Beat Up (move)

Beat Up ふくろだたき Gang Up

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Battles Type  Dark Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  —* Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation II Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Badly startles all Pokémon that made good appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Beat Up (Japanese: ふくろだたき Gang Up) is a damage-dealing Dark-type move introduced in Generation II. Prior to Generation IV, it was the signature move of Sneasel.

Effect

Generation II-IV

Beat Up inflicts damage on the target from each conscious Pokémon in the user's party which does not have a non-volatile status. Each attack is typeless and has a base power of 10; damage is determined using each attacking Pokémon's base Attack and the target's base Defense. IVs, EVs, Natures, and type advantages are not considered. Beat Up skips the randomization factor, but does apply same-type attack bonus for Dark-type Pokémon. Beat Up ignores Wonder Guard, as it is considered a typeless attack.

In a Double Battle, if a Pokémon uses Beat Up on its partner, the partner will attack itself (unless it suffers from a status ailment).

Each attack is preceded with the message "<name>'s Attack!", where <name> is the name of the Pokémon in the player's party.

Generation V

Beat Up's power is now based solely on the user's base attack (rather than each team member individually). Beat Up no longer lists the Pokémon that is using Beat Up, and has a chance of landing a critical hit for each hit. Beat Up now receives STAB from Dark-type users and no longer deals typeless damage. Beat Up ignores changes to stat levels like from Swords Dance, but each hit does increase in power from attack boosting items like Choice Band, provided that that item is held by the user.

Pokémon Rumble Blast

The user damages all Pokémon directly in front of it. Beat Up will hit once for each team member (including the user).

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

Beat Up warps enemy Pokémon to the user's position. It can warp up to four, but may also fail.

Description

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
215		Sneasel*	Dark	Ice	57			57			38				42	28	28
228		Houndour*	Dark	Fire							27				25			25
229		Houndoom*	Dark	Fire							28				26			26
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					II		III		IV		V		VI
004		Charmander*	Fire		Fire
023		Ekans	Poison		Poison
029		Nidoran♀	Poison		Poison
032		Nidoran♂	Poison		Poison
050		Diglett	Ground		Ground
056		Mankey	Fighting		Fighting
190		Aipom	Normal		Normal
203		Girafarig	Normal	Psychic
228		Houndour*	Dark	Fire
273		Seedot	Grass		Grass
546		Cottonee*	Grass	Fairy
551		Sandile	Ground	Dark
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

Special move

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0023 Ekans Poison Dream World - Dream Park 0050 Diglett Ground Dream World - Icy Cave 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 event

Generation II

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying New York Pokémon Center 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 V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0547 Whimsicott Grass Powerful Tag Pokémon 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 manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Silver's party
The user gets all the party Pokémon to attack the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Sneasel's Trainer releases their party of Pokémon and they all attack the opponent.
Silver's Sneasel	The Last Battle XI		Debut

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• A glitch in Gold, Silver, and Crystal Versions allows the player to turn a hatched Sneasel knowing Beat Up as its third move into a Celebi by exploiting the fact that Celebi and the move Beat Up share the same index number.
• This move is the last Generation II move in index number order.
• This is the only multi-strike move that can hit more than 5 times.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 痛打一氣 Tòngdǎ Yīqì French Baston German Prügler Greek Ξυλοδαρμός Italian Picchiaduro Korean 집단구타 Jipdan Guta Brazilian Portuguese União de Equipe Serbian Tuča Spanish Paliza

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