Spikes (move)

Spikes まきびし Caltrop

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Battles Type  Ground Category  Status PP  20 (max. 32) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Other Side: Affects the opponent's side of the field

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

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Makes all Pokémon after the user nervous.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Prevents the Voltage from going up in the same turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Spikes (Japanese: まきびし Caltrop) is a non-damaging Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Spikes sets spikes around the target Pokémon. In Generation III onwards, the number of Spikes that can be set up can be increased by using Spikes again after the initial Spikes was used. Spikes can be used up to three times, each increasing the damage done to the opponent upon switching in. The damage inflicted by switching out will not occur on Template:Type2s or Pokémon with Levitate unless Gravity is used.

In a double battle, Spikes affects all Pokémon in play. The only way to remove Spikes is to use Rapid Spin. One secondary effect of Defog is to clear spikes, but this can only clear one's own spikes if used in a double battle on one's partner.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 33 0204 Pineco Bug 43 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 49 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison -- 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 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 33 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 36 0204 Pineco Bug 43 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 49 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison -- 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 42 0331 Cacnea Grass 33 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 35 0386 Deoxys Psychic 20 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" | 0138 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#2980EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Cloyster |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea, Cacturne |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0361 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorunt
| colspan="2" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia

|- | 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0091 Cloyster Water Ice 28 0204 Pineco Bug 23 0204 Pineco Bug 28 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 23 0205 Forretress Bug Steel 28 0211 Qwilfish Water Poison -- 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 27 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 28 0331 Cacnea Grass 33 0332 Cacturne Grass Dark 35 0386 Deoxys Psychic 33 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" | 0138 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Omanyte
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#2980EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Water | style="background: #FFF" | Cloyster |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0315 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea, Cacturne |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0361 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snorunt
| colspan="2" style="background:#3DCEF3; text-align: center;" | Ice | style="background: #FFF" | Roselia, Roserade |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0406 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Budew
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#9141CB" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Cacnea, Cacturne

|- | 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. |} |}

In other languages

• Spanish: Púas
• German: Stachler
• Italian: Punte

Variations of the move Spikes
Spikes • Stealth Rock • Toxic Spikes • Sticky Web