Head Smash (move)

Head Smash もろはのずつき Double-Edged Headbutt

The user delivers a life-endangering head butt at full power. The user also takes terrible damage.

Battles Type  Rock Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  150 Accuracy  80% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes 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 IV Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  0 Jam  0

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Head Smash on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Head Smash on Eevee's Movedex

Head Smash (Japanese: もろはのずつき Double-Edged Headbutt) is a damage-dealing Rock-type move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Head Smash inflicts damage and the user receives half of the damage dealt as recoil damage.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 369 Relicanth Water Rock 78 408 Cranidos Rock 43 409 Rampardos Rock 52 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^HGSS

#   Pokémon Type Father 032 Nidoran♂ Poison Cranidos, Rampardos 231 Phanpy* Ground Nidoran♂, Nidorino, Nidoking 304 Aron Steel Rock Cranidos, Rampardos 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

	Rampardos
The user starts to get covered by a bluish-white light glow and then charges into its opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Cranidos	Cranidos's body becomes surrounded in a whitish-blue aura, then the aura surrounds its body, making Cranidos look black and white. Cranidos shoots at the opponent with its head pointed at it and smashes into it.
Roark's Cranidos	A Gruff Act to Follow!		Debut
Rampardos	Rampardos's body becomes surrounded by a whitish-blue aura, making it seem black and white, and it shoots at the opponent with its head pointed at it, slamming into it with its head.
Roark's Rampardos	O'er the Rampardos We Watched!		None

In other languages

• Italian: Zuccata
• German: Kopfstoß
• Hindi: Sir Phodo
• European Portuguese: Choque de Cabeça

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