High Jump Kick (move)

Hi Jump Kick
とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick

Battles

Type	Fighting
Category	Physical
PP	20 (max. 32)
Power	100
Accuracy	90%
Priority	{{{priority}}}
Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Target

Foe	Foe	Foe
Self	Ally	Ally
May affect anyone but the user

Availability

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

Contests

Condition	Cool
Appeal	6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Jam	0
After this move the user is more easily startled.

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:

Hi Jump Kick (Japanese: とびひざげり Jumping Knee Kick) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. This move was the signature move of Hitmonlee until Generation III.

Effect

Generation I

Hi Jump Kick does damage with a Base Power of 85; however, if the attack misses, the user will crash and take damage (1/8 of the damage it would've otherwise dealt). Used against a Template:Type2, it always counts as a miss.

If the user of Hi Jump Kick attacks first and faints itself due to crash damage, the target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

Generation II-III

The user loses half the HP of the damage it would have done for crashed damage. If used against a Template:Type2, user does not take crash damage.

Generation IV

Same as before, but its base power was increased from 85 to 100. The user also takes crash damage if hitting a Ghost-type Pokémon.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type		Level
0106		Hitmonlee	Fighting		48
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
0106		Hitmonlee	Fighting		26
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

|- | 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
0106	Hitmonlee	Fighting		26
0307	Meditite	Fighting	Psychic	32
0307	Meditite	Fighting	Psychic	33
0308	Medicham	Fighting	Psychic	32
0308	Medicham	Fighting	Psychic	33
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

|- | 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
0106	Hitmonlee	Fighting		29
0307	Meditite	Fighting	Psychic	32
0308	Medicham	Fighting	Psychic	32
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

|- | 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

Pokémon	Method
File:Medicham hi jump kick.jpg Medicham File:Hitmonlee hijumpkick.jpg Hitmonlee File:Hlee hi jump k.png Making contact File:RaticateHiJumpKick.png Raticate
The foe is attacked with a knee kick from a jump. If it misses, the user is hurt instead.
User	First Used In	Notes
	Raticate makes a big leap towards the opponent and kicks on impact.
Ash's Raticate	Battle Aboard the St. Anne	Debut Raticate cannot legally learn Hi Jump Kick.
	Hitmonlee leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee. It gets hurt if the attack misses, or Hitmonlee jumps into the air, front flips and kicks the opponent down, or Hitmonlee jumps into the air lands and knees the opponent.
Shiro's Hitmonlee	Two Hits and a Miss	None
Wobbuffet Festival crasher's Hitmonlee	Wobbu-Palooza!	None
Gilbert's Hitmonlee	Saved by the Beldum	None
Master Hamm's Hitmonlee	Pasta La Vista!	None
Barry's Hitmonlee	DP184	None
	Meditite jumps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee.
Shauna's Meditite	A Meditite Fight!	None
	Medicham leaps into the air and strikes the opponent with its knee. If the attack misses, it hurts itself.
Grace's Medicham	Pros and Con Artists	None
Greta's Medicham	Wheel of Frontier	None

Trivia

The reason why it is not called "High Jump Kick" is because of the character limit on moves.

In other languages

Spanish: Patada S. Alta
French: Pied Voltige
German: Turmkick
Italian: Calcinvolo
Portuguese: Chute com Pulo Alto
Dutch: Hoge sprong schop

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