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Shadow Claw

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV

Game

Pokémon Champions

GhostPhysical

High critical hit ratio.

Power: 70
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown: 0.4% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Properties

Contact Slicingnew High crit

Changes over time

How Shadow Claw changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 15 → 16 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

Has a higher chance for a critical hit.

“The user attacks by slashing the target with a sharp claw made from shadows. This move has a heightened chance of landing a critical hit.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

6

Tough Claws×1.3
Poison Touch30% to poison
Sharpness×1.5
Super Luck+1 crit stage
Scope Lens+1 crit stage
Snipercrits do ×1.5 more

Blocks or weakens it

4

Fluffytakes ½
Aura Guardtakes ½
Battle Armorno crits
Shell Armorno crits

Punishes the user

13

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
Anger Pointa crit maxes its Attack

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 7

Boosts it

1

Razor Claw+1 crit stage

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.

Who runs Shadow Claw on Showdown

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 Shadow Claw among their most used moves.

Who learns Shadow Claw

80 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

Show all 80 in Champions

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