Explosion (move)

Explosion だいばくはつ Giant Explosion

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  250 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make 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 {{{gen}}}]] Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  8 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   ???

Super Contests Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Earn +15 if all the Pokémon choose the same Judge.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Beauty Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Explosion is an extremely damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation I. It is currently the most highly-damaging move introduced, and is a more powerful version of Selfdestruct.

Effect

Generation I

Explosion does damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is 170, the opponent's defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an effective power of 340. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Explosion will then effectively have a power of 170 if used against an opponent with a defense value of 1.

If Explosion breaks an opponent's substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will be replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Explosion had a substitute at the time of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once again become visible.

If the user of Explosion attacks first and faints itself, the opponent will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.

In Stadium, if Explosion breaks an opponent's substitute, the user will faint.

Explosion has a power of 170 in Generation I.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

• Geodude at Lv.36
• Graveler at Lv.43
• Golem at Lv.43
• Voltorb at Lv.43
• Electrode at Lv.50
• Koffing at Lv.48
• Weezing at Lv.53

By TM47

• Geodude
• Graveler
• Golem
• Grimer
• Muk
• Shellder
• Cloyster
• Gastly
• Haunter
• Gengar
• Onix
• Voltorb
• Electrode
• Exeggcute
• Exeggutor
• Koffing
• Weezing
• Mew

Generation II

By leveling up

• Geodude at Lv.41
• Graveler at Lv.48
• Golem at Lv.48
• Voltorb at Lv.39
• Electrode at Lv.44
• Koffing at Lv.41
• Weezing at Lv.44
• Pineco at Lv.36
• Forretress at Lv.39

Generation III

By leveling up

• Geodude at Lv.41
• Graveler at Lv.53
• Golem at Lv.53
• Voltorb at Lv.46
• Electrode at Lv.54
• Koffing at Lv.41
• Weezing at Lv.44
• Pineco at Lv.36
• Forretress at Lv.39
• Seedot at Lv.43
• Lunatone at Lv.49
• Solrock at Lv.49
• Baltoy at Lv.45
• Claydol at Lv.55
• Regirock at Lv.--
• Regice at Lv.--
• Registeel at Lv.--

By breeding

• Grimer
• Gastly
• Onix
• Nosepass

By move tutor

In Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

• Geodude
• Graveler
• Golem
• Grimer
• Muk
• Shellder
• Cloyster
• Gastly
• Haunter
• Gengar
• Onix
• Voltorb
• Electrode
• Exeggcute
• Exeggutor
• Koffing
• Weezing
• Mew
• Sudowoodo
• Pineco
• Forretress
• Steelix
• Corsola
• Seedot
• Nuzleaf
• Shiftry
• Nosepass
• Gulpin
• Swalot
• Camerupt
• Torkoal
• Lunatone
• Solrock
• Baltoy
• Claydol
• Glalie
• Metang
• Metagross
• Regirock
• Regice
• Registeel

Generation IV

By leveling up

• Geodude at Lv.32
• Graveler at Lv.38
• Golem at Lv.38
• Voltorb at Lv.43
• Electrode at Lv.51
• Koffing at Lv.37
• Weezing at Lv.40
• Pineco at Lv.31
• Forretress at Lv.33
• Seedot at Lv.43
• Lunatone at Lv.56
• Solrock at Lv.56
• Baltoy at Lv.71
• Claydol at Lv.86
• Regirock at Lv.--
• Regice at Lv.--
• Registeel at Lv.--
• Drifloon at Lv.43
• Drifblim at Lv.51
• Stunky at Lv.44
• Skuntank at Lv.52
• Azelf at Lv.76

By TM64

• Geodude
• Graveler
• Golem
• Magnemite
• Magneton
• Grimer
• Muk
• Shellder
• Cloyster
• Gastly
• Haunter
• Gengar
• Onix
• Voltorb
• Electrode
• Exeggcute
• Exeggutor
• Koffing
• Weezing
• Mew
• Sudowoodo
• Pineco
• Forretress
• Steelix
• Qwilfish
• Magcargo
• Corsola
• Seedot
• Nuzleaf
• Shiftry
• Nosepass
• Gulpin
• Swalot
• Camerupt
• Torkoal
• Lunatone
• Solrock
• Baltoy
• Claydol
• Glalie
• Metang
• Metagross
• Regirock
• Regice
• Registeel
• Drifloon
• Drifblim
• Stunky
• Skuntank
• Bronzong
• Bonsly
• Magnezone
• Lickilicky
• Probopass
• Azelf
• Heatran

By breeding

• Grimer
• Gastly
• Onix
• Nosepass

In other languages

French: explosion, German: explosion, Italian: esplosione, Spanish: explosion, Dutch: explosie.