10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt (move)

10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt
1000まんボルト 10,000,000 Volts
10000000 Volt Thunderbolt VII.png
10000000 Volt Thunderbolt VII 2.png
Type  Electric
Category  Special
PP  — (max. —)
Power  195
Accuracy  —%
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  • Does not make contact
  • Not affected by Protect
  • Not affected by Magic Coat
  • Not affected by Snatch
  • Not affected by Mirror Move
  • Affected by King's Rock
Target
Foe Foe Foe
Self Ally Ally
May affect anyone adjacent to the user
Availability
Introduced  Generation VII
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Appeal  0  
Jam  0  
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10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt (Japanese: 1000まんボルト 10,000,000 Volts), pronounced as Ten Million Volt Thunderbolt (Japanese: いっせんまんボルト Issenman Boruto), is a damage-dealing Electric-type Z-Move introduced in Generation VII. It is the exclusive Z-Move of any Pikachu in a cap and an upgraded version of its Thunderbolt.

Effect

Generation VII

10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt deals damage and has a sharply increased critical hit ratio of +2 stages.

Generation VIII onwards

10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt cannot be selected in a battle.

Description

Games Description
SMUSUM The user, Pikachu wearing a cap, powers up a jolt of electricity using its Z-Power and unleashes it. Critical hits land more easily.
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SV
This move can't be used. It's recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can't be remembered.


Learnset

Any Pikachu in a cap, or a Pokémon transformed into one, can use 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt if it knows Thunderbolt, holds Pikashunium Z, and if its Trainer wears a Z-RingSM or Z-Power RingUSUM.

In other games

Pokémon Masters EX

Name Action Class Category Move Gauge MP Base Power Max Power Accuracy Target Effect Tag Description Playable Users
Best Buds 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt Sync move Special 250 300 Default: An opponent Except in certain circumstances, successful hits with this attack become critical hits. Ash & Pikachu
6★ EX: All opponents*

Note:

  • Description prior to Version 2.29.0*: Temporarily assume the form of World Cap Pikachu during this sync move. Except in certain circumstances, successful hits with this attack become critical hits.

In the anime

 
Alola Cap Pikachu
 
Ash
 
World Cap Pikachu
Wearing its Trainer's cap, the user gathers Z-Power and attacks the target with powerful rainbow-colored lightning.
Pokémon Method
User First Used In Notes
  Wearing its Trainer's Alola Cap, Pikachu strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then leaps into the air and absorbs electricity from dark storm clouds that have formed above it. Pikachu then fires seven bolts of electricity, each a different color of a rainbow, at the opponent.
Ash's Pikachu 10,000,000 Reasons to Fight! Debut
  Wearing its Trainer's World Cap, Pikachu strikes a series of synchronized poses with its Trainer to build Z-Power. It then leaps into the air and absorbs electricity from dark storm clouds that have formed above it. Pikachu then fires seven bolts of electricity, each a different color of a rainbow, at the opponent. The lightning bolts can be controlled individually by Pikachu, thus changing trajectory and target.
Ash's Pikachu Ultra Exciting from the Shocking Start! None


In the manga

Movie adaptations


Appearance

Pose

In other generations

Spin-off series games

Trivia

  • This is the only move whose English name starts with a non-alphabetic character.
  • The name of this move is partly based on the Japanese name for Thunderbolt, 100,000 Volts. The 10,000,000 figure references that it is an upgrade of Thunderbolt.
  • Along with Catastropika, 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt is the only species-exclusive Z-Move to have a unique pose not shared with other Z-Moves of the same type. Coincidentally, both are exclusive to Pikachu, although 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt can only be used by Pikachu in a cap.
  • Pokémon Masters EX is the only game where World Cap Pikachu can use the Z-Move 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt, as it is unable to perform the move in the core series games.
  • In Pokémon Masters EX, no other sync move has Best Buds 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt's effect.
  • Even though Z-Moves have been absent from core series games since Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, this move is referenced by Iono upon being defeated for the first time in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: "You're as flashy and bright as a 10,000,000-volt Thunderbolt, friendo!"
  • A similar move named MegaVolt (Japanese: 100まんボルト 1,000,000 Volts) was shown much earlier on in Pokémon Adventures by Red's Pikachu, Pika, to defeat Lance. As the name implies, it is a ten times stronger version of Thunderbolt.

In other languages

Language Title
Chinese Cantonese 千萬伏特 Chīnmaahn Fuhkdahk
Mandarin 千萬伏特 / 千万伏特 Qiānwàn Fútè
  Danish 10.000.000 Volt Thunderbolt
  Dutch 10.000.000 Volt Bliksemstraal
  Finnish 10.000.000 Volt Thunderbolt
  French Giga-Tonnerre
  German Tausendfacher Donnerblitz
  Hindi एक करोड़ वोल्ट थंडरबोल्ट Ek Crore Volt Thunderbolt
  Italian Iperfulmine
  Korean 1000만볼트 Cheonman Bolteu
  Norwegian Ten Million Volt Thunderbolt
Ti millioner volt Thunderbolt (Journeys)
  Polish Piorun 10.000.000 Woltów
Portuguese   Brazil Choque do Trovão Fulminante
  Portugal Relâmpago 10.000.000 de Volts
  Russian Удар Молнии в 10.000.000 Вольт Ydar Molnii v 10.000.000 Volt
  Spanish Gigarrayo Fulminante
  Swedish 10.000.000 Volt Thunderbolt
  Thai ไฟฟ้าสิบล้านโวลต์ electric 10,000,000 Volts
  Turkish 10.000.000 Volt Yıldırım Oku
  Vietnamese Điện 10 Triệu Vôn


Type-based Z-Moves
Breakneck BlitzAll-Out PummelingSupersonic SkystrikeAcid DownpourTectonic Rage
Continental CrushSavage Spin-OutNever-Ending NightmareCorkscrew Crash
Inferno OverdriveHydro VortexBloom DoomGigavolt HavocShattered Psyche
Subzero SlammerDevastating DrakeBlack Hole EclipseTwinkle Tackle
Species-based Z-Moves
Catastropika10,000,000 Volt ThunderboltStoked SparksurferExtreme Evoboost
Pulverizing PancakeGenesis SupernovaSinister Arrow RaidMalicious Moonsault
Oceanic OperettaSplintered StormshardsLet's Snuggle ForeverClangorous Soulblaze
Guardian of AlolaSearing Sunraze SmashMenacing Moonraze Maelstrom
Light That Burns the SkySoul-Stealing 7-Star Strike


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