Sunsteel Strike
Not in Pokémon ChampionsGen VII
Game
Scarlet & Violet
SteelPhysical
Ignores the Abilities of other Pokémon.
- Power
- 100
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 5
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Properties
See it in the games
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How it works in Gen IX
This move and its effects ignore the Abilities of other Pokémon.
“The user slams into the target with the force of a meteor. This move can be used on the target regardless of its Ability.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Sunsteel Strike, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
2
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
Punishes the user
17
- 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
5
- Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Can't be used through: Metronome.
- Ignores the target's ability, like Mold Breaker.
Who learns Sunsteel Strike
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.