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Sand Attack

Groundstatus

Lowers the target’s accuracy by one stage.

Pokémon that learn it
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Power—
Accuracy100%
PP15
Priority0

Changes across generations

Sand Attack had different stats in earlier games. A dash means that value was unchanged from what it is today, and an arrow marks what happened when that era ended — ▲ raised or ▼ lowered.

GamesTypePowerAccuracyPP
Before Gen 2 (G/S)Normal—100%15
CurrentGround—100%15

Pokémon that learn Sand Attack

108

Grouped by National Pokédex number. Learn methods and availability vary by game; open a Pokémon to check its game-specific learnset.

Pidgey#0016Pidgeotto#0017Pidgeot#0018Sandshrew#0027Sandslash#0028Diglett#0050Dugtrio#0051Geodude#0074
No. 001–151 (21)
No. 152–251 (7)
No. 252–386 (18)
No. 387–493 (12)
No. 494–649 (21)
No. 650–721 (4)
No. 722–809 (9)
No. 810–905 (11)
No. 906 onward (5)

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“Sand Attack”. Pokémonism. Retrieved [date] from pokemonism.com/moves/sand-attack.

Move data from PokéAPI.