Torch Song
Pokémon Champions
100% chance to raise the user's Sp. Atk by 1.
- Power
- 80
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 12 Scarlet & Violet: 10
- Hits
- One Pokémon next to the user
Changes over time
How Torch Song changed from game to game, newest first.
- Champions
PP 10 → 12 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
No clip of Torch Song here yet. Find Torch Song on YouTube →
How it works in Champions
Has a 100% chance to raise the user's Special Attack by 1 stage.
“The user blows out raging flames as if singing a song, scorching the target. This also boosts the user's Sp. Atk stat.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet
What interacts
Abilities and items that boost Torch Song, block it, punish its user or change how it works.
Boosts it
2
- Punk Rock×1.3 (halves sound damage it takes)
Throat Spray+1 Sp. Atk- Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
- Serene Gracedoubles the chance
Blocks or weakens it
2
- Soundproofimmune
- Shield Dustblocks the effect
Covert Cloakblocks the effect
Changes how it works
1
- Liquid Voicebecomes Water-type
No ability or held item affected it in these games.
Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.
Who runs Torch Song 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 Torch Song among their most used moves.
Who learns Torch Song
1 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.
All 1 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →
How many times it can be used. PP Ups don’t change it in Pokémon Champions.
- Base PPIn Champions
- 58
- 1012
- 1516
- 20 or more20