18,000 degrees F. Flames spout from gaps in its hardened shell.

Generation 4 Pokédex Entries

Diamond Pearl Platinum

Its body temperature is roughly 18,000 degrees F. Flames spout from gaps in its hardened shell.

HeartGold

The shell on its back is just skin that has cooled and hardened. It breaks easily with a slight touch.

SoulSilver

Its brittle shell occasionally spouts intense flames that circulate throughout its body.

Generation 3 Pokédex Entries

Ruby

MAGCARGO's shell is actually its skin that hardened as a result of cooling. Its shell is very brittle and fragile - just touching it causes it to crumble apart. This POKéMON returns to its original size by dipping itself in magma.

Sapphire

MAGCARGO's body temperature is approximately 18,000 degrees F. Water is vaporized on contact. If this POKéMON is caught in the rain, the raindrops instantly turn into steam, cloaking the area in a thick fog.

Emerald

The shell on its back is made of hardened magma. Tens of thousands of years spent living in volcanic craters have turned MAGCARGO's bodies into magma.

FireRed

Its brittle shell occasionally spouts intense flames that circulate throughout its body.

LeafGreen

The shell on its back is just skin that has cooled and hardened. It breaks easily with a slight touch.

Generation 2 Pokédex Entries

Gold

The shell on its back is just skin that has cooled and hardened. It breaks easily with a slight touch.

Silver

Its brittle shell occasionally spouts intense flames that circulate throughout its body.

Crystal

Its body is as hot as lava and is always billowing. Flames will occasionally burst from its shell.