Thunderbolt is an Electric-type move introduced in Generation I. It is TM024 in all games except Generation II. In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!, it is available as TM036.

Effect[]

Thunderbolt deals damage and has a 10% chance of paralyzing the target. In Generations I and VI, Thunderbolt cannot paralyze Electric-type Pokémon.

In a Double Battle, Thunderbolt can target any Pokémon around the user. In a Triple Battle, Thunderbolt can only target a Pokémon that's adjacent to the user.

Prior to Generation VI, Thunderbolt has a base Power of 95.

By Generation[]

Appearances[]

Pokémon Channel[]

In Pokémon Channel, Pikachu uses Thunderbolt on one occasion only, without being instructed by the player to use the move. On the first day, when the player tunes into Prof. Oak Report after doing a few tasks with their Pikachu, Professor Oak says that Pikachu has behaved remarkably. In response, Pikachu excitedly uses Thunderbolt, destroying the TV by mistake. Pikachu regrets using the move, and Oak is forced to send the player a temporary replacement, the black-and-white Retro TV.

The Pokémon Channel demo included on the Japanese Pokémon Colosseum Bonus Disc ends right after Pikachu uses Thunderbolt on the TV.

Trivia[]

• Thunderbolt is one of three moves that had its move animation slowed down from Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green to Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version due to rapidly flashing colors. The others are Hyper Beam and Body Slam.

Gallery[]

References[]

v · d · e List of Electric-type moves
Generation I · Generation II · Generation III · Generation IV · Generation V · Generation VI · Generation VII · Generation VIII · Generation IX
A	Aura Wheel
B	Bolt Beak Bolt Strike Buzzy Buzz
C	Charge Charge Beam
D	Discharge Double Shock
E	Eerie Impulse Electric Terrain Electrify Electro Ball Electro Drift Electroweb
F	Fusion Bolt
I	Ion Deluge
M	Magnet Rise Magnetic Flux
N	Nuzzle
O	Overdrive
P	Parabolic Charge Pika Papow Plasma Fists
R	Rising Voltage
S	Shock Wave Spark Supercell Slam
T	Thunder Thunder Cage Thunder Fang Thunder Punch Thunder Shock Thunder Wave Thunderbolt Thunderclap
V	Volt Switch Volt Tackle
W	Wild Charge Wildbolt Storm
Z	Zap Cannon Zing Zap Zippy Zap
See also	Bug-type Dark-type Dragon-type Fairy-type Fighting-type Fire-type Flying-type Ghost-type Grass-type Ground-type Ice-type Normal-type Poison-type Psychic-type Rock-type Steel-type Water-type
Moves

v · d · e List of move variations
Damage-dealing	A Acid Bubble Ember Powder Snow Thunder Shock Aeroblast Spacial Rend Ancient Power Ominous Wind Silver Wind Arm Thrust Water Shuriken Aqua Jet Accelerock B Barb Barrage Infernal Parade Bite Heart Stamp Blizzard Hurricane Thunder Bolt Beak Fishious Rend Bone Rush Rock Blast Brine Hex Venoshock Bullet Seed Icicle Spear C Catastropika Pulverizing Pancake Circle Throw Dragon Tail Collision Course Electro Drift Counter Mirror Coat Cross Chop Stone Edge Crush Claw Razor Claw Crunch Flash Cannon Shadow Ball D Dig Dive Discharge Lava Plume Double-Edge Brave Bird Flare Blitz Wave Crash Wood Hammer Volt Tackle Drill Peck Dragon Claw Power Gem Seed Bomb Strength X-Scissor Dynamax Cannon Behemoth Bash Behemoth Blade Dynamic Punch Inferno E Earthquake Judgment Eruption Dragon Energy Water Spout F False Swipe Hold Back Fire Punch Ice Punch Signal Beam Thunder Punch Relic Song Fire Spin Clamp Sand Tomb Whirlpool Flail Reversal Flame Charge Chilling Water Pounce Struggle Bug Trailblaze Flamethrower Ice Beam Thunderbolt Fury Attack Barrage Fusion Flare Fusion Bolt G Giga Drain Drain Punch Horn Leech Gyro Ball Electro Ball H Hammer Arm Ice Hammer Heavy Slam Heat Crash Hyper Beam Blast Burn Frenzy Plant Giga Impact Hydro Cannon Meteor Assault Roar of Time Rock Wrecker Hyper Fang Zen Headbutt I Icy Wind Electroweb Mud Shot Snarl Iron Tail Dragon Rush J Jump Kick Supercell Slam K Karate Chop Poison Tail L Last Respects Rage Fist Leaf Blade Attack Order Low Kick Grass Knot Lunge Apple Acid Drum Beating Grav Apple Fire Lash Luster Purge Mist Ball M Megahorn Power Whip Precipice Blades Metal Burst Comeuppance N Needle Arm Force Palm O Octazooka Mirror Shot Mud Bomb Overheat Draco Meteor Fleur Cannon Leaf Storm P Pluck Bug Bite Pound Branch Poke Fairy Wind Gust Leafage Scratch Tackle Psybeam Aurora Beam Bubble Beam Chatter Low Sweep Sludge Spark Psyblade Hydro Steam Psychic Bug Buzz Earth Power Energy Ball Psyshock Body Press Q Quick Attack Bullet Punch Ice Shard Mach Punch Shadow Sneak Vacuum Wave R Return Frustration Revenge Avalanche Rollout Ice Ball S Sacred Fire Diamond Storm Seismic Toss Night Shade Shadow Bone Liquidation Skull Bash Electro Shot Sky Attack Freeze Shock Ice Burn Slash Aqua Cutter Cross Poison Night Slash Psycho Cut Shadow Claw Sludge Wave Moonblast Springtide Storm Bleakwind Storm Sandsear Storm Wildbolt Storm Steel Beam Chloroblast Stomp Steamroller Stomping Tantrum Lash Out Temper Flare Stone Axe Ceaseless Edge Stored Power Power Trip Sucker Punch Thunderclap Sunsteel Strike Moongeist Beam Photon Geyser Superpower Armor Cannon Close Combat Dragon Ascent Headlong Rush Super Fang Nature's Madness Ruination Surf Hyper Voice Land's Wrath Petal Blizzard Thousand Arrows Thousand Waves Swift Aerial Ace Feint Attack Magical Leaf Magnet Bomb Shadow Punch Shock Wave T Techno Blast Multi-Attack Thief Covet Thrash Outrage Petal Dance Raging Fury U U-turn Volt Switch W Waterfall Dark Pulse Extrasensory Iron Head Poison Jab Scald Zing Zap Weather Ball Terrain Pulse Wring Out Crush Grip Hard Press Elemental fangs Fire Fang Ice Fang Thunder Fang One-hit knockout moves Fissure Guillotine Horn Drill Sheer Cold Pledge moves Fire Pledge Grass Pledge Water Pledge Let's Go Partner Pika Papow Veevee Volley Bouncy Bubble Buzzy Buzz Sizzly Slide Glitzy Glow Baddy Bad Sappy Seed Freezy Frost
Status	After You Quash Camouflage Reflect Type Charm Captivate Eerie Impulse Fake Tears Feather Dance Confide Play Nice Conversion Conversion 2 Destiny Bond Grudge Disable Embargo Heal Block Taunt Torment Follow Me Rage Powder Foresight Miracle Eye Odor Sleuth Forest's Curse Trick-or-Treat Guard Split Power Split Harden Sharpen Heal Bell Aromatherapy Heal Pulse Floral Healing Aqua Ring Ingrain Jungle Healing Lunar Blessing Magnetic Flux Gear Up Meditate Defense Curl Howl Withdraw Memento Lunar Dance Healing Wish Mind Reader Lock-On Mist Lucky Chant Safeguard Morning Sun Moonlight Shore Up Synthesis Mud Sport Water Sport No Retreat Clangorous Soul Poison Powder Stun Spore Protect Baneful Bunker Burning Bulwark Detect King's Shield Obstruct Silk Trap Spiky Shield Quick Guard Crafty Shield Wide Guard Quiver Dance Coil Recover Heal Order Milk Drink Roost Slack Off Soft-Boiled Roar Whirlwind Sand Attack Flash Smokescreen Screech Metal Sound Sing Grass Whistle Supersonic Skill Swap Guard Swap Heart Swap Power Swap Speed Swap Sleep Powder Lovely Kiss Sweet Kiss Soak Magic Powder Spider Web Block Mean Look Spikes Stealth Rock Sticky Web Toxic Spikes Splash Celebrate Hold Hands Stockpile Bulk Up Calm Mind Cosmic Power Dragon Dance Hone Claws Swords Dance Acid Armor Amnesia Autotomize Barrier Iron Defense Nasty Plot Rock Polish Tail Whip Leer Trick Switcheroo Trick Room Magic Room Wonder Room Worry Seed Entrainment Simple Beam Terrain moves Electric Terrain Grassy Terrain Misty Terrain Psychic Terrain Weather moves Hail Rain Dance Sandstorm Snowscape Sunny Day

v · d · e List of moves with secondary status conditions
Burn	Beak Blast Blaze Kick Blazing Torque Blue Flare Burning Bulwark Burning Jealousy Ember Fire Blast Fire Fang Fire Punch Fire Spin Flame Wheel Flamethrower Flare Blitz Fling Heat Wave Ice Burn Infernal Parade Inferno Matcha Gotcha Lava Plume Psycho Shift Pyro Ball Sacred Fire Sandsear Storm Scald Scorching Sands Searing Shot Secret Power Shadow Fire Sizzly Slide Steam Eruption Tri Attack Will-O-Wisp
Frozen	Blizzard Freeze-Dry Freezing Glare Ice Beam Ice Fang Ice Punch Powder Snow Secret Power Shadow Chill Tri Attack
Paralysis	Body Slam Bolt Strike Bounce Buzzy Buzz Combat Torque Dire Claw Discharge Dragon Breath Fling Force Palm Freeze Shock Glare Lick Nuzzle Psycho Shift Secret Power Shadow Bolt Spark Splishy Splash Stoked Sparksurfer Stun Spore Thunder Thunder Fang Thunder Punch Thunder Shock Thunder Wave Thunderbolt Tri Attack Volt Tackle Wildbolt Storm Zap Cannon G-Max G-Max Befuddle G-Max Stun Shock G-Max Volt Crash
Poison	Baneful Bunker Barb Barrage Cross Poison Dire Claw Fling Gunk Shot Mortal Spin Noxious Torque Poison Gas Poison Jab Poison Powder Poison Sting Poison Tail Psycho Shift Secret Power Shell Side Arm Sludge Sludge Bomb Sludge Wave Smog Toxic Spikes Toxic Thread Twineedle Bad poisoning Fling Malignant Chain Poison Fang Psycho Shift Toxic Toxic Spikes G-Max G-Max Befuddle G-Max Malodor G-Max Stun Shock
Sleep	Dark Void Dire Claw G-Max Befuddle G-Max Snooze Grass Whistle Hypnosis Lovely Kiss Psycho Shift Relic Song Rest Secret Power Sing Sleep Powder Spore Wicked Torque Yawn

v · d · e List of moves introduced in Generation I
Bug-type · Dark-type · Dragon-type · Electric-type · Fairy-type · Fighting-type · Fire-type · Flying-type · Ghost-type · Grass-type · Ground-type · Ice-type · Normal-type · Poison-type · Psychic-type · Rock-type · Steel-type · Water-type
A	Absorb Acid Acid Armor Agility Amnesia Aurora Beam
B	Barrage Barrier Bide Bind Bite Blizzard Body Slam Bone Club Bonemerang Bubble Bubble Beam
C	Clamp Comet Punch Confuse Ray Confusion Constrict Conversion Counter Crabhammer Cut
D	Defense Curl Dig Disable Dizzy Punch Double Kick Double Slap Double Team Double-Edge Dragon Rage Dream Eater Drill Peck
E	Earthquake Egg Bomb Ember Explosion
F	Fire Blast Fire Punch Fire Spin Fissure Flamethrower Flash Fly Focus Energy Fury Attack Fury Swipes
G	Glare Growl Growth Guillotine Gust
H	Harden Haze Headbutt High Jump Kick Horn Attack Horn Drill Hydro Pump Hyper Beam Hyper Fang Hypnosis
I	Ice Beam Ice Punch
J	Jump Kick
K	Karate Chop Kinesis
L	Leech Life Leech Seed Leer Lick Light Screen Lovely Kiss Low Kick
M	Meditate Mega Drain Mega Kick Mega Punch Metronome Mimic Minimize Mirror Move Mist
N	Night Shade
P	Pay Day Peck Petal Dance Pin Missile Poison Gas Poison Powder Poison Sting Pound Psybeam Psychic Psywave
Q	Quick Attack
R	Rage Razor Leaf Razor Wind Recover Reflect Rest Roar Rock Slide Rock Throw Rolling Kick
S	Sand Attack Scratch Screech Seismic Toss Self-Destruct Sharpen Sing Skull Bash Sky Attack Slam Slash Sleep Powder Sludge Smog Smokescreen Soft-Boiled Solar Beam Sonic Boom Spike Cannon Splash Spore Stomp Strength String Shot Struggle Stun Spore Submission Substitute Super Fang Supersonic Surf Swift Swords Dance
T	Tackle Tail Whip Take Down Teleport Thrash Thunder Thunder Punch Thunder Shock Thunder Wave Thunderbolt Toxic Transform Tri Attack Twineedle
V	Vine Whip ViceGrip
W	Water Gun Waterfall Whirlwind Wing Attack Withdraw Wrap
See also	Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX
Generation I

v · d · e List of TMs, HMs, and TRs
v · d · e Generation I TMs and HMs TMs 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 HMs 01 02 03 04 05 See also Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs Generation IX Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green · Pocket Monsters Blue · Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version · Pokémon Yellow Special Pikachu Edition v · d · e Generation III TMs and HMs TMs 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 HMs 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08RSE See also Generation I Generation II Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs Generation IX Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version · Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version · Pokémon Emerald Version v · d · e Generation IV TMs and HMs TMs #001–050 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 #051–092 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 HMs 01 02 03 04 05DPPt 05HGSS 06 07 08 See also Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs Generation IX Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version · Pokémon Platinum Version · Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version v · d · e Generation V TMs and HMs TMs #001–050 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 #051–095 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 HMs 01 02 03 04 05 06 See also Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs Generation IX Pokémon Black Version and Pok��mon White Version · Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 v · d · e Generation VI TMs and HMs TMs #001–050 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 #051–100 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94XY 94ORAS 95 96 97 98 99 100 HMs 01 02 03 04 05 06ORAS 07ORAS See also Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs Generation IX Pokémon X and Pokémon Y · Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire v · d · e Generation VII TMs Alola #001–050 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 29 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 #051–100 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 Kanto #001–050 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 #051–060 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 See also Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VIII TMs TRs Generation IX Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon · Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon · Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! v · d · e Generation VIII TRs #001–050 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 #051–099 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 See also Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs Generation IX Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield v · d · e Generation VIII TMs Galar #000–049 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 #050–099 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Sinnoh #001–050 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 #051–100 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 See also Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TRs Generation IX Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield · Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl v · d · e Generation IX TMs #001–050 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 #051–100 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 #101–150 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 #151–200 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 #201–229 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 See also Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII TMs TRs Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet