Before doing damage, choose 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon and switch it with the Defending Pokémon. Do the damage to the new Defending Pokémon. This attack can't be used if your opponent has no Benched Pokémon.

Dark Machoke
40 · Uncommon · Base
- Set
- Team Rocket
- Number
- 40
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Category
- Pokemon
- Type
- Fighting
- HP
- 60
- Stage
- Stage1
- Evolves from
- Machop
- Retreat cost
- 2
- Weakness
- Psychic ×2
- Variants
- normal, first edition
- Illustrator
- Mitsuhiro Arita
- Released
- 24/04/2000
Attacks
If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)
While normally peaceful and friendly, the number of incidents involving cruel Machokes is rising.
Market reference
- Average€3.08
- Low€0.05
- Trend€4.03
- 30-day avg€3.14
Cardmarket, EUR — a European market reference, not a UK valuation, and not converted. Observed 02/09/2026.