Bone Rush (move)

Bone Rush ボーンラッシュ Bone Rush

Battles Type  Ground Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  25 Accuracy  80% 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 II Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  4 ♥♥♥♥ Jam  0   A highly appealing move.

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Allows performance of the same move twice in a row.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Bone Rush (Japanese: ボーンラッシュ Bone Rush) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation II.

Effect

Generation II

Bone Rush inflicts damage, hitting the target 2-5 times per use. There is a 37.5% chance that it will hit 2 times, a 37.5% chance that it will hit 3 times, a 12.5% chance that it will hit 4 times, and a 12.5% chance that it will hit 5 times. Each attack made has an equal chance to land a critical hit.

Bone Rush will end immediately if it breaks a Substitute. Bide and Counter will only acknowledge the last hit of this move.

Generation IV

The effects are the same as the previous generations, except it will continue attacking after a Substitute is broken.

In the anime

• Lucario BoneRush.jpg

  The bone forms between Lucario's hands

• Lucario BoneRush1.jpg

  Lucario holding the bone

• Lucario BoneRush3.jpg

  The bone disappearing

• Lucario Bone Rush.png

  Riley's Lucario using Bone Rush

Pokémon

Marowak. Marowak hits its opponent with its bone.

• Used by Gavin's Marowak in From Brags to Riches.

Lucario. Lucario creates a bone of white-green light and smashes the opponent with it.

• Used by Maylene's Lucario from Lost Leader Strategy! to present.
• Used by Riley's Lucario in DP111.

Learnset

Generation II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0104 Cubone Ground 41 0105 Marowak Ground 53 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 41 0105 Marowak Ground 53 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 37 0105 Marowak Ground 43 0448 Lucario Fighting Steel 19 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Trivia

• Bone Rush is the only bone-based move to be learned by a Pokémon other than Cubone and Marowak.

In other languages

• Spanish: Ataque Óseo
• Italian: Ossoraffica
• German: Knochenhatz
• Brazilian Portuguese: Sabre de Osso
• Dutch: Bot raas

Variations of the move Bone Rush
Bone Rush • Rock Blast