Ceaseless Edge
Pokémon Champions
Sets a layer of Spikes on the opposing side.
- Power
- 65
- Accuracy
- 90%
- PP
- 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Ceaseless Edge changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 15 → 16 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
If this move is successful, it sets up a hazard on the opposing side of the field, damaging each opposing Pokémon that switches in, unless it is a Flying-type Pokémon or has the Levitate Ability. A maximum of three layers may be set, and opponents lose 1/8 of their maximum HP with one layer, 1/6 of their maximum HP with two layers, and 1/4 of their maximum HP with three layers, all rounded down. Can be removed from the opposing side if any Pokémon uses Tidy Up, or if any opposing Pokémon uses Mortal Spin, Rapid Spin, or Defog successfully, or is hit by Defog.
“The user slashes its shell blade at the target. Shell splinters left behind by this attack remain scattered under the target as spikes.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Ceaseless Edge, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
3
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Sharpness×1.5
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
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.
Who runs Ceaseless Edge 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 Ceaseless Edge among their most used moves.
Who learns Ceaseless Edge
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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