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Waterfall

In Pokémon ChampionsGen I

Game

Pokémon Champions

WaterPhysical

20% chance to make the target flinch.

Power: 80
Accuracy: 100%
Hit chance
PP: 16 Scarlet & Violet: 15
Cooldown
Wind-up
Hits: One Pokémon next to the user
On Showdown: 0.1% of Champions VGC Pokémon run it

Properties

Contact Secondary effect20%

Changes over time

How Waterfall changed from game to game, newest first.

Champions
PP 15 → 16 Buffed
Gen IV
Became Physical (the physical/special split)
Before: No additional effect.
Now: Has a 20% chance to make the target flinch.

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

Has a 20% chance to make the target flinch.

“The user charges at the target and may make it flinch.”
In-game text, Scarlet & Violet

What interacts

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

Boosts it

3

Tough Claws×1.3
Poison Touch30% to poison
Sheer Force×1.3, loses the effect
Serene Gracedoubles the chance

Blocks or weakens it

3

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

4

Long Reachno contact
Protective Padsno contact effects
Unseen Fistgoes through Protect
Piercing Drillgoes through Protect for ¼ damage
Infiltratorgoes through Substitute
Unseen Fistgoes through Protect for ¼ damage

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

Who runs Waterfall 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 Waterfall among their most used moves.

Who learns Waterfall

44 Pokémon can learn it in Pokémon Champions.

Show all 44 in Champions

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