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SonicBoom (move)

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SonicBoom
ソニックブーム Sonic Boom
SonicBoom.png
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Battles
Type  Normal
Category  Special
PP  20 (max. 32)
Power  –
Accuracy  90%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
Contests
Category  Cool
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  0  
Works well if it's the same type as the one before.
Super Contests
Category  Cool
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

SonicBoom (Japanese: ソニックブーム Sonic Boom) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents

Effect

Generation I

SonicBoom deals 20 damage, regardless of the user's type, the opponent's type, and any other effects. Ghost-types are able to be hit by this move despite their usual immunity to Normal-type moves.

Generation II and on

Ghost-type Pokémon are immune to SonicBoom.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

In Red and Blue Rescue Team, this move does 55 damage, while in Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky does 20 damage.

Learnset

By leveling up

# Pokémon Type Level
I II III IV V
081 Magnemite Magnemite Electric Electric 21 16 16 14 14
082 Magneton Magneton Electric Electric --, 21 --, 16 16 14 14
100 Voltorb Voltorb Electric Electric 17 17 15 8 8
101 Electrode Electrode Electric Electric --, 17 --, 17 --, 15 --, 8 --, 8
193 Yanma Yanma Bug Flying no 19 19 17 14 14
329 Vibrava Vibrava Ground Dragon no no no -- --
330 Flygon Flygon Ground Dragon no no no -- --
418 Buizel Buizel Water Water no no no -- --
419 Floatzel Floatzel Water Water no no no -- --
462 Magnezone Magnezone Electric Steel no no no 14 14
469 Yanmega Yanmega Bug Flying no no no 14 14
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.


By breeding

# Pokémon Type Father
I II III IV V
167 Spinarak Spinarak Bug Poison Yanma Yanma YanmaYanmegaVibravaFlygon YanmaYanmegaVibravaFlygon
517 Munna Munna Psychic Psychic no no no BuizelFloatzel
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move.
Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.


By event

Generation II

#   Pokémon Type Obtained in
021 021 Spearow Normal Flying New York Pokémon Center
123 123 Scyther Bug Flying New York Pokémon Center
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

Magnezone SonicBoom.png Ash Buizel SonicBoom.png Jessie Yanmega SonicBoom.png Brock Crobat SonicBoom.png
Magnezone Buizel Yanmega Crobat
The foe is hit with a destructive shock wave.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
193 Yanma Yanma flaps its wings at a fast speed and one or multiple shockwaves heads towards the opponent, or Yanma's wings glow white and it waves them, releasing a shockwave from its wings at the opponent.
Zachary Evans's Yanma Wings 'N' Things Debut
Forrester Franklin's Yanma All in a Day's Wurmple None
Jessie's Yanma The Thief that Keeps on Thieving! None
Tyler's Yanma The Thief the Keeps on Thieving! None
169 Crobat Crobat flaps its wings so fast that they become a blur, and a cyclone of wind and white circles come out of them and hit the opponent.
Brock's Crobat Lapras of Luxury Crobat cannot legally learn SonicBoom
418 Buizel Buizel's two tails glow white and it flips around, sending a large white shockwave at the opponent.
Ash's Buizel Buizel Your Way Out of This! None
469 Yanmega Yanmega's wings glow white and it waves its wings, releasing a large white shockwave at the opponent.
Jessie's Yanmega The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! None
462 Magnezone All three of Magnezone's magnets glow white and it spins around, sending a large white shockwave at the opponent.
A wild Magnezone Regaining the Home Advantage! None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures


Trivia

  • Despite being a Normal-type move, Smeargle (through Sketch) is the only Normal-type Pokémon that can learn this move.
  • Although the sound-based moves are introduced in Generation III, SonicBoom is listed in move index number near with another Generation I sound-based moves; Growl, Sing, Roar, and Supersonic.
  • For unknown reasons, the move's animation was changed between the Japanese and international versions of Generation II. Whereas the Japanese version depicted SonicBoom as a boomerang being thrown towards the target, the international versions instead depict the move as a tornado approaching and hitting the foe.

In other generations

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SonicBoom I.png SonicBoom Japanese II.png SonicBoom II.png SonicBoom IV.png
Generation I RBY Generation I
(Japanese)
Generation I
(International)
Generation II Generation II
(Japanese)
Generation II
(International)
Crystal Generation III Generation III
(Japanese)
Generation III
(International)
FRLG Generation IV Generation IV
(Japanese)
Generation IV
(International)
HGSS Generation V BW Generation V
(Japanese)
Generation V
(International)
Stadium Stadium 2 Colosseum XD Battle Revolution Battle Revolution
(Alternative animation)
Battrio PMD: Red and Blue PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky Rumble Rumble Blast

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 音爆 Yīn​bào
The Netherlands Flag.png Dutch Supersonische Knal
France Flag.png French Sonicboom
Germany Flag.png German Ultraschall
Greece Flag.png Greek Ηχοέκρηξη
Italy Flag.png Italian Sonicboom
South Korea Flag.png Korean 소닉붐 Sonic Boom
Poland Flag.png Polish Bomba Dźwięku
Portuguese Brazil Flag.png Brazil Bomba Sônica
Portugal Flag.png Portugal Detonação Sônica
Serbia Flag.png Serbian Sonična Bomba
Spanish CELAC Flag.png Latin America Bomba Sónica (Season 1-10)
Explosion Sónica (Season 11-present)
Spain Flag.png Spain Bomba Sónica


Set-damage moves
Physical Seismic Toss
Special SonicBoomDragon RageNight Shade


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