Bone Club (move): Difference between revisions

Bone Club ホネこんぼう Bone Club

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Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  65 Accuracy  85% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Bone Club (Japanese: ホネこんぼう Bone Club) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It is one of the signature moves of the Cubone evolutionary line.

Effect

Bone Club inflicts damage and has a 10% chance of causing the target to flinch. Bone Club cannot cause a target with a Substitute to flinch.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0104 Cubone Ground -- 0104 Cubone Ground 10 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 10 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 0104 Cubone Ground 9 0105 Marowak Ground -- 9 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 0104 Cubone Ground 9 0105 Marowak Ground -- 9 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 0104 Cubone Ground 7 0105 Marowak Ground -- 7 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 0104 Cubone Ground 7 0105 Marowak Ground -- 7 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

File:Marowak Bone Club.png Marowak File:Cubone Bone Club.png Cubone
The user clubs the foe with a bone.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Cubone hits the opponent with the bone it's holding.
Giselle's Cubone	The School of Hard Knocks		Debut
A wild Cubone	Pikachu's Ghost Carnival		None
	Marowak grips the bone that it's holding tightly, and then knocks it into the opponent.
Otoshi's Marowak	Bad to the Bone		None
Gavin's Marowak	From Brags to Riches		None
Jeffrey's Marowak	Gymbaliar!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Adventures Marowak Bone Club.png Marowak
The user hits the opponent with a bone.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Marowak hits the opponent with its bone.
William's Marowak	Take a Chance on Chansey		Debut
	Cubone hits the opponent with the bone it holds.
Crys's Bonee	Querulous Qwilfish		None

Trivia

• Although Bone Club is the signature move of Cubone and Marowak, it can be learned by Glitchy Nidorino and by A (uppercase)

In other languages

• Danish: Knogle kølle
• Finnish: Luunuija
• French: Massd'os
• German: Knochenkeule
• Greek: Οστέϊνο Ρόπαλο
• Italian: Ossoclava
• Korean: 뼈다귀치기 Ppyeo Dagwichigi
• Norwegian: Beinklubbe
• Spanish: Hueso Palo
• Serbian: Kost-Palica

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.