Shadow Punch (move)

Shadow Punch シャドーパンチ Shadow Punch

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Battles Type  Ghost Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  60 Accuracy  —% 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 Unknown

Availability Introduced  Generation III Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   The appeal works great if performed first.

Super Contests Condition  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Smart Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Shadow Punch is a Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III that deals a small amount of damage.

Effect

Shadow Punch does damage, and is unaffected by accuracy and evasion modifiers. It will not hit a Pokémon during the semi-invulnerable turn of moves like Dig, Fly, Dive, and others like them.

In the anime

• Gengar gathers dark energy
  Gengar gathers dark energy
• Gengar using Shadow Punch
  Gengar using Shadow Punch

Pokémon

Gengar. Gengar's arms are surrounded by dark energy in the form of purple lightning bolts. It then punches the opponent.

• Used by Fantina's Gengar in DP102. Debut

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 25 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 25 0356 Dusclops Ghost 37 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" | 0088 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Haunter, Gengar
Dusclops

|- | 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 IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0093 Haunter Ghost Poison 25 0094 Gengar Ghost Poison 25 0356 Dusclops Ghost 37 0477 Dusknoir Ghost 37 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" | 0088 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Grimer
| colspan="2" style="background:#9141CB; text-align: center;" | Poison | style="background: #FFF" | Haunter, Gengar
Dusclops, Dusknoir

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Grimer and, after evolution, Muk are the only Pokémon that can legally learn it that do not gain STAB from this move.

In other languages

• German: Finsterfaust

Variations of the move Swift
Feint Attack • Shadow Punch • Aerial Ace • Magnet Bomb Swift • Magical Leaf • Shock Wave