Bitter Malice
Pokémon Champions
100% chance to lower the target's Attack by 1.
- Power
- 75
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Bitter Malice changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
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 Attack by 1 stage.
“The user attacks the target with spine-chilling resentment. This also lowers the target’s Attack stat.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Bitter Malice, 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.
Who runs Bitter Malice on Showdown
Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.
On the ladder today
Ranked Doubles Pokémon with Bitter Malice among their most used moves.
Who learns Bitter Malice
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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