Vine Whip (move)

Vine Whip つるのムチ Vine Whip

File:Vine Whip.png

Battles Type  Grass Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  35 Accuracy  100% 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 I Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

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

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

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Vine Whip (Japanese: つるのムチ Vine Whip) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Generation I – III

Vine Whip inflicts damage, has no secondary effect, and has 10 PP.

Generation IV

The PP of Vine Whip increases to 15. All other effects are the same.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

File:Ivysaur Vine Whip.jpg

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Vine Whip is Ivysaur's Special Up move.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 13 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 13 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison --, 13 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison -- 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 0114 Tangela Grass 29 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 II

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 10 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 10 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison --, 10 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison -- 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 0071 Victreebel Grass Poison -- 0114 Tangela Grass 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.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0152 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chikorita
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Tangela

|- | 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 III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 10 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 10 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison --, 10 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison -- 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 0071 Victreebel Grass Poison -- 0114 Tangela Grass 22 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" | 0152 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chikorita
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Tangela

|- | 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 0001 Bulbasaur Grass Poison 9 0002 Ivysaur Grass Poison 9 0003 Venusaur Grass Poison --, 9 0069 Bellsprout Grass Poison -- 0070 Weepinbell Grass Poison -- 0071 Victreebel Grass Poison -- 0114 Tangela Grass 19 0455 Carnivine Grass 11 0465 Tangrowth Grass 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.

By breeding

Template:Breedlist |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0152 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Chikorita
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
Bellsprout, Weepinbell, Victreebel
Tangela, Tangrowth
Carnivine

|- | 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:Bayleef Vine Whip.png Bayleef Bulbasaur Venusaur File:Carnivine vine.png Carnivine
The foe is struck with slender, whiplike vines to inflict damage.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Two dark green vines come out of the sides of Bulbasaur's bulb and hit the opponent.
Ash's Bulbasaur	Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village		Debut
Duplica's Ditto in the form of Bulbasaur	Ditto's Mysterious Mansion		None
Multiple wild Bulbasaur	Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden		None
Mayor of Trovitopolis's Bulbasaur	The Mystery Menace		None
A Bulbasaur brought by Professor Oak	A Six Pack Attack!		None
May's Bulbasaur	Grass Hysteria!		None
	Several dark green vines come out from under the leaves on Venusaur's back and hit the opponent.
A wild Venusaur	Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden		None
Mewtwo's cloned Venusaur	Mewtwo Strikes Back		None
Drake's Venusaur	Enter the Dragonite		None
A Venusaur James borrowed from the Battle Park	One Trick Phony!		None
A wild Venusaur	Grass Hysteria!		None
Jeremy's Venusaur	Weekend Warrior		None
Spenser's Venusaur	Cutting the Ties That Bind!		None
May's Venusaur	Pruning a Passel of Pals!		None
	Two dark green vines come out of Ivysaur's bulb and hits the opponent.
Pokémon League entrance exam instructor	The Ultimate Test		None
Assunta's Ivysaur	Friends to the End		None
Crystal's Ivysaur	Putting the Air Back in Aerodactyl!		None
Jimmy's Ivysaur	Judgement Day!		None
	Victreebel uses the vine on its head to strike or ensnare the opponent, or Victreebel can get two more green ones that come out from in between its body and its leaves and strike the opponent.
James's Victreebel	Forest Grumps		None
	Two green vines come from the bud necklace on Chikorita's neck and hits the opponent.
Casey's Chikorita	The Double Trouble Header		None
Ash's Chikorita	The Chikorita Rescue		None
Silver's Chikorita	The Search for the Legend		None
A Poké-Stylist's Chikorita	Arriving in Style!		None
	Two green vines come out from Sudowoodo's hands.
A wild Sudowoodo	Type Casting		Used via Mimic.
	Two green vines come out from in between Bellsprout's leaves and body and strike the opponent.
Multiple wild Bellsprout	Pikachu and Pichu		None
Old Man Shuckle's Spoopy	A Better Pill to Swallow		None
Anthony's Bellsprout	You Said a Mouthful!		None
Roderick's Bellsprout	Who, What, When, Where, Wynaut?		None
	Two dark green vines come from under the leaves around Bayleef's neck and strike the opponent.
Ash's Bayleef	Current Events		None
	Tangela hits the opponent with two blue vines from its body.
Multiple wild Tangela	For Ho-Oh the Bells Tolls!		None
Officer Jenny's Tangela	Gulpin it Down		None
A Coordinator's Tangela	A Hurdle for Squirtle		None
	Two green vines come out from under the flower on Meganium's neck and strike the opponent.
Casey's Meganium	Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid		None
Jackson's Meganium	Tie One On!		None
	Weepinbell extends the brown vine on its head and hits the opponent with it.
James's second Weepinbell	Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid		None
A wild Weepinbell	Grass Hysteria!		None
	Skitty lifts its paw up and a white orb appears around it. Two dark green vines come out of the orb on its paw and hits the opponent.
May's Skitty	Pacifidlog Jam		Used via Assist
	Two dark green or light green vines come out from underneath Carnivine's head and hits the opponent.
James's Carnivine	Saving the World from Ruins!		None

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Bulbasaur
The foe is struck with slender, whiplike vines to inflict damage.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	A single vine comes out of the hole of the bulb on Bulbasaur's back and strikes the opponent.
Red's Saur	Bulbasaur, Come Home!		Debut
	A single vine comes out of the side of the flower stem on Ivysaur's back and strikes the opponent.
Red's Saur	The Jynx Jinx		None
	A single vine rises off Tangela's body and strikes the opponent.
Erika's Angela	Meanwhile... Vileplume!		None
	Victreebel uses the vine on its head to entangle the opponent. To kill its prey, it stabs it with the yellow dagger at the end of the vine.
Red's Victreebel	Long Live the Nidoking!		None

Trivia

• The use of tentacles in vine whip has become a reoccurring feature in mature Pokemon humor, for example: the webcomic, Super Effective.

In other languages

• Chinese: 藤鞭 Vine Whip
• Danish: Slyngpisk
• Dutch: Roede
• French: Fouet Lianes
• German: Rankenhieb
• Hindi: लाताक की रस्सी Lataak Ki Rassi
• Italian: Frustata
• Norwegian: Slyngepisk
• Portuguese: Chicote de Cipó
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Chicote de Cipó, Chicote de Vinha
• Spanish: Látigo Cepa

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