Bulk Up

Bulk Up

ビルドアップ Build-up

Generation:	III

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	N/A
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	20, max: 32
Affects:	User
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	No

Affected by

Magic Coat:	No
Magic Bounce:	No
Bright Powder:	No
Protect/Detect:	No
Snatch:	Yes
Mirror Move:	No
King's Rock:	No

Contest Data

Contests (RSE)

Type:
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DPPt)

Type:
Appeal:	0

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Bulk Up is a status-affecting Fighting-type move introduced in Generation III.

Description

Games	Description
RSE	Bulks up the body to boost both Attack and Defense.
FRLG	The user bulks up its body to boost both its Attack and Defense stats.
DPPtHGSS BWB2W2	The user tenses its muscles to bulk up its body, boosting both its Attack and Defense stats.
XYORAS SMUSUMPE SwShBDSPLA	The user tenses its muscles to bulk up its body, raising both its Attack and Defense stats.
SV	The user tenses its muscles to bulk up its body, boosting its Attack and Defense stats.

Effect

The user tenses its muscles to bulk up its body, boosting both its Attack and Defense stats by one stage.

When paired with a Fightinium Z, it will boost its Attack by another stage.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Poliwrath	water/fighting	Water 1					1PE
	Machop	fighting	Human-Like				37ORAS	37SMUSUM 31PE	36SwShBDSP 25LA
	Machoke	fighting	Human-Like				43ORAS	43SMUSUM 37PE	42SwShBDSP 25LA
	Machamp	fighting	Human-Like				43ORAS	43SMUSUM 37PE	42SwShBDSP 25LA
	Zapdos	fighting/flying	Undiscovered						50	50
	Combusken	fire/fighting	Field	28	28	28	28XY 31ORAS	31	45
	Blaziken	fire/fighting	Field	28	28	28	28XY 31ORAS	31	49
	Makuhita	fighting	Human-Like							22
	Hariyama	fighting	Human-Like							22
	Groudon	ground	Undiscovered	30	30DPPt 60HGSS	60	60XY 50ORAS	50	18	18
	Riolu	fighting	Undiscovered						37LA
	Lucario	fighting/steel	Field/Human-Like						37LA
	Timburr	fighting	Human-Like			28	28	28	16
	Gurdurr	fighting	Human-Like			29	29	29	16
	Conkeldurr	fighting	Human-Like			29	29	29	16
	Throh	fighting	Human-Like			33	33	25	25
	Sawk	fighting	Human-Like			33	33	25	25
	Landorus	ground/flying	Undiscovered						22LA
	Chespin	grass	Field				39	39
	Quilladin	grass	Field				44	44		38
	Chesnaught	grass/fighting	Field				44	48		48
	Skiddo	grass	Field				34	34		34
	Gogoat	grass	Field				34	34		34
	Decidueye	grass/fighting	Flying							30
	Incineroar	fire/dark	Field					1	1
	Passimian	fighting	Field					32	35	35
	Buzzwole	bug/fighting	Undiscovered					13	20
	Clobbopus	fighting	Water 1/Human-Like						25
	Grapploct	fighting	Water 1/Human-Like						25
	Grimmsnarl	dark/fairy	Fairy/Human-Like						1	1
	Falinks	fighting	Fairy/Mineral						20	20
	Kubfu	fighting	Undiscovered						32	32
	Urshifu	fighting/dark	Undiscovered						32	32
	Urshifu	fighting/water	Undiscovered						32	32
	Slither Wing	bug/fighting	Undiscovered							58
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By TM/TR

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Machine
				III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Raticate	dark/normal	Field					TM08SMUSUM TM30PE
	Mankey	fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Primeape	fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Poliwrath	water/fighting	Water 1	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Machop	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Machoke	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Machamp	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Hitmonlee	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Hitmonchan	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Pinsir	bug	Bug	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Tauros	fighting	Field							TM064
	Tauros	fighting/fire	Field							TM064
	Tauros	fighting/water	Field							TM064
	Zapdos	fighting/flying	Undiscovered						TR48SwSh	TM064
	Mewtwo	psychic	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Snubbull	fairy	Field/Fairy	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP
	Granbull	fairy	Field/Fairy	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP
	Heracross	bug/fighting	Bug	TM08	TM08	TM08B2W2	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Sneasel	fighting/poison	Field							TM064
	Teddiursa	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Ursaring	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Tyrogue	fighting	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Hitmontop	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Combusken	fire/fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Blaziken	fire/fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Swampert	water/ground	Monster/Water 1						TR48SwSh TM08BDSP
	Breloom	grass/fighting	Fairy/Grass	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Slakoth	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Vigoroth	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Slaking	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Makuhita	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Hariyama	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Sableye	dark/ghost	Human-Like							TM064
	Meditite	fighting/psychic	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Medicham	fighting/psychic	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Groudon	ground	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Rayquaza	dragon/flying	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Chimchar	fire	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP
	Monferno	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP
	Infernape	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP
	Buizel	water	Water 1/Field		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Floatzel	water	Water 1/Field		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08BDSP	TM064
	Riolu	fighting	Undiscovered		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Lucario	fighting/steel	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Croagunk	poison/fighting	Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Toxicroak	poison/fighting	Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Dialga	steel/dragon	Undiscovered		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Palkia	water/dragon	Undiscovered		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48SwSh TM08BDSP	TM064
	Arceus	normal	Undiscovered							TM064
	Emboar	fire/fighting	Field			TM08	TM08	TM08
	Timburr	fighting	Human-Like			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Gurdurr	fighting	Human-Like			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Conkeldurr	fighting	Human-Like			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Throh	fighting	Human-Like			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Sawk	fighting	Human-Like			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Krookodile	ground/dark	Field			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Darmanitan	fire	Field			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Darmanitan	ice	Field						TR48SwSh
	Scraggy	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Scrafty	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Eelektross	electric	Amorphous							TM064
	Beartic	ice	Field			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Mienfoo	fighting	Field/Human-Like			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Mienshao	fighting	Field/Human-Like			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Rufflet	normal/flying	Flying			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Braviary	normal/flying	Flying			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Braviary	psychic/flying	Flying							TM064
	Tornadus	flying	Undiscovered			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Thundurus	electric/flying	Undiscovered			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Landorus	ground/flying	Undiscovered			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Chespin	grass	Field				TM08	TM08
	Quilladin	grass	Field				TM08	TM08		TM064
	Chesnaught	grass/fighting	Field				TM08	TM08		TM064
	Bunnelby	normal	Field				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Diggersby	normal/ground	Field				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Talonflame	fire/flying	Flying				TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Skiddo	grass	Field				TM08	TM08		TM064
	Gogoat	grass	Field				TM08	TM08		TM064
	Pancham	fighting	Field/Human-Like				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Pangoro	fighting/dark	Field/Human-Like				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Barbaracle	rock/water	Water 3				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Hawlucha	fighting/flying	Flying/Human-Like				TM08	TM08	TR48	TM064
	Decidueye	grass/fighting	Flying							TM064
	Litten	fire	Field					TM08	TR48
	Torracat	fire	Field					TM08	TR48
	Incineroar	fire/dark	Field					TM08	TR48
	Crabrawler	fighting	Water 3					TM08		TM064
	Crabominable	fighting/ice	Water 3					TM08		TM064
	Lycanroc	rock	Field					TM08	TR48	TM064
	Lycanroc	rock	Field					TM08	TR48	TM064
	Lycanroc	rock	Field					TM08USUM	TR48	TM064
	Stufful	normal/fighting	Field					TM08	TR48
	Bewear	normal/fighting	Field					TM08	TR48
	Passimian	fighting	Field					TM08	TR48	TM064
	Golisopod	bug/water	Bug/Water 3					TM08	TR48
	Komala	normal	Field					TM08		TM064
	Turtonator	fire/dragon	Monster/Dragon					TM08	TR48
	Mimikyu	ghost/fairy	Amorphous					TM08	TR48	TM064
	Bruxish	water/psychic	Water 2					TM08		TM064
	Jangmo-o	dragon	Dragon					TM08	TR48
	Hakamo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon					TM08	TR48
	Kommo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon					TM08	TR48
	Tapu Bulu	grass/fairy	Undiscovered					TM08	TR48
	Buzzwole	bug/fighting	Undiscovered					TM08	TR48
	Marshadow	fighting/ghost	Undiscovered					TM08	TR48
	Zeraora	electric	Undiscovered					TM08USUM	TR48
	Rillaboom	grass	Field/Grass						TR48	TM064
	Raboot	fire	Field/Human-Like						TR48	TM064
	Cinderace	fire	Field/Human-Like						TR48	TM064
	Corviknight	flying/steel	Flying						TR48	TM064
	Boltund	electric	Field						TR48
	Clobbopus	fighting	Water 1/Human-Like						TR48
	Grapploct	fighting	Water 1/Human-Like						TR48
	Grimmsnarl	dark/fairy	Fairy/Human-Like						TR48	TM064
	Obstagoon	dark/normal	Field						TR48
	Falinks	fighting	Fairy/Mineral						TR48	TM064
	Kubfu	fighting	Undiscovered						TR48	TM064
	Urshifu	fighting/dark	Undiscovered						TR48	TM064
	Urshifu	fighting/water	Undiscovered						TR48	TM064
	Zarude	dark/grass	Undiscovered						TR48	TM064
	Ursaluna	ground/normal	Field							TM064
	Sneasler	fighting/poison	Field							TM064
	Quaquaval	water/fighting	Flying/Water 1							TM064
	Pawmot	electric/fighting	Field							TM064
	Ceruledge	fire/ghost	Human-Like							TM064
	Palafin	water	Field/Water 2							TM064
	Flamigo	flying/fighting	Flying							TM064
	Annihilape	fighting/ghost	Field							TM064
	Great Tusk	ground/fighting	Undiscovered							TM064
	Scream Tail	fairy/psychic	Undiscovered							TM064
	Slither Wing	bug/fighting	Undiscovered							TM064
	Koraidon	fighting/dragon	Undiscovered							TM064
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

Gallery

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Main games

Bulk Up depicted in Generation V

Bulk Up depicted in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!

Bulk Up depicted in Generation VIII

Main series

Bulk Up being used by Paul's Ursaring.

Bulk Up being used by Crasher Wake's Floatzel.

Bulk Up being used by Stephan's Sawk.

Bulk Up being used by Trip's Conkeldurr.

Bulk Up being used by Professor Kukui's Incineroar.

Bulk Up being used by Dozer's Gurdurr.

Pokémon Adventures

Bulk Up being used by Norman's Slaking.