Tar Shot
Not in Pokémon ChampionsGen VIII
Game
Scarlet & Violet
RockStatus
Target gets -1 Spe and becomes weaker to Fire.
- Power
- –
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 15
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Properties
See it in the games
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How it works in Gen IX
Lowers the target's Speed by 1 stage. Until the target switches out, the effectiveness of Fire-type moves is doubled against it.
“The user pours sticky tar over the target, lowering the target's Speed stat. The target becomes weaker to Fire-type moves.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Tar Shot, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Blocks or weakens it
1
- Magic Bouncebounces it back
Changes how it works
1
- 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
- Magic Coat sends it back to the user too.
Who learns Tar Shot
It isn’t in Pokémon Champions.