Rock Throw (move)

Rock Throw いわおとし Rock Drop

The user picks up and throws a small rock at the foe to attack.

Battles Type  Rock Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  50 Accuracy  90% 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 May affect anyone but the user

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

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0 Works well if it's the same type as the one before.

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

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

Rock Throw (Japanese: いわおとし Rock Drop) is a damage-dealing Rock-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Rock Throw has a base power of 50 and an accuracy of 65%.

Rock Throw deals damage and has no secondary effect.

Generation II and on

Same as before, but with a 90% accuracy.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 074 Geodude Rock Ground 16 075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 075 Graveler Rock Ground 16 076 Golem Rock Ground -- 076 Golem Rock Ground 16 095 Onix Rock Ground 19 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 074 Geodude Rock Ground 11 075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 075 Graveler Rock Ground 11 076 Golem Rock Ground -- 076 Golem Rock Ground 11 095 Onix Rock Ground 14 185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 208 Steelix Steel Ground 14 218 Slugma Fire 15 219 Magcargo Fire Rock -- 15 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 074 Geodude Rock Ground 11 075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 075 Graveler Rock Ground 11 076 Golem Rock Ground -- 076 Golem Rock Ground 11 095 Onix Rock Ground 13RSE 095 Onix Rock Ground 12FRLG 185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 208 Steelix Steel Ground 13RSE 208 Steelix Steel Ground 12FRLG 218 Slugma Fire 15 219 Magcargo Fire Rock -- 15 299 Nosepass Rock 13 337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 13 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 13 377 Regirock Rock 9 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 074 Geodude Rock Ground 11 075 Graveler Rock Ground 11 076 Golem Rock Ground 11 095 Onix Rock Ground 9 185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 185 Sudowoodo Rock 14 208 Steelix Steel Ground 9 218 Slugma Fire 11 219 Magcargo Fire Rock -- 11 299 Nosepass Rock 13 337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 9 338 Solrock Rock Psychic 9 377 Regirock Rock 9 438 Bonsly Rock 14 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

	Graveler
The user picks up and throws a small rock at the foe to attack.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Golem	Golem jumps up and throws itself at the opponent.
Chopper's Golem	The Bridge Bike Gang		Debut
A wild Golem	Hour of the Houndour		None
Onix	Onix slams its tail at its opponent, or it yells and rocks (crystal ones for Crystal onix) fall at the opponent, or if its near a cliff or inside a cave, Onix slams its head against a wall and rocks fall from the ceiling, or Onix slams its tail into the ground and rocks fly out at the opponent.
Brock's Onix	Who Gets to Keep Togepi?		None
The Crystal Onix	The Crystal Onix		None
Multiple wild Onix	Tunnel Vision		None
Steelix	Steelix slams its tail into the ground, making rocks fly towards the opponent.
Hun's Steelix	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Geodude	Geodude punches the ground, making rocks fly at the opponent.
Roxanne's Geodude	A Winner by a Nosepass		None
Graveler	It throws rocks at the opponent.
Unknown Trainer's Graveler	Tears for Fears!		None
Regigigas	Same as Above.
A wild Regigigas	Pillars of Friendship!		None

Trivia

• The only two Pokémon that learn Rock Throw yet are not Rock-type are related to Rock-types through evolution (with the obvious exception of Smeargle).
  • Coincidentially, both of them were introduced in Generation II.
• All Pokémon that can learn Rock Throw in the generation in which they are introduced are able to learn the move in any subsequent generations to date. Likewise, no Pokémon has gained the ability to learn Rock Throw that they have lacked in previous generations.
• Generation IV is the first (and only, to date) generation to introduce an odd number of Pokémon that can learn Rock Throw- one.
• Regirock is the only legendary Pokémon capable of learning Rock Throw, who happens to be the only legendary Rock-type Pokémon. Thus, all legendary Rock-type Pokémon can learn Rock Throw.
• Cranidos and Rampardos are the only pure Rock-types incapable of learning Rock Throw.
• Rock Throw is the only physical Rock move with no secondary effect.

In other languages

• French: Jet-pierres
• German: Steinwurf
• Italian: Sassata
• Spanish: Lanzarrocas
• Portuguese: Arremesso de Pedras
• Hindi : Patthar Fékkne wala hamla

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