Charge (move)

Charge じゅうでん Charge

Battles Type  Electric Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Unknown

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 mover, 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 is a non-damaging Electric-type move introduced in Generation III.

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 -- 0405 Luxray Electric 9 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. |} |}

In other languages

• Spanish: Carga.
• German: Ladevorgang