Is Magcargo good in HeartGold and Soulsilver?

Right now I am playing through HeartGold and I am at the 2 gym. I started with Totodile, and I thought that for once I should use a fire type. One that immediately came across my mind was Magcargo, since I really love Magcargo. So should I use one?

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Lemme cover some stuff about Magcargo first

Ridiculously slow

Only good stats are Defense and SpA

Not that big of a movepool

4x weak to both Ground and Water

has 7 resistances

Overall 4 weaknesses

Unless you want a Pokemon like that, I suggest youdon’tuse Magcargo. Use another fire-type Pokemon such as Arcanine, Ninetales, Rapidash, maybe Magmar. Magcargo is severely weak in many different ways.

Hope I helped!

It can only be obtained in Kanto, after you beat the Johto segment of the game. It’s also extremely slow, and weak to very common types. If you want to use Magcargo, go for it, anything works ingame. Just know that it’s worse than your other options.

You have the possibility of getting a Slugma Egg from Primo, but it takes a while to hatch, and it’ll be annoying to level it up from Level 1. If you don’t mind waiting, better Fire types like Arcanine and Magmar can be obtained a bit later in the game.

Hope I helped!