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Gyro Ball

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV

Game

Pokémon Champions

SteelPhysical

More power the slower the user than the target.

Power: –
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 8 Scarlet & Violet: 5
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user

Properties

Contact Ball and bomb

Changes over time

How Gyro Ball changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 5 → 8 Buffed
Gen VI
… the user's current Speed is 0, ~~dropped: it~~ added: this move's power is ~~dropped: treated as 1 instead.~~ added: 1.

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

Power is equal to (25 * target's current Speed / user's current Speed) + 1, rounded down, but not more than 150. If the user's current Speed is 0, this move's power is 1.

“The user tackles the target with a high-speed spin. The slower the user is than the target, the greater the move's power.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

2

Tough Claws×1.3
Poison Touch30% to poison

Blocks or weakens it

3

Fluffytakes ½
Aura Guardtakes ½
Bulletproofimmune

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

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

Good to know

Its power changes with the situation; How it works gives the rule.

Who runs Gyro Ball on Showdown

Perrserker10.9% 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 Gyro Ball among their most used moves.

Who learns Gyro Ball

42 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

Show all 42 in Champions

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