Head Smash (move)
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Head Smash もろはのずつき Double-Edged Headbutt | ||||||||||||
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Head Smash (Japanese: もろはのずつき Double-Edged Headbutt) is a damage-dealing Rock-type move introduced in Generation IV.
Effect
Head Smash inflicts damage and the user receives half of the damage dealt as recoil.
Description
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Learnset
By leveling up
# | Pokémon | Type | Level | |||||||
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IV | V | VI | ||||||||
369 | Relicanth | Water | Rock | 78 | 78 | 1, 78 1, 56 | ||||
408 | Cranidos | Rock | 43 | 46 | 46 | |||||
409 | Rampardos | Rock | 52 | 58 | 58 | |||||
498 | Tepig | Fire | 37 | 37 | ||||||
499 | Pignite | Fire | Fighting | 44 | 44 | |||||
500 | Emboar | Fire | Fighting | 50 | 50 | |||||
559 | Scraggy | Dark | Fighting | 53 | 50 | |||||
560 | Scrafty | Dark | Fighting | 65 | 65 | |||||
681 | Aegislash | Steel | Ghost | 1 | ||||||
697 | Tyrantrum | Rock | Dragon | 1, 58 | ||||||
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 | |||||||
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IV | V | VI | ||||||||
032 | Nidoran♂ | Poison | ||||||||
222 | Corsola | Water | Rock | no | ||||||
231 | Phanpy* | Ground | ||||||||
299 | Nosepass* | Rock | no | |||||||
304 | Aron | Steel | Rock | |||||||
566 | Archen* | Rock | Flying | no | ||||||
633 | Deino | Dark | Dragon | no | ||||||
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 V
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By events
Generation VI
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In the anime
The user starts to get covered by a bluish-white light glow and then charges into its opponent. | |||
Pokémon | Method | ||
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Cranidos's body becomes surrounded in a whitish-blue aura, then the aura surrounds its body, making Cranidos look black and white. Cranidos shoots at the opponent with its head pointed at it and smashes into it. | |||
Roark's Cranidos | A Gruff Act to Follow! | Debut | |
Rampardos's body becomes surrounded by a whitish-blue aura, making it seem black and white, and it shoots at the opponent with its head pointed at it, slamming into it with its head. | |||
Roark's Rampardos | O'er the Rampardos We Watched! | None |
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
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In the Phantom Thief Pokémon 7 manga
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In the Pokémon Battrio: Aim to be Battrio Master! manga
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In the Pocket Monsters BW: The Heroes of Fire and Thunder manga
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In other generations
Trivia
- In HeartGold and SoulSilver's game data, Nosepass can learn Head Smash via breeding, but no Pokémon that can learn it are in Nosepass's Egg Group, Mineral, making it impossible to pass down the move legitimately. This learnset data was then removed in Generation V. The move remains unavailable to Nosepass in Generation VI, despite the fact that Aegislash would now be able to pass down the move.
- Head Smash has the highest base power of all recoil moves.
- It is also tied with Rock Wrecker for the highest base power of all Rock-type moves.
- Head Smash is the only Rock-type move that causes recoil.
- As with all moves with recoil damage, the ability Rock Head negates all recoil from Head Smash.
In other languages
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