Bulk Up

Bulk Up

ビルドアップ Build-up

Generation:	III

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	－
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	20*
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 SWSH	The user tenses its muscles to bulk up its body, raising both 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
	Poliwrath	water/fighting	Water 1					1PE
	Machop	fighting	Human-Like				37ORAS	37SMUSUM 31PE	36
	Machoke	fighting	Human-Like				43ORAS	43SMUSUM 37PE	42
	Machamp	fighting	Human-Like				43ORAS	43SMUSUM 37PE	42
	Zapdos	fighting/flying	Undiscovered						50
	Combusken	fire/fighting	Field	28	28	28	28XY 31ORAS	31	45
	Blaziken	fire/fighting	Field	28	28	28	28XY 31ORAS	31	49
	Groudon	ground	Undiscovered	30	30DPPt 60HGSS	60	60XY 50ORAS	50	18
	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
	Chespin	grass	Field				39	39
	Quilladin	grass	Field				44	44
	Chesnaught	grass/fighting	Field				44	48
	Skiddo	grass	Field				34	34
	Gogoat	grass	Field				34	34
	Incineroar	fire/dark	Field					1	1
	Passimian	fighting	Field					32	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
	Falinks	fighting	Fairy/Mineral						20
	Kubfu	fighting	Undiscovered						32
	Urshifu	fighting/dark	Undiscovered						32
	Urshifu	fighting/water	Undiscovered						32
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
	Raticate	dark/normal	Field					TM08SMUSUM TM30PE
	Mankey	fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE
	Primeape	fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE
	Poliwrath	water/fighting	Water 1	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Machop	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Machoke	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Machamp	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Hitmonlee	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Hitmonchan	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Pinsir	bug	Bug	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Zapdos	fighting/flying	Undiscovered						TR48
	Mewtwo	psychic	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08SMUSUM TM30PE	TR48
	Snubbull	fairy	Field/Fairy	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Granbull	fairy	Field/Fairy	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Heracross	bug/fighting	Bug	TM08	TM08	TM08B2W2	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Teddiursa	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Ursaring	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Tyrogue	fighting	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Hitmontop	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Combusken	fire/fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Blaziken	fire/fighting	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Swampert	water/ground	Monster/Water 1						TR48
	Breloom	grass/fighting	Fairy/Grass	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Slakoth	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Vigoroth	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Slaking	normal	Field	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Makuhita	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Hariyama	fighting	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Meditite	fighting/psychic	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Medicham	fighting/psychic	Human-Like	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Groudon	ground	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Rayquaza	dragon/flying	Undiscovered	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Chimchar	fire	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Monferno	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Infernape	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Buizel	water	Water 1/Field		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Floatzel	water	Water 1/Field		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08
	Riolu	fighting	Undiscovered		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Lucario	fighting/steel	Field/Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Croagunk	poison/fighting	Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Toxicroak	poison/fighting	Human-Like		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Dialga	steel/dragon	Undiscovered		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Palkia	water/dragon	Undiscovered		TM08	TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	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
	Darmanitan	fire	Field			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Darmanitan	ice	Field						TR48
	Scraggy	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Scrafty	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Beartic	ice	Field			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	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
	Braviary	normal/flying	Flying			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Tornadus	flying	Undiscovered			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Thundurus	electric/flying	Undiscovered			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Landorus	ground/flying	Undiscovered			TM08	TM08	TM08	TR48
	Chespin	grass	Field				TM08	TM08
	Quilladin	grass	Field				TM08	TM08
	Chesnaught	grass/fighting	Field				TM08	TM08
	Bunnelby	normal	Field				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Diggersby	normal/ground	Field				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Talonflame	fire/flying	Flying				TM08	TM08	TR48
	Skiddo	grass	Field				TM08	TM08
	Gogoat	grass	Field				TM08	TM08
	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
	Litten	fire	Field					TM08	TR48
	Torracat	fire	Field					TM08	TR48
	Incineroar	fire/dark	Field					TM08	TR48
	Crabrawler	fighting	Water 3					TM08
	Crabominable	fighting/ice	Water 3					TM08
	Lycanroc	rock	Field					TM08	TR48
	Lycanroc	rock	Field					TM08	TR48
	Lycanroc	rock	Field					TM08USUM	TR48
	Stufful	normal/fighting	Field					TM08	TR48
	Bewear	normal/fighting	Field					TM08	TR48
	Passimian	fighting	Field					TM08	TR48
	Golisopod	bug/water	Bug/Water 3					TM08	TR48
	Komala	normal	Field					TM08
	Turtonator	fire/dragon	Monster/Dragon					TM08	TR48
	Mimikyu	ghost/fairy	Amorphous					TM08	TR48
	Bruxish	water/psychic	Water 2					TM08
	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
	Raboot	fire	Field/Human-Like						TR48
	Cinderace	fire	Field/Human-Like						TR48
	Corviknight	flying/steel	Flying						TR48
	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
	Obstagoon	dark/normal	Field						TR48
	Falinks	fighting	Fairy/Mineral						TR48
	Kubfu	fighting	Undiscovered						TR48
	Urshifu	fighting/dark	Undiscovered						TR48
	Urshifu	fighting/water	Undiscovered						TR48
	Zarude	dark/grass	Undiscovered						TR48
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

• Games
• Anime
• Manga

Main games

• Bulk Up depicted in Generation V.
• Bulk Up depicted in Generation VI.
• Bulk Up depicted in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!.

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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 Genba's Gurdurr.

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Pokémon Adventures

• Bulk Up being used by Norman's Slaking.

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