Vacuum-Cut (move)

Vacuum-Cut
しんくうぎり Vacuum Cut

Inflicts damage on all enemies in the room

Dungeon

Type	???
Category	Special
PP	7
Hit Ratio	100%
Power	Special
Extra Effects	None
Affected by the Protect status Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by the Snatch status Not affected by the Mirror Move status Not affected by the Muzzled status

Range

All enemies in the room

Vacuum-Cut (Japanese: しんくうぎり Vacuum Cut) is a damage-dealing typeless move introduced in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team.

Effect

Generation III

Vacuum-Cut inflicts a fixed amount of 35 damage on all foes in the room. No Pokémon learn it via gaining levels; however, it can still be taught to many Pokémon via TM. As the attack is typeless, it bypasses Wonder Guard. Despite being a damaging move, it is affected by Taunt.

Generation IV

Vacuum-Cut now does a fixed amount of 18 damage on all foes in the room. This move can be affected by Normalize and have its damage increased by STAB.

In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, the move is no longer affected by Taunt.

Description

Games	Description
MDRB	Inflicts damage on all foes in the room.
MDTD S	Inflicts damage on all enemies in the room.

Learnset

By TM

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Machine
#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		I [[\|]]	II [[\|]]	III TM	IV TM	V --	VI --	VII --	VIII --	IX --
All Pokémon who can learn TMs can learn Vacuum-Cut.
Some Pokémon who cannot usually learn TMs can learn this TM, and are marked by ✔.
Pokémon who cannot are marked by ✘.
0010		Caterpie		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0011		Metapod		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0013		Weedle		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0014		Kakuna		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0129		Magikarp		Water 2	Dragon	✔	✔
0132		Ditto		Ditto		Ditto	✔	✔
0201		Unown		No Eggs Discovered		No Eggs Discovered	✘	✘
0202		Wobbuffet		Amorphous		Amorphous	✘	✘
0235		Smeargle		Field		Field	✔	✔
0265		Wurmple		Bug		Bug	✔	✔
0266		Silcoon		Bug		Bug	✔	✔
0268		Cascoon		Bug		Bug	✔	✔
0360		Wynaut		No Eggs Discovered		No Eggs Discovered	✘	✘
0374		Beldum		Mineral		Mineral	✘	✘
0401		Kricketot		Bug		Bug		✔
0412		Burmy		Bug		Bug		✘
0415		Combee		Bug		Bug		✘
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

Trivia

Vacuum-Cut is one of the only two moves exclusive to the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, the other being Wide Slash. However, this excludes Excavate and Spin Slash, both of which were taken out of the game late in development, although their TMs can be obtained through cheating devices.
This move originated as a TCG attack.

In other languages

Language		Title
French		Aéro-Lames
German		Vakuumhieb
Italian		Colposicuro
Korean		진공베기 Jin-gongbegi
Spanish		Cortaviento

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.