Worst Pokemon Moves Ever

The Top Ten
1 Splash

It litreally does nothing other than the Magikarp vs Yamcha memes then its useful for something...but in battle no but at least it's useful for a good laugh!

Has this happened to anyone before? I was training Magikarp (Yes, training) in Platinum, and then I came across this really weak bidoof (lv 7) Magikarp was (lv 17).. and I thought let's keep on splashing at that. After 2 or 3 turns.. ( I do not correctly remember the text dialogue ) but the splash turned into a Draco Meteor. I was like " " and unfortunately that never happened again. Are the odds this low? Has that happened to anyone?

Dude, Splash does 0 DAMAGE! The only reason for this is to give Magikarp a move.

Namer 1: Lets give Magikarp a move so it will have one!
Namer 2: How about one called Splash where Magikarp splashes around and deals no damage?
Both: YEAH!

Literally does nothing but makes you look weak. Advice to newbies: When you want to teach your Pokemon a new move but you would need to get rid of one first, get rid of splash immediately, no matter what move it wants to learn

2 Constrict

I call this move "The ten move"
As it has a ten percent chance of lowering speed.
And ten base damage.
And let's face it, splash is a joke move. That doesn't count.
This is a move that is meant to do something. But it sucks at doing anything.
I mean rock tomb, that's a good speed lowering move, and it even got buffed in gen 6.
This is, just awful. Why even use this at all. I only had this move a couple times on my tentacool's because I had to learn it. And I was just, stunned on how awful it was. Even bubble, bubble does more,20 base power, which is now 40 base power, with the same chance of lowering speed.
Just, why even bother. And this move sounds cool to. But it sucksss.

This should be right behind Splash. The fact that Heal Pulse is so high is insulting. I have an incredible triple battle team involving Chansey w/Eviolite and Blissey. Chansey's Heal Pulse is great because I can heal Blissey without having to use up one of her move slots. The full strategy would take a while to explain, but trust me, Heal Pulse is a lifesaver.

Constrict, on the other hand, has a base power of 10. I can think of no reason why anybody would teach their Pokémon this attack. Most of the attacks on this list actually have some uses. At least you'll use Tackle when your Pokémon is still at a very low level. But nobody with an IQ above 20 will ever have any reason to use Constrict.

Ten power and a tiny chance of lowering the opponents attack? Er, NO. Just use Rock Tomb or String Shot to lower the opponent's speed. Lowering opponent's speed IS useful for revenge killing, but no one would take a chance on that. 10%. Shuckle and Tentacruel are the only half-decent Pokémon to learn this, but Shuckle uses indirect damage to KO the opponent.

Let's be honest - quite a few of the moves on this list can be useful, eg Heal Pulse, Memento, Helping hand, they all have niches. But Constrict? 10 BP. Wow. 10% chance to lower speed? I would prefer a move which has no power and a 100% chance to lower speed. They do about the same damage anyway.

3 Memento

Most of the moves in this list are actually great. Ak47 and Hop don't exist. Run is not a move. Recycle is in the PMD Series which lets you reuse a used TM, which can be useful. Explosion ig a great move if your willing to sacrifice the Pokemon using it. Heal pulse can be useful if your in a double/triple/rotation battle and one of you're Pokemon are low in health while your out of *Insert Healing Item Here*. Sand attack lowers the Defending Pokemon's Accuracy, which is good unless the opponent's Pokemon uses it, which is Annoying. Supersonic, whelps, same reason as Sand attack. Moves like Growl, Tail Whip, etc are beginning moves for Pokemon around the level of 2, 4, etc. Bestow is useful against Pokemon with Acrobatics (If you know what I mean! ) if you are willing to give one of you're Pokemon a useless Item, though! Embargo is good against Gym Leaders, Elite Four Members and Champions (because they use Healing Items too much! ) Simple Beam is useful for Pokemon with superb ...more

It was designed to be used when you are low on health. For example, if you are one hit away from death and you have a higher speed, you can kill your own Pokemon that would die anyways to make it easier for the next guy. I do agree it is not a great move, but the people here don't seem to understand it.

Using Momento was literally just suicide. Using Explosion was also suicide, but... at least Explosion had a purpose. It dealt a huge amount of damage (I know it sometimes suck), but Momento? It only lowers stats for two stages and kills you. Belly Drum makes your attack go to +6 stages AND ONLY MINUS HALF OF YOUR FULL HP, WITHOUT FAILING. AND MOMENTO? Makes you face-palm. It's a waste, and if your Latios ever use it, oh well, bye bye Legendary. That's what's so annoying with Latios if you met one outside. It dies before you throw a Master Ball.

What's the point of this move?
Splash was made for magikarps.
Heal Pulse is good in triple battles.
Bestow is good on NPC battles.
Helping Hand is good on double battles.
Even explosion is better, because it kills opponent.
But what does memento do?
"The user faints when using this move. In return, this harshly lowers the target's Attack and Sp. Atk stats".
Explosion is way better.

4 Teleport

Voted just to comment.
Teleport is extremely useful before you get the Fly HM. Imagine if you were fighting through a cave and your pokemon were extremely low on health, and you forgot to buy potions. Sure, you escape rope out but then you have to walk through the route with all the trainers you cunningly skipped... Teleport! It's so much more convenient and safe. Plus, you don't usually get fly until half the game is over!

Honestly, this move should be at number 2 because it's only useful for getting to a Pokemon center. It's also really stupid that you can't use teleport in caves. I understand not being able to use it in houses, but caves, seriously? Hopefully future installments will let us use teleport in caves.

Makes it hard to catch Pokemon that know it. See a shiny Abra? Used your masterball already? Good luck catching it. Besides, the move itself is basically a run button that takes up space for other moves.

I absolute HATE teleport. Mostly because you finally found that Abra you celebrate that you finally found a shiny abra. Abra outspeeds. Screws everybody up

5 Bestow

Most of the 'justification' for this move comes in the form of things like Toxic Orb and Burn Orb. However, Bestow will fail if the opponent holds an item, which most competitive 'Mons do. Seriously, any move that just switches the items will work better.

Bestow is actually really good when you're trying to catch a Pokémon. Everybody know the time where you're trying to catch a Legendary and then inflicted a status condition on them? So you have to catch them before they die from for example poison. If you're holding a Pecha Berry, you use Bestow and erase the poison. That saved you a Master Ball, man

In this move, you give the opponent your item. This is only useful if you're giving them an item such as a lagging tail or a toxic orb. But the large downside is that you never get the item back.

Here's my item. You take it, and I'll sacrifice it. Even though it cost 1842587398457 bp.
Vote Bestow, if you give it to a wild Pokemon or NPC youll never see it again, and in competitive battling every pokemon has an item already.

6 Razor Wind

Why is this move not yet on here? It takes a turn to charge, then instead of doing some sort of monolithic damage, it has a power of 80, which is weaker than Return (or Frustration if your Pokemon hate you), which do not require a turn to use. And it's a -normal- type move, meaning that there is nothing it's super effective against and things that still resist it and are immune to it. There are just so many better choices than Razor Wind.

Yeah let's not copy of Frost Breath there, buddy.

7 Kinesis

If Kinesis hits, then you can make the battle longer by decreasing the opponent's accuracy. Then they'll be annoyed. And then there's a chance that you miss and make the battle shorter because you gave the opponent a free turn. Then you'll be annoyed.

It is a move that lowers accuracy. But it has low accuracy. It is literally worse than sand attack. I don't know why this exists.

8 Leer

Leer...You just stare your opponet in the face...that's all and someone can just punch you in the face or something while doing it or they can just close their eyes.

Well when do you use this? First, at least splash can make a strategy like when you are in a battle and you use splash. Let the Pokemon attack you, and then you can use flail on all of the Pokemon. All the Pokemon faint, then you win with a Pokemon that knows flail and splash. ( in that case, magikarp does the trick. )

Leer, haha. So many times have I, as a noobish Pokemon player, waited for my Pokemon to faint from an enemy's attack... And then have it leer at me and then I attack and kill it. The end!

To be honest, the game devs added it so that in the VERY beginning battles, the AI was made to use this move, instead of killing you.

9 Helping Hand

Pikachu with a plus on its head used helping hand! Pikachu with a minus on his head used helping hand, but it failed!

Like several other moves, a joke when used by ingame trainers with no AI, but of all those moves this one is probably the least useful on your own team.

This move is just a waste of a move slot. It is utterly useless outside of a double/triple battle and even then it has little effect (and can fail).

If both of your Pokemon use this in a double battle, it's like a high five. If you want your Pokemon to high five, do it outside of the battle.

My friend needed some help on his Stunfisk drawing. I tried giving him a helping hand, but it failed. (Get it? )

10 Frustration

It's not a bad move, but use return instead.
Frustration causes more damage if your pokemon has 0 happiness and return does more damage if your pokemon has max happiness. Now for 2 reasons why frustration is worse than return

1. To lower happiness, you either have to repeatedly faint your pokemon in battle or give it tons of bitter medicines. And hoe do you RAISE it's happiness? Walking. It's not worth it

2. You want to make your pokemon happy right? Woudl you rather have a happy pikachu or a pissed pikachu? Don't abuse your pokemon like Paul did to his Chimchar

This move is just absurd. Just about anything from winning down to walking makes your pokemon friendly. I don't see the point in this move when Return is much better.

This move is useless would you really wan to to have a pokemon that hates you and doesn't want to battle at ALL! that is abuse! also why won't you just use return instead? they both have equal max. power and becoming friends with your pokemon is way easier in the other gens.

Ughh. This move is horrible. The more your Pokemon HATES YOU, the more the power. Like, guess what makes your Pokemon more friendly? Walking. Guess what makes it LESS friendly? LETTING IT FAINT. Do you really want to be the trainer that faints it's Pokemon on purpose? You monster...

The Contenders
11 Present

This move sucks! Using it is a gamble! It will either damage the opponent with 40, 80 or 120 base power or it will HEAL THE OPPONENT!

When I use it against an enemy, it heals it. When I use it on my teammate, it OHKOs. REALLY?

Happy birthday again

12 Barrage
13 Heal Pulse

Yeah trained this on my Lucaroo because the description said it was a heal move. Turns out it heals your opponent in solo battles, and one of your team mates OR your opponents in double/triple battles. I ended up healing my opponent and I was like what and I got rid of it. It is useless

Anyone that said anything about it being useful in double battles is stupid.
1. Double battles are rare.
2. You also heal enemies at the same time as allies... Making it situational
3. Extremely unreliable move.
4. Only useful for catching wild Pokemon... Which false swipe does better.

Heal pulse in my opinion is a good move for Dynamax adventures while my teammates were fighting I was a suppourt using heal pulse to heal my teammates in it I was useful well until the legendary killed all my teammates and I the high halth didn't help at all.

Well, it can heal your allies, which helps if you want to keep a frail sweeper healthy. Also, the move Wring Out does more damage the more HP the opponent has.

14 Growl

Shouldn't even be a move it doesn't really do anything how is that suppose to lower attack. It just makes you want to growl back. Also whoever put bidoof as the worst pokemon you don't know how to use it.

Growl, Tail Whip, stat lowering moves like that just get on my nerves - I always get rid of them first. My Pokemon are almost always on the offense, unless I'm feeling a little cunning.

This is a good starter Pokemon defensive move what is so bad about dis come on apart from at the end of the game it is rubbish because there are much more defensive moves on offer.

I usually use attack moves, thank you very much.

15 Explosion

Well, think about it again. Explosion is a good move, if your Pokemon is at low health, and you use it. By doing that, if your opponent is not an Steel, Rock or Ghost type, you usually will knock it out!

You just explode it will kill you and (possibly) your foe but if it isn't it was pointless especially if they have reccover or soft boiled or something that heals themself or their teammates.

It's a good move in my opinion, banded Lando-T's Explosion OHKOes Geomancy Xern so it can catch someone by surprise, and can (maybe) take out a mon that your team would otherwise lose to.

How is this move one of the worst 250 attack damage and if your Pokemon about to die, why not use it?

16 Cut

When playing through X, I realized something. THERE's TOO MANY SMALL TREES IN KALOS. But in my whole team, the only one who can learn Cut is my Delphox, and it's the one I don't want to teach HM's! It's bad though, because my Blastoise knows Waterfall, Surf and Strength, three HM's that actually work well competitively. But considering Cut only does 50 damage(the same as TACKLE) every time I want to go past a tree I need to go all the way back to the Pokemon Center, boot up my PC, get out my HM slave (Diggersby), and try to make my way back to where I was before. I mean seriously, am I the only one who thinks there's too many small trees in Kalos?

It's scratch but updated. It is a pretty good move.

I hate stupid HM moves taking up a slot.

17 Foresight

This move can be good. It doesn't do nothing, it lets normal and fighting type moves hit Ghost Types, and the other way around

It only helps for wild Pokemon... in my opinion

Yeah, just get a Pokemon with Scrappy.

18 Celebrate

There was only one use for this and that was to stall out time due to it's long animation. Some guy did it and oh boy it is as dumb as it sounds.

This should be at Num. 2. It is like Splash, it does nothing. However, your Pokemon celebrate you, so an extra bonus. At least only an event Pikachu knows it.

It is very difficult to find a pokemon with this move in the first place, and it is a exact copy of splash!

Still think celebrate and splash should be tied, even with the congratulations...

19 Poison Gas
20 Leech Life

Leech life is the depressed version of giga drain.

Leech Seed is useful, Leech Life is not.

Oh my god! It is the weakest move ever! Not counting moves that don't do damage

Leech Life got buffed to 80 Power in gen 7...

21 Magnetic Flux

This move is only for allies with certain abilities. The pokemon with these abilities are Klink/Klang/Klinklang, Plusle and Minun. Or, with a hidden ability, are Electrike/Manectric, Mareep/Flaffy/Apmharos, and Dedenne. So yeah, literally useless unless you have a level 76 klinklang and another level 76 klinklang. Which I really hope nobody has.

22 Embargo

Actually I like it, since it's a pain in the ass for the Elite 4 to use full restores right when you're about to win.

Item blocking? You're at a terrible situation.

23 Mud Sport

Mud Sport is a move I've never even considered using. I've used Gravity, Helping Hand, Memento, Heal Pulse, hell even Growl. But Mud Sport is just so redundant and useless. It can't even be used to show off what a great move it is (looking at you Splash, Celebrate, Hold Hands). They do nothing, but at least it's cool to use them if you're weird. In doubles, maybe you might consider it, but then realise that since you're a ground type, you can just take out the offending electric type(s) with Earthquake or Stone edge.

It is a ground move that weakens electricity, yet Ground types are already immune to electric! USELESS CRAP!

Ground type move- ground already immune -. -

It's useful when you're in doubles/triples/battle royale if your allies are weak to electric

24 Supersonic

The accuracy sucks in generation IV. Seriously 55 accuracy? Not to mention, it has competition with a better move that does the same effect it does. The move is confuse ray and it's better because it has better accuracy and you aren't stuck with it missing three or four times before it even works! Enough said.

I bet the first thing that comes to mind when people read this is Zubat. It not only confuses Pokemon, it drives YOU crazy.

Who needs Super sonic with 50 acuracy when you can use confuse ray with 100 acuracy? And, you can confuse yourself. Why did they invent this move anyway

You hurt yourself in confusion!

25 Sand Attack

It never works as good for me as it does when the AI uses it. You can use sand attack 2-5 times and the opponent will only miss once, they use sand attack ONCE and you miss EVERY ATTACK.

You just throw sand but what if there is no sand in the arena then it will called dirt attack and on water it might as well be splash.

Pidgey use sand attack! Lowers something because I never pay attention to the game but it sucks

Actually, a wild Sandslash made me miss with this move...

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