Sonic Boom (move)

SonicBoom ソニックブーム Sonic Boom

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Special PP  20 (max. 32) Power  Varies Accuracy  90% 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 Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Works well if it's the same type as the one before.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

SonicBoom (Japanese: ソニックブーム Sonic Boom) is a slightly inaccurate Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I that deals a fixed amount of damage.

Effect

Generation I

SonicBoom does 20 points of normal damage. Although SonicBoom deals Normal damage, its type does not alter the amount of damage it inflicts. SonicBoom hits Template:Type2 Pokémon, which have immunities to Normal-type moves.

SonicBoom's name is spelled "Sonicboom" in the first three generations.

Generation II and III

Template:Type2 Pokémon are immune to SonicBoom.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, this move does 55 damage instead of 20 damage.

Generation IV

Same as before, except its name is now spelled "SonicBoom" rather than "Sonicboom".

In the anime

• Buizel Sonicboom.JPG

  Ash's Buizel using SonicBoom

• Yanma sonicboom.jpg

  Jessie's Yanma about to use SonicBoom

• Yanmegaairslash.jpg

  Jessie's Yanmega using SonicBoom

Pokémon

Buizel. Buizel's tail glows white and Buizel does a flip. After it flips, a massive shockwave is sent flying at the opponent.

• Used by Ash's Buizel from Buizel Your Way Out of This! to ???.

Yanmega. Yanmega's wings glow white, then flaps its wings and a shockwave is sent flying at the opponent.

• Used by Jessie's Yanmega from The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! to present.

Yanma. Same as Yanmega.

• Used by Jessie's Yanma in The Thief That Keeps on Thieving!.
• Used by Tyler's Yanma in The Thief That Keeps on Thieving!.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0081 Magnemite Electric 21 0082 Magneton Electric — 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 17 0101 Electrode Electric — 17 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0081 Magnemite Electric Steel 16 0082 Magneton Electric Steel — 16 0100 Voltorb Electric 17 0101 Electrode Electric — 17 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 19 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" | 0167 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Spinarak
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0081 Magnemite Electric Steel 16 0082 Magneton Electric Steel 16 0100 Voltorb Electric 15 0101 Electrode Electric — 15 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 17 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 19 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" | 0167 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Spinarak
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma

|- | 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 0081 Magnemite Electric Steel 14 0082 Magneton Electric Steel 14 0100 Voltorb Electric 8 0101 Electrode Electric --,8 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 14 0329 Vibrava Ground Dragon -- 0330 Flygon Ground Dragon -- 0418 Buizel Water -- 0419 Floatzel Water -- 0462 Magnezone Electric Steel 14 0469 Yanmega Bug Flying 14 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" | 0167 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Spinarak
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Yanma, Yanmega
Vibrava, Flygon

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Although no Pokémon could receive STAB from SonicBoom anyway (due to it having a set amount of damage), no Pokémon of its type (Normal) can learn it.
• Being a relatively weak move in the games, in the anime it has been shown to be a very powerful move.

In other languages

• Portugese: Detonação Sônica
• French: Sonicboom
• German: Ultraschall
• Spanish: Bomba Sónica
• Italian: Sonicboom