Wide Slash (move)

Wide Slash すいへいぎり Horizontal Cut

Inflicts damage on enemies on the 3 tiles in front of the user--diagonally and directly in front

Dungeon Type  ??? Category  Physical PP 10 Hit Ratio 88% Power 20 Extra Effects None Affected by the Protect status Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by the Snatch status Affected by the Mirror Move status Not affected by the Muzzled status

Range

Facing tile and 2 flanking tiles

Wide Slash (Japanese: すいへいぎり Horizontal Cut) is a damage-dealing typeless move introduced in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team.

Effect

Generation III

Wide Slash will attack foes on the three tiles in front of the player; diagonally and directly across. Its power can be raised through Ginseng. It has the standard critical hit rate of 12%. As it is a typeless move, it bypasses Wonder Guard.

Generation IV

Wide Slash now has a base 8% critical hit rate, in line with other moves of average critical hit ratio.

Generation V onwards

Wide Slash cannot be used.

Description

Learnset

By TM

#	Pokémon		Types	Egg Groups		Compatibility
						III	IV
						TM	TM
Some Pokémon who cannot usually learn TMs can learn this TM, and are marked by ✔.
Every Pokémon can learn this move by TM except the ones listed below and only if marked with ✘.
0010		Caterpie		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0011		Metapod		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0013		Weedle		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0014		Kakuna		Bug		Bug	✘	✘
0129		Magikarp		Water 2	Dragon	✔	✔
0132		Ditto		Ditto		Ditto	✔	✔
0201		Unown All forms		No Eggs Discovered		No Eggs Discovered	✘	✘
0202		Wobbuffet		Amorphous		Amorphous	✘	✘
0235		Smeargle		Field		Field	✔	✔
0265		Wurmple		Bug		Bug	✔	✔
0266		Silcoon		Bug		Bug	✔	✔
0268		Cascoon		Bug		Bug	✔	✔
0360		Wynaut		No Eggs Discovered		No Eggs Discovered	✘	✘
0374		Beldum		Mineral		Mineral	✘	✘
0401		Kricketot		Bug		Bug		✔
0412		Burmy All forms		Bug		Bug		✘
0415		Combee		Bug		Bug		✘
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.

In other generations

Generation I	RBY	Generation I (Japanese)	Generation I (international)	Generation II	Generation II (Japanese)	Generation II (international)	Crystal	Generation III	Generation III (Japanese)	Generation III (international)	RS	FRLG	FRLGE	Generation IV	Generation IV (Japanese)	Generation IV (international)	PtHGSS	HGSS	Generation V	BW	B2W2	Generation V (Japanese)	Generation V (international)	Generation VI	XY	ORAS	Generation VII	SMUSUM	LGPE	Generation VIII	SwSh	BDSP	Legends: Arceus	Generation IX	Stadium (JP)	Stadium	Stadium 2	Colosseum	XD	Battle Revolution	Battrio	MD: Red and Blue	MD: Time, Darkness, and Sky	MD: Blazing, Stormy, & Light Adventure Squad	MD: GTI	SMD	MD: RTDX	Rumble	Rumble Blast	Masters EX

Trivia

• Wide Slash is one of the only two moves exclusive to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, the other being Vacuum-Cut. However, this excludes Excavate and Spin Slash, both of which were taken out of the game late in development, although their TMs can be obtained through cheating devices.

In other languages

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.