Night Slash (move)

Night Slash つじぎり Blade Testing

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Battles Type  Dark Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  70 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 Does not affect any Pokémon*

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

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   No additional effect.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Night Slash is a Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV. It is a physical move, therefore it runs off of the Attack stat of the user and Defense stat of the target.

Effect

Night Slash has a critical hit ratio of 12.5%, as opposed to the usual 6.25%.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0051 Dugtrio Ground -- 0052 Meowth Normal 49 0053 Persian Normal 61 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 33 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 45 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 72 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 45 0214 Heracross Bug Fighting -- 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 50 0254 Sceptile Grass -- 0319 Sharpedo Water Dark 56 0336 Seviper Poison 46 0341 Corphish Water 35 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 39 0359 Absol Dark 52 0430 Honchkrow Dark Flying 45 0434 Stunky Poison Dark 31 0435 Skuntank Poison Dark 31 0461 Weavile Ice Dark 35 0469 Yanmega Bug Flying -- 0472 Gliscor Ground Flying 31 0475 Gallade Psychic 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.

By breeding

• Sandshrew
• Farfetch'd
• Scyther
• Gligar
• Teddiursa
• Torchic
• Slakoth
• Nincada
• Zangoose
• Seviper
• Skorupi

Trivia

The Japanese name つじぎり (Blade Testing) is probably a reference to the way in which some particularly unscrupulous samurai would test new swords in feudal Japan. This was by hiding in wait by a road (typically a crossroads) and waiting for an unsuspecting commoner (i.e. lower class, and so with far fewer rights than the samurai class) to pass by. He would then strike to kill, and in this way learn how well his new sword could cut.