Volt Tackle (move)

Volt Tackle ボルテッカー Volteccer

File:Volt Tackle ani.png

Battles Type  Electric Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  120 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   After this move, the user is more easily startled.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Volt Tackle (Japanese: ボルテッカー Volteccer) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. It is the signature move of the Pichu evolutionary line.

Effect

Volt Tackle inflicts damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to 1/3 of the damage done to the target. This move has a 10% chance of paralyzing the target.

Learnset

Generation III

By breeding

There is only one way to get Volt Tackle, which is only available in Pokémon Emerald or later. The player must breed a female Pikachu or Raichu holding a Light Ball with any Pokémon in the same egg group (or breed a Pikachu or Raichu of any gender holding a Light Ball with a Ditto). If the Pikachu or Raichu and its mating partner are put into the daycare and they meet the conditions to produce an egg, the hatched Pichu will have Volt Tackle.

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0172 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pichu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Any Pokémon in the Ground or Fairy Egg Group^{Wrong template. See Template:Sup/doc.}

|- | 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 IV

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0172 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pichu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Any Pokémon in the Ground or Fairy Egg Group

|- | 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

A Pikachu that knows Volt Tackle (as well as Surf) can be obtained from Pokémon Battle Revolution after beating all of the colosseums once. The move can also be obtained in the same way as in Generation III.

#   Pokémon Type 0025 Pikachu Electric Pokémon Battle Revolution 0025 Pikachu Electric Pokéwalker - Yellow Forest Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

• Pikachu VoltTackleSSBB1.jpg

  Pikachu preparing to use Volt Tackle

• PikachuBrawl FinalSmash.jpg

  Pikachu using Volt Tackle

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Volt Tackle is Pikachu's Final Smash. When used, Pikachu will be enveloped by a blue ball of electricity. The ball does major damage and can even pass through platforms, though it is very hard to control.

Trophy information

"Pikachu, transformed into a ball of light that can slam into foes. It can also fly to chase down those who try to jump out of range. Sparks get stronger when you press the attack button. However, its increased inertia makes midair movement tough. If you get carried away flying, the effect will end, and you'll destroy yourself. Be careful it doesn't happen to you."

In the anime

File:Pikachu Volt Tackle.png Pikachu File:RaichuVoltTackle.jpg Raichu
The Pokémon runs at the opponent while engulfed in electicity. It then tackles the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Pikachu runs at the opponent. Its body then becomes surronded by golden electricity, and it tackles the opponent. While covered in electricity, Pikachu's body looks black and white.
Ash's Pikachu	May's Egg-Cellent Adventure		Debut
Volkner's Pikachu	DP165		Flashback
Makina's Ditto in the form of Pikachu	DP173		None
	Raichu runs at the opponent. Its body then becomes surrounded by golden electricity, and it tackles the opponent. While covered in electricity, Raichu's body looks black and white.
Sho's Raichu	Pika and Goliath!		None

Trivia

• Volt Tackle's Japanese name, Voltteccer, comes from an attack that Pulseman, the protagonist of a Game Freak game of the same name, could use. Both attacks are a reference to Tekkaman, whose signature attack was also called Voltekka.
• Volt Tackle is the only move that causes recoil to have ever been a special move, due to it being an Electric-type move introduced in Generation III (had Flare Blitz and Wood Hammer existed in Generation III, they would have been special as well).
• Volt Tackle is the only non-TM, non-move tutor move that cannot be learned via leveling up by any Pokémon.

In other languages

• Dutch: Volt Tackle
• Finnish: Volttitaklaus (anime only, used in Mastermind-special and in season 9.)
• French: Electacle
• German: Volttackle
• Italian: Locomovolt
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Investida Trovão
• Spanish (Latin American dub): Tacleada de Voltios
• Spanish: Placaje Eléctrico

Variations of the move Double-Edge
Double-Edge • Volt Tackle • Flare Blitz • Brave Bird • Wood Hammer • Wave Crash

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