fightingphysical

Close Combat

Power

120

Accuracy

100%

Target

Selected Pokemon

100% effect chance

Effect

Lowers the user’s Defense and Special Defense by one stage after inflicting damage.

Inflicts regular damage, then lowers the user’s Defense and Special Defense by one stage each.

"The user fights the target up close, inflicting damage without guarding itself. This also lowers the user's Defense and Sp. Def stats."

Game-by-game pickup locations, plus wild Pokémon that may be holding the TM.

TR53taught in
Sword Shield
Generation VIII
- Sw ShWild Area Watt Traders 4★ · 5★ Max Raid Battles ( Dusty Bowl Sw , North Lake Miloch Sw , Rolling Fields , South Lake Miloch , Stony Wilderness ) Only in The Isle of Armor : 4★ · 5★ Max Raid Battles ( Fields of Honor , Challenge Beach , Challenge Road , Honeycalm Sea ) Cram-o-matic ( Fighting : 122-130 points) Only in The Crown Tundra : Snowslide Slope Snowslide Slope Watt Trader 4★ · 5★ Max Raid Battles ( Frostpoint Field , Giant's Bed , Snowslide Slope , Frigid Sea , Ballimere Lake )(8,000 W)
- TR54→
TM167taught in
Scarlet Violet
Generation IX
- S VPrize for defeating Eri · TM Machine(12,000 LP Riolu Fur ×5 Crabrawler Shell ×3 Makuhita Sweat ×3)
TM107taught in
Legends Za
Generation IX
- S VWest Paldean Sea · North Province (Area Two) · TM Machine Only in The Teal Mask : Infernal Pass Only in The Indigo Disk : Blueberry Academy Store · Polar Biome(TM Machine: 3,000 LP Salandit Gas ×3 Shuppet Scrap ×3 Blueberry Academy Store: 15 BP)
- ZAReward for attaining research level 37

Introduced in Generation IV· Learned by 167 Pokémon