Bounce
Pokémon Champions
Bounces turn 1. Hits turn 2. 30% paralyze.
- Power
- 85
- Accuracy
- 85%
- PP
- 8 Scarlet & Violet: 5
- Hits
- Any one Pokémon, even far away
Changes over time
How Bounce changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 5 → 8 Buffed
- Gen VI
… other than Gust, Hurricane, Sky Uppercut, Smack Down, added: Thousand Arrows, Thunder, and Twister, and Gust and …
- Gen V
… avoids all attacks other than Gust, added: Hurricane, Sky Uppercut, added: Smack Down, Thunder, and Twister, and Gust and …
- Gen IV
… doubled power when used against it. added: If the user is holding a Power Herb, the move completes in one turn.
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 30% chance to paralyze the target. This attack charges on the first turn and executes on the second. On the first turn, the user avoids all attacks other than Gust, Hurricane, Sky Uppercut, Smack Down, Thousand Arrows, Thunder, and Twister, and Gust and Twister have doubled power when used against it. If the user is holding a Power Herb, the move completes in one turn.
“The user bounces up high on the first turn, then drops onto the target on the next turn. This may also leave the target with paralysis.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Bounce, 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
- Gale Wings+1 priority at full HP
Blocks or weakens it
3
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Punishes the user
12
- Rough Skintakes 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
- Mummyreplaces its ability
- Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
- Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
- Pickpocketsteals its item
Changes how it works
4
- Long Reachno contact
- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Only in other games 9
Boosts it
1
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
1
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Punishes the user
5
- Iron Barbstakes ⅛ back
- Tangling Hair−1 Speed
- Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
- Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
Sticky Barbcan stick to it
Changes how it works
2
Protective Padsno contact effects
Power Herbskips the charge turn, once
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Can't be used while Gravity is in effect.
- Can't be used through: Assist, Sleep Talk, Instruct.
Works with or against it
Who learns Bounce
31 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 124 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →