Head Smash (move)

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 starts to get covered by a bluish-white light glow and then charges into its opponent.
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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