Tail Slap
Pokémon Champions
Hits 2-5 times in one turn.
- Power
- 25
- Accuracy
- 85%
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Tail Slap changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 10 → 12 Buffed
- Gen IX
… move will always hit five times. added: If the user is holding Loaded Dice, this move will hit 4-5 times.
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
Hits two to five times. Has a 35% chance to hit two or three times and a 15% chance to hit four or five times. If one of the hits breaks the target's substitute, it will take damage for the remaining hits. If the user has the Skill Link Ability, this move will always hit five times. If the user is holding Loaded Dice, this move will hit 4-5 times.
“The user attacks by striking the target with its hard tail. This move hits two to five times in a row.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Tail Slap, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
4
- Tough Claws×1.3
- Poison Touch30% to poison
- Skill Linkalways hits 5 times
Loaded Dicehits 4–5 times- Technician×1.5
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Fluffytakes ½
- Aura Guardtakes ½
Punishes the user
12
- 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
8
- Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
- Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
- Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
- Pixilatebecomes Fairy-type, ×1.2
- Aerilatebecomes Flying-type, ×1.2
- Refrigeratebecomes Ice-type, ×1.2
- Galvanizebecomes Electric-type, ×1.2
- Dragonizebecomes Dragon-type, ×1.2
- Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who learns Tail Slap
7 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 20 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →