Slash (move)

Slash きりさく Slash

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Battles Type  Normal Category  Physical PP  20 (max. 32) Power  70 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 adjacent to the user

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  3 ♥♥♥ Jam  0   Affected by how well the appeal in front goes.

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

Slash (Japanese: きりさく Slash) is a damage-dealing Normal-type move introduced in Generation I.

Effect

Slash deals damage and has an increased critical hit ratio.

Description

Games Description A Normal-type attack. It has a high probability of a critical hit for inflicting double the damage. A Normal-type attack. It has a high probability of a critical hit for inflicting double damage. Has a high critical hit ratio. RSE Slashes with claws, etc. Has a high critical-hit ratio. FRLG The foe is slashed with claws, etc. It has a high critical-hit ratio. The foe is attacked with a slash of claws, etc. It has a high critical-hit ratio. The target is attacked with a slash of claws or blades. Critical hits land more easily. Conq The target is attacked with a slash of claws, etc. It has a high critical-hit ratio.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Type		Level
					I		II		III		IV		V		VI
004		Charmander	Fire		Fire	30			37			37			28				34			'
005		Charmeleon	Fire		Fire	33			41			41			32				39			'
006		Charizard	Fire	Flying	36			44			44			32				41			'
027		Sandshrew	Ground		Ground	17			23			23			31				31	26	'
028		Sandslash	Ground		Ground	--, 17			24			24			40				40	26	'
046		Paras	Bug	Grass	34			31			31			22				27			'
047		Parasect	Bug	Grass	39			37			35			22				29			'
050		Diglett	Ground		Ground	31			33			33			34				37			'
051		Dugtrio	Ground		Ground	35			37			38			40				45			'
052		Meowth	Normal		Normal	44			46			46	40	33				33			'
053		Persian	Normal		Normal	51			53			53	49	37				37			'
083		Farfetch'd	Normal	Flying	39			37			41			19				19			'
123		Scyther	Bug	Flying	29			36			31			29				29			'
127		Pinsir	Bug		Bug	49																'
140		Kabuto	Rock	Water	39			40													'
141		Kabutops	Rock	Water	--, 39			40			40			40				40			'
158		Totodile	Water		Water				35			35			29				34			'
159		Croconaw	Water		Water				37			37			33				39			'
160		Feraligatr	Water		Water				38			38			37				45			'
207		Gligar	Ground	Flying				36			36			31				34	27	'
212		Scizor	Bug	Steel				36			31			29				29			'
215		Sneasel	Dark	Ice				49			50			35				38	35	'
216		Teddiursa	Normal		Normal				36			37			29				29			'
217		Ursaring	Normal		Normal				39			37			29				29			'
227		Skarmory	Steel	Flying										46		42	45			'
255		Torchic	Fire		Fire							34			34				34			'
256		Combusken	Fire	Fighting							39			39				39			'
257		Blaziken	Fire	Fighting							42			42				42			'
264		Linoone	Normal		Normal							41			41				47			'
288		Vigoroth	Normal		Normal							31			31				31			'
291		Ninjask	Bug	Flying							31			31				31			'
319		Sharpedo	Water	Dark							33			30				30			'
335		Zangoose	Normal		Normal							19			18				18	15	'
347		Anorith	Rock	Bug							49			43				43			'
348		Armaldo	Rock	Bug							55			46				46			'
352		Kecleon	Normal		Normal							31			25		27	27			'
359		Absol	Dark		Dark							36			36				36	28	'
383		Groudon	Ground		Ground							20			20						'
402		Kricketune	Bug		Bug												26	26			'
416		Vespiquen	Bug	Flying										31				31	21	'
431		Glameow	Normal		Normal										37				37			'
432		Purugly	Normal		Normal										37				37			'
434		Stunky	Poison	Dark										25		22	22			'
435		Skuntank	Poison	Dark										25		22	22			'
443		Gible	Dragon	Ground										25				25			'
444		Gabite	Dragon	Ground										28				28			'
445		Garchomp	Dragon	Ground										28				28			'
469		Yanmega	Bug	Flying										38		43	43			'
475		Gallade	Psychic	Fighting										22				22			'
483		Dialga	Steel	Dragon										70	15		15			'
484		Palkia	Water	Dragon										70	15		15			'
487		Giratina	Ghost	Dragon										70	15		15			'
488		Cresselia	Psychic		Psychic										47				47			'
503		Samurott	Water		Water														36			'
509		Purrloin	Dark		Dark														30			'
510		Liepard	Dark		Dark														34			'
529		Drilbur	Ground		Ground														26			'
530		Excadrill	Ground	Steel														26			'
542		Leavanny	Bug	Grass														29			'
557		Dwebble	Bug	Rock														31			'
558		Crustle	Bug	Rock														31			'
588		Karrablast	Bug		Bug														32			'
589		Escavalier	Bug	Steel														32			'
595		Joltik	Bug	Electric														26			'
596		Galvantula	Bug	Electric														26			'
610		Axew	Dragon		Dragon														20			'
611		Fraxure	Dragon		Dragon														20			'
612		Haxorus	Dragon		Dragon														20			'
613		Cubchoo	Ice		Ice														33			'
614		Beartic	Ice		Ice														33			'
615		Cryogonal	Ice		Ice														41			'
621		Druddigon	Dragon		Dragon														21			'
624		Pawniard	Dark	Steel														30			'
625		Bisharp	Dark	Steel														30			'
627		Rufflet	Normal	Flying														28			'
628		Braviary	Normal	Flying														28			'
631		Heatmor	Fire		Fire														41			'
643		Reshiram	Dragon	Fire														36			'
644		Zekrom	Dragon	Electric														36			'
646		Kyurem	Dragon	Ice														36			'
649		Genesect	Bug	Steel														29			'
679		Honedge	Steel	Ghost																	29
686		Inkay	Dark	Psychic																	43
687		Malamar	Dark	Psychic																	43
674		Pancham	Fighting		Fighting																	20
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

By breeding

#	Pokémon		Type		Father
					II		III		IV		V		VI
161		Sentret	Normal		Normal
287		Slakoth	Normal		Normal
418		Buizel	Water		Water
451		Skorupi	Poison	Bug
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

Special move

Generation II

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0083 Farfetch'dLv.5 Normal Flying Pokémon Stadium 2 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 event

Generation V

#   Pokémon Type Obtained with 0418 Buizel Water Dream World - Sparkling Sea Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

In other games

Pokémon Conquest

Slash is the only move of Persian.

In the anime

Meowth Sneasel Skuntank Charizard
The user's claws glow. It then slashes the opponent.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Used In		Notes
	Scyther repeatedly slashes the opponent with its scythes.
Jeanette Fisher's Scyther	The Fourth Round Rumble		Debut
Three wild Scyther	Mewtwo Returns		None
Pokémon Poacher's Scyther	Celebi: Voice of the Forest		None
A Coordinator's Scyther	Mounting a Coordinator Assault!		None
	A finger on each of Charmander's claws shine. It then slashes the opponent.
Ritchie's Zippo	A Friend in Deed		None
	Sandslash slashes at the opponent with its two front claws.
Koji's Sandslash	Good 'Quil Hunting		None
	Teddiursa slashes the opponent with its claws, leaving behind a white energy where it slashed.
A wild Teddiursa	UnBEARable		None
	Sneasel slashes at the opponent, leaving behind a light purple energy stream where it slashed.
Iron-Masked Marauder's Sneasel	Celebi: Voice of the Forest		None
Harrison's Sneasel	Pop Goes the Sneasel		None
	Croconaw slashes at the opponent with its claws, leaving behind a thin white energy line where it slashed.
Dundee's Croconaw	Celebi: Voice of the Forest		None
Bryan's Croconaw	The Champ Twins!		None
	Totodile slashes the opponent with its claws.
Ash's Totodile	Just Add Water		None
	Kabutops slashes at the opponent with its claws.
A wild Kabutops	Pokémon Heroes		None
	Meowth's claws come out and they shine briefly. Then, Meowth slashes the opponent with them.
Tyson's Meowth	Saved by the Beldum		None
	Linoone's claws glow white and it slashes the opponent with them. As it slashes, a white streak is left behind Linoone's claws.
Three Linoone Captured by Solana's Capture Styler	The Green Guardian		None
	Scizor smacks the opponent hard with its claws, or Scizor swipes its claws and releases a white cresent of energy from its claws at the opponent.
Minnie's Scizor	Gymbaliar!		None
Unknown Trainer's Scizor	An Elite Meet and Greet!		None
	Sandshrew's claws glow white and it slashes the opponent, leaving behind a white afterimage where it slashed.
Mira's Sandshrew	Sandshrew's Locker!		None
	Zangoose's claws glow white and it slashes the opponent with them.
Multiple wild Zangoose	Tears for Fears!		None
Weiss's Zangoose	Saving Braviary!		None
	Vespiquen's claws glow white and it slashes the opponent with them.
Aaron's Vespiquen	A Trainer and Child Reunion!		None
	Froslass's fingers glow white and they become sharp. Froslass then slashes the opponent with them. It leaves behind white trails where it slashed.
A wild Froslass	The Drifting Snorunt!		Froslass cannot legally learn Slash
	Urasing's claws glow white and it slashes the opponent, leaving behind white trails where it slashed.
Paul's Ursaring	Evolving Strategies!		None
	Skuntank's claws glow white and grow longer. It then slashes the opponent in a 'X' like fashion. Its claws leave a white trail of energy where they slashed.
Jupiter's Skuntank	Unlocking the Red Chain of Events!		None
	One or both of Dwebble's claws glow white and it slashes the opponent with them. The claw leaves behind a white trail of energy where it slashed.
Three wild Dwebble	A Home for Dwebble!		None
Cilan's Dwebble	A Home for Dwebble!		None
	Beartic's claws glow white on one paw and it slashes the opponent with it.
Georgia's Beartic	Iris and Excadrill Against the Dragon Buster!		None
	Drilbur's claws glow white on both of its hands and it slashes the opponent with them.
Ferris's Drilbur	The Restoration Confrontation! Part 1		None
	The blades on Bisharp's elbows glow white, and it slashes the opponent with them.
Davy's Bisharp	Team Eevee and the Pokémon Rescue Squad!		None
	Charizard's claws glow white and grow longer. It slashes the opponent with them.
Ash's Charizard	The Fires of a Red-Hot Reunion!		None
	Druddigon's claws glow white and it slashes the opponent with them.
Clair's Druddigon	A Pokémon of a Different Color!		None

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Kabutops Scyther Galvantula
The user slashes the opponent with its claws.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Scyther stabs the opponent with one of its scythes, or Scyther repeatedly slices the opponent with its scythes.
Blue's Scyther	Go for the Golbat!		Debut
	Kabutops slashes the opponent with one of its scythes.
Unknown Trainer's Kabutops	Just a Spearow Carrier		None
	Ursaring slashes the opponent with its claws.
Silver's Ursaring	Teddiursa's Picnic		None
	Persian slashes the opponent with one of its claws. As it slashes, it leaves behind a trail of energy.
Sird's Persian	Red, Man of Failure		None
	Purugly sticks out its claws and slashes the opponent with one of them. It leaves behind a white trail of energy where it slashed.
Mars's Purugly	Belligerent Bronzor		None
	Yanmega flies down at the opponent and flies past it, slashing the opponent with its wings.
Team Galactic's Yanmega	Yikes, Yanmega! I		None
	Galvantula slashes the opponent with one of the claws on its legs.
Black's Tula	A Direct Attack and a Daunting Defense		None

In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga

Garchomp
The user slashes the opponent with its claws.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Garchomp slashes the opponent with its sharp claws.
Cynthia's Garchomp	Dialga's Secret Keys		Debut
	Giratina slashes the opponent with its sharp claws.
A wild Giratina	Enter the Distortion World!		None

In the Pokémon Pocket Monsters manga

Feraligatr
The user slashes the foe.
Pokémon	Method
User	First Chapter Used In		Notes
	Feraligatr holds out its hand and swipes the foe downwards.
A wild Feraligatr	Let's Go After The Pokémon Ranger!		Debut

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD:Time, Darkness, andSky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• All of the variations of this move involve cutting or slashing.

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 劈開 Pī​kāi Danish Hug Dutch Hak Finnish Sivallus French Tranche German Schlitzer Greek Σκίσιμο Indonesian Membelah Italian Lacerazione Korean 베어가르기 Beeo Gareugi Norwegian Hogg Hugg Polish Siekanie Portuguese Brazil Talhada Portugal Cortar Romanian Tăietura Serbian Zamah Spanish Latin America Cuchillada Spain Cuchillada Turkish Yırtma

Variations of the move Slash
Slash • Night Slash • Shadow Claw • Psycho Cut • Cross Poison • Aqua Cutter Formerly a variation Leaf Blade

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