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Hard Press

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IX

Game

Pokémon Champions

SteelPhysical

More power the more HP the target has left.

Power: –
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user

Properties

Changes over time

How Hard Press 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

Power is equal to 100 × (target's current HP / target's maximum HP), rounded half down, but not less than 1.

“The target is crushed with an arm, a claw, or the like to inflict damage. The more HP the target has left, the greater the move's power.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

Abilities and items that boost Hard Press, 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

2

Fluffytakes ½
Aura Guardtakes ½

Punishes the user

12

Rough Skintakes 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
Mummyreplaces its ability
Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
Pickpocketsteals its item

Changes how it works

4

Long Reachno contact
Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
Infiltratorgoes through Substitute

Only in other games 6

Punishes the user

5

Iron Barbstakes ⅛ back
Tangling Hair−1 Speed
Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
Sticky Barbcan stick to it

Changes how it works

1

Protective Padsno contact effects

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 learns Hard Press

31 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

All 45 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →