One-hit knockout move: Difference between revisions

'''One-hit knockout moves''' (Japanese: '''{{tt|一撃必殺|いちげきひっさつ}}わざ''' ''one-hit knockout move''), commonly abbreviated as '''one-hit KO moves''' or '''OHKO moves''', are [[move]]s whose effect is to immediately drop the target's {{stat|HP}} to zero. When such a move successfully hits, the game will display the message "It's a one-hit KO!" (or simply "One-hit KO!" in [[Generation I]]).

 

 

 

==Accuracy mechanics==

 

OHKO moves automatically fail if the target has a higher [[level]] than the user. Their accuracy starts at 76/256 (approximately 30%) and increases by 2/256 (approximately 0.8%) for each level the user is above the target. This means that if the user's level is 90 levels greater than the target's, the move will have 100% accuracy. An X Accuracy will guarantee that all OHKO moves hit. The accuracy of OHKO moves in Generation II is affected by the standard accuracy and evasion stats.<ref>http://upcarchive.playker.info/0/upokecenter/dex/index.html%3Flang=en&move=32.html</ref>

 

OHKO moves automatically fail if the target has a higher level than the user. Their accuracy starts at 30% and increases by 1% for each level the user is above the target. {{stat|Accuracy}} and {{stat|evasion}} stats no longer influence the move's accuracy, including modifiers from items such as [[Wide Lens]] or {{Abilities}} such as {{a|Compound Eyes}}. Effects that allow moves to always hit (such as {{a|No Guard}} or {{m|Lock-On}}) still work on OHKO moves.

 

 

==List of moves==

! style="background: #{{ground color dark}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | {{mcolor|Fissure|fff}}

! style="background: #{{normal color dark}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | {{mcolor|Guillotine|fff}}

! style="background: #{{normal color dark}}; {{roundytl|5px}}" | {{mcolor|Horn Drill|fff}}

! style="background: #{{ice color dark}}; {{roundytr|5px}}" | {{mcolor|Sheer Cold|fff}}

* All one-hit KO moves are normally ineffective against a type of Pokémon. {{m|Fissure}} cannot affect {{type|Flying}} Pokémon, {{m|Guillotine}} and {{m|Horn Drill}} cannot affect {{type|Ghost}} Pokémon, and {{m|Sheer Cold}} cannot affect {{type|Ice}} Pokémon (as of [[Generation VII]]). Of these, only Sheer Cold's ineffectiveness is not based on a type immunity, and thus cannot be bypassed (e.g. with a move like {{m|Gravity}} or {{m|Foresight}}). Sheer Cold is also the only one-hit KO move where this ineffectiveness did not exist until after its debut generation.

* Starting in Generation VII, Sheer Cold is the only one-hit KO move to potentially have different accuracy mechanics compared to all other one-hit KO moves.

* Sheer Cold is the only one-hit knockout move to be introduced outside of [[Generation I]].