Magnitude (move)

Magnitude マグニチュード Magnitude

The user looses a ground-shaking quake affecting everyone in battle. Its power varies.

Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  30 (max. 48) Power  Varies Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make 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 Affects all other battlers

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

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0 The appealing works best the more the crowd is excited.

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Magnitude on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Magnitude on Eevee's Movedex

Magnitude (Japanese: マグニチュード Magnitude) is a damage-dealing Ground-type move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Magnitude does not have a set base power. Instead the base power of this move varies on a magnitude scale between four and ten.

In the games, this attack will randomly choose a magnitude between four and ten, with four having the least power and ten having the greatest. Magnitude will double in power if the opponent is in the underground stage of Dig.

Base power varies as follows:

Its effective power for statistical purposes could be considered as the average power, 71.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 050 Diglett Ground 9 051 Dugtrio Ground - 9 074 Geodude Rock Ground 16 075 Graveler Rock Ground — 16 076 Golem Rock Ground — 16 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 108 Lickitung Normal Rhyhorn, Rhydon 111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock Diglett, Dugtrio Lickitung 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 050 Diglett Ground 9 051 Dugtrio Ground - 9 074 Geodude Rock Ground 16 075 Graveler Rock Ground — 16 076 Golem Rock Ground — 16 322 Numel Fire Ground 19 323 Camerupt Fire Ground — 19 339 Barboach Water Ground 16 340 Whiscash Water Ground — 16 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 108 Lickitung Normal Rhyhorn, Rhydon 111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock Diglett, Dugtrio Lickitung Numel, Camerupt 299 Nosepass Rock Geodude, Graveler, Golem 369 Relicanth Water Rock Barboach, Whiscash 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 050 Diglett Ground 12 051 Dugtrio Ground — 12 074 Geodude Rock Ground 15 075 Graveler Rock Ground — 15 076 Golem Rock Ground — 15 232 Donphan Ground 19 322 Numel Fire Ground 11 323 Camerupt Fire Ground — 11 339 Barboach Water Ground 26 340 Whiscash Water Ground — 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 108 Lickitung Normal Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Rhyperior 111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock Diglett, Dugtrio Lickitung, Lickilicky Donphan Numel, Camerupt 299 Nosepass Rock Geodude, Graveler, Golem 369 Relicanth Water Rock Barboach, Whiscash 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

The user looses a ground-shaking quake affecting everyone in battle. Its power varies.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Golem	Golem's body becomes outlined in a brown aura. Then, it jumps into the air and stomps on the ground, making a earthquake.
Gary Oak's Golem	Can't Beat the Heat!		Debut

Trivia

• Every Pokémon that learns this move by level-up gets STAB on it.
• No Gen IV Pokémon can learn this move by level-up.

In other languages

• Spanish: Magnitud
• Italian: Magnitudo

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.