Bone Club (move)

Bone Club ホネこんぼう Bone Club

Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  65 Accuracy  85% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not 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  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough 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

Bone Club (Japanese: ホネこんぼう Bone Club) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It is a signature move of Cubone and Marowak.

Effect

Generation I

Bone Club inflicts damage and has a 9.8% chance of causing the target to flinch. Bone Club cannot cause a target with a Substitute to flinch.

Generation II and on

Same as Generation I, but with a 10% chance of causing the target to flinch.

In the anime

• Marowak Bone Club.JPG

  Marowak using Bone Club.

Pokémon

Marowak. Marowak grips the bone that it's holding tightly, and then knocks it into the opponent.

• Used by Otoshi's Marowak in Bad to the Bone.
• Used by Jeffrey's Marowak in Gymbaliar!.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0104 Cubone Ground -- 0104 Cubone Ground 10 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 10 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 0104 Cubone Ground 9 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 9 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0104 Cubone Ground 9 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 9 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0104 Cubone Ground 7 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 7 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In other languages

• French: Massd'os
• German: Knochenkeule
• Italian: Ossoclava
• Norwegian: Beinklubbe
• Spanish: Hueso Palo