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Solar Blade

In Pokémon ChampionsGen VII

Game

Pokémon Champions

GrassPhysical

Charges turn 1. Hits turn 2. No charge in sunlight.

Power: 125
Accuracy: 100%
Hit chance
PP: 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
Cooldown
Wind-up
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user

Properties

Contact Slicing Two-turn

Changes over time

How Solar Blade changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 10 → 12 Buffed
Gen IX
… is halved if the weather is ~~dropped: Hail,~~ Heavy Rain, Rain, added: Sandstorm, or ~~dropped: Sandstorm~~ added: Snow and the user is not holding …
Gen VIII
… is Hail, Heavy Rain, Rain, or ~~dropped: Sandstorm.~~ added: Sandstorm and the user is not holding Utility Umbrella. If the user is holding a … the move completes in one turn. added: If the user is holding Utility Umbrella and the weather is Intense Sun or Sun, the move still requires a turn to charge.

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

This attack charges on the first turn and executes on the second. Power is halved if the weather is Heavy Rain, Rain, Sandstorm, or Snow and the user is not holding Utility Umbrella.

If the user is holding a Power Herb or the weather is Intense Sun or Sun, the move completes in one turn. If the user is holding Utility Umbrella and the weather is Intense Sun or Sun, the move still requires a turn to charge.

“The user gathers light on the first turn, then fills a blade with the light's energy and attacks on the next turn.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

3

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

Blocks or weakens it

2

Fluffytakes ½
Aura Guardtakes ½

Punishes the user

12

Rough Skintakes ⅛ back
Iron Barbstakes 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
Tangling Hair−1 Speed
Mummyreplaces its ability
Lingering Aromareplaces its ability
Wandering Spiritswaps abilities
Perish Bodya 3-turn faint countdown for both
Aftermathtakes ¼ if it knocks the holder out
Pickpocketsteals its item
Sticky Barbcan stick to it

Changes how it works

4

Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects
Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
Power Herbskips the charge turn, once
Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage

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

Good to know

Can't be used through: Sleep Talk, Instruct.
The weather changes it: Extremely harsh sun, Hail, Heavy rain, Rain, Sandstorm, Snow, Sun.

Works with or against it

Desolate Land Sunny Day

Who runs Solar Blade on Showdown

Gallade1.8% 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 Solar Blade among their most used moves.

Who learns Solar Blade

16 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

Blade Aegislash

All 48 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →