Giga Impact ギガインパクト Giga Impact
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| The user charges at the foe using every bit of its power. The user must rest on the next turn.
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| Battles
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Target
| Foe
| Foe
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| Self
| Ally
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| May affect anyone but the user
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| Availability
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| Contests
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Giga Impact (Japanese: ギガインパクト Giga Impact) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation IV. It is identical to Hyper Beam, except that it is a Physical attack rather than a Special one.
Giga Impact was introduced because, in Generation IV, Hyper Beam was put in the Special category. This move uses the Attack stat, like the old Hyper Beam. Almost every Pokémon that can learn Hyper Beam through TM15 can learn Giga Impact through TM68, and vice versa.
Effect
Giga Impact deals a large amount of damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge.
Learnset
In the anime
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| Spiritomb
| Aerodactyl
| Garchomp
| Munchlax
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| A yellow-orange energy covers its body. Then, a purple energy sphere surrounds the user and the energy swirls around it to hit the foe.
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| Pokémon
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Aerodactyl
| Aerodactyl flies into the sky and its body becomes surrounded by orange streaks. A purple energy then appears from the top of the streaks and envelops Aerodactyl's body. Aerodactyl then flies into the opponent.
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| A wild Aerodactyl
| Wild in the Streets!
| Debut
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Garchomp
| Garchomp flies into the air and its body becomes surrounded by spiraling orange streaks. Then, a purple energy sphere surrounds Garchomp's body and it flies into the opponent with great force.
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| Cynthia's Garchomp
| Top-Down Training!
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Spiritomb
| Spiritomb floats into the air and purple sparkles start to gather around it as it gathers energy. Then, orange streaks surround its body and it becomes surrounded by a purple orb. It then slams into the opponent with great force. As it's charging, it spins its body around.
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| A wild Spiritomb
| The Keystone Pops!
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Munchlax
| Munchlax's body becomes surrounded by orange energy and it bursts into a purple orb that becomes surrounded by swirling orange streaks. It then slams into the opponent.
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| Kylie's Munchlax
| A Full Course Tag Battle!
| Munchlax cannot legally learn Giga Impact.
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Gliscor
| A yellow-orange energy covers its body. Then, a purple energy sphere surrounds Gliscor and the energy swirls around the user to hit the foe.
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| Ash's Gliscor
| DP154
| None
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Trivia
- Aerodactyl is the only Pokémon that learns both Hyper Beam and Giga Impact by level.
- Strangely, despite being among the lightest Pokémon (only surpassed by Gastly and Haunter), all members of the lake guardians can learn this move.
- Normally, only fully-evolved Pokémon can learn this move. However, some Pokémon that are not fully evolved but were in a previous generation (such as Porygon, Porygon2, Seadra, or Lickitung) may also learn this move, despite the fact it was introduced during Generation IV.
- Giga Impact was likely created due to the physical and special split in Generation IV. Because of this, Giga Impact causes the same range of damage that Hyper Beam did in Generation II and Generation III, as the Normal-type used to be governed by the physical stat.
In other languages
- Brazilian Portuguese: Giga Impacto
- French: Giga Impact
- Spanish: Giga Impacto
- Italian: Gigaimpatto
- German: Gigastoß
- Dutch: Giga Impact