Flail

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Flail

じたばた Wriggling

Generation:	II

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	Varies
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	15, max: 24
Affects:	Selected Target
Secondary Effect:	None
Priority:	0
Contact:	Yes

Affected by

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

Contest Data

Contests (RS E)

Type:
Appeal:	1 ♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DP Pt)

Type:
Appeal:	2 ♥♥

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Flail is a Normal-type move which was introduced in Generation II.

Description[]

Games	Description
GS C	Stronger if the user's HP is low.
RS E	Inflicts more damage when the user's HP is down.
FRLG	A desperate attack that becomes more powerful the less HP the user has.
DP Pt HGSS BW B2W2	The user flails about aimlessly to attack. It becomes more powerful the less HP the user has.
XY ORAS SM USUM	The user flails about aimlessly to attack. The less HP the user has, the greater the move's power.

Effect[]

Flail deals damage. The less HP the user has, the more the power of Flail has.

Gallery[]

Main games

Main series

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Flail is a technique that can deal damage above 100 and does not always have a drawback.

v · d · e List of Normal-type moves

Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX

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 Normal-type moves

Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX

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

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