Guillotine (move)

Guillotine ハサミギロチン Scissors Guillotine

Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Makes 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  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Badly startles all Pokémon that made good appeals.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Earn +15 if all the Pokémon choose the same Judge.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool 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

Guillotine (Japanese: ハサミギロチン Scissors Guillotine) is a Template:Type2 one-hit knockout move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I

Guillotine has 30% accuracy and inflicts damage equal to the target's current HP. Guillotine will break a Substitute on contact, and can be countered for infinite damage on the turn it breaks a Substitute.

Guillotine will not affect an opponent whose current Speed stat is greater than the user's current Speed stat.

Generation II and on

Unlike in Generation I, Guillotine can affect a Pokémon whose Speed stat is greater than the user's current Speed stat. However, it cannot affect a Pokémon of a higher level. The accuracy of Guillotine depends on the level of the user and the level of the target and is worked out with the formula: Accuracy = ((level of user - level of target) + 30)%. Guillotine ignores all changes to accuracy and evasion stats.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0098 Krabby Water 25 0099 Kingler Water --, 25 0127 Pinsir Bug 30 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 0098 Krabby Water 27 0099 Kingler Water 27 0127 Pinsir Bug 31 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 52 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 0098 Krabby Water 34 0099 Kingler Water 38 0127 Pinsir Bug 37 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 52 0341 Corphish Water 44 0341 Corphish Water 46 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 52 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 56 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 0098 Krabby Water 31 0099 Kingler Water 37 0127 Pinsir Bug 47 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 45 0341 Corphish Water 53 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 65 0472 Gliscor Ground Flying 45 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0098 Krabby Water 31 0099 Kingler Water 37 0127 Pinsir Bug 47 0207 Gligar Ground Flying 45 0341 Corphish Water 53 0342 Crawdaunt Water Dark 65 0472 Gliscor Ground Flying 45 0610 Axew Dragon 51 0611 Onondo Onondo Dragon 54 0612 Ononokus Ononokus Dragon 58 0624 Komatana Komatana Dark Steel 62 0625 Kirikizan Kirikizan Dark Steel 71 0632 Aianto Aianto Bug Steel 61 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

File:Pinsir Guillotine.png Pinsir File:Gliscor Guillotine.png Gliscor File:Gligar Guillotine.png Gligar
A vicious, tearing attack with pincers.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Gligar's claws glow white and it strikes the opponent with it, or Gligar grabs the opponent by the neck with a glowing white claw and slams it into the ground.
Morrison's Gligar	From Brags to Riches		Debut
	Pinsir's horns glow white and it grabs the opponent with them.
Howie's Pinsir	The Ole' Berate and Switch!		None
A Coordinator's Pinsir	Dawn of a Royal Day!		None
	One or both of Gliscor's claws glows light blue or white and it grabs the opponent's neck, slamming it into the ground.
Paul's Gliscor	Chim - Charred!		None
Bertha's Gliscor	An Elite Coverup!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

File:Krabby Guillotine Adventures.png Krabby
The user closes its pincers or claws around the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Krabby closes its pincers around the opponent.
Misty's Kra	Airing Out Aerodactyl		Debut

Trivia

• Guillotine is the only one-hit knockout move that is unobtainable through breeding.
• Before Generation V, only Pokémon of the Water 3 and Bug egg groups could learn Guillotine.

In other languages

• Dutch: Guillotine
• Finnish: Giljotiini
• French: Guillotine
• German: Guillotine
• Greek: Λαιμητόμος
• Italian: Ghigliottina
• Korean: 가위자르기 Gawijareugi
• Spanish: Guillotina
• Serbian: Giljotina

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