Self-Destruct (move)

Selfdestruct じばく Selfdestruct

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  200 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects all Pokémon on the field

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM36 in Generation I Move Tutor in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  8 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   Makes a great appeal, but allows no more to the end.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Earn +15 if all the Pokémon choose the same Judge.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty 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

Selfdestruct (Japanese: じばく Selfdestruct) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Selfdestruct does damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is listed as 130, the target's Defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an effective power of 260. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Selfdestruct will then effectively have a power of 130 if used against a target with a defense value of 1.

If Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will be replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Selfdestruct had a Substitute at the time of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once again become visible.

If the user of Selfdestruct attacks first and faints itself, the target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

In Stadium, if Selfdestruct breaks an target's Substitute, the user will faint.

Generation II and on

Similar, but without glitches and with a power of 200 instead.

In the anime

Pokémon

Voltorb. Voltorb lights up and selfdestructs.

• Used by Koga's Voltorb in The Ninja Poké-Showdown. Debut.
• Used by Duplica's Ditto in the form of Voltorb in Ditto's Mysterious Mansion.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground -- 0076 Golem Rock Ground 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 22 0101 Electrode Electric -- 0101 Electrode Electric 22 0109 Koffing Poison 40 0110 Weezing Poison 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 TM36

#   Pokémon Type 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 0076 Golem Rock Ground 0088 Grimer Poison 0089 Muk Poison 0090 Shellder Water 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0095 Onix Rock Ground 0100 Voltorb Electric 0101 Electrode Electric 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0109 Koffing Poison 0110 Weezing Poison 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 Mew Psychic Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground -- 0076 Golem Rock Ground 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 23 0101 Electrode Electric -- 0101 Electrode Electric 23 0109 Koffing Poison 17 0110 Weezing Poison --,17 0204 Pineco Bug 8 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 8 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 27 0101 Electrode Electric 27 0109 Koffing Poison 17 0110 Weezing Poison -- 0110 Weezing Poison 17 0204 Pineco Bug 8 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 8 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 19 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 19 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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. |} |}

By move tutor in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

#   Pokémon Type 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 0076 Golem Rock Ground 0088 Grimer Poison 0089 Muk Poison 0090 Shellder Water 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0095 Onix Rock Ground 0100 Voltorb Electric 0101 Electrode Electric 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0109 Koffing Poison 0110 Weezing Poison 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 Mew Psychic 0185 Sudowoodo Rock 0204 Pineco Bug 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 0208 Steelix Steel Ground 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 0218 Slugma Fire 0219 Magcargo Fire Rock 0222 Corsola Water Rock 0273 Seedot Grass 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark 0299 Nosepass Rock 0316 Gulpin Poison 0317 Swalot Poison 0320 Wailmer Water 0321 Wailord Water 0323 Camerupt Fire Ground 0324 Torkoal Fire 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 0362 Glalie Ice 0375 Metang Steel Psychic 0376 Metagross Steel Psychic 0377 Regirock Rock 0378 Regice Ice 0379 Registeel Steel Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 18 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 18 0076 Golem Rock Ground 18 0100 Voltorb Electric 29 0101 Electrode Electric 29 0109 Koffing Poison 19 0110 Weezing Poison 19 0204 Pineco Bug 6 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 6 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 19 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 19 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0438 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bonsly
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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. |} |}

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Selfdestruct may not necessarily cause the user of this move to faint, depending on the amount of HP left.

In other languages

• French: Destruction
• German: Finale
• Italian: Autodistruzione
• Spanish: Autodestruc