Sky Uppercut (move)

Sky Uppercut (Japanese: スカイアッパー Sky Upper) is a slightly inaccurate damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Sky Uppercut deals damage and is capable of hitting opponents while they are using the move Fly or Bounce.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0107 Hitmonchan Fighting 32 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 50 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 59 0286 Breloom Grass Fighting 36 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 0107 Hitmonchan Fighting 36 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 50 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 59 0286 Breloom Grass Fighting 33 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" | 0427 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Buneary
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonchan
Combusken, Blaziken |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0447 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Riolu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonchan
Combusken, Blaziken

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Though Sky Uppercut can hit Pokémon using Fly, 22 out of the 49 Pokémon that learn Fly resist it, and the only ones that can be hit by it for super effective damage during Fly are Smeargle and Arceus in its Normal, Steel, Rock, Ice, or Dark forms.

In the anime

File:AG144 071.jpeg Combusken File:Hchan sky uppercut.png Hitmonchan
The user attacks the foe with an uppercut thrown skyward with force.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Combusken's claws glow light blue, then it uppercuts the opponent, leaving a white trail behind its claws.
May's Combusken	A Shroomish Skirmish		Debut
	One of Breloom's claws glow light blue, and it uppercuts the opponent.
Fighting Dojo's Breloom	Pasta La Vista!		None
	Hitmonchan's fist glows light blue and it uppercuts the opponent, leaving behind a light blue trail behind its fist.
Kyle Hamm's Hitmonchan	Pasta La Vista!		None
	Both of Blaziken's fists glow light blue and Blaziken uppercuts the opponent. If Blaziken misses, it uppercuts the opponent with the other fist as well.
May's Blaziken	Once More With Reeling!		None

In other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Soco do Céu
• Dutch: Opwaartse Slag
• Spanish: Gancho Alto
• Italian: Stramontante
• German: Himmelhieb

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