Leaf Blade (move)

Leaf Blade リーフブレード Leaf Blade

Battles Type  Grass Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  90* 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  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   Affected by how well the appeal in front goes.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

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

Leaf Blade (Japanese: リーフブレード Leaf Blade) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III. Prior to Generation IV, it was the signature move of Grovyle and Sceptile.

Effect

Generation III

Leaf Blade inflicts damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Leaf Blade has a base power of 70 in this generation.

Generation IV

The effects of Leaf Blade are the same as the previous generation; however, its base power increases from 70 to 90.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0253 Grovyle Grass 29 0254 Sceptile Grass 29 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 0071 Victreebel Grass Poison 47 0182 Bellossom Grass -- 0253 Grovyle Grass 29 0254 Sceptile Grass 29 0470 Leafeon Grass 71 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting -- 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" | 0083 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Farfetch'd
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Leafeon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0357 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tropius
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Victreebel
Bellossom
Grovyle, Sceptile

|- | 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0071 Victreebel Grass Poison 47 0182 Bellossom Grass -- 0253 Grovyle Grass 29 0254 Sceptile Grass 29 0470 Leafeon Grass 71 0475 Gallade Psychic Fighting -- 0495 Snivy Grass 28 0496 Janovy Janovy Grass 32 0497 Jalorda Jalorda Grass 32 0542 Hahakomori Hahakomori Bug Grass 36 0640 Virizion Grass Fighting 67 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" | 0083 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Farfetch'd
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Leafeon
Snivy, Janovy, Jalorda |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0357 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Tropius
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Victreebel
Bellossom
Grovyle, Sceptile
Snivy, Janovy, Jalorda

|- | 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. |} |}

By event

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Dream World 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 the anime

File:Leafeon Leaf Blade.png Leafeon File:Snivy Leaf Blade.png Snivy File:Sceptile Leaf Blade.png Sceptile File:Janovy Leaf Blade.png Janovy
The leaves on the user's arms extend and glow green.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The three leaves on one of Grovyle's forearm glow white or green and combine into one long sharp blade. It then slashes the opponent with it.
Natasha's Grovyle	What You Seed is What You Get		Debut
Ash's Grovyle	Exploud and Clear		None
	The four leaves on Sceptile's wrists glow light green and form into two. Sceptile then slices the opponent.
Ash's Sceptile	Cutting the Ties that Bind!		None
	The leaf on Leafeon's head and its tail start to glow light green, and they form into long blades. Leafeon then slashes the opponent with one of them.
Zoey's Leafeon	Coming Full Festival Circle!		None
	The leaf on Janovy's tail starts to glow light green. Janovy then hits the opponent with it.
Unknown Trainer's Janovy	BW004		None
	The leaf on Snivy's tail starts to glow light green. Snivy then hits the opponent with it.
Ash's Snivy	BW010		None

In other languages

• Chinese: 刀葉 Dāoyè
• Dutch: Bladmes
• Finnish: Lehtiterä
• French: Lame-Feuille
• German: Laubklinge
• Greek: Φυλλόξιφος
• Italian: Fendifoglia
• Korean: 리프블레이드 Leaf Blade
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Lâmina de Folha
• Spanish: Hoja Aguda
• Serbian: Lisnato Sečivo

Variations of the move Leaf Blade
Leaf Blade • Attack Order