Judgment (move)

Judgment さばきのつぶて Judgment Strike

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Battles Type  Ghost Category  Special PP  10 (max. 16) Power  100 Accuracy  100% Priority  0 Does not make 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 IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Order of appealing is random in the next turn

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Makes the order of contestants random in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Judgment (Japanese: さばきのつぶて Judgment Strike) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV. It is the signature move of Arceus, and like Arceus, varies in type depending on the plate held by the user.

Effect

Judgment inflicts damage and has no secondary effect. The type of Judgment depends on the type of plate held by the user, being Normal-type if there is no held plate.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0493 Arceus Ghost 100 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

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The user shoots a shower of glowing beams.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	A glowing pink sphere appears above Arceus's head. Many beams of light then shoot out of it.
Arceus	Arceus and the Jewel of Life		Debut

Trivia

• Provided Arceus's Attack and Sp.Atk stats are identical and the battle is a single battle, Judgment, when used by an Arceus holding an Earth Plate, is absolutely identical to Earthquake other than its damage category and its inability to hit a Pokémon using Dig.
• Its name is derived from judgment, a concept within the Christian belief that says that God casts judgment upon wicked people on earth.
• Provided Arceus is wearing the Dread Plate, Judgment is the highest power dark move in the game, as otherwise no damage-dealing dark move has a power greater than 80. In addition, when equipped with the Dread Plate, it is one of only two Special damage-dealing dark moves, the other being Dark Pulse.

In other languages

• French: Jugement
• Dutch: Vonnis
• Italian: Giudizio
• Spanish: Sentencia
• Portuguese: Julgamento
• German: Urteilskraft