Shed Tail (move)

Shed Tail しっぽきり Tail Shedding

Battles Type  Normal Category  Status PP  10 (max. 16) Power  — Accuracy  —% Priority  0 Does not make contact Not affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Not affected by Mirror Move Not affected by King's Rock

Range Opponent Opponent Opponent Self Ally Ally Self: Affects the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IX Not a TM, TR, HM, or Move Tutor move.

Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jam  0

Super Contests Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0

Contest Spectaculars Condition  [[{{{category}}} (condition)|{{{category}}}]] Appeal  0   Jamming  0

On Smogon's Movedex: Generation IX

Shed Tail (Japanese: しっぽきり Tail Shedding) is a non-damaging Normal-type move introduced in Generation IX.

Effect

Main article: Substitute doll → Effect

Shed Tail creates a substitute at the cost of half of the user's maximum HP (rounded up), then switches the user out. The created substitute has 1/4 of the user's maximum HP. The Pokémon that switches in will then have the substitute. If the user is holding a Berry that would trigger in response to Shed Tail (such as a Sitrus Berry), it eats its held Berry before switching out.

Shed Tail fails (and will not switch the user out) if the user already has a substitute, if the user has no teammates to switch to, or if the user's HP is less than or equal to 50% of its maximum HP.

The substitute will not protect the sent out Pokémon against entry hazards.

Description

Games Description SV The user creates a substitute for itself using its own HP before switching places with a party Pokémon in waiting.

Learnset

By leveling up

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Level
						IX
						SV
0254		Sceptile		Monster	Dragon	Rem.
0967		Cyclizar		Field		Field	31
0968		Orthworm		Field		Field	52
Bold indicates a Pokémon gains STAB from this move. Italics indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form receives STAB from this move. A dash (−) indicates a Pokémon cannot learn the move by the designated method. An empty cell indicates a Pokémon that is unavailable in that game/generation.

Trivia

• The Japanese name of this move, しっぽきり Shippokiri, comes from the idiomatic expression 蜥蜴の尻尾切り tokage no shippo kiri (lit. cutting lizard's tail), which means to shift one's work or responsibility onto a subordinate.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 斷尾 Tyúhnméih Mandarin 斷尾 / 断尾 Duànwěi French Queulonage German Schwanzabwurf Italian Tagliacoda Korean 꼬리자르기 Kkori Jareugi Spanish Autotomía

This article is part of Project Moves and Abilities, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on two related aspects of the Pokémon games.