Boomburst
Pokémon Champions
No additional effect. Hits adjacent Pokémon.
- Power
- 140
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- Everyone next to the user, ally too (spread move)
- On Showdown
- 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Boomburst 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
No additional effect.
“The user attacks everything around it with the destructive power of a terrible explosive sound.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Boomburst, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
1
- Punk Rock×1.3 (halves sound damage it takes)
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Soundproofimmune
- Telepathyan ally with it takes no damage
Changes how it works
5
- Liquid Voicebecomes Water-type
- Pixilatebecomes Fairy-type, ×1.2
- Aerilatebecomes Flying-type, ×1.2
- Refrigeratebecomes Ice-type, ×1.2
- Dragonizebecomes Dragon-type, ×1.2
Only in other games 2
Boosts it
1
Throat Spray+1 Sp. Atk
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who runs Boomburst 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 Boomburst among their most used moves.
Who learns Boomburst
6 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 17 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →