Vital Throw (move): Difference between revisions

Vital Throw あてみなげ Strike Throw

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Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  70 Accuracy  —% Priority  -1 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 II Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   The user will appeal later in the next turn.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Enables the user to perform last in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Vital Throw (Japanese: あてみなげ Strike Throw) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II, where it was a signature move of the Machop evolutionary line.

Effect

Vital Throw deals damage and is a decreased priority move, causing the user to attack after other Pokémon that are using ordinary priority moves. However, it will strike before Pokémon using other decreased priority moves such as Focus Punch and Avalanche. Vital Throw does not miss unless the target has just used Fly, Dig, Dive, Bounce, or Shadow Force.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0066 Machop Fighting 31 0067 Machoke Fighting 34 0068 Machamp Fighting 34 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0066 Machop Fighting 31 0067 Machoke Fighting 33 0068 Machamp Fighting 33 0296 Makuhita Fighting 13 0297 Hariyama Fighting 13 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 0066 Machop Fighting 25 0067 Machoke Fighting 25 0068 Machamp Fighting 25 0127 Pinsir Bug 25 0296 Makuhita Fighting 10 0297 Hariyama Fighting 10 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0066 Machop Fighting 31 0067 Machoke Fighting 32 0068 Machamp Fighting 32 0127 Pinsir Bug 25 0296 Makuhita Fighting 10 0297 Hariyama Fighting 10 0538 Nageki Nageki Fighting 17 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" | 0619 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Kojofu | style="background: #FFF" | Kojofu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Makuhita, Hariyama
Nageki,

|- | 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:Makuhita Vital Throw1.png Makuhita starting Vital Throw File:Makuhita Vital Throw2.png Makuhita
The user allows the foe to attack first. In return, this throw move is guaranteed not to miss.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Makuhita slams into the opponent, and as the opponent's falling, it grabs it and throws it into the ground.
Brawly's Makuhita	Brave the Wave		Debut
	Hariyama slams into the opponent, and as the opponent is falling, grabs it and throws it into the ground.
Brawly's Hariyama	Just One of the Geysers		None
	Machamp swings its arm into the opponent, then throws it with its arm.
Gavin's Machamp	From Brags to Riches		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Machamp Vital Throw Adventures.png Machamp
The user lets the opponent attack it first, then throws it to the ground.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Machamp allows the opponent to hit it with an attack, then grabs it and throws it to the ground.
Chuck's Machamp	Flames From Entei		Debut

Trivia

• Although Vital Throw was introduced in Generation II, no Generation II Pokémon can legally learn it, with the exception of Smeargle (via Sketch).
• Although being a never-missing move, it had 100% accuracy in Generation III.
• No Pokémon introduced in Generation IV can learn this move by any means.
• Pinsir is the only non-Fighting-type Pokémon that learns Vital Throw.

In other languages

• French: Corps Perdu
• German: Überwurf
• Greek: Ζωτικό Ρίψιμο
• Italian: Vitaltiro
• Korean: 받아던지기 Bat'a Deonjigi
• Spanish: Tiro Vital
• Serbian: Vitalno Bacanje

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