Brave Bird (move)

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Brave Bird
ブレイブバード Brave Bird
The user tucks in its wings and charges from a low altitude. The user also takes serious damage.
Battles
Type  Flying
Category  Physical
PP  15 (max. 24)
Power  120
Accuracy  100%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation IV
Contests
Category  Cute
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  0
+2 if last to appeal
Super Contests
Category  Cute
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Brave Bird (Japanese: ブレイブバード Brave Bird) is a damage-dealing Flying-type move introduced in Generation IV.

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Effect

Brave Bird inflicts damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to 1/3 of the damage done to the target.

In the anime

Pokémon

Staraptor. Staraptor flies up, closes its wings as it flies, is coated by fire, and dives down on the foe. Then the fire disappears and the user is covered by a blue aura and it strikes the foe.

Staravia. Same as above.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 49
396 Starly Normal Flying 37
397 Staravia Normal Flying 43
398 Staraptor Normal Flying 49
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

#   Pokémon Type Father
016 Pidgey Normal Flying Starly, Staravia, Staraptor
041 Zubat Poison Flying Starly, Staravia, Staraptor
084 Doduo Normal Flying Starly, Staravia, Staraptor
227 Skarmory Steel Flying Starly, Staravia, Staraptor
276 Taillow Normal Flying Starly, Staravia, Staraptor
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.

Trivia

  • Blaziken is the only Pokémon to learn Brave Bird that is not of the Flying-type, while the Zubat evolution family are the only Pokémon to learn it that aren't birds.

In other languages

  • Brazilian Portuguese: Fúria dos Pássaros
  • French: Rapace
  • Italian: Baldeali
  • Spanish: Pájaro Osado
  • German: Sturzflug
  • Dutch: Lefvogel
Variations on the move Double-Edge
Physical Double-Edge | Volt Tackle | Brave Bird
Flare Blitz | Wood Hammer


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