Karate Chop (move): Difference between revisions

Karate Chop (Japanese: からてチョップ Karate Chop) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. In Generation I, this move is Template:Type2.

Effect

Generation I

Karate Chop deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Generation II and on

Same as before, but Karate Chop is now a Template:Type2 move.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0056 Mankey Fighting 15 0057 Primeape Fighting 15 0066 Machop Fighting -- 0067 Machoke Fighting -- 0068 Machamp Fighting -- 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 0056 Mankey Fighting 15 0057 Primeape Fighting 15 0066 Machop Fighting 13 0067 Machoke Fighting 15 0068 Machamp Fighting 15 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" | 0239 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Elekid
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Magmar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Electabuzz

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0056 Mankey Fighting 15 0056 Mankey Fighting 11 0057 Primeape Fighting 15 0057 Primeape Fighting 11 0066 Machop Fighting 13 0067 Machoke Fighting 13 0068 Machamp Fighting 13 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" | 0239 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Elekid
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Magmar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Electabuzz

|- | 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0056 Mankey Fighting 13 0057 Primeape Fighting 13 0066 Machop Fighting 10 0067 Machoke Fighting 10 0068 Machamp Fighting 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.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0239 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Elekid
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Magmar, Magmortar |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Electabuzz, Electivire

|- | 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 0056 Mankey Fighting 13 0057 Primeape Fighting 13 0066 Machop Fighting 10 0067 Machoke Fighting -- 10 0068 Machamp Fighting -- 10 0539 Sawk Fighting 25 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" | 0239 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Elekid
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Magmar, Magmortar
Sawk |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Electabuzz, Electivire
Sawk

|- | 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

File:MachopKarateChop.png Machop File:Machoke k chop.png Machoke
The opponent is hit by the side of the user's hand.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Machop repeatedly chops the opponent with the side of its opened hand, or Machop's arm glows white and it chops the opponent with the side of its opened hand.
Unknown Trainer's Machop	The Punchy Pokémon		Debut
Brawly's Machop	Just One of the Geysers		None
Emily's Machop	Sitting Psyduck		None
	Machamp repeatedly chops the opponent with its hands, or one of Machamp's hands glow white and it chops the opponent with the side of its open hand.
Giovanni's Machamp	The Battle of the Badge		None
Gavin's Machamp	From Brags to Riches		None
Emily's Machamp	Sitting Psyduck		None
	Machoke hands glow white and it strikes the opponent with the side of its open hand, sometimes repeatedly.
A Wobbuffet Festival crashers's Machoke	Wobbu-Palooza!		None
Chuck's Machoke	Machoke, Machoke Man!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Machamp
The user karate chops the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Machamp strikes the opponent with the side of one of its open hands.
Blue's Machamp	A Charizard... and a Champion		Debut

Trivia

• Karate Chop is one of the four moves to have its type changed in Generation II; the others are Gust, Bite, and Sand-Attack. Coincidentally, they all were Template:Type2 moves in Generation I.
• Prior to Generation V, all Pokémon that learn this move by leveling up are only Machop's evolutionary line and Mankey's family.
• The only Pokémon that can learn Karate Chop through breeding are Elekid and Magby.

In other languages

• Dutch: Karate schop
• Finnish: Karateisku
• French: Poing-karate
• German: Karateschlag
• Greek: Χτύπημα Καράτε
• Italian: Colpokarate
• Korean: 태권당수 Taegweon Dangsu
• Serbian: Karate Udarac
• Spanish: Golpe Karate

Variations of the move Karate Chop
Karate Chop • Poison Tail

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