Power Whip (move)

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Power Whip
パワーウィップ Power Whip
Power Whip HGSS.png
Type  Grass
Category  Physical
PP  10 (max. 16)
Power  120
Accuracy  85%
Priority  0
Range
Opponent Opponent Opponent
Self Ally Ally
Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)
Availability
Introduced  Generation IV
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
Jam  0  
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  3 ♥♥♥
A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.
Condition  Beauty
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Power Whip (Japanese: パワーウィップ Power Whip) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Power Whip inflicts damage and has no secondary effect.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0108 Lickitung Lickitung
Normal 49
0114 Tangela Tangela
Grass 54
0455 Carnivine Carnivine
Grass 47
0463 Lickilicky Lickilicky
Normal 49
0465 Tangrowth Tangrowth
Grass 54
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 breedingHGSS

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0001 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Bulbasaur | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung, Lickilicky
Tangela, Tangrowth
Carnivine

|- | colspan="6" | 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.
|} |}

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0108 Lickitung Lickitung
Normal 53
0114 Tangela Tangela
Grass 54
0455 Carnivine Carnivine
Grass 51
0463 Lickilicky Lickilicky
Normal 53
0465 Tangrowth Tangrowth
Grass 54
0598 Ferrothorn Ferrothorn
Grass Steel 40
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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0001 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Bulbasaur | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung, Lickilicky
Tangela, Tangrowth
Carnivine
Ferrothorn |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0069 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Bellsprout | style="background: #FFF" | Bellsprout
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Tangela, Tangrowth
Carnivine
Ferrothorn

|- | colspan="6" | 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 the anime

The user uses a whip-like part of its body which glows purple and grows longer, it is then used to attack the opponent.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
Lickilicky Lickilicky's tongue glows purple and it extends its tongue, slamming it into the opponent.
Conway's Lickilicky Working on a Right Move! Debut


In the manga

Pokémon Adventures


In other generations

Trivia

  • Carnivine is the only Pokémon with no evolutionary relatives that can learn this move.
  • Lickitung and Lickilicky are the only Pokémon that can learn this move who don't get STAB from it.

In other languages

Language Title
Mandarin Chinese 能量鞭打 Néngliàng Biāndǎ
France Flag.png European French Mégafouet
Germany Flag.png German Blattgeißel
Greece Flag.png Greek Βούρδουλας
Italy Flag.png Italian Vigorcolpo
South Korea Flag.png Korean 파워휩 Power Whip
Spain Flag.png European Spanish Latigazo


Variations of the move Megahorn
PhysicalIC HOME.png MegahornPower WhipPrecipice Blades
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