Seismic Toss (move)

Seismic Toss
ちきゅうなげ Earth Throw

Battles

Type	Fighting
Category	Physical
PP	20 (max. 32)
Power	Varies
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 {{{gen}}}]]
Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests

Condition	Tough
Appeal	2 ♥♥
Jam	1 ♥
Startles Pokémon that made a Tough-type appeal earlier in the same turn.

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:
- Generation IX

Seismic Toss (Japanese: ちきゅうなげ Earth Throw) is a Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I that deals a varying amount of damage.

Effect

Seismic Toss does damage equal to the user's level. The damage is not altered by weakness or resistance, except when a Pokémon is immune.

In the anime

File:Charizard seismictoss.jpg

Ash's Charizard using Seismic Toss against Blaine's Magmar.

Pokémon

Charizard: Charizard grabs the foe, then Charizard flies into the sky, spins around, then zooms back down and using the momentum of the dive tosses its foe to the ground for more damage.

Used by Ash's Charizard from Volcanic Panic to ???.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

Mankey at Lv.33
Primeape at Lv.37
Machop at Lv.39
Machoke at Lv.44
Machamp at Lv.44
Pinsir at Lv.25

By TM19

Generation II

By leveling up

Mankey at Lv.33
Primeape at Lv.36
Machop at Lv.19
Machoke at Lv.19
Machamp at Lv.19
Pinsir at Lv.19

By breeding

From NYPC

Heracross

Generation III

By leveling up

Mankey at Lv.33 (R/S/E)
Mankey at Lv.26 (FR/LG)
Primeape at Lv.36 (R/S/E)
Primeape at Lv.26 (FR/LG)
Machop at Lv.19
Machoke at Lv.19
Machamp at Lv.19
Pinsir at Lv.13
Makuhita at Lv.46
Hariyama at Lv.51

By breeding

By move tutor

In Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald

Generation IV

By leveling up

Mankey at Lv.17
Primeape at Lv.17
Machop at Lv.19
Machoke at Lv.19
Machamp at Lv.19
Pinsir at Lv.8
Makuhita at Lv.31
Hariyama at Lv.37
Arceus at Lv.--

By breeding

Trivia

There are videos on YouTube which show Pokémon attacked by Seismic Toss because of the humorous aspect of the attack when used in Pokémon Battle Revolution, most notably against Wailord, Kyogre, Dugtrio and Palkia.

In other languages

Spanish: Movimiento Sísmico
French: Frappe Atlas
German: Geowurf
Italian: Movimento Sismico

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Generation I TMs
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Generation I HMs
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