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 damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

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.

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

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.

In the anime

Yanmega	Buizel	Yanma
The foe is hit with a destructive shock wave.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Yanma	Yanma flaps its wings at a fast speed and one or multiple shockwaves heads towards 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
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		None
Buizel	Buizel's tail glows white and Buizel does a flip. After it flips, a massive shockwave is sent flying at the opponent.
Ash's Buizel	Buizel Your Way Out of This!		None
Yanmega	Yanmega's wings glow white, then flaps its wings and a shockwave is sent flying at the opponent.
Jessie's Yanmega	The Thief That Keeps on Thieving!		None

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.
• No Generation III Pokémon could learn this move in Generation III (In Generation IV, Vibrava and Flygon became able to learn this move).

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.