User receives 1/3 the damage inflicted in recoil.
- Recoil 33% of damage dealt This much HP is lost by the Pokémon that used the move. The Rock Head Ability negates this cost, and Reckless boosts damage by 20% in exchange for it.
- Contact — The user touches the target, so abilities such as Static and Rough Skin and items like Rocky Helmet activate.
Some moves had different values in earlier games. Below you can see what changed and from which game the value you see now applies.
| Game | Property | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Gold/ |
Power | 100 |
- Power 120 now
Each row is one change in one game. The Property column says what changed, Before shows the value that applied before that game, and Now is the value today. In Gold/Silver, “Power” was 100; it is now 120.
- TM10 Red/Green (Japan), Blue (Japan), Red/Blue, Yellow
- TM204 Scarlet/Violet, Scarlet/Violet: The Indigo Disk
- TM56 Legends: Z-A
The same move has different numbers in different games — check the number for your version before going after the machine.
Pokémon that learn this move (720)
page 1 of 20The tiles cover all games at once. “From Lv.” is the level from the latest game in which that species learns this move by level-up — hover over the number to see which game. No number means it never learns the move by level-up.
