Muddy Water (move)

Muddy Water だくりゅう Muddy River

The user attacks by shooting out muddy water. It may also lower the foe's accuracy.

Battles Type  Water Category  Special PP  10 (max. 16) Power  95 Accuracy  85% 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 both foes

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

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥  ???

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

Muddy Water on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Muddy Water on Eevee's Movedex

Muddy Water (Japanese: だくりゅう Muddy River) is a damage-dealing Water-type move introduced in Generation III where it was Marshtomp's and Swampert's signature move.

Effect

Muddy Water inflicts damage and has a 30% chance of lowering the target's accuracy. Muddy Water hits both opposing Pokémon in double battles.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
259		Marshtomp	Water	Ground	37
260		Swampert	Water	Ground	39
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
134		Vaporeon	Water		78Pt
194		Wooper	Water	Ground	47
195		Quagsire	Water	Ground	53
259		Marshtomp	Water	Ground	37
260		Swampert	Water	Ground	39
422		Shellos West Sea	Water		37
422		Shellos East Sea	Water		37
423		Gastrodon West Sea	Water	Ground	41
423		Gastrodon East Sea	Water	Ground	41
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
007		Squirtle	Water		Wooper, Quagsire Marshtomp, Swampert Shellos, Gastrodon
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

	Gastrodon
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Gastrodon	Gastrodon shoots brown water in a tornado like-fashion from its entire body.
Cynthia's Gastrodon	Double Team Turnover!		Debut

In other languages

• French: Ocroupi
• German: Lehmbrühe

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