Selfdestruct
じばく Suicide Bombing
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| The user blows up to inflict damage on all Pokémon in battle. The user faints upon using this move.
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| Battles
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Target
| Foe
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| Self
| Ally
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| Affects all Pokémon on the field
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| Availability
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| Contests
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| Super Contests
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Selfdestruct (Japanese: じばく Suicide Bombing) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.
Effect
Generation I
Selfdestruct does damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is listed as 130, the target'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 a target with a defense value of 1.
If Selfdestruct breaks a target'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 target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.
In Stadium, if Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will faint.
Generation II and on
Similar, but without glitches and with a power of 200 instead. The Defense-halving step still applies, giving it an effective power of 400.
Learnset
In the anime
In other games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Selfdestruct does not cause the user to faint, but instead cuts its HP in half, and reduces HP by half on teammates, by 40 on hostile Pokémon, and destroys all walls and items within one tile of the user.
In other languages
- French: Destruction
- German: Finale
- Italian: Autodistruzione
- Spanish: Autodestruc
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