Slash

きりさく Slash

Introduced:	Generation I

Battle Data

Type:
Category:
Power:	70
Accuracy:	100%
PP:	20, max: 32
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 (RS E)

Condition:	Cool
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥
Jam:	0
Affected by how well the appeal in front goes.

Super Contests (DP Pt)

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.

Slash is a Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Description[]

Games	Description
GS C	Has a high critical hit ratio.
RS E	Slashes with claws, etc. Has a high critical-hit ratio.
FRLG	The foe is slashed with claws, etc. It has a high critical-hit ratio.
DP Pt HGSS	The foe is attacked with a slash of claws, etc. It has a high critical-hit ratio.
BW B2W2 XY ORAS	The target is attacked with a slash of claws or blades. Critical hits land more easily.
SM USUM PE	The opponent gets attacked with a slash of claws or blades. Critical hits land more easily.

Effect[]

In battle[]

Slash does damage and has a high chance of being a critical hit. In a Double Battle, Slash can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Slash can only target a Pokémon that's adjacent to the user.

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	VII	VIII	IX
	Charmamder	fire	30	37	37	28
	Charmeleon	fire	33	41	41	32
	Charizard	fire/flying	36	44	44	32
	Sandshrew	ground	17	23	23	31
	Sandslash	ground	17	24	24	40
	Paras	bug/grass	34	31	31	22
	Parasect	bug/grass	39	37	35	22
	Diglett	ground	31	33	33	34
	Dugtrio	ground	35	37	38	40
	Meowth	normal	44	46	46 (RS E) 40 (FRLG)	33
	Persian	normal	51	53	53 (RS E) 49 (FRLG)	37
	Farfetch'd	normal/flying	39	37	41	19
	Scyther	bug/flying	29	36	31	29
	Pinsir	bug	49
	Kabuto	rock/water	39
	Kabutops	rock/water	39	40	40	40
	Totodile	water		35	35	29
	Croconaw	water		37	37	33
	Feraligatr	water		38	38	37
	Gligar	ground/flying		36	36	31
	Scizor	bug/steel		36	31	29
	Sneasel	dark/ice		49	50	35
	Teddiursa	normal		36	37	29
	Ursaring	normal		39	37	29
	Skarmory	steel/flying				46 (DP) 42 (Pt HGSS)
	Torchic	fire			34	34
	Combusken	fire/fighting			39	39
	Blaziken	fire/fighting			42	42
	Linoone	normal			41	41
	Vigoroth	normal			31	31
	Ninjask	bug/flying			31	31
	Sharpedo	water/dark			33	30
	Zangoose	normal			19	18
	Anorith	rock/bug			49	43
	Armaldo	rock/bug			55	46
	Kecleon	normal			31	25 (DP) 27 (Pt HGSS)
	Absol	dark			36	36
	Groudon	ground			20	20 (DP)
	Kricketune	bug				26 (Pt HGSS)
	Vespiquen	bug/flying				31
	Glameow	normal				37
	Purugly	normal				37
	Stunky	poison/dark				25 (DP) 22 (Pt HGSS)
	Skuntank	poison/dark				25 (DP) 22 (Pt HGSS)
	Gible	dragon/ground				25
	Gabite	dragon/ground				28
	Garchomp	dragon/ground				28
	Yanmega	bug/flying				38 (DP) 43 (Pt HGSS)
	Gallade	psychic/fighting				22
	Dialga	steel/dragon				70 (DP Pt) 15 (HGSS)
	Palkia	water/dragon				70 (DP Pt) 15 (HGSS)
	Giratina	ghost/dragon				70 (DP Pt) 15 (HGSS)
	Cresselia	psychic				47
	Samurott	water
	Purrloin	dark
	Liepard	dark
	Drilbur	ground
	Excadrill	ground/steel
	Leavanny	bug/grass
	Dwebble	bug/rock
	Crustle	bug/rock
	Karrablast	bug
	Escavalier	bug/steel
	Joltik	bug/electric
	Galvantula	bug/electric
	Axew	dragon
	Fraxure	dragon
	Haxorus	dragon
	Cubchoo	ice
	Beartic	ice
	Cryogonal	ice
	Druddigon	dragon
	Pawniard	dark/steel
	Bisharp	dark/steel
	Rufflet	normal/flying
	Braviary	normal/flying
	Heatmor	fire
	Reshiram	dragon/fire
	Zekrom	dragon/electric
	Kyurem	dragon/ice
	Genesect	bug/steel
	Pancham	fighting
	Pangoro	fighting/dark
	Honedge	ghost/steel
	Doublade	ghost/steel
	Aegislash	ghost/steel
	Inkay	dark/psychic
	Malamar	dark/psychic
	Binacle	rock/water
	Barbaracle	rock/water
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 breeding[]

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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

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A	Absorb Acid Acid Armor Agility Amnesia Aurora Beam

B	Barrage Barrier Bide Bind Bite Blizzard Body Slam Bone Club Bonemerang Bubble Bubble Beam

C	Clamp Comet Punch Confuse Ray Confusion Constrict Conversion Counter Crabhammer Cut

D	Defense Curl Dig Disable Dizzy Punch Double Kick Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge Dragon Rage Dream Eater Drill Peck

E	Earthquake Egg Bomb Ember Explosion

F	Fire Blast Fire Punch Fire Spin Fissure Flamethrower Flash Fly Focus Energy Fury Attack Fury Swipes

G	Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust

H	Harden Haze Headbutt High Jump Kick Horn Attack Horn Drill Hydro Pump Hyper Beam Hyper Fang Hypnosis

I	Ice Beam Ice Punch

J	Jump Kick

K	Karate Chop Kinesis

L	Leech Life Leech Seed Leer Lick Light Screen Lovely Kiss Low Kick

M	Meditate Mega Drain Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Mimic Minimize Mirror Move Mist

N	Night Shade

P	Pay Day Peck Petal Dance Pin Missile Poison Gas Poison Powder Poison Sting Pound Psybeam Psychic Psywave

Q	Quick Attack

R	Rage Razor Leaf Razor Wind Recover Reflect Rest Roar Rock Slide Rock Throw Rolling Kick

S	Sand Attack Scratch Screech Seismic Toss Self-Destruct Sharpen Sing Skull Bash Sky Attack Slam Slash Sleep Powder Sludge Smog Smokescreen Soft-Boiled Solar Beam Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Splash Spore Stomp Strength String Shot Struggle Stun Spore Submission Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Surf Swift Swords Dance

T	Tackle Tail Whip Take Down Teleport Thrash Thunder Thunder Punch Thunder Shock Thunder Wave Thunderbolt Toxic Transform Tri Attack Twineedle

V	Vine Whip ViceGrip

W	Water Gun Waterfall Whirlwind Wing Attack Withdraw Wrap

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

Generation I

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Slash

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Description[]

Effect[]

In battle[]

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

By breeding[]

Gallery[]

See also[]

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