SonicBoom (move)

SonicBoom ソニックブーム Sonic Boom

The foe is hit with a destructive shock wave that always inflicts 20 HP damage.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Special PP  20 (max. 32) Power  Varies 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  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 on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex SonicBoom on Eevee's Movedex

SonicBoom (Japanese: ソニックブーム Sonic Boom) is a slightly inaccurate Normal-type move introduced in Generation I that deals a fixed amount of damage.

Effect

Generation I

SonicBoom does 20 points of normal damage. Although SonicBoom deals Normal damage, its type does not alter the amount of damage it inflicts. SonicBoom hits Ghost-type Pokémon, which have immunities to Normal-type moves.

SonicBoom's name is spelled "Sonicboom" in the first three generations.

Generation II and III

Ghost-type Pokémon are immune to SonicBoom.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, this move does 55 damage instead of 20 damage.

Generation IV

Same as before, except its name is now spelled "SonicBoom" rather than "Sonicboom".

In the anime

Ash's Buizel using SonicBoom

Jessie's Yanma about to use SonicBoom

Jessie's Yanmega using SonicBoom

Pokémon

Buizel. Buizel's tail glows white and Buizel does a flip. After it flips, a massive shockwave is sent flying at the opponent.

• Used by Ash's Buizel from Buizel Your Way Out of This! to ???.

Yanmega. Yanmega's wings glow white, then flaps its wings and a shockwave is sent flying at the opponent.

• Used by Jessie's Yanmega from The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! to present.

Yanma. Same as Yanmega.

• Used by Jessie's Yanma in The Thief That Keeps on Thieving!.
• Used by Tyler's Yanma in The Thief That Keeps on Thieving!.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
081		Magnemite	Electric		21
082		Magneton	Electric		— 21
100		Voltorb	Electric		17
101		Electrode	Electric		— 17
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
081		Magnemite	Electric	Steel	16
082		Magneton	Electric	Steel	— 16
100		Voltorb	Electric		17
101		Electrode	Electric		— 17
193		Yanma	Bug	Flying	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.

By breeding

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
167		Spinarak	Bug	Poison	Yanma
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
081		Magnemite	Electric	Steel	16
082		Magneton	Electric	Steel	16
100		Voltorb	Electric		15
101		Electrode	Electric		— 15
193		Yanma	Bug	Flying	17FRLG
193		Yanma	Bug	Flying	19RSE
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
167		Spinarak	Bug	Poison	Yanma
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
081		Magnemite	Electric	Steel	14
082		Magneton	Electric	Steel	14
100		Voltorb	Electric		8
101		Electrode	Electric		--,8
193		Yanma	Bug	Flying	14
329		Vibrava	Ground	Dragon	--
330		Flygon	Ground	Dragon	--
418		Buizel	Water		--
419		Floatzel	Water		--
462		Magnezone	Electric	Steel	14
469		Yanmega	Bug	Flying	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.

By breeding

#		Pokémon	Type		Father
167		Spinarak	Bug	Poison	Yanma, Yanmega Vibrava, Flygon
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.

Trivia

• Although no Pokémon could receive a STAB from SonicBoom anyway (due to it having a set amount of damage), no Pokémon of its type (Normal) can learn it.

In other languages

• Dutch: Supersone Knal
• Portugese: Detonação Sônica
• French: Sonicboom
• German: Ultraschall
• Spanish: Bomba Sónica
• Italian: Sonicboom

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