Anchor Shot
Sword & Shield
Prevents the target from switching out.
- Power
- 80
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 20
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Anchor Shot changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen VIII
… is holding Shed Shell or uses Baton Pass, added: Flip Turn, Parting Shot, added: Teleport, U-turn, or Volt Switch.
dropped: Ifadded: The effect ends if either the user or the target leaves thedropped: field using Baton Pass, the replacement will remain trapped. The effect ends if the user leaves thefield.
Numbers: PokéAPI’s changelog. Descriptions: Pokémon Showdown’s for each generation, PokéAPI’s notes where Showdown’s don’t differ. Champions: Pokémon Showdown.
See it in the games
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How it works in Gen VIII
Prevents the target from switching out. The target can still switch out if it is holding Shed Shell or uses Baton Pass, Flip Turn, Parting Shot, Teleport, U-turn, or Volt Switch. The effect ends if either the user or the target leaves the field.
“The user entangles the target with its anchor chain while attacking. The target becomes unable to flee.”
In-game text, Sword & Shield
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Anchor Shot, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
4
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
4
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Punishes the user
17
- Rough Skintakes ⅛ back
- Iron Barbstakes ⅛ back
Rocky Helmettakes ⅙ back- Static30% paralysis
- Flame Body30% burn
- Poison Point30% poison
- Effect Spore30% poison, paralysis or sleep
- Cute Charm30% infatuation
- Gooey−1 Speed
- Tangling Hair−1 Speed
- Mummyreplaces its ability
- Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
- Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
- Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
- Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
- Pickpocketsteals its item
Sticky Barbcan stick to it
Changes how it works
5
- Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who learns Anchor Shot
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.