Mud Bomb (move)

Mud Bomb
どろばくだん Mud Bomb

Battles

Type	Ground
Category	Special
PP	10 (max. 16)
Power	65
Accuracy	85%
Priority	{{{priority}}}
Does not make 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 IV
Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Super Contests

Condition	Smart
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars

Condition	Smart
Appeal	0
Jamming	0

On Smogon's Movedex:

Mud Bomb (Japanese: どろばくだん Mud Bomb) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Mud Bomb deals damage and has a 30% chance of lowering the foe's accuracy by one stage.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#	Pokémon	Type		Level
0023	Ekans	Poison		28
0024	Arbok	Poison		34
0050	Diglett	Ground		29
0051	Dugtrio	Ground		33
0060	Poliwag	Water		41
0061	Poliwhirl	Water		53
0088	Grimer	Poison		23
0089	Muk	Poison		23
0194	Wooper	Water	Ground	19
0195	Quagsire	Water	Ground	19
0220	Swinub	Ice	Ground	20
0221	Piloswine	Ice	Ground	20
0259	Marshtomp	Water	Ground	25
0260	Swampert	Water	Ground	25
0339	Barboach	Water	Ground	14
0340	Whiscash	Water	Ground	14
0422	Shellos	Water		11
0422	Shellos	Water		11
0423	Gastrodon	Water	Ground	11
0423	Gastrodon	Water	Ground	11
0453	Croagunk	Poison	Fighting	29
0454	Toxicroak	Poison	Fighting	29
0473	Mamoswine	Ice	Ground	20
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0050 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Diglett
| colspan="2" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Wooper, Quagsire
Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0054 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Psyduck
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath
Wooper, Quagsire
Politoed
Swinub, Piloswine
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon
Mamoswine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0113 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chansey
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty, Delcatty |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0258 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mudkip
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Marshtomp, Swampert
Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Politoed
Wooper, Quagsire
Shellos, Gastrodon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0300 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Psyduck, Golduck
Wooper, Quagsire
Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0322 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Numel
| colspan="1" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Psyduck, Golduck
Wooper, Quagsire
Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0440 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Happiny
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty, Delcatty

|- | 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
0023		Ekans	Poison		33
0024		Arbok	Poison		39
0050		Diglett	Ground		26
0051		Dugtrio	Ground		28
0060		Poliwag	Water		41
0061		Poliwhirl	Water		53
0088		Grimer	Poison		23
0089		Muk	Poison		23
0194		Wooper	Water	Ground	19
0195		Quagsire	Water	Ground	19
0220		Swinub	Ice	Ground	20
0221		Piloswine	Ice	Ground	20
0259		Marshtomp	Water	Ground	25
0260		Swampert	Water	Ground	25
0339		Barboach	Water	Ground	14
0340		Whiscash	Water	Ground	14
0422		Shellos	Water		11
0422		Shellos	Water		11
0423		Gastrodon	Water	Ground	11
0423		Gastrodon	Water	Ground	11
0453		Croagunk	Poison	Fighting	29
0454		Toxicroak	Poison	Fighting	29
0473		Mamoswine	Ice	Ground	20
0618	Maggyo	Maggyo	Ground	Electric	21
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

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0050 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Diglett
| colspan="2" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Wooper, Quagsire
Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0054 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Psyduck
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath
Wooper, Quagsire
Politoed
Swinub, Piloswine
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon
Mamoswine
Maggyo |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0113 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chansey
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty, Delcatty |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0258 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mudkip
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Marshtomp, Swampert
Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Politoed
Wooper, Quagsire
Shellos, Gastrodon
Maggyo |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0300 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Psyduck, Golduck
Wooper, Quagsire
Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0322 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Numel
| colspan="1" style="background:#E62829; text-align: center;" | Fire || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Ekans, Arbok
Diglett, Dugtrio
Psyduck, Golduck
Wooper, Quagsire
Swinub, Piloswine, Mamoswine |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0440 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Happiny
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Skitty, Delcatty |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0535 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Otamaro | style="background: #FFF" | Otamaro
| colspan="2" style="background:#2980EF; text-align: center;" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Poliwag, Poliwhirl, Poliwrath, Politoed
Wooper, Quagsire
Marshtomp, Swampert
Shellos, Gastrodon
Maggyo

|- | 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
Muk Shellos
The user opens its mouth wide and shoots out balls of mud.
User	First Used In	Notes
	Shellos opens its mouth and fires multiple balls of brown mud at the opponent.
Zoey's Shellos	A Stand-Up Sit-Down!	Debut
	Muk opens its mouth and fires globs of mud from its mouth at the opponent.
Three wild Muk	The Psyduck Stops Here!	None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon	Method

The user fires mud at the opponent to either trap or attack them.
User	First Chapter Used In	Notes
	Gastrodon creates a huge blast of mud that traps the opponent or it fires several balls of mud at the opponent.
Jupiter's Gastrodon	VS. Sableye	Debut

In other languages

Chinese: 泥巴爆彈 Níbā Bàodàn
French: Boue-Bombe
German: Schlammbombe
Greek: Λασποβόμβα
Hindi: Keecher Ka Bomb
Italian: Pantanobomba
Korean: 진흙폭탄 Jinheulk Poktan
Norwegian: Gjørme Bombe
Spanish: Bomba Fango

Variations of the move Octazooka

Octazooka • Mirror Shot • Mud Bomb

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