Flip Turn
Pokémon Champions
User switches out after damaging the target.
- Power
- 60
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 20
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 1.6% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
See it in the games
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How it works in Champions
If this move is successful and the user has not fainted, the user switches out even if it is trapped and is replaced immediately by a selected party member. The user does not switch out if there are no unfainted party members, or if the target switched out using an Eject Button or through the effect of the Emergency Exit or Wimp Out Abilities.
- Makes contact
“After making its attack, the user rushes back to switch places with a party Pokémon in waiting.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
Good to know
- Makes contact: Rough Skin, Iron Barbs and Rocky Helmet hurt the attacker; Protective Pads prevents it.Contact moves
- Switches the user out after it hits (pivot).Pivot moves
Who runs Flip Turn on Showdown
Basculegion42.2% of its sets
Palafin40.1% of its sets
Mega Swampert3.1% of its sets
Hisuian Samurott29.3% of its sets
Mega Starmie39.5% of its sets
Female Basculegion7.1% of its sets
Swampert25.6% of its sets
Vaporeon71.8% of its sets
Mega Dragalge41.5% of its sets
Blastoise8.8% 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 Flip Turn among their most used moves.
Who learns Flip Turn
27 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
Blastoise
StarmieVaporeon
Feraligatr
QwilfishSwampert
Sharpedo
Milotic
Empoleon
Samurott
Simipour
Greninja
Dragalge
Clawitzer
PrimarinaBasculegion
QuaquavalPalafin
Mega BlastoiseMega Swampert
Mega SharpedoHisuian SamurottFemale BasculegionMega Starmie
Mega Feraligatr
Mega GreninjaMega DragalgeAll 69 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →