Cut

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Cut

いあいぎり Iai Cut

Introduced:	Generation I

Battle Data

Type:
Category:
Power:	50
Accuracy:	95%
PP:	30, max: 48
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:	Yes

Contest Data

Contests (RSE)

Condition:	Cool
Appeal:	2 ♥♥
Jam:	1 ♥
Badly startles all Pokémon that made a good appeal.

Super Contests (DPPt)

Condition:	Cool
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Condition:	Cool
Appeal:	4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam:	0
Quite an appealing move.

Cut is a Normal-type move introduced in Generation I. It has been HM01 since Generation I.

Description

Games	Description
GSC	Cuts using claws, scythes, etc.
RSE	Cuts the foe with sharp claws, scythes, etc.
FRLG	A basic attack. It can be used to cut down thin trees and grass.
DPPtHGSS	The foe is attacked with a sharp scythe or claw. It can also be used to cut down thin trees.
BWB2W2	The target is cut with a scythe or claw. It can also be used to cut down thin trees.
XYORAS	The target is cut with a scythe or claw. This can also be used to cut down thin trees.
SMUSUMPE SWSH	The target is cut with a scythe or claw.

Effect

In battle

Cut does damage to the target. In a Double Battle, Cut can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Cut can only target a Pokémon that's adjacent to the user.

Outside of battle

Cut enables Pokémon to cut down small trees that may be blocking the player's path. Prior to Generation IV, Cut could cut down tall grass as well, though in Pokémon Emerald, a Pokémon with the ability Hyper Cutter cuts down the most tall grass in its use.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII
	Farfetch'd	normal/flying	Flying/Field							9PE	15
	Kartana	grass/steel	Undiscovered							1	15
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 HM

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Machine
				I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII
	Bulbasaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Ivysaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Venusaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Charmander	fire	Monster/Dragon	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Charmeleon	fire	Monster/Dragon	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Charizard	fire/flying	Monster/Dragon	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Beedrill	bug/poison	Bug	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Rattata	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Raticate	normal	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sandshrew	ground	Field	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sandslash	ground	Field	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nidoran♀	poison	Monster/Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nidorina	poison	Undiscovered			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nidoqueen	poison/ground	Undiscovered			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nidoran♂	poison	Monster/Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nidorino	poison	Monster/Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nidoking	poison/ground	Monster/Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Oddish	grass/poison	Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Gloom	grass/poison	Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Vileplume	grass/poison	Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Paras	bug/grass	Bug/Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Parasect	bug/grass	Bug/Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Diglett	ground	Field	HM01Y	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Dugtrio	ground	Field	HM01Y	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Meowth	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Persian	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Bellsprout	grass/poison	Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Weepinbell	grass/poison	Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Victreebel	grass/poison	Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Tentacool	water/poison	Water 3	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Tentacruel	water/poison	Water 3	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Farfetch'd	normal/flying	Flying/Field	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Krabby	water	Water 3	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Kingler	water	Water 3	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Lickitung	normal	Monster	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Rhydon	ground/rock	Monster/Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Tangela	grass	Grass	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Kangaskhan	normal	Monster			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Scyther	bug/flying	Bug	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Pinsir	bug	Bug	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Kabutops	rock/water	Water 1/Water 3	HM01Y	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Dragonite	dragon/flying	Water 1/Dragon			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Chikorita	grass	Monster/Grass		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Bayleef	grass	Monster/Grass		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Meganium	grass	Monster/Grass		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Cyndaquil	fire	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Quilava	fire	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Typhlosion	fire	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Totodile	water	Monster/Water 1		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Croconaw	water	Monster/Water 1		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Feraligatr	water	Monster/Water 1		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sentret	normal	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Furret	normal	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Bellossom	grass	Grass		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Aipom	normal	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sunkern	grass	Grass		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sunflora	grass	Grass		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Espeon	psychic	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Umbreon	dark	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Gligar	ground/flying	Bug		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Steelix	steel/ground	Mineral		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Scizor	bug/steel	Bug		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Heracross	bug/fighting	Bug		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sneasel	dark/ice	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Teddiursa	normal	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Ursaring	normal	Field		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Skarmory	steel/flying	Flying		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Raikou	electric	Undiscovered		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Entei	fire	Undiscovered		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Suicune	water	Undiscovered		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Tyranitar	rock/dark	Monster		HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Celebi	psychic/grass	Undiscovered			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Treecko	grass	Monster/Dragon			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Grovyle	grass	Monster/Dragon			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sceptile	grass	Monster/Dragon			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Torchic	fire	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Combusken	fire/fighting	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Blaziken	fire/fighting	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Zigzagoon	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Linoone	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nuzleaf	grass/dark	Field/Grass			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Shiftry	grass/dark	Field/Grass			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Breloom	grass/fighting	Fairy/Grass			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Slakoth	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Vigoroth	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Slaking	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Nincada	bug/ground	Bug			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Ninjask	bug/flying	Bug			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Shedinja	bug/ghost	Mineral			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Sableye	dark/ghost	Human-Like			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Aron	steel/rock	Monster			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Lairon	steel/rock	Monster			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Aggron	steel/rock	Monster			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Roselia	grass/poison	Fairy/Grass			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Cacnea	grass	Grass/Human-Like			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Cacturne	grass/dark	Grass/Human-Like			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Corphish	water	Water 1/Water 3			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Crawdaunt	water/dark	Water 1/Water 3			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Anorith	rock/bug	Water 3			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Armaldo	rock/bug	Water 3			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Kecleon	normal	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Tropius	grass/flying	Monster/Grass			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Absol	dark	Field			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Bagon	dragon	Dragon			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Shelgon	dragon	Dragon			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Salamence	dragon/flying	Dragon			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Metang	steel/psychic	Mineral			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Metagross	steel/psychic	Mineral			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Latias	dragon/psychic	Undiscovered			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Latios	dragon/psychic	Undiscovered			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Groudon	ground	Undiscovered			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Deoxys	psychic	Undiscovered			HM01	HM01	HM01	HM01
	Turtwig	grass	Monster/Grass				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Grotle	grass	Monster/Grass				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Torterra	grass/ground	Monster/Grass				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Chimchar	fire	Field/Human-Like				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Monferno	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Infernape	fire/fighting	Field/Human-Like				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Piplup	water	Water 1/Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Prinplup	water	Water 1/Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Empoleon	water/steel	Water 1/Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Bidoof	normal	Water 1/Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Bibarel	normal/water	Water 1/Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Kricketune	bug	Bug				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Budew	grass/poison	Undiscovered				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Roserade	grass/poison	Fairy/Grass				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Rampardos	rock	Monster				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Vespiquen	bug/flying	Bug				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Pachirisu	electric	Field/Fairy				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Ambipom	normal	Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Drifloon	ghost/flying	Amorphous				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Drifblim	ghost/flying	Amorphous				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Buneary	normal	Field/Human-Like				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Lopunny	normal	Field/Human-Like				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Glameow	normal	Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Purugly	normal	Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Stunky	poison/dark	Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Skuntank	poison/dark	Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Gible	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Gabite	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Garchomp	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Skorupi	poison/bug	Bug/Water 3				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Drapion	poison/dark	Bug/Water 3				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Toxicroak	poison/fighting	Human-Like				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Carnivine	grass	Grass				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Weavile	dark/ice	Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Lickilicky	normal	Monster				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Rhyperior	ground/rock	Monster/Field				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Tangrowth	grass	Grass				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Gliscor	ground/flying	Bug				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Dialga	steel/dragon	Undiscovered				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Palkia	water/dragon	Undiscovered				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Giratina	ghost/dragon	Undiscovered				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Darkrai	dark	Undiscovered				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Arceus	normal	Undiscovered				HM01	HM01	HM01
	Snivy	grass	Field/Grass					HM01	HM01
	Servine	grass	Field/Grass					HM01	HM01
	Serperior	grass	Field/Grass					HM01	HM01
	Oshawott	water	Field					HM01	HM01
	Dewott	water	Field					HM01	HM01
	Samurott	water	Field					HM01	HM01
	Patrat	normal	Field					HM01	HM01
	Watchog	normal	Field					HM01	HM01
	Purrloin	dark	Field					HM01	HM01
	Liepard	dark	Field					HM01	HM01
	Pansage	grass	Field					HM01	HM01
	Simisage	grass	Field					HM01	HM01
	Pansear	fire	Field					HM01	HM01
	Simisear	fire	Field					HM01	HM01
	Panpour	water	Field					HM01	HM01
	Simipour	water	Field					HM01	HM01
	Drilbur	ground	Field					HM01	HM01
	Excadrill	ground/steel	Field					HM01	HM01
	Sewaddle	bug/grass	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Swadloon	bug/grass	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Leavanny	bug/grass	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Scolipede	bug/poison	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Petilil	grass	Grass					HM01	HM01
	Lilligant	grass	Grass					HM01	HM01
	Basculin	water	Water 2					HM01	HM01
	Sandile	ground/dark	Field					HM01	HM01
	Krokorok	ground/dark	Field					HM01	HM01
	Krookodile	ground/dark	Field					HM01	HM01
	Dwebble	bug/rock	Bug/Mineral					HM01	HM01
	Crustle	bug/rock	Bug/Mineral					HM01	HM01
	Archen	rock/flying	Flying/Water 3					HM01	HM01
	Archeops	rock/flying	Flying/Water 3					HM01	HM01
	Zorua	dark	Field					HM01	HM01
	Zoroark	dark	Field					HM01	HM01
	Sawsbuck	normal/grass	Field					HM01	HM01
	Emolga	electric/flying	Field					HM01	HM01
	Karrablast	bug	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Escavalier	bug/steel	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Joltik	bug/electric	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Galvantula	bug/electric	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Ferrothorn	grass/steel	Grass/Mineral					HM01	HM01
	Eelektross	electric	Amorphous					HM01	HM01
	Axew	dragon	Monster/Dragon					HM01	HM01
	Fraxure	dragon	Monster/Dragon					HM01	HM01
	Haxorus	dragon	Monster/Dragon					HM01	HM01
	Cubchoo	ice	Field					HM01	HM01
	Beartic	ice	Field					HM01	HM01
	Druddigon	dragon	Dragon/Monster					HM01	HM01
	Pawniard	dark/steel	Human-Like					HM01	HM01
	Bisharp	dark/steel	Human-Like					HM01	HM01
	Bouffalant	normal	Field					HM01	HM01
	Rufflet	normal/flying	Flying					HM01	HM01
	Braviary	normal/flying	Flying					HM01	HM01
	Vullaby	dark/flying	Flying					HM01	HM01
	Mandibuzz	dark/flying	Flying					HM01	HM01
	Heatmor	fire	Field					HM01	HM01
	Durant	bug/steel	Bug					HM01	HM01
	Cobalion	steel/fighting	Undiscovered					HM01	HM01
	Terrakion	rock/fighting	Undiscovered					HM01	HM01
	Virizion	grass/fighting	Undiscovered					HM01	HM01
	Reshiram	dragon/fire	Undiscovered					HM01	HM01
	Zekrom	dragon/electric	Undiscovered					HM01	HM01
	Kyurem	dragon/ice	Undiscovered					HM01	HM01
	Kyurem	dragon/ice	Undiscovered					HM01B2W2	HM01
	Kyurem	dragon/ice	Undiscovered					HM01B2W2	HM01
	Keldeo	water/fighting	Undiscovered					HM01	HM01
	Chespin	grass	Field						HM01
	Quilladin	grass	Field						HM01
	Chesnaught	grass/fighting	Field						HM01
	Fennekin	fire	Field						HM01
	Braixen	fire	Field						HM01
	Delphox	fire/psychic	Field						HM01
	Froakie	water	Water 1						HM01
	Frogadier	water	Water 1						HM01
	Greninja	water/dark	Water 1						HM01
	Bunnelby	normal	Field						HM01
	Diggersby	normal/ground	Field						HM01
	Pancham	fighting	Field/Human-Like						HM01
	Pangoro	fighting/dark	Field/Human-Like						HM01
	Espurr	psychic	Field						HM01
	Meowstic	psychic	Field						HM01
	Meowstic	psychic	Field						HM01
	Honedge	steel/ghost	Mineral						HM01
	Doublade	steel/ghost	Mineral						HM01
	Aegislash	steel/ghost	Mineral						HM01
	Inkay	dark/psychic	Water 1/Water 2						HM01
	Malamar	dark/psychic	Water 1/Water 2						HM01
	Binacle	rock/water	Water 3						HM01
	Barbaracle	rock/water	Water 3						HM01
	Clauncher	water	Water 1/Water 3						HM01
	Clawitzer	water	Water 1/Water 3						HM01
	Helioptile	electric/normal	Monster/Dragon						HM01
	Heliolisk	electric/normal	Monster/Dragon						HM01
	Sylveon	fairy	Field						HM01
	Hawlucha	fighting/flying	Flying/Human-Like						HM01
	Dedenne	electric/fairy	Field/Fairy						HM01
	Klefki	steel/fairy	Mineral						HM01
	Phantump	ghost/grass	Grass/Amorphous						HM01
	Trevenant	ghost/grass	Grass/Amorphous						HM01
	Noibat	flying/dragon	Flying/Dragon						HM01
	Noivern	flying/dragon	Flying/Dragon						HM01
	Xerneas	fairy	Undiscovered						HM01
	Yveltal	dark/flying	Undiscovered						HM01
	Volcanion	fire/water	Undiscovered						HM01
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

Trivia

• The Japanese name of the move refers to iaidō, a Japanese martial art technique that involves quickly drawing one's sword to respond to sudden oncoming attacks.

Gallery

• Games
• Anime

Main games

• Cut being used in Generation I.
• Cut being used in Generation II.
• Cut depicted in Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed and LeafGreen.
• Cut depicted in Black, White, Black 2 and White 2.
• Cut depicted in X, Y, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
• Cut depicted in Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon.

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Main series

• Cut being used by Tracey's Scyther.
• Cut being used by Harley's Cacturne.
• Cut being used by Nando's Sunflora.
• Cut being used by Trip's Servine.
• Cut being used by Ash's Ash-Greninja.
• Cut being used by Goh's Farfetch'd.

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