Head Smash (move)

Head Smash もろはのずつき Double-Edged Headbutt

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Battles Type  Rock Category  Physical PP  5 (max. 8) Power  150 Accuracy  80% 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 IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Head Smash (Japanese: もろはのずつき Double-Edged Headbutt) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Head Smash inflicts damage and user receives half of the damage dealt as recoil damage.

In the anime

• Rampardos head smash.png

  Rampardos using Head Smash

Pokémon

Cranidos and Rampardos. Cranidos and Rampardos start to get covered by a bluish-white light glow and then charges into its opponent.

• Used by Roark's Cranidos and Rampardos from O'er the Rampardos we Watched to present. Debut.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0369 Relicanth Water Rock 78 0408 Cranidos Rock 43 0409 Rampardos Rock 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.

By breeding^HGSS

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0304 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Aron
| colspan="1" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Cranidos, Rampardos

|- | 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

• Italian: Zuccata
• German: Kopfstoß
• European Portuguese: Choque de Cabeça