Shell Smash (move)

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Shell Smash からをやぶる Shell Break

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) 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 Self: Affects the user

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

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Shell Smash (Japanese: からをやぶる Shell Break) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Shell Smash decreases the user's Defense and Special Defense stat by one stage, but increases the user's Attack, Special Attack, and Speed by two stagtes each.

Description

Games Description The user breaks its shell, lowering its Defense and Sp. Def stats but sharply raising Attack, Sp. Atk, and Speed stats. The user breaks its shell, which lowers Defense and Sp. Def stats but sharply raises its Attack, Sp. Atk, and Speed stats.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
090		Shellder	Water		Water	56			56
091		Cloyster	Water	Ice				--
138		Omanyte	Rock	Water	52			50
139		Omastar	Rock	Water	67			67
213		Shuckle	Bug	Rock		34	34
219		Magcargo	Fire	Rock	38			38
324		Torkoal	Fire		Fire	65			--, 65
366		Clamperl	Water		Water	51			50
557		Dwebble	Bug	Rock	37			37
558		Crustle	Bug	Rock	43			--, 43
564		Tirtouga	Water	Rock	38			38
565		Carracosta	Water	Rock	40			40
688		Binacle	Rock	Water				--
689		Barbaracle	Rock	Water				--
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.

Special move

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0213 Shuckle Bug Rock Dream World - Icy CaveBW Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

Dwebble Crustle
The user decreases its defense stat and increases its attack and speed stat.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Dwebble jumps out of its shell and its whole body glows white and crimson red cracks form around its entire body. The white energy then breaks apart and comes off Dwebble's body like pieces of a shell. When the energy cracks and breaks apart, Dwebble's body glows crimson red. When Dwebble uses another attack right after using Shell Smash, the white energy particles floating around Dwebble will morph with the attack, giving it more attack power.
Cilan's Dwebble	A Home for Dwebble!		Debut
	Crustle jumps out of its shell and its entire body glows white. Crimson cracks then form all around its body, and the white energy breaks apart and comes off Crustle's body like pieces of a shell. When the energy cracks and breaks apart, Crustle's body glows crimson red. When Crustle uses another attack after using Shell Smash, the white energy particles floating around Crustle will morph with the attack, giving it more attack power. Crustle's body continues to glow crimson until the battle is over as well.
Cilan's Crustle	Evolution Exchange Excitement!		None

Trivia

• Shell Smash is the only status move that affects more than three stats at once, and the only move of any kind to do so reliably. Only the attack Ancient Power and its variations have a small chance of affecting an equal number of stats.
• Shell Smash causes the greatest overall base stat changes of any move from no changes at all, with 8.
  • However, Belly Drum surpasses this if the user has a -3 stat change in Attack, resulting in a +9 net stat change, and capping at +12 if executed from -6.
• With the exception of Gorebyss and Smeargle, all the Pokémon that are able to know Shell Smash have Defense as their highest stat.
• Shell Smash is similar to Weak Armor, as both of them lower the Defense stat, but at the same time boost the Speed stat.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 破殼 Pòké Dutch Schelp Knal French Exuviation German Hausbruch Indonesian Menghancurkan Cangkang Italian Gettaguscio Korean 껍질깨기 Kkeopjilkkaegi Polish Cios Muszli Brazilian Portuguese Destruição de Concha Spanish Latin America Rompecoraza Spain Rompecoraza

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