Slash (move)

Slash きりさく Tear into Pieces

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  70 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 Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   Affected by how well the appeal in front goes.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Slash is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Slash does damage, and has a high critical hit ratio.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0004 Charmander Fire 30 0005 Charmeleon Fire 33 0006 Charmeleon Charmeleon Fire Flying 33 0027 Sandshrew Ground 17 0028 Sandslash Ground -- 0028 Sandslash Ground 17 0046 Paras Bug Grass 34 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 39 0050 Diglett Ground 31 0051 Dugtrio Ground 35 0052 Meowth Normal 44 0053 Persian Normal 51 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 39 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 29 0127 Pinsir Bug 49 0140 Kabuto Rock Water 39 0141 Kabutops Rock Water -- 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 39 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0004 Charmander Fire 37 0005 Charmeleon Fire 41 0006 Charmeleon Charmeleon Fire Flying 44 0027 Sandshrew Ground 23 0028 Sandslash Ground 24 0046 Paras Bug Grass 31 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 37 0050 Diglett Ground 33 0051 Dugtrio Ground 37 0052 Meowth Normal 46 0053 Persian Normal 53 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 37 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 36 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 40 0158 Totodile Water 35 0159 Croconaw Water 37 0160 Feraligatr Water 38 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 36 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 36 0215 Sneasel Dark Ice 36 0216 Teddiursa Normal 36 0217 Ursaring Normal 39 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0161 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sentret
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Sandshrew, Sandslash
Diglett, Dugtrio
Meowth, Persian
Farfetch'd
Sneasel
Teddiursa, Ursaring

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0004 Charmander Fire 37 0005 Charmeleon Fire 41 0006 Charmeleon Charmeleon Fire Flying 44 0027 Sandshrew Ground 23 0028 Sandslash Ground 24 0046 Paras Bug Grass 31 0047 Parasect Bug Grass 35 0050 Diglett Ground 33 0051 Dugtrio Ground 38 0052 Meowth Normal 46 0052 Meowth Normal 40 0053 Persian Normal 53 0053 Persian Normal 49 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 41 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 31 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 40 0158 Totodile Water 35 0159 Croconaw Water 37 0160 Feraligatr Water 38 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 36 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 31 0215 Sneasel Dark Ice 50 0216 Teddiursa Normal 37 0217 Ursaring Normal 37 0255 Torchic Fire 34 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 39 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 42 0264 Linoone Normal 41 0288 Vigoroth Normal 31 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying 31 0319 Sharpedo Water Dark 38 0335 Zangoose Normal 19 0347 Anorith Rock Bug 49 0348 Armaldo Rock Bug 55 0352 Kecleon Normal 31 0359 Absol Dark 38 0383 Groundon Groundon Ground 20 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0161 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Sentret
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Sandshrew, Sandslash
Diglett, Dugtrio
Meowth, Persian
Farfetch'd
Sneasel
Teddiursa, Ursaring
Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken
Linoone
Vigoroth, Slaking
Zangoose
Kecleon
Absol |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0287 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Slakoth
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Sandshrew, Sandslash
Diglett, Dugtrio
Meowth, Persian
Farfetch'd
Sneasel
Teddiursa, Ursaring
Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken
Linoone
Vigoroth, Slaking
Zangoose
Kecleon
Absol}

|- | 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 leveling up

• Charmander at Lv.28
• Charmeleon at Lv.32
• Charizard at Lv.32
• Sandshrew at Lv.31
• Sandslash at Lv.40
• Paras at Lv.22
• Parasect at Lv.22
• Diglett at Lv.34
• Dugtrio at Lv.40
• Meowth at Lv.33
• Persian at Lv.37
• Farfetch'd at Lv.19
• Scyther at Lv.29
• Kabutops at Lv.40
• Totodile at Lv.29
• Croconaw at Lv.33
• Feraligatr at Lv.37
• Gligar at Lv.31
• Scizor at Lv.29
• Sneasel at Lv.35
• Teddiursa at Lv.29
• Ursaring at Lv.29
• Skarmory at Lv.46
• Torchic at Lv.34
• Combusken at Lv.39
• Blaziken at Lv.42
• Linoone at Lv.41
• Vigoroth at Lv.31
• Ninjask at Lv.31
• Sharpedo at Lv.30
• Zangoose at Lv.18
• Anorith at Lv.43
• Armaldo at Lv.46
• Kecleon at Lv.25
• Absol at Lv.36
• Groudon at Lv.20
• Vespiquen at Lv.31
• Glameow at Lv.37
• Purugly at Lv.37
• Stunky at Lv.25
• Skuntank at Lv.25
• Gible at Lv.25
• Gabite at Lv.28
• Garchomp at Lv.28
• Yanmega at Lv.38
• Gallade at Lv.22
• Dialga at Lv.70
• Palkia at Lv.70
• Giratina at Lv.70
• Cresselia at Lv.47

By breeding

• Sentret
• Slakoth
• Buizel
• Skorupi

In other languages

• Spanish: Cuchillada
• French: Tranche
• German: Schlitzer
• Portuguese: Slash