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Vacuum Wave

In Pokémon ChampionsGen IV

Game

Pokémon Champions

FightingSpecial

Goes first: priority +1.

Power: 40
Accuracy: 100%
Hit chance
PP: 20 Scarlet & Violet: 30
Cooldown
Wind-up
Priority: +1
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown: 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Properties

Changes over time

How Vacuum Wave changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 30 → 20 Nerfed

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

Priority +1: it moves before every move of lower priority, whatever the Speed. It has no other effect.

“The user whirls its fists to send a wave of pure vacuum at the target. This move always goes first.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

Abilities and items that boost Vacuum Wave, block it, punish its user or change how it works.

Boosts it

1

Technician×1.5

Blocks or weakens it

2

Changes how it works

1

Infiltratorgoes through Substitute

Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze ignore the abilities that block or weaken it.

Good to know

Psychic Terrain stops it hitting a grounded Pokémon.

Who runs Vacuum Wave 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 Vacuum Wave among their most used moves.

Who learns Vacuum Wave

28 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

All 57 Pokémon that learn it in any game → Filter the Pokédex to Champions →