Tail Whip (move)

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Tail Whip しっぽをふる
The user wags its tail cutely, making the foe less wary. The target's Defense stat is lowered.

Battles
Type	Normal
Category	Status
PP	30 (max. 48)
Power	—
Accuracy	100%
Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock
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Contests
Category	Cute
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Jam	0
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Super Contests
Category	Cute
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.
Tail Whip on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Tail Whip on Eevee's Movedex

Tail Whip is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

1 Effect
- 1.1 Generation I
2 In the Anime
- 2.1 Pokémon
3 Learnset
4 In other languages

Effect

Generation I

Tail Whip decreases the opponent's defense by 1 level.

Tail Whip will do nothing if the opponent's defense has reached a level of -6 or a value of 1, and will fail if the opponent has a Substitute or is under the effect of Mist. The effect of Tail Whip is ignored by critical hits.