Vital Throw (move)

Vital Throw あてみなげ Strike Throw

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Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  70 Accuracy  —% Priority  -1 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 May affect anyone but the user

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   The user will appeal later in the next turn.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Enables the user to perform last in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Vital Throw (Japanese: あてみなげ Strike Throw) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Vital Throw deals damage and is a decreased priority move, causing the user to attack after other Pokémon that are using ordinary priority moves. However, it will strike before Pokémon using other decreased priority moves such as Focus Punch and Avalanche. Vital Throw does not miss unless the target has just used Fly, Dig, Dive, or Bounce.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0066 Machop Fighting 31 0067 Machoke Fighting 34 0068 Machamp Fighting 34 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0066 Machop Fighting 31 0067 Machoke Fighting 33 0068 Machamp Fighting 33 0296 Makuhita Fighting 13 0297 Hariyama Fighting 13 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 0066 Machop Fighting 25 0067 Machoke Fighting 25 0068 Machamp Fighting 25 0127 Pinsir Bug 25 0296 Makuhita Fighting 10 0297 Hariyama Fighting 10 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Trivia

• Although Vital Throw was introduced in Generation II, no Generation II Pokémon can legally learn it.

In other languages

• Spanish: Tiro Vital
• German: Überwurf
• Italian: Vitaltiro