Wood Hammer (move)

Wood Hammer ウッドハンマー Wood Hammer

Battles Type  Grass Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  120 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 IV Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jam  0   ???

Super Contests Condition  Tough Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs last in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Tough Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Wood Hammer (Japanese:ウッドハンマー Wood Hammer) is a damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Wood Hammer does physical damage, and the user receives recoil damage equal to ⅓ of the damage done to the target.

Learnset

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 37 0185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 0389 Torterra Grass Ground -- 0459 Snover Grass Ice 36 0460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 36 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

Special move

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0459 Snover Grass Ice Pokéwalker - Icy Mountain Rd. 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 V

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0103 Exeggutor Grass Psychic 37 0185 Sudowoodo Rock -- 0389 Torterra Grass Ground -- 0459 Snover Grass Ice 36 0460 Abomasnow Grass Ice 36 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" | 0556 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | Marakacchi | style="background: #FFF" | Marakacchi
| colspan="2" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass | style="background: #FFF" | Exeggutor
Torterra
Snover, Abomasnow

|- | 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:Abomasnow Wood Hammer.png Abomasnow
The user's arm glows, and it punches the target hard into the floor.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	The dark green part of Abomasnow's arm glows turquiose and it slams its arm down onto the opponent's body.
Candice's Abomasnow	Sliding Into Seventh!		Debut

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Torterra
The user hits the opponent with its large body.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Torterra smashes the opponent with the tree on its back.
Diamond's Tru	VS. Bibarel and Hippopotas		Debut

Trivia

• Sudowoodo is the only non-Grass-type Pokémon to learn Wood Hammer.
• No Pokémon from Generation III can learn this move.
  • This would have also been true for Generation V, However, Marakacchi can learn it through breeding.

In other languages

• Chinese: 木槌 Mùchuí
• Dutch: Mokerslag
• French: Martobois
• German: Holzhammer
• Greek: Ξύλινο Σφυρί
• Italian: Mazzuolegno
• Korean: 우드해머 Wood Hammer
• Portuguese (Brazilian): Martelo de Madeira
• Spanish: Mazazo de Madera

Variations of the move Double-Edge
Double-Edge • Volt Tackle • Flare Blitz • Brave Bird • Wood Hammer • Wave Crash

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.