Stealth Rock
Pokémon Champions
Hurts foes on switch-in. Factors Rock weakness.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- —
- PP
- 20
- Hits
- The foes’ side of the field
Changes over time
How Stealth Rock changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen IX
… from the opposing side if any added: Pokémon uses Tidy Up, or if any opposing Pokémon uses
dropped: Rapid Spinadded: Mortal Spin, Rapid Spin, or Defog successfully, or is hit by Defog. - Gen VI
… if any opposing Pokémon uses Rapid Spin added: or Defog successfully, or is hit by Defog.
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
Sets up a hazard on the opposing side of the field, damaging each opposing Pokémon that switches in. Fails if the effect is already active on the opposing side. Foes lose 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, or 1/2 of their maximum HP, rounded down, based on their weakness to the Rock type; 0.25×, 0.5×, neutral, 2×, or 4×, respectively. Can be removed from the opposing side if any Pokémon uses Tidy Up, or if any opposing Pokémon uses Mortal Spin, Rapid Spin, or Defog successfully, or is hit by Defog.
“The user lays a trap of levitating stones around the opposing team. The trap damages opposing Pokémon that switch into battle.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Stealth Rock, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
1
- Prankster+1 priority
Blocks or weakens it
1
- Magic Bouncebounces it back
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.
- Pressure takes extra PP from it.
- An entry hazard: Heavy-Duty Boots ignore it; Rapid Spin, Mortal Spin, Defog, Tidy Up and Court Change clear it.
Works with or against it
Who runs Stealth Rock 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 Stealth Rock among their most used moves.
Who learns Stealth Rock
66 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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