Muddy Water (move)

Muddy Water (Japanese: だくりゅう Muddy River) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III where it was Marshtomp's and Swampert's signature move.

Effect

Muddy Water inflicts damage and has a 30% chance of lowering the target's accuracy. Muddy Water hits both opposing Pokémon in double battles.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0259 Marshtomp Water Ground 37 0260 Swampert Water Ground 39 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 0134 Vaporeon Water 78 0194 Wooper Water Ground 47 0195 Quagsire Water Ground 53 0259 Marshtomp Water Ground 37 0260 Swampert Water Ground 39 0382 Kyogre Water 20 0422 Shellos Water 37 0422 Shellos Water 37 0423 Gastrodon Water Ground 41 0423 Gastrodon Water Ground 41 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" | 0007 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Squirtle
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wooper, Quagsire
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0072 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tentacool
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte, Omastar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0108 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Marshtomp, Swampert |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0116 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Horsea
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wooper, Quagsire
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0138 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#2980EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wooper, Quagsire
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0366 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Clamperl
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Wooper, Quagsire
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0369 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Relicanth
| colspan="1" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Wooper, Quagsire
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon

|- | 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:Capture231.JPG Gastrodon West File:Gastrodon Muddy Water.png Gastrodon East
The user attacks by shooting out muddy water.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Gastrodon releases spiraling brown water from its body.
Cynthia's Gastrodon	Double Team Turnover!		Debut
	Gastrodon releases spiraling brown water from its body which it can control.
Paul's Gastrodon	DP186		None

Trivia

• Although prior to Generation IV it was the Signature move of Marshtomp and Swampert, they have not been seen using the move in the anime, having only been used by Gastrodon.
• Lickitung is the only non-Water-type Pokémon that is able to legitimately learn this move, if Smeargle is not counted.
• From all of the signature moves of the Hoenn starters, Muddy Water was the only one that stayed classified as Special damage from Generations III to IV.

In other languages

• French: Ocroupi
• German: Lehmbrühe
• Italian: Fanghiglia

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