Take Down

とっしん Charge

Generation:	I

Battle Data

Type:
Category
Power:	90
Accuracy:	85%
PP:	20, max: ?
Affects:	Selected target
Secondary Effect:	Causes Recoil damage to the user.
Priority:	0
Contact:	Yes

Affected by

Magic Coat:	No
Magic Bounce:	No
Bright Powder:	Yes
Protect/Detect:	Yes
Snatch:	No
Mirror Move:	Yes
King's Rock:	Yes

Contest Data

Contests (RSE)

Type:
Appeal:	6 ♥♥♥♥♥♥
Jam:	0

Super Contests (DPPt)

Type:
Appeal:	3 ♥♥♥

Contest Spectaculars (ORAS)

Type:
Appeal:
Jam:

Take Down is a Normal-type move introduced in Generation I that inflicts damage to the user after successful usage. It has been TM09 since Generation I. In Generation IX, it is TM001 for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet.

Description[]

Effect[]

Take Down deals damage, which will deal 1/4 of the damage back to the user.

Calculating the recoil damage after it hits:

${\displaystyle \nu_{TakeDown} = \beta_{currentHP} - \frac{rand(90)}{4}}$

Where:

• ν (nu) is the damage recoil calculation
• β_current (beta) is the user's current HP
• rand(90) is the randomised damage from Take Down between 1 to 90.

For instance, if Take Down deals exactly 90 damage with the Pokémon's current HP being 216, the HP calculated after it hits:

${\displaystyle \nu_{TakeDown} = 216 - \frac{90}{4}}$
${\displaystyle \nu_{TakeDown} = 216 - 22.5 }$
${\displaystyle \nu_{TakeDown} = 193.5 }$
${\displaystyle \nu_{TakeDown} \approx 194 }$

Learnset[]

By leveling up[]

Pokémon		Type	Egg groups	Level
				I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII	VIII	IX
	Bulbasaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass				15	15	15	15SMUSUM 18PE	21
	Ivysaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass				15	15	15	15SMUSUM 22PE	25
	Venusaur	grass/poison	Monster/Grass				15	15	15	15SMUSUM 22PE	25
	Rattata	normal	Field								16BDSP
	Raticate	normal	Field								16BDSP
	Spearow	normal/flying	Flying								22BDSP
	Fearow	normal/flying	Flying								22BDSP
	Growlithe	fire	Field	30	26	25	31	34BW 23B2W2	23	23SMUSUM 14PE	36	36
	Growlithe	fire/rock	Field									36
	Arcanine	fire	Field	1	1						1	1
	Arcanine	fire/rock	Field									1
	Geodude	rock/ground	Mineral							15PE
	Geodude	rock/electric	Mineral							15PE
	Graveler	rock/ground	Mineral							15PE
	Graveler	rock/electric	Mineral							15PE
	Golem	rock/ground	Mineral							15PE
	Golem	rock/electric	Mineral							15PE
	Ponyta	fire	Field	43	34	31	28	29	29	29SMUSUM 44PE	41SwShBDSP
	Ponyta	psychic	Field								41
	Rapidash	fire	Field	47	34	31	28	29	29	29SMUSUM 51PE	43SwShBDSP
	Rapidash	psychic/fairy	Field								43
	Seel	water	Water 1/Field	45	32	37	37	37	37	37SMUSUM 38PE	37BDSP
	Dewgong	water/ice	Water 1/Field	50	32	42	37	39	39	39SMUSUM 42PE	39BDSP
	Rhyhorn	ground/rock	Monster/Field	55	49	43	33	41	41XY 37ORAS	37SMUSUM 31PE	40SwShBDSP
	Rhydon	ground/rock	Monster/Field	64	54	46	33	41	41XY 37ORAS	37SMUSUM 31PE	40SwShBDSP
	Chansey	normal	Fairy					27	27	27SMUSUM 25PE	24SwShBDSP	24
	Tauros	normal	Field	51	53	53	35	41	41	41SM 35USUM 34PE	35
	Eevee	normal	Field	45RGB 42	42	42	43	43BW 25B2W2	25	25SMUSUM 24PE	40SwShBDSP	40
	Vaporeon	water	Field								1SwShBDSP	1
	Jolteon	electric	Field								1SwShBDSP	1
	Flareon	fire	Field								1SwShBDSP	1
	Aerodactyl	rock/flying	Flying	45	43	43	41	41	41	41SMUSUM 56PE	40
	Hoothoot	normal/flying	Flying		28	28	25	29	29	25	24
	Noctowl	normal/flying	Flying		33	33	27	32	32	27	28
	Chinchou	water/electric	Water 2		37	37	23	23	23XY 39ORAS	39	40
	Lanturn	water/electric	Water 2		45	43	23	23	23XY 43ORAS	43	48
	Mareep	electric	Monster/Field					18B2W2	18	18	18BDSP	18
	Flaaffy	electric	Monster/Field					20B2W2	20	20	20BDSP	20
	Ampharos	electric	Monster/Field					20B2W2	20	20	20BDSP	20
	Espeon	psychic	Field								1SwShBDSP	1
	Umbreon	dark	Field								1SwShBDSP	1
	Pineco	bug	Bug		15	15	9DP 12PtHGSS	12	12	12	12BDSP	12
	Forretress	bug/steel	Bug		15	15	1, 9DP 12PtHGSS	12	12	12	12BDSP	12
	Dunsparce	normal	Field		38	38RSE 41FRLG	37	38BW 22B2W2	22	26SM 28USUM	36
	Snubbull	fairy	Field/Fairy		43	43	37	37
	Granbull	fairy	Field/Fairy		51	49	43	43
	Qwilfish	water/poison	Water 2		37	37RSE 33FRLG	41	41	41	41	48
	Heracross	bug/fighting	Bug		35	37	31	31BW 28B2W2	28XY 34ORAS	34
	Swinub	ice/ground	Field		28	28	32	32BW 28B2W2	28	28	40SwShBDSP
	Piloswine	ice/ground	Field		28	28	32	32BW 28B2W2	28	28	44SwShBDSP
	Mantine	water/flying	Water 1		25	22	31	31BW 27B2W2	27	27	44SwShBDSP
	Phanpy	ground	Field		25	25	10	10	10XY 28ORAS	28	28BDSP	28
	Donphan	ground	Field								1BDSP
	Stantler	normal	Field		40	37	21	21	21	21	21BDSP	21
	Blissey	normal	Fairy					27	27	27	24SwShBDSP	24
	Mudkip	water	Monster/Water 1			28	28	28	28XY 36ORAS	36	24
	Marshtomp	water/ground	Monster/Water 1			31	31	31	31XY 42ORAS	42	30
	Swampert	water/ground	Monster/Water 1			31	31	31	31XY 44ORAS	44	30
	Poochyena	dark	Field			33	45	45	45XY 34ORAS	40	40BDSP
	Mightyena	dark	Field			37	52	52	52XY 40ORAS	48	48BDSP
	Zigzagoon	normal	Field						31ORAS	31	24
	Zigzagoon	dark/normal	Field								24
	Linoone	normal	Field								28
	Linoone	dark/normal	Field								28
	Aron	steel/rock	Monster			25	25	25BW 22B2W2	22XY 28ORAS	28	36
	Lairon	steel/rock	Monster			25	25	25BW 22B2W2	22XY 28ORAS	28	40
	Aggron	steel/rock	Monster			25	25	25BW 22B2W2	22XY 28ORAS	28	40
	Carvanha	water/dark	Water 2			31	38	38	38XY 43ORAS	43	44
	Sharpedo	water/dark	Water 2								52
	Numel	fire/ground	Field			29	21	25BW 31B2W2	31	31	31BDSP	31
	Camerupt	fire/ground	Field			29	21	25BW 31B2W2	31	31	31BDSP	31
	Swablu	normal/flying	Flying/Dragon			31	28	28BW 25B2W2	25XY 23ORAS	23	36	36
	Altaria	dragon/flying	Flying/Dragon			31	28	28BW 25B2W2	25XY 23ORAS	23	38	38
	Chimecho	psychic	Amorphous			17	22	22	22XY 19ORAS	19	19BDSP
	Relicanth	water/rock	Water 1/Water 2			29	29	29	29XY 31ORAS	31	25
	Luvdisc	water	Water 2			24	14	14	14XY 37ORAS	34	34BDSP	34
	Beldum	steel/psychic	Mineral			1	1	1	1	1
	Metang	steel/psychic	Mineral			1	1	1	1	1	26
	Metagross	steel/psychic	Mineral			1	1	1	1	1	26
	Starly	normal/flying	Flying				29	29	29	29	29BDSP	29
	Staravia	normal/flying	Flying				33	33	33	33	33BDSP	33
	Staraptor	normal/flying	Flying				33	33	33	33	33BDSP	33
	Bidoof	normal	Water 1/Field				33	33	33	29	29BDSP
	Bibarel	normal/water	Water 1/Field				38	38	38	33	33BDSP
	Cranidos	rock	Monster				15	15	15	15	15BDSP
	Rampardos	rock	Monster				15	15	15	15	15BDSP
	Shieldon	rock/steel	Monster				15	15	15	15	15BDSP
	Bastiodon	rock/steel	Monster				15	15	15	15	15BDSP
	Cherubi	grass	Fairy/Grass				31	31	31	31	30SwShBDSP
	Cherrim	grass	Fairy/Grass				35	35	35	35	34SwShBDSP
	Gible	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon				15	15	15	15	54SwShBDSP	54
	Gabite	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon				15	15	15	15	66SwShBDSP	66
	Garchomp	dragon/ground	Monster/Dragon				15	15	15	15	72SwShBDSP	72
	Hippopotas	ground	Field				19	19	19	19	28SwShBDSP	28
	Hippowdon	ground	Field				19	19	19	19	28SwShBDSP	28
	Mantyke	water/flying	Undiscovered				31	31BW 27B2W2	27	27	44SwShBDSP
	Rhyperior	ground/rock	Monster/Field				33	41	41XY 37ORAS	37	40SwShBDSP
	Leafeon	grass	Field								1SwShBDSP	1
	Glaceon	ice	Field								1SwShBDSP	1
	Mamoswine	ice/ground	Field				32	32BW 28B2W2	28	28	44SwShBDSP
	Tepig	fire	Field					25	25	25
	Pignite	fire/fighting	Field					28	28	28
	Emboar	fire/fighting	Field					28	28	28
	Lillipup	normal	Field					15	15	15	28
	Herdier	normal	Field					15	15	15	36
	Stoutland	normal	Field					15	15	15	38
	Audino	normal	Fairy					30	30XY 33ORAS	33	32
	Venipede	bug/poison	Bug								28
	Whirlipede	bug/poison	Bug								32
	Scolipede	bug/poison	Bug								34
	Basculin	water	Water 2					20	20	14	36	36
	Basculin	water	Water 2									36
	Trubbish	poison	Mineral					25	25	25	24
	Garbodor	poison	Mineral								1
	Deerling	normal/grass	Field					20	20	20		20
	Sawsbuck	normal/grass	Field					20	20	20		20
	Karrablast	bug	Bug					37	37	37	40
	Escavalier	bug/steel	Bug								1
	Larvesta	bug/fire	Bug					20	20	20	48	48
	Volcarona	bug/fire	Bug								1	1
	Cobalion	steel/fighting	Undiscovered					19	19	7	42
	Terrakion	rock/fighting	Undiscovered					19	19	7	42
	Virizion	grass/fighting	Undiscovered					19	19	7	42
	Keldeo	water/fighting	Undiscovered					19	19	19	42
	Chespin	grass	Field						27	27		27
	Quilladin	grass	Field						30	29		29
	Chesnaught	grass/fighting	Field						30	29		29
	Bunnelby	normal	Field						15	15	30
	Diggersby	normal/ground	Field						15	15	38
	Litleo	fire/normal	Field						20	20		20
	Pyroar	fire/normal	Field						20	20		20
	Skiddo	grass	Field						22	22		22
	Gogoat	grass	Field						22	22		22
	Furfrou	normal	Field						35	35
	Amaura	rock/ice	Monster						15	15
	Aurorus	rock/ice	Monster						15	15
	Sylveon	fairy	Field								1	1
	Bergmite	ice	Monster/Mineral						15	15	36	36
	Avalugg	ice	Monster/Mineral						15	15	36	36
	Avalugg	ice/rock	Monster/Mineral									36
	Xerneas	fairy	Undiscovered						1	1	50
	Volcanion	fire/water	Undiscovered						1	1	54	54
	Yungoos	normal	Field							28		28
	Gumshoos	normal	Field							31		31
	Wishiwashi	water	Water 2							25
	Stufful	normal/fighting	Field							28	24
	Bewear	normal/fighting	Field							30	24
	Passimian	fighting	Field							22	25	25
	Type: Null	normal	Undiscovered							40	50
	Silvally	normal	Undiscovered							40	50
	Minior	rock/flying	Mineral							29
	Stakataka	rock/steel	Undiscovered							19USUM	60
	Wooloo	normal	Field								25
	Dubwool	normal	Field								27
	Obstagoon	dark/normal	Field								28
	Drakloak	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon								54	54
	Dragapult	dragon/ghost	Amorphous/Dragon								54	54
	Glastrier	ice	Undiscovered								42	42
	Spectrier	ghost	Undiscovered								42	42
	Calyrex	psychic/ice	Undiscovered								1	1
	Calyrex	psychic/ghost	Undiscovered								1	1
	Wyrdeer	normal/psychic	Field									21
	Basculegion	water/ghost	Water 2									36
	Lechonk	normal	Field									27
	Oinkologne	normal	Field									26
	Oinkologne	normal	Field									28
	Rellor	bug	Bug									24
	Rabsca	bug/psychic	Bug									24
	Orthworm	steel	Field									26
	Cetoddle	ice	Field									19
	Cetitan	ice	Field									19
	Iron Bundle	ice/water	Undiscovered									21
	Iron Moth	fire/poison	Undiscovered									21
	Frigibax	dragon/ice	Dragon/Mineral									36
	Arctibax	dragon/ice	Dragon/Mineral									40
	Baxcalibur	dragon/ice	Dragon/Mineral									42
Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move.

By TM[]

Every Pokémon can learn this move, even the ones that don't learn TMs normally. The following Pokémon that cannot learn this move are listed here:

• Caterpie
• Metapod
• Weedle
• Kakuna
• Grimer
• Muk
• Gastly
• Haunter
• Gengar
• Koffing
• Weezing
• Magikarp
• Ditto
• Misdreavus
• Ralts
• Kirlia
• Gardevoir
• Shuppet
• Banette
• Kricketot
• Combee
• Drifloon
• Drifblim
• Mismagius
• Rotom
• Uxie
• Mesprit
• Azelf
• Gothita
• Gothorita
• Gothitelle
• Tynamo
• Meloetta
• Scatterbug
• Spewpa
• Vivillon
• Flabébé
• Floette
• Florges
• Sandygast
• Palossand
• Applin
• Sinistea
• Polteageist
• Hatenna
• Hattrem
• Hatterene
• Smoliv
• Dolliv
• Arboliva
• Toedscool
• Toedscruel
• Tinkatink
• Tinkatuff
• Tinkaton

By breeding[]

Special move[]

Generation III[]

Gallery[]

• Games
• Anime
• Manga

Main games

Take Down depicted in Generation I

Take Down depicted in Generation II

Take Down depicted in Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version

Take Down depicted in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!

Main series

Take Down being used by Gary's Eevee.

Take Down being used by Ash's Heracross.

Take Down being used by Morrison's Metang.

Take Down being used by Dawn's Mamoswine.

Take Down being used by Bianca's Pignite.

Take Down being used by Nurse Joy's Mega Audino.

Take Down being used by Kagetora's Eevee.

Take Down being used by Team Rocket's Carvanha.

Pokémon Adventures

Take Down being used by Antch.