Parting Shot
Pokémon Champions
Lowers target's Atk, Sp. Atk by 1. User switches.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- 100%
- Hit chance
- PP
- 20
- Cooldown
- Wind-up
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 5.9% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Parting Shot changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen VII
… user does not switch out if added: the target's Attack and Special Attack stat stages were both unchanged, or if there are no unfainted party members.
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
Lowers the target's Attack and Special Attack by 1 stage. If this move is successful, 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 the target's Attack and Special Attack stat stages were both unchanged, or if there are no unfainted party members.
“With a parting threat, the user lowers the target's Attack and Sp. Atk stats. Then it switches places with a party Pokémon in waiting.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Parting Shot, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
2
- Punk Rock×1.3 (halves sound damage it takes)
Throat Spray+1 Sp. Atk- Prankster+1 priority, but Dark-types are immune
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Soundproofimmune
- Magic Bouncebounces it back
Changes how it works
1
- Liquid Voicebecomes Water-type
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Magic Coat sends it back to the user too.
Works with or against it
Who runs Parting Shot on Showdown
Incineroar95.8% of its sets
Grimmsnarl91.9% of its sets
Squawkabilly83.6% of its sets
Alolan Persian80.4% of its sets
Thievul25.4% 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 Parting Shot among their most used moves.
Who learns Parting Shot
4 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 19 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →