Karate Chop (move)
Karate Chop からてチョップ Karate Chop | ||||||||||||
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Karate Chop (Japanese: からてチョップ Karate Chop) is a damage-dealing Fighting-type move introduced in Generation I. Prior to Generation II, it was a Normal-type move.
Effect
Generation I
Karate Chop deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.
It is Normal-type in this generation.
Generation II
Karate Chop is now a Fighting-type move.
Description
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Learnset
By leveling up
# | Pokémon | Type | Level | |||||||||||||
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I | II | III | IV | V | VI | |||||||||||
056 | Mankey* | Fighting | 15 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | |||||||
057 | Primeape* | Fighting | --, 15 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 13 | |||||||
066 | Machop* | Fighting | -- | 13 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||||||||
067 | Machoke* | Fighting | -- | 15 | 13 | 10 | --, 10 | --, 10 | ||||||||
068 | Machamp* | Fighting | -- | 15 | 13 | 10 | --, 10 | --, 10 | ||||||||
539 | Sawk | Fighting | 25 | 25 | ||||||||||||
674 | Pancham | Fighting | 12 | |||||||||||||
675 | Pangoro | Fighting | Dark | 12 | ||||||||||||
701 | Hawlucha | Fighting | Flying | 4 | ||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||
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II | III | IV | V | VI | ||||||||||
239 | Elekid | Electric | ||||||||||||
240 | Magby | Fire | ||||||||||||
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. |
In other games
Pokémon Conquest
Karate Chop is the only move of Machop.
In the anime
The opponent is hit by the side of the user's hand. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Used In | Notes | |
Machop repeatedly chops the opponent with the side of its opened hand, or Machop's arm glows white and it chops the opponent with the side of its opened hand. | |||
Unknown Trainer's Machop | The Punchy Pokémon | Debut | |
Brawly's Machop | Just One of the Geysers | None | |
Emily's Machop | Sitting Psyduck | None | |
Machamp repeatedly chops the opponent with its hands, or one of Machamp's hands glow white and it chops the opponent with the side of its open hand. | |||
Giovanni's Machamp | The Battle of the Badge | None | |
Gavin's Machamp | From Brags to Riches | None | |
Emily's Machamp | Sitting Psyduck | None | |
Machoke strikes the opponent with the side of its open hand, sometimes repeatedly. Sometimes, its hands glow white. | |||
A Wobbuffet Festival crasher's Machoke | Wobbu-Palooza! | None | |
Chuck's Machoke | Machoke, Machoke Man! | None | |
Emily's Machoke | Sitting Psyduck | None | |
Sawk's hand glows white and it strikes the opponent with the side of its open hand. | |||
Stephan's Sawk | The Clubsplosion Begins! | None | |
Hawlucha's claw and wing glow white and it strikes the opponent with the side of its wing, or both of Hawlucha's wings glow white and strikes the opponent with them. | |||
Ash's Hawlucha | The Forest Champion! | None | |
Pancham's hands glows white and it strikes the opponent with them. | |||
Serena's Pancham | XY047 | None |
- In The Cave of Mirrors!, Mirror Ash ordered his Hawlucha to use Karate Chop, but due to it being too timid to attack, Hawlucha was never seen using the move.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
The user karate chops the opponent. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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User | First Chapter Used In | Notes | |
Machamp strikes the opponent with the side of one of its open hands. | |||
Blue's Machamp | A Charizard... and a Champion | Debut | |
Sawk strikes the opponent with an open palm. | |||
Marshal's Sawk | PS523 | None |
In other generations
Trivia
- Karate Chop is one of four moves to have its type changed in Generation II; the others are Gust, Bite, and Sand Attack. They were all Normal-type moves in Generation I.
In other languages
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Variations of the move Karate Chop | ||
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