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Earth Power

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV

Game

Pokémon Champions

GroundSpecial

10% chance to lower the target's Sp. Def by 1.

Power: 90
Accuracy: 100%
Hit chance
PP: 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
Cooldown
Wind-up
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown: 2.5% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Properties

No contact Secondary effect10%

Changes over time

How Earth Power 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

Has a 10% chance to lower the target's Special Defense by 1 stage.

“The user makes the ground under the target erupt with power. This may also lower the target's Sp. Def stat.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

1

Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
Serene Gracedoubles the chance

Blocks or weakens it

1

Shield Dustblocks the effect
Covert Cloakblocks the effect

Changes how it works

1

Infiltratorgoes through Substitute

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

Who runs Earth Power 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 Earth Power among their most used moves.