Superpower (move)

Superpower ばかぢから Great Power

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Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  120 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III Move Tutor in Pokémon Platinum Move Tutor in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Move Tutor in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   After this move, the user is more easily startled.

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Superpower on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Superpower on Eevee's Movedex

Superpower (Japanese: ばかぢから Great Power) is a damage-dealing Fighting-type move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Superpower inflicts damage and then lowers the user's Attack stat and Defense stat by one stat level each.

Description

Games Description RSE Boosts strength sharply, but lowers abilities. FRLG A powerful attack, but it also lowers the user’s Attack and Defense stats. Colo.XD Boosts strength sharply, but lowers abilities. DPPtHGSS The user attacks the foe with great power. However, it also lowers the user’s Attack and Defense. BWB2W2 The user attacks the target with great power. However, it also lowers the user's Attack and Defense. Conq Attack with tremendous force. The user's Attack and Defense will decrease as a result.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V
031		Nidoqueen	Poison	Ground		43	58				58
127		Pinsir	Bug		Bug	no			52				52	43
158		Totodile	Water		Water	no			41		43	48
159		Croconaw	Water		Water	no			48		51	57
160		Feraligatr	Water		Water	no			58		63	71
183		Marill	Water		Water	no			no					37
184		Azumarill	Water		Water	no			no					42
328		Trapinch	Ground		Ground	no			no					67
377		Regirock	Rock		Rock	25			25				25
378		Regice	Ice		Ice	25			25				25
379		Registeel	Steel		Steel	25			25				25
386		Deoxys Attack Forme	Psychic		Psychic	30			30				30
399		Bidoof	Normal		Normal	no			41				41
400		Bibarel	Normal	Water	no			48				48
486		Regigigas	Normal		Normal	no			25			no
532		Timburr	Fighting		Fighting	no			no				49
533		Gurdurr	Fighting		Fighting	no			no				57
534		Conkeldurr	Fighting		Fighting	no			no				57
538		Throh	Fighting		Fighting	no			no				49
554		Darumaka	Fire		Fire	no			no				39
555		Darmanitan	Fire		Fire	no			no				47
614		Beartic	Ice		Ice	no			no				--
621		Druddigon	Dragon		Dragon	no			no				55
628		Braviary	Normal	Flying	no			no				51
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
127		Pinsir	Bug		Bug	no
183		Marill	Water		Water
304		Aron	Steel	Rock	no
341		Corphish	Water		Water
387		Turtwig	Grass		Grass
498		Tepig	Fire		Fire	no
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By Move Tutor

#	Pokémon		Type		Game
					DP	Pt	HGSS	BW	B2W2
031		Nidoqueen	Poison	Ground								✔	✔		✔
034		Nidoking	Poison	Ground								✔	✔		✔
066		Machop	Fighting		Fighting								✔	✔		✔
067		Machoke	Fighting		Fighting								✔	✔		✔
068		Machamp	Fighting		Fighting								✔	✔		✔
074		Geodude	Rock	Ground								✔	✔		✔
075		Graveler	Rock	Ground								✔	✔		✔
076		Golem	Rock	Ground								✔	✔		✔
098		Krabby	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
099		Kingler	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
106		Hitmonlee	Fighting		Fighting								✔	✔		✔
111		Rhyhorn	Ground	Rock								✔	✔		✔
112		Rhydon	Ground	Rock								✔	✔		✔
127		Pinsir	Bug		Bug								✔	✔		✔
136		Flareon	Fire		Fire								✔	✔		✔
141		Kabutops	Rock	Water								✔	✔		✔
143		Snorlax	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
149		Dragonite	Dragon	Flying								✔	✔		✔
151		Mew	Psychic		Psychic								✔	✔		✔
158		Totodile	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
159		Croconaw	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
160		Feraligatr	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
183		Marill	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
184		Azumarill	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
209		Snubbull	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
210		Granbull	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
212		Scizor	Bug	Steel								✔	✔		✔
216		Teddiursa	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
217		Ursaring	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
220		Swinub	Ice	Ground								✔	✔		✔
221		Piloswine	Ice	Ground								✔	✔		✔
231		Phanpy	Ground		Ground								✔	✔		✔
232		Donphan	Ground		Ground								✔	✔		✔
246		Larvitar	Rock	Ground								✔	✔		✔
247		Pupitar	Rock	Ground								✔	✔		✔
248		Tyranitar	Rock	Dark								✔	✔		✔
257		Blaziken	Fire	Fighting								✔	✔		✔
258		Mudkip	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
259		Marshtomp	Water	Ground								✔	✔		✔
260		Swampert	Water	Ground								✔	✔		✔
286		Breloom	Grass	Fighting								✔	✔		✔
296		Makuhita	Fighting		Fighting								✔	✔		✔
297		Hariyama	Fighting		Fighting								✔	✔		✔
304		Aron	Steel	Rock								✔	✔		✔
305		Lairon	Steel	Rock								✔	✔		✔
306		Aggron	Steel	Rock								✔	✔		✔
328		Trapinch	Ground		Ground											✔
329		Vibrava	Ground	Dragon											✔
330		Flygon	Ground	Dragon											✔
332		Cacturne	Grass	Dark								✔	✔		✔
341		Corphish	Water		Water								✔	✔		✔
342		Crawdaunt	Water	Dark								✔	✔		✔
348		Armaldo	Rock	Bug								✔	✔		✔
359		Absol	Dark		Dark								✔	✔		✔
377		Regirock	Rock		Rock								✔	✔		✔
378		Regice	Ice		Ice								✔	✔		✔
379		Registeel	Steel		Steel								✔	✔		✔
386		Deoxys Attack Forme	Psychic		Psychic								✔	✔		✔
387		Turtwig	Grass		Grass								✔	✔		✔
388		Grotle	Grass		Grass								✔	✔		✔
389		Torterra	Grass	Ground								✔	✔		✔
399		Bidoof	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
400		Bibarel	Normal	Water								✔	✔		✔
405		Luxray	Electric		Electric								✔	✔		✔
408		Cranidos	Rock		Rock								✔	✔		✔
409		Rampardos	Rock		Rock								✔	✔		✔
430		Honchkrow	Dark	Flying								✔	✔		✔
446		Munchlax	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
449		Hippopotas	Ground		Ground								✔	✔		✔
450		Hippowdon	Ground		Ground								✔	✔		✔
464		Rhyperior	Ground	Rock								✔	✔		✔
473		Mamoswine	Ice	Ground								✔	✔		✔
486		Regigigas	Normal		Normal								✔	✔		✔
498		Tepig	Fire		Fire											✔
499		Pignite	Fire	Fighting											✔
500		Emboar	Fire	Fighting											✔
503		Samurott	Water		Water											✔
508		Stoutland	Normal		Normal											✔
512		Simisage	Grass		Grass											✔
514		Simisear	Fire		Fire											✔
516		Simipour	Water		Water											✔
526		Gigalith	Rock		Rock											✔
532		Timburr	Fighting		Fighting											✔
533		Gurdurr	Fighting		Fighting											✔
534		Conkeldurr	Fighting		Fighting											✔
538		Throh	Fighting		Fighting											✔
539		Sawk	Fighting		Fighting											✔
545		Scolipede	Bug	Poison											✔
550		Basculin	Water		Water											✔
553		Krookodile	Ground	Dark											✔
554		Darumaka	Fire		Fire											✔
555		Darmanitan	Fire		Fire											✔
565		Carracosta	Water	Rock											✔
579		Reuniclus	Psychic		Psychic											✔
604		Eelektross	Electric		Electric											✔
610		Axew	Dragon		Dragon											✔
611		Fraxure	Dragon		Dragon											✔
612		Haxorus	Dragon		Dragon											✔
613		Cubchoo	Ice		Ice											✔
614		Beartic	Ice		Ice											✔
621		Druddigon	Dragon		Dragon											✔
622		Golett	Ground	Ghost											✔
623		Golurk	Ground	Ghost											✔
626		Bouffalant	Normal		Normal											✔
627		Rufflet	Normal	Flying											✔
628		Braviary	Normal	Flying											✔
631		Heatmor	Fire		Fire											✔
632		Durant	Bug	Steel											✔
633		Deino	Dark	Dragon											✔
634		Zweilous	Dark	Dragon											✔
635		Hydreigon	Dark	Dragon											✔
638		Cobalion	Steel	Fighting											✔
639		Terrakion	Rock	Fighting											✔
640		Virizion	Grass	Fighting											✔
641		Tornadus Incarnate Forme	Flying		Flying											✔
641		Tornadus Therian Forme	Flying		Flying											✔
642		Thundurus Incarnate Forme	Electric	Flying											✔
642		Thundurus Therian Forme	Electric	Flying											✔
645		Landorus Incarnate Forme	Ground	Flying											✔
645		Landorus Therian Forme	Ground	Flying											✔
647		Keldeo Ordinary Form	Water	Fighting											✔
647		Keldeo Resolute Form	Water	Fighting											✔
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 V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained in 246 Larvitar Rock Ground Video Game Championships 2012 327 Spinda Normal Dream World - Rugged Mountain 359 Absol Dark Dream World - Rugged Mountain 449 Hippopotas Ground Dream World - Rugged Mountain 545 Scolipede Bug Poison Dream World - Pleasant Forest 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 other games

Pokémon Conquest

Superpower is the only move of Conkeldurr.

In the anime

Darmanitan	Totodile	Throh
The user attacks the target with great power.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
Totodile	Totodile's body becomes surrounded in a light blue aura. It then picks up a large rock and throws it at the opponent.
Khoury's Totodile	A Rivalry to Gible On!		Debut
Throh	Throh flexes its muscles to increase power and its body becomes outlined in a light blue aura. It then grabs the opponent and tosses it in the air. On an opponent that is underground, it slams its fists into the ground which cause the opponent to surface and become surrounded in rubble.
Montgomery's Throh	Search for the Clubultimate!		None
Darmanitan	Darmanitan flexes its muscles to increase power and its body becomes outlined in a light blue aura. It then grabs the opponent and tosses it.
Unknown Trainer's Darmanitan	Iris and the Rogue Dragonite!		None
Davy's Darmanitan	Team Eevee and the Pokémon Rescue Squad!		None

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Regice	Regirock	Registeel
The user strikes the opponent with a powerful punch.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
Regirock	Regirock points its hands at the opponent and releases a powerful wave of energy from its hand at the opponent, or Regirock raises one of its hands and strikes the opponent with a powerful punch.
Brandon's Regirock	VS. Spoink I		Debut
Regice	Regirock points its hands at the opponent and releases a powerful wave of energy from its hands at the opponent.
Brandon's Regice	VS. Spoink I		Debut
Registeel	Registeel points its hands at the opponent and releases a powerful wave of energy from its hands at the opponent.
Brandon's Regirock	VS. Spoink I		Debut

In other generations

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	DPPt	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battle Revolution (alternative animation)	Battrio	Mystery Dungeon	PMD: Red and Blue	PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky	Rumble	Rumble Blast

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)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battle Revolution (alternative animation)	Battrio	Mystery Dungeon	PMD: Red and Blue	PMD: Time, Darkness, Sky	Rumble	Rumble Blast

Trivia

• Until Pokémon Platinum, no Fighting-type Pokémon could learn Superpower, despite it being a Fighting-type move.
• Superpower's German name is the same as the name for the Ability Huge Power in German.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 蠻力 Mánlì French Surpuissance German Kraftkoloss Greek Υπερδύναμη Indonesian Superpower Italian Troppoforte Korean 엄청난힘 Eomcheongnan Him Polish Super Moc Brazilian Portuguese Superpoder Romanian Superputerea Serbian Supermoć Spanish Fuerza Bruta

Variations of the move Superpower
Superpower • Close Combat

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