ViceGrip (move)

ViceGrip はさむ Clamp

Huge, impressive pincers grip and squeeze the foe.

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  30 (max. 48) Power  55 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Tough Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0 A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Category  Tough Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

ViceGrip on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex ViceGrip on Eevee's Movedex

ViceGrip (Japanese: はさむ Clamp) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

ViceGrip inflicts damage and has no secondary effect.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 098 Krabby Water 20 099 Kingler Water --, 20 127 Pinsir Bug -- 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 098 Krabby Water 12 099 Kingler Water --, 12 127 Pinsir Bug -- 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 098 Krabby Water 12 099 Kingler Water --, 12 127 Pinsir Bug -- 303 Mawile Steel 21 341 Corphish Water 10 342 Crawdaunt Water Dark --, 10 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 098 Krabby Water 5 099 Kingler Water --, 5 127 Pinsir Bug -- 303 Mawile Steel 21 341 Corphish Water 10 342 Crawdaunt Water Dark --, 10 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

Crawdaunt	Krabby	Corphish	Pinsir
Huge, impressive pincers grip and squeeze the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Episode Used In		Notes
Krabby	Krabby pinches its opponent with its claws.
Ash's Krabby	Mystery at the Lighthouse		Debut
A wild Krabby	Island of the Giant Pokémon		None
A wild Krabby	The Evolution Solution		None
Kingler	Kingler pinches the opponent with its claws.
Ash's Kingler	Round One - Begin!		None
Corphish	Corphish pinches the opponent with its claws.
A wild Corphish	Which Wurmple's Which?		None
Ash's Corphish	Seeing is Believing!		None
Crawdaunt	Crawdaunt slams its claw into the opponent.
Mr. Saridakis's Crawdaunt	On Olden Pond		None
Pinsir	Pinsir grabs the opponent with the horns on its head.
Howie's Pinsir	The Ole' Berate and Switch!		None

Trivia

• Though the English translation of the games normally uses American English spelling, ViceGrip uses the Commonwealth English spelling of the word which is rendered in American English as "vise".
• ViceGrip's Japanese name is the same as the English name of Clamp.

In other languages

• French: Force Poigne
• German: Klammer
• Spanish: Agarre
• Italian: Presa
• Hindi: दमदार शिकंजा Damdaar Shikanja
• Dutch: Handgreep

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