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Spike Cannon とげキャノン Spike Cannon

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  20 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone but the user

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Spike Cannon (Japanese: とげキャノン Spike Cannon) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generations I-III

Spike Cannon inflicts damage, hitting the target 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Although only the first hit can be a critical hit, each hit per use will deal the same amount of damage.

Spike Cannon will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the last hit of this move.

Generation IV

The effects are the same as the previous generations, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 50 0138 Omanyte Rock Water 46 0139 Omastar Rock Water 44 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 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 41 0139 Omastar Rock Water 40 0222 Corsola Water Rock 31 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 41 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 43 0139 Omastar Rock Water 40 0222 Corsola Water Rock 28 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 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 40 0139 Omastar Rock Water 40 0222 Corsola Water Rock 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.

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 13 0139 Omastar Rock Water 40 0222 Corsola Water Rock 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.

In the anime

File:Corsola Spike Cannon.png Corsola File:Cloyster Spike Cannon.png Cloyster
Sharp spikes are fired at the foe in rapid succession.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Corsola's whole body glows white and its points all the horns on its body toward the opponent. It then fires multiple white spikes from its horns at the opponent. Sometimes, its body just becomes outlined in white before attacking.
Professor Elm's Corsola	Around the Whirlpool		Debut
Misty's Corsola	A Corsola Caper!		None
Multiple Corsola trained by Andrea	A Corsola Caper!		None
A Coordinator's Corsola	Yes in Dee Dee, It's Dawn!		None
	Cloyster closes its shell and the shell glows white. Cloyster then fires multiple white spikes from the shell at the opponent.
Kyle's Cloyster	Staging a Heroes' Welcome!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Cloyster Spike Cannon Adventures.png Cloyster
The user fires a spike or horn at the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Cloyster fires the horn on its head at the opponent. A new horn then appears and takes its place.
Lorelei's Cloyster	Cloystered		Debut

Trivia

• Despite being a Normal-type move, no Normal-type Pokémon (besides Smeargle) can legally learn this move, meaning that Smeargle is the only Pokémon to get a STAB from it.
• All of the Pokémon capable of learning this move naturally are part Template:Type2 and in the Water 3 egg group.

In other languages

• Dutch: Spijkerkanon
• French: Picanon
• German: Dornkanone
• Greek: Κανόνι Ακίδων
• Italian: Sparalance
• Korean: 가시대포 Gasi Daepo
• Spanish: Clavo Cañón
• Serbian: Bacač Šiljaka

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.