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Selfdestruct じばく
The user blows up to inflict damage on all Pokémon in battle. The user faints upon using this move.
Battles
Type	Normal
Category	Physical
PP	5 (max. 8)
Power	200
Accuracy	100%
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock
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Contests
Category	Beauty
Appeal	8 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Jam	0
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Super Contests
Category	Beauty
Appeal	0
Earn +15 if all the Pokémon choose the same Judge.
Selfdestruct on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Selfdestruct on Eevee's Movedex

Selfdestruct (Japanese: じばく Selfdestruct) is an extremely damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents 1 Effect 1.1 Generation I 1.2 Generation II and on 2 Learnset 2.1 Generation I 2.1.1 By leveling up 2.1.2 By TM36 2.2 Generation II 2.2.1 By leveling up 2.2.2 By breeding 2.3 Generation III 2.3.1 By leveling up 2.3.2 By breeding 2.4 Generation IV 2.4.1 By leveling up 2.4.2 By breeding 3 In other games 4 In other languages

Effect

Generation I

Selfdestruct does damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is listed as 130, the opponent's defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an effective power of 260. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Selfdestruct will then effectively have a power of 130 if used against an opponent with a defense value of 1.

If Selfdestruct breaks an opponent's Substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will be replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Selfdestruct had a substitute at the time of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once again become visible.

If the user of Selfdestruct attacks first and faints itself, the opponent will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

In Stadium, if Selfdestruct breaks an opponent's substitute, the user will faint.

Generation II and on

Similar, but without glitches and with a power of 200 instead.

Learnset

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

Generation IV

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Selfdestruct may not necessarily cause the user of this move to faint, depending on the amount of HP left.

In other languages

• French: Destruction
• German: Finale
• Italian: Autodistruz.
• Spanish: Autodestruc

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

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