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. MDTDS Inflicts damage on all enemies in the room.

Learnset

By TM

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Compatibility
						III	IV
						TM	TM
Some Pokémon who cannot usually learn TMs can learn this TM, and are marked by ✔.
Every Pokémon can learn this move by TM except the ones listed below and only if marked with ✘.
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 All forms		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 All forms		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. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

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.
  • Vacuum-Cut is based on the "Blastwave Scroll" or "Vacuum Slash Scroll" from the Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer series.
• This move first appeared in the Pokémon franchise as a TCG attack.

In other languages

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

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