Self-Destruct (move): Difference between revisions

Selfdestruct (Japanese: じばく Suicide Bombing) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It can be seen as a weaker version of Explosion.

Effect

Generation I

Resembling a weaker version of Explosion, Selfdestruct inflicts damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is listed as 130, the target's Defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an effective power of 260. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Selfdestruct will then effectively have a power of 130 if used against a target with a defense value of 1.

If Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will be replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Selfdestruct had a Substitute at the time of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once again become visible.

If the user of Selfdestruct attacks first and faints itself, the target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

In Stadium, if Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will faint.

Generations II to IV

The move's power is bumped up to 200 instead. The target's Defense is still halved, giving it an effective power of 400. If the user uses the move on a target using a substitute, regardless if the substitute is broken or not, the user will always faint.

Generation V

Selfdestruct no longer halves the target's Defense.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground -- 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 22 0101 Electrode Electric -- 22 0109 Koffing Poison 40 0110 Weezing Poison 43 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 TM36

#   Pokémon Type 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 0076 Golem Rock Ground 0088 Grimer Poison 0089 Muk Poison 0090 Shellder Water 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0095 Onix Rock Ground 0100 Voltorb Electric 0101 Electrode Electric 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0109 Koffing Poison 0110 Weezing Poison 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 Mew Psychic 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 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground -- 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 23 0101 Electrode Electric -- 23 0109 Koffing Poison 17 0110 Weezing Poison -- 17 0204 Pineco Bug 8 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 8 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 27 0101 Electrode Electric 27 0109 Koffing Poison 17 0110 Weezing Poison -- 17 0204 Pineco Bug 8 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 8 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 19 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 19 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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. |} |}

By move tutor

In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

#   Pokémon Type 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 0076 Golem Rock Ground 0088 Grimer Poison 0089 Muk Poison 0090 Shellder Water 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0095 Onix Rock Ground 0100 Voltorb Electric 0101 Electrode Electric 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0109 Koffing Poison 0110 Weezing Poison 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 Mew Psychic 0185 Sudowoodo Rock 0204 Pineco Bug 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 0208 Steelix Steel Ground 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 0218 Slugma Fire 0219 Magcargo Fire Rock 0222 Corsola Water Rock 0273 Seedot Grass 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark 0299 Nosepass Rock 0316 Gulpin Poison 0317 Swalot Poison 0320 Wailmer Water 0321 Wailord Water 0323 Camerupt Fire Ground 0324 Torkoal Fire 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 0362 Glalie Ice 0375 Metang Steel Psychic 0376 Metagross Steel Psychic 0377 Regirock Rock 0378 Regice Ice 0379 Registeel Steel 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 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 18 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 18 0076 Golem Rock Ground 18 0100 Voltorb Electric 29 0101 Electrode Electric 29 0109 Koffing Poison 19 0110 Weezing Poison 19 0204 Pineco Bug 6 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 6 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 19 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 19 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0438 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bonsly
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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. |} |}

Special move

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0446 Munchlax Normal Pokéwalker - Winner's Path 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

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 29 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 31 0076 Golem Rock Ground 31 0100 Voltorb Electric 33 0101 Electrode Electric 35 0109 Koffing Poison 24 0110 Weezing Poison 24 0204 Pineco Bug 6 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 6 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 21 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 21 0597 Tesshido Tesshido Grass Steel 38 0598 Nattorei Nattorei Grass Steel 38 0649 Genesect Bug Steel 77 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

File:Ditto Selfdestuct.png Ditto
The Pokémon becomes angry and white and then explodes.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Voltorb's body glows white and yellow sparks appear around it's body. It then explodes violently.
Koga's Voltorb	The Ninja Poké-Showdown		Debut
Duplica's Ditto in the form of Voltorb	Ditto's Mysterious Mansion		None
Keith's Voltorb	So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd		None
Unknown Trainer's Voltorb	Pikachu Re-Volts		None
Multiple wild Voltorb	DP181		None
	Pineco's body glows blue, then suddenly explodes.
Multiple wild Pineco	Goin' Apricorn!		None
Brock's Pineco	Going Apricorn!		None
Multiple wild Pineco	DP181		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

The user explodes violently.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Electrode explodes violently.
Lt. Surge's Electrode	Electrode's Big Shock!		Debut

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Selfdestruct does not cause the user to faint, but instead cuts its HP in half, and reduces HP by half on teammates, by 40 on hostile Pokémon, and destroys all walls and items within one tile of the user.

Trivia

• Only Munchlax, Snorlax, and Smeargle receive STAB for Selfdestruct.
  • Lickilicky, who along with Smeargle receives STAB from Explosion, cannot learn Selfdestruct.
  • Snorlax is only capable of learning Selfdestruct through a move tutor in Pokémon XD. Lickilicky's pre-evolved form is oddly incapable of learning it from the same move tutor.

In other languages

• French: Destruction
• German: Finale
• Greek: Αυτοκαταστροφή
• Italian: Autodistruz.
• Korean: 자폭 Japok
• Polish: Samo-Zniszczenie
• Spanish: Autodestruc

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