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Shadow Sneak

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV

Game

Pokémon Champions

GhostPhysical

Goes first: priority +1.

Power: 40
Accuracy: 100%
PP: 20 Scarlet & Violet: 30
Priority: +1
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown: 0.5% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Properties

Changes over time

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

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 extends its shadow and attacks the target from behind. This move always goes first.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

3

Tough Claws×1.3
Poison Touch30% to poison
Technician×1.5

Blocks or weakens it

4

Fluffytakes ½
Aura Guardtakes ½
Queenly Majestyblocks it
Armor Tailblocks it

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 7

Blocks or weakens it

1

Dazzlingblocks it

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

Psychic Terrain stops it hitting a grounded Pokémon.

Who runs Shadow Sneak 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 Sneak among their most used moves.

Who learns Shadow Sneak

27 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

All 39 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →