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Swords Dance つるぎのまい
A frenetic dance to uplift the fighting spirit. It sharply raises the user's Attack stat.
Battles
Type	Normal
Category	Status
PP	30 (max. 48)
Power	—
Accuracy	—%
Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock
Raises Attack by 2 levels.
Contests
Category	Beauty
Appeal	1 ♥
Jam	0
Ups the user's condition and helps prevent nervousness.
Super Contests
Category	Beauty
Appeal	0
Earn double the score in the next turn.
Swords Dance on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Swords Dance on Eevee's Movedex

Swords Dance (Japanese: つるぎのまい Swords Dance) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents 1 Effect 1.1 Generation I 2 In the Anime 2.1 Pokémon 3 Learnset 3.1 Generation I 3.1.1 By leveling up 3.1.2 By TM03 3.2 Generation II 3.2.1 By leveling up 3.2.2 By breeding 3.3 Generation III 3.3.1 By leveling up 3.3.2 By breeding 3.3.3 By move tutor 3.3.3.1 In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen 3.4 Generation IV 3.4.1 By leveling up 3.4.2 By TM75 3.4.3 By breeding 4 In other languages

Effect

Generation I

Swords Dance increases the user's attack by 2 levels.

Swords Dance will do nothing if the user's attack has reached a level of +6 or a value of 999. The effect of Swords Dance is ignored by critical hits.

In the Anime

Tracey's Scyther using Swords Dance.

Pokémon

Scyther. Scyther crosses its claws across its chest ands spins rapidly.

• Used by Tracey's Scyther from Tracey Gets Bugged to ???.

Learnset

Generation I

Generation II

Generation III

By move tutor

Generation IV

In other languages

• French: Danse-lames
• German: Schwerttanz
• Italian: Danzaspada
• Spanish: Danza Espada

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

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