Bullet Punch
Pokémon Champions
Goes first: priority +1.
- Power
- 40
- Accuracy
- 100%
- Hit chance
- PP
- 20 Scarlet & Violet: 30
- Cooldown
- Wind-up
- Priority
- +1
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 0.2% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Bullet Punch changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 30 → 20 Nerfed
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
Priority +1: it moves before every move of lower priority, whatever the Speed. It has no other effect.
“The user strikes the target with tough punches as fast as bullets. This move always goes first.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Bullet Punch, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
4
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Iron Fist×1.2
Punching Glove×1.1, no contact- Technician×1.5
Blocks or weakens it
4
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
- Dazzlingblocks it
- Queenly Majestyblocks it
- Armor Tailblocks it
Punishes the user
12
- 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
4
- Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
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
- Psychic Terrain stops it hitting a grounded Pokémon.
Who runs Bullet Punch on Showdown
Mega Metagross11.5% of its sets
Scizor99.2% of its sets
Mega Scizor96.0% of its sets
Mega Lucario26.6% of its sets
Metagross19.2% of its sets
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 Bullet Punch among their most used moves.
Who learns Bullet Punch
12 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
MachampScizor
MedichamMetagross
Lucario
Toxicroak
PangoroMega Scizor
Mega MedichamMega LucarioMega Metagross
Mega Lucario ZAll 18 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →