Thunder Fang (move)

Thunder Fang かみなりのキバ Thunder Fang

Battles Type  Electric Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  65 Accuracy  95% 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  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   No additional effect

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Thunder Fang (Japanese: かみなりのキバ Thunder Fang) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV that may cause paralysis and flinching.

Effect

Thunder Fang deals damage and has a 10% chance of paralyzing the opponent. It also has a 10% chance of causing the target to flinch, if the user attacks before the target.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0024 Arbok Poison -- 0059 Arcanine Fire -- 0135 Jolteon Electric 43 0142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying -- 0208 Steelix Steel Ground -- 0209 Snubbull Normal -- 0210 Granbull Normal -- 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire -- 0232 Donphan Ground -- 0243 Raikou Electric 50 0248 Tyranitar Rock Dark -- 0295 Exploud Normal -- 0309 Electrike Electric 33 0310 Manectric Electric 37 0373 Salamence Dragon Flying -- 0403 Shinx Electric 33 0403 Shinx Electric 29 0404 Luxio Electric 38 0404 Luxio Electric 33 0405 Luxray Electric 42 0405 Luxray Electric 35 0450 Hippowdon Ground -- 0452 Drapion Poison Dark -- 0472 Gliscor Ground 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" | 0111 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Rhyhorn
| colspan="1" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0209 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0228 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Houndour
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#E62829" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0261 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Poochyena
| colspan="2" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0303 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mawile
| colspan="2" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0309 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Electrike
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0403 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shinx
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon

|- | 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0024 Arbok Poison -- 0059 Arcanine Fire -- 0135 Jolteon Electric 43 0142 Aerodactyl Rock Flying -- 0208 Steelix Steel Ground -- 0209 Snubbull Normal -- 0210 Granbull Normal -- 0229 Houndoom Dark Fire -- 0232 Donphan Ground -- 0243 Raikou Electric 50 0248 Tyranitar Rock Dark -- 0295 Exploud Normal -- 0309 Electrike Electric 33 0310 Manectric Electric 37 0373 Salamence Dragon Flying -- 0403 Shinx Electric 29 0404 Luxio Electric 33 0405 Luxray Electric 35 0450 Hippowdon Ground -- 0452 Drapion Poison Dark -- 0472 Gliscor Ground Flying -- 0508 Murando Murando Normal -- 0644 Zekrom Dragon Electric -- 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" | 0111 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Rhyhorn
| colspan="1" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground || style="background:#AFA981" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0209 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0228 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Houndour
| colspan="1" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark || style="background:#E62829" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Fire | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon
Murando
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0261 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Poochyena
| colspan="2" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0303 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Mawile
| colspan="2" style="background:#60A1B8; text-align: center;" | Steel | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0309 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Electrike
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Electrike, Manectric
Arbok
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Arcanine
Jolteon
Exploud
Donphan
Hippowdon
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0403 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Shinx
| colspan="2" style="background:#FAC000; text-align: center;" | Electric | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0507 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Yorterry | style="background: #FFF" | Yorterry
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0551 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Meguroco | style="background: #FFF" | Meguroco
| colspan="1" style="background:#915121; text-align: center;" | Ground || style="background:#624D4E" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Arcanine
Jolteon
Snubbull, Granbull
Houndoom
Donphan
Electrike, Manectric
Shinx, Luxio, Luxray
Exploud
Hippowdon
Murando |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0621 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Crimgan | style="background: #FFF" | Crimgan
| colspan="2" style="background:#5060E1; text-align: center;" | Dragon | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Tyranitar
Exploud
Salamence |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0632 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Aianto | style="background: #FFF" | Aianto
| colspan="1" style="background:#91A119; text-align: center;" | Bug || style="background:#60A1B8" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Steel | style="background: #FFF" | Drapion |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0633 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Monozu | style="background: #FFF" | Monozu
| colspan="2" style="background:#624D4E; text-align: center;" | Dark | style="background: #FFF" | Arbok
Salamence

|- | 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 the anime

File:Shinx thunder fang.jpg Shinx File:Luxray Thunder Fang.png Luxray
Its teeth charge with electricity. It then bites down on its foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Luxray's fangs glow yellow and sparks of yellow electricity surround them. It then bites down on the opponent, and they become surrounded in yellow sparks.
Marble's Luxray	Luxray Vision		Debut
Volkner's Luxray	The Eighth Wonder of the Sinnoh World!		None
	Shinx's fangs glow light blue and spark with light blue electricity. It then bites down on the opponent.
Angie's Shinx	Ghoul Daze!		None
	Houndoom's fangs glow yellow and sparks of yellow electricity surround them. Houndoom then bites down on the opponent.
Proprietor's Houndoom	Flint Sparks the Fire!		None

In other languages

• Chinese: 雷牙 Léiyá
• Dutch: Dondertand
• French: Crocs Éclair
• German: Donnerzahn
• Greek: Κεραυνόδοντες
• Italian: Fulmindenti
• Korean: 번개엄니 Beongae Eomni
• Norwegian: Is Bitt
• Spanish: Colm. Rayo

Variations of the move Fire Fang
Thunder Fang • Ice Fang • Fire Fang

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