Steel Wing (move)

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Steel Wing はがねのつばさ Steel Wing

File:Steel wing.png

Battles Type  Steel Category  Physical PP  25 (max. 40) Power  70 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 but the user (long-range)

Availability Introduced  Generation II TM47 in Generation II TM47 in Generation III TM47 in Generation IV

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Works better if the previous appealer also used a Cool 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 II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX

Steel Wing (Japanese: はがねのつばさ Steel Wing) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Steel Wing inflicts damages and has a 10% chance of raising the user's Defense.

In the anime

• Articunosteelwing.jpg

  Articuno using Steel Wing

• AshGliscorSteelWing.jpg

  Ash's Gliscor using Steel Wing

• Flygon Steel Wing.jpg

  Drew's Flygon using Steel Wing.

• Yanmega Steel Wing.jpg

  Jessie's Yanmega using Steel Wing.

Pokémon

Pelipper. One of Pelipper's wings glows white. Pelipper then slams its wing into its opponent.

• Used by Winona's Pelipper in Sky High Gym Battle! as a lightning rod in its battle against Ash's Pikachu.

Charizard. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Clark's Charizard in Shocks and Bonds against Ash's Grovyle.
• Used by Ash's Charizard in Gathering the Gang of Four to present.

Flygon. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Drew's Flygon in Rhapsody in Drew.

Articuno. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Noland's Articuno in The Symbol Life.

Golbat. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by J's henchmen's Golbat in Mutiny in the Bounty!.

Staraptor. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Reggie's Staraptor in Lost Leader Strategy!.

Gligar. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Ash's Gligar from The Bells are Singing! to Fighting Fear With Fear!.

Gliscor. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Ash's Gliscor from Fighting Fear With Fear! to present.

Yanma. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Jessie's Yanma from 'The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! to present.

Yanmega. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Jessie's Yanmega from The Thief That Keeps on Thieving! to present.

Empoleon. Both of its wings glow white. It then attacks its opponent with them.

• Used by Barry's Empoleon in Barry's Busting Out All Over!.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 49 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 TM47

#   Pokémon Type 0006 Charizard Fire Flying 0016 Pidgey Normal Flying 0017 Pidgeotto Normal Flying 0018 Pidgeot Normal Flying 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 0041 Zubat Poison Flying 0042 Golbat Poison Flying 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 0142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying 0144 Articuno Ice Flying 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 0146 Moltres Fire Flying 0149 Dragonite Dragon Flying 0151 Mew Psychic 0163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 0164 Noctowl Normal Flying 0169 Crobat Poison Flying 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 0249 Lugia Psychic Flying 0250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying 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" | 0177 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Natu
| colspan="1" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 32 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 TM47

#   Pokémon Type 0006 Charizard Fire Flying 0016 Pidgey Normal Flying 0017 Pidgeotto Normal Flying 0018 Pidgeot Normal Flying 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 0041 Zubat Poison Flying 0042 Golbat Poison Flying 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 0142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying 0144 Articuno Ice Flying 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 0146 Moltres Fire Flying 0149 Dragonite Dragon Flying 0151 Mew Psychic 0163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 0164 Noctowl Normal Flying 0169 Crobat Poison Flying 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 0249 Lugia Psychic Flying 0250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying 0276 Taillow Normal Flying 0277 Swellow Normal Flying 0278 Wingull Water Flying 0279 Pelipper Water Flying 0329 Vibrava Ground Dragon 0330 Flygon Ground Dragon 0333 Swablu Normal Flying 0334 Altaria Dragon Flying 0357 Tropius Grass Flying 0373 Salamence Dragon Flying 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic 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" | 0016 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pidgey
| 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
Spearow, Fearow
Zubat, Golbat, Crobat
Farfetch'd
Doduo, Dodrio
Hoothoot, Noctowl
Togetic
Natu, Xatu
Murkrow
Skarmory
Taillow, Swellow
Wingull, Pelipper
Swablu, Altaria |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0083 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Farfetch'd
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0142 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Aerodactyl
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0177 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Natu
| colspan="1" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory

|- | 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 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 38 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 34 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 TM47

#   Pokémon Type 0006 Charizard Fire Flying 0016 Pidgey Normal Flying 0017 Pidgeotto Normal Flying 0018 Pidgeot Normal Flying 0021 Spearow Normal Flying 0022 Fearow Normal Flying 0041 Zubat Poison Flying 0042 Golbat Poison Flying 0083 Farfetch'd Normal Flying 0084 Doduo Normal Flying 0085 Dodrio Normal Flying 0123 Scyther Bug Flying 0142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying 0144 Articuno Ice Flying 0145 Zapdos Electric Flying 0146 Moltres Fire Flying 0149 Dragonite Dragon Flying 0151 Mew Psychic 0163 Hoothoot Normal Flying 0164 Noctowl Normal Flying 0169 Crobat Poison Flying 0176 Togetic Normal Flying 0177 Natu Psychic Flying 0178 Xatu Psychic Flying 0193 Yanma Bug Flying 0198 Murkrow Dark Flying 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 0212 Scizor Bug Steel 0227 Skarmory Steel Flying 0249 Lugia Psychic Flying 0250 Ho-Oh Fire Flying 0276 Taillow Normal Flying 0277 Swellow Normal Flying 0278 Wingull Water Flying 0279 Pelipper Water Flying 0329 Vibrava Ground Dragon 0330 Flygon Ground Dragon 0333 Swablu Normal Flying 0334 Altaria Dragon Flying 0357 Tropius Grass Flying 0373 Salamence Dragon Flying 0380 Latias Dragon Psychic 0381 Latios Dragon Psychic 0395 Empoleon Water Steel 0396 Starly Normal Flying 0397 Staravia Normal Flying 0398 Staraptor Normal Flying 0430 Honchkrow Dark Flying 0441 Chatot Normal Flying 0468 Togekiss Normal Flying 0469 Yanmega Bug Flying 0472 Gliscor Ground Flying 0487 Giratina Ghost Dragon 0487 Giratina Ghost Dragon 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" | 0016 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Pidgey
| 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
Spearow, Fearow
Zubat, Golbat, Crobat
Farfetch'd
Doduo, Dodrio
Hoothoot, Noctowl
Togetic, Togekiss
Natu, Xatu
Murkrow, Honchkrow
Skarmory
Wingull, Pelipper
Taillow, Swellow
Swablu, Altaria
Starly, Staravia, Staraptor |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0083 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Farfetch'd
| colspan="1" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0142 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Aerodactyl
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0177 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Natu
| colspan="1" style="background:#EF4179; text-align: center;" | Psychic || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Skarmory

|- | 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

• French: Aile d'Acier
• German: Stahlflügel
• Italian: Alacciaio
• Spanish: Ala De Acero
• Dutch: Staalvleugel
• Hindi: Steel kay Pankh
• European Portuguese: Asa de Aço