Apple Acid
Pokémon Champions
100% chance to lower the target's Sp. Def by 1.
- Power
- 90 Scarlet & Violet: 80
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Apple Acid changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
Power 80 → 90 Buffed
PP 10 → 12 Buffed
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 Champions
Has a 100% chance to lower the target's Special Defense by 1 stage.
“The user attacks the target with an acidic liquid created from tart apples. This also lowers the target's Sp. Def stat.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Apple Acid, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
1
- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
1
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Changes how it works
1
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Can't be used through: Metronome.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Apple Acid among their most used moves.
Who learns Apple Acid
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 1 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →