Hi Jump Kick (move)

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Hi Jump Kick
とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick

The foe is attacked with a knee kick from a jump. If it misses, the user is hurt instead.

Battles

Type	Fighting
Category	Physical
PP	20 (max. 32)
Power	100
Accuracy	90%
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 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 (Japanese: とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick) is a damage-dealing Fighting-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generations I - III

Hi Jump Kick does damage; however, if the attack misses, the user will crash and take damage (1/8 of the damage it would've otherwise dealt). Used against a Ghost-type, it always counts 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.

In Generation I, the user loses 1 HP for crashed damage.

Generation IV

Same as before, but its base power was increased from 85 to 100.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
106		Hitmonlee	Fighting		48
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 II

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
106		Hitmonlee	Fighting		26
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
236		Tyrogue	Fighting		Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop
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.

Generation III

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type		Level
106	Hitmonlee	Fighting		48
307	Meditite	Fighting	Psychic	32^RS ^E
307	Meditite	Fighting	Psychic	33^FRLG
308	Medicham	Fighting	Psychic	32^RS ^E
308	Medicham	Fighting	Psychic	33^FRLG
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
236		Tyrogue	Fighting		Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop
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.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type		Level
106	Hitmonlee	Fighting		48
307	Meditite	Fighting	Psychic	32
308	Medicham	Fighting	Psychic	32
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
236	Tyrogue	Fighting	Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hitmontop
447	Riolu	Fighting	Hitmonlee Meditite, Medicham
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

Pokémon	Method

Medicham	Hitmonlee	Hitmonlee

User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Raticate	It makes a big leap towards the opponent and kicks on impact.
Ash's Raticate	Battle Aboard the St. Anne		Debut
Hitmonlee	Hitmonlee leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its "knee". It gets hurt upon missing.
A festival crasher's Hitmonlee	Wobbu-palooza		None
Gilbert's Hitmonlee	Saved by the Beldum!		None
Master Hamm's Hitmonlee	Pasta La Vista!		None
Medicham	Medicham leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee.
Grace's Medicham	Pros and Con Artists!		None
Greta's Medicham	Wheel of... Frontier!		None