Hammer Arm (move)

Hammer Arm アームハンマー Arm Hammer

Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  10 (max. 16) Power  100 Accuracy  90% 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  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  0   Appeals last in the next turn.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Enables the user to perform last in the next turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Hammer Arm (Japanese: アームハンマー Arm Hammer) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Hammer Arm does damage, then lowers the user's Speed by one level.

In the anime

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• Paul'sUrsaring HammerArm.JPG

  Paul's Ursaring using Hammer Arm

Pokémon

Rhydon. Rhydon's arm glows white. It then punches its foe.

• Used by an unnamed Trainer's Rhydon in Tag! We're It...!. Debut

Ursaring. Ursaring's forearms glow white. It then slams them down upon its foe.

• Used by Paul's Ursaring from Glory Blaze to present.

Sudowoodo.

• Used by Brock's Sudowoodo from DP130 to present.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0112 Rhydon Ground Rock 42 0185 Sudowoodo Rock 49 0217 Ursaring Normal 67 0260 Swampert Water Ground 69 0289 Slaking Normal 61 0376 Metagross Steel Psychic 45 0377 Regirock Rock 81 0378 Regice Ice 81 0379 Registeel Steel 81 0383 Groudon Ground 20 0464 Rhyperior Ground Rock 42 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" | 0074 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Geodude
| colspan="1" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock || style="background:#915121" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Ground | style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0108 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Lickitung
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Rhydon, Rhyperior
Swampert |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0115 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Kangaskhan
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Rhydon, Rhyperior
Swampert |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0241 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Miltank
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Rhydon, Rhyperior
Ursaring
Slaking |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0287 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Slakoth
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Rhydon, Rhyperior
Ursaring
Slaking |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0408 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Cranidos
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock | style="background: #FFF" | Rhydon, Rhyperior
Swampert

|- | 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

• No Pokémon that can legally learn Hammer Arm can receive STAB from it.

In other languages

• Dutch: Moker Arm
• Italian: Martelpugno
• German: Hammerarm