2020-01-10T13:46:56 01:00

Pokémon GO Guide: All Pokémon attacks and their strengths

In our guide to all attacks in Pokémon GO we tell you:

Which instant attacks there are
Which charge attacks there are
How strong all attacks are in Pokémon GO

Every Pokémon has instant attacks and charging attacks. The latter must first be charged to unleash their power. Want to know the power of your favorite Pokémon's different attacks and how much damage they do per second? Then this guide is just the thing for you.

Which attacks a Pokémon learns from your Pokéball () is completely random. This also applies to the evolution: As soon as it reaches the next level, a set is compiled from all possible attacks for this pocket monster. However, it is also possible to teach a Pokémon special attacks using instant TMs and charge TMs. You may already know this system from the console games Pokémon Sword () and Pokémon Shield ().

In our guide to the best & strongest Pokémon 2019, you can see which pocket monster should definitely be in your team. With the help of our table, you can teach your Pokémon the strongest attacks and emerge victorious from the next battle.

Table of Contents:

Pokémon GO: All instant attacks
Pokémon GO: All charging attacks
Pokémon GO: Status changes and full hits

Pokémon GO: All instant attacks & their strengths

When you battle against your friends or in Raids, you attack with your Pokémon's instant attack by default. Each attack fills your bar for the Charge Attack, which you'll read more about in the next section.

We've told you how to find and add friends in Pokémon GO elsewhere.

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Aquacnar	Water	5	10
Bite	Unlight	6	12
Bubble	Water	12	10
Bodycheck	Normal	8	6,67
Burden	Spirit	10	8,33
Charm	Fairy	20	13,33
Thunder shock	Thunder	5	8,33
Thunder tooth	Thunder	12	10
Dragon rod	Dragon	15	13.64
Dark claw	Ghost	9	12,86
Iron tail	Steel	15	13.64
Ice sod	Ice	10	11,11
Ice chip	Ice	12	10
Ice tooth	Ice	12	8
Amazing	Ghost	8	7,27
Fire breath	Dragon	6	12
Fire whirl	Fire	14	12,73
Fire tooth	Fire	12	13,33
Feint	Unlight	10	11,11
Wing beat	Flight	8	10
Spark	Thunder	6	8,57
Foot kick	Fight	6	10
Yawners	Normal	0	0
Gift	Normal	5	3,85
Poison Blow	Poison	10	12,5
Poison sting	Poison	5	8,33
Ember	Fire	10	10
Beetle bite	Beetle	5	10

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Beetle trutz	Beetle	15	10
Karate chop	Fight	8	10
Cascade	Water	16	13,33
Catapult	Rock	16	13,33
Confusion	Psycho	20	12,5
Counter	Combat	12	13,33
Power reserve	Normal	15	10
Scratch	Normal	6	12
Ball seed	Plant	8	7,27
Loading beam	Thunder	8	7,27
Clay clamp	Ground	18	12,86
Clay shot	Floor	5	8,33
Air shot	Flight	14	11,67
Metal claw	Steel	8	11,43
Cartridge punch	Steel	9	10
Pound	Normal	7	11,67
Plague	Beetle	10	9,09
Splash	Water	0	0
Psycho blade	Psycho	5	8,33
Powder snow	Ice	6	6
Tendril cut	Plant	7	11,67
Razor leaf	Plant	13	13
Jerk cut	Normal	8	10
Acid	Poison	9	11,25
Licker	Spirit	5	10
Beak	Flight	10	10
Special sensor	Psycho	12	10,91
Steel wing	Steel	11	13,75

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Telltale	Unlight	12	10,91
Stone throw	Rock	12	13,33
Tackle	Normal	5	10
Low blow	Unlight	7	10
Volt change	Thunder	20	8,7
Converter	Normal	0	0
Zen headbutt	Psycho	12	10,91
Cutter	Normal	5	10
Shatterer	Combat	15	11,54
Target shot	Normal	1	3,33
Rage Blade	Beetle	3	7,5

Pokémon GO: All charge attacks & their strengths

If you have attacked enough with the instant attacks in a battle, the charge attack button will light up. Tap it to start a special attack. After that, the bar is empty again and must be filled by performing instant attacks.

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Abyss Blade	Ground	130	76,47
Abyssal Blow	Combat	0	0
Aero-Ass	Flight	55	22,92
Traffic light	Beetle	75	25,86
Incident	Beetle	0	0
Antique power	Rock	70	20
Aqua howitzer	Water	90	47,37
Aquawave	Water	70	21,88
Aurasphere	Combat	90	50
Aurora beam	Ice	80	22,54
Leaf scourge	Plant	90	34,62
Lightning gun	Thunder	140	37,84
Blizzard	Ice	130	41,94
Bubble jet	Water	45	23,68
Flower swirl	Plant	110	42,31

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Bloodsucker	Beetle	0	0
Bodyslam	Normal	50	26,32
Drill Beak	Flight	60	26,09
Steamroller	Ground	80	22,86
Thieves kiss	Fairy	60	23,08
Thunder	Thunder	100	41,67
Thunder lightning	Thunder	80	32
Thunderclap	Thunder	45	25
Dragon claw	Dragon	50	29,41
Dragon pulse	Dragon	90	25
Draco Meteor	Dragon	150	41,67
Breakthrough	Battle	40	25
Iron skull	Steel	60	31.58
Ice blow	Ice	50	26,32
Ice beam	Ice	90	27,27
Ice storm	Ice	60	18,18
Energy ball	Plant	90	23,8
Earthquake	Ground	140	38,89
Earth forces	Ground	100	27,78
Recreation	Normal	50	26,32
Field grave	Rock	70	21,88
Rock throwing	Rock	50	23,81
Fire sweep	Fire	45	37,5
Fire strike	Fire	55	25
Firestorm	Fire	140	33,33
Dark aura	Unlight	80	26,67
Finsterfaust	Ghost	40	23.53
Flame wheel	Fire	60	22,22
Flame throw	Fire	70	31,82
Flora statue	Plant	100	38,46

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Focus Blast	Combat	140	40
Frustration	Normal	10	5
Flying sparks	Fire	70	26,92
Footstep	Fight	40	21,05
Geofissure	Ground	0	0
Poison strike	Poison	40	26,67
Poison fang	Poison	35	20,59
Giga Sucker	Plant	50	12,82
Gigasuction	Normal	200	42,55
Grass blender	Plant	45	14,52
Gyroball	Steel	80	24,24
Heart stamp	Psycho	40	21,05
Sky sweeper	Flight	80	40
Heat exhaustion	Fire	160	40
Heatwave	Fire	95	31,67
Horn Attack	Normal	40	21,62
Horn drill	Normal	0	0
Hydro pump	Water	130	39,39
Hyperjet	Normal	150	39,47
Hyper Tooth	Normal	80	32
Jewel power	Rock	80	27,59
Beetle buzz	Beetle	90	24,32
Lime blade	Water	0	0
Kismet wish	Steel	70	41,18
Clamp	Normal	35	18,42
Crusher	Unlight	70	21,88
Bone club	Ground	40	25
Cuddler	Fairy	90	31,03
Crab hammer	Water	85	44,74
Power Colossus	Fight	85	28,33

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Cross blow	Combat	50	33,33
Cross shear	Beetle	45	28,12
Charge shock	Thunder	65	26
Lake	Water	60	26,09
Leaf blade	Plant	70	29,17
Avalanche	Ice	90	33,33
Clay broth	Water	50	22,73
Light gun	Steel	100	37,04
Tanning gun	Fire	110	33,33
Magnetic bomb	Steel	70	25
Mud bomb	Poison	80	34,78
Mega Sucker	Plant	25	9,62
Meteorologist (Fire)	Fire	60	37,5
Meteorologist (water)	Water	60	37,5
Meteorologist (ice)	Ice	60	37,5
Meteorologist (Rock)	Normal	60	37,5
Moon power	Fairy	130	33,33
Garbage hit	Poison	130	41,94
Night blow	Unlight	50	22,73
Night mist	Ghost	60	23,08
Night fight	Fight	100	43,48
Wet tail	Water	50	26,32
Nitro charge	Fire	70	18,42
Octazooka	Water	50	21,74
Hurricane	Flight	110	40,74
Parabolic charge	Thunder	25	8,93
Psychokinesis	Psycho	90	32,14
Psycho shock	Psycho	65	24,07
Psycho shock	Psycho	90	39,13
Psy thrust	Psycho	70	17,5

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Psy ray	Psycho	70	21,88
Ram boss	Steel	70	33,33
Return	Normal	35	50
Seed bombs	Plant	55	26,19
Sand grave	Soil	60	15
Acid spout	Poison	20	6,67
Acid spout	Fairy	70	17,95
Skull Guillemot	Normal	130	41,94
Shadow Bone	Ghost	0	0
Shadow blast	Ghost	50	17,24
Shoveler	Ground	100	21,28
Percussion drill	Ground	80	28,57
Mud bath	Poison	50	23,81
Mud bomb	Soil	55	23,91
Mud wave	Poison	110	34,38
Parasite	Unlight	70	35
Seer	Psycho	120	44,44
Boiling water	Water	80	21,62
Silver breath	Beetle	70	18,92
Solar beam	Plant	180	36,73
Mirrorscape	Psycho	60	23,08
Mirror salvo	Steel	50	20,83
Haunted ball	Ghost	100	33,33
Spike final	Beetle	50	22,73
Tamper	Normal	55	32,35
Increasing blow	Combat	50	25
Stone hail	Rock	80	29,63
Stone edge	Rock	100	43,48
Star cut	Steel	100	38,46
Star shower	Normal	60	21,43

Attack	Type	Strength	Damage per second
Shrubber	Plant	90	34,62
Surge	Thunder	90	34,62
Nosedive	Flight	90	45
Surfer	Water	65	38,24
Synchro noise	Psycho	80	30,77
Overroller	Combat	60	27,27
Calamity gusts	Spirit	50	21,74
Wave of origin	Water	130	76,47
Desperator	Normal	35	15,91
Vielender	Beetle	90	40,91
Water nozzle	Water	45	17,31
Wrap	Normal	60	20,69
Whirlwind	Dragon	45	16,07
Wind cut	Flight	60	22,22
Balancing blow	Combat	90	33,33
Rage attack	Dragon	110	28,21
Magic glow	Fairy	100	28,57
Crushing claw	Normal	0	0
Refuge	Normal	90	31,03

Pokémon GO: Status changes and full hits

If you've been a Pokémon fan for a long time, you probably know that a lot of Attacks havea secondary effect. For example, they cause sleep, poison the opponent's Pokémon, or paralyze it. If a Pokémon is paralyzed, it may not attack or make the mistake of hurting itself. This can often make a crucial difference in battle.

Currently, these side effects (or state changes) are not possible in Pokémon GO. All attacks merely drain damage from the opponent to empty the life bar and eventually defeat it. It is currently unclear whether the status effects will still be added. As soon as Niantic comments on this, we'll let you know.

The same goes for "direct hits", which come from all of Nintendo's well-known main games. With a bit of luck, an attack is a direct hit and causes significantly more damage. In Pokémon GO, this feature does not exist yet.

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