Move card

Surf

Stats and effect
Water Special
Power 90
Accuracy 100%
PP 15
Priority 0
Effect

Inflicts regular damage and can hit Dive users.

Target: All other Pokémon Introduced: Generation I (Kanto) Learned by 295 Pokémon
Move properties
  • Not in Sky Battles — Unavailable in Generation VI Sky Battles.
Changes between games

Some moves had different values in earlier games. Below you can see what changed and from which game the value you see now applies.

Changes to move values between game releases.
Game Prop­erty Before
X/Y Power 95
  • Power 90 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 X/Y, “Power” was 95; it is now 90.

Machines that teach this move
  • HM03 Red/Green (Japan), Blue (Japan), Red/Blue, Yellow, Gold/Silver, Crystal, Ruby/Sapphire, Colosseum, FireRed/LeafGreen, Emerald, XD: Gale of Darkness, Diamond/Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold/SoulSilver, Black/White, Black 2/White 2, X/Y, Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
  • TM94 Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon
  • TM47 Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee
  • TR04 Sword/Shield
  • TM123 Scarlet/Violet
  • TM73 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 (295)

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The 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.