Rock Climb (move)

Rock Climb ロッククライム Rock Climb

A charging attack that may also leave the foe confused. It can also be used to scale rocky walls.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  90 Accuracy  85% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock Usable outside of battle

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IV HM08 in Generation IV

Contests Category  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0 +2 points if last to appeal.

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

Rock Climb on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Rock Climb on Eevee's Movedex

Rock Climb (Japanese: ロッククライム Rock Climb) is a damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation IV. It has a 20% chance of confusing the target.

Effect

In Battle

Rock Climb inflicts damage and has a 20% chance of confusing the opponent.

Outside of battle

A Pokémon using Rock Climb can scale rocky surfaces.

Learnset

Generation IV

By HM08

#   Pokémon Type 003 Venusaur Grass Poison 009 Blastoise Water 027 Sandshrew Ground 028 Sandslash Ground 031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground 034 Nidoking Poison Ground 055 Golduck Water 056 Mankey Fighting 057 Primeape Fighting 059 Arcanine Fire 062 Poliwrath Water Fighting 066 Machop Fighting 067 Machoke Fighting 068 Machamp Fighting 074 Geodude Rock Ground 075 Graveler Rock Ground 076 Golem Rock Ground 095 Onix Rock Ground 104 Cubone Ground 105 Marowak Ground 106 Hitmonlee Fighting 107 Hitmonchan Fighting 108 Lickitung Normal 111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 112 Rhydon Ground Rock 113 Chansey Normal 115 Kangaskhan Normal 125 Electabuzz Electric 126 Magmar Fire 127 Pinsir Bug 128 Tauros Normal 139 Omastar Rock Water 141 Kabutops Rock Water 143 Snorlax Normal 150 Mewtwo Psychic 151 Mew Psychic 154 Meganium Grass 157 Typhlosion Fire 160 Feraligatr Water 181 Ampharos Electric 208 Steelix Steel Ground 210 Granbull Normal 217 Ursaring Normal 242 Blissey Normal 243 Raikou Electric 244 Entei Fire 245 Suicune Water 248 Tyranitar Rock Dark 254 Sceptile Grass 257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 260 Swampert Water Ground 272 Ludicolo Water Grass 288 Vigoroth Normal 289 Slaking Normal 295 Exploud Normal 296 Makuhita Fighting 297 Hariyama Fighting 306 Aggron Steel Rock 335 Zangoose Normal 377 Regirock Rock 378 Regice Ice 379 Registeel Steel 383 Groudon Ground 387 Turtwig Grass 388 Grotle Grass 389 Torterra Grass Ground 390 Chimchar Fire 391 Monferno Fire Fighting 392 Infernape Fire Fighting 395 Empoleon Water Steel 400 Bibarel Normal Water 408 Cranidos Rock 409 Rampardos Rock 443 Gible Dragon Ground 444 Gabite Dragon Ground 445 Garchomp Dragon Ground 446 Munchlax Normal 448 Lucario Fighting Steel 452 Drapion Poison Dark 453 Croagunk Poison Fighting 454 Toxicroak Poison Fighting 460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 463 Lickilicky Normal 464 Rhyperior Ground Rock 466 Electivire Electric 467 Magmortar Fire 473 Mamoswine Ice Ground 485 Heatran Fire Steel 486 Regigigas Normal 487 Giratina Altered Forme Ghost Dragon 487 Giratina Origin Forme Ghost Dragon 491 Darkrai Dark 493 Arceus Fighting 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

Grotle	Moving along the wall	Jumps high	Using Rock Climb
The user's claws glow white and grow, enabling the user to agily climb cliffs.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Grotle	Grotle's claws glow white and then grow. It then moves along wherever it's going to climb and jumps high. If no cliffs are available, Grotle can, by stamping the ground, make the earth rise underneath the opponent.
Ash's Grotle	The Lonely Snover		Debut

Trivia

• All fully evolved starter Pokémon can learn Rock Climb except for Charizard.
  • Conversely, Charizard is the only starter Pokémon that can learn the HM Fly.
• In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Rock Climb can be obtained and used as an HM, after Viridian City gym leader Blue has been defeated, despite the fact it did not appear in the Generation II version of the games. This makes Rock Climb the first HM that requires a gym badge outside of the starting region in order to be used.
• In Pokémon Platinum, Maylene tells the player that Rock and Fighting-types can learn Rock Climb. However, many non Rock and Fighting types can also learn it, and there exist several Rock and Fighting-types that cannot.

In other languages

• Spanish: Treparrocas
• French: Escalade
• Italian: Scalaroccia
• Korean: 락클라임 Rock Climb
• Portuguese: Escalar
• German: Kraxler

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