Sand Attack (move)

Sand-Attack すなかけ Sand Attack

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Battles Type  Ground Category  Status PP  15 (max. 24) Power  — Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make contact Affected by Protect Affected by Magic Coat and Magic Bounce 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  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the judge's attention.

Super Contests Condition  Cute Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going down in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cute 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

Sand-Attack (Japanese: すなかけ Sand Attack) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Sand-Attack decreases the opponent's accuracy by 1 level.

Sand-Attack will do nothing if the opponent's accuracy level is at -6, and will fail if the opponent has a Substitute or is under the effect of Mist.

Sand-Attack is a Template:Type2 move.

Generation II and on

Same effects as before, but now a Template:Type2 move. Affects Template:Type2s and Pokémon with Levitate.

In the anime

• An unnamed trainer's Sandslash using Sand Attack.
  An unnamed trainer's Sandslash using Sand Attack.

Pokémon

Pidgey. Pidgey flaps its wings and a sandstorm is created.

• Used by a wild Pidgey in Pokémon - I Choose You!.

Sandslash. Sandslash digs into the ground and sand is swept up.

• Used by an unnamed trainer's Sandslash in Gymbaliar!.

Gligar. Same as above

• Used by Ash's Gligar from Bells are Singing! to ???

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0016 Pidgey Normal Flying 5 0017 Pidgeotto Normal Flying --, 5 0018 Pidgeot Normal Flying --, 5 0027 Sandshrew Ground 10 0028 Sandslash Ground --, 10 0050 Diglett Ground 24 0051 Dugtrio Ground --, 24 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying -- 0133 Eevee Normal -- 0134 Vaporeon Water -- 0135 Jolteon Electric -- 0136 Flareon Fire -- 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 0016 Pidgey Normal Flying 5 0017 Pidgeotto Normal Flying --, 5 0018 Pidgeot Normal Flying --, 5 0027 Sandshrew Ground 11 0028 Sandslash Ground --, 11 0050 Diglett Ground 25 0051 Dugtrio Ground 25 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 7 0133 Eevee Normal 8 0134 Vaporeon Water 8 0135 Jolteon Electric 8 0136 Flareon Fire 8 0140 Kabuto Rock Water 28 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 28 0190 Aipom Normal 6 0196 Espeon Psychic 8 0197 Umbreon Dark 8 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 6 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 13 0234 Stantler Normal 31 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 0016 Pidgey Normal Flying 5 0017 Pidgeotto Normal Flying --, 5 0018 Pidgeot Normal Flying --, 5 0027 Sandshrew Ground 11 0028 Sandslash Ground --, 11 0050 Diglett Ground -- 0051 Dugtrio Ground -- 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 6 0133 Eevee Normal 8 0134 Vaporeon Water 8 0135 Jolteon Electric 8 0136 Flareon Fire 8 0140 Kabuto Rock Water 31 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 31 0190 Aipom Normal 6 0196 Espeon Psychic 8 0197 Umbreon Dark 8 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 6 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 10 0234 Stantler Normal 31 0234 Stantler Normal 27 0255 Torchic Fire 19 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 21 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 21 0261 Poochyena Dark 9 0262 Mightyena Dark --, 9 0263 Zigzagoon Normal 13 0264 Linoone Normal 13 0290 Nincada Bug Ground 9 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying --, 9 0292 Shedinja Bug Ghost --, 9 0296 Makuhita Fighting 4 0297 Hariyama Fighting --, 4 0328 Trapinch Ground 9 0329 Vibrava Ground Dragon --, 9 0330 Flygon Ground Dragon --, 9 0331 Cacnea Grass 17 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 17 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 0016 Pidgey Normal Flying 5 0017 Pidgeotto Normal Flying --, 5 0018 Pidgeot Normal Flying --, 5 0027 Sandshrew Ground 7 0028 Sandslash Ground --, 7 0050 Diglett Ground -- 0051 Dugtrio Ground -- 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying -- 0133 Eevee Normal 8 0134 Vaporeon Water 8 0135 Jolteon Electric 8 0136 Flareon Fire 8 0140 Kabuto Rock Water 21 0141 Kabutops Rock Water 21 0190 Aipom Normal 4 0196 Espeon Psychic 8 0197 Umbreon Dark 8 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 5 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 7 0234 Stantler Normal 16 0255 Torchic Fire 19 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 21 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 21 0261 Poochyena Dark 9 0262 Mightyena Dark --, 9 0263 Zigzagoon Normal 13 0264 Linoone Normal 13 0290 Nincada Bug Ground 9 0291 Ninjask Bug Flying --, 9 0292 Shedinja Bug Ghost --, 9 0296 Makuhita Fighting 4 0297 Hariyama Fighting --, 4 0328 Trapinch Ground 9 0329 Vibrava Ground Dragon --, 9 0330 Flygon Ground Dragon --, 9 0331 Cacnea Grass 17 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 17 0424 Ambipom Normal --, 4 0443 Gible Ground Dragon 3 0444 Gabite Ground Dragon --, 3 0445 Garchomp Ground Dragon --, 3 0449 Hippopotas Ground -- 0450 Hippowdon Ground -- 0470 Leafeon Grass 8 0471 Glaceon Ice 8 0472 Gliscor Ground Flying --, 5 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:Learnlist/breeding |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0179 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mareep
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Sandshrew, Sandslash
Diglett, Dugtrio
Farfetch'd
Eevee
Aipom, Ambipom
Stantler
Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken
Poochyena, Mightyena
Zigzagoon, Linoone
Glameow, Purugly
Hippopotas, Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0347 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Anorith
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#91A119" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Kabuto, Kabutops |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0396 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Starly
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Pidgeot
Farfetch'd
Skarmory |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0431 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Glameow
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Sandshrew, Sandslash
Diglett, Dugtrio
Farfetch'd
Eevee
Mareep, Flaaffy, Ampharos
Aipom, Ambipom
Stantler
Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken
Poochyena, Mightyena
Zigzagoon, Linoone
Hippopotas, Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0451 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Skorupi
| colspan="1" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison || style="background:#91A119" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Bug | style="background: #FFF" | Kabuto, Kabutops
Gligar, Gliscor
Nincada, Ninjask
Trapinch, Vibrava, Flygon
Anorith, Armaldo

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Sand-Attack is one of the four moves to have its type changed in Generation II, the others being Gust, Bite, and Karate Chop. Coincidentally, they all were Template:Type2 moves in Generation I.

In other languages

• French: Jet de Sable
• German: Sandwirbel
• Italian: Turbosabbia
• Spanish: Ataque Arena
• Potuguese: Ataque de Areia