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Steel Beam

In Pokémon ChampionsGen VIII

Game

Pokémon Champions

SteelSpecial

User loses 50% max HP.

Power: 140
Accuracy: 95%
Hit chance
PP: 8 Scarlet & Violet: 5
Cooldown
Wind-up
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown: 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Properties

No contact Recoil½ max HP

Changes over time

How Steel Beam changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 5 → 8 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

Whether or not this move is successful and even if it would cause fainting, the user loses 1/2 of its maximum HP, rounded up, unless the user has the Magic Guard Ability.

“The user fires a beam of steel that it collected from its entire body. This also damages the user.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Changes how it works

1

Infiltratorgoes through Substitute

Good to know

Can't be used through: Metronome.

Who runs Steel Beam on Showdown

Smogon · Showdown Champions VGC · Sep 2026: Smogon’s usage stats from Pokémon Showdown, not the in-game ladder.

Who learns Steel Beam

31 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

All 80 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →