Hyper Beam (move)

Hyper Beam はかいこうせん
The foe is attacked with a powerful beam. The user must rest on the next turn to regain its energy.
Battles
Type	Normal
Category	Special
PP	5 (max. 8)
Power	150
Accuracy	90%
Introduced	Generation I
Availability
TM15 in Generation I TM15 in Generation II TM15 in Generation III TM15 in Generation IV
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock
User skips a turn.
Contests
Category	Cool
Appeal	4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam	4 ♥♥♥♥
???
Super Contests
Category	Cool
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.
Hyper Beam on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Hyper Beam on Eevee's Movedex

Hyper Beam (Japanese: はかいこうせん Destruction Beam) is a slightly inaccurate and very highly-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I. It is often represented falsely as the most powerful move ever. It can be learned via TM by many fully-evolved Pokémon that can learn TMs, including Pokémon that were fully evolved at one point but later received more evolved forms (such as Porygon or Seadra).

Contents 1 Effect 1.1 Generation I 1.2 Generation II 2 In the anime 2.1 Pokémon 3 Learnset 3.1 Generation I 3.1.1 By leveling up 3.1.2 By TM15 3.2 Generation II 3.2.1 By leveling up 3.2.2 By TM15 3.3 Generation III 3.3.1 By leveling up 3.3.2 By TM15 3.4 Generation IV 3.4.1 By leveling up 3.4.2 By TM15 4 Trivia 5 In other languages

Effect

Generation I

Hyper Beam does severe damage. A recharge turn is required on the turn after damage is done, during which no action may be performed.

Hyper Beam will not require a recharge turn if it misses, breaks a Substitute, or faints the opponent, or if the user is targeted by a partial trapping move (even if it misses), flinches, or is put to sleep after the attack but before the recharge turn. However, freeze does not negate the recharge turn of Hyper Beam. If the user is confused, the recharge turn of Hyper Beam will not count towards the number of turns the user will remain confused.

In a round where the opponent attacks before a user which must recharge, if the opponent uses a partial trapping move that misses, the user will automatically use Hyper Beam during that turn. If at such a time Hyper Beam has 0 PP, Hyper Beam will still be used, and afterwards its PP will roll over to 63, and full PP ups will be applied to it.

If a frozen Pokémon that has not recharged gets defrosted via Haze, it will remain unable to attack, switch, or do anything, and nothing (not even getting refrozen and then defrosted by a Fire move) will be able to change this.

In Stadium, Hyper Beam requires a recharge turn every time it is used.

Generation II

This move now requires a recharge turn as long as it hits something.

In the anime

Ash's Kingler using Hyper Beam.	Ash's Snorlax using Hyper Beam.	A group of wild Ursaring using Hyper Beam.	Ash's Donphan using Hyper Beam.
Winona's Swellow using Hyper Beam.	A wild Aerodactyl about to use Hyper Beam	Paul's Torterra about to use Hyper Beam.	Paul's Ursaring using Hyper Beam.

Dialga charging up Hyper Beam.

Palkia charging up Hyper Beam.

Lance's Red Gyarados using Hyper Beam.

Sho's Raichu charging up Hyper Beam

Spiritomb charging up Hyper Beam

Spiritomb using Hyper Beam

Pokémon

Kingler. Kingler fires a charged beam of orange light from its left claw.

• Used by Ash's Kingler from Round One, Begin! to ???.

Gyarados. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Gyarados's mouth.

• Used by Fergus's Gyarados in Mewtwo Strikes Back.
• Used by Misty's Gyarados from Cerulean Blues to ???.
• Used by Lance's Red Gyarados from Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution to The Scuffle of Legends.

Ursaring. Ursaring fires a beam of white energy from its mouth.

• Used by a group of wild Ursaring in Forest Grumps.

Snorlax. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Snorlax's mouth.

• Used by Ash's Snorlax in Playing With Fire.

Salamence. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Salamence's mouth.

• Used by Silver's Salamence in The Search for a Legend.

Swellow. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Swellow's mouth.

• Used by Winona's Swellow in Sky High Gym Battle!.

Donphan. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Donphan's mouth.

• Used by Ash's Donphan from Reversing the Charges to ???.

Ursaring. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Ursaring's mouth.

• Used by Paul's Ursaring from Different Strokes for Different Blokes to ???

Aerodactyl. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Aerodactyl's mouth.

• Used by a wild Aerodactyl in Wild in the Streets.

Torterra. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Torterra's mouth.

• Used by Paul's Torterra from Glory Blaze.

Dialga. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Dialga's mouth.

• Used by Dialga in The Rise of Darkrai.

Palkia. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Palkia's mouth.

• Used by Palkia in The Rise of Darkrai.

Spiritomb. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Spiritomb's mouth.

• Used by a wild Spiritomb in The Keystone Pops!.

Hippowdon. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Hippowdon's mouth.

• Used by a wild Hippowdon, Hippopotas's parent, in Sleight of Sand!.

Raichu. A yellow-orange beam shoots out of Raichu's mouth.

• Used by Sho's Raichu in Pika and Goliath!.

Learnset

Generation I