Bone Rush (move)

Bone Rush ボーンラッシュ Bone Rush

The user strikes at the foe with a hard bone two to five times in a row.

Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  25 Accuracy  80% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

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

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0 A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

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

Bone Rush (Japanese: ボーンラッシュ Bone Rush) is a damage-dealing Ground-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Generation II

Bone Rush inflicts damage, hitting the target 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Each attack made has an equal chance to land a critical hit.

Bone Rush will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the last hit of this move.

Generation IV

The effects are the same as the previous generations, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 104 Cubone Ground 41 105 Marowak Ground 53 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 41 105 Marowak Ground 53 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 37 105 Marowak Ground 43 448 Lucario Fighting Steel 19 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

The bone forms between Lucario's hands	Lucario holding the bone	The bone disapearing	Riley's Lucario using Bone Rush
The user hits its opponent with a held bone.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Lucario	Lucario puts its paws together and spreads them apart, creating a light green bone of energy. It then hits the opponent with it, or Lucario holds out its hands and creates a light green bone of energy.
Maylene's Lucario	Lost Leader Strategy!		Debut
Riley's Lucario	Saving the World From Ruins!		None
A Coordinator's Lucario	DP150		None

Trivia

• Bone Rush is the only bone-based move to be learned by a Pokémon other than Cubone and Marowak.

In other languages

• Spanish: Ataque Óseo
• Italian: Ossoraffica
• German: Knochenhatz
• Brazilian Portuguese: Sabre de Osso
• Dutch: Botraas

Variations on the move Bone Rush
	Bone Rush | Rock Blast

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