Leaf Blade (move)

Leaf Blade リーフブレード Leaf Blade

The foe is slashed with a sharp leaf. It has a high critical-hit ratio.

Battles Type  Grass Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  90* Accuracy  100% 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 III Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0 Affected by how well the appeal in front goes.

Super Contests Category  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

Leaf Blade on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Leaf Blade on Eevee's Movedex

Leaf Blade (Japanese: リーフブレード Leaf Blade) is a damage-dealing Grass-type move introduced in Generation III. In that generation, it was the signature move of Grovyle and Sceptile.

Effect

Generation III

Leaf Blade inflicts damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Leaf Blade has a base power of 70 in this generation.

Generation IV

The effects of Leaf Blade are the same as the previous generation; however, its base power increases from 70 to 90.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 253 Grovyle Grass 29 254 Sceptile Grass 29 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 071 Victreebel Grass Poison 47PtHGSS 182 Bellossom Grass --PtHGSS 253 Grovyle Grass 29 254 Sceptile Grass 29 470 Leafeon Grass 71 475 Gallade Psychic Fighting -- 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 083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying LeafeonHGSS 357 Tropius Grass Flying Victreebel Bellossom Grovyle, Sceptile 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

	Grovyle	Sceptile
The leaves on the user's arms extend and glow green.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Grovyle	The three leaves on Grovyle's forearms combine into one long sharp blade with a green glow.
Natasha's Grovyle	What You Seed is What You Get		Debut
Ash's Grovyle	Exploud and Clear		None
Sceptile	The two leaves on Sceptile's arm glow green and extend
Ash's Sceptile	Cutting the Ties that Bind!		None

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Lâmina de Folha
• German: Laubklinge
• Italian: Fendifoglia
• Spanish: Hoja Aguda
• French: Lame-feuille
• Dutch: Bladmes

Variations on the move Leaf Blade
	Leaf Blade | Attack Order

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