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Discharge

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV

Game

Pokémon Champions

ElectricSpecial

30% chance to paralyze adjacent Pokémon.

Power: 80
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
Hits: Everyone next to the user, ally too (spread move)

Properties

No contact Secondary effect30%

Changes over time

How Discharge 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

Has a 30% chance to paralyze the target.

“The user strikes everything around it by letting loose a flare of electricity. This may also leave those hit by the attack with paralysis.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

Abilities and items that boost Discharge, block it, punish its user or change how it works.

Boosts it

1

Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect

Blocks or weakens it

2

Telepathyan ally with it takes no damage
Shield Dustblocks the effect

Changes how it works

1

Infiltratorgoes through Substitute

Only in other games 2

Boosts it

1

Serene Gracedoubles the chance

Blocks or weakens it

1

Covert Cloakblocks the effect

Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.

Good to know

Who runs Discharge 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 Discharge among their most used moves.

Frost Rotom#202

Who learns Discharge

25 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

All 75 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →