Crunch

Crunch

かみくだく Crunch

Introduced:	Generation II

Battle Data

Type:
Category:
Power:	80
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	15, max: 24
Priority:	0
Contact:	Yes

Affected by

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

Contest Data

Contests (RSE)

Condition:	Tough
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	4 ♥♥♥♥
Badly startles the Pokémon in front.

Super Contests (DPPt)

Condition:	Tough
Appeal:	2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Condition:	Tough
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	4 ♥♥♥♥
Badly startles the last Pokémon to act before the user.

Crunch is a Dark-type move introduced in Generation II.

Description

Games	Description
GSC	An attack that may lower SPCL. DEF.
RSE	Crunches with sharp fangs. May lower SP. DEF.
FRLG	The foe is crunches with sharp fangs. It may lower the foe's SP. DEF.
DPPtHGSS	The user crunches up the foe with sharp fangs. It may also lower the target's Defense stat.
BWB2W2 XYORAS	The user crunches up the target with sharp fangs. It may also lower the target's Defense stat.
SMUSUMPE SWSH	The user crunches up the target with sharp fangs. This may also lower the target's Defense stat.

Effect

In Battle

From Generation II to Generation III, Crunch does damage and has a 20% chance to lower the target's Special Defense by 1 stage. As of Generation IV, Crunch does damage and has a 20% chance to lower the target's Defense by 1 stage. In a Double Battle, Crunch can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Crunch can only target a Pokémon that is adjacent to the user.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII
	Charizard	fire/flying	Monster/Dragon						1PE
	Rattata	normal	Field			22	22	22	22SMUSUM 18PE
	Rattata	dark/normal	Field						22SMUSUM 18PE
	Raticate	normal	Field			24	24	24	24SMUSUM 18PE
	Raticate	dark/normal	Field						24SMUSUM 18PE
	Arbok	poison	Field/Dragon			22	22	22	1, Evo.
	Nidoran♀	poison	Monster/Field		47	37	37	37	37SMUSUM 24PE	50
	Nidorina	poison	Undiscovered		53	43	43	43	43SMUSUM 39PE	64
	Nidoqueen	poison/ground	Undiscovered							1
	Golbat	poison/flying	Flying						1, Evo.PE
	Growlithe	fire	Field			42	45BW 39B2W2	39	39SMUSUM 28PE	32
	Arcanine	fire	Field							1
	Grimer	poison/dark	Amorphous						32SMUSUM 36PE
	Muk	poison/dark	Amorphous						32SMUSUM 36PE
	Rhydon	ground/rock	Monster/Field						1PE
	Kangaskhan	normal	Monster			31	37	37	37SMUSUM 39PE	36
	Gyarados	water/flying	Water 2/Dragon					41ORAS	39SMUSUM 36PE	24
	Omastar	rock/water	Water 1/Water 3							1, Evo.
	Aerodactyl	rock/flying	Flying			33	33	33	33SMUSUM 35PE	30
	Snorlax	normal	Monster			44	49	49	49SMUSUM 58PE	24
	Totodile	water	Monster/Water 1			27	27	27	27
	Croconaw	water	Monster/Water 1			30	30	30	30
	Feraligatr	water	Monster/Water 1			32	32	32	32
	Girafarig	normal/psychic	Field	54	49	46	46	46XY 37ORAS	37
	Steelix	steel/ground	Mineral	49	49RSE 52FRLG	41DP 46PtHGSS	54BW 37B2W2	37	37	1
	Snubbull	fairy	Field/Fairy		53	49	49	49	49
	Granbull	fairy	Field/Fairy		61	59	59	59	59
	Houndour	dark/fire	Field	43	49	48	49	49	49
	Houndoom	dark/fire	Field	52	59	54	56	56	56
	Raikou	electric	Undiscovered	61	61	43	43	43	43	42
	Entei	fire	Undiscovered							42
	Suicune	water	Undiscovered							42
	Larvitar	rock/ground	Monster	43	43	37	41	41	41	27
	Pupitar	rock/ground	Monster	47	47	41	47	47	47	27
	Tyranitar	rock/dark	Monster	47	47	41	47	47	47	27
	Poochyena	dark	Field		41	53	53	53XY 37ORAS	34
	Mightyena	dark	Field		47			1, 65XY 1, 44ORAS	1, 40
	Exploud	normal	Monster/Field			40	40	40	1, Evo.	1, Evo.
	Mawile	steel/fairy	Field/Fairy		36	36	36	36XY 29ORAS	29	28
	Carvanha	water/dark	Water 2		22	28	28	28XY 36ORAS	36	32
	Sharpedo	water/dark	Water 2		22	28	28	28XY 40ORAS	40	34
	Trapinch	ground	Bug/Dragon		33	33	33BW 34B2W2	34XY 22ORAS	22	28
	Vibrava	ground/dragon	Bug/Dragon		33					1
	Flygon	ground/dragon	Bug/Dragon		33					1
	Seviper	poison	Field/Dragon		28	28	28BW 45B2W2	45XY 40ORAS	39
	Corphish	water	Water 1/Water 3		43FRLG	47	47	47XY 39ORAS	39	40
	Crawdaunt	water/dark	Water 1/Water 3		51FRLG	57	57	57XY 43ORAS	43	46
	Snorunt	ice	Fairy/Mineral		28	31	31	31XY 41ORAS	41	55
	Glalie	ice	Fairy/Mineral		28	31	31	31XY 41ORAS	41	61
	Walrein	ice/water	Water 1/Field			1	1	1	1	1
	Huntail	water	Water 1		36	42	42	42XY 34ORAS	34
	Bagon	dragon	Dragon		41	46	46	46XY 25ORAS	25	25
	Shelgon	dragon	Dragon		56	50	50	50XY 25ORAS	25	25
	Salamence	dragon/flying	Dragon		61	53	53	53XY 25ORAS	25	25
	Rayquaza	dragon/flying	Undiscovered		35	35DPPt 15HGSS	15	15XY 20ORAS	20	9
	Turtwig	grass	Monster/Grass			37	37	37	37
	Grotle	grass	Monster/Grass			42	42	42	42
	Torterra	grass/ground	Monster/Grass			45	45	45	45
	Bidoof	normal	Water 1/Field						25
	Bibarel	normal/water	Water 1/Field						28
	Shinx	electric	Field			29DP 33PtHGSS	33	33	33	36
	Luxio	electric	Field			33DP 38PtHGSS	38	38	38	48
	Luxray	electric	Field			35DP 42PtHGSS	42	42	42	56
	Floatzel	water	Water 1/Field			26	26BW 1B2W2	1	1
	Garchomp	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon			48	48	48	1, Evo.	1, Evo.
	Hippopotas	ground	Field			31	31	31	31	20
	Hippowdon	ground	Field			31	31	31	31	20
	Skorupi	poison/bug	Bug/Water 3			45	56BW 45B2W2	45	45	48
	Drapion	poison/dark	Bug/Water 3			49	65BW 49B2W2	49	49	54
	Carnivine	grass	Grass			37	41	41	41
	Froslass	ice/ghost	Fairy/Mineral							1
	Heatran	fire/steel	Undiscovered			33	33	33	33	36
	Patrat	normal	Field				16	16	16
	Watchog	normal	Field				16	16	16
	Lillipup	normal	Field				22	22	22	24
	Herdier	normal	Field				24	24	24	30
	Stoutland	normal	Field				24	24	24	30
	Pansage	grass	Field				43	43	43
	Pansear	fire	Field				43	43	43
	Panpour	water	Field				43	43	43
	Basculin	water	Water 2				24	24	17	32
	Sandile	ground/dark	Field				28	28	28	27
	Krokorok	ground/dark	Field				28	28	28	27
	Krookodile	ground/dark	Field				28	28	28	27
	Scraggy	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon				38	38	38	40
	Scrafty	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon				38	38	38	42
	Tirtouga	water/rock	Water 1/Water 3				21	21	21	27
	Carracosta	water/rock	Water 1/Water 3				21	21	21	27
	Archen	rock/flying	Flying/Water 3				35	35	35	30
	Archeops	rock/flying	Flying/Water 3				35	35	35	30
	Eelektrik	electric	Amorphous				39	39	1, Evo.
	Eelektross	electric	Amorphous				1	1	1
	Axew	dragon	Monster/Dragon							24
	Fraxure	dragon	Monster/Dragon							24
	Haxorus	dragon	Monster/Dragon							24
	Druddigon	dragon	Dragon/Monster				25	25	25	40
	Durant	bug/steel	Bug				31	31	21	36
	Deino	dark/dragon	Dragon				25	25	25	32
	Zweilous	dark/dragon	Dragon				25	25	25	32
	Hydreigon	dark/dragon	Dragon				25	25	25	32
	Tornadus	flying	Undiscovered				49	49	43	40
	Thundurus	electric/flying	Undiscovered				49	49	43	40
	Reshiram	dragon/fire	Undiscovered				71	71	71	16
	Zekrom	dragon/electric	Undiscovered				71	71	71	16
	Litleo	fire/normal	Field					39	39
	Pyroar	fire/normal	Field					42	42
	Pancham	fighting	Field/Human-Like					39	39	33
	Pangoro	fighting/dark	Field/Human-Like					42	42	35
	Tyrunt	rock/dragon	Monster/Dragon					34	34	32
	Tyrantrum	rock/dragon	Monster/Dragon					34	34	32
	Bergmite	ice	Monster/Mineral							33
	Avalugg	ice	Monster/Mineral					1, 65	1, 65	33
	Zygarde	dragon/ground	Undiscovered					51	51	32
	Yungoos	normal	Field						34
	Gumshoos	normal	Field						39
	Grubbin	bug	Bug						22	35
	Charjabug	bug/electric	Bug						25	43
	Vikavolt	bug/electric	Bug							1
	Rockruff	rock	Field						40	36
	Lycanroc	rock	Field						40	42
	Lycanroc	rock	Field						40	42
	Lycanroc	rock	Field						40USUM	42
	Dewpider	water/bug	Water 1/Bug						32	24
	Araquanid	water/bug	Water 1/Bug						38	26
	Silvally	normal	Undiscovered						50	45
	Bruxish	water/psychic	Water 2						28
	Solgaleo	psychic/steel	Undiscovered						37	42
	Guzzlord	dark/dragon	Undiscovered						37	30
	Drednaw	water/rock	Monster/Water 1							1
	Yamper	electric	Field							30
	Boltund	electric	Field							34
	Arrokuda	water	Water 2							36
	Barraskewda	water	Water 2							40
	Sizzlipede	fire/bug	Bug							40
	Centiskorch	fire/bug	Bug							46
	Morpeko	electric/dark	Field/Fairy							50
	Dracovish	water/dragon	Undiscovered							56
	Arctovish	water/ice	Undiscovered							56
	Zacian	fairy	Undiscovered							55
	Zamazenta	fighting	Undiscovered							55
	Regidrago	dragon	Undiscovered							30
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 TR

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Machine
				II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII
	Charmander	fire	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Charmeleon	fire	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Charizard	fire/flying	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Blastoise	water	Monster/Water 1							TR32
	Nidoran♀	poison	Monster/Field							TR32
	Nidorina	poison	Undiscovered							TR32
	Nidoqueen	poison/ground	Undiscovered							TR32
	Zubat	poison/flying	Flying							TR32
	Golbat	poison/flying	Flying							TR32
	Meowth	steel	Field							TR32
	Growlithe	fire	Field							TR32
	Arcanine	fire	Field							TR32
	Rhyhorn	ground/rock	Monster/Field							TR32
	Rhydon	ground/rock	Monster/Field							TR32
	Kangaskhan	normal	Monster							TR32
	Gyarados	water/flying	Water 2/Dragon							TR32
	Omastar	rock/water	Water 1/Water 3							TR32
	Aerodactyl	rock/flying	Flying							TR32
	Snorlax	normal	Monster							TR32
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered							TR32
	Crobat	poison/flying	Flying							TR32
	Umbreon	dark	Field							TR32
	Steelix	steel/ground	Mineral							TR32
	Raikou	electric	Undiscovered							TR32
	Entei	fire	Undiscovered							TR32
	Suicune	water	Undiscovered							TR32
	Larvitar	rock/ground	Monster							TR32
	Pupitar	rock/ground	Monster							TR32
	Tyranitar	rock/dark	Monster							TR32
	Treecko	grass	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Grovyle	grass	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Sceptile	grass	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Exploud	normal	Monster/Field							TR32
	Mawile	steel/fairy	Field/Fairy							TR32
	Aggron	steel/rock	Monster							TR32
	Electrike	electric	Field							TR32
	Manectric	electric	Field							TR32
	Carvanha	water/dark	Water 2							TR32
	Sharpedo	water/dark	Water 2							TR32
	Trapinch	ground	Bug/Dragon							TR32
	Vibrava	ground/dragon	Bug/Dragon							TR32
	Flygon	ground/dragon	Bug/Dragon							TR32
	Corphish	water	Water 1/Water 3							TR32
	Crawdaunt	water/dark	Water 1/Water 3							TR32
	Snorunt	ice	Fairy/Mineral							TR32
	Glalie	ice	Fairy/Mineral							TR32
	Walrein	ice/water	Water 1/Field							TR32
	Bagon	dragon	Dragon							TR32
	Shelgon	dragon	Dragon							TR32
	Salamence	dragon/flying	Dragon							TR32
	Rayquaza	dragon/flying	Undiscovered							TR32
	Shinx	electric	Field							TR32
	Luxio	electric	Field							TR32
	Luxray	electric	Field							TR32
	Stunky	poison/dark	Field							TR32
	Skuntank	poison/dark	Field							TR32
	Garchomp	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Riolu	fighting	Undiscovered							TR32
	Lucario	fighting/steel	Field/Human-Like							TR32
	Hippopotas	ground	Field							TR32
	Hippowdon	ground	Field							TR32
	Skorupi	poison/bug	Bug/Water 3							TR32
	Drapion	poison/dark	Bug/Water 3							TR32
	Rhyperior	ground/rock	Monster/Field							TR32
	Froslass	ice/ghost	Fairy/Mineral							TR32
	Heatran	fire/steel	Undiscovered							TR32
	Lillipup	normal	Field							TR32
	Herdier	normal	Field							TR32
	Stoutland	normal	Field							TR32
	Basculin	water	Water 2							TR32
	Sandile	ground/dark	Field							TR32
	Krokorok	ground/dark	Field							TR32
	Krookodile	ground/dark	Field							TR32
	Scraggy	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon							TR32
	Scrafty	dark/fighting	Field/Dragon							TR32
	Tirtouga	water/rock	Water 1/Water 3							TR32
	Carracosta	water/rock	Water 1/Water 3							TR32
	Archen	rock/flying	Flying/Water 3							TR32
	Archeops	rock/flying	Flying/Water 3							TR32
	Axew	dragon	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Fraxure	dragon	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Haxorus	dragon	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Stunfisk	ground/steel	Water 1/Amorphous							TR32
	Druddigon	dragon	Dragon/Monster							TR32
	Durant	bug/steel	Bug							TR32
	Deino	dark/dragon	Dragon							TR32
	Zweilous	dark/dragon	Dragon							TR32
	Hydreigon	dark/dragon	Dragon							TR32
	Tornadus	flying	Undiscovered							TR32
	Thundurus	electric/flying	Undiscovered							TR32
	Reshiram	dragon/fire	Undiscovered							TR32
	Zekrom	dragon/electric	Undiscovered							TR32
	Pancham	fighting	Field/Human-Like							TR32
	Pangoro	fighting/dark	Field/Human-Like							TR32
	Tyrunt	rock/dragon	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Tyrantrum	rock/dragon	Monster/Dragon							TR32
	Bergmite	ice	Monster/Mineral							TR32
	Avalugg	ice	Monster/Mineral							TR32
	Zygarde	dragon/ground	Undiscovered							TR32
	Litten	fire	Field							TR32
	Torracat	fire	Field							TR32
	Incineroar	fire/dark	Field							TR32
	Grubbin	bug	Bug							TR32
	Charjabug	bug/electric	Bug							TR32
	Vikavolt	bug/electric	Bug							TR32
	Rockruff	rock	Field							TR32
	Lycanroc	rock	Field							TR32
	Lycanroc	rock	Field							TR32
	Lycanroc	rock	Field							TR32
	Dewpider	water/bug	Water 1/Bug							TR32
	Araquanid	water/bug	Water 1/Bug							TR32
	Silvally	normal	Undiscovered							TR32
	Solgaleo	psychic/steel	Undiscovered							TR32
	Guzzlord	dark/dragon	Undiscovered							TR32
	Skwovet	normal	Field							TR32
	Greedent	normal	Field							TR32
	Thievul	dark	Field							TR32
	Drednaw	water/rock	Monster/Water 1							TR32
	Yamper	electric	Field							TR32
	Boltund	electric	Field							TR32
	Arrokuda	water	Water 2							TR32
	Barraskewda	water	Water 2							TR32
	Sizzlipede	fire/bug	Bug							TR32
	Centiskorch	fire/bug	Bug							TR32
	Grimmsnarl	dark/fairy	Fairy/Human-Like							TR32
	Perrserker	steel	Field							TR32
	Morpeko	electric/dark	Field/Fairy							TR32
	Dracovish	water/dragon	Undiscovered							TR32
	Arctovish	water/ice	Undiscovered							TR32
	Zacian	fairy	Undiscovered							TR32
	Zamazenta	fighting	Undiscovered							TR32
	Urshifu	fighting/dark	Undiscovered							TR32
	Zarude	dark/grass	Undiscovered							TR32
	Regidrago	dragon	Undiscovered							TR32
	Glastrier	ice	Undiscovered							TR32
	Spectrier	ghost	Undiscovered							TR32
	Calyrex	psychic/ice	Undiscovered							TR32
	Calyrex	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered							TR32
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

Main games

• Crunch depicted in Generation II.
• Crunch depicted in Generation III.
• Crunch depicted in Generation IV.
• Crunch depicted in Generation VI.
• Crunch depicted in Pokémon Sun, Pokémon Moon, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon.
• Crunch depicted in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

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Main series

• Crunch being used by Harrison's Steelix.
• Crunch being used by Paul's Torterra.
• Crunch being used by Khoury's Totodile.
• Crunch being used by Ash's Krookodile.
• Crunch being used by Alain's Tyranitar.
• Crunch being used by Gladion's Lycanroc.
• Crunch being used by Misty's Mega Gyarados.
• Crunch being used by Hodge's Mightyena.

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Spin-offs & shorts

• Crunch being used by Hun's Steelix (Pokémon Chronicles).
• Crunch being used by Cheren's Stoutland.

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See also

• Bite