Self-Destruct (move)
| Selfdestruct じばく Suicide Bombing | ||||||||||||
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Selfdestruct (Japanese: じばく Suicide Bombing) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation I. It can be seen as a weaker version of Explosion
Effect
Generation I
Resembling a weaker version of Explosion, Selfdestruct inflicts damage, and causes the user to faint. Though its power is listed as 130, the target's Defense will be halved when damage from this attack is calculated, giving it an effective power of 260. The game will bump 0 up to 1 to avoid infinite damage, so Selfdestruct will then effectively have a power of 130 if used against a target with a defense value of 1.
If Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will not faint, though its image will be replaced by a blank image. Additionally, if the user of Selfdestruct had a Substitute at the time of such a situation, uses Substitute later, or switches out, its regular image will once again become visible.
If the user of Selfdestruct attacks first and faints itself, the target will not attack or be subjected to recurrent damage during that round.
In Stadium, if Selfdestruct breaks a target's Substitute, the user will faint.
Generation II and on
The move's power is bumped up to 200 instead. The target's Defense is still halved, giving it an effective power of 400. If the user uses the move on a target using a substitute, regardless if the substitute is broken or not, the user will always faint.
Learnset
Generation I
By leveling up
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Generation II
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0185
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | 
| style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock
| style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem
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| 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.
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Generation III
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0185
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |
| style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock
| style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem
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| 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.
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By move tutor
In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
Generation IV
By leveling up
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By breeding
Template:Breedlist
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0185
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |
| style="background: #FFF" | Sudowoodo
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock
| style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem
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| style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0438
| style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | 
| style="background: #FFF" | Bonsly
| colspan="2" style="background:#AFA981; text-align: center;" | Rock
| style="background: #FFF" | Geodude, Graveler, Golem
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| 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.
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Special move
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In the anime
| The Pokémon becomes angry and white and then explodes. | |||
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Voltorb's body glows white and yellow sparks appear around it's body. It then explodes violently. | ||
| Koga's Voltorb | The Ninja Poké-Showdown | Debut | |
| Duplica's Ditto in the form of Voltorb | Ditto's Mysterious Mansion | None | |
| Keith's Voltorb | So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd | None | |
| Unknown Trainer's Voltorb | Pikachu Re-Volts | None | |
| Multiple wild Voltorb | DP181 | None | |
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Pineco's body glows blue, then suddenly explodes. | ||
| Multiple wild Pineco | Goin' Apricorn! | None | |
| Brock's Pineco | Going Apricorn! | None | |
| Multiple wild Pineco | DP181 | None | |
In other games
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Selfdestruct does not cause the user to faint, but instead cuts its HP in half, and reduces HP by half on teammates, by 40 on hostile Pokémon, and destroys all walls and items within one tile of the user.
Trivia
- Only Munchlax, Snorlax, and Smeargle receive STAB for Selfdestruct.
- Lickilicky, who along with Smeargle receives STAB from Explosion, cannot learn Selfdestruct.
- Snorlax is only capable of learning Selfdestruct through a move tutor in Pokémon XD. Lickilicky's pre-evolved form is oddly incapable of learning it from the same move tutor.
In other languages
- French: Destruction
- German: Finale
- Italian: Autodistruzione
- Spanish: Autodestruc
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| 01 • 02 • 03 • 04 • 05 | |
