Pound (move)

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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}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
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 (Japanese: はたく Strike) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents

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 Celfairy slaps the opponent across the face.
a wild Clefairy Clefairy Tales None
Happiny One (or both) of Happiny's arms glow white, then delivers a shattering punch.
Brock's Happiny Episode unknown None
Treecko Treecko uses its tail to hit the opponent.
Ash's Treecko Tree's a Crowd None
Grovyle Grovyle uses the large leaf on its head to hit the opponent.
Ash's Grovyle Exploud and Clear! None
Sceptile Sceptile uses its tail to hit the opponent.
Ash's Sceptile Cutting the Ties that Bind 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

Other appearances

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
Variations on the move Pound
Physical Pound | Scratch
Special Gust


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