Essentials
Summary
Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect.
Damage Dealt
Stats
- Power
- 55; percentile 30.3
- Accuracy
- 100%
- PP
- 30, up to 48 with
PP Up - Target
- Selected Pokémon
- Effect chance
- n/a
- Priority
- 0 (normal)
Flags
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Makes contact
User touches the target. This triggers some abilities (e.g., Static) and items (e.g., Sticky Barb).
- Has a charging turn
- Must recharge
- Blocked by Detect and Protect
- Reflectable
- Snatchable
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Copied by Mirror Move
A Pokémon targeted by this move can use Mirror Move to copy it.
- Punch-based
- Sound-based
- Unusable during Gravity
- Defrosts when used
- Targets opposite side in triples
- Heals
- Ignores Substitute
Machines

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Not a TM

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Not a TM

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Not a TM

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Not a TM

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Not a TM
Effect
Inflicts regular damage.
Meta
This reflects how the games treat moves and may be somewhat idealistic.
Flavor
Flavor Text

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Grips with powerful pincers.

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Grips the foe with large and powerful pincers.


Huge, impressive pincers grip and squeeze the foe.

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Huge, impressive pincers grip and squeeze the foe.

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The target is gripped and squeezed from both sides to inflict damage.
Foreign Names
- German

- Klammer
- French

- Force Poigne
- Spanish

- Agarre
- Italian

- Presa
- Czech

- Svěrák
- Japanese

- はさむ (hasamu)
Contests
Contest
- Type

- Appeal
- ♡♡♡♡
- Jam
- Flavor text
- A highly appealing move.
- Use after
- None
- Use before
Super Contest
- Type

- Appeal
- ♡♡♡
- Flavor text
- A basic performance using a move known by the Pokémon.
- Use after
- None
- Use before
- None
Similar moves
These moves all have the same effect as ViceGrip.
| Move | Type | Class | PP | Power | Acc | Pri | Effect |
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| Pound | ![]() |
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35 | 40 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Mega Punch | ![]() |
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20 | 80 | 85% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Scratch | ![]() |
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35 | 40 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Cut | ![]() |
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30 | 50 | 95% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Wing Attack | ![]() |
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35 | 60 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Slam | ![]() |
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20 | 80 | 75% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Vine Whip | ![]() |
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15 | 35 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Mega Kick | ![]() |
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5 | 120 | 75% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Horn Attack | ![]() |
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25 | 65 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Tackle | ![]() |
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35 | 50 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Water Gun | ![]() |
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25 | 40 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Hydro Pump | ![]() |
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5 | 120 | 80% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Peck | ![]() |
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35 | 35 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Drill Peck | ![]() |
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20 | 80 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Strength | ![]() |
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15 | 80 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Rock Throw | ![]() |
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15 | 50 | 90% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Egg Bomb | ![]() |
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10 | 100 | 75% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Megahorn | ![]() |
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10 | 120 | 85% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Hyper Voice | ![]() |
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10 | 90 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Dragon Claw | ![]() |
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15 | 80 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Aqua Tail | ![]() |
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10 | 90 | 90% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Seed Bomb | ![]() |
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15 | 80 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| X-Scissor | ![]() |
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15 | 80 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Dragon Pulse | ![]() |
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10 | 90 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Power Gem | ![]() |
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20 | 70 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Power Whip | ![]() |
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10 | 120 | 85% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Shadow Blitz | ![]() |
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— | 40 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Shadow Break | ![]() |
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— | 75 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Shadow Rave | ![]() |
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— | 70 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Shadow Storm | ![]() |
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— | 95 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
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| Shadow Wave | ![]() |
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— | 50 | 100% | Inflicts regular damage with no additional effect. |
Pokémon
Normal Pokémon get STAB, and have their types highlighted in green.
Pokémon with higher Attack are more suited to ViceGrip's physical damage, and have the stat highlighted in green.
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Pokémon | Type | Ability | Gender | Egg Group | HP | Atk | Def | SpA | SpD | Spd | Total | |
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| Level up: Learned when a Pokémon reaches a certain level. | |||||||||||||||||
| 20 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 5 | Krabby |
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Hyper Cutter
Shell Armor Sheer Force |
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Water 3 | 30 | 105 | 90 | 25 | 25 | 50 | 325 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | Kingler |
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Hyper Cutter
Shell Armor Sheer Force |
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Water 3 | 55 | 130 | 115 | 50 | 50 | 75 | 475 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | Pinsir |
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Hyper Cutter
Mold Breaker Moxie |
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Bug | 65 | 125 | 100 | 55 | 70 | 85 | 500 | |
| 21 | 21 | 21 | Mawile |
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Hyper Cutter
Intimidate Sheer Force |
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Field
Fairy |
50 | 85 | 85 | 55 | 55 | 50 | 380 | |||
| 10 | 10 | 10 | Corphish |
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Hyper Cutter
Shell Armor Adaptability |
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Water 1
Water 3 |
43 | 80 | 65 | 50 | 35 | 35 | 308 | |||
| — | — | — | Crawdaunt |
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Hyper Cutter
Shell Armor Adaptability |
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Water 1
Water 3 |
63 | 120 | 85 | 90 | 55 | 55 | 468 | |||
| — | Klink |
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Plus
Minus Clear Body |
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Mineral | 40 | 55 | 70 | 45 | 60 | 30 | 300 | |||||
| — | Klang |
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Plus
Minus Clear Body |
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Mineral | 60 | 80 | 95 | 70 | 85 | 50 | 440 | |||||
| — | Klinklang |
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Plus
Minus Clear Body |
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Mineral | 60 | 100 | 115 | 70 | 85 | 90 | 520 | |||||
| — | Durant |
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Swarm
Hustle Truant |
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Bug | 58 | 109 | 112 | 48 | 48 | 109 | 484 | |||||





















