Long Reach (Ability)

Long Reach

えんかく

Distant

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Generation VII
The Pokémon uses its moves without making contact with the target.

Generation VIII
The Pokémon uses its moves without making contact with the target.

Generation IX
The Pokémon uses its moves without making contact with the target.

Long Reach (Japanese: えんかく Distant) is an Ability introduced in Generation VII. It is the signature Ability of Rowlet and its Alolan evolutions.

Effect

In battle

If the Pokémon uses a contact move, it will not activate any effects caused by contact.

Affected moves

The table below lists the moves affected by Long Reach, as well as the Pokémon that can have Long Reach and learn those moves.

Move	Type	Cat.	Pow.	Acc.	Learned by
Acrobatics	Flying	Physical	55	100		{{{6}}}
Aerial Ace	Flying	Physical	60	—		{{{6}}}
Astonish	Ghost	Physical	30	100		{{{6}}}
Brave Bird	Flying	Physical	120	100		{{{6}}}
Covet	Normal	Physical	60	100	* * *	{{{6}}}
Dual Wingbeat	Flying	Physical	40	90		{{{6}}}
Facade	Normal	Physical	70	100		{{{6}}}
False Swipe	Normal	Physical	40	100		{{{6}}}
Frustration	Normal	Physical	—	100		{{{6}}}
Fury Attack	Normal	Physical	15	85	* * *	{{{6}}}
Giga Impact	Normal	Physical	150	90		{{{6}}}
Grass Knot	Grass	Special	—	100		{{{6}}}
Grassy Glide	Grass	Physical	70	100		{{{6}}}
Knock Off	Dark	Physical	65	100		{{{6}}}
Leaf Blade	Grass	Physical	90	100		{{{6}}}
Low Kick	Fighting	Physical	—	100		{{{6}}}
Low Sweep	Fighting	Physical	65	100		{{{6}}}
Peck	Flying	Physical	35	100		{{{6}}}
Phantom Force	Ghost	Physical	90	100		{{{6}}}
Pluck	Flying	Physical	60	100		{{{6}}}
Return	Normal	Physical	—	100		{{{6}}}
Shadow Claw	Ghost	Physical	70	100		{{{6}}}
Shadow Sneak	Ghost	Physical	40	100		{{{6}}}
Skitter Smack	Bug	Physical	70	90		{{{6}}}
Solar Blade	Grass	Physical	125	100		{{{6}}}
Steel Wing	Steel	Physical	70	90		{{{6}}}
Sucker Punch	Dark	Physical	70	100		{{{6}}}
Tackle	Normal	Physical	40	100		{{{6}}}
Take Down	Normal	Physical	90	85		{{{6}}}
Trailblaze	Grass	Physical	50	100		{{{6}}}
U-turn	Bug	Physical	70	100		{{{6}}}

Although other contact moves are also affected by the Ability, they cannot be learned by any Pokémon with Long Reach. They may, however, be called via Metronome, Mirror Move, Copycat, or Mimic, or be used by a Pokémon that gained Long Reach by an Ability like Trace or Receiver or a move such as Skill Swap or Role Play.

Outside of battle

Long Reach has no effect outside of battle.

Pokémon with Long Reach

#		Types		First Ability	Second Ability	Hidden Ability
0722	Rowlet	Grass	Flying	Overgrow	None	Long Reach
0723	Dartrix	Grass	Flying	Overgrow	None	Long Reach
0724	Decidueye	Grass	Ghost	Overgrow	None	Long Reach
Please note that abilities marked with a superscript are only available in the stated generation or later. For Generation III and IV games, ignore Hidden Abilities.

In the Pokémon Legends: Arceus's internal code, Hisuian Decidueye's Hidden Ability is Long Reach instead of Scrappy.

In other games

Pokémon UNITE

In Pokémon UNITE, Long Reach is Decidueye's Ability. It increases damage dealt to distant enemies by 20%. Additional damage added per level from each move's damage formula is excluded from this bonus.

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	遠隔 Yúhngaak
Chinese	Mandarin	遠隔 / 远隔 Yuǎngé
French		Longue Portée
German		Langstrecke
Italian		Distacco
Korean		원격 Wongyeok
Brazilian Portuguese		Longo alcance
Spanish		Remoto

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.