#0056 · Kanto · Generation 1

Mankey

Pig Monkey Pokémon · Fighting-type

Mankey is a Fighting-type Pokémon, the Pig Monkey Pokémon, number 56 (#0056) in the National Pokédex. It was introduced in Generation 1 and comes from the Kanto region. It is 0.5 m tall and weighs 28 kg.

Mankey is the Pig Monkey Pokémon, a tiny Fighting type so quick to anger that its own fury can wake it from sleep. The Pokédex says it lives a long life because it never bottles up stress.

How to pronounce Mankey

Mankey is pronounced MANG-kee. The capital letters show the stressed syllable.

Listen to Mankey said out loud:

In Japanese it is マンキー.

Hear every other name on the Pokémon pronunciation guide.

Lore

Biology

Mankey is a small bipedal monkey, 0.5 m tall and 28 kg, with shaggy whitish fur, a pig-like snout, narrow red eyes and triangular ears. Its hands, feet and prehensile tail tip are brown. When it starts shaking and its breathing turns rough, it is getting angry, and it reaches a towering rage so fast that no one has time to flee.

Behaviour

Mankey lives in treetop colonies where one angry Mankey sets off the rest, and one that loses sight of its group rages from loneliness. Its tantrums tire it out, but the anger carries into its dreams and wakes it up furious all over again. Pokémon Sleep says it is rare to find one sleeping without an angry look.

Habitat

Bulbapedia lists it as a mountain Pokémon. In Scarlet and Violet it is found in Paldea's South and West Provinces and, in The Teal Mask, across Kitakami.

Diet

Chestnuts in Mystery Dungeon, which it struggles to peel, and bananas in the anime.

Powers

Its Abilities are Vital Spirit, Anger Point and the hidden Defiant, which raises Attack when a stat is lowered. It fights with Low Kick, Cross Chop, Seismic Toss and Close Combat, and learns the risky Final Gambit at level 48. With base Attack 80 against Defense 35 it hits far harder than it can take.

Name origin

Mankey may be 'mad' or 'man' plus 'monkey', possibly with 'cranky'. The Japanese name is also Mankey (マンキー).

Design inspiration

Shigeki Morimoto designed Mankey, and in Sun and Moon he says he followed his boss's instructions. Its pig-like nose and 'Pig Monkey' category may come from the Southern pig-tailed macaque, and its tail, habitat and temper recall baboons and snub-nosed monkeys. These are fan readings.

Evolution notes

Mankey evolves into Primeape at level 28, which can then evolve into Annihilape.

In the games

In the first Mystery Dungeon games, three Mankey boss Uproar Forest and strike while rebuilding your base until you supply two peeled chestnuts. Mankey first appeared in Red and Green (Red and Blue outside Japan), and in Legends: Z-A it comes by trade in the base game and is wild only in the Mega Dimension DLC.

In the anime

Goh caught a Mankey on Cero Island in 'Getting More Than You Battled For!'. In 'Distant Blue Sky!' four Mankey stole Sunny's favourite hat.

Fun facts

• Bulbapedia calls Mankey a counterpart of Meowth: both evolve at level 28 and have M and P names, and in Black 2 and White 2 Yancy trades boys a Meowth while Curtis trades girls a Mankey.
• In 'A Snow Day for Searching!' three Mankey stole Goh's Cubone's bone and lost it in a lake.
• In 'Training Daze' Jessie and Jubei shared a Mankey at the Team Rocket Academy.

Sources: Bulbapedia: Mankey (Pokémon) · Serebii: Mankey (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex)

Base stats

• HP: 40
• Attack: 80
• Defense: 35
• Sp. Atk: 35
• Sp. Def: 45
• Speed: 70

Mankey’s base stat total is 305. Its highest stat is Attack.

Type matchups

What is Mankey weak to?

Mankey takes extra damage from Flying (2×), Psychic (2×), Fairy (2×) moves.

It resists Bug (½×), Rock (½×), Dark (½×).

Evolution

How does Mankey evolve?

Mankey evolves into Primeape at level 28.

The whole family: Mankey, Primeape, Annihilape.

• Primeape evolves into Annihilape (Use Rage Fist 20 times). After the 20 uses, Primeape also has to level up.

Abilities

• Vital Spirit: Prevents sleep.
• Anger Point: Raises Attack to the maximum of six stages upon receiving a critical hit.
• Defiant (hidden ability): Raises Attack two stages upon having any stat lowered.

Moves

Moves Mankey learns by level up in Scarlet / Violet

TM moves (54)

Mankey can learn 54 moves from TMs in Scarlet / Violet: Take Down, Scary Face, Protect, Low Kick, Acrobatics, Thief, Facade, Bulldoze, Swift, Rock Tomb, Low Sweep, Fling, Endure, Sunny Day, Rain Dance, Dig, Brick Break, U-turn, Shadow Claw, Bulk Up, Body Slam, Fire Punch, Thunder Punch, Ice Punch, Sleep Talk, Seed Bomb, Drain Punch, Metronome, Poison Jab, Stomping Tantrum, Rest, Rock Slide, Taunt, Gunk Shot, Substitute, Encore, Thunderbolt, Helping Hand, Reversal, Earthquake, Stone Edge, Outrage, Overheat, Focus Blast, Close Combat, Tera Blast, Spite, Uproar, Focus Punch, Lash Out, Double-Edge, Endeavor, Throat Chop, Curse.

Egg moves (6):Beat Up, Counter, Curse, Encore, Night Slash, Spite.

Breeding & training

• Gender: 50% male, 50% female.
• Egg groups: Field.
• Egg cycles: 20 (steps to hatch, Scarlet/Violet: 2,560).
• Catch rate: 190 out of 255.
• Base friendship (Gen 8 onward): 50.
• Growth rate: Medium (1,000,000 experience points to reach level 100).
• Defeating it gives 1 Attack effort value.
• Base experience yield: 61.

Pokédex entries

An agile Pokémon that lives in trees. It angers easily and will not hesitate to attack anything. (Yellow, Let’s Go, Pikachu!, Let’s Go, Eevee!)

If one gets angry, all the others around it will get angry, so silence is a rare visitor in a troop of Mankey. (Ultra Moon)

The smallest of things could cause it to lose its temper. Because it doesn't hold in its stress, this Pokémon can live a long time. (Ultra Sun)

Its raging tires it out and causes it to fall asleep, but the anger resonating in its dreams causes it to wake up—which infuriates it all over again. (Moon)

It can spontaneously become enraged. Everyone near it clears out as it rampages, and the resulting loneliness makes it angrier still. (Sun)

When Mankey starts shaking and its nasal breathing turns rough, it's a sure sign that it is becoming angry. However, because it goes into a towering rage almost instantly, it is impossible for anyone to flee its wrath. (Ruby, Sapphire, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire)

Names around the world

Trivia

• Shortest Fighting type in Gen 1: 0.5 m.
• Lowest base stat total among Fighting types in Gen 1: 305, shared with 1 other.
• Taller than 19% of all Pokémon (0.5 m).
• Heavier than 49% of all Pokémon (28 kg).
• Base stat total 305, ranked #833 of 1,025.
• One of 73 Fighting-type Pokémon (counting dual types).
• One of 147 brown Pokémon.
• Number 56 of 151 Pokémon introduced in Generation 1 (Kanto).
• Part of an evolution family of 3 Pokémon.
• Can learn 69 different moves in Scarlet / Violet.
• Catch rate 190: about 24.8% per Poké Ball at full health.
• Appears in 13 distinct Pokédex entries.

Sources and fact-checking

• Stats, types, abilities, moves, evolutions, forms and Pokédex entries: PokéAPI open game data.
• Lore: written by pokee.si in our own words, researched from Bulbapedia: Mankey (Pokémon), Serebii: Mankey (Scarlet/Violet Pokédex).
• Pronunciation (MANG-kee): it follows how the English anime, games or official videos say it.

Last checked: 19 October 2026. Every sentence of the lore was checked against Bulbapedia, Serebii and the game data.

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