Charge (move)

Charge じゅうでん Charge

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Battles Type  Electric Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation III Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   If the Pokémon who appealed right before the user used the same type of move, the user gets triple the points.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Earn double the score in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Charge (Japanese: じゅうでん Charge) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Generation III

If the user's next move is Template:Type2, it will deal twice the usual amount of damage. This only applies to damage dealing moves of the Electric-type.

Generation IV

The effects of Charge are the same as the previous generation; however, Charge also raises the user's Special Defense by one stat level.

In the Anime

Manectric Manectric charges up its electricity and then lets all of it out in a big blue beam that does twice the damage.

• Used by Wattson's Manectric in Manectric Charge!.
• Used by Jaco's Manectric in The Electrike Company!.

Electrike. Electrike charges up its electricity.

• Used by Cal's Electrike in The Electrike Company!.
• Used by Jaco's Electrike in The Electrike Company!.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0100 Voltorb Electric -- 0101 Electrode Electric -- 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 61 0170 Chinchou Water Electric 49 0171 Lanturn Water Electric 61 0309 Electrike Electric 41 0310 Manectric Electric 53 0311 Plusle Electric 31 0312 Minun Electric 31 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0172 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pichu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep, Flaaffy, Ampharos
Electrike, Manectric
Plusle, Minun |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0179 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Pikachu, Raichu
Electrike, Manectric
Plusle, Minun

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0100 Voltorb Electric -- 0101 Electrode Electric -- 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 36 0170 Chinchou Water Electric 45 0171 Lanturn Water Electric 57 0179 Mareep Electric 23 0180 Flaaffy Electric 25 0181 Ampharos Electric 25 0309 Electrike Electric 44 0310 Manectric Electric 54 0311 Plusle Electric 35 0312 Minun Electric 35 0403 Shinx Electric 9 0404 Luxio Electric 9 0405 Luxray Electric -- 9 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 43 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 43 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 43 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 43 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 43 0479 Rotom Electric Ghost 43 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0172 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pichu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep, Flaaffy, Ampharos
Electrike, Manectric
Plusle, Minun
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0179 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Pikachu, Raichu
Electrike, Manectric
Plusle, Minun
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding. |} |}

Trivia

• Along with Volt Tackle, Charge is the only Electric-type move exclusive to Electric-type Pokémon. However, Volt Tackle is itself, a move exclusive to Pikachu's evolutionary line, whereas Charge can be learned by many Electric-types.

In other languages

• Spanish: Carga
• German: Ladevorgang
• Italian: Sottocarica
• French: Chargeur
• Dutch: Oplading