Hi Jump Kick (move)

Hi Jump Kick とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick

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Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  130 Accuracy  90% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

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

Contests Category  Cool Appeal  6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   After this move the user is more easily startled.

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

Hi Jump Kick on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Hi Jump Kick on Eevee's Movedex

Hi Jump Kick (Japanese: とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick) is a damage-dealing Fighting-type move introduced in Generation I. Prior to Generation III, it was the signature move of Hitmonlee.

Effect

Generation I

Hi Jump Kick does damage with a Base Power of 85; however, if the attack misses, the user will crash and lose 1 HP for crashed damage. If used against a Ghost-type, it will always count as a miss.

If the user of Hi Jump Kick attacks first and faints itself due to crash damage, the target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

Generation II-III

The user loses half the HP of the damage it would have done for crashed damage. If used against a Ghost-type Pokémon, user does not take crash damage.

Generation IV

Same as before, but its Base Power was increased from 85 to 100. The user also takes crash damage if hitting a Ghost-type Pokémon. Hi Jump Kick cannot be used if Gravity is in effect.

Generation V

The Base Power was increased from 100 to 130, and the PP was reduced from 20 to 10. The recoil now deals damage equal to half of the user's max HP rounded down.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V
106		Hitmonlee	Fighting		Fighting	48			26			26			29				29
257		Blaziken	Fire	Fighting	no			no			no			no				--
307		Meditite	Fighting	Psychic	no			no			32	33	32				32
308		Medicham	Fighting	Psychic	no			no			32	33	32				32
559		Scraggy	Dark	Fighting	no			no			no			no				31
560		Scrafty	Dark	Fighting	no			no			no			no				31
619		Mienfoo	Fighting		Fighting	no			no			no			no				53
620		Mienshao	Fighting		Fighting	no			no			no			no				56
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					I		II		III		IV		V
236		Tyrogue	Fighting		Fighting
447		Riolu	Fighting		Fighting	no			no
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

In the anime

Hitmonlee	Medicham	Scrafty	Kept going and crashed
The foe is attacked with a knee kick from a jump. If it misses, the user is hurt instead.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Hitmonlee	Hitmonlee leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee. It gets hurt if the attack misses, or Hitmonlee jumps into the air, front flips and kicks the opponent down, or Hitmonlee jumps into the air and lands in front of the opponent. It then jumps up and knees the opponent with one of its knees.
Giant's Hitmonlee	The Punchy Pokémon		Debut Japanese version only
Shiro's Hitmonlee	Two Hits and a Miss		Dub debut
Wobbuffet Festival crasher's Hitmonlee	Wobbu-Palooza!		None
Gilbert's Hitmonlee	Saved by the Beldum		None
Master Hamm's Hitmonlee	Pasta La Vista!		None
Barry's Hitmonlee	Casting a Paul on Barry!		None
Meditite	Meditite jumps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee.
Shauna's Meditite	A Meditite Fight!		None
Medicham	Medicham leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee. If the attack misses, it hurts itself.
Grace's Medicham	Pros and Con Artists		None
Greta's Medicham	Wheel of Frontier		None
Scrafty	Scrafty jumps into the air and one of its knees starts to glow red-orange. Scrafty then strikes the opponent with its knee. If the attack misses, when Scrafty lands, the knee that was glowing becomes surrounded briefly in yellow static, damaging it.
A wild Scrafty	Meowth's Scrafty Tactics!		None
Scraggy	Scraggy leaps at the opponent and it swings its knee around once while going towards the opponent. It then thrusts its knee forward and it begins to glow red-orange. It then strikes the opponent with its knee.
Ash's Scraggy	Meowth's Scrafty Tactics!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

	Hitmonlee
The user kicks the opponent with one of its bent knees.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Round/Chapter Used In		Notes
Hitmonlee	Hitmonlee does a handstand and swings its legs at the opponent, hitting them with one of its bent knees.
Bruno's Hitmonlee	Punching Poliwrath		Debut

Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

	Hitmonlee
The user jumps high and kicks with one of its legs.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Round/Chapter Used In		Notes
Hitmonlee	Hitmonlee jumps high and kicks the opponent with one of its long legs.
Hitmonlee	Let's Use Fighting Type Pokémon!!		None

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (International)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (International)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (International)	FRLG	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (International)	HGSS	Generation V	BW	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (International)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battle Revolution (Alternative animation)	Battrio	PMD: Red and Blue	PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky	Rumble	Rumble Blast

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 飛膝撞 Fēi​xī​zhuàng​ Dutch Hoge Sprong Schop Finnish Hyppypotku (also used from Jump Kick) French Pied Voltige German Turmkick Greek Υψομετρικό Λάκτισμα Italian Calcinvolo Korean 무릎차기 Mureupchagi Polish Salto Cios Portuguese Brazil Chute Alto (Avanced series) Super Voadora (Diamond and Pearl series) Portugal Chute com Pulo Alto Serbian Šut iz Visokog Skoka Spanish Pat. S. Alta

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