Self-Destruct (move)

Selfdestruct じばく Suicide Bombing

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  200* Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by Mirror Move Affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Foe Self Ally Ally Affects all Pokémon adjacent to the user

Availability Introduced  Generation I TM36 in Generation I Move Tutor in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  8 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   Makes a great appeal, but allows no more to the end.

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Earn +15 if all the Pokémon choose the same Judge.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Selfdestruct (Japanese: じばく Suicide Bombing) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It can be seen as a weaker version of Explosion.

Effect

Generation I

Resembling a weaker version of Explosion, Selfdestruct inflicts damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is listed as 130, the target's Defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an effective power of 260. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Selfdestruct would have an effective power of 130 if it could be used against a target with a Defense value of 1 (although such circumstances would almost never happen in normal play).

If Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will be replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Selfdestruct had a Substitute at the time of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once again become visible.

If the user of Selfdestruct attacks first and faints itself, the target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

In Stadium, if Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will faint.

Generation II

The move's power is increased to 200 instead. The target's Defense is still halved, giving it an effective power of 400. If the user uses the move on a target using a substitute, regardless if the substitute is broken or not, the user will always faint.

Generations III and IV

Selfdestruct cannot be used when a Pokémon with the ability Damp is on the field.

Generation V

Selfdestruct no longer halves the target's Defense.

Mystery Dungeon

Selfdestruct does not cause the user to faint, but instead cuts its HP in half, and affects all Pokémon, items, and walls within 2 tiles of the user, reducing HP by half on teammates, by 50 on hostile Pokémon, and destroying all walls, items, and special tiles. Selfdestruct cannot be used in rain or on any floor with a Pokémon with the ability Damp.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground -- 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 22 0101 Electrode Electric -- 22 0109 Koffing Poison 40 0110 Weezing Poison 43 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 TM36

#   Pokémon Type 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 0076 Golem Rock Ground 0088 Grimer Poison 0089 Muk Poison 0090 Shellder Water 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0095 Onix Rock Ground 0100 Voltorb Electric 0101 Electrode Electric 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0109 Koffing Poison 0110 Weezing Poison 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 Mew Psychic Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground -- 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground -- 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 23 0101 Electrode Electric -- 23 0109 Koffing Poison 17 0110 Weezing Poison -- 17 0204 Pineco Bug 8 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 8 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 21 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 21 0076 Golem Rock Ground 21 0100 Voltorb Electric 27 0101 Electrode Electric 27 0109 Koffing Poison 17 0110 Weezing Poison -- 17 0204 Pineco Bug 8 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 8 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 19 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 19 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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. |} |}

By move tutor

In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

#   Pokémon Type 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 0076 Golem Rock Ground 0088 Grimer Poison 0089 Muk Poison 0090 Shellder Water 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 0092 Gastly Ghost Poison 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 0095 Onix Rock Ground 0100 Voltorb Electric 0101 Electrode Electric 0102 Exeggcute Grass Psychic 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 0109 Koffing Poison 0110 Weezing Poison 0143 Snorlax Normal 0150 Mewtwo Psychic 0151 Mew Psychic 0185 Sudowoodo Rock 0204 Pineco Bug 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 0208 Steelix Steel Ground 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison 0218 Slugma Fire 0219 Magcargo Fire Rock 0222 Corsola Water Rock 0273 Seedot Grass 0274 Nuzleaf Grass Dark 0275 Shiftry Grass Dark 0299 Nosepass Rock 0316 Gulpin Poison 0317 Swalot Poison 0320 Wailmer Water 0321 Wailord Water 0323 Camerupt Fire Ground 0324 Torkoal Fire 0337 Lunatone Rock Psychic 0338 Solrock Rock Psychic 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 0362 Glalie Ice 0375 Metang Steel Psychic 0376 Metagross Steel Psychic 0377 Regirock Rock 0378 Regice Ice 0379 Registeel Steel Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 18 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 18 0076 Golem Rock Ground 18 0100 Voltorb Electric 29 0101 Electrode Electric 29 0109 Koffing Poison 19 0110 Weezing Poison 19 0204 Pineco Bug 6 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 6 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 19 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 19 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" | 0185 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0438 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Bonsly
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem

|- | 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. |} |}

Special move

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0446 Munchlax Normal Pokéwalker - Winner's Path Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Generation V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0074 Geodude Rock Ground 29 0075 Graveler Rock Ground 31 0076 Golem Rock Ground 31 0100 Voltorb Electric 33 0101 Electrode Electric 35 0109 Koffing Poison 24 0110 Weezing Poison 24 0204 Pineco Bug 6 0205 Forretress Bug Steel -- 6 0343 Baltoy Ground Psychic 21 0344 Claydol Ground Psychic 21 0597 Ferroseed Grass Steel 38 0598 Ferrothorn Grass Steel 38 0649 Genesect Bug Steel 77 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In the anime

File:Ditto Selfdestuct.png Ditto File:Pineco Selfdestruct.png Pineco
The Pokémon becomes angry and white and then explodes.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Voltorb's body glows white and yellow sparks appear around its body. It then explodes violently.
Koga's Voltorb	The Ninja Poké-Showdown		Debut
Duplica's Ditto in the form of Voltorb	Ditto's Mysterious Mansion		Used via Transform
Keith's Voltorb	So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd		None
Unknown Trainer's Voltorb	Pikachu Re-Volts		None
Multiple wild Voltorb	Bucking the Treasure Trend!		None
	Pineco's body glows blue or white. It then suddenly explodes.
Multiple wild Pineco	Going Apricorn!		None
Brock's Pineco	Going Apricorn!		None
Multiple wild Pineco	Bucking the Treasure Trend!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Electrode Selfdestruct Adventures.png Electrode
The user explodes violently.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Electrode explodes violently.
Lt. Surge's Electrode	Electrode's Big Shock!		Debut

In other games

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Selfdestruct does not cause the user to faint, but instead cuts its HP in half, and reduces HP by half on teammates, by 40 on hostile Pokémon, and destroys all walls and items within one tile of the user.

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• Only Munchlax, Snorlax, and Smeargle receive STAB for Selfdestruct.
  • Lickilicky, who along with Smeargle receives STAB from Explosion, cannot learn Selfdestruct.
  • Snorlax is only capable of learning Selfdestruct through a move tutor in Pokémon XD. Lickilicky's pre-evolved form is oddly incapable of learning it from the same move tutor.
• In Generation I, if Selfdestruct or Explosion causes the player to win and lose at the same time, the player blacks out as normal, but the victory music plays.

In other languages

Language Title Finnish Itsetuho French Destruction German Finale Greek Αυτοκαταστροφή Italian Autodistruz. Korean 자폭 Japok Polish Samo-Zniszczenie Serbian Samouništenje Spanish Autodestruc

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.