Struggle Bug
Pokémon Champions
100% chance to lower the foe(s) Sp. Atk by 1.
- Power
- 50
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 20
- Hits
- Both foes (spread move)
- On Showdown
- 0.5% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it
Changes over time
How Struggle Bug changed from game to game, newest first.
- Gen VI
Power 30 → 50 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
Has a 100% chance to lower the target's Special Attack by 1 stage.
“The user attacks by struggling against opposing Pokémon. This also lowers their Sp. Atk stats.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Struggle Bug, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
2
- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
- Technician×1.5
Blocks or weakens it
1
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Changes how it works
1
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Only in other games 2
Boosts it
1
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
1
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who runs Struggle Bug 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 Struggle Bug among their most used moves.
Who learns Struggle Bug
10 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 88 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →