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Ice Shard

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV
Game

Pokémon Champions

IcePhysical

Goes first: priority +1.

Power
40
Accuracy
100%
PP
20 Scarlet & Violet: 30
Priority
+1
Hits
One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown
0.6% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Properties

Changes over time

How Ice Shard changed from game to game, newest first.

  1. Champions

    PP 30 → 20 Nerfed

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

Priority +1: it moves before every move of lower priority, whatever the Speed. It has no other effect.

“The user flash-freezes chunks of ice and hurls them at the target. This move always goes first.”

In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

1

Blocks or weakens it

2

Changes how it works

1

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

Good to know

Who runs Ice Shard on Showdown

  1. Mega Baxcalibur78.6% of its sets
  2. Mamoswine86.8% of its sets
  3. Baxcalibur76.9% of its sets
  4. Mega Abomasnow49.3% of its sets
  5. Vanilluxe18.0% of its sets
  6. Weavile13.1% of its sets
  7. Mega Glalie31.9% of its sets
  8. Glaceon25.5% 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 Ice Shard among their most used moves.

Baxcalibur, ladder rank #60Weavile, ladder rank #86Mamoswine, ladder rank #107Vanilluxe, ladder rank #117Glaceon, ladder rank #145Glalie, ladder rank #176

Who learns Ice Shard

12 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

GlalieAbomasnowWeavileGlaceonMamoswineFroslassVanilluxeMr. RimeMega AbomasnowMega GlalieAlolan NinetalesMega Froslass

All 37 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →