Bone Club (move)

Bone Club ホネこんぼう Bone Club

The user clubs the foe with a bone. It may also make the target flinch.

Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  65 Accuracy  85% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

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

Bone Club on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Bone Club on Eevee's Movedex

Bone Club (Japanese: ホネこんぼう Bone Club) is a damage-dealing Ground-type move introduced in Generation I. It is one of the signature moves of the Cubone evolutionary line.

Effect

Generation I

Bone Club inflicts damage and has a 9.8% chance of causing the target to flinch. Bone Club cannot cause a target with a Substitute to flinch.

Generation II and on

Same as Generation I, but with a 10% chance of causing the target to flinch.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 104 Cubone Ground -- 104 Cubone Ground 10Y 105 Marowak Ground -- 105 Marowak Ground 10Y 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 104 Cubone Ground 9 105 Marowak Ground -- 105 Marowak Ground 9 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 104 Cubone Ground 9 105 Marowak Ground -- 105 Marowak Ground 9 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 104 Cubone Ground 7 105 Marowak Ground -- 105 Marowak Ground 7 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

	Marowak
The user clubs the foe with a bone.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Cubone	Cubone hits the opponent on the head with its bone.
Giselle's Cubone	The School of Hard Knocks		Debut
Marowak	Marowak grips the bone that it's holding tightly, and then knocks it into the opponent.
Otoshi's Marowak	Bad to the Bone		None
Jeffrey's Marowak	Gymbaliar!		None

In other languages

• French: Massd'os
• German: Knochenkeule
• Italian: Ossoclava
• Norwegian: Beinklubbe
• Spanish: Hueso Palo

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