Double Slap (move)

DoubleSlap おうふくビンタ Round-trip Slap

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  15 Accuracy  85% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally May affect anyone adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the judge's attention.

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

DoubleSlap (Japanese: おうふくビンタ Round-trip Slap) is a damage-dealing Normal-type multi-strike move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

DoubleSlap inflicts damage, hitting 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. This gives the attack an average power of 45, ignoring the possibility of missing. Although only the first hit can be a critical hit, each successive hit will deal the same amount of damage.

DoubleSlap will end immediately if it breaks a substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the last hit of this move.

Generation II

Same as Generation I, but all hits will do damage independently, consequently enabling any of them to be critical.

Generation III

If the target has an Ability which activates upon contact, each hit counts individually, enabling the Ability to activate multiple times.

Generation IV

Same as previous generations, except it will continue attacking after a substitute is broken.

Due to the introduction of the Ability Skill Link, a Pokémon with said Ability will always hit five times when using DoubleSlap, if it does not miss. However, no Pokémon could naturally obtain Skill Link and DoubleSlap until Generation V.

Generation V

Unlike previous generations, if Focus Sash, Focus Band, or Sturdy activate before the last hit is dealt, the following hit will cause the defending Pokémon to faint; however, Focus Band can still activate repeatedly to prevent fainting, but each chance is independent of the previous one. Each hit will cause Weak Armor to activate.

If the target is holding a Rocky Helmet, the user is damaged for each hit.

Description

Games Description Although each slap is weak, this attack hits the target two to five times in succession. Repeatedly slaps 2-5 times. RSE Repeatedly slaps the foe 2 to 5 times. FRLG The foe is slapped repeatedly, back and forth, two to five times. Repeatedly slaps the target 2 to 5 times. The foe is slapped repeatedly, back and forth, two to five times in a row. Conq The target is slapped repeatedly, back and forth, two to five times in a row.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
035		Clefairy	Normal		Normal	18			13			13			13				10			''''
036		Clefable	Normal		Normal	--			--			--			--				--			''''
039		Jigglypuff	Normal		Normal	24			24			24			24				25			''''
040		Wigglytuff	Normal		Normal	--			24			24			24				--			''''
060		Poliwag	Water		Water	25			19			19			19				15			'
061		Poliwhirl	Water		Water	26			19			19			19				15			'
062		Poliwrath	Water	Fighting	--			19			19			19				--			'
113		Chansey	Normal		Normal	--	12	17			17			17				12			''''
122		Mr. Mime	Psychic		Psychic	31			21			17	15	15				15	11	'
124		Jynx	Ice	Psychic	23			21			21			21				15			'
186		Politoed	Water		Water				19			19			19				--			'
242		Blissey	Normal		Normal				13			13			13				12			''''
300		Skitty	Normal		Normal							15			15				15			''''
301		Delcatty	Normal		Normal							--			--				--			''''
439		Mime Jr.	Psychic		Psychic										15				15	11	'
531		Audino	Normal		Normal														10			''''
568		Trubbish	Poison		Poison														14			'
569		Garbodor	Poison		Poison														14			'
572		Minccino	Normal		Normal														13			''''
574		Gothita	Psychic		Psychic														14			'
575		Gothorita	Psychic		Psychic														14			'
576		Gothitelle	Psychic		Psychic														14			'
594		Alomomola	Water		Water														13			'
619		Mienfoo	Fighting		Fighting														17			'
620		Mienshao	Fighting		Fighting														17			'
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					II		III		IV		V		VI
172		Pichu	Electric		Electric
190		Aipom	Normal		Normal
418		Buizel	Water		Water
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By event

Generation II

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0108 Lickitung Normal New York Pokémon Center Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

Clefairy Minccino Skitty Gothita
The user slaps the opponent repeatedly with a hand, tail, ears, etc.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Jigglypuff slaps the opponent's face many times.
Recurring Jigglypuff	The Song of Jigglypuff		Debut
	Chansey slaps the opponent's face many times. Sometimes its arms glow white when using the move.
Nurse Joy's Chansey	A Chansey Operation		None
Cheryl's Chansey	Some Enchanted Sweetening!		None
	Clefairy slaps its opponent in the face many times.
A wild Clefairy	Clefairy Tales		None
	Wigglytuff slaps the opponent on the face multiple times with its hands or ears.
Unknown Trainer's Wigglytuff	Lights, Camera, Quack-tion!		None
Harley's Wigglytuff	Thinning the Hoard!		None
	Poliwag slaps the opponent many times with its tail.
Misty's Poliwag	The Stun Spore Detour		None
	Poliwhirl slaps the opponent many times with one or both hands.
Misty's Poliwhirl	The Fortune Hunters		None
A wild Poliwhirl	Bulbasaur... the Ambassador!		None
	Poliwrath slaps the opponent many times with both hands.
Andrea's Poliwrath	Hook, Line, and Stinker		None
Chuck's Poliwrath	Machoke, Machoke Man!		None
Delaney's Poliwrath	Outrageous Fortunes		None
	Politoed slaps the opponent many times with both hands.
Misty's Politoed	Outrageous Fortunes		None
Tammy's Bean	I Politoed Ya So!		None
	Mr. Mime slaps the opponent twice with its hands.
Delia's Mimey	Showdown at the Oak Corral		None
	Skitty slaps the opponent many times with its paws or its tail.
May's Skitty	Maxxed Out!		None
Dr. Abby's Johnny	Delcatty Got Your Tongue		None
	Minccino's entire tail glows white and it slaps the opponent across the face with it twice or several times.
Bianca's Minccino	Minccino-Neat and Tidy!		None
	One of Gothita's arms glow white and it repeatedly slaps the opponent, or one of Gothita's arms glow white and it waves its arm, releasing white waves of energy which repeatedly hit the opponent.
Katharine's Gothita	Scraggy and the Demanding Gothita!		None
	Gothorita's hand glows white and it hits the opponent multiple times with them.
Flora's Gothorita	The Clubsplosion Begins!		None
	Garbodor's hand glows white and it hits the opponent with them.
Roxie's Garbodor	Rocking the Virbank Gym! Part 2		None

In the manga

In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga

Jigglypuff
The user repeatedly slaps the opponent with one of its hands.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Jigglypuff repeatedly slaps the opponent back and forth with one of its hands.
Mimi's Jigglypuff	Clefairy in Space		Debut

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Bellsprout Poliwrath Politoed
The user slaps the opponent many times.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Poliwrath slaps the opponent across the face many times with one hand.
Red's Poli	Meanwhile... Vileplume!		Debut
	Bellsprout slaps the opponent across the face many times with one leaf.
Erika's Bellsprout	Meanwhile... Vileplume!		Used via Mimic
	Politoed slaps the opponent's face with one of its hands multiple times.
Gold's Polibo	Raise the Red Gyarados		None

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 連環巴掌 Slap Chain Dutch Dubbelslag Finnish Kaksoisläpsy (original series) Tuplaläimäys (Advanced Generation) French Torgnoles German Duplexhieb Greek Διπλό Χαστούκι Hindi दुगना थप्पड़ Dugna Thappad Italian Doppiasberla Korean 연속뺨치기 Slap Chain Polish Podwójny cios(original series and The Official Pokémon Handbook) Dwuklask(DP and BW series) Portuguese Brazil Duplo Tapa Portugal Palmada Dupla (Pokémon Chronicles) Romanian Lovitura Dublă Serbian Dvostruko Šamaranje Spanish Doblebofetón

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