Thunderbolt does damage and has a 10% chance of paralyzing the target. Thunderbolt can't paralyze a target that has a Substitute or already has a major status ailment.
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, it affects all adjacent enemies.
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Pikachu releases a powerful bolt of yellow electricity from its body at the opponent. Sometimes, yellow sparks appear around Pikachu's tail and cheeks before launching the attack.
Electabuzz releases powerful bolts of yellow lightning from its horns or its body, or Electabuzz puts its hands out and fires a blast of yellow lightning from its hands at the opponent.
Jolteon releases a powerful bolt of yellow electricity from its body at the opponent. Sometimes, yellow sparks appear around its body before it fires the attack.
Ampharos releases a powerful bolt of yellow lightning from its ears or body at the opponent. Sometimes, yellow sparks appear around its ears before it uses the attack.
Delcatty crouches down and its body becomes surrounded in yellow sparks. It then releases a powerful bolt of lightning from its body into the air that strikes the opponent.
Raikou's body becomes surrounded in yellow static, and then it surrounds its body in yellow electricity. It then fires a beam of electricity from its body at the opponent.
A bolt of lightning comes down from above Pikachu and strikes it. When the lightning hits Pikachu, it causes a large explosion of electricity around itself, or an orb of electricity appears in front of Pikachu's tail and it fires multiple lightning bolts from the orb at the opponent.
Manectric releases multiple bolts of electricity from the spiked fur on its legs and head. The bolts rise and come together above Manectric's body. A beam of electricity is then fired at the opponent from the place where the beams come together.
In the console games, Thunderbolt is shown going straight forward to the foes' Pokémon, while in the handheld games it is shown going straight down. This was most likely done to prevent confusion with Thunder.
Because of Pikachu's early mastery of this move in the anime, it is by far one of the most used moves throughout the entire series, being used since even the earliest episodes. However, such episodes would also use moves simply called "Electric attack" or even "lightning" attack.
Both ThunderShock and Thunderbolt were translated to Portuguese as "Choque do Trovão".
Thunderbolt's Japanese name corresponds with Raichu's Pokédex entries which state that its Electric attacks can reach up to 100,000 volts of electricity.
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