Rolling Kick (move)

Rolling Kick まわしげり Revolving Kick

The user cuts a quick spin and lashes out with a sharp kick.

Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  60 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

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  Cool Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  3 ♥♥♥ Badly startles those that have made appeals.

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

Rolling Kick on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Rolling Kick on Eevee's Movedex

Rolling Kick (Japanese: まわしげり Revolving Kick) is damage-dealing Fighting-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Rolling Kick does damage and has a 29.7% chance of causing the target to flinch.

Rolling Kick can only cause the target to flinch if the user attacks before the target does. Rolling Kick can't make a target with a Substitute flinch.

Generation II

Same as before, but with a 30% chance of flinching instead.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 106 Hitmonlee Fighting 33 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 106 Hitmonlee Fighting 11 237 Hitmontop 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.

By breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father 066 Machop Fighting Hitmonlee, Hitmontop Electabuzz 239 Elekid Electric Machop, Machoke, Machamp Hitmonlee, Hitmontop 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.

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 106 Hitmonlee Fighting 11 237 Hitmontop 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.

By breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father 066 Machop Fighting Hitmonlee, Hitmontop Electabuzz 239 Elekid Electric Machop, Machoke, Machamp Hitmonlee, Hitmontop 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.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 106 Hitmonlee Fighting 9 237 Hitmontop 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.

By breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father 066 Machop Fighting Hitmonlee, Hitmontop Electabuzz, Electivire 239 Elekid Electric Machop, Machoke, Machamp Hitmonlee, Hitmontop 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

	Hitmonlee
The user cuts a quick spin and lashes out with a sharp kick.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Hitmonlee	Hitmonlee kicks the foe from the side, causing them to spin.
Shiro's Hitmonlee	Two Hits and a Miss		Debut
Wobbuffet Festival crasher's Hitmonlee	Wobbu-Palooza		None
Unknown Trainer's Hitmonlee	The Legend of Thunder!		None
Kiyo's Hitmonlee	A Tyrogue Full of Trouble		None
Gilbert's Hitmonlee	Saved by the Beldum		None
Master Hamm's Hitmonlee	Pasta La Vista!		None
Hitmontop	Hitmontop kicks the opponent's sides with its legs. Sometimes it spins around on its head to do it.
Chigusa's Hitmontop	Two Hits and a Miss		None
Butch's Hitmontop	The Mystery is History		None
Coordinator's Hitmontop	DP146		None

Trivia

Mawashi Geri is the Japanese name for a karate technique - the roundhouse kick.

In other languages

• Spanish: Patada Giro
• French: Mawashi Geri (same name as Japanese)
• German: Fegekick
• Italian: Calciorullo

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