False Swipe

みねうち Blunt Strike

Generation:	II

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	40
Accuracy:	100
PP:	40, max: ?
Affects:	Selected target
Secondary Effect:	Leaves opponent with 1 HP.
Priority:	0
Contact:	Yes

Affected by

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

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Type:
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	3 ♥♥♥

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Type:
Appeal:	0

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

False Swipe is a Normal-type move that will always leave at least 1 hit point if the damage would have knocked out a Pokémon.

From Generation IV to VII, it can be taught via TM54; in Generation VIII, it is contained in TM94 instead.

Description[]

Games	Description
GS C	Leaves the foe with at least 1HP.
RS E	An attack that leaves the foe with at least 1 HP.
FRLG	A restrained attack that always leaves the foe with at least 1 HP.
DP Pt HGSS	A restrained attack that prevents the foe from fainting. The target is left with at least 1 HP.
BW B2W2 XY ORAS SM USUM SwSh BDSP LA SV	A restrained attack that prevents the target from fainting. The target is left with at least 1 HP.

Effect[]

False Swipe deals damage and leaves the target with at least 1 HP. If the target already has 1 HP, it hits but will not deal damage.

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Farfetch'd	normal/flying	Flying/Field	44	46	43DP 45Pt HGSS	45	45	45	35
	Cubone	ground	Monster	33	33	27	27	27	27	8
	Marowak	ground	Monster	39	39	27	27	27	27	1
	Marowak	fire/ghost	Monster							1
	Scyther	bug/flying	Bug	18	16	13	13	13	13	8	8
	Scizor	bug/steel	Bug	18	16	13	13	13	13	1	1
	Grovyle	grass	Monster/Dragon		53	53	53	53XY 48ORAS	48	1
	Sceptile	grass	Monster/Dragon		59	59	59	59XY 51ORAS	51	1
	Nincada	bug/ground	Bug		25	25	25	25XY 33ORAS	33	10
	Ninjask	bug/flying	Bug							1
	Shedinja	bug/ghost	Mineral							1
	Zangoose	normal	Field		55	44	44BW 29B2W2	29	29	29BDSP	29
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous			45	50	50XY 44ORAS	44	23	23
	Leavanny	bug/grass	Bug				1	1	1
	Karrablast	bug	Bug				25	25	25	12
	Escavalier	bug/steel	Bug				25	25	25	12
	Axew	dragon	Monster/Dragon				24	24	24	6	6
	Fraxure	dragon	Monster/Dragon				24	24	24	1	1
	Haxorus	dragon	Monster/Dragon				24	24	24	1	1
	Tapu Koko	electric/fairy	Undiscovered						1	15
	Kartana	grass/steel	Undiscovered						7	10
	Kleavor	bug/rock	Bug								8
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[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Machine
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Bulbasaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Ivysaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Venusaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Charmander	fire	Monster/Dragon							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Charmeleon	fire	Monster/Dragon							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Charizard	fire/flying	Monster/Dragon							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Squirtle	water	Monster/Water 1							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Wartortle	water	Monster/Water 1							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Blastoise	water	Monster/Water 1							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Beedrill	bug/poison	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP
	Spearow	normal/flying	Flying				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP
	Fearow	normal/flying	Flying				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP
	Paras	bug/grass	Bug/Grass			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP
	Parasect	bug/grass	Bug/Grass			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP
	Meowth	normal	Field								TM057
	Meowth	steel	Field								TM057
	Persian	normal	Field								TM057
	Farfetch'd	normal/flying	Flying/Field			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Krabby	water	Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Kingler	water	Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Cubone	ground	Monster			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Marowak	ground	Monster			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Marowak	fire/ghost	Monster						TM54	TM94SwSh
	Scyther	bug/flying	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Pinsir	bug	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Jolteon	electric	Field								TM057
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Gligar	ground/flying	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP
	Scizor	bug/steel	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Heracross	bug/fighting	Bug				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Sneasel	dark/ice	Field			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Sneasel	fighting/poison	Field								TM057
	Grovyle	grass	Monster/Dragon			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Sceptile	grass	Monster/Dragon			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Seedot	grass	Field/Grass				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Nuzleaf	grass/dark	Field/Grass				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Shiftry	grass/dark	Field/Grass				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Shroomish	grass	Fairy/Grass				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP	TM057
	Breloom	grass/fighting	Fairy/Grass				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP	TM057
	Slakoth	normal	Field								TM057
	Vigoroth	normal	Field								TM057
	Slaking	normal	Field								TM057
	Nincada	bug/ground	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Ninjask	bug/flying	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Shedinja	bug/ghost	Mineral			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Mawile	steel/fairy	Field/Fairy				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Swablu	normal/flying	Flying/Dragon							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Altaria	dragon/flying	Flying/Dragon							TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Zangoose	normal	Field			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP	TM057
	Corphish	water	Water 1/Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Crawdaunt	water/dark	Water 1/Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Anorith	rock/bug	Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Armaldo	rock/bug	Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Absol	dark	Field			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Kricketune	bug	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP	TM057
	Gible	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon								TM057
	Gabite	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon								TM057
	Garchomp	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Skorupi	poison/bug	Bug/Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Drapion	poison/dark	Bug/Water 3			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP
	Weavile	dark/ice	Field			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Gliscor	ground/flying	Bug			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54BDSP
	Gallade	psychic/fighting	Human-Like/Amorphous			TM54	TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94SwSh TM54BDSP	TM057
	Oshawott	water	Field				TM54	TM54	TM54		TM057
	Dewott	water	Field				TM54	TM54	TM54		TM057
	Samurott	water	Field				TM54	TM54	TM54		TM057
	Samurott	water/dark	Field								TM057
	Leavanny	bug/grass	Bug				TM54	TM54	TM54
	Karrablast	bug	Bug				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94
	Escavalier	bug/steel	Bug				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94
	Axew	dragon	Monster/Dragon				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94	TM057
	Fraxure	dragon	Monster/Dragon				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94	TM057
	Haxorus	dragon	Monster/Dragon				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94	TM057
	Pawniard	dark/steel	Human-Like				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94	TM057
	Bisharp	dark/steel	Human-Like				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94	TM057
	Cobalion	steel/fighting	Undiscovered				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94
	Terrakion	rock/fighting	Undiscovered				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94
	Virizion	grass/fighting	Undiscovered				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94
	Keldeo	water/fighting	Undiscovered				TM54	TM54	TM54	TM94
	Froakie	water	Water 1								TM057
	Frogadier	water	Water 1								TM057
	Greninja	water/dark	Water 1								TM057
	Pancham	fighting	Field/Human-Like					TM54	TM54	TM94
	Pangoro	fighting/dark	Field/Human-Like					TM54	TM54	TM94
	Honedge	steel/ghost	Mineral					TM54	TM54	TM94
	Doublade	steel/ghost	Mineral					TM54	TM54	TM94
	Aegislash	steel/ghost	Mineral					TM54	TM54	TM94
	Binacle	rock/water	Water 3					TM54	TM54	TM94
	Barbaracle	rock/water	Water 3					TM54	TM54	TM94
	Hawlucha	fighting/flying	Flying/Human-Like					TM54	TM54	TM94	TM057
	Rowlet	grass/flying	Flying						TM54	TM94	TM057
	Dartrix	grass/flying	Flying						TM54	TM94	TM057
	Decidueye	grass/ghost	Flying						TM54	TM94	TM057
	Decidueye	grass/fighting	Flying								TM057
	Fomantis	grass	Grass						TM54	TM94	TM057
	Lurantis	grass	Grass						TM54	TM94	TM057
	Golisopod	bug/water	Bug/Water 3						TM54	TM94
	Jangmo-o	dragon	Dragon						TM54	TM94
	Hakamo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon						TM54	TM94
	Kommo-o	dragon/fighting	Dragon						TM54	TM94
	Tapu Koko	electric/fairy	Undiscovered						TM54	TM94
	Tapu Bulu	grass/fairy	Undiscovered						TM54	TM94
	Buzzwole	bug/fighting	Undiscovered						TM54	TM94
	Pheromosa	bug/fighting	Undiscovered						TM54	TM94
	Kartana	grass/steel	Undiscovered						TM54	TM94
	Magearna	steel/fairy	Undiscovered						TM54	TM94	TM057
	Marshadow	fighting/ghost	Undiscovered						TM54	TM94
	Zeraora	electric	Undiscovered						TM54USUM	TM94
	Grookey	grass	Field/Grass							TM94	TM057
	Thwackey	grass	Field/Grass							TM94	TM057
	Rillaboom	grass	Field/Grass							TM94	TM057
	Chewtle	water	Monster/Water 1								TM057
	Drednaw	water/rock	Monster/Water 1							TM94	TM057
	Falinks	fighting	Fairy/Mineral							TM94	TM057
	Zacian	fairy	Undiscovered							TM94	TM057
	Urshifu	fighting/dark	Undiscovered							TM94	TM057
	Urshifu	fighting/water	Undiscovered							TM94	TM057
	Kleavor	bug/rock	Bug								TM057
	Sneasler	fighting/poison	Field								TM057
	Tarountula	bug	Bug								TM057
	Spidops	bug	Bug								TM057
	Ceruledge	fire/ghost	Human-Like								TM057
	Kingambit	dark/steel	Human-Like								TM057
	Baxcalibur	dragon/ice	Dragon/Mineral								TM057
	Chien-Pao	dark/ice	Undiscovered								TM057
	Iron Valiant	fairy/fighting	Undiscovered								TM057
	Iron Leaves	grass/psychic	Undiscovered								TM057
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

v · d · e List of Normal-type moves

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A	Acupressure After You Assist Attract

B	Barrage Baton Pass Belly Drum Bestow Bide Bind Bite Block Blood Moon Body Slam Boomburst

C	Camouflage Captivate Celebrate Charm Chip Away Comet Punch Confide Constrict Conversion Conversion 2 Copycat Court Change Covet Crush Claw Crush Grip Cut

D	Defense Curl Disable Dizzy Punch Doodle Double Hit Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge

E	Echoed Voice Egg Bomb Encore Endeavor Endure Entrainment Explosion Extreme Speed

F	Facade Fake Out False Swipe Feint Fillet Away Flail Flash Focus Energy Follow Me Foresight Frustration Fury Attack Fury Swipes

G	Giga Impact Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust

H	Happy Hour Harden Head Charge Headbutt Heal Bell Helping Hand Hidden Power Hold Back Hold Hands Horn Attack Horn Drill Howl Hyper Beam Hyper Drill Hyper Fang Hyper Voice

J	Judgment

K	Karate Chop

L	Laser Focus Last Resort Leer Lock-On Lovely Kiss Lucky Chant

M	Me First Mean Look Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Milk Drink Mimic Mind Reader Minimize Moonlight Morning Sun Multi-Attack

N	Natural Gift Nature Power Noble Roar

O	Odor Sleuth

P	Pain Split Pay Day Perish Song Play Nice Population Bomb Pound Power Shift Present Protect Psych Up

Q	Quick Attack

R	Rage Raging Bull Rapid Spin Razor Wind Recover Recycle Reflect Type Refresh Relic Song Retaliate Return Revelation Dance Revival Blessing Roar Rock Climb Round

S	Safeguard Sand Attack Scary Face Scratch Screech Secret Power Self-Destruct Sharpen Shed Tail Shell Smash Simple Beam Sing Sketch Skull Bash Slack Off Slam Slash Sleep Talk Smelling Salts Smokescreen Snore Soft-Boiled Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Spit Up Splash Spotlight Stockpile Stomp Strength Struggle Stuff Cheeks Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Swagger Swallow Sweet Kiss Sweet Scent Swift Swords Dance

T	Tackle Tail Slap Tail Whip Take Down Tearful Look Teatime Techno Blast Teeter Dance Tera Blast Tera Starstorm Terrain Pulse Thrash Tickle Tidy Up Transform Tri Attack Trump Card

U	Uproar

V	Vise Grip

W	Weather Ball Whirlwind Wish Work Up Wrap Wring Out

Y	Yawn

See also	Bug-type Dark-type Dragon-type Electric-type Fairy-type Fighting-type Fire-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Ice-type Poison-type Psychic-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type

Moves

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation II

Bug-type · Dark-type · Dragon-type · Electric-type · Fairy-type · Fighting-type · Fire-type · Flying-type · Ghost-type · Grass-type · Ground-type · Ice-type · Normal-type · Poison-type · Psychic-type · Rock-type · Steel-type · Water-type

A	Aeroblast Ancient Power Attract

B	Baton Pass Beat Up Belly Drum Bone Rush

C	Charm Conversion 2 Cotton Spore Cross Chop Crunch Curse

D	Destiny Bond Detect Dragon Breath Dynamic Punch

E	Encore Endure Extreme Speed

F	False Swipe Feint Attack Flail Flame Wheel Foresight Frustration Fury Cutter Future Sight

G	Giga Drain

H	Heal Bell Hidden Power

I	Icy Wind Iron Tail

L	Lock-On

M	Mach Punch Magnitude Mean Look Megahorn Metal Claw Milk Drink Mind Reader Mirror Coat Moonlight Morning Sun Mud-Slap

N	Nightmare

O	Octazooka Outrage

P	Pain Split Perish Song Powder Snow Present Protect Psych Up Pursuit

R	Rain Dance Rapid Spin Return Reversal Rock Smash Rollout

S	Sacred Fire Safeguard Sandstorm Scary Face Shadow Ball Sketch Sleep Talk Sludge Bomb Snore Spark Spider Web Spikes Spite Steel Wing Sunny Day Swagger Sweet Kiss Sweet Scent Synthesis

T	Thief Triple Kick Twister

V	Vital Throw

W	Whirlpool

Z	Zap Cannon

See also	Generation I Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Generation II

False Swipe

Contents

Description[]

Effect[]

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

By TM[]

By breeding[]

Special move[]

Generation III[]

Generation IV[]

By event[]

Generation II[]

Generation V[]

Gallery[]