Wood Hammer (move)

Wood Hammer (Japanese:ウッドハンマー Wood Hammer) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Wood Hammer does physical damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to 1/3 of the damage done to the target.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 37 0185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 0389 Torterra Grass Ground -- 0459 Snover Grass Ice 36 0460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 36 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Special move

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0459 Snover Grass Ice Pokéwalker - Icy Mountain Rd. 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 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 37 0185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 0389 Torterra Grass Ground -- 0459 Snover Grass Ice 36 0460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 36 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" | 0556 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Marakacchi | style="background: #FFF" | Marakacchi
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Exeggutor
Torterra
Snover, Abomasnow

|- | 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:Abomasnow wood hammer.png Abomasnow File:Abomasnow ipunch.png Abomasnow
The user's arm glows, and it punches the target hard into the floor.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The dark green part of Abomasnow's arm glows turquiose and it slams its arm down onto the opponent's body.
Candice's Abomasnow	Sliding Into Seventh!		Debut

Trivia

• Sudowoodo is the only non-Grass-type Pokémon to learn Wood Hammer.
• Torterra is the only fully-evolved starter Pokémon who can learn Wood Hammer.
• Wood Hammer is the only form of Double-Edge that none of Ash's Pokémon have used, although he does have a Pokémon that can learn it.

In other languages

• Dutch: Mokerslag
• French: Martobois
• German: Holzhammer
• Greek: Ξύλινο Σφυρί
• Italiano: Mazzuolegno
• Brazilian Portuguese: Martelo de Madeira
• Spanish: Mazazo de Madera

Variations of the move Double-Edge
Double-Edge • Volt Tackle • Flare Blitz • Brave Bird • Wood Hammer • Wave Crash

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