Karate Chop (move)

Karate Chop
からてチョップ Karate Chop

Battles

Type	Fighting
Category	Physical
PP	25 (max. 40)
Power	50
Accuracy	100%
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	Tough
Appeal	3 ♥♥♥
Jam	0
Affected by how well the appeal in front goes.

Super Contests

Condition	Tough
Appeal	3 ♥♥♥
A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Tough
Appeal	0
Jamming	0

On Smogon's Movedex:

Karate Chop (Japanese: からてチョップ Karate Chop) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. In Generation I, this move is Template:Type2.

Effect

Generation I

Karate Chop deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Generation II and on

Same as before, but Karate Chop is now a Template:Type2 move.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type	Level
0056	Mankey	Fighting	15
0057	Primeape	Fighting	15
0066	Machop	Fighting	--
0067	Machoke	Fighting	--
0068	Machamp	Fighting	--
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
0056	Mankey	Fighting	15
0057	Primeape	Fighting	15
0066	Machop	Fighting	13
0067	Machoke	Fighting	15
0068	Machamp	Fighting	15
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

|- | 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
0056	Mankey	Fighting	15
0056	Mankey	Fighting	11
0057	Primeape	Fighting	15
0057	Primeape	Fighting	11
0066	Machop	Fighting	13
0067	Machoke	Fighting	13
0068	Machamp	Fighting	13
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
0056	Mankey	Fighting	13
0057	Primeape	Fighting	13
0066	Machop	Fighting	10
0067	Machoke	Fighting	10
0068	Machamp	Fighting	10
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 V

By leveling up

#		Pokémon	Type	Level
0056		Mankey	Fighting	13
0057		Primeape	Fighting	13
0066		Machop	Fighting	10
0067		Machoke	Fighting	-- 10
0068		Machamp	Fighting	-- 10
0539	Dageki	Dageki	Fighting	25
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

Pokémon	Method
File:MachopKarateChop.png Machop File:Machoke k chop.png Machoke
The opponent is hit by the side of the user's hand.
User	First Used In	Notes
	Machop repeatedly chops the opponent with the side of its opened hand, or Machop's arm glows white and it chops the opponent with the side of its opened hand.
Unknown Trainer's Machop	The Punchy Pokémon	Debut
Brawly's Machop	Just One of the Geysers	None
Emily's Machop	Sitting Psyduck	None
	Machamp repeatedly chops the opponent with its hands, or one of Machamp's hands glow white and it chops the opponent with the side of its open hand.
Giovanni's Machamp	The Battle of the Badge	None
Gavin's Machamp	From Brags to Riches	None
Emily's Machamp	Sitting Psyduck	None
	Machoke hands glow white and it strikes the opponent with the side of its open hand, sometimes repeatedly.
A Wobbuffet Festival crashers's Machoke	Wobbu-Palooza!	None
Chuck's Machoke	Machoke, Machoke Man!	None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon	Method
Machamp
The user karate chops the opponent.
User	First Chapter Used In	Notes
	Machamp strikes the opponent with the side of one of its open hands.
Blue's Machamp	A Charizard... and a Champion	Debut

Trivia

Karate Chop is one of the four moves to have its type changed in Generation II; the others are Gust, Bite, and Sand-Attack. Coincidentally, they all were Template:Type2 moves in Generation I.
Prior to Generation V, all Pokémon that learn this move by leveling up are only Machop's evolutionary line and Mankey's family.

In other languages

Dutch: Karateslag
Finnish: Karateisku
French: Poing-karate
German: Karateschlag
Greek: Τσεκουριά Καράτε
Italian: Colpokarate
Korean: 태권당수 Taegweon Dangsu
Spanish: Golpe Karate

Variations of the move Karate Chop

Karate Chop • Poison Tail

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