High Jump Kick (move)

Hi Jump Kick とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick

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Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  10* (max. 16) Power  130* Accuracy  90% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch 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  Cool Appeal  6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   After this move the user is more easily startled.

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool 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

Hi Jump Kick (Japanese: とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. Prior to Generation III, it was the signature move of Hitmonlee.

Effect

Generation I

Hi Jump Kick does damage with a Base Power of 85; however, if the attack misses, the user will crash and lose 1 HP for crashed damage. Used against a Template:Type2, it will always counts as a miss.

If the user of Hi Jump Kick attacks first and faints itself due to crash damage, the target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

Generation II-III

The user loses half the HP of the damage it would have done for crashed damage. If used against a Template:Type2 Pokémon, user does not take crash damage.

Generation IV

Same as before, but its Base Power was increased from 85 to 100. The user also takes crash damage if hitting a Ghost-type Pokémon. Hi Jump Kick cannot be used if Gravity is in effect.

Generation V

The Base Power was increased from 100 to 130, and the PP was reduced from 20 to 10. The recoil now deals damage equal to half of the user's max HP rounded down.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0106 Hitmonlee Fighting 48 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 0106 Hitmonlee Fighting 26 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" | 0236 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tyrogue
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0106 Hitmonlee Fighting 26 0307 Meditite Fighting Psychic 32 0307 Meditite Fighting Psychic 33 0308 Medicham Fighting Psychic 32 0308 Medicham Fighting Psychic 33 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" | 0236 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tyrogue
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0106 Hitmonlee Fighting 29 0307 Meditite Fighting Psychic 32 0308 Medicham Fighting Psychic 32 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" | 0236 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tyrogue
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0447 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Riolu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonlee
Meditite, Medicham

|- | 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. |} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0106 Hitmonlee Fighting 29 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting -- 0307 Meditite Fighting Psychic 32 0308 Medicham Fighting Psychic 32 0559 Scraggy Dark Fighting 31 0560 Scrafty Dark Fighting 31 0619 Mienfoo Fighting 53 0620 Mienshao Fighting 56 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" | 0236 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tyrogue
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonlee
Hitmonchan, Hitmontop
Mienfoo, Mienshao |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0447 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Riolu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonlee
Hitmonchan, Hitmontop
Meditite, Medicham
Blaziken, Scraggy
Scrafty, Mienfoo
Mienshao

|- | 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:Medicham Hi Jump Kick.png Medicham File:Hitmonlee Hi Jump Kick.png Hitmonlee File:Hitmonlee Hi Jump Kick contact.png Making contact File:Raticate Hi Jump Kick.png Raticate
The foe is attacked with a knee kick from a jump. If it misses, the user is hurt instead.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Raticate jumps into the air and kicks the opponent with one of its feet.
A Gentleman's Raticate	Battle Aboard the St. Anne		Debut Dub only Ratticate cannot legally learn Hi Jump Kick
	Hitmonlee leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee. It gets hurt if the attack misses, or Hitmonlee jumps into the air, front flips and kicks the opponent down, or Hitmonlee jumps into the air and lands in front of the opponent. It then jumps up and knees the opponent with one of its knees.
Giant's Hitmonlee	The Punchy Pokémon		Japanese version only
Shiro's Hitmonlee	Two Hits and a Miss		None
Wobbuffet Festival crasher's Hitmonlee	Wobbu-Palooza!		None
Gilbert's Hitmonlee	Saved by the Beldum		None
Master Hamm's Hitmonlee	Pasta La Vista!		None
Barry's Hitmonlee	Casting a Paul on Barry!		None
	Meditite jumps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee.
Shauna's Meditite	A Meditite Fight!		None
	Medicham leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee. If the attack misses, it hurts itself.
Grace's Medicham	Pros and Con Artists		None
Greta's Medicham	Wheel of Frontier		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Hitmonlee Hi Jump Kick Adventures.png Hitmonlee
The user kicks the opponent with one of its bent knees.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Hitmonlee does a handstand and swings its legs at the opponent, hitting them with one of its its bent knees.
Bruno's Hitmonlee	Punching Poliwrath		Debut

Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

Hitmonlee
The user jumps high and kicks with one of its legs.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Hitmonlee jumps high and kicks the opponent with one of its long legs.
Hitmonlee	Let's Use Fighting Type Pokémon!!		None

Trivia

• The VIZ Media translation of Pokémon Adventures mistakenly calls this move High Jump Kick.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 飛膝撞 Fēi​xī​zhuàng​ Dutch Hoge Sprong Schop European French Pied Voltige German Turmkick Greek Υψομετρικό Λάκτισμα Italian Calcinvolo Korean 무릎차기 Mureupchagi Polish Salto Cios Portuguese Chute com Pulo Alto Serbian Šut iz Visokog Skoka Spanish Pat. S. Alta

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