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Tail Whip (move)

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Tail Whip
しっぽをふる Tail Wag
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%
Priority  {{{priority}}}
Target
Foe Foe
Self Ally
Affects both foes
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
Contests
Category  Cute
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Jam  0
The appeal works great if performed last
Super Contests
Category  Cute
Appeal  2 ♥♥
Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Tail Whip (Japanese: しっぽをふる Tail Wag) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Contents

Effect

Generation I

Tail Whip decreases the target's Defense stat by one stage. Tail Whip will do nothing if the target's Defense stat has reached a stage of minus six or a value of one, and will fail if the target has a Substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

In the anime

Psyduck using Tail Whip.

Pokémon

Psyduck. Psyduck wags its tail back and forth at the foe. Misty often refers to this as "Tail Wag". This rarely has any effect, but in the episode The Evolution Solution, it used this move to throw Shellder off when Shellder bit its tail.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
007 Squirtle Water --
008 Wartortle Water --
009 Blastoise Water --
019 Rattata Normal --
020 Raticate Normal --
025 Pikachu Electric 6Y
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 21RGB
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 23Y
030 Nidorina Poison 23RGB
030 Nidorina Poison 27Y
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground --
037 Vulpix Fire --
038 Ninetales Fire --
054 Psyduck Water 28
055 Golduck Water 28
077 Ponyta Fire 30
078 Rapidash Fire --, 30
104 Cubone Ground --Y
105 Marowak Ground --Y
111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock 35
112 Rhydon Ground Rock --
113 Chansey Normal --Y
115 Kangaskhan Normal 31
118 Goldeen Water --
119 Seaking Water --
128 Tauros Normal 28
133 Eevee Normal 31
134 Vaporeon Water 37
135 Jolteon Electric 37
136 Flareon Fire 37
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
007 Squirtle Water 4
008 Wartortle Water --, 4
009 Blastoise Water --, 4
019 Rattata Normal --
020 Raticate Normal --
025 Pikachu Electric 6
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 23
030 Nidorina Poison 27
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground --
037 Vulpix Fire --
054 Psyduck Water 5
055 Golduck Water --, 5
077 Ponyta Fire 8
078 Rapidash Fire --, 8
104 Cubone Ground 5
105 Marowak Ground --, 5
111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock --
112 Rhydon Ground Rock --
113 Chansey Normal 9
115 Kangaskhan Normal 19
118 Goldeen Water --
119 Seaking Water --
128 Tauros Normal 4
133 Eevee Normal --
134 Vaporeon Water --
135 Jolteon Electric --
136 Flareon Fire --
172 Pichu Electric 6
183 Marill Water 6
184 Azumarill Water --, 6
187 Hoppip Grass Flying 5
188 Skiploom Grass Flying --, 5
189 Jumpluff Grass Flying --, 5
190 Aipom Normal --
194 Wooper Water Ground --
195 Quagsire Water Ground --
196 Espeon Psychic --
197 Umbreon Dark --
209 Snubbull Normal 4
210 Granbull Normal 4
242 Blissey Normal 7
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
007 Squirtle Water 4
008 Wartortle Water --, 4
009 Blastoise Water --, 4
019 Rattata Normal --
020 Raticate Normal --
025 Pikachu Electric 6
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 8
030 Nidorina Poison 8
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground --
037 Vulpix Fire 5
054 Psyduck Water 5
055 Golduck Water --, 5
077 Ponyta Fire 9
078 Rapidash Fire --, 9
104 Cubone Ground 5
105 Marowak Ground --, 5
111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock --
112 Rhydon Ground Rock --
113 Chansey Normal 5
115 Kangaskhan Normal 13
118 Goldeen Water --
119 Seaking Water --
128 Tauros Normal 4RSE
128 Tauros Normal --FRLG
133 Eevee Normal --
134 Vaporeon Water --
135 Jolteon Electric --
136 Flareon Fire --
172 Pichu Electric 6
183 Marill Water 6
184 Azumarill Water --, 6
187 Hoppip Grass Flying 5
188 Skiploom Grass Flying --, 5
189 Jumpluff Grass Flying --, 5
190 Aipom Normal --
194 Wooper Water Ground --
195 Quagsire Water Ground --
196 Espeon Psychic --
197 Umbreon Dark --
209 Snubbull Normal 4
210 Granbull Normal 4
242 Blissey Normal 4
263 Zigzagoon Normal 5
264 Linoone Normal --, 5
298 Azurill Normal 6
300 Skitty Normal 3
352 Kecleon Normal --
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
007 Squirtle Water 4
008 Wartortle Water --, 4
009 Blastoise Water --, 4
019 Rattata Normal --
020 Raticate Normal --
025 Pikachu Electric 5
026 Raichu Electric --
029 Nidoran♀ Poison 7
030 Nidorina Poison 7
031 Nidoqueen Poison Ground --
037 Vulpix Fire 4
054 Psyduck Water 5
055 Golduck Water --, 5
077 Ponyta Fire 10DP
077 Ponyta Fire 6Pt
078 Rapidash Fire --, 10DP
078 Rapidash Fire --, 6Pt
104 Cubone Ground 3
105 Marowak Ground --, 3
111 Rhyhorn Ground Rock --
112 Rhydon Ground Rock --
113 Chansey Normal 5
115 Kangaskhan Normal 10
118 Goldeen Water --
119 Seaking Water --
128 Tauros Normal 3
133 Eevee Normal --
134 Vaporeon Water --
135 Jolteon Electric --
136 Flareon Fire --
172 Pichu Electric 5
183 Marill Water 7
184 Azumarill Water --, 7
187 Hoppip Grass Flying 7
188 Skiploom Grass Flying --, 7
189 Jumpluff Grass Flying --, 7
190 Aipom Normal --
194 Wooper Water Ground --
195 Quagsire Water Ground --
196 Espeon Psychic --
197 Umbreon Dark --
209 Snubbull Normal --
210 Granbull Normal --
242 Blissey Normal 5
263 Zigzagoon Normal 5
264 Linoone Normal --, 5
298 Azurill Normal 7
300 Skitty Normal 3
352 Kecleon Normal --
424 Ambipom Normal --
464 Rhyperior Ground Rock --
470 Leafeon Grass --
471 Glaceon Ice --
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.

By breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father
431 Glameow Normal Rattata, Raticate
Pikachu, Raichu
Vulpix, Ninetales
Psyduck, Golduck
Ponyta, Rapidash
Rhyhorn, Rhydon, Rhyperior
Tauros
Eevee
Aipom, Ambipom
Wooper, Quagsire
Snubbull, Granbull
Zigzagoon, Linoone
Skitty, Delcatty, Kecleon
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding.

In other languages

  • Spanish: Látigo
  • Italian: Colpo-Coda
  • French: Mimi-queue
  • German: Rutenschlag.
Variations on the move Leer
Status Leer | Tail Whip


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