Beat Up (move)

Move data

Type	Dark
Category	Physical
Power	—
Accuracy	100
PP	10  (max. 16)
Makes contact?	No
Introduced	Generation 2

Machine/Record

Sword​/​Shield	TM37

Effects

Beat Up deals damage from each Pokémon on your team that does not have a status ailment (nor is fainted). Each strike has a different base power, calculated as:

UsersBaseAttack ÷ 10 + 5

However, the actual attack is carried out by the original user of Beat Up, so it will always use that Pokémon's current attack stat to calculate damage. It will also receive any boosts from the originating user, such as STAB and any applicable items. However, any items held by the rest of the team do not affect the damage dealt.

Each strike of Beat Up is treated like a separate attack:

• Each strike can get a critical hit independently.
• If the Sturdy ability, Focus Sash, or Focus Band activates before the final hit, the subsequent hit will still deal damage and therefore cause the opponent to faint.
• If the first hit breaks a Substitute, the second hit will deal damage to the target Pokémon.

The move Counter only counters the final hit, but Bide counters the complete damage.

Example

Let's say we have the ultimate team of 1 Weavile and 5 Magikarp. One of the Magikarp is paralyzed, so only 4 can attack with Beat Up. Weavile's base Attack is 120, while Magikarp's is an incredible 10. Beat Up would attack 5 times, first with 17 base power (120 ÷ 10 + 5) and then 4 times with 6 base power (10 ÷ 10 + 5). The result would be as if Weavile had attacked with a Dark type move of 41 base power.

In a more realistic scenario, the average total base power for Beat Up is typically around 60-90.

Changes

• In Generations 2-3, Beat Up is categorized as Special.
• In Generations 2-4, Beat Up deals 10 base power typeless damage from each able Pokémon (using each Pokémon's Attack stat).
• In Generations 2-4, if a Focus Sash or Focus Band activates before the final hit, subsequent hits do not cause the holder to faint.
• In Generations 2-3, Beat Up ends immediately if any hit breaks a Substitute.

Z-Move effects

When a Pokémon is holding Darkinium Z and uses its Z-Power, Beat Up turns into Black Hole Eclipse and has base power 100.

Move target

Targets a single adjacent Pokémon.

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