Metal Claw

Metal Claw

メタルクロー Metal Claw

Generation:	II

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	50
Accuracy:	95%
PP:	35, max: 56
Affects:	Selected Target
Secondary Effect:	10% chance of raising the user's attack stat by one.
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:	No

Contest Data

Contests (RSE)

Type:
Appeal:	4 ♥♥♥♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DPPt)

Type:
Appeal:	2 ♥♥

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Metal Claw is a damaging Steel-type move introduced in Generation II.

Description

Games	Description
GSC	An attack that may up user's Attack.
RSE	A claw attack that may raise the user's Attack.
FRLG	The foe is attacked with steel claws. It may also raise the user's Attack.
DPPtHGSS	The foe is raked with steel claws. It may also raise the user's Attack stat.
BWB2W2	The target is raked with steel claws. It may also raise the user's Attack stat.
XYORAS SMUSUM SwShBDSPLA	The target is raked with steel claws. This may also raise the user's Attack stat.
SV	The target is raked with steel claws. This may also boost the user's Attack stat.

Effect

It has a 10% chance of raising the Attack stat of the user.

Learnset

By leveling up

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Charmander	fire	Monster/Dragon		13FRLG
	Charmeleon	fire	Monster/Dragon		13FRLG
	Charizard	fire/flying	Monster/Dragon		1, 13FRLG
	Sandshrew	ice/steel	Field						14	18
	Sandslash	ice/steel	Field						1	1
	Diglett	ground/steel	Field						1	1	1
	Dugtrio	ground/steel	Field						1	1	1
	Meowth	steel	Field							16	16
	Krabby	water	Water 3			21	21	21	21	8
	Kingler	water	Water 3		1FRLG	21	21	21	21	1
	Scizor	bug/steel	Bug	30	26	21	21	21	21	12SwShBDSP	12
	Sneasel	dark/ice	Field	65C	64	42	49BW 22B2W2	22	22	18SwShBDSP	18
	Sneasel	fighting/poison	Field								18
	Skarmory	steel/flying	Flying					9ORAS	9	12
	Nincada	bug/ground	Bug		38	38	38	38XY 21ORAS	21	25
	Ninjask	bug/flying	Bug							1
	Shedinja	bug/ghost	Mineral							1
	Aron	steel/rock	Monster		13	15	15BW 11B2W2	11XY 10ORAS	10	4
	Lairon	steel/rock	Monster		13	15	15BW 11B2W2	11XY 10ORAS	10	1
	Aggron	steel/rock	Monster		13	15	15BW 11B2W2	11XY 10ORAS	10	1
	Zangoose	normal	Field								12
	Anorith	rock/bug	Water 3		25	19	19	19XY 17ORAS	17	12
	Armaldo	rock/bug	Water 3		25	19	19	19XY 17ORAS	17	12
	Metang	steel/psychic	Mineral		20	1, 20	1, 20	1, 20	1, Evo.	1, Evo.
	Metagross	steel/psychic	Mineral		20	1, 20	1, 20	1, 20	1	1
	Registeel	steel	Undiscovered		9	9	9	9XY 1, 7ORAS	1, 7	1
	Prinplup	water	Water 1/Field			16	16	16	1, Evo.	1, Evo.BDSP
	Empoleon	water/steel	Water 1/Field			16	16	16	1	1BDSP
	Riolu	fighting	Undiscovered							8SwShBDSP	8
	Lucario	fighting/steel	Field/Human-Like			1	1	1	1	1SwShBDSP	1
	Weavile	dark/ice	Field			42	49BW 22B2W2	22	22	18SwShBDSP	18
	Dialga	steel/dragon	Undiscovered			10DPPt 6HGSS	6	6	6	1SwShBDSP	1
	Heatran	fire/steel	Undiscovered							6SwShBDSP	6
	Drilbur	ground	Field				15	15	15	16
	Excadrill	ground/steel	Field				15	15	15	16
	Garbodor	poison	Mineral							1
	Ferroseed	grass/steel	Grass/Mineral				14	14	14	5
	Ferrothorn	grass/steel	Grass/Mineral				14	14	14	1
	Stunfisk	ground/steel	Water 1/Amorphous							1
	Druddigon	dragon	Dragon/Monster							15
	Pawniard	dark/steel	Human-Like				25	25	25	10	10
	Bisharp	dark/steel	Human-Like				25	25	25	1	1
	Durant	bug/steel	Bug				21	21	11	8
	Cobalion	steel/fighting	Undiscovered				13	13	1	7
	Genesect	bug/steel	Undiscovered				1	1	1	14
	Solgaleo	psychic/steel	Undiscovered						1	1
	Necrozma	psychic	Undiscovered						1	1
	Necrozma	psychic/steel	Undiscovered						1USUM	1
	Necrozma	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered						1USUM	1
	Perrserker	steel	Field							16	16
	Duraludon	steel/dragon	Mineral/Dragon							1
	Zacian	fairy	Undiscovered							1	1
	Zamazenta	fighting	Undiscovered							1	1
	Sneasler	fighting/poison	Field								18
	Klawf	rock	Water 3								17
	Tinkatink	fairy/steel	Fairy								8
	Tinkatuff	fairy/steel	Fairy								8
	Tinkaton	fairy/steel	Fairy								8
	Kingambit	dark/steel	Human-Like								1
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
				II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Charmander	fire	Monster/Dragon								TM031
	Diglett	ground/steel	Field								TM031
	Dugtrio	ground/steel	Field								TM031
	Meowth	normal	Field								TM031
	Meowth	dark	Field								TM031
	Meowth	steel	Field								TM031
	Persian	normal	Field								TM031
	Persian	dark	Field								TM031
	Mew	psychic	Undiscovered								TM031
	Scizor	bug/steel	Bug								TM031
	Sneasel	dark/ice	Field								TM031
	Sneasel	fighting/poison	Field								TM031
	Teddiursa	normal	Field								TM031
	Ursaring	normal	Field								TM031
	Slakoth	normal	Field								TM031
	Vigoroth	normal	Field								TM031
	Slaking	normal	Field								TM031
	Sableye	dark/ghost	Human-Like								TM031
	Zangoose	normal	Field								TM031
	Groudon	ground	Undiscovered								TM031
	Gible	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon								TM031
	Gabite	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon								TM031
	Garchomp	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon								TM031
	Riolu	fighting	Undiscovered								TM031
	Lucario	fighting/steel	Field/Human-Like								TM031
	Weavile	dark/ice	Field								TM031
	Dialga	steel/dragon	Undiscovered								TM031
	Heatran	fire/steel	Undiscovered								TM031
	Cubchoo	ice	Field								TM031
	Beartic	ice	Field								TM031
	Pawniard	dark/steel	Human-Like								TM031
	Bisharp	dark/steel	Human-Like								TM031
	Braviary	normal/flying	Flying								TM031
	Braviary	psychic/flying	Flying								TM031
	Chespin	grass	Field								TM031
	Quilladin	grass	Field								TM031
	Chesnaught	grass/fighting	Field								TM031
	Komala	normal	Field								TM031
	Corviknight	flying/steel	Flying								TM031
	Perrserker	steel	Field								TM031
	Zacian	fairy	Undiscovered								TM031
	Zamazenta	fighting	Undiscovered								TM031
	Kubfu	fighting	Undiscovered								TM031
	Urshifu	fighting/dark	Undiscovered								TM031
	Urshifu	fighting/water	Undiscovered								TM031
	Ursaluna	ground/normal	Field								TM031
	Sneasler	fighting/poison	Field								TM031
	Pawmi	electric	Field								TM031
	Pawmo	electric/fighting	Field								TM031
	Pawmot	electric/fighting	Field								TM031
	Klawf	rock	Water 3								TM031
	Tinkatink	fairy/steel	Fairy								TM031
	Tinkatuff	fairy/steel	Fairy								TM031
	Tinkaton	fairy/steel	Fairy								TM031
	Kingambit	dark/steel	Human-Like								TM031
	Iron Thorns	rock/electric	Undiscovered								TM031
	Roaring Moon	dragon/dark	Undiscovered								TM031
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
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Main games

Metal Claw depicted in Generation II

Metal Claw depicted in Generation III

Metal Claw depicted in Generation IV

Metal Claw depicted in Generation VI

Metal Claw depicted in Generation VII

Metal Claw depicted in Generation VIII

Side games

Metal Claw depicted in Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD.

Main series

Metal Claw being used by Gary's Scizor.

Metal Claw being used by Harrison's Sneasel.

Metal Claw being used by Brandon's Registeel.

Metal Claw being used by Iris' Excadrill.

Metal Claw being used by Alain's Metagross.

Metal Claw performed by the Ultra Guardians' Metang.

Metal Claw performed by Professor Kukui's Empoleon.

Metal Claw being used by Goh's Scizor.

Metal Claw being used by Ash's Corphish.

Metal Claw being used by Orla's Metagross.

Spin-offs & shorts

Metal Claw being used by a Charmander.

Pokémon Adventures

Metal Claw being used by Blue's Scizor.

Metal Claw being used by Sapphire's Aron.

Metal Claw being used by Platinum's Empoleon.