Stone Axe
Pokémon Champions
Sets Stealth Rock on the target's side.
- Power
- 65
- Accuracy
- 90%
- PP
- 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
- On Showdown
- 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Stone Axe 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
If this move is successful, it sets up a hazard on the opposing side of the field, damaging each opposing Pokémon that switches in. 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 swings its stone axes at the target. Stone splinters left behind by this attack float around the target.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Stone Axe, 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
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 6
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 Stone Axe 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 Stone Axe among their most used moves.
Who learns Stone Axe
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
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