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Spike Cannon (move)

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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}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
May affect anyone but the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
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 (Japanese: とげキャノン Spike Cannon) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents

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
091 091 Cloyster Water Ice 50
138 138 Omanyte Rock Water 46
139 139 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
091 091 Cloyster Water Ice 41
139 139 Omastar Rock Water 40
222 222 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
091 091 Cloyster Water Ice 41RSE
091 091 Cloyster Water Ice 43FRLG
139 139 Omastar Rock Water 40
222 222 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
091 091 Cloyster Water Ice 40
139 139 Omastar Rock Water 40
222 222 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



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.
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