Eruption (move)

Eruption ふんか Eruption

Battles Type  Fire Category  Special PP  5 (max. 8) Power  150 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Other Side: Affects the opponent's side of the field

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  1 ♥ Jam  0   The appeal works better the later it is performed.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Eruption (Japanese: ふんか Eruption) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. It is a variation of Water Spout and can be considered the inverse of Reversal and Flail.

Effect

Eruption does damage, and hits both opponents in double battles. This move's power reduces as the user's HP reduces. The power is calculated by the formula:

Hence, the maximum power, at 100% HP, will be 150.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0323 Camerupt Fire Ground 45 0383 Groudon Ground 75 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" | 0324 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Torkoal
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Camerupt

|- | 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 0155 Cyndaquil Fire 49 0156 Quilava Fire 57 0157 Typhlosion Fire 57 0244 Entei Fire 85 0323 Camerupt Fire Ground 57 0383 Groudon Ground 80 0383 Groudon Ground 50 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" | 0324 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Torkoal
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion
Camerupt

|- | 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 event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0485 Heatran Fire Steel Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0155 Cyndaquil Fire 58 0156 Quilava Fire 68 0157 Typhlosion Fire 74 0244 Entei Fire 85 0323 Camerupt Fire Ground 67 0383 Groudon Ground 50 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" | 0324 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Torkoal
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion
Camerupt

|- | 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 the anime

File:Quilava Eruption.png Quilava File:Camerupterupt.png Camerupt Heatran
The user attacks in an explosive fury.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Lava and smoke or a geyser of fire spews from one or both of the volcanoes on Camerupt's back, also making flaming rocks fly in all directions.
Vicky Winstrate's Camerupt	Candid Camerupt!		Debut
A Coordinator's Camerupt	A Cacturne for the Worse		None
A Camerupt an Unknown Trainer used briefly	One Team, Two Team, Red Team, Blue Team!		None
	Heatran releases a stream of smoke and lava from its mouth at the opponent. Sometimes, when it's about to fire the attack, a red orb appears in front of its mouth.
A wild Heatran	Pokémon Ranger: Heatran Rescue!		Heatran cannot normally learn Eruption.
	Quilava charges and runs underneath the opponent. Then, it ignites the flames on its head and tail, and they grow larger. It then fires a geyser of red-orange fire from the flame on its head at the opponent.
Ash's Quilava	An Old Family Blend!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

The user attacks in an explosive fury.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Camerupt releases two blasts of lava from the volcanoes on its back.
Maxie's Camerupt	VS. Walrein		Debut

Trivia

• Groudon is the only non-Template:Type2 Pokémon who can learn this move.
  • However, all Pokémon that do learn it have something do do with volcanoes and are mostly or partially red.

In other languages

• Chinese: 噴火 Pēnhuǒ
• Dutch: Uitbarsting
• Finnish: Purkaus
• French: Éruption
• German: Eruption
• Greek: Έκρηξη
• Italian: Eruzione
• Korean: 분화 Bunhwa
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Erupção
• Spanish: Estallido
• Serbian: Erupcija

Variations of the move Eruption
Eruption • Water Spout • Dragon Energy

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