Pound (move)

Pound (Japanese: はたく Strike) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Pound inflicts damage and has no secondary effect.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0035 Clefairy Normal -- 0039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 0088 Grimer Poison -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic -- 0097 Hypno Psychic -- 0113 Chansey Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 0151 Mew Psychic -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0035 Clefairy Normal -- 0039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 0088 Grimer Poison -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic -- 0097 Hypno Psychic -- 0113 Chansey Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 0151 Mew Psychic -- 0173 Cleffa Normal -- 0174 Igglybuff Normal 9 0192 Sunflora Grass -- 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 0242 Blissey Normal -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0035 Clefairy Normal -- 0039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 0088 Grimer Poison -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic -- 0097 Hypno Psychic -- 0113 Chansey Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 0151 Mew Psychic -- 0173 Cleffa Normal -- 0174 Igglybuff Normal 9 0192 Sunflora Grass -- 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 0242 Blissey Normal -- 0252 Treecko Grass -- 0253 Grovyle Grass -- 0254 Sceptile Grass -- 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark -- 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark -- 0293 Whismur Normal -- 0294 Loudred Normal -- 0295 Exploud Normal -- 0316 Gulpin Poison -- 0317 Swalot Poison -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0035 Clefairy Normal -- 0039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 0088 Grimer Poison -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic -- 0097 Hypno Psychic -- 0113 Chansey Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 0151 Mew Psychic -- 0173 Cleffa Normal -- 0174 Igglybuff Normal 9 0192 Sunflora Grass -- 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 0242 Blissey Normal -- 0252 Treecko Grass -- 0253 Grovyle Grass -- 0254 Sceptile Grass -- 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark -- 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark -- 0293 Whismur Normal -- 0294 Loudred Normal -- 0295 Exploud Normal -- 0316 Gulpin Poison -- 0317 Swalot Poison -- 0393 Piplup Water -- 0427 Buneary Normal -- 0428 Lopunny Normal -- 0440 Happiny Normal -- 0456 Finneon Water -- 0457 Lumineon Water -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0035 Clefairy Normal -- 0039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 0088 Grimer Poison -- 0089 Muk Poison -- 0096 Drowzee Psychic -- 0097 Hypno Psychic -- 0113 Chansey Normal -- 0124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 0151 Mew Psychic -- 0173 Cleffa Normal -- 0174 Igglybuff Normal 9 0192 Sunflora Grass -- 0238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 0242 Blissey Normal -- 0252 Treecko Grass -- 0253 Grovyle Grass -- 0254 Sceptile Grass -- 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark -- 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark -- 0293 Whismur Normal -- 0294 Loudred Normal -- 0295 Exploud Normal -- 0316 Gulpin Poison -- 0317 Swalot Poison -- 0393 Piplup Water -- 0427 Buneary Normal -- 0428 Lopunny Normal -- 0440 Happiny Normal -- 0456 Finneon Water -- 0457 Lumineon Water -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Other appearances

• Jigglypuff uses Pound as its B attack in Super Smash Bros. From Super Smash Bros. Melee onwards, Pound became its side B attack. It is mainly used as an alternate recovery move, since its up B attack, Sing, does not help Jigglypuff recover.

In the anime

File:Happiny Pound.png Happiny File:Grovyle Pound.png Grovyle File:Sceptile Pound.png Sceptile File:Piplup Pound.png Piplup
The opponent is physically hit by a body part of the user.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Jigglypuff slaps the opponent across the face.
A wild Jigglypuff	Clefairy Tales		Debut
	Clefairy slaps the opponent across the face.
A wild Clefairy	Clefairy Tales		None
	Treecko swings its tail and hits the opponent with it, or Treecko slams its hand on the opponent.
Ash's Treecko	Tree's a Crowd		None
A Treecko brought by Prof. Birch	A Six Pack Attack!		None
	Grovyle swings its head and hits the opponent with the large leaf on its head.
Ash's Grovyle	Exploud and Clear		None
	Sceptile swings around and hits the opponent with its tail.
Ash's Sceptile	Ka Boom with a View!		None
	One or both of Happiny's arms glow white and it strikes the opponent, leaving behind a white trail where it punched.
Brock's Happiny	Tanks for the Memories!		None
Narissa's Ditto One in the form of Happiny	Dealing With a Fierce Double Ditto Drama!		None
Narissa's Ditto Two in the form of Happiny	Dealing With a Fierce Double Ditto Drama!		None
	One of Piplup's arms glow white and it strikes the opponent with it.
Tyler's Pippy	The Thief That Keeps On Thieving!		None
	Half of Chansey's arm glows white and it stabs the opponent with it.
Nurse Joy's Chansey	Pedal to the Mettle!		None
	One of Smoochum's arms glow white and it strikes the opponent, leaving behind a white trail where it punched.
Nobuko's Smoochum	DP190		None
	One of Cleffa's arms glow white and it strikes the opponent, leaving behind a white trail where it punched.
Nobuko's Cleffa	DP190		None
	One of Igglybuff's arms glow white and it strikes the opponent, leaving behind a white trail where it punched.
Nobuko's Igglybuff	DP190		None
	One of Teddiursa's arms glow white and it strikes the opponent, leaving behind a white trail where it punched.
Nobuko's Teddiursa	DP190		Teddiursa cannot legally learn Pound

In other languages

• Brazilian portuguese: Pancada
• Dutch: Stamp
• French: Ecras'face
• German: Pfund
• Italian: Botta (It was called Libbra in the first two generations because of a mistranslation.)
• Spanish: Destructor

Trivia

• Pound has the lowest index number of any legitimate move in all of the main RPG Pokémon games.

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