Bone Club (move)

Bone Club ホネこんぼう Bone Club

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Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  65 Accuracy  85% Priority  0 Does not make contact 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 Normal: May affect anyone but the user (long-range)

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

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles the Pokémon that has the Judge's attention.

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough 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

Bone Club (Japanese: ホネこんぼう Bone Club) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It is one of the signature moves of the Cubone evolutionary line.

Effect

Generation I

Bone Club inflicts damage and has a 9.8% chance of causing the target to flinch. Bone Club cannot cause a target with a Substitute to flinch.

Generation II and on

Same as Generation I, but with a 10% chance of causing the target to flinch.

In the anime

• Marowak Bone Club.JPG

  Marowak using Bone Club.

Pokémon

Cubone. Cubone hits the opponent in the head with its bone.

• Used by Giselle's Cubone in The School of Hard Knocks. Debut.

Marowak. Marowak grips the bone that it's holding tightly, and then knocks it into the opponent.

• Used by Otoshi's Marowak in Bad to the Bone.
• Used by Jeffrey's Marowak in Gymbaliar!.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0104 Cubone Ground -- 0104 Cubone Ground 10 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 10 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 0104 Cubone Ground 9 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 9 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 0104 Cubone Ground 9 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 9 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 0104 Cubone Ground 7 0105 Marowak Ground -- 0105 Marowak Ground 7 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 other languages

• French: Massd'os
• German: Knochenkeule
• Italian: Ossoclava
• Norwegian: Beinklubbe
• Spanish: Hueso Palo