Surging Strikes
Not in Pokémon ChampionsGen VIII
Game
Scarlet & Violet
WaterPhysical
Always results in a critical hit. Hits 3 times.
- Power
- 25
- 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
Hits three times. This move is always a critical hit unless the target is under the effect of Lucky Chant or has the Battle Armor or Shell Armor Abilities.
“The user, having mastered the Water style, strikes the target with a flowing motion three times in a row. This move always lands a critical hit.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Surging Strikes, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
6
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Iron Fist×1.2
Punching Glove×1.1, no contact- Snipercrits do ×1.5 more
- Technician×1.5
Blocks or weakens it
4
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
- Battle Armorno crits
- Shell Armorno crits
Punishes the user
18
- 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- Anger Pointa crit maxes its Attack
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
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Good to know
- Can't be used through: Metronome.
Who learns Surging Strikes
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.