Head Smash (move): Difference between revisions

Head Smash (Japanese: もろはのずつき Double-Edged Headbutt) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Head Smash inflicts damage and the user receives half of the damage dealt as recoil damage.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0369 Relicanth Water Rock 78 0408 Cranidos Rock 43 0409 Rampardos Rock 52 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^HGSS

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0032 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Cranidos, Rampardos |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0231 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Phanpy
| colspan="2" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0304 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Aron
| colspan="1" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Cranidos, Rampardos

|- | 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 the anime

File:Rampardos head smash.png Rampardos
The user starts to get covered by a bluish-white light glow and then charges into its opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Cranidos's body becomes surrounded in a whitish-blue aura, then the aura surrounds its body, making Cranidos look black and white. Cranidos shoots at the opponent with its head pointed at it and smashes into it.
Roark's Cranidos	A Gruff Act to Follow!		Debut
	Rampardos's body becomes surrounded by a whitish-blue aura, making it seem black and white, and it shoots at the opponent with its head pointed at it, slamming into it with its head.
Roark's Rampardos	O'er the Rampardos We Watched!		None

In other languages

• Italian: Zuccata
• German: Kopfstoß
• Hindi: Sir Phodo
• European Portuguese: Choque de Cabeça

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