Final Gambit
Pokémon Champions
Does damage equal to the user's HP. User faints.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 8 Scarlet & Violet: 5
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 0.2% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Final Gambit changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 5 → 8 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
Deals damage to the target equal to the user's current HP. If this move is successful, the user faints.
“The user risks everything to attack the target. The user faints but inflicts damage equal to its own HP.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Final Gambit, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Changes how it works
1
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Good to know
- Parental Bond doesn't make it hit twice.
- The user faints if it hits.
Who runs Final Gambit 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 Final Gambit among their most used moves.
Who learns Final Gambit
5 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 23 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →