Struggle (move)

Struggle わるあがき Vain Struggle

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  1 (max. N/A) Power  50 Accuracy  —% 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 adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   A highly appealing move.

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

Struggle (Japanese: わるあがき Vain Struggle) is a move that cannot be learned naturally by any Pokémon. However, every Pokémon can use it, but only if all of their moves cannot be used, usually due to a lack of PP(Power Pionts).

Effect

Generation I

Struggle deals damage to the opponent and the user receives recoil damage. The user takes recoil damage equal to 50% of the damage the attack did to the opponent. Struggle will automatically be used by a Pokémon that has no usable moves but is ordered to attack, and has infinite PP in such a situation.

If the user of Struggle attacks first and faints itself due to recoil damage, the opponent will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round. If Struggle breaks a Substitute, the user will take no recoil damage.

Struggle has 10 base PP, though no PP would ever be deducted from it. Self-inflicted recoil damage from Struggle from the previous turn can be countered if the opponent did not make a move on the following turn.

In Stadium, no recoil damage is taken if Struggle knocks out an opponent.

Generation II

Struggle now has a maximum of 1 PP instead of 10-16. Struggle now inflicts normal damage to Steel-type Pokémon as well as Rock-type, and hits Ghost-type Pokémon even if the user has not previously used Foresight.

Generation III

Pokémon with the Wonder Guard Ability are not immune to Struggle. Rock Head does not prevent Struggle's recoil damage.

Generation IV and on

The user now takes ¼ of its maximum HP as recoil damage. Also, if the user is holding a Choice item, and is triggered by Disable, Taunt, Torment, Imprison or Cursed Body, it will always use Struggle as long as the item and the move both remain active; if the move is Torment, the Pokémon will only use Struggle every second turn. Struggle is unaffected by modifications to the Accuracy stat and Evasion stat.

Description

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Games Description Stad Used only if the user runs totally out of PP. The user is hit with 1/4 of the damage it inflicts. Stad2 Used only if the user is totally out of PP. The user is hit with 1/4 the damage it inflicts. GSC Used only if all PP are exhausted. RSE Used only if all PP are gone. Also hurts the user a little. FRLG An attack that is used only if there is no PP. It also hurts the user. Colo Used when all PP are gone. Also hurts the user a bit. DPPtHGSSBW An attack that is used in desperation only if the user has no PP. It also hurts the user slightly.

Learnset

All Pokémon can use Struggle when the PP for all moves they know are at 0 or the moves are somehow incapacitated such as through Disable, Taunt, Torment, Imprison, or Choice items.

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• Even though Struggle can only be accessed by the loss of all PP, it was given Contest and Super Contest stats. This is most likely to prevent the game from crashing if a Pokémon is hacked to have Struggle as one of their four moves. The contest stats seem to be the defaults.
• Struggle is the last non-glitch move in index number order in Generation I, and the last Generation I move in index number lists since then.
• Struggle is one of two moves that cannot be Sketched. The other move being Chatter.
• Struggle deals typeless damage - no Pokémon can gain STAB from it and it is unaffected by type matchups, despite being nominally Normal-type if it is hacked onto a Pokémon's movelist.
  • This makes Struggle the only Normal-type move which can hit a Ghost-type opponent without the aid of Odor Sleuth, Foresight, Scrappy or Soak.
• Struggle is one of four moves originating from Generation I that has not been used in the anime (the others being Barrage, Leech Life and Kinesis).
• Generation IV hybrids are the only Pokémon, normal or glitched, to attempt to learn Struggle without cheating.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 掙扎 Zhēngzhá Dutch Spartel European French Lutte German Verzweifler Greek Αγώνας Italian Scontro Korean 발버둥 Balbeodung Serbian Opstanak European Spanish Combate

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