In Pokemon platinum how do you beat the first gym leader with a chimchar?

Level it up until it evolves into a Monferno, then level it until it learns double kick, double kick is super effective against all the gym leaders Pokemon.

that bull crap

here how it goes that monferno don't learn double kick it will learn mach punch which isn't very strong but very much fast it will evolve at lv14

guys shut up

it learns both double kick and mach punch so i will settle this

when your chimchar evolves it will lern mach punch later on in the evolstion it will learn double kick

SORTED

There is a much simpler way. Just catch a Machop train it to level 7 or 8 and beat all the gym trainers.