Sky Uppercut (move)

Sky Uppercut スカイアッパー Sky Upper

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Battles Type  Fighting Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  85 Accuracy  90% 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 Unknown

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

Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Jam  1 ♥ Startles Pokémon that made a same-type appeal.

Super Contests Condition  Cool Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +2 if the Pokémon performs first in the turn.

Contest Spectaculars Condition  Cool Appeal  0   Jamming  0

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

Sky Uppercut (Japanese: スカイアッパー Sky Upper) is a slightly inaccurate damage-dealing Template:Type2 move introduced in Generation III.

Effect

Sky Uppercut deals damage and is capable of hitting opponents while they are using the move Fly or Bounce.

In the anime

• May's Combusken using Sky Uppercut.
  May's Combusken using Sky Uppercut.

Pokémon

Combusken. Combusken's claws glow light blue. Combusken then slashes its opponent.

• Used by May's Combusken from A Shroomish Skirmish to Once More With Reeling.

Blaziken. Blaziken's fists glow light blue. Blaziken then punches its opponent.

• Used by May's Blaziken from Once More With Reeling to ???.

Learnset

Generation III

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0107 Hitmonchan Fighting 32 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 50 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 59 0286 Breloom Grass Fighting 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.

Generation IV

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level 0107 Hitmonchan Fighting 36 0256 Combusken Fire Fighting 50 0257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 59 0286 Breloom Grass Fighting 33 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" | 0427 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Buneary
| colspan="2" style="background:#9FA19F; text-align: center;" | Normal | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonchan
Combusken, Blaziken |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0447 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" | | style="background: #FFF" | Riolu
| colspan="2" style="background:#FF8000; text-align: center;" | Fighting | style="background: #FFF" | Hitmonchan
Combusken, Blaziken

|- | 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. |} |}

Trivia

• Though Sky Uppercut can hit Pokémon using Fly, 22 out of the 49 Pokémon that learn Fly resist it, and the only one that can be hit by it for super effective damage during Fly is Arceus in its Normal, Steel, Rock, Ice, or Dark forms.

In other languages

• Spanish: Gancho Alto
• Italian: Stramontante
• German: Himmelhieb