Pound (move)

Pound はたく Strike

The foe is physically pounded with a long tail or a foreleg, etc.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  35 (max. 56) Power  40 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 I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0 No additional effect.

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Pound on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Pound on Eevee's Movedex

Pound (Japanese: はたく Strike) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Pound inflicts damage and has no secondary effect.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 035 Clefairy Normal -- 039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 088 Grimer Poison -- 089 Muk Poison -- 096 Drowzee Psychic -- 097 Hypno Psychic -- 113 Chansey Normal -- 124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 151 Mew Psychic -- 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 035 Clefairy Normal -- 039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 088 Grimer Poison -- 089 Muk Poison -- 096 Drowzee Psychic -- 097 Hypno Psychic -- 113 Chansey Normal -- 124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 151 Mew Psychic -- 173 Cleffa Normal -- 174 Igglybuff Normal 9 192 Sunflora Grass -- 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 242 Blissey Normal -- 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 035 Clefairy Normal -- 039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 088 Grimer Poison -- 089 Muk Poison -- 096 Drowzee Psychic -- 097 Hypno Psychic -- 113 Chansey Normal -- 124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 151 Mew Psychic -- 173 Cleffa Normal -- 174 Igglybuff Normal 9 192 Sunflora Grass -- 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 242 Blissey Normal -- 252 Treecko Grass -- 253 Grovyle Grass -- 254 Sceptile Grass -- 274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark -- 275 Shiftry Grass Dark -- 293 Whismur Normal -- 294 Loudred Normal -- 295 Exploud Normal -- 316 Gulpin Poison -- 317 Swalot Poison -- 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 035 Clefairy Normal -- 039 Jigglypuff Normal 9 088 Grimer Poison -- 089 Muk Poison -- 096 Drowzee Psychic -- 097 Hypno Psychic -- 113 Chansey Normal -- 124 Jynx Ice Psychic -- 151 Mew Psychic -- 173 Cleffa Normal -- 174 Igglybuff Normal 9 192 Sunflora Grass -- 238 Smoochum Ice Psychic -- 242 Blissey Normal -- 252 Treecko Grass -- 253 Grovyle Grass -- 254 Sceptile Grass -- 274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark -- 275 Shiftry Grass Dark -- 293 Whismur Normal -- 294 Loudred Normal -- 295 Exploud Normal -- 316 Gulpin Poison -- 317 Swalot Poison -- 393 Piplup Water -- 427 Buneary Normal -- 428 Lopunny Normal -- 440 Happiny Normal -- 456 Finneon Water -- 457 Lumineon Water -- Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

Happiny	Grovyle	Sceptile	Piplup
The opponent is physically hit by a body part of the user.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Jigglypuff	Jigglypuff slaps the opponent across the face.
Jigglypuff (anime)	Clefairy Tales		Debut
Clefairy	Clefairy slaps the opponent across the face.
A wild Clefairy	Clefairy Tales		None
Treecko	Treecko swings its tail and hits the opponent, or it slams its hand on its opponent.
Ash's Treecko	Tree's a Crowd		None
Treecko brought by Birch	A Six Pack Attack!		None
Grovyle	Grovyle swings its head and hits the opponent with the large leaf on its head.
Ash's Grovyle	Exploud and Clear		None
Happiny	One (or both) of Happiny's arms glow white, then delivers a shattering punch.
Brock's Happiny	Episode unknown		None
Sceptile	Sceptile uses its tail to hit the opponent.
Ash's Sceptile	Ka Boom with a View!		None
Sunflora	Sunflora's arms glow white and it hit the opponent with them.
Nando's Sunflora	A Secret Sphere of Influence!		None
Piplup	One (or both) of Piplup's arms glow white. Then it delivers a shattering punch.
Tyler's Pippy	The Thief That Keeps On Thieving!		None
Chansey	Chansey's arm glows white and it stabs the opponent.
Nurse Joy's Chansey	Pedal to the Mettle!		None

Other appearances

• Jigglypuff uses Pound as its B attack in Super Smash Bros.. From Super Smash Bros. Melee onwards, Pound became its side B attack. It is mainly used as an alternate recovery move.

In other languages

• French: Ecras'face
• German: Pfund
• Italian: Botta (It was called Libbra in the first two generations because of a mistranslation.)
• Spanish: Destructor
• Dutch: Stamp

In PMD

Variations on the move Pound
	Pound | Scratch
	Gust

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