Focus Blast (move)
| Focus Blast きあいだま Fighting Spirit Bullet | ||||||||||||
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Focus Blast (Japanese: きあいだま Fighting Spirit Bullet) is a damage-dealing Fighting-type move, introduced in Generation IV. It appears to be related to the concept of a "Chi ball" or "psi ball". It has been TM52 since Generation IV.
Effect
Focus Blast does damage and has a 10% chance of lowering the target's Special Defense.
Description
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Learnset
By TM
In the anime
 Scrafty  Lopunny  Thundurus  Ursaring | |||
| A ball of light-blue energy is formed between the user's hands. The ball is then shot at the foe. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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Ursaring puts its hands together and creates a light blue ball of energy. It then fires it at the opponent, or Ursaring puts one of its hands back and a light blue ball of energy forms in front of it. It then brings its arm forward and throws the blast at the opponent. | ||
| Paul's Ursaring | Glory Blaze! | Debut | |
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Lopunny puts its hands together and forms a light blue ball of energy. It then fires it at the opponent. | ||
| Nando's Lopunny | Coming Full - Festival Circle! | None | |
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Druddigon puts its hands together in front of it and creates a light blue ball of energy. It then fires the orb at the opponent, or Druddigon puts its arms together by its side and forms a light blue ball of energy in between them. It then lifts one of its hands down and tosses the orb at the opponent with the other. | ||
| Emmy's Druddigon | The Dragon Master's Path! | None | |
| Unknown Trainer's Druddigon | Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster! | None | |
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Excadrill puts its claws together in front of it and forms a light blue orb of energy in between them. It then pulls one of its claws back while holding the ball of energy and tosses it at the opponent, or Excadrill pulls one of its claws back and a light blue orb of energy appears in front of it. Excadrill then tosses the orb at the opponent. | ||
| Iris's Excadrill | Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster! | None | |
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Scrafty puts its hands together at its side and forms a light blue orb of energy in between them. It then jumps into the air and raises its hands above its head. When it does, the light blue orb grows larger. Scrafty then tosses the orb at the opponent. | ||
| A wild Scrafty | Meowth's Scrafty Tactics! | None | |
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Thundurus puts its hands together in front of it and forms a light blue orb of energy in between them. It then raises its hands above its head and the orb grows as big as its own body. Thundurus then throws the orb at the opponent. As the orb soars through the air, it grows smaller and smaller. | ||
| A wild Thundurus | Stopping the Rage of Legends! Part 1 | None | |
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Scraggy puts its hands together at its side and forms a light blue orb of energy in between them. It then jumps into the air and raises its hands above its head. When it does, the light blue orb grows larger. Scraggy then tosses the orb at the opponent. | ||
| Ash's Scraggy | The Clubsplosion Begins! | Mastered in Unrest at the Nursery! | |
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Keldeo opens its mouth and forms a light blue orb of energy in front of it. It the fires the ball at the opponent. | ||
| Keldeo (M15) | Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice | None | |
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Keldeo opens its mouth and forms a light blue orb of energy in front of it. It the fires the ball at the opponent. | ||
| Keldeo (M15) | Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice | None | |
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Beartic puts its hands together in front of it and forms a light blue orb of energy in between them. It then raises its hands above its head and the orb grows as big as its own body. Beartic then throws the orb at the opponent. | ||
| Georgia's Beartic | Jostling for the Junior Cup! | None | |
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Thundurus fires a light blue orb of energy at the opponent. | ||
| A wild Thundurus | Unova's Survival Crisis! | None | |
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
 Lopunny  Beartic | |||
| The user creates a sphere of energy and shoots it at the opponent. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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Abomasnow creates of sphere of energy between its hands. It then fires the sphere in the shape of a beam at the opponent. | ||
| Candice's Abomasnow | To and Fro with Froslass | Debut | |
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Lopunny releases multiple balls of energy from its hands at the opponent, or Lopunny fires a powerful beam of energy from its hands at the opponent. | ||
| Platinum's Lopunny | Shorting Out Electivire | None | |
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Beartic fires a beam of energy from its mouth at the opponent. | ||
| Brycen's Beartic | ABW46 | None | |
In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga
 Infernape
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| The user fires a sphere of energy at the opponent. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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Infernape forms a ball of energy from in between its hands and shoots it at the opponent. | ||
| Mitsumi's Infernape | Team Galactic's Ultimate Warrior | Debut | |
In other generations
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Trivia
- Focus Blast is the only Special Fighting-type attack that has an accuracy lower than 100%.
- Focus Blast is one of the few moves in Pokémon Battle Revolution that is visually identical to its handheld counterpart.
- Focus Blast is the only variation of Blizzard that cannot be learned by any Pokémon via leveling up and the only variation that has a chance of lowering an opponent's stat.
- In the early Japanese versions of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Focus Blast had a different animation. Instead of 'spreading' when it touched the opponent, it disintegrated.
In other languages
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| Generation IV TMs | |
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| 01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 • 06 • 07 • 08 • 09 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 | |
| Generation IV HMs | |
| 01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 (DPPt • HGSS) • 06 • 07 • 08 | |
| Generation V TMs | |
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| 01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 • 06 • 07 • 08 • 09 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 77 • 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 95 | |
| Generation V HMs | |
| 01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 • 06 | |
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