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Salt Cure

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IX
Game

Pokémon Champions

RockPhysical

Deals 1/16 max HP each turn; 1/8 on Steel, Water.

Power
40
Accuracy
100%
PP
16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
Hits
One Pokémon next to the user
Properties

Changes over time

How Salt Cure changed from game to game, newest first.

  1. Champions

    PP 15 → 16 Buffed

    Causes damage to the target equal to dropped: 1/8 added: 1/16 of its maximum HP dropped: (1/4 added: (1/8 if the target is Steel or …

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

Causes damage to the target equal to 1/16 of its maximum HP (1/8 if the target is Steel or Water type), rounded down, at the end of each turn during effect. This effect ends when the target is no longer active.

“The user salt cures the target, inflicting damage every turn. Steel and Water types are more strongly affected by this move.”

In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

2

Blocks or weakens it

1

Changes how it works

1

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

Good to know

Who runs Salt Cure on Showdown

  1. Garganacl58.4% 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 Salt Cure among their most used moves.

Garganacl, ladder rank #206

Who learns Salt Cure

1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

Garganacl

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