Spike Cannon (move)

Spike Cannon とげキャノン Spike Cannon

Sharp spikes are fired at the foe to strike two to five times in rapid succession.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  20 Accuracy  100% 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  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

Super Contests Category  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Spike Cannon on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Spike Cannon on Eevee's Movedex

Spike Cannon (Japanese: とげキャノン Spike Cannon) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generations I-III

Spike Cannon inflicts damage, hitting the target 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Although only the first hit can be a critical hit, each hit per use will deal the same amount of damage.

Spike Cannon will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the last hit of this move.

Generation IV

The effects are the same as the previous generations, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 091 Cloyster Water Ice 50 138 Omanyte Rock Water 46 139 Omastar Rock Water 44 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 091 Cloyster Water Ice 41 139 Omastar Rock Water 40 222 Corsola Water Rock 31 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 091 Cloyster Water Ice 41RSE 091 Cloyster Water Ice 43FRLG 139 Omastar Rock Water 40 222 Corsola Water Rock 28 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 091 Cloyster Water Ice 40 139 Omastar Rock Water 40 222 Corsola Water Rock 40 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

	Corsola
Sharp spikes are fired at the foe in rapid succession.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Corsola	Corsola's whole body glows white and its points all the spikes on its body toward the opponent. It then shoots multiple white spikes at the opponent.
Prof. Elm's Corsola	Around the Whirlpool		Debut
Misty's Corsola	A Corsola Caper!		None
Multiple Corsola trained by Andrea	A Corsola Caper!		None
Cloyster	Cloyster retreats into its shell and turns purple releasing white spikes.
Kyle's Cloyster	Staging a Heroes' Welcome!		None

Trivia

• Despite being a Normal type move, no Normal type Pokémon (besides Smeargle) can legally learn this move.
• All of the Pokémon who are capable to learning this move are Water type.

In other languages

• Spanish: Clavo Cañón
• French: Picanon
• German: Dornkanone
• Korean: 가시대포 kashidepyo
• Italian: Sparalance

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