Karate Chop (move)
| Karate Chop からてチョップ Karate Chop | ||||||||||||
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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
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Generation II
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0239
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| style="background: #FFF" | Elekid
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric
| style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Magmar
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | 
| style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire
| style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Electabuzz
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| 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.
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Generation III
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0239
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |
| style="background: #FFF" | Elekid
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric
| style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Magmar
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |
| style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire
| style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Electabuzz
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| 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.
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Generation IV
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0239
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |
| style="background: #FFF" | Elekid
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric
| style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Magmar, Magmortar
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0240
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |
| style="background: #FFF" | Magby
| colspan="2" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire
| style="background: #FFF" | Machop, Machoke, Machamp
Electabuzz, Electivire
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| 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.
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Generation V
By leveling up
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In the anime
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| The opponent is hit by the side of the user's hand. | |||
| Pokémon | Method | ||
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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 | |
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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 | |
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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
 Machamp
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| The user karate chops the opponent. | |||
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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
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