Mud Shot (move)

Mud Shot マッドショット Mud Shot

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Battles Type  Ground Category  Special PP  15 (max. 24) Power  55 Accuracy  95% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make 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 III Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Badly startles those that have made appeals.

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Enables the user to perform last in the next turn.

Mud Shot on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Mud Shot on Eevee's Movedex

Mud Shot (Japanese: マッドショット Mud Shot) is a damage-dealing Ground-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Mud Shot inflicts damage and then lowers the target's Speed stat by one stage.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V
060		Poliwag	Water		Water	no			28				28
061		Poliwhirl	Water		Water	no			32				32
098		Krabby	Water		Water	23			19				19
099		Kingler	Water		Water	23			19				19
138		Omanyte	Rock	Water	25			25				25
139		Omastar	Rock	Water	25			25				25
140		Kabuto	Rock	Water	25			16				16
141		Kabutops	Rock	Water	25			16				16
194		Wooper	Water	Ground	16			9				9
195		Quagsire	Water	Ground	16			9				9
259		Marshtomp	Water	Ground	16			16				16
260		Swampert	Water	Ground	16			16				16
383		Groudon	Ground		Ground	--			--				--
535		Tympole	Water		Water	no			no				16
536		Palpitoad	Water	Ground	no			no				16
537		Seismitoad	Water	Ground	no			no				16
618		Stunfisk	Ground	Electric	no			no				13
645		Landorus	Ground	Flying	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.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					I		II		III		IV		V
027		Sandshrew	Ground		Ground	no
060		Poliwag	Water		Water	no
090		Shellder	Water		Water	no
118		Goldeen*	Water		Water	no				no
140		Kabuto	Water	Rock	no
220		Swinub	Ice	Ground
223		Remoraid	Water		Water	no				no
283		Surskit	Bug	Water
328		Trapinch*	Ground		Ground	no
339		Barboach*	Water	Ground	no				no
369		Relicanth	Water	Rock	no				no
443		Gible	Dragon	Ground	no
550		Basculin*	Water		Water	no				no
626		Bouffalant	Normal		Normal	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

Palpitoad	Marshtomp	Swampert
The user attacks by hurling a blob of mud at the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Swampert	Swampert fires a huge ball of mud at the opponent from its mouth, or Swampert fires multiple glowing light blue balls at the opponent from its mouth, or Swampert fires a stream of dark brown mud from its mouth at the opponent.
Tommy's Swampert	Abandon Ship!		Debut
Tucker's Swampert	Tactics Theatrics!!		None
A wild Swampert	Leading a Stray!		None
Marshtomp	Marshtomp fires a large ball of mud at the opponent from its mouth, or it fires multiple smaller balls of mud at the opponent, or Marshtomp fires a stream of mud at the oppponent from its mouth, or Marshtomp fires light blue energy balls from its mouth at the opponent. When the balls hit the opponent, they turn into mud.
Nicholai's Marshtomp	Zigzag Zangoose!		None
Brock's Marshtomp	A Chip off the Old Brock		None
Groudon	A spiral of mud is released from Groudon's mouth.
A wild Groudon	The Scuffle of Legends		None
Kabutops	Kabutops releases multiple light blue energy balls from its mouth at the opponent.
Dr. Kenzo's Kabutops	Wild in the Streets!		None
Palpitoad	Palpitoad sticks out its long tongue and its starts to glow yellow. Palpitoad then swings its tongue from one side to another and the glow on its tongue disappears. As it does, multiple balls of brown mud form on the side of its tongue and fire at the opponent.
Ash's Palpitoad	Facing Fear with Eyes Wide Open!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

	Swampert
The user releases multiple globs of mud from its mouth at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Round/Chapter Used In		Notes
Marshtomp	Marshtomp releases multiple globs of mud from its mouth at the opponent, or Marshtomp releases a stream of mud from its mouth at the opponent.
Ruby's Zuzu	VS. Slaking II		Debut
Swampert	Swampert opens its mouth and releases a stream of mud from it at the opponent.
Ruby's Zuzu	VS. Kirlia		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

Trivia

• If Secret Power is used in sandy terrain in Generation III, the move will have the same animation as Mud Shot.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 泥巴射擊 Níbā Shèjī Dutch Modderschot French Tir de Boue German Lehmschuss Greek Ρίψη Λάσπης Italian Colpodifango Korean 머드숏 Mud Shot Portuguese Tiro Lamacento Serbian Hitac Blatom Spanish Latin America Tiro de Lodo (anime) Spain Disp. Lodo

Variations of the move Icy Wind
Icy Wind • Mud Shot • Electroweb • Snarl

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