Close Combat (move)

Close Combat (Japanese: インファイト Infight) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Close Combat inflicts damage and then lowers the user's Defense stat and Special Defense stat by one stat level each.

In the anime

Staraptor: Staraptor gets close to its opponent and kicks, slashes, and pecks it with its talons and beak.

• Used by Jun's Staraptor in DP101. Debut.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0056 Mankey Fighting 49 0057 Primeape Fighting 59 0106 Hitmonlee Fighting 53 0107 Hitmonchan Fighting 56 0214 Heracross Bug Fighting 37 0237 Hitmontop Fighting 51 0296 Makuhita Fighting 40 0297 Hariyama Fighting 52 0335 Zangoose Normal 53 0391 Monferno Fire Fighting 36 0392 Infernape Fire Fighting 41 0398 Staraptor Normal Flying 34 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel 42 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting 53 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0066 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Machop
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop
Makuhita, Hariyama
Monferno, Infernape
Lucario |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0127 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pinsir
| colspan="2" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Heracross |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0209 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Mankey, Primeape
Zangoose
Lucario |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0216 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Teddiursa
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Mankey, Primeape
Zangoose
Lucario

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

In other languages

• Spanish: A Bocajarro
• Italian: Zuffa
• German: Nahkampf

Variations of the move Superpower
Superpower • Close Combat • Dragon Ascent • Headlong Rush Armor Cannon

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