Dual Chop (move)

Dual Chop ダブルチョップ Double Chop

Battles Type  Dragon Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  40 Accuracy  90% 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 V Move Tutor in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Dual Chop (Japanese: ダブルチョップ Double Chop) is a damage-dealing Dragon-type multi-strike move introduced in Generation V.

Effect

Dual Chop inflicts damage, hitting twice per use. Each hit has an equal chance to be a critical hit.

Dual Chop will hit twice even if it breaks a substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the second hit of this move.

If the target has an Ability which activates upon contact, each hit counts individually, enabling the Ability to activate multiple times.

If the first hit activates the target's Focus Sash, Focus Band, or Sturdy, the second hit will cause the defending Pokémon to faint; however, Focus Band can still activate again to prevent fainting, but each chance is independent of the previous one. Each hit will cause Weak Armor to activate.

If the target is holding a Rocky Helmet the user is damaged for each hit.

Description

Games Description The user attacks its target by hitting it with brutal strikes. The target is hit twice in a row.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
444		Gabite	Dragon	Ground	24			''''
445		Garchomp	Dragon	Ground	24			''''
610		Axew	Dragon		Dragon	13			''''
611		Fraxure	Dragon		Dragon	13			''''
612		Haxorus	Dragon		Dragon	13			''''
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.

By Move Tutor

#	Pokémon		Type		Game
					BW	B2W2
056		Mankey	Fighting		Fighting											✔
057		Primeape	Fighting		Fighting											✔
066		Machop	Fighting		Fighting											✔
067		Machoke	Fighting		Fighting											✔
068		Machamp	Fighting		Fighting											✔
125		Electabuzz	Electric		Electric											✔
126		Magmar	Fire		Fire											✔
151		Mew	Psychic		Psychic											✔
239		Elekid	Electric		Electric											✔
240		Magby	Fire		Fire											✔
256		Combusken	Fire	Fighting											✔
257		Blaziken	Fire	Fighting											✔
391		Monferno	Fire	Fighting											✔
392		Infernape	Fire	Fighting											✔
444		Gabite	Dragon	Ground											✔
445		Garchomp	Dragon	Ground											✔
447		Riolu	Fighting		Fighting											✔
448		Lucario	Fighting	Steel											✔
453		Croagunk	Poison	Fighting											✔
454		Toxicroak	Poison	Fighting											✔
466		Electivire	Electric		Electric											✔
467		Magmortar	Fire		Fire											✔
475		Gallade	Psychic	Fighting											✔
539		Sawk	Fighting		Fighting											✔
559		Scraggy	Dark	Fighting											✔
560		Scrafty	Dark	Fighting											✔
610		Axew	Dragon		Dragon											✔
611		Fraxure	Dragon		Dragon											✔
612		Haxorus	Dragon		Dragon											✔
619		Mienfoo	Fighting		Fighting											✔
620		Mienshao	Fighting		Fighting											✔
624		Pawniard	Dark	Steel											✔
625		Bisharp	Dark	Steel											✔
648		Meloetta	Normal	Psychic											✔
648		Meloetta	Normal	Fighting											✔
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move.

By event

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0539 Sawk Fighting Dream World - Dream Park 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

Fraxure
The user attacks its target by hitting it with brutal strikes.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Fraxure dives into the opponent, hitting it with its claws.
A Fraxure Iris borrowed from the Opelucid Trainers' School	Drayden Versus Iris: Past, Present, and Future!		Debut

Trivia

• Despite it being a Dragon-type move, the only Dragon-type Pokémon that can learn Dual Chop are Gabite, Garchomp and the Haxorus family.
  • In fact, most Pokémon that learn Dual Chop are Fighting-type or are in the Human-Like Egg Group.
  • The only Dragon-type Pokémon that can learn Dual Chop from a Move Tutor can already learn it by leveling up.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 雙重劈 Shuāngchóng Pī French Double Baffe German Doppelhieb Greek Διτεμαχισμός Italian Doppiocolpo Korean 더블촙 Double Chop Spanish Golpe Bis

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